Surely they'll forget about bread if the circus is entertaining enough, right?
GUAM NUMBER ONE!!!! 💪💪💪
Is it a satire? At this point I seriously can't tell
Nope
Yeah, of course it's a ...
Isn't there a really bad Clancy book by that name? Yeah, I just read the plot summary and it sounds as deranged as something trump would write.
Why? Just why.
I think this sounds fun? Would make for a fun "state pride" thing and would be fun to watch. Kind of like a mini Olympics.
Calling it "the hunger games without the killing," is a lot like saying "the Boston Marathon bombing but without the bomb." Just a fairly normal athletic event.
I don't understand why people are up in arms over this. Is it maybe a silly thing for the president to be pushing for? Sure. But I'd rather him work on this than almost anything else he's prone to work on.
Yes. Theoretically.
Problem is:
It has eerie parallels to the Nazi's glorification/politicization of youth athleticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_League_of_the_Reich_for_Physical_Exercise
Similarly, it might end up tied into this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250/america-prays/
It's classic Trump TBH. A good idea in an innocent way, if one totally ignores history and gives it the absolute benefit of the doubt. And his followers can use it to troll people who point out potential danger as 'hysterical'.
I mean, "the Nazis glorified youth sports" feels like an empty argument to me. Hitler liked dogs. That doesn't make me morally obligated to hate dogs.
And yeah, Trump has abhorrent policies in other areas that could taint this. That doesn't mean this idea in particular is bad.
It's just a little on the nose with the one boy and one girl from each state. And let's see how the diversity in these boys and girls will be, it's probably gonna be some white ethnofascist bullshit parading around the perfect children. But let's see.
I mean, I assume that the states would be able to nominate their competitors themselves.
And I assume Trump would want to pick the girls himself, after "inspecting" them.
Feel free to correct me....
Everyone I know has been roasting the patriot games, but... it sounds sort of fun??? Given how bad Americans are at exercise, socialization, and community, some sporting events might be fun and good?
Like, I could see this being an absolute dream for high-achieving student athletes.
However, this is all tempered by the fact that the announcement itself was steeped in transphobia. If that weren't the case, Id be less skeptical.
The problem is that under any other administration, it would be a potentially good idea. Under this one, it's a grand event for dear leader to show himself off and his country like North Korea does. It's more ego padding, that if it happens will be so ineptly run it'll be a disgrace to those who participate. You'd have to be die hard MAGA to want to perform for glorious leader who thinks physical exertion just kills you faster.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how fascism arrived.
Sure, it’s all in good fun, and the ballroom is just an upgrade for the people, and the illegals dying in detention, aren’t dying because they were detained, just coincidentally dying in captivity. Let’s always look for the silver lining in the sturmwolke.
the ballroom is just an upgrade for the people, and the illegals dying in detention, aren’t dying because they were detained
Wat.... when did I say any of that....
You didn’t, but this is the sort of sentiment that aligns:
Everyone I know has been roasting the patriot games, but... it sounds sort of fun???
It might, if it was anything other than a spectacle in service of dear leader. They do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
So... why didnt you just say "I fear this is just a front to instill reactionary patriotism for the greater purpose of ushering in American fascism - akin to the Hitler youth"
And instead smugly claimed I was ushering in fascism??
It's a fair point, and I'd have conceded it to you...
Because whitewashing fascism is supporting it and I'm tired of giving people who are part of the problem grace.
Because whitewashing fascism is supporting it and I’m tired
[https://lemmy.ml/post/39531321/22458346](Dis u?)
we don’t have capitalism. But fuck any ism, just find the broken shit and fix it.
On a crusade against whitewashing and fascism, yet cannot confront capitalism..
lol, dumbass.
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