The same reactionary wingnuts who used to fret a lot about hormones and sports have abruptly pivoted. Not long ago, figures like Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. were hell-bent on keeping testosterone, the elixir of their gods, in its gendered lane. Now they want athletes of all sexes to surge with male hormones. They’ve become pro-doping.
Thus the Enhanced Games (yep, that’s the name), nominally a steroids-addled sports event but in fact a eugenics experiment venture-capitalized with max virility by Thiel and Don Jr… For extra manly pow, the event’s CEO is Aron D’Souza, a Thiel pal who spearheaded Thiel’s crusade against Gawker Media for the crime of press freedoms.
I can’t believe that this is even real! We have to be living in a simulation. There’s no way that the SNL skit “All Drug Olympics” is becoming real life. What the actual shit, man?
SNL All Drug Olympics
Does it count if it is already real, just not the actual, official, Olympics?
Because I had seen a news article recently about an actual drug-fueled athletics competition somewhere in the world because someone overdosed and died, sparking questions of whether or not the competition should be allowed to exist.
What’s killing me here is that this was literally a joke 35 years ago. A joke that was intended for all of society to laugh at. Everyone at the time thought this was stupid and funny. No one laughing at this in the late 80s would have even begun to seriously consider an All Drug Olympics.
We’re at a point now where a bunch of demonstrably insane billionaires are really doing this. What the hell is happening?