• @derf82
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    -109 months ago

    What return? WNBA fans are not exactly a huge group.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 months ago

      But you know who she is… I’d say it’s pretty self evident that it was fairly effective PR.

      Reality doesn’t matter, politics revolves around perception and fabricating the PR story you want.

      “President saves famous female athlete from tyrant” is always going to be a net plus. The people who don’t agree or perceive it in a different fashion are either votes you wouldn’t win anyways, or people who don’t care about it enough to vote for someone else because of it.

      • @derf82
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        -59 months ago

        Eh, I really don’t think many people are saying “I wasn’t going to vote for Biden, but he freed Brittney Griner.” And there are surely others who think Biden was wrong for trading an arms dealer for a WNBA “star.”

        • @Fades
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          09 months ago

          Removed by mod

          • @derf82
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            09 months ago

            The moronic move was trading the Merchant of Death for a WNBA player.

            Tell me, what was gained by the trade? How exactly was it worth the political capital? How is Griner worth it but Whaelen is not?