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Because I surely haven't, nor has anyone I've talked to. Even the media is largely unanimous. Forcing the opening actors to wear diapers and denying them the restroom? Changing out the lead singer because she wasn't cute enough, and putting a lip-syncher in her place? The arbitrary rules for all the female 'volunteers', who had to be judged in the nude and have their proportions measured?

And that's not even touching on the mass relocations to make way for the games and get the 'uglies' off the streets, the total shutdown of the economic heart to get around the polution epidemic, and all the arranging for a picture perfect Olympics...

That's the kind of authoritarianism you'd expect from Western Europe in the 40's and the US in the 70's, not from the perportadly democratic Republic of China. Was anyone really sold?
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