http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028089097 Wed Aug 10, 2016, 07:39 PM
Star Member a kennedy (11,769 posts)
Do medals in the olympics make you a proud American???
I do find myself rooting for the USA and I wonder if others do too.
That you have to ask such a retarded question speaks volumes..
Speaking of retarded.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 07:45 PM
Star Member uppityperson (105,283 posts)
1. No. And I find NBCs Ameican-centric coverage annoying. I am proud of all the athlete's hard
work to get there.
Eat a big ole plate of shit and die.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 07:46 PM
Star Member Wounded Bear (9,532 posts)
2. Not really....
I kind of gave up on the Olympics many years ago.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 08:30 PM
Star Member LWolf (45,184 posts)
6. I don't watch the Olympics.
And I've never been a proud American. An ambivalent American, a disgusted American, a humiliated American...but never proud.
When I was younger I'd watch a bit of the Olympics. Somehow my interest in competitive sports has dwindled to almost nothing over the decades.
This ****ing communist claims to be a teacher,his district should know what he is.
Response to LWolf (Reply #6)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 08:34 PM
Star Member Sherman A1 (17,889 posts)
9. Agreed
I do like bobsleds and luge from the Winter Games, but beyond that most sports are not very entertaining.
Because you are ***** and loser.
Response to LWolf (Reply #6)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 10:30 PM
Star Member RKP5637 (40,948 posts)
28. I've never been an overly proud American, some of what America does is very embarrassing. Certainly
not the worst, but could be far better. And I'm speaking in general, not specifically to the Olympics.
I'm glad the athletes have a chance to compete and their skills are absolutely amazing
Response to RKP5637 (Reply #28)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 09:59 AM
Star Member LWolf (45,184 posts)
44. I have no problem
with their competing. It's their thing. It's not mine. I'm fine with people pursuing their passion.
I think I'm not fine with competitions that are about nationalism, rather than for the sake of the athlete or the sport. It's funny; I wouldn't even have thought about it that way if it hadn't been pointed out to me in this thread.
Die in a fire asshole.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 08:33 PM
JesterCS (1,519 posts)
8. No
Olympics are a huge waste of resources, and the game is rigged.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 09:04 PM
Star Member femmocrat (23,334 posts)
11. Not exactly, although I do enjoy the flag ceremonies.
I always feel bad for the poor countries who have no chance of winning anything. You know they are trying their hearts out, but don't have the advantages of the wealthier countries.
BTW, NBC'S coverage of gymnastics has been atrocious.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 09:19 PM
Frank Cannon (7,259 posts)
17. I will defer to Mr. Bill Hicks on this.
You can be proud of that watercolor painting you worked so hard on, that you finally got to look exactly right after about the 20th time.
You can be proud that your son got a B in Algebra. He got a C- minus last semester, but you and he stayed up late every school night since then working through all the problems to make sure he understood the material. Good job, son. Good job, Dad or Mom.
But to say you're proud to be an American means that you feel accomplished that your parents ****ed in the United States.
Your father jerked off in a flower pot and raised a blooming idiot.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 05:51 AM
Star Member cali (114,334 posts)
37. Only if the medal winner is a Vermonter- and there's like zero chance of that in the summer
I'm unabashedly partisan when it comes to my state.
No Eva,you are just a shriveled up old carnival whore.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 06:48 AM
ileus (14,585 posts)
39. No I'm already a proud American, the medals are just icing on the cake.
Response to a kennedy (Original post)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 09:18 AM
Star Member whatthehey (3,190 posts)
42. Some strange wording is typical in these situations
Not just here BTW.
I'm perfectly content to be American. I'm glad it's neither a lawless shithole like Somalia nor a theocratic shithole like Saudi Arabia. It's comforting to be in a place that is, for most of its citizens at any rate, a place of comfortable and open self-determination. It could improve in many ways from welfare spending and its inverse military spending to healthcare to puritanism, but that doesn't move the place even close to shithole territory. With a few different quibbles I however would be an equally content Dane or Spaniard or Kiwi.
Proud though? Of what? Genetic accident of birthplace? That I didn't decide to go through all the hoops to leave permanently? That I have the same cultural trappings as most of the people I come across? What's to be proud of in being shaped by huge societal processes? Pride is for achievement and success, not circumstance. Sports teams? Not really an issue for me. I'm like a lot of people in rooting casually for underdogs and unusual participants. I'd get more positive about a US win in, say, biathlon than in basketball, where it's simply a case of going through the motions. But even then it's "Oh cool, a Khazakstani gold in swimming." I'm not going to remember his name tomorrow. Certainly more or less expected US wins engender no satisfaction. My only response to yet another Phelps gold is to ruminate on his longevity, dominance and the good fortune of swimmers in having so many similar events. I'd think exactly the same about a dominant Russian gymnast, the nationality doesn't matter.
I do confess a hypocritical albeit very minor interest in appreciating the wins of a former local MLB team, but since they are perennial cellar dwellers that may just be the underdog thing.
This is why you have no friends.
