“History is what happened in the past, and something we later-borns have to live with..."
Wild times etc. Weird times et. al. with World Surf League CEO Erik Logan actively stifling communication by capping employee phone calls to 45 minutes, maximum, sharks feasting on dolphins without their heretofore displayed reserve and Germans planning on winning surfing gold in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games by building a surf training facility inside Berlin’s Olympiapark, a 1930s-era stadium “where Nazis one fetishised their belief in the supremacy of the Aryan body.”
Whoa!
As you are certainly aware, statues and monuments to past bad behaviors have become increasingly polarized. Confederate statues have been removed or fought over in the United States of America while English slave trader Robert Milligan’s statue was just ripped down and tossed in the Thames.
Germany has a larger issue as its past bad behaviors, like the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, lead to larger monuments, like the Olympiapark.
Hitler, himself, was involved in the design and construction of a great sport’s complex to be a centerpiece of propaganda during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
While many symbols of Nazi rule have been removed or destroyed, including the bunker where Hitler killed himself, the Olympiapark has been a “protected structure” since 1966 but not without controversy.
Per The Guardian:
Peter Strieder, a former senator for urban development in the city, called for the removal of the monumental sculptures of athletes from the grounds, the renaming of buildings and streets that commemorate nationalist ideologues, and the lifting of the protected status of the Maifeld.
“The entire complex, all buildings, all their names, all sculptures, were borne out of the ideology of the Nazis,” wrote Strieder, a Social Democrat, in the weekly broadsheet Die Zeit.
Art historians have criticised the intervention. “History is what happened in the past, and something we later-borns have to live with,” responded the architect Hans Kollhoff in an article in the same newspaper. “You don’t get rid of it by removing monuments.”
Now, though, a new plan has been floated and titled Vision 2030. It imagines the grounds be opened as a “hotspot for Olympic and Paralympic Games” by building state of the art training facilities for runners, horse riders, swimmers, but especially the newest disciples like surfing and skateboarding.
Not included in Vision 2030 is what sort of artificial wave technology will be employed.
Do you have an opinion?
Don’t wait to be told
You need palmolive gold!!
Me and my dad
is that a couple of cricket pitches on the grassy area?
Howzat!!
ah yes, cap guns, and their lethal mutant spawn, the bolt-bomb.
https://youtu.be/yvXiSsy1XSI
My grandfather’s brother Uncle Bobby war vet strolled into town driving chevy pop up van, half nude hula and cowgirl on his forearms when I was in six grade. Taught us the ins and outs bolt bombs. Boys and girls tie piece of string between each bolt. Lowers the chances of them becoming shrapnel. My real grandfather left his family early on. Uncle Bobby new what he was doing ended up snagging my grandmother for her third and final marriage. Always fucked my friends up ” Why you call your grandfather Uncle Bobby!” True..
…so let me get it right, your Grandmother married first one the t’other brother? Nice work, Nan!
https://youtu.be/RI9AI6VAimY
I’M SPASTICUS!!!!!!
Correct.
Upvote
Up votes are a big circle jerk.
Down votes are where its at now.
Defund the Ziffs
It’s cool how we forgave ze Germans and ze japs.
Just transplant the Munich river wave there
Have they renounced jet engines yet?
They took our Eskimo pies. They took our pies. You bastards.
Sounds like German Olympic Committee is erasing an American. Jesse Owens who dominated that Stadium in 1936.
BLM isn’t about black lives. While some attending the events may have noble intentions concerning the value of human life, including blacks, that certainly is not what motivates the leadership not their minions, agitators and chaos for chaos’ sake motivated followers.
BLM defaced:
Statue of Matthias Baldwin – Abolitionist
Shaw Memorial/54th Regiment Memorial – an all black Union Regiment who is acclaimed for a charge against Fory Wagner July 18, 1863.
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in San Francisco was just torn down. Union General. Defeated Lee. Never owned slaves. Inherited one slave from his father. Immediately freed him with paperwork proving so.
The BLM doesn’t give a fuck about black people.
Not sure what you’re on about Otto. All of the above is the purview of the Bureau of Land Management. Read your damn Constitution.
