Big C said:

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bear2034 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Cal88 said:

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The opening ceremony has grown into a major worldwide scandal (see below), the organizers have egg on their face, and this has been a major news event that has marred these olympic games.

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Cool story.

No one cares except for IRAN.
Do you wear panties too?

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The France Olympic committee planned this for over four years, obviously, they care...a lot.

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Shocking that France would put on a show like that... France, of all countries!

Have you ever been to the Moulin Rouge? (Forbidden for Iranians, btw.) When I went there, it was kind of a risque', avant-garde show, but it was all tourists. I asked the French about it and they said it is too old fashioned, not cutting edge enough. That was 20 years ago, but I knew right then that the next time France hosted the Olympics, the opening ceremonies were gonna be something! Va VOOM!

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— Silent Memejority (@memejority) July 26, 2024

bear2034 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Cal88 said:

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The opening ceremony has grown into a major worldwide scandal (see below), the organizers have egg on their face, and this has been a major news event that has marred these olympic games.

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Cool story.

No one cares except for IRAN.
Do you wear panties too?

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The France Olympic committee planned this for over four years, obviously, they care...a lot.

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I talk to more than a few people each day, the common refrain? pic.twitter.com/xTDeG9neYu

— @amuse (@amuse) July 29, 2024

Big C said:

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bear2034 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Cal88 said:

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The opening ceremony has grown into a major worldwide scandal (see below), the organizers have egg on their face, and this has been a major news event that has marred these olympic games.

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Cool story.

No one cares except for IRAN.
Do you wear panties too?

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The France Olympic committee planned this for over four years, obviously, they care...a lot.

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Shocking that France would put on a show like that... France, of all countries!

Have you ever been to the Moulin Rouge? (Forbidden for Iranians, btw.) When I went there, it was kind of a risque', avant-garde show, but it was all tourists. I asked the French about it and they said it is too old fashioned, not cutting edge enough. That was 20 years ago, but I knew right then that the next time France hosted the Olympics, the opening ceremonies were gonna be something! Va VOOM!

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Paris Olympics organisers apologise to Christians for Last Supper parody

Apology follows anger among Catholics and other groups at opening ceremony segment that resembled biblical scene

The Catholic church in France said it deplored a ceremony that "included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity".

Monsignor Emmanuel Gobilliard, a delegate of the bishops of France for the Games, said some French athletes had had trouble sleeping because of the fallout from the controversy.

An article in Avvenire, the daily Italian newspaper affiliated with the Catholic church, said: "Don't take us for moralistic bigots, but what's the point of having to experience every single global event, even a sporting one, as if it were a Gay Pride?"

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We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics.

— C Spire (@CSpire) July 27, 2024

Cal88 said:

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Big C said:

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bear2034 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Cal88 said:

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The opening ceremony has grown into a major worldwide scandal (see below), the organizers have egg on their face, and this has been a major news event that has marred these olympic games.

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Cool story.

No one cares except for IRAN.
Do you wear panties too?

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The France Olympic committee planned this for over four years, obviously, they care...a lot.

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Shocking that France would put on a show like that... France, of all countries!

Have you ever been to the Moulin Rouge? (Forbidden for Iranians, btw.) When I went there, it was kind of a risque', avant-garde show, but it was all tourists. I asked the French about it and they said it is too old fashioned, not cutting edge enough. That was 20 years ago, but I knew right then that the next time France hosted the Olympics, the opening ceremonies were gonna be something! Va VOOM!

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The main point here, is that this is not supposed to be an adult cabaret performance, it's an Olympics celebration broadcast to billions.



And of course the segment is a parody of the Last Supper, you have to be really thick to miss that connection, or dajo-level tone deaf to be stupid enough to argue it wasn't.

Paris Olympics officials apologize:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/28/paris-olympics-organisers-apologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody

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Paris Olympics organisers apologise to Christians for Last Supper parody

Apology follows anger among Catholics and other groups at opening ceremony segment that resembled biblical scene

The Catholic church in France said it deplored a ceremony that "included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity".

Monsignor Emmanuel Gobilliard, a delegate of the bishops of France for the Games, said some French athletes had had trouble sleeping because of the fallout from the controversy.

An article in Avvenire, the daily Italian newspaper affiliated with the Catholic church, said: "Don't take us for moralistic bigots, but what's the point of having to experience every single global event, even a sporting one, as if it were a Gay Pride?"

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There were other elements of the opening ceremony that didn't sit well with many, including the gruesome scene of a beheaded Marie-Antoinette singing from the Conciergerie, the place where she was actually jailed before her assassination by the revolutionary terrorists, who also killed hundreds of thousands of innocent members of the clergy, aristocracy and loyalists to the king of France. This massacre was symbolized in the ceremony by rivers of blood coming out from the castle windows in the form of dense stream of red ribbons.

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Cal88 said:

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dimitrig said:

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Cal88 said:

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Big C said:

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bear2034 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Cal88 said:

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The opening ceremony has grown into a major worldwide scandal (see below), the organizers have egg on their face, and this has been a major news event that has marred these olympic games.

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Cool story.

No one cares except for IRAN.
Do you wear panties too?

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The France Olympic committee planned this for over four years, obviously, they care...a lot.

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Shocking that France would put on a show like that... France, of all countries!

Have you ever been to the Moulin Rouge? (Forbidden for Iranians, btw.) When I went there, it was kind of a risque', avant-garde show, but it was all tourists. I asked the French about it and they said it is too old fashioned, not cutting edge enough. That was 20 years ago, but I knew right then that the next time France hosted the Olympics, the opening ceremonies were gonna be something! Va VOOM!

