Anyone in Russia who would be going to the Olympics would be a Putin Stooge. No way would they even consider someone who was not 100% on board with the regime to be selected as an athlete.

They shouldn’t be allowed to attend. Not even as spectators.

And I’m backing that up with this rifle that’s lent form the National Rifle Association.

Still not an opinion

These tennis players don’t even live in Russia. They live in like Monaco and West Palm Beach. It’s not their fault the country they were born in is a dictatorship.

I think you were supposed to say “the power of voodoo”

Yep, go ahead, do it, it will definitely make the end of Putinism so much closer

It will certainly not backfire and cause a rally around the flag effect among the populace strengthening his regime and prolonging the war, noooo

Why are Russian and Belorussian athletes aloud to compete in the first place?? Even under a neutral flag, they just straight up shouldn’t be aloud to compete.

The point here is that white South Africans had more agency over their government's actions than Russians.

I've got no issue with that, give me a shout when they start wearing pro aboriginal genocide flags at the tennis.

Oh, you’re not going to like it when you learn about Australian history (if we strip the citizenship of genocide supporters, there aren’t enough planes in the country to deport them all)

There is a very simple solution to this. Create a massive social media campaign aimed at the Olympic sponsors. Convince them to drop their support for the IOC. Watch how quickly they reverse their decision.

Another victim of echo chamber

Fuck em, strip them of citizenship like those ISIS fucks and send them to the front lines. Got no time for people who support genocide in this country.

While it’s nice to see a former Blue Jay enter the Hall of Fame, this is just further bothers me that Delgado isn’t in there.

As long as you pay me you can still compete under a weird different flag

Athletes work toward these goals for so much of their entire lives. I appreciate that there is a way for them to compete in a way that deprives their countries of the positive recognition or even just air time.

>It's not an opinion when it's warm crimes you imbecile

What happens when warm crimes go unsolved?

They become a cold case.

Srsly.

Where was this hateful energy towards opposing the 2003 Iraq war? Which was based on a total lie. Hehehe. Oh wait, I forgot, they were brown people.

#SillyMe

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Send them back to Russia if they love Putin so much. The are probably spies anyways.

I agree that that's probably a bit hasty, but that wasn't all they did.

Randomly assign them other flags to compete under. That way there is no “roc” tally on the medal tables.

It's not an opinion when it's warm crimes you imbecile

It's not an opinion you dumbass it's a fact that the whole world can watch