Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
Tbh I dont think they’ll even try to sanewash it anymore. How is it that the rest of the world is even contemplating taking part in these games in the first place?
How is it that the emperor got the 2 most famous sporting events to be hosted in his empire in the first place?
Nah, we don’t ask questions and just suck up the slop.
At the time, were those countries assisting a genocide, enabling peadophiles and kidnapping heads of state?
It’s scraping the barrel, but tbh I can’t think of a worse place than USA.
Yeah, you’re right, Russia isn’t assisting a genocide right now. I mean, they’re conducting their own, so that doesn’t count I guess (and that shit started in 2014). Qatar had the World Cup stadiums built with literal slave labour, and we really don’t want to talk about the general situation of human rights in these countries (it’s bad, really bad), but doesn’t matter because they’re not the US I guess.
As a Canadian, there is a small but nonzero chance that I would go to an event in the US, in normal times. These are not normal times, and I will not set foot in the country.
That is the difference between Qatar, Russia, and the US.
Just to clarify, by “that’s the difference” you don’t mean you’d travel to Qatar or Russia, but that the situation is new in the US but not new in Russia and Qatar, right?
There’s no chance that I would travel to Qatar or Russia, but living in Canada there’s a good chance I would have traveled to the US (I’ve probably gone there between 5 and 10 times in my life).
Now there is little chance that I will visit the US in the foreseeable future.
Well, to your second question, the host nations for those games are decided years in advance, I think as much as a decade. It’s an unfortunate coincidence.
Tbh I dont think they’ll even try to sanewash it anymore. How is it that the rest of the world is even contemplating taking part in these games in the first place? How is it that the emperor got the 2 most famous sporting events to be hosted in his empire in the first place? Nah, we don’t ask questions and just suck up the slop.
The last world cups were in Russia and Qatar. Not like those are better then the Us, just less powerful. Olympia was decent though.
At the time, were those countries assisting a genocide, enabling peadophiles and kidnapping heads of state? It’s scraping the barrel, but tbh I can’t think of a worse place than USA.
Yeah, you’re right, Russia isn’t assisting a genocide right now. I mean, they’re conducting their own, so that doesn’t count I guess (and that shit started in 2014). Qatar had the World Cup stadiums built with literal slave labour, and we really don’t want to talk about the general situation of human rights in these countries (it’s bad, really bad), but doesn’t matter because they’re not the US I guess.
Correct.
Well, that’s weird.
As a Canadian, there is a small but nonzero chance that I would go to an event in the US, in normal times. These are not normal times, and I will not set foot in the country.
That is the difference between Qatar, Russia, and the US.
Just to clarify, by “that’s the difference” you don’t mean you’d travel to Qatar or Russia, but that the situation is new in the US but not new in Russia and Qatar, right?
There’s no chance that I would travel to Qatar or Russia, but living in Canada there’s a good chance I would have traveled to the US (I’ve probably gone there between 5 and 10 times in my life).
Now there is little chance that I will visit the US in the foreseeable future.
Well, to your second question, the host nations for those games are decided years in advance, I think as much as a decade. It’s an unfortunate coincidence.