i think (hope) that's the point
i think (hope) that's the point
So with this logic, because of America’s current and past war crimes if America wins gold we don’t get to fly a flag either or hear the anthem? Even if the athlete wants to? What then about Germany, or France, or hell, Iran? I honestly don’t know what countries are in the Olympics these days but sometimes libs tend to get all up in arms about weird shit like olympians should be able to fly their flag?? Why not?? What significance does it hold for this athlete? You just want to humiliate her on behalf of her Government?
Yes to all of your points. People should be ashamed of representing a fascist regime starting wars and committing atrocities.
What’s the point in humiliating this athlete who probably doesn’t even support Putin?
Yes but when it’s Russia people tend to clutch pearls, what we’re engaged in right now (US) is a million times worse before you even get to Iran. I’m not sure if you mean to imply Iran is “representing a fascist regime starting wars and committing atrocities” from my words or not, which was not my intent.
So let’s ban every country currently involved in or creating war in Olympics & World Cup. Hell, Eurovision too. Isreal being involved should be reason enough to boycott them altogether so now let’s do Ukraine, Russia, US, Iran, all NATO countries, Congo, Sudan, Japan/China/Taiwan, throw in Argentina too cuz fuck Milei am I right? …
All of a sudden the sportsball games are real fucking boring … without the worlds most major,oldest, most populated countries… You see why this is dumb and it’s kinda short sighted to place so much nationalist sentiment into fucking sports… I don’t give a fuck about the Olympics anyways cuz they’re always a fascist big dick contest of which country can get the best publicity fluff.
But tbh even tho I don’t care about the sports let them fly their fuckin flags. Except Isreal, they should be barred and shunned from the world stage continually and without exception until they dismantle the genocidal apartheid and change from the ground up.
Like it or not, Russia in its current form ain’t going anywhere. They’ve been a country far longer than most. If the USSR hadn’t been illegally dissolved we wouldn’t be in this mess with Putin anyways. When Russia was Socialist, Isreal was called fucking Palestine and Palestinians were mass killed and forced out of their homes. That’s something that these feverish anti Russia people love to forget when comparing the two unfairly.
Maybe sports should be boring if cunts can't stop warring with each other maybe. Just a thought. International sports competitions aren't that important. And yeah, same goes for Eurovision. It's a singing competition. Don't give evil regimes air time and representation.
And that applies to all of them. I don't selectively pick which countries are allowed to do war and which aren't. Just because one is committing more and bigger atrocities than the other doesn't make it ok for the other to commit atrocities.
I mean, in a simpler world we could just do sports instead of war. Ha. What a cool world. I’m just trying not to let people get away with equating modern Russia with Israel and saying they shouldn’t be allowed to fly their flag or play the anthem. It’s not like Putin wrote the anthem or designed the flag. You’re clutching pearls.
You still didn’t answer my question tho: Why humiliate this woman on behalf of her government? Do we not let Alysa Liu play the anthem or hold a flag because she needs to be embarrassed for her governments actions? That’s what I’m trying to point out here. You guys hold strange standards for Russia specifically, it doesn’t matter who’s doing “bigger atrocities” because the reality is Russia is treated unfairly because of their government.
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Sure, that other group of child killers and rapists should face the same restrictions as the Russian ones.
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