Please Do Not Watch The Winter Olympics

This next week, the Winter Olympics will start in China, and I’m here to tell you that, following the decades-long tradition of this blog…

We are not going to watch any of it, nor write about it either.

Why?

Well, I don’t care about the sports. You don’t either, unless you follow them outside of the Olympics.

And you don’t.

I don’t care about the athletes. If you know one of them and are rooting for them, great. But you don’t, and the only real reason you are watching them is because they have flags for laundry.

The country you are from is, well, where your parents banged. Not exactly a reason to care about someone more than someone else. It’s all just laundry. Feel free to care for your country when it comes to politics or trade or policy or whatever, but when it comes to which athletes are wearing which flags while they play a sport that I could not care about? Hard pass.

So I *never* care about the Olympics… and then we add on to the fact that they are being held in a place where\

1) an active genocide may be happening (Uyghurs)

2)  the free press is getting silenced (Hong Kong)

3)  the environment is getting degraded (coal plants)

4) land is being made to infringe on the ocean rights of neighboring countries, regardless of the environmental impact (South China Sea)

5) the environment is getting degraded even more for this event (fake snow in a region that, um, does not get snow)

6) the freedom to point out any of this does not exist (great firewall)

7) Team Virus will win (because Team Virus has won at every Olympics)

Now, I get that everyone in the United States lives in a glass house, stone-wise. There’s nothing being done to the Uyghurs that this country did not do (possibly with multipliers) to the indigenous and African Americans. The free press is taking it on the chin around the globe. If a country had the ability to make more land, they would.

But none of that gets tied to having to watch people play sports on various forms of frozen water, just because you have a flag on your chest.

Stop the Olympics! We’ll all be glad you did.