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Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure in the ass.

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MDSLKTR

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plexcide said:
Any chance you could elaborate on what exactly in this thread is hateful and ignorant? I'm expecting quite a large number of examples to match what you just said. And not just one dude thinking 'COK' is funny.
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I don't know what compelled me to check back on this thread.. . Do you seriously expect me to provide "a large number of examples" to match what I said? Look man, from my perspective (a russian/ukrainian immigrant living in Canada, so please no need to go detective mode for my twitter or broken English for signs of bias thank you) this thread went from funny to quickly ignorant to fucking hateful. Simple as that.
You have people hating on a language and a foreign alphabet that just post whatever shit they can find in the internet toilet, you have people spreading misinformation and fake pictures but when you try to reason with them and provide a source it just can't work, now it's just free hateful comments like "abominable shithole" , "third world country" to "slaves working" to idk what other unacceptable garbage...

Yes I find that Poutine's Russia is bad, that the discriminating policies are disgraceful and I wouldn't trade my Canadian citizenship to go back for anything but goddamn I just want to enjoy the games because it's a celebration and I've been looking forward to them for a while but I can't even do that in the damn OT because during the opening ceremony this garbage spilled there too, I'm just tired of it. Going against the grain here but eh, peace.
 
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Demon Ice

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Sorry I'm not going to mince words about a country that slaughters stray dogs en-masse and is so homophobic it makes US Chrisitan Conservatives look like fucking care bears.


Edit: and lol at whining about "third world country", I lived in an actual third world country for 10 months last year and every accommodation I had was MILES better than the pics in this thread. And my third world country had not just received 52 fucking billion dollars. Cry me a river
 
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Komo

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neshcom said:
Yeah, the Russian broadcast apparently cut to rehearsal footage. You can see the audience in the background being totally different.
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Haha I didn't even notice that.

Smh Russia, you deserve all the ridicule you get -_-
 
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Seance

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PhoenixDark said:
please no one make a thread about this, I can't deal with a 10 page thread of "I don't see anything wrong with that" posts.
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Depends on whether you grew up in / live in a country that has over a century of enslaving and/or treating blacks as sub-human, or not.
 
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MDSLKTR said:
I don't know what compelled me to check back on this thread.. . Do you seriously expect me to provide "a large number of examples" to match what I said? Look man, from my perspective (a russian/ukrainian immigrant living in Canada, so please no need to go detective mode for my twitter or broken English for signs of bias thank you) this thread went from funny to quickly ignorant to fucking hateful. Simple as that.
You have people hating on a language and a foreign alphabet that just post whatever shit they can find in the internet toilet, you have people spreading misinformation and fake pictures but when you try to reason with them and provide a source it just can't work, now it's just free hateful comments like "abominable shithole" , "third world country" to "slaves working" to idk what other unacceptable garbage...

Yes I find that Poutine's Russia is bad, that the discriminating policies are disgraceful and I wouldn't trade my Canadian citizenship to go back for anything but goddamn I just want to enjoy the games because it's a celebration and I've been looking forward to them for a while but I can't even do that in the damn OT because during the opening ceremony this garbage spilled there too, I'm just tired of it. Going against the grain here but eh, peace.
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Chill. Try some ice cream in the ass. People laugh at engrish mistranslations all the time. No one is hating on Russians in here, but rather the gross corruption in the government. You ever laugh at any of the 'look at these stupid and fat Americans' videos by the way? Because those are way worse than what I've seen here.
 
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Cartman86

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Azurex said:
Oh geez, that's awful.
I could be wrong, but I heard that black people are treated really poorly in Russia.
Though, I wouldn't be surprised. It tends to be the case with any country that doesn't have a significant population of black people.
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I don't know. America seems to have similar issues...
 
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leroidys

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Demon Ice said:
Sorry I'm not going to mince words about a country that slaughters stray dogs en-masse and is so homophobic it makes US Chrisitan Conservatives look like fucking care bears.


Edit: and lol at whining about "third world country", I lived in an actual third world country for 10 months last year and every accommodation I had was MILES better than the pics in this thread. And my third world country had not just received 52 fucking billion dollars. Cry me a river
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What is the point that you think you're making here, exactly?
 
Jag

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Cartman86 said:
I don't know. America seems to have similar issues...
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Seriously. There is crap everywhere. Especially here in the US. Just look at what people were saying after the Superbowl Coke commercial. Using a few examples to represent an entire population of millions is kind of ignorant.
 
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leroidys

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Jag said:
Seriously. There is crap everywhere. Especially here in the US. Just look at what people were saying after the Superbowl Coke commercial. Using a few examples to represent an entire population of millions is kind of ignorant.
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This is an elected official on twitter though.
 
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ChainedMaster

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Is that picture supposed to be racist? When I first saw it I thought it was an inneundo. I mean, Obama got his tongue thing going on with a banana in sight and all.
 
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Demon Ice

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leroidys said:
What is the point that you think you're making here, exactly?
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That Sochi's condition is utterly laughable given the cash they were given to prepare for the Olympics, and that MDSLKTR's issue with the use of the phrase "third world country" is equally laughable.
 
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Mr.Wreckless

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Jag said:
Seriously. There is crap everywhere. Especially here in the US. Just look at what people were saying after the Superbowl Coke commercial. Using a few examples to represent an entire population of millions is kind of ignorant.
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An elected official chosen to light the Olympic torch should be held to a higher standard than backwoods moron in West Virginia.
 
