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⌈ Secret Post #2414 ⌋

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[Akumu-chan / My Little Nightmare]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Deanna Troi]

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[The Borgias]

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[Kaiba Seto and Jounouchi Katsuya from Yu-gi-oh!]

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[Spring Breakers]

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[Murder Rooms]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Mass Effect]

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[Despicable Me 2]

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[Ice Age]

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[Arrested Development]

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[Super Junior]

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[Halloween]

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Because it's not an either/or thing? I heard we area also boycotting Russian vodka, and we can do that while also questioning the culture of the alcohol industry as a whole. Anyway, Russia has already thrown down the money and will now be trying to recoup as much of their investments as possible, and hopefully they will fail even more spectacularly than most Olympic host nations do.

But if you bring up the economy of sports, all you get will be an argument about the economy of sports, because people REALLY REALLY REALLY like their sports. It's like we're talking about fast food worker unionization and we switch to whether it should be legal to manipulate people into buying such incredibly unhealthy food. Suddenly no one is thinking about the people who are just trying to make a living wage, because you are threatening to take away their Big Macs. It's not a very good strategy.

Anyway, Russia has already thrown down the money and will now be trying to recoup as much of their investments as possible, and hopefully they will fail even more spectacularly than most Olympic host nations do.

I don't get it. Is the point to prompt Russia to change, or punish it for being crappy?

The point is to prove that we can hurt Russia economically and politically if it refuses to change. It worked on South Africa in the 1980s.

They're not trying to recoup their investments. The relevant stakeholders already recouped their investments, when Putin channeled the flow of all the construction and investment to cronies who were blatantly embezzling it.

A ton of the discussion of the economics of the Olympics has relatively little to do with sport.

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