Read it again.
BLM defaced those Memorials/statues.
Those Memorials/statues celebrate black people and people that fought for black people. But BLM defaced them. That was my point.
A good thing about social meDia is it has enabled the people to have a voice and then action change. The bad thing is that the information they are feeding off in FB, Insti, is emotional at best and rarely has any relic of research and fact. I’m just glad we have BG comments.
I’ve been having an interesting time with conspiracy theorists lately. It’s interesting that now with access to more information than ever, the vast majority of conspiracy theory ‘information’ comes from fb and other social media. Between 85%-95%. Whenever I look up details through reputable sources, that’s cheating…
Also stats on advocate websites tend to be misleading.
If I had choose between a conspiracy and stupidity … 99 times outta 100 I’ll choose stupidity
The problem is there are plenty of examples of governments doing stupid/ridiculous things to their citizens. But that doesn’t excuse making stuff up to suit a correspondingly made up narrative.
Excuse my sensitivity. I am working for a guy who sends me about 4 videos a week explaining why 5G is a plot by Bill Gates to sterilise the planet with microchips which we can only avoid by not vaccinating.
Blockheads lives matter
do you think that it was maybe right wingers disguised or that Black people are just dumb or something or that BLM is a muslim movement , or just anybody who is not white are just vandals..or all of it??
Read my comment again. Had nothing to do with your politics, but a play on BLM. But if I have to explain the joke…
You’re probably the first person in history to do a Bureau of Land Management joke. So yeah, you might have to explain it.
He’s never read it. Doesn’t know what it says. Holds it up as an artifice to justify his bigotry.
He actually missed the joke I was making. Had nothing to do with his BLM diatribe. Well, a different type of BLM.
dude is off the rails. he can’t see beyond his intellectual cul de sac
I guess Muhammad Ali, Jr. must be a bigot too.
Speaking about BLM, Muhammad Ali, Jr. said:
“It’s a racial statement,” Ali added. “It’s pitting black people against everyone else. It starts racial things to happen. I hate that.
“They’re no different from Muslim terrorists,” Ali said scornfully of the rioters. “They should all get what they deserve. They’re f**king up businesses, beating up innocent people in the neighborhood, smashing up police stations and shops. They’re terrorists – they’re terrorizing the community. I agree with the peaceful protests, but the Antifa, they need to kill everyone in that thing.”
Ali turned hard against BLM. “Black Lives Matter is not a peaceful protest. Antifa never wanted it peaceful. I would take them all out,” he said.
The younger Ali, also a practicing Muslim like his father, then appeared to give the police in America the benefit of the doubt, saying, “Police don’t wake up and think, ‘I’m going to kill a nigger today or kill a white man.’ They’re just trying to make it back home to their family in one piece.”
Ali also praised President Donald Trump and even said he thinks his pugilist dad would have liked Trump.
“I think Trump’s a good president. My father would have supported him. Trump’s not a racist, he’s for all the people. Democrats are the ones who are racist and not for everybody,” hesaid. “These [Democrat politicians] saying Black Lives Matter, who the hell are you to say that? You’re not even black.”
Finally, Ali slammed the Democrat Party.
“Democrats don’t give a shit about anybody. Hillary Clinton doesn’t give a shit; she’s trying not to get locked up,” Ali concluded. “Trump is much better than Clinton and Obama. … The only one to do what he said he would do is Donald Trump.”
I have a black friend so I can’t be racist? Shut up Otto.
Antifa: trumps ultimate boogie man that’s a loose assortment of people. It’s a red herring. Also, since you’re anti-antifa, you must be pro-fascist. But you’re a trump supporter so that’s obvious.
Democrat party: A deliberate mis-statement of the Democratic Party, first brought to the public by McCarthy. Later popularized again by el rushbo. I’m sure you listen to that racist fuck too.
As for ol Jr., he can have any opinion he wants. Trump is not “for all the people”. And you know it. Hi IS a racist. And if he’s not? Boy he sure plays a good one on TV.
All your hatred for democrats doesn’t make your bigoted fucking views ok.
