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Why did they need to build a new town for the olympics? No other mountain towns were suitable?
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Fuck the Olympics. It's a stupid orgy of corruption and megalomaniacal fascist nationalism designed to spotlight the global pecking order. Every country it goes to blows a giant wad of citizen tax dollars funding a bunch of useless infrastructure that is never used again while they carefully craft a movie set facade to project an image of idyllic life in their faux countryside. All of their existing problems get swept under the rug for a few weeks, a bunch of plutocrats and hucksters pocket massive amounts of cash, and somebody sets a new record on a ski jump or a pole vault. Sporting endeavors and the amount of importance society lavishes upon them are already silly enough without the narcissistic pageantry of an event where everybody tries to show off for the whole world. It's such a waste of resources and energy it makes you wonder what would happen if the world ever came together like that to attempt to do something productive.

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