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  • #46
    Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post
    And "that should be changed"? What, get rid of some countries in Europe?
    No just change how the votes are awarded. Shouldn't Asia which contains a higher percentage of the global population get more than 10-11 votes. Europe getting how many they do with that small percentage of the global population is obscene.
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    • #47
      China and India don't need to decide where the Olympics are held.
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      • #48
        Europe collectively sends by far the biggest contingent of athletes to the Olympics as well.
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        • #49
          Originally posted by rah View Post
          It was hilarious checking out fox news making fun of Obama for going saying he would be wasting time instead of running the country. I guess they didn't remember that he has a fully functional office on Air Force 1 and working from there is not really different then the oval office.
          Hell, I remember when Russia invaded Georgia defended South Ossetia and there were Certain People(not FOX though!) who went after Bush for being at the Olympics instead of rushing home. I was accused of being a Bush apologist for (1)Pointing out that the reason the VC-25 costs so damn much is because of the comms suite it carries and (2)The President has PEOPLE to do much of the day-to-day stuff.

          (Incidently, I also think the whole "Bush should have flown out to New Orleans" thing after Katrina was stupid, at the time the last thing the emergency efforts needed was diverting NG folks to help provide security.)

          Apperantly, when we elect a President people think we're electing a dictator for 4 years who micromanages everything.
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          • #50
            You people are severely overthinking this. Fact is that Rio has WAY more dickgirls per capita than Chicago or any of the other candidates. Ipso facto, Rio wins. QED.
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            • #51
              Originally posted by rah View Post
              No just change how the votes are awarded. Shouldn't Asia which contains a higher percentage of the global population get more than 10-11 votes. Europe getting how many they do with that small percentage of the global population is obscene.
              Each country is a seperate entity and thus gets a vote. Maybe Asian countries should split up .
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              • #52
                Or maybe some of those smaller European countries should be combined.
                Heck let's start counting some US states as countries since they're bigger.

                But it doesn't matter, the olympics is really only about money so it's no surprise that it's just a continuation of historical white imperialism.
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                • #53
                  So the fact they picked Rio instead of Chicago is a "continuation of historical white imperialism"?

                  You need to stop acting so tarded over this.
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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by rah View Post
                    No just change how the votes are awarded. Shouldn't Asia which contains a higher percentage of the global population get more than 10-11 votes. Europe getting how many they do with that small percentage of the global population is obscene.
                    Wasn't the number of votes sent in like 1900 or something?
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                    • #55
                      Yes, the IOC will go in and suck all the dollars out and leave RIO holding the bag.
                      And no, I really don't care, but I do think that Europe is way over represented in the process and it's great trolling material.

                      Actually I'm satisfied with RIO because of the time zone. It kind of sucked watching all the events prepackaged after all the other new sources reported the victors.
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                      • #56
                        Europe is way over represented in the process


                        Because each country gets a vote. It really isn't that hard to understand or see how it makes sense.
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                        • #57
                          I guess for me it's like congress. I prefer the house of representatives to the senate because I think it's more representative. But to each his own.
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                          • #58
                            The IOC is Euro-centric, always has been. No big deal. However, I am a little ashamed to see how poorly Chicago fared in the buying of votes -- historically an area of strength for us.
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                            • #59
                              Yeh, that didn't go unnoticed. These IOC votes are notorious for corruption.

                              Chicago must be losing its edge.
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                              • #60
                                That's the problem with sending OBAMA along, it should have just been Daley and his buddies.
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