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not just spain mainland but also south-america for some reason really like him. even have their own nickname for him i only see used on spanish speaking twitter (pitbull)

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 27m

you look at twitter and it's the usual hate for remco in most communities & then suddenly in spanish cycling twt they're doing like design contests/guesses on how his new euro outfit is going to look 😭 i don't know specifically why but i love that the spanish are so positive about him

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 4h

with pre-decided i mean like the jury BEFORE the race decides the line where it counts as being first. on that line remco was very narrowly but also very visibly (not like 2021 w/ van aert&pidcock) in front of ciccone again imagine remco doing this to giulio, he'd be laughed out the building

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 4h

giuilio could gone with this info to the actual jury in private and discussed it but he just went with it and gone public i just think that's shitty man bc the jury pre-decided photo finish line was obvious i'm sorry but i also realize it's pointless bc everyone loves ciccone so whatever

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 4h

like it doesn't even matter lol, even if theoretically remco was visibly 5 bike lengths ahead, by ciccone now doing this schpiel remco's win is going to be forever tainted and people will say it's not valid and hold that over his head, despite obv remco himself not deciding or him being on the jury

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 4h

or we'd get "you should have asked for review at the finish" or something along those lines but remco is hated and ciccone is not so the UCI will probably get public pushed to review it because the UCI only really does stuff when a drama happens and it gets into the press

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 4h

we are going to see a phenomenon where, bc ciccone is so well liked, everybody will be like "yeah ofcourse this is reasonable to ask. review it and give him the title" but if it was reversed and remco asked this after the fact we'd get "oh my god get over it you lost"

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 5h

at his age he is already catching big names in the sport who have long retired while he's only at his midpoint. maybe it's an asset that pogacar exists, so all the merckx comparisons that would have been going now go directly to tadej instead of him

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 5h

according to prestigelisten who is reputable in tracking all-time results remco is on his way to top 20 next year (maybe this year, depending on lombardia result) when remco got noticed as a big talent i thought he'd be a fantastic rider but i never thought he'd already be this accomplished at 26

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 5h

no it's just that sometimes one alien out-aliens the other but jonas vingegaard for instance (when it's not against pogacar) will win grand tours, a 3 week endurance slog, while literally being sick with relative ease. or mathieu van der poel will basically never have a bad day in onedays

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 6h

remco's season since his debut at ronde van vlaanderen absolutely bonker stats for a non-alien (non-alien = someone who is vulnerable on bad days and actually has them from time to time) although technically the ITT results don't count in this screenshot bc he IS an alien at that discipline

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 6h

most of them are kinda at where i thought they would be except for vauquelin man winning against remco or ciccone might be a little bit to much to expect but he should have been at least in that group with bisiaux, roglic etc this course was really his style

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

so yeah gl. while my own health is starting to fail me i'd atleast hope to see some change the last few years but sadly it's not to be. it's kinda completely over when we as a society can't even materially work against a 24/7 HD televised genocide, all thanks to historical sensibilities bleak

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

every single time some entity tries to get the needle moving to stop the genocide, it turns out completely pointless in not even 24 hours because the jewish community is so encaptured by zionist propaganda that even the very small group of leftwing anti-zionists instantly throw "antisemite" at you

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

i give up (online). it's all pointless. people don't actually care about the horrific open air concentration camp the Palestinians live in, a refugee camp of white tents at the coast that gets bombed daily every single day people who are already destitute, sick and in famine get bombed on top of it

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

this will probably one of my last rants of these types, dw the reaction the last few hours have solidified that it's all meaningless bc even a small % of the bare minimum (zionism = racism) gets met with so much "uhm aksually" instant resistance from the supposed anti-zionist leftwing

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

it's incredibly disappointing but i also expected it. in theory, it should have been a slam dunk for jewish people who genuinely mean they are anti-zionist to say "YES, ZIONISM IS OBVIOUSLY DEEPLY RACIST, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF AN ETHNIC GENOCIDE" right? but no

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

but nothing will come of this & once again we will all be bogged down in a feeling-a-thon for a community that refuses to look inwards towards the apartheid ideology that has captured it meanwhile Palestinians will keep getting slaughtered&it will only end w/ TOTAL eradication & a 'greater israel'

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

an insane % of synagogues outside of israel (above 90%) support zionism, do "land reform auctions" (bidding on stolen land)&do fundraisers for the IDF. if you are an actual anti-zionist jew, acknowledging that zionism is racism is like 20% of the bare minimum; you need to focus on reform inwards

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

i also like "zionism means many things to many people" no, it doesn't. that's like saying "nazism means many things to many people" you are either FOR or AGAINST zionism, the israeli state and their ongoing genocide of Palestinians. there is >NO< in between. imagine doing this for SA apartheid ffs

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

now they're suddenly saying stuff like "well it was only voted on by a small % so does it really count?" when on other motions voted by the greens, that type of representation of policy-deciding was NEVER put into question now suddenly we're finding all ways to implicitly discredit it, right right

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 20h

it is really funny seeing the response to the "zionism is racism" voting on social media by the way. the reaction is exactly like i thought it would be, once again centering feelings of themselves over the actual material genocide being perpetrated by the zionist state, the genocide that IS ONGOING

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 22h

the more i think about finn racing with remco the happier i get is it already tuesday lads

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 22h

bora have a crazy starting lineup for tre valli varesini anyway pellizzari, hindley, lipowitz, ffb, finn and aleotti alongside remco (most likely) is just such a strong collective. also remco + finn racing hooray

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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 23h

wait is remco actually riding tre valli varesine as well? seems he was added to the startlist by redbull but i thought it would be euro -> lombardia -> chrono des nations