Remember how everyone was supposed to boycott the World Cup because of Putin?
There was even an attempt to shame England into having it's football players walk out of the World Cup.

You can watch, and hear your tax dollars fly toward more war, more intervention, more profiteering and ultimately, more refugees to hate on, while kicking back on holiday and telling yourself how great this self-sustaining cycle of violence called the USA is. This is a symptom of decades of domestic psyops having embedded militarism into every phase of our lives…politics, economy and even recreation. This is also another accident waiting to happen.

This might be a bit off from the usual topics of C99P, but I thought a little diversity is a good thing.
Let's start with yesterday's news.

Wouldn’t be surprised if I see
BREAKING: Warriors just signed Thanos and John Wick to add to their bench for one year. Lol

Words fail. Of course this is a WP article with a WP slant on a thoroughly bullshit ‘investigation’.

Former Wasserman Schultz aide Imran Awan reaches plea deal that debunks conspiracy theories

Shawn Boburg, Spencer S. Hsu
The Washington Post
July 3, 2018 11:15 a.m.

So, as I've mentioned, I've been trying to hunt down a physical copy of Antisthenes' "Odyssey" because I'm interested in viewing how the character of Odysseus was viewed by Antisthenes. From what I understand he had a somewhat more nuanced view of the character, and saw his actions as not heroic, but pragmatic. I find that commentary concept fascinating, since it reduces the character somewhat, and yet makes his journey all the more heroic, sans the gods and the mystical creatures.