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The main point here, is that this is not supposed to be an adult cabaret performance, it's an Olympics celebration broadcast to billions.



And of course the segment is a parody of the Last Supper, you have to be really thick to miss that connection, or dajo-level tone deaf to be stupid enough to argue it wasn't.

Paris Olympics officials apologize:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/28/paris-olympics-organisers-apologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody

Quote:

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Paris Olympics organisers apologise to Christians for Last Supper parody

Apology follows anger among Catholics and other groups at opening ceremony segment that resembled biblical scene

The Catholic church in France said it deplored a ceremony that "included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity".

Monsignor Emmanuel Gobilliard, a delegate of the bishops of France for the Games, said some French athletes had had trouble sleeping because of the fallout from the controversy.

An article in Avvenire, the daily Italian newspaper affiliated with the Catholic church, said: "Don't take us for moralistic bigots, but what's the point of having to experience every single global event, even a sporting one, as if it were a Gay Pride?"

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There were other elements of the opening ceremony that didn't sit well with many, including the gruesome scene of a beheaded Marie-Antoinette singing from the Conciergerie, the place where she was actually jailed before her assassination by the revolutionary terrorists, who also killed hundreds of thousands of innocent members of the clergy, aristocracy and loyalists to the king of France. This massacre was symbolized in the ceremony by rivers of blood coming out from the castle windows in the form of dense stream of red ribbons.

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Did you just defend the French monarchy?

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The French Revolution had a very dark side that wasn't taught in history books, in the early 1790s around a quarter million civilians were exterminated by the Colonnes Infernales, along with tens of thousands of clergy members and other loyalists who were murdered across France in the Terreur of 1793.

The term "genocide" was first coined from these historical events. That genocide became the model for the larger 20th centuries revolutionary genocides by the Bolsheviks in Russia or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, whose radical revolutionary doctrine was directly inspired by Babeuf and other French revolutionaries.

This is a good historic account of the genocide in Vende'e, translated from French:

https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268028657/a-french-genocide

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Cal88 said:

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dajo9 said:

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Cal88 said:

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dimitrig said:

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Cal88 said:

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Big C said:

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bear2034 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Cal88 said:

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The opening ceremony has grown into a major worldwide scandal (see below), the organizers have egg on their face, and this has been a major news event that has marred these olympic games.

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Cool story.

No one cares except for IRAN.
Do you wear panties too?

---

The France Olympic committee planned this for over four years, obviously, they care...a lot.

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Shocking that France would put on a show like that... France, of all countries!

Have you ever been to the Moulin Rouge? (Forbidden for Iranians, btw.) When I went there, it was kind of a risque', avant-garde show, but it was all tourists. I asked the French about it and they said it is too old fashioned, not cutting edge enough. That was 20 years ago, but I knew right then that the next time France hosted the Olympics, the opening ceremonies were gonna be something! Va VOOM!

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The main point here, is that this is not supposed to be an adult cabaret performance, it's an Olympics celebration broadcast to billions.



And of course the segment is a parody of the Last Supper, you have to be really thick to miss that connection, or dajo-level tone deaf to be stupid enough to argue it wasn't.

Paris Olympics officials apologize:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/28/paris-olympics-organisers-apologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody

Quote:

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Paris Olympics organisers apologise to Christians for Last Supper parody

Apology follows anger among Catholics and other groups at opening ceremony segment that resembled biblical scene

The Catholic church in France said it deplored a ceremony that "included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity".

Monsignor Emmanuel Gobilliard, a delegate of the bishops of France for the Games, said some French athletes had had trouble sleeping because of the fallout from the controversy.

An article in Avvenire, the daily Italian newspaper affiliated with the Catholic church, said: "Don't take us for moralistic bigots, but what's the point of having to experience every single global event, even a sporting one, as if it were a Gay Pride?"

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There were other elements of the opening ceremony that didn't sit well with many, including the gruesome scene of a beheaded Marie-Antoinette singing from the Conciergerie, the place where she was actually jailed before her assassination by the revolutionary terrorists, who also killed hundreds of thousands of innocent members of the clergy, aristocracy and loyalists to the king of France. This massacre was symbolized in the ceremony by rivers of blood coming out from the castle windows in the form of dense stream of red ribbons.

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Did you just defend the French monarchy?

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The French Revolution had a very dark side that wasn't taught in history books, in the early 1790s around a quarter million civilians were exterminated by the Colonnes Infernales, along with tens of thousands of clergy members and other loyalists who were murdered across France in the Terreur of 1793.

The term "genocide" was first coined from these historical events. That genocide became the model for the larger 20th centuries revolutionary genocides by the Bolsheviks in Russia or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, whose radical revolutionary doctrine was directly inspired by Babeuf and other French revolutionaries.

This is a good historic account of the genocide in Vende'e, translated from French:

https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268028657/a-french-genocide

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I think we were all taught about the mass death caused by the French Revolutionaires. That doesn't make the royalty / French clergy of that time good people. But it's good to know you are a 21st century French Royalist. Weird, but good to know.

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The real extent of the Terreur is nowhere near what has been reported, far from it. It had a lot of common ideological elements with regimes like the Khmer Rouge or the Lenin/Trotsky communists, who took the totalitarian ideology of the French Revolution to its full extent.

The French clergy were good people, Louis XVI was a good monarch and a reformer, his main flaw was his lack of decisiveness and relative naivety. His predecessor Louis XV on the other hand was a man of poor character, his successor paid for that legacy, as well as the huge debt incurred from fighting the British in the American Revolutionary War.

As to the restauration of the monarchy in France, that ship has sailed a long time ago.

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