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BearGun ,

Bottom left he really looks like he hasn’t smiled in 20 years and the photographer told him to

Raglesnarf ,

the real Mr and Mrs Smith

DarkCloud ,

Why not show the gold medalists… Seeing as most never saw them, and they’ve got zero publicity compared to others.

rovingnothing29 ,
@rovingnothing29@lemmy.world avatar

Are they not the people with steampunk glasses in the memes?

DarkCloud ,

Nope, it was Serbia’s Damir Mikec and Zorana Arunovic.

Damir Mikec’s eye wear looked more like something made from lego technic:

turkiyetoday.com/…/turkish-olympic-shooter-yusuf-…

…and he’s gotten no love for having beaten all these meme based characters.

BugleFingers ,

I feel like this is a great statment on how “meritocracy” works IRL

Sweetpeaches69 ,

Because they’re inferior in the minds of many.

Silver almost best them with no equipment.

drdabbles ,
@drdabbles@lemmy.world avatar

Because the Olympics aren’t good for anything but ruining nations and memes.

Turd_Ferg ,
@Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works avatar

Turkish Dirty Harry > Spring Break Predator

JokeDeity ,

So Turks just like to shoot with their hands in their pockets, I guess?

stephen01king ,

I think that’s just how the shooting stance works. Hooking your hand in your pocket prevents it from moving and messing with your aim.

EpeeGnome ,

They’re only allowed to use one hand, so the competitors always have their off hand tucked in or hooked onto their clothes so that arm can be relaxed and ignored.

JokeDeity ,

Got it, I’m honestly just riffing off another comment I saw a day ago that mentioned his hand in his pocket, I didn’t know they all did it. 🤣

skvlp ,

And the other one NOT giving a high five…!?

CaptainBlagbird ,
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world avatar

Great integration into that meme

BruceTwarzen ,

It’s almost like no one cares about the Olympics

CanadianCarl ,

It is mixed feelings about it. I don’t really care for it myself, and it puts countries in debt hosting them. There is always something that goes horribly wrong. I think every Olympic game, has had problems, small or huge.

TheTetrapod ,

Who is downvoting you? I wouldn’t think that Lemmy would be into athletics or patriotism.

lud ,

It’s just a stupid and unnecessary comment.

And what has patriotism to do with it?

AntiOutsideAktion ,
@AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net avatar

the joke is no one making memes about the olympics watches them

flan ,
@flan@hexbear.net avatar

At first I thought he was a divorcee just trying to get his dog back but now that I know he’s a divorcee spending time with his daughter I like the story even more.

mathemachristian ,

He is actually part of the turkish gendarmerie which is notorious for oppressing minorities in turkey

tkk13909 ,

Power couple!

mariusafa ,

Huh? That guy is cool because of his lore and his attitude. We don’t care if he is male, female an alien or whatever. We don’t care if he won a medal, a diploma or a 5$ discount on a supermarket.

He is relevant because this guy went shooting into an olimpic event with a normal guy vibe wearing his prescription glasses and one hand in the pocket, while other olimpic teams wear all kind of complex sighting aparatus for this events. Plus his story lore of how he became olimpic shooter is hilarious.

His teamate could be Erdogan, Beyonce, Taylor Swift. NOT RELEVANT.

So what? He has a female in his team? Okay.

brainw0rms ,
@brainw0rms@hexbear.net avatar

pooh-wtf

SoJB ,

It was literally a team event and one of the things that makes the bit funny is how “he” won silver. In fact, that’s the entire thing this story hinges on, performing well.

In a team event.

Nice self-reporting your misogyny though, and I’m sorry your mind fails to draw a single independent conclusion from this meme.

Midnight1938 ,

I thought it hinged on the ‘baller move’, then getting a silver.

Since you seem invested in the Olympics, what was his score?

inlandempire ,
@inlandempire@jlai.lu avatar

Oh you watch the Olympics name all the medals 🤓 vibe

Ediacarium ,
@Ediacarium@feddit.org avatar

Gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal

inlandempire ,
@inlandempire@jlai.lu avatar

https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/36af14ae-c2ec-4859-bab2-00b228692988.png

Birbatron ,

This isn’t me being misogynistic but had his teammate done better they’d have won gold, she brought the score down, he actually shot better than both of the winners.

This is not to say she wasn’t qualified for this, in fact I believe her previous track record is better than his

JackbyDev , (edited )

When I shot in highschool it was a team event while also individual. So your team’s score is the summation of the individuals scores (pre-finals).

(Finals is like an extra portion for the top few competitors. Your score in finals is added and that’s your total. It was added to make the sport more spectator friendly. When I shot it was just 10 extra shots but shortly after I stopped it was changed to top 8 shooting one shot at a time and lowest shot gets eliminated. I believe this is still the case based on pictures I saw of the two finalists shooting side by side alone.)

