[nsns]

It was so sad. An unbelievably expensive circus that mesmerized everyone for a short while, masquerading as a magical "cure" for everything. Sponsored by taxpayer money, with everyone involved (except those taxpayers) becoming a lot richer, that's the way a financial elite has come to rule the rest of the world, by lulling us into a pleasurable daze, making us poorer as they go.

[mcantelon]

The Olympics seem, in part, about creating public debt and providing a pretext to vamp up state surveillance apparatuses. Public debt creates the need for cutbacks and cutbacks create opportunities for privatized versions of formerly public services.

[nsns]

Not to mention the irony of multinational corporations running a show of mock national pride, the very same national pride their business helps to undermine (both financially and morally).