Respect is earned, not given.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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Jeer away, unfortunately we deserve it.
Like minds - came here to encourage the heckling. Give us hell, please.
We don't deserve the minimum level of respect anymore. Fuck us.
American here.
Jeer, mock, boo. Castigate. We shouldn’t have even been allowed this year.
If you hear our anthem turn your back, take a knee, walk away.
Mock America. It shows solidarity with Americans.
Well, the majority of us anyway.
They have yet to earn it.
Who didnt show at the polls? Fafo, i guess.
American here. Please boo us at the Olympics. We deserve it. Actually take it a step further. Don't let us participate in the games at all. Also while we're at it boot us from the WC and give hosting exclusively to Canada and Mexico.
As an American: No no - you should jeer the fuck out of us. We 100% deserve it. Large parts of our population evidently don’t understand or care about soft power (amongst many other important things), so we’ve nuked most of ours. Show my countrymen what the ramifications of that choice are.
I’m a Philadelphia Eagles fan; booing works. Please boo us, we deserve to stew in shame. Only frail pussies like our sorry excuse for a president can’t handle it. He’s sending the couch fucker because he’s too chickenshit.
The Olympics is a traveling embezzlement and drug/human trafficking convention. These fuckers don’t have the moral integrity to lecture anyone.
I disagree. Our country wants to act like lawless Nazis and send the Gestapo to your country. Boo the shit out of us! And stop voting for fascists because your countries are going to become what we are if you do
Please boo.
Please don’t clap.
of all the corrupt people/org, IOC is probably more corrupt than trump.
Jeer, boo, and laugh away
Wrong, boo louder and be especially disrespectful if they play our stupid anthem.
Please mock and humiliate us. Sincerely, an American.
If the Russians shouldn't be participating the Americans shouldn't either. Sucks for the athletes who trained so hard though.
Or the Chinese.
Respect deez nutz?
Yeah lick the boot and you’ll be next. Don’t they have a fascist in office anyway
They do, but perhaps less overtly than our orange monster.
Georgia Meloni.
Meloni's tenure has been described as the "most right-wing" government in Italy since World War II,[19][20][21] whilst her time in government is variously described as a shift towards the far-right in Italian politics.
Lol no
Boo freely, teach us some new curses in your languages, and I hope our athletes use their moments in the sun to protest as well. I do appreciate y'all letting them compete, since they don't have any more say about ICE or Trump than anyone else here, and have trained as hard as anyone else there. Feel free to boycott any Games held in our country as well, nothing pisses off His Fatjesty like being blamed for losing money, even though he hates Los Angeles and wants us to fail.
I'm sure people are smart enough to do both things.