Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

#Video Así fue la presentación de #Gojira en los juegos olímpicos #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/UlFncfidLp

— RollTheRadio (@RollTheRadio) July 26, 2024

Spain king doesn’t dig it:

La cara de los reyes de España cuando apareció María Antonieta decapitada, no tiene precio. pic.twitter.com/uio5EpPnQB

— Beatriz Contreras Castillo (@bethcastilloo) July 26, 2024

 

If you aren't all rooting for our 3 athletes we're boycotting the next Olympics and just sending a frigate bird. https://t.co/nc5KRSjsXN

— Republic of Kiribati (@KiribatiGov) July 26, 2024

 

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No doubt....That was her first public performance in 4 years. Hopefully not her last.

 

Honestly, beyond the spectacular aspect of the ceremony, I was blown away by the diversity and inclusion. You had drag queens, queers, a lot of black artists and people of color, nude, not to mention Marie Antoinette holding her severed head.
To a point that the far right in France is going apeshit this morning and not just them. Elon Musk called some of the event “degenerate “. If the far right hate something, it must be good and it was.

From a French paper this morning: Marechal is a far right congresswoman and Marine Le Pen niece.
“De quoi faire jaser l’extrême droite sur les réseaux sociaux. Marion Maréchal la première, qui a du mal à «apprécier les rares tableaux réussis entre les Marie-Antoinette décapitées, le trouple qui s’embrasse, des drag-queens, l’humiliation de la Garde républicaine obligée de danser sur du Aya Nakamura». Sur X, la nièce de Marine Le Pen s’épanche sur une «propagande woke aussi grossière».

 

Right wing Twitter is losing their shit over the drag singers and what they claim was them mocking the last super.

I think they believe the painting was done at the time of Jesus and not by some Italian painter hundreds of years later.

 

What…. ? Bad taste? Are you serious? To use Riggo immortal words, “ Lighten up, Sandy Baby“. That was a beautiful show,

 

OMG, it was awful. How incredibly tacky. Now, looking only at that tableau, my mind wouldn't have jumped to Last Supper without being so cued. I never watch the side show ceremonies surrounding sporting events -- the Super Bowl halftime show especially -- but this is a new level of classless crassness.

 

Tell me you don’t understand art without telling me you don’t understand art.
I am glad France is a secular country and not a theocracy.
Funny enough that is the same complaint the far right is making here and in the States well. I see the Daily Wire, Harrison Butler and other whackjobs are up in arms as well. Go figure.

 

It's a matter of... taste. I thought it was pretty nice and rather hilarious, as most people in France I bet (for whom the notion of 'blasphema' -if such a thing exists- is irrelevant).

 

A broken clock is right twice a day.

I know enough about art to know that that wasn't good art.

I'm glad France ain't a theocracy as well, but it seems a bit of a leap to tar anyone who found that display tasteless as a budding Christian nationalist.

 

Whatever dude…this is just an opinion, not based on anything related to art, except that some are offended because their Christian sensibilities. SMFH

 

If I find myself on the same side of a bunch of far right conspiracists, I would question my judgement as well. Beyond that, dude you can say whatever you want, there is nothing disrespectful about that except in the narrow minds of some.
As someone mentioned before, we are talking about a scene described in ********ing painting by Da Vinci, hundred years later, that may or may not have any relation to reality (more likely no relation). If you want to be offended over that, by all means then.

 

This one's less disrespectful ? Thanksfully, artists don't give a sh!t about offending people or not.

 

Since I find racism, bigotry, sexism and the likes offensive, please proceed next time. LOL

 

There is no inherent 'intent'... The way you receive it depends entirely on... you. You may or may not find it funny. You may or may not find it offensive... It’s none of the artist’s business.

 

My wife has pointed out that she thinks the Olympics and NBC have been exploiting black talent a bit for these Olympics. All to try and create the same effect Leslie Jones created organically.