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slightlyfrumiousbandersnatch:
decadent-trans-girl:
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Reminder that 720,000 people were forcibly displaced from their homes for the 1988 winter Olympics in Seoul and there’s no telling how many will be displaced in Pyeongchang this year. 30,000 were displaced in Atlanta in 1996. Estimates of those displaced during the Rio games range from 70,000-90,000 and Beijing forced 1.5 to 2 million people from their homes in 2008. The 2004 Athens Olympics ended up costing Greece the equivalent of 5% of its GDP and probably caused the debt crisis they’re suffering from. All of this to be left with empty stadiums where public housing once stood, a massive tax burden that will destroy social programs for decades to come, and a brutally repressive police state in the host city for the duration of the games and their preparation.
Abolish the Olympics
Don’t even abolish them, just stick them in one place and LEAVE THEM THERE. Send them back to Athens and make all the nations who participate contribute towards the ongoing costs, which won’t be as bad because you won’t be rebuilding everything from the ground up every four years. The Olympics bring joy to lots of folks, it’s just this stupid one-upping each other and making things needlessly expensive and tearing up perfectly good cities to build stadia that we then abandon that is ridiculous.
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slightlyfrumiousbandersnatch:
decadent-trans-girl:
postmarxed:
Reminder that 720,000 people were forcibly displaced from their homes for the 1988 winter Olympics in Seoul and there’s no telling how many will be displaced in Pyeongchang this year. 30,000 were displaced in Atlanta in 1996. Estimates of those displaced during the Rio games range from 70,000-90,000 and Beijing forced 1.5 to 2 million people from their homes in 2008. The 2004 Athens Olympics ended up costing Greece the equivalent of 5% of its GDP and probably caused the debt crisis they’re suffering from. All of this to be left with empty stadiums where public housing once stood, a massive tax burden that will destroy social programs for decades to come, and a brutally repressive police state in the host city for the duration of the games and their preparation.
Abolish the Olympics
Don’t even abolish them, just stick them in one place and LEAVE THEM THERE. Send them back to Athens and make all the nations who participate contribute towards the ongoing costs, which won’t be as bad because you won’t be rebuilding everything from the ground up every four years. The Olympics bring joy to lots of folks, it’s just this stupid one-upping each other and making things needlessly expensive and tearing up perfectly good cities to build stadia that we then abandon that is ridiculous.
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