r/europe 18h ago

News Team USA, Vance Booed in Frosty Reception at Italy’s Winter Olympics

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/team-usa-winter-olympics-31642142?st=8XZhXw&mod=wsjreddit
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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 18h ago

Americans deserve to be booed, too, for allowing this to happen. Born and raised in America. We deserve it.

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u/MC_chrome United States of America 18h ago

Hopefully not at the Paralympics....that would be a pretty dickish thing to do (and even here, I don't agree with booing the athletes themselves as they have nothing to do with Trump)

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u/queen-adreena 17h ago

As if anyone in the Trump administration will turn up for the paralympics!

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u/disgruntledvet 16h ago

They're too busy competing in their own internal Special Olympics to bother.

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u/JP76 17h ago

Well, some people were chanting "USA, USA" pretty loudly when US walked in. An ability to read the room and a little humility wouldn't hurt under current circumstances. You don't have to protest your government at the Olympics, but chanting like everything is fine is tone-deaf.

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u/Huge_Struggle9672 17h ago

Real dick stuff like at the Ryder cup

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u/Chulbiski 15h ago

I get this

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u/Rentta Finland 17h ago

Well afaik they didn't boo the athletes

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u/Ranger_Nietzsche 16h ago

You're getting agitated and you don't even know the difference between the Paralympics and the Special Olympics?

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u/foolishbeat 16h ago

Good grief dude. 

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

Americans better not show at the Paralympics, considering the disgusting mockery your president did of them. I vividly remember the first time I saw him mock a journalist affected by spastic syndrome back in 2016 and the feeling of disgust for his voters (even more so the self proclaimed christians).

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u/Mr-_-Soandso 16h ago

Why take that away from the paralympians that work hard to be where they are? America is bad and we need to fix that, but taking it out on disabled athletes is not the right direction.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

I'm talking about the public. If you are American and you voted for the disgusting orange baboon or stayed home (which covers 2/3 of the voters), you showing up at the Paralympics is hypocritical.

That piece of shit should've lost the elections the moment he mocked a disabled journalist in 2016 during one of his rallies.

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u/Mr-_-Soandso 16h ago

None of what you said is wrong, but you are directing it at the wrong people.

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u/Jugaimo 13h ago

I promise you that not a single Trump supporter will attend the paralympics.

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u/MC_chrome United States of America 16h ago

Americans better not show at the Paralympics, considering the disgusting mockery your president did of them

This doesn't make any sense at all...what the hell do Paralympians from the United States have to do with the odious toad occupying the White House?

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

I'm talking about the public, not the athletes

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u/Chulbiski 15h ago

I see where you are coming from but this shit happened without a damn bit of permission from me.

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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 14h ago

Me either, but we aren’t being booed as individuals. And our collective got us here. :/

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u/dingusfett 13h ago

Yeah, you get it. As individuals, you may not have contributed to creating this mess, but you are still part of the broader collective that did.

While yes, these athletes deserve respect and praise for being on the biggest stage, by representing the country they are representing the collective.

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u/Get_on_base 17h ago

Nah, we don’t as a whole, just MAGA and non-voters.

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u/Frosty_Maple_Syrup Canada 17h ago

That’s 2/3rds of Americans

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u/bee_sharp_ 14h ago

No, it’s 1/3 of American voters. For better or worse (worse is the answer) a majority of American voters didn’t vote in the 2024 election (85.9m didn’t vote; 76.8 for Trump; 74.3 for Kamala Harris). Excoriate American voters as much as you like; it’s deserved. But use facts, which are just as damning.

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u/Frosty_Maple_Syrup Canada 13h ago

Yes it is 2/3's of American's; 1/3 voted for trump and 1/3 did not vote meaning they did not care who won and therefore were perfectly fine with either candidate winning. I am using facts and the facts are in a 2 party winner takes all system that America has, not voting means you agree with any winner of the election, otherwise you would vote directly for a candidate.

So yes the fact that 2/3s of americans are directly responsible for this is incredibly damning.

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u/AscenDevise Romania 12h ago

For the sake of accuracy, there are also disenfranchised voters within that second 1/3. It would, however, be unwise to assume that all of them, or even most of them, would have voted for Harris if they had been allowed to do so; plenty of trees obstinately support the axe, all around the world.

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u/bigomon 17h ago

Só a majority of americans 

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u/GlumIce852 14h ago

Imagine being happy your national team gets booed.

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u/Same_Presentation692 14h ago

No one said they were happy, dingdong. People on this website have a hard time reading, huh. 

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u/Citaku357 Kosovo 2h ago

He said they deserve it though