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    This is so insensitive. None of those planets sent any representatives for at least the last 12 years and you aren’t even acknowledging why.

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      From what my history teacher tought me, the ancient Olympic games might have been inspired by people from other planets than earth, but I think outside the solar system

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      Out of the hundreds of judges, over 97% were born on Earth.

      All 97%, and all of the remaining 3%, have lived on or in the orbit of Earth for the past three consecutive years. Their financial records indicate that their income is primarily from terrestrial sources.

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    Strangley reminiscent of American Football. Americans invent a sport that no one else likes to play. They hold a tournament and proclaim the winner of said tournament “World Champion”.

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      I did some digging and the jury is also always from that planet and also quite racist. It’s not only always someone from earth but also from the human race.

      That’s why analyzing power structures is so crucial. I don’t believe that they actively exclude non earthers or non humans, but the jury is more likely to choose their own kind and the people putting together the jury are as well.

      Iirc there is a strategy in the US in one team sport for management to have a quota, not in outcome but the shortlist has to contain one non human (or non white, I’m not sure) and that alone raised the outcome because it made people seen that were invisible for the committee before.

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        you made me want to look it up. apparently the official story is that non humans simply don’t apply as much to even qualify. but of course this is likely a classic case of societal expectations and the way we raise our young.

        most wolves for example don’t even know they could apply for miss universe, but that creates a catch-22 type situation where this is informed by lack of representation, which makes wolved think they’re not even considered for miss universe, but in that belief they refrain from applying and there’s a vicious cycle that effectively excludes wolves from miss universe.

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    What about Omicron Persei 8? Surely they got some medal in the human eating contest?

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    curious the planet with the most medals is the same planet the olympic committee is headquartered in

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    It’s not, other planets aren’t wasting a cent and increasing their pollution for this farce and corrupted event. You win the olympics by not participating.

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    When Jupiter or Saturn finally wins some competitions are they going to get their medals in the form of precious metals aersolized into a vapor and stuffed into a mason jar?