Olympics Opening Ceremony

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Anonymous wrote:Satanic

The consternation by the American right wing who otherwise love to mutter “eff your feelings” and prattle on about how liberals get offended too easily is just priceless.

Not offended at all. Just identifying it as Satanic and aware of my surroundings

NP. Satan isn’t real, hon

NNP: Santa isn’t real either, and yet he influences the behavior of many millions of people, dictates the expenditure of billions of dollars, and indeed holds the fortunes of many lives in his hands. Ideas and memes are quite powerful even if there is not a physical reality underlying them. IMO, you can’t pretend to worship Satan; your mind makes it real for you.

Your comment is completely nonsensical.

What about it is? That people believing in an imaginary thing can have profound effects on the world? That’s trivially true. That people’s choice of art, values, perspectives, etc., can affect their world view and through this their actions. Again, trivially true. What am I missing?

Starting with “NNP”, through “Santa dictates the expenditure of billions of dollars, and indeed holds the fortunes of many lives in his hands“, and ending with “you can’t pretend to worship Satan; your mind makes it real for you”.

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Anonymous wrote:Peyton Manning had no place being there either. There are plenty of former Olympians they could have tapped instead.

Right? Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski should do summer Olympics, too.

The offended writers on here would have vapors seeing Johnny's outfits.

There is a difference between being offended and thinking something was stupid. Johnny was amazing and had style. This was … not that.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't have a problem with any of it and found it well done. The drag show also wasn't really appropriate, but not a bother. But the mockery of the Last Supper was totally unnecessary and offensive.

You’d think the organizers would have learned something from last year’s Bud Light fiasco. But some lessons have to be taught again. I am not watching the Olympics this year on TV. Let me know if there is an exciting clip or two that I can see on Twitter.

Don’t most people watch the Olympics because they love sports? Doesn’t sound like they were your thing, ceremony or not.

I’ll watch the next Olympics if they decide to make it about sports again instead of drag queens mocking Christianity and putting their junk on display.

Wait for Salt Lake in 10 years I guess. 👋

How will they go on without you? 😂

Talk about an over reaction. The show was 4 hours long and you can’t let go of a few minutes you did not like in the opening ceremony. So you plan to boycott the multi-week Olympics. Not an overreaction at all…

They'll switch to another channel showing gun violence, car crashes and gore.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you understand Snoop? Why oh why would anyone hire him as an Olympic announcer??

I am the one who posted about Snoop's misogyny and I don't think he should be there but why are you pretending he is not a clear speaker?

You should be offended by host of Peyton manning! He diverted millions of welfare funds to his daughter’s college gymnasium and is suing the journalist who exposed it for defamation! I can’t believe they picked him!

That was Brett Favre (vreh vreh)

No, no it wasn't.

How much Brett Favre was involved or knew isn't totally settled yet, but he is the one accused in that case, not Peyton Manning.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brett-favre-scandal-explained-ex-nfl-qb-is-accused-of-misusing-of-mississippi-state-welfare-funds/
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38782335/judge-dismiss-brett-favre-defamation-lawsuit-shannon-sharpe

LOL, I thought PP was saying the announcer was Brett Favre and I was like "you are a complete idiot". oopsie!

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Anonymous wrote:10 pages and nobody's pointed out how screwed Los Angeles is? Aside from Hollywood effects, anything in Sofia Stadium will look lame compared to tonight's river ceremony.

I hated it. I hated the boats. My favorite part of opening ceremonies has been the parade of nations and watching everyone walk in wearing their cool clothes. I was disappointed that we didn't get to see their outfits at all. I thought Tokyo was much better.

Tokyo? There was no audience and because of COVID athletes had to mask.

But I got to see their clothes and their flags up close.

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https://www.today.com/news/paris-olympics/olympics-opening-ceremony-last-supper-controversy-rcna163929

dummies.

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Anonymous wrote:Satanic

The consternation by the American right wing who otherwise love to mutter “eff your feelings” and prattle on about how liberals get offended too easily is just priceless.

Not offended at all. Just identifying it as Satanic and aware of my surroundings

NP. Satan isn’t real, hon

I’ll take what all the satanists say for $200.

Don’t satanists proudly believe in Satan? They’re pretty up front about it.

Most Satanists don't believe in Satan as a literal person, but as a metaphor for defying Christian culture. Satanists don't believe in God and do believe in humanity.

One or two sects believe in literal Satan, but they're few and far between, and very small.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't have a problem with any of it and found it well done. The drag show also wasn't really appropriate, but not a bother. But the mockery of the Last Supper was totally unnecessary and offensive.

You’d think the organizers would have learned something from last year’s Bud Light fiasco. But some lessons have to be taught again. I am not watching the Olympics this year on TV. Let me know if there is an exciting clip or two that I can see on Twitter.

Don’t most people watch the Olympics because they love sports? Doesn’t sound like they were your thing, ceremony or not.

