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so tumblr, as usual, has flipped on its opinion of #sochiproblems and is now berating anyone who laughs at them because they are effectively laughing at a broken infrastructure. Though, the sjws might have a point there...
but the upside down toilet seats are still funny. What do you think?

it's funny because they've been playing up how they're going to put on the best olympics ever and boasting about the obscene amount of money they're spending on it and then when the time comes some of their hotel doors don't ever have functioning door knobs. or water. suck it sjws, it's funny (although I do agree that the toiler paper thing wasn't a big deal. a lot of countries do the same thing)

*hotel rooms

He got into that room somehow - probably by way of the doorknob. I think there's something else going on there, especially since the U.S. has promised to pay for that door.

EDIT: Also? Why would you want your hotel door to have water? ^_~

Edited 2014-02-09 00:01 (UTC)

So let me get this straight. Tumblr is telling us not to laugh at white people?

Humor is not antithetical to serious and thoughtful criticism. Sometimes, it's the only way to keep up your enthusiasm for pursuing that serious and thoughtful criticism.

#sochiproblems?

I'm not a... whachacallum... dickhead tumblrite, so could you catch me up on this?

What is it?
What did they think about it before?
What do they think now?
Why?

http://bit.ly/M0fSjn

explains it much better than I could

oh, fuck the wet blanket who has a problem with this.

Russia isn't a third world country. Russia has had years and billions and billions of dollars to get ready and they screwed the pooch. Why? Not because they are poor, widdle weaklings but because of cronism and corruption.

If your place is a dump because you are too poor to fix it, I feel sorry for you and you should not be made fun of for something that you have no power to fix. But if your place is a dump because people are taking the money and hiring workers who have no idea what they are doing but were hired because they were someone's nephew while others are taking money and stuffing their pockets with most it while using sub-sub-sub standard labor, equipment and materials, then you should be made to feel bad.

Funny. But I'm not a sjw with my panties in a bunch, so...

Nahhhhhhhhhhh. I don't have any problems with this. Yes, it's a serious problem - a deeply serious problem - but that doesn't mean we can't laugh at it. Life's more complicated than that, you know?

Moreover, it's not like we're laughing at victims here. Most of the problems that have arisen seem to have come mostly from the political conditions of Russia - corruption and cronyism. And a lot of the responsibility for that lies with Russia. Not all of it - I think the historical cause of a lot of this stuff can be traced to the modernization of Russia after the end of the USSR, and I think that Western and especially American institutions, advisers, and economic forces played a significant role in the course that modernization took and the negative consequences of it. But Russia is a sovereign state, a significant international power and a major economic player in its own right. They can hardly lay the responsibility for this at anyone else's feet.

I think it's funny, in an unfortunate way. Haven't seen the tumblr flipside yet. But I think it's the kind of situation where it's better to laugh about it (bad drinking water, bad bathing water, loose wires in a bathroom) and try to joke than to do an angry, possibly racist, tirade.

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