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[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fucking cry. Maybe don't invade your neighbors you fucking cunts.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't you dare insulting their traditions, you monster! 😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some how I automatically read this in Greta Thungerg's voice.

How dare you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Haha, I heard her while writing. But I'm not sure she'd be behind the statement.

[–] Lionheadbud 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Should Israel be allowed to compete?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No, I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“I thought the Olympic Games were about sport. No longer,” Russian MP Mariya Butina tells me.

“It’s about politics, religion, everything. It’s very sad because the original idea of the Olympics was to create peace.”

“But Russia has invaded Ukraine,” I point out. “That’s not ‘peace’, is it?”

“Russia has been protecting its people,” Ms Butina responds, echoing the official line here that Russia’s war in Ukraine is all about self-defence.

In reality, the Kremlin’s "special military operation" amounts to the invasion of a sovereign independent nation.

Good to see the media not 'both siding' for once.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Shrug. Probably? It's not like I've heard of her before today.

[–] Visstix 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have they tried not cheating?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're not banned for cheating (this time). They're banned for invading Ukraine.

[–] Visstix 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh.. that seems... Difficult to manage who is allowed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we Brits are grandfathered in on account of not aggressively invading anyone’s country (on our own) for at least 60 years by now. Possibly.

[–] Lionheadbud 1 points 2 months ago

We invaded Jerusalem in 1917 on behalf of lord Rothschild and continue to protect his colony

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Huh, didn’t even notice Russia wasn’t there. Been a fun Olympics though.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Rheinmetall intensifies

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 8 points 2 months ago

Stay mad motherfucker

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And everyone even here on Lemmy is eating negative news like freshly baked croissants.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You're kidding, I don't ever recall seeing the ruzzians at the games before.

This must be a fun little mass hallucination from the great country of ruzzia. We never let shitheels play with us 🤷