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I think the level of ignorance we are seeing and people willingly allowing misinformation to spread on social media is a very, very big concern for the future. It's a complicated situation. Apparently intersex people aren't allowed to compete at the World Championships but are allowed to at the Olympics.

Good news, everyone!

Not sure if that's my final draft yet

Thats a good lookin team. I prefer my way of 0 balance but I see there are other schools of thought

Done. All okay?

She has a medical condition where she has higher testosterone than most women. She isn't trans and people peddling this lie are absolute morons. She's Algerian, and it's illegal to even be homosexual in Algeria so you won't see them sending a trans woman to represent them in the Olympic games. This woman has boxed women her whole life and lost plenty of times to other women, including at the last Olympics. It's never been an issue until now. The Italian opponent has blown it up as an issue and then you get people like JK Rowling with massive platforms tweeting out incorrect information to 30 million people about men competing in women's sports when that isn't the case. The sticking point is that she failed some sort of gender test in a different competition last year because of the extra testosterone. I don't know enough about boxing to say for sure whether she should be competing but she certainly hasn't done anything wrong. My feeling is that there are many women in sport who have biological advantages over others. Serena Williams could do things on a tennis court that 99.9% of women never could with any amount of training, for example. Whatever the appropriate response is, I can tell you that it's not to get hysterical over trans women who are biological men competing against biological women at the Olympics because that has still never happened as of today and JK Rowling and her army of transphobic supporters are getting scared and upset by the bogeyman (again).

Murray

Look at him. No special gear, hands in pocket, not a care in the world. Wins silver. All that's missing is a cigarette in his mouth.

You said "or even inferior to" originally which is where I thought you were over reaching. I'm glad we can agree now though.

Judo has become one of the worst olympic sports to watch. So many small and complicated rules, almost all fights are decided by the judges.

Made quite a few changes to my first draft.

In my opinion, the revolt is genuine. Chavismo is a disaster. 1/4 of the population immigrated, thousands suffer from hunger, urban violence skyrocketed. In the 90s, PDVSA, their state oil company, produced more than 3 million oil barrels per day. Now it produces less than half of that sum. The country has the world´s largest oil reservers. Chávez and Maduro put all his political allies in critical positions at PDVSA and they didn´t know a thing about oil extraction. It´s also important to point out that Venezuela was already a disaster before the sanctions. Maduro is still in power only because China, Russia and Iran have interest in keeping the regime afloat.

We have a womens football section in this forum and the rule is you're not allowed to trash womens football there so I'll do it here. I watched Australia vs Zambia. What a fucking utter shitshow. The teenagers that play down the road on a pitch that's muddier than your mums butthole and next to a creek that floods and they regularly have to fish balls out of is a significantly higher level than the shite I was belly laughing at last night. Pay them less until they get the idea jesus christ.

Cool for metalheads worldwide that Gojira was able to play an opening ceremony! Progressive death metal not exactly what you'd expect

Congrats, curb your enthusiasm, though. Preparation matches don't mean anything result-wise.

They're that fucking dumb. Especially as they shout 'we want our country back'. Absolute thundercunts. This isn't even about the poor girls that were stabbed. In fact for these dickheads it never was. They just wanted an excuse. They've burnt a police station down in Sunderland too. Again, they're so fucking thick. Last week they got mad because a few twats attacked police at an airport. Now they've attacking them and burning down their place of work. Doesn't make sense. I'm ashamed for them. Just a bunch of racist knobheads being thugs that aren't welcome.

Racists are too confident right now.