France moves homeless people out of Paris as city prepares for next summer's Olympics
France moves homeless people out of Paris as city prepares for next summer's Olympics
It’s 6.30 a.m. on a late summer morning in Paris. Amid the rumbling coming from the Stalingrad Métro station, in the northeast of the French capital, hundreds of migrants, mostly men, sleep crammed under an overpass. Some rest on pieces of cardboard and old mattresses behind a urine-doused fence, ot...
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As a kid, the Olympics was a fun thing to look forward to. Now whenever I see my city/country applying for anything similar, I'm up in arms
It used to be something good back in ancient Greece, before we had the need to make a supershow out of fucking everything and each time trying to one up the last in pyrotechnics and gimmicks
Wasn't ancient Olympics a supershow of their time?
Sure, but supershows tended to be less wasteful back when there wasn't so much to waste I guess
It might have been badly worded by me. I know that the Olympics were bad when I was young. I was just naive
Even as a kid i didn't really get it. I liked to watch the best off they showed on tv or when someone broke a world record or something. I thought that's what the Olympics are. Then one day my friend asked me if i wanted to watch the winter Olympics and i was excited. Just to sit there for hours just watching the most boring thing i have ever seen. And that was before i even knew about the steroid hypocrisy and uow scummy it is
I think London 2012 may have been the only Olympics in my lifetime that wasnt some kind of humanitarian travesty.