The Enhanced Games: Peter Thiel backs drug-fuelled Olympics-style competition

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The Enhanced Games: Peter Thiel backs drug-fuelled Olympics-style competition
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Doping leads to disability and death, but may make a better show for spectators.

So like the ancient Romans, he wants poor athletes to permanently maim themselves for his amusement.

Can't we just get the Hunger Games?

We're almost there, we haven't quite gotten to the class disparity between the elites and the workers yet. The working class still thinks they can work their way up to elite status.

My money is still on us hitting The Running Man before $The Hunger Games*, though. All it would take is a high profile "botched" execution during an election year, and a politician with bad enough dementia that they "remember" a good solution to the whole "capital punishment" thing.

poor athletes to permanently maim themselves for his amusement.

i think thats called college football

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