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I’m not super well versed on how this works, but many of them depend on sponsorship deals to be able to train and compete and the level they do. Those deals probably depend on them at least appearing pro-USA.
We can all talk about how we’d like the protest what’s going on in this country, but asking someone to give up the opportunity to compete on a global stage at the thing they’ve trained literally their whole life to do is a very tall order.
If they took a sponsorship, then we should be looking into those sponsors.
I get your point about it being difficult to give up going and I hope a lot of them are having some sleepless nights over it.
By sending the couchfucker and a contingent of ICE goons, it is a political statement to be there. It's not about the sport, it's about the glorification of the Orange Rapist.
I mean we deserve to get booed like any other country has gotten when they pull shit like this.
That’s the exact kind of thing that needs to happen more often.
Yeah. Ummm, duh, even.
But, dude! FASCISM!!
Sweet. All the astronauts working for NASA should probably quit too.
......what?
But what the fuck ever, dude. If present circumstances DON'T justify radical responses, then I see no point continuing this thread.
Just....what the fuck.
It's called empathy my dude. Put yourself in the shoes of an athlete who has maybe one chance in a lifetime to perform on a global stage what they've been training their whole life for. They're not harming anyone by competing, and their withdrawal from the event would accomplish absolutely nothing.