It’s odd that you would think me endorsing Senator Tim Scott (South Carolina) for President in 2024 is bigoted.
Democrats have tried to ruin this country since day one. They have supported slavery since day one, and still do. Every inner city is Democrat run. Their policies of keeping blacks tied to welfare is legal slavery. Instead of building programs to find jobs for blacks, you push for more welfare, more food stamps. Screw opportunity says thank he Democrats. You are all racists. Everyone knows it and now blacks are understanding it more. Your white guilt can’t save you from your bigoted past, present or future.
You have fucked up this country and nobody wants to put up with your racist shit dung beetle anymore. You even selected a bigot for President. Good luck getting a racist like Biden elected. Not happening.
Republicans fight every program to lift black communities out of poverty.
Republicans support mass incarceration, which is actual slavery in today’s world. Is it the Democrat base chanting “Jews will not replace us”Or is that the republican base? We both know it’s the republicans.
Your revisionist history doesn’t change shit.
You’re the one hating the BLM movement. You’re the one championing the NRA. You want black people to continue to get killed by police and you want kids to get shot in schools is what that tells me.
Trump used active duty military against American citizens.
You gonna stand up against that? I didn’t fucking think so.
You’re a special kind of Democrat stupid aren’t you?
Trump championed programs for inner city economic development projects. Trump championed choice of school for inner cities. Trump championed prison reform.
I don’t know what the fuck you’re babbling on about Jews. You fucking weirdo.
The only historical revisionism going on is Democrats trying to get the world to believe they’re not pro slavery. Hitler was a socialist.
Damn straight I’m pro NRA. You’re delusional and one sick fuck if you think that means I want kids to be shot. Get help dung beetle, you fucking need it.
You Democrats have a mental disorder. That much is proven by your posts.
National Guard are called out by the States you fucktard.
Christ, are you what results from the American educational system these days? You soft cunts.
You fucking idiot. Donald Trump used bill barr to call in the military. You admitted it yourself in an old response to me. That’s wrong. That’s unconstitutional.
Hitler was a fascist masquerading as a socialist. I’m not even a fucking socialist. Trumps little dick is so far down your throat you can’t even see the damage he’s doing to the country. You need to get off Fox News and see what’s really happening in this country. We’re in bad shape.
A mental disorder!? Go fuck yourself. Any fucking credibility the conservative political philosophy had is dead and gone with Trump. You sold your fucking soul by voting for him and you’ve doubled down too far to get out.
Plenty of conservatives with a conscience agree with me. But it’s you against the world eh buddy? Everybody is wrong but trump. Everybody is out to get him.
Washington D.C. is not a state. In that instance, yes the national guard was called in by Barr. And no, that is not unconstitutional.
You keep screaming out the window all you want princess. Your Democratic Party are raging lunatics and the best they could muster up to go against Trump is a Byrd loving racist in his doddage who can’t recall where he is. He perfectly represents you dung beetle. Right down to the t.
So you’re good with the president invoking the insurrection act on a bunch of peaceful protestors? Is that it?
James Mattis is wrong about trump. Is that it?
Mark Milley is wrong about trump. Is that it?
You can’t defend his actions so you resort to hating the other side.
You stand for nothing, only against the “left”, and you’ve lost any morals you claim to have.
You can claim all the bullshit you want about Biden working with a white supremacist 30 years ago, it doesn’t change this: “hail trump, hail our people, hail victory!”
That was Richard spencer 3 years ago.
Everything you pretend to hate Biden for, Trump has done 1000 times over.
Don’t pretend like you’d vote for any democrat. Fox News blasts you with wall to wall negative coverage until you’re blind to the fact that I’m not your enemy, nor should you be mine. Yet here we are. Get out of your bubble, you might learn something about the real world.
Except for Carlson, I don’t tend to watch Fox News.
You come out with guns blazing calling me a bigot and now you want to be friends? Now you don’t want me to think I’ll of you?
James Mattis is not a good general.
Milley apologized for being there cause he was in uniform as he was in his way to Pentagon. U.S. military personnel are forbidden from partaking in political PR moments. He didn’t know what was going on and did the right thing removing himself.
