Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has stated that Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be welcome at the Olympic Games to be held in the French capital this year.
About time.
Goddamn rights
First time I’ve seen a Lemmy.ml user say anything negative about Russia.
I joined at the first sign of the reddit exodus. And .ml was the largest instance at the time, figured I’d get more content by joining here. I’ve got a .ca account too. I’m not a Marxist-Leninist, nor am I a Tanky, more of a Anarcho-Syndicalist. Just because I don’t agree with western governance in my country of birth (Canada) or my country of residence (UK) and also think that the US is quickly becoming the 4th Reich, doesn’t mean I can’t see that China and Russia are by no means a communist/socialist paradise, and actually probably worse than the States for the majority of their people.
TLDR: Fuck Putin, fuck Xi Jinping, fuck Trump, the Fascist cunts, string em up.
Tbf, Russia and China seem very much capitalist economies, but I’m not an economist, so there’s that. But an authoritarian is an authoritarian, regardless of where on the spectrum they fall.
Oh they are definitely capitalist economies, China pretends to be communist, but definitely is not. Thing is that Tankies typically defend Russia and China as great countries unfairly maligned by the west. I’m not a Tanky. I have no issue with the Chinese or Russian people, but their governments are fucked, and anyone who cucks for them is deluding themselves.
Russian athletes can attend the Olympic Games in Paris, which will run from 26 July to 11 August, but only on a neutral basis.
Why do they keep allowing them to compete at all? This doesn’t sound any different than the previous couple of Olympics.
Well, yeah. It’s the least she can do. Russians marched into Paris once, that’s enough.
This is sad, imo. My country makes a lot of noise about how certain governments prevent individual citizens from interacting with us in various ways, punishing individuals; but then we exclude a lot of our own individuals from visiting say, Cuba.
