We Literally Did the Hunger Games And No One Watched

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  @morgantrias3103 · 2 weeks ago

  Wait the competition of kids competing to win 1 scholarship cost 13million to run??? they COULD HAVE SENT ALL 60 KIDS TO COLLEGE FOR THAT! That's 200k each scholarships with a little left over to cover any administration fees!

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• NO

  @notahumanbeing6892 · 2 weeks ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_MJk_qset4&amp;t=10">0:10</a> fun fact, that WAS the state of the hunger games until its tenth year. they didn’t begin with all the open space and theatrics, so the first nine ended quickly and brutally. most citizens, even in the capitol, didn’t care to watch until snow began adding things like betting, and gaul added sponsors for each tribute and interviews with them all beforehand. this is literally the real life economic equivalent of the beginning of the in-universe hunger games.

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• MR

  @Mr.Rabbiiit · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  TBH, I feel like if the US did a version of THG, it won&apos;t go as the novels described but more like the way of Stephen King&apos;s &apos;The Long Walk&apos;. No fancy combat, no sponsors, just people in destitute desperate/delusional enough to put their lives on the line for a dream they&apos;ll most likely never live to see. Two winners will never be considered.

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• JO

  @JohnkyTonkbadonkadonkbigchonk · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  $13,000,000 to pay for one kid to go to collge.<br>Just use the $13,000,000 to pay for all those kids to go to college.

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• TH

  @TheRogueCommand · 2 weeks ago

  Bread and circuses, but nobody can afford bread, and nobody cares about the circuses.

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• JA

  @jankopransky2551 · 2 weeks ago

  I mean, nobody wanted to watch first Hunger games either, so it&apos;s accurate!

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• EL

  @elizabethwillis885 · 2 weeks ago

  One of the very few non white kids played for Guam even though he doesn’t live in Guam and hasn’t lived in Guam. His dad is white and his mom is from Guam so that was enough for him to play for Guam. And yes, they are Christian homeschoolers. Just like most of these kids.

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• GI

  @GiggaGMikeE · 2 weeks ago

  I cackled like an anime villain right before the hero&apos;s power up when I heard the winner was going for a degree in Dance. Only way it could have been better is if he was majoring in Gender Studies with a minor in African History.

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  @nextabe1 · 2 weeks ago

  Nothing says &quot;excellence in sports&quot; like Riley &quot;5th place&quot; Gaines. And there&apos;s Pat McAfee, the guy who ruined Wrestlemania 42&apos;s main event and made the worst rap album ever. Cool cool cool.

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• HU

  @huntressvivian · 2 weeks ago

  At least 68m dollars of taxpayer money went into this event to give two kids 125k scholarships each. <br>Where in the HELL did that 68m (or more) go???<br>That shit could&apos;ve paid for 544 scholarships, but we got the pigslop games instead.

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• QW

  @qwinlyn · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  One thing about the kid whose family lives in a van and moves every couple weeks.<br><br>That’s a <i>super</i> common tactic from abus1ve parents to keep their actions secret. It’s also really common for abus1ve parents to homeschool their kids for the exact same reason. <br><br>It keeps them away from teachers. <br><br>Teachers are mandatory reporters, and it’s really hard to report someone that lives on the move and never has the same address for long, let alone someone who never sees a teacher in the first place. <br><br>I fear how many of the kids in these games are being actively hurt by their parents. <br><br>Cause the numbers say it’s a substantial chunk of them.

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• BR

  @brefixx420 · 2 weeks ago

  Fun fact.. this event took place in my home town. If there&apos;s one thing you need to know about spire institute, its that it&apos;s essentially a tax evasion fraud front that spent years in debt, did not deliver on most of it&apos;s promises as a sports facility, and then got sold off to someone who will continue to use it as a tax evasion fraud front

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