So it’s possible he won silver as individual and the team didn’t win or also got silver. I haven’t actually looked into the Olympic rules or results but that’s how it was when I shot competitively.

Edit: Looks like 10 meter air pistol categories individual men, individual women, and mixed team are all run at different times. So it was only as a team that they won silver. I don’t know about the individual results of the team competition, but regardless it wouldn’t have earned a medal. en.wikipedia.org/…/Shooting_at_the_2024_Summer_Ol…

WorkIsSlow ,

I thought it was just his normal guy vibe without the shooting glasses. Pretty sure the hand in the pocket is common and I haven’t heard anything about a hilarious back story.

Mycatiskai ,

First I read about it from a comment was that he was trying to prove his Ex-Wife wrong that he can make something of himself. But it didn’t mention is that he joined the Gendarmerie of Turkey, which is a police type force in rural areas and other places in the country.

I don’t want to lower his achievements but he’s just a cop who obviously did well in his shooting practice and turned that into a silver medal. He isn’t a hitman like the memes are saying.

Tall_Chilchuck ,

Pretty sure that ex wife thing is just a meme. He’s got competition results dating back more than 20 years from a look at his wikipedia page

Melvin_Ferd ,

This man showed up to compete in the Olympics after his son was assaulted by a wild pack of turkish trans furry democrats. His Turkish sons last words were"Baba, şimdi dinlenmem gerek. Bu trans demokrat kürklerin bugün kazandı ama sen benim ölümümü intikamını almak için Olimpiyatlarda kazanacaksın, baba. Bana ya özgürlük ver ya da ölüm." -New York Post

lunarul ,

Gendarmerie is part of the military, higher than police. And he was a sergeant. He’s part of both the national team and the national army team.

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

It is not really “higher” than police and it is not regular military. The gendarmerie in Turkey is responsible for policing outside cities, they are part of the military, but they are subordinate to the interior ministry during peace times (regular military answers to the defence ministry).

lunarul ,

Compared to what it takes to become a policeman in the US, it’s definitely a higher level of training. Hard to find a direct US equivalent.

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t know about the police. I was comparing inside turkey, where there is the Police for urban areas and the Jandarma (Gendarmerie) for rural areas.

emergencyfood ,

He has a female in his team?

I know this is increasingly accepted, but ‘female’ is actually an adjective. You could say ‘has a female athlete’ or even just ‘has a lady’, but the current wording is a bit off.

ulterno ,
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

‘female’ is also an adjective

FIFY

Source: https://lemmy.kde.social/pictrs/image/d638d4d6-d52f-4404-9241-d4775c8ccbec.png

HereIAm ,

Normally “female” is more used in clinical settings or about not-human animals. One reason it gives off incel energy is it reduces a person to what genitals they have.

ulterno , (edited )
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

reduces a person to what genitals they have

Fine by me, specially in this case.

So do all other categorisation terms, which on top of that, group them with others in the same category and help the people who’d blame everything on a category of people. Specially the “-ism” -> “-ist” categorisations.

I’d rather have scientific categorisation than a social one, that would enable dialogues such as:
A: Define a “woman”, you senator/judge/other public personality.
B: … I think I am not qualified to … more gibberish … ( because I need to be politically correct).

And that’s probably why people prefer this choice of words. To prevent the “Cis vs Trans - you dare assume their gender” bullies from finding them as easy prey. And over time, it becomes second nature.

I feel like, in this case OC (original commenter) is trying to admit that they don’t know the “female” as a person (neither do they know anything about the relationship between the 2) and claiming that the clout is just based on her being a female.
Whether or not that is accurate, OC does get the point across.

Now the following is just my agenda, but I think we ought not to give humans all the privilege of respect. It is the person, that we need to give that to. That way, we, as a civilisation, will be ready just in case another species, capable of being a person, comes up, whether terrestrial or otherwise.

emergencyfood ,

I know this is increasingly accepted, but …

To be fair, in English most adjectives can also be used as nouns. I suppose I should have said that in this context, using it as an adjective is inappropriate.

Phegan ,

This seems to have triggered you out of nowhere. You okay?

bloubz ,

I had never seen that many down votes on Lemmy, good job

Melvin_Ferd ,

I thought it was to dunk on the Asian teams

Crampon ,

Damn you got stamped on for simply explaining why people cared about A and not B.

Hilarious place.

mariusafa ,

Yeah, we should never consider reasoning as a human quality. Social media platforms tend to remove that. I thought Lemmy was different. Well I guess it depends on the instance.

gueybana ,

Wouldn’t they have gotten gold if she didn’t drag the entire team down lol?

Thordros ,
@Thordros@hexbear.net avatar

Turkey would have actually gotten a shiny platinum medal if there were no ffffffeeeeeeemales on the team.

lud ,

Ah, hexbear users are always showing their finest attitude.

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

So our king has a queen!

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