Support Biden all you want. He’s gonna lose in November cause his policies suck. Trump follows through on his promises. That’s what Americans care about. Don’t pay lip service, do what you say you’re gonna do.
You have no idea the life I’ve led. You think I reside in a bubble but you couldn’t be further from the truth. I seen the good and bad the world over and have stepped foot in far more cultures that you could accomplish in two lifetimes.
Oh man you’re so much cooler and better than me. Cool street cred.
You do tend to watch Fox. I’ve seen you reference other shows on here. At least the five and Ingraham. So that was a lie.
Trump follows through on his promises?
That’s incredible bullshit. He hasn’t followed through on shit except throwing you assholes into consistent feelings of rage and victim hood.
Tucker Carlson is a bigot. You constantly come on here parroting Fox News talking points. You are a bigot too, what I’m saying is you don’t have to be.
Allow me to explain: kids in cages, scared and ripped from their parents. You support that.
Denying millions of people healthcare as a fuck you to Obama, you support that. You don’t even pretend to have a plan to replace it.
Police killings of black people, you support a militarized and brutal police force that carries out murder in the streets.
Trump and his kids getting rich off of their office, you support that. Save me the Biden crap too, it’s just your latest Benghazi lie.
Trump has been accused of rape by his ex-wife and 20-some other women. You support that.
He bandaged a pornstar when his son was a newborn, you support that.
We’ll see who wins but the fact is the country is in way worse shape than we were 4 years ago and we’re being lead by a president who is incompetent and morally corrupt. There are countless former republicans that have made this point, and you refuse to listen to them.
Get back on meds girl scout. Now you’re just making shit up to fit your narrative. You got serious mental defects and should go see a doctor.
You Democrats turn everything you touch to absolute shit. You’ve destroyed generations of black lives. You all need to be exterminatedand wiped off the face of this planet. Humanity will be better when you’re gone.
Ah yes, there’s that old cuckservative style. Threaten me with death. You’re a goddamn loser Otto.
All of what I said above was facts. Face it dude, your guy has the power and you’re ok with him doing anything to keep it. Apparently including killing people like me. Glad to know where you stand.
No room for disagreement in fascist trump world.
Re: Mattis.
He was a bad general? Wrong. You sang his praises until he broke with Trump. He dedicated his life to serving his country. Something you couldn’t sniff at.
Dr. Fauci is a bad epidemiologist? Wrong. He broke with trump which you can’t stand.
You know why trump can’t find any good people to work for him? It’s not a deep state conspiracy. It’s because he’s a fucking idiot.
When are you going to realize you’re betting on the wrong guy?
Otto, you have such a fine grasp of history…
FDR started the Federal welfare system in 1936. When FDR was in Congress, he blocked passage of bills that were doing away with Jim Crow laws. FDR hated black people.
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I’d love Antifa to experience some actual fascism.
Comparing the US to nazi Germany or pinochet Chile.
It’s really really entitled and fuken stupid.
Has there ever been a lamer more spoilt and coddled resistance movement in history?
You thi K a real fascist state would put up with these overgrown babies?
They’d last a day moving with the Ww2 French resistance. If that.
Wake me up when the shit gets real all you lefty spoilt Infants
It’s funny how people think that just because they call themselves “Antifa” that means they’re anti-fascist. These punks act like complete fascists. That’s been a hallmark of leftist organization. Hide behind a name.
Do they not realize that Trump will be history in 4 years?
Now there saying trump won’t leave,
It’s laughable.
No, that’s a GOP playbook.
You guys always project what you would do…. your opposition thinks, “who would think like that”. You are transparent that way.
It’s cool. Otto wants Trump Fascism. People supported Mussolini. It happens. It’s patriotic to them. Us V them. Always division.
Bex what was it like when hitler took power? Since you were there please do tell!
You’d be one of those boot licking fucking morons who gassed Jews with a smile on your face.
You’re a god damn sycophant through and through
Bit harsh
Just let the people have their democratic right to elect who they want.
Trump didn’t put himself there, the people did.
