• (des)mosthenes
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    10 days ago

    countries at war should be banned from participating

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        10 days ago

        Because in Greece there was truce during the games. It’s part of the rules.

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        9 days ago

        Funny you say that; most Russians cheat at everything, Politics, Video Games, Sports Matches by using Steroids… They would be instantly disqualified if there was a way to enforce that!

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      10 days ago

      What about genocides? Man you’d have no US, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, China, most of the middle eastern Islamic countries. Pretty empty Olympics, I’d be cool with that.

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        10 days ago

        How is Ukraine, in your mind, committing genocide?

        • Tolc
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          9 days ago

          they supported the blockade on cuba just yesterday at the UN