Tbh I kinda get it. The below is my immediate thoughts but perhaps there’s another angle I’m not considering.
If you’re a professional player at that level then the sport is your life. You’ve probably been training since you were a child and you’ve completely dedicated yourself to it. Training almost every day, not doing things that other people get to do so as not to harm your performance, which probably affects your relationships.
In any sport where physicality is concerned, you have an expiry date. You will inevitably age out. It’s just a fact of life.
The Olympics is arguably the most culturally significant and important sporting event in human history so far, or at least one of them.
I can see why someone who has dedicated their life to their sport would make this decision to play in that event, even if they’ve already done it before, because they WILL age out of it sooner or later. And really, is one missing finger going to be that much of an impairment for the rest of his life? I’m guessing it’s not a thumb so… Probably not.
I think the decision is understandable and rational. I wouldn’t choose it myself, but I’m not a professional athlete who has dedicated their life to what they do.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Its not just honest defaulting they have to deal with. What most people aren’t made aware of is that when banks etc. lend money to people, the bank creates that money right there and then. Just like typing it into an excel sheet and pressing enter. Through this, private banks create 80% of the money in our system: not the national bank who make the rest which includes all the physical money.
Essentially, we’ve given private banks the licence to print our money and no one seems to think that there might be a problem with that idea.
So, much like the financial crash, there’s no reason not to suspect this is going to have a huge element of banks just creating loads of money for themselves to use.
Those that aren’t unable to pay off loans are running out of money too but aren’t taking out new loans to buy new things. So, there’s no new credit lines being made, in which these things can be lost, a bit like in a ponzi scheme but in reverse. Its also one of the reasons inflation (too much money chasing too few things) is so high. Covid was the perfect time to do it, due to all the loans being issued (money being created). You don’t hide a needle in a haystack. You hide it in a giant pile of needles.
Paying back to loans and paying tax actaullt destroys money too. So, another reason we have too much money is not taxing the rich fairly but tbats another story. Governments create money and then takes tax. What isn’t destroyed is the deficit.
He would probably become president if he had chosen Haley but there is just zero percent chance he acknowledges he was wrong. This is a Democrat making up theories, not a leak familiar with his thinking.
For someone as narcissistic as Trump, the fact there isn’t a 5 hour documentary and 600 media posts detailing his time in hospital, the state of his ear, T-shirts with his X-ray and MRi and ultrasound of his ear, and 3d print of the ear as a collectible wall mount etc is what is actually odd about the whole thing.
He’s making money off of two perfect once in a lifetime photo shots though.
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