#gymnastics

I recently had a proposal of this guy, he was a relative. He supported nawaz sharif and I was like.. Could this be a deal breaker? Then I tried to be reasonable and non judgemental. A person could be a great guy just not support the right people,right? Besides I don't get to decide who's right anyway so I realised I was being a little too much. 😂
So I said I'd ask him this question first. What mental gymnastics does a person have to go through to support a man who's been robbing our country for years?
I asked him this and he said 'I don't care about how he did, but there was no poverty during his time.'
I said yeah, at the cost of our reputation in front of the rest of the world 🌚
And he was like 'Again, not my concern. I live here not in the' rest of the world'.'
And mind you, masha Allah they're financially well off but he just didn't care about our reputation as a nation.
Then I realised ke if a person is supporting a different party than yours, you at least need to know his reasoning behind it cuz it can tell a lot about his thought process :p

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No. After much effort they successfully alienated me.
Nope. Heard we won a silver in women's weightlifting today tho. Great start tbh, but I still don't have much hope.
On and off. It’s still early doors.
I'll be watching it on all the NBC channels because that's what I have access to. I'll look at finding ways to download some events and games that go on while I'm asleep. I could go with Peacock. I have been planning on a short subscription with them but haven't started yet.
NBC Sports Network, and my cable service comes with a DVR to record events that come on at inconvenient times. If the channel isn't covering an event I want, I'll check the sports app or youtube but this has never been an issue for me. The free NBC channel is outright worthless. You're more likely to get a fluff story about some athlete's third cousin twice removed having a dog that died of cancer while giving birth to a litter of puppies than get coverage on non-US athletes. I’ll get to watch a bit. I’m starting a new job and am in central time so from 6 PM to 9 PM I can watch anything that comes on live if it’s an event I care about like archery or some of the prime time coverage if it’s not. London and Rio were great since the time difference was lower I just had it up in a small window on my second monitor at work all day. I’ll just get whatever YouTube package or whatever I need to get access for the month. Try to overlap a couple free trials then cancel.
Tape as much as possible and don't wander into any results. I'm great at avoiding results. But I know I'll have to watch the high profile stuff on the same day. The more obscure sports nobody is going to blab about the results anyway so I can save those tapes and watch much later, including after the Games are finished.
Let's face it, only gymnastics and figure skating are worthy of prime time network coverage during the trials. Those two sports have huge popularity among women and therefore good ratings. It is the reason NBC cut away from a sudden death playoff in the US Women's Open golf tournament to show the gymnastics trials. They never would have done that for swimming or track and field. NBC will still show swimming and track and field trials during prime time but in increasingly reluctant fashion, because the ratings do not justify it. They do it as a loss leader to build up anticipation for the Olympics themselves.
NBC shows the trials every night... there has been 1-3 hours of air time every night for like 2 weeks now except for Tues/Wed this week where track was off. All finals have been on NBC, just like they do for the actual olympics. You don't usually see the first few rounds of the swimming and track on NBC, it's almost all on another channel or online.

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If you're "truly happy" with whatever paltry lifestyle you enjoy being built on this much grief & suffering & cruelty, & more importantly with this much wealth inequality in exchange for so little scraps, then yes you are the very definition of evil.

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This might seem strange to you because your evil is so banal you assume it can't be serious, but the loudest lesson of the 20th century's atrocities was precisely this banality of evil.

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If you don't survive its undoing, if capitalism comes to fail you later in life & leave you in privation, it would be nothing but justice. A restoration of balance. You would deserve that ill-fortune as much as anyone can deserve hard times.

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If that's what you mean by evil. I don't know what you think evil means, if you think there's an interpretation of it that leaves this attitude in some kind of grey area. tbh the mental gymnastics you guys go thru to get your hands to seem clean have always been mysterious to me.

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These are a lot of nice things, and I'm so sorry to hear that you like it all, and to take your hands off again. It's so sad and so wrong. Do not do this to yourself. Do something for yourself. You will see that you will feel much better then. It's a much better feeling than when you know you've given up something that attracts you. You do not have to start right now from the hardest things. Try to say that you are enrolling in a dance group, or let's say you're practicing, going to aerobics, fitness, something like that ... But just do something ... and that for yourself ... do not think what the other to think.
There, I decided to change myself, to have a healthier diet and do fitness, and for now I'm doing well. I have bad days too, but that's normal. It goes on and I go on.
Just DO NOT STAY!

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