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Good. I hope he is made unwelcome everywhere he goes for the rest of his life.
This is what I like to hear.
Heartwarming
"Stern warning".
Booo! Oh wait, you're serious, let me boo even harder.
BOOOOOOOOO!
“Why won’t the stern warning stop the booing? It will surely stop the fascists.”
Perhaps they should try a strongly worded letter next time? I hear that does wonders.
If greet we must, then this is how we must greet Nazis and Zionists.
It doesn't make up for genocide and attacking immigrants, but at least the war criminals' loss of narrative is out in the open.
Guess they kept people from bringing rotten fruit and vegetables in to throw at him.
Did he even say "thank you"?
Feel good story of the day
It should've been louder
"Stern warning" hahaha
The the international Olympics committee is an absolute joke. They claim they don't want to be political and that's why Israel is allowed to compete and expect not to get backlash.
They have to be taking bribes, that's the only reason they would be making these otherwise insane decisions.
Every israeli athletes should be investigated to see if they served in the battlefield killing innocent palestinians
Didn’t boo the athletes, just Vance.
Why is israel allowed to play but not russia again?
Because Israel and USA are buddies
Going to watch the opening ceremony when I get home. I'm glad that it sounds like the boos were directed at JD Vance instead of the athletes. Fuck that guy. I don't know what he expected to happen. That would suck to be training to be a top-tier athlete and your country does something shitty and you get boo'd for it.
I’m watching it on delay right now, and they just came in. The athletes got a great cheer, but that quickly switched to boos when they showed him. It was perfectly done.
Its quite cold out right now, but those boos just warmed me right up. I'm surprised he didnt try to have Usha stay home so he could take Erikkka though. Maybe listen to some Coldplay.
Just Dumb's oligarch convoy required 14 airplanes and 100 vehicles. WTF, how much did that shit cost?
Hans? Are we the baddies?
Boooooooooooooo!
It's not like we can actually do anything about them. Booing at least makes us feel good for a brief moment.
People are allowed to vent, and it is healthy to do so.
This genuinely makes me happy
OoOoooOoo. Stern warning.
As an Usian, keep it up...
Lucky it was just "boo"
We deserve it.
So? They are still allowed to participate.
And none of the EU or other vassal states will do anything against them, despite what the population wants or thinks.
I think they should treat US athletes like the did clean Russian athletes.
Allow them to compete, but not as representatives of the US.
wait only the two?
I mean, I think Russia has been banned for a while now.
I actually had not realized that. fine to me if the ban hammer swings this way to but maybe let the athletes compete for other countries.
They weren't banned for the Ukraine thing, but for doping. There are Russian athletes that compete under ROC in Olympics now.
Edit-well, looks like I was wrong. The ban was rescinded in '22, than there were banned again for the Ukraine invasion. And now some athletes compete under AIN, Athletes from Individual Neutral Athletes
Ya love to see it!
Fuck fascists!
Yes, very good.
