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KarfiolosHus ,

Tankies try to strawman, bruhuhu

10_0 ,

Insert “the west”

blackluster117 ,
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Tankies go home.

yogthos OP ,
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cry ab it

blackluster117 ,
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https://possumpat.io/pictrs/image/40bd73cf-6668-408f-94f6-36d0018694cb.gif

You nerd.

Jolteon ,

It’s almost like people cheer for the country they live in.

LemmeAtEm ,

Did you just look at the pictures or did you actually read the text? It’s not about who gets cheered for and who doesn’t. The issue is people (in the US) saying it’s not possible that a Chinese athlete did that and that he somehow cheated, which is not only childish and cringe, but extremely hypocritical given the context.

Jolteon ,

Oh, the bottom text is cut off in the thumbnail on my app. That makes a lot more sense.

orca ,
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Example of this actually happening?

FunkyStuff ,

“Not humanly possible” is a quote from an American swimmer commenting on the Chinese athlete’s performance.

orca ,
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Thanks. I was legit wondering so I could go read more.

It’s pretty funny seeing an American Olympian criticize a Chinese athlete when coupled with this.

FunkyStuff ,

If you’re looking for some in depth discussion BreakThrough News just did a video on the subject.

CyberEgg ,

The difference is the number of athletes caught doping recently.

yogthos OP ,
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that’s an excellent point

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8a7ed35c-0a1c-4963-b7c4-1b0dbba4f898.jpeg

Achyu , (edited )

My(Our for fellow friends) country is first. Probably it means that we’re simple and don’t go after high cost drugs that don’t show during tests.

Take that commies n cappies

ouRKaoS ,

Does it seem a little sketchy to anyone else that so many people were tested in China? Do they really have that many athletes or are they trying to skew the numbers?

yogthos OP ,
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They just test Chinese athletes disproportionately.

FunkyStuff ,

If China tested fewer athletes than the US, you’d call them lax. But they test more than anywhere else and that’s sketchy because it makes this particular metric look better.

parenti-hands

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

AssortedBiscuits ,
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Kraut cope

sharkfucker420 ,
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In all fairness phelps is legitimately built different but the double standard is dumb yeah

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