• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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