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mantidor

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PhoenixDark said:
please no one make a thread about this, I can't deal with a 10 page thread of "I don't see anything wrong with that" posts.
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I hope you are not comparing this to the watermelon/fried chicken thing in the other thread.

This is insulting, the other actually requires to know about your convoluted racial history.
 
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mashoutposse said:
The LGBT community and its supporters are doing all they can to make Sochi look bad.

Russia brought that response on themselves.
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Nah. Putin, contractors, Dmitry Kozak and Irina Rodnina are fully able to make Sochi look terrible without any help from the LGBT community.
 
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Demon Ice

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Piggus said:
Lol. Come back to me when Russia elects a black president. Racism against black people in the US is extremely rare, even in much of the deep south.
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It's not *that* rare.


Don't get me wrong, even the deep south is no Russia, but it's not exactly a bastion of civilized thought either.
 
mashoutposse

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plexcide said:
So you are saying the LGBT community and their supporters flew to Sochi and built fake buildings and sets to take pictures of?
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Sochi's execution of the Olympics is not perfect. I'm saying there are people who desperately want it to be a disaster and will blow out of proportion any little thing.
 
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mashoutposse said:
Sochi's execution of the Olympics is not perfect. I'm saying there are people who desperately want it to be a disaster and will blow out of proportion any little thing.
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Pretty much.

It reminds me of that 'summer of the shark' a few years ago in the US. There was one or two major shark incidents in quick succession, and all of a sudden every other weeks there was some new shark story, and a narrative quickly built that there was some increased shark presence. The truth ultimately was that there weren't any more shark incidences than normal, it was just that news crews started looking for and reporting any shark incident that happened.

Same thing with the Olympics, one or two stories or images surfaced about the conditions, now everybody with a camera is looking for things that aren't everything that they should be, and it just cascades from there. Plus you have people want it to fail because USA good, Russia bad.
 
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Maninthemirror said:
wouldnt taking the high ground by a more mature response
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WTF is this shit?!

How is it the LGBT people's fault that Russia is so corrupt that they can't even do the Olympics properly without fucking up even the most basic services like accommodation and drinking water?

Are we suppose to just ignore these fuckeries while Russia happily beaten and killed innocent LGBT people there? Even without the awful treatment of LGBT people, this kind awful situation happening at Olympics would have surfaced on its own.
 
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Pretty sure all that money went towards security.

Shitty accommodations or your life at risk is how they looked at it I guess.
 
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WarrenMax007

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Replicant said:
WTF is this shit?!

How is it the LGBT people's fault that Russia is so corrupt that they can't even do the Olympics properly without fucking up even the most basic services like accommodation and drinking water?

Are we suppose to just ignore these fuckeries while Russia happily beaten and killed innocent LGBT people there? Even without the awful treatment of LGBT people, this kind awful situation happening at Olympics would have surfaced on its own.
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What a fuck are you talking about? Nobody's touching LGBT people in Russia. There are laws that prohibit gay propaganda to underaged kids. You can be gay if you want to. You won't be arrested or killed. That's some big misinformation.

Next - drinking water? What's that supposed to mean? You drink tap water? That's not how it works over here. You need to filter it first. And there was ONE incident, ONE.
And that lady mentioned that water supply was turned off and then turned on again. And brown water is exactly what happens when you turn it back on. You just have to let it run for a minute and it'll become white.
Please, if you don't know how thnigs work, or laws, just stop. STOP.
 
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WarrenMax007 said:
What a fuck are you talking about? Nobody's touching LGBT people in Russia. There are laws that prohibit gay propaganda to underaged kids. You can be gay if you want to. You won't be arrested or killed. That's some big misinformation.
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Oh really?

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Guys can't even meet each other in secrecy if they want to. A hooking up app is saddled with this kind of BS message. And if someone does take a chance, there's no telling which one of those possible hook ups could be a dirtbag wanting to bash them.

So, which one of these guys are underaged kids?

What THE FUCK is gay propaganda anyway? This is why you bigot often sound like a loon.

WarrenMax007 said:
Next - drinking water? What's that supposed to mean? You drink tap water? That's not how it works over here. You need to filter it first. And there was ONE incident, ONE.
And that lady mentioned that water supply was turned off and then turned on again. And brown water is exactly what happens when you turn it back on. You just have to let it run for a minute and it'll become white.
Please, if you don't know how thnigs work, or laws, just stop. STOP.
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Or maybe you should just stop with the damage control. There are pictures and people saying how the accommodation is in disarray, toilets situated weirdly, water undrinkable, surveillance in bathroom, etc.

Oh wait, those people are just lying. Am I rite?

Mesoian said:
You do realize that 4 activists were arrested TODAY for reading the olympic doctrine on tolerance, right?
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Nooo, it must be just the western media trying to make Russia look bad.
 
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Demon Ice said:
That Sochi's condition is utterly laughable given the cash they were given to prepare for the Olympics, and that MDSLKTR's issue with the use of the phrase "third world country" is equally laughable.
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Have you ever been to Russia?

What third world country did you go to? What were your accommodations?

I don't want to assume too much, but it sounds to me like you're saying "lol I stayed in rich 1st world accommodations in a 3rd world tourist spot 1 time on vacay, so Russia should be able to build an entire city out of nothing with no glitches bcuz lol"
 
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