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[–] 72 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Aren't countries that are invading other countries banned from the Olympics? That's the flimsy reason why Russia isn't allowed this time.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    the-podcast did an episode recently, not only about invading during the Olympics (the Olympic Truce) [where the US never faced any pushback over 10 Olympics games throughout the wars in West Asia] but also about destroying or occupying sports facilities in invaded areas

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    This was quite educational. Basically, the IOC's official stance is:

    geordi-no "You started governing the regions you control? That's interfering with athletes in the region! BANNED!"

    geordi-yes "You started genociding the regions you control? Well, as long as you aren't governing, that's fine by us!"

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Did they get banned banned or are they still doing the thing where the athletes still compete but with generic uniforms and no Russian flag/anthem they did after the Sochi doping scandal?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    This time they didn't even let Russians or Belorussians be part of the opening ceremony. They had a refugee team, but not a general one for people who couldn't be part of a different nation.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The ghouls in charge would probably just shrug and say Gaza isn’t a country. Rules are just made up to justify libs doing what they were already determined to do.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago*

    Because that would be political to allow Russia in, but also it would be political to ban the entity from the games too. So in an effort to be as unpolitical as possible we banned some countries for some invasions and kept some countries for some invasions.

    The Olympics and FIFA are totally apolitical organizations btw.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was under the impression that the reason they were banned was because of all the doping, and only tangentially related to the war. I haven't read that much about it though.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is clearly not a real image lol

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Bad foreshadow of America's future.

    Oh no, a buncha progeny of the failsons are now going to rule the U.S's intellectual departments,

    What am I to do?

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago

    Credulous rubes think there are 58 people on the team?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Others have pointed it out, but wtf is going on with the exclamation point, if it isn't edited did they choose the smallest tiny women on the team lmfao

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    This is a photoshopped image. They even hadvto fake this nonsense lmao.

    A few of the people even appear a few times in the exact same poses.

    The entire bottom row appears to be copy+pastes from the others. Going through "NOW!":

    • The N is the same as the one in "BRING".

    • The O is the same as the one in "HOME" rotated 180°.

    • The W is weird and I'm guessing stitched together from individuals manually

    • The exclamation point is the top part of the "T" from "THEM" rotated 90° and I don't care enough to find the dot

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    There are also 58 individuals depicted here. The US swim team is 10 whole people and people will look at this and say "yep, I'm sure the entity's swim team is 58 women, that checks out".

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    I'm teaching ants to arrange themselves into letters that spell "maybe blowing up the place where your hostages are held is not the most productive solution and actually probably killing them" but the ants keep getting distracted

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    plot twist: Katherine has COVID

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    Wild how they aren't trying to murder the netenyahoo regime for not accepting the peace deal offered by the unified Palestinian liberation front and China.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Wow GOBBLESS AMEN

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    Bibi doesn't want them home. He wants to genocide Palestine and steal their land and prolong this so he skips court in his own country to push off massive corruption charges.

    I think every "Bring them home" hasbara should be met with Hannibal Directve and Greater Israel. Get those two terms in the public's mind as to isntrael's real motives.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago
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    Bad foreshadow of America's future.

    Nah, they're genocide NIMBYs.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    They should @ the IDF and ask them to stop killing hostages

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I could've sworn Hamas had released the rest of the hostages months ago. Am I misremembering?

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