The Olympics weren't always about peak skill, at least in the athletic sense. Prior to (I think) 1948, they used to give out medals for artistic competition, like painting, sculpture or poetry.
Personally, I think they could bring those back; I wouldn't mind seeing an Olympic art competition. Heck, they could modernize it: Olympic rap battles/battles of the band, or Olympic Iron Chef.
Goddamn, that's brilliant. Well done.
You'd think, but that probably won't happen unless one of them recognizes and accepts that they're much lower-status then the other.
Narcissists don't do well in groups, especially when they're all roughly equivalent status. There's a ridiculous amount of infighting and posturing as they try to establish dominance over each other.
Watch Musk or Trump when they have to deal with something who reality requires them to defer to (eg, like Xi or Putin). They look almost depressed and broken, because in a very real way, they are.
What you're describing happens when a sycophant praises a narcissist, or when a narcissist is drunk on praise from a sycophant. That's when the rhetorical fellatio really kicks into high gear; when the narcissist is getting high on supply.
This is very dangerous.
That much malignant narcissism in one place could form a singularity and an ensuing black hole.
The UK already had the BBC; maybe this would make a good adjunct service the Beeb could offer? Sort of like the social media equivalent of iPlayer.
Every UK citizen can get an account.
I really wish Bluesky could federate with other Mastodon servers.
Also, fuck Threads.
Literally or figuratively?
The only problem with this meme is that Gowron is a bit of a schemer.
Really should have been Worf or Martok.
A large part of the issue is that the Democratic Party (and Labour in the UK, and the Liberals in Canada) really drank the third-way neoliberal koolaid in the 1990s and have done a poor job of speaking to the anxieties and concerns of the poor.
The political right has talked to those anxieties, albeit in a dishonest, manipulative and disingenuous way, but they do talk to it and--not only do they talk to it, they deliver results. Again, dishonest, manipulative and self-serving results, but if you don't look to closely it looks like they're taking action.
I'm hoping Harris and Walz mark a new era, but after witnessing Trudeau in Canada and Starmer in the UK continuing to make the mistakes of the 1990s, I'm not holding my breath.
It's intentional. If they had a mic for the press, you'd see the press better able to, well, press the politician in question.
The last thing people like Trump want is a journalist pressing him on why he keeps dodging questions and chopping word-salad.
Don't bother trying to refute the garbage coming from Trump's campaign. That's the mistake we made in 2016 and kept making until very recently.
That just makes it seem like it's worth refutation, plus it gives the original request more oxygen.
The Democrats’ current strategy of just outright mocking Trump and his sycophants is the right one.