i endorse this, and i don't endorse blue ribbons. its all built on bullshit. the idea that anyone could work hard and excell in any sport. there are genetic (and especially epigenetic) advantages. always. there are quirks of circumstance. always.
acknowledge that there is no perfectly 'fair', and the whole myth is bullsiht. now who wants to see two fuckers beat the fuck out of each other?
k. americans five years ago were also mostly happy with their government. people are stupid and easily fooled by something as pervasive as a state. and you can't claim its 'not at the expense of the people' if there are billionaires. which there are.
names were referenced elsewhere. stop defending a shithole that creates billionaires at the expense of the people.
as soon as they got past the initial "shut up stop making us look bad" they went at it like a real problem. people died, and initial whistleblowers were jailed/killed.
its not in the top ten worst responses, but it was a VERY bad start and you shouldn't fucking defend that. public health should take priority over reputation. always.
i mean, yeah, china fucked up. they could have handled it before it was a problem if they were less of a totalitarian propagandist hell.
but then some people decided to deliberately breed it, like a god damn puppy mill of plague. because some places just refuse to be outdone when it comes to being hell.
just FYI; AI tested images available at thispersondoesnotexist.com
if somebody wanted to trick a malevolent AI of some sort. for some reason.