If that’s a problem for you then who’s the boot licker?
the popular vote was not for Trump. The Electoral College let him in..
Let it play out bro.. you got no skin in the fight.
It’s the same here and in the UK buddy
All have elected conservatives in power.
They get put there by THE PEOPLE.
if you can’t accept that then who’s the fascist?
Maybe his punch drunk dad (w/ no disrespect). Hardly Cassius Clay nor Muhammad Ali early on. No way! They nicked Malcolm X. If you don’t think for a minute Ali was not on kill a list during that period? Three years later King gets popped. Earlier Sam Cooke as well. Go back and read Ali’s poems..
so who does give a fuck about Black people in the USA…oh sorry it’s Donald….just watched his political rally…oops people didn’t turn up and fill the stadium ….a million people registered to be there….1/2 size crowd , no -one outside…..the good news according to Orange man is the USA is the greatest Country in the history of mankind ……wow!
Otto are you watching the re-infections , and would you have gone to the Don’s rally, with or witout mask?
Leftists are a cancerous growth in American politics.
The pot calling the kettle black
If not for leftists, you could have your Fascist dictatorship now. This shit has been brewing for some time. Damn cancerous Americans. Antifa is the enemy!
wait so three convenient examples makes an entire movement null and void?
I don’t understand why you cunts haven’t yet reported the well sourced rumor about the WSL being for sale!
Perhaps the Germans could buy it and turn that stadium into a gigantic Teutonic wave pool…yet to be invented, but super precise, and best of all, designed to punish the wipeout
Selling while not running a tour, turning profit or producing anything could be a historical low. There is probably something else at play, maybe some surfer did hit on Ziffs girl after all mad he’s had it with us.
Chas and Derek don’t report. They’re journalists. Longtom is too busy dodging sharks. JenSee fixated on surfline man.
Coz Choz is a shark journalist and Drek is out looking for a cheerleader with a cock.
You get what ya pay for, I guess …
I heard that they are just selling WSL prepaid phone cards. 45min increments.
Soon to be on coastal watch?
whats stopping you?
It’s been for sale unofficially since they pulled the UFC guy into the mix.
ugly fuken cunts?
Are you stocking up on your heisenburg before scomo erects the Wall of Prohibition ?
100 %
Just bought about half a litre of various flavors.
Should last a year or more
I’m thought it was all ready illegal to import here.
Your govt must be missing all that tax off tobacco – Fucken hell a $220,000 fine for importing juice.
That’s sheer draconian bullshit. They don’t want ya to quit smoking …. back to the cigs ya filthy vaping cunts …
Vapers lives don’t matter.
I give up.
I can get it at my local cig shop but it’s more exy and limited flavor choice
Wish I stocked up on codeine over the counter before they made it prescription. Dumb
actually I think it’s been for sale since the Professional Surfers signed on for 10 years , as without the surfers ya got nuttin!
true
why does it matter? who would buy this?
Much easier to begin from scratch.
Rumour: Little Nick Carroll thinks big of himself.
I thought you were a surf journalist Nick?
Surf Nazis Must Die.
It’s where Jesse Owens dominated the Olympics in 1936, and where Rhonda’s girls are going to dominate in 2036!
Pull down the monuments to the past.
Start with Bells.
Still better than shitty rio beachies, out of season snapper, blown out supertubos, and mechanical lemoore. Plus AC\DC.
In its defence the Brazil comp has actually pumped the last couple of years.
Bells is cool
Bloody hard to please
Fair dinks!!
Come on, its like been really good once.
In December pipe is a closeout beach break
Well fucking well move it to when it pumps… break out of what’s not working!
And Medina surfs Pipe for about 300 minutes per year and surfs it better than JOB when it’s closing out
hey Negs how do I contact you off site?
search the yellow pages for plumbers and start cold calling.
Riding a wave (kill me) of nationalist fervor, they’ll be using Locthefeld’s newest wave technology because his name sounds German… They’ll have closeouts on lock!… defeld.
Bicko ?!!???
Some kinda weirdo mind-meld maybe …. Free KVF !