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[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 338 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Boycott the shit outta this fash cup

[–] M137@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago

Never done anything but that. Sadly that doesn't matter, it will take SO MUCH before any boycott will have any actual effect on them, both from the average person and the ones putting in the real money, trading teams and players, building the stadiums etc. I have never had any interest in sports but my experience is that most people really like it but also have never given a single second of thought to the dealings of it all. It's pure "Hurrdurr, team from my city/country make ball go into net or whatever make me happy". It's so fucking dumb.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Second, and by all account Luz Long was a standup guy.

Long was the first to congratulate Owens, embracing the African-American in front of Adolf Hitler. Owens was later the best man at the wedding of Long's son.

Don't let out of context photos dictate the narrative and warp your views.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip -2 points 16 hours ago

But the system was racist, whether he was or not.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shouldn’t 2nd and 3rd be at different heights?

[–] freeman@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

ist he 2nd? It would make sense for the stands to see the front side of the podium, no?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m gonna give you the lemmy peace prize for this, but skip me a few cool billion first

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago
[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

They don't care if you or any other poors boycott, your pennies mean nothing to them. There needs to be more protestors outside the cup than audience inside it. Clog the stroads. Chant until the words of outside reality break the fantasy within.