• @[email protected]
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        311 year ago

        It’s amazing how “righteous fury” people seem to get over folks protesting sporting events because the fucking planet is on fire.

        “Oh but couldn’t they be more calm and quiet about it, I want to watch the race!”

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      With participants who likely flew themselves their bikes in from all around the world for a pointless competition. I wouldn’t compare an international bike race to a person who rides their bike to work to help the environment.

      • @Aux
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        -111 year ago

        Sporting events are the best way to reach hundreds of millions of people to deliver the message. Athlete flights are a tiny price to pay for it. And protesters literally fucked it up. Because they are dumbfuck attention whores and nothing else.

        • @Aurix
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          101 year ago

          Tour de France sends the message performance is everything, and if you don’t perform, destroy your body with drugs. It is inherently toxic.

      • @woelkchen
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        -31 year ago

        I’m sure they had many sponsors?

        Visit https://www.cyclingworldchamps.com/ and scroll to the bottom. Neither Shell nor Ineos are on the list of sponsors.

        Admittedly, I’ve done zero research…

        Seems the protestors didn’t either.

          • @woelkchen
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            -61 year ago

            British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell.”

            Visit https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/ and scroll to the bottom. Neither Shell nor Ineos are on the list of sponsors, only lotteries.

            On Twitter the group claims that Ineos is fielding a team, now British Cycling is allegedly sponsored by Shell and yet visiting any of the official web sites does not list any of those sponsors. Must be very shy sponsors.

          • @woelkchen
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            -111 year ago

            Huh, so indeed one of those shy sponsors that don’t appear on the main page in the footer.

            So reading through that, the Shell sponsorship is about bike chain lubricants and electric charging. Yes, very evil things.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 year ago

              Is shell paying you to run defence? I don’t get it. Shell=bad and you should google it if you don’t know why

              • @Aux
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                -81 year ago

                Shell is good and you’re a lunatic.

                • arefx
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                  21 year ago

                  Y’all remember that post the other day about leaving all the idiots behind on reddit… About that…

    • @RookiA
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      -291 year ago

      The protestors too. So? XD