I’ll watch the next Olympics if they decide to make it about sports again instead of drag queens mocking Christianity and putting their junk on display.

You don't have to watch the opening ceremony. Go watch the sports you like.

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Anonymous wrote:I googled that cspire company that “pulled their ads.” It’s a wireless/fiber utility company in Mississippi. Would have had local-only ads which are super cheap (especially considering that limited market) and sold only when there aren’t national ads. So NBC is out a couple thousand dollars max, but will quickly fill with others anyway.

So what's the theory here - that NBC should pre-approve all Olympic activities? Does that mean all 200+ countries should have the right to pre-approve the LA opening ceremony?

How about having people in charge of the event that have the basic decency not to put on a show mocking Christianity? But if you can’t do that, don’t be at all surprised when people refuse to watch. Or pull up a list of advertisers and decide to boycott. And that’s only because Christians are generally tolerant. Try that display with other religions and see what happens.

Calm down, girl. It's a painting, not religious scripture.

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Anonymous wrote:Peyton Manning and Kelly Clarkson were absolutely terrible choices for commentary

They sent Colin Jost to Tahiti for the surfing competitions…

No!!! NBC spent so much to cover Olympics they didn't have $ to hire anchors who knows things or know how to comment??

The whole opening ceremony was botched from start to finish.

Tell us what you'd do.

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Anonymous wrote:I googled that cspire company that “pulled their ads.” It’s a wireless/fiber utility company in Mississippi. Would have had local-only ads which are super cheap (especially considering that limited market) and sold only when there aren’t national ads. So NBC is out a couple thousand dollars max, but will quickly fill with others anyway.

So what's the theory here - that NBC should pre-approve all Olympic activities? Does that mean all 200+ countries should have the right to pre-approve the LA opening ceremony?

How about having people in charge of the event that have the basic decency not to put on a show mocking Christianity? But if you can’t do that, don’t be at all surprised when people refuse to watch. Or pull up a list of advertisers and decide to boycott. And that’s only because Christians are generally tolerant. Try that display with other religions and see what happens.

Calm down, girl. It's a painting, not religious scripture.

That's what you get when Western Europe thinks they were the originator of Christianity.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so perfect. Turning your back on 500 Americans who trained their whole lives to reach the highest levels of their sport. All because some French guy imitated a painting. Such snowflakes.

Shouldn’t that make you want to cheer harder for Team USA? *American Exceptionalism* and all that?

+1. Excellent point. Seems these people are actually un-American.

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Anonymous wrote:10 pages and nobody's pointed out how screwed Los Angeles is? Aside from Hollywood effects, anything in Sofia Stadium will look lame compared to tonight's river ceremony.

I hated it. I hated the boats. My favorite part of opening ceremonies has been the parade of nations and watching everyone walk in wearing their cool clothes. I was disappointed that we didn't get to see their outfits at all. I thought Tokyo was much better.

Tokyo? There was no audience and because of COVID athletes had to mask.

But I got to see their clothes and their flags up close.

I doubt you remember the Tokyo opening ceremony. Even though Japan put on a good event, it was sad given the postponement and lack of audience. I remember the London ceremony, which was quite edgy.

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Anonymous wrote:I googled that cspire company that “pulled their ads.” It’s a wireless/fiber utility company in Mississippi. Would have had local-only ads which are super cheap (especially considering that limited market) and sold only when there aren’t national ads. So NBC is out a couple thousand dollars max, but will quickly fill with others anyway.

So what's the theory here - that NBC should pre-approve all Olympic activities? Does that mean all 200+ countries should have the right to pre-approve the LA opening ceremony?

How about having people in charge of the event that have the basic decency not to put on a show mocking Christianity? But if you can’t do that, don’t be at all surprised when people refuse to watch. Or pull up a list of advertisers and decide to boycott. And that’s only because Christians are generally tolerant. Try that display with other religions and see what happens.

Calm down, girl. It's a painting, not religious scripture.

That's what you get when Western Europe thinks they were the originator of Christianity.

And that the historical Jesus was a white dude with blond straight hair as imagined by a 15th century Italian.

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Anonymous wrote:Satanic

The consternation by the American right wing who otherwise love to mutter “eff your feelings” and prattle on about how liberals get offended too easily is just priceless.

Not offended at all. Just identifying it as Satanic and aware of my surroundings

NP. Satan isn’t real, hon

I’ll take what all the satanists say for $200.

Don’t satanists proudly believe in Satan? They’re pretty up front about it.

Most Satanists don't believe in Satan as a literal person, but as a metaphor for defying Christian culture. Satanists don't believe in God and do believe in humanity.

One or two sects believe in literal Satan, but they're few and far between, and very small.

WAIT A MINUTE. Are you telling me that so-called “Satanists” are just doing good works in their communities while not actually believing in Satan and using religious legal loopholes to help people??