• spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Chewed on the no politics at the Olympics comment for myself and I think where I landed was that the Olympics should be apolitical. I do think these countries should be punished for their actions, however, with the number and types of international destabilizing events increasing, I think this is a quick win for international cooperation. Something all humans can get behind. Doping obviously should be punished, but that’s an athletic issue.

      Obviously the precedent of excluding countries has been set, so there’d be vitriolic pushback, but I think it would be worth it to have one majorly public institution (read: in popular awareness) that doesn’t judge, it just lets athletes compete.

      Thoughts?

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      Many israelis are American nationalists and America provides israel the funds for their gear. There have even been pictures of American-israeli soldiers proudly wearing their American uniform in Gaza.

      There appears to be a lot of cognitive dissonance when it comes to US complicity in the Genocide.

      When it comes to any Houthi or Hezbollah topic invoking Iran is fine but the people funding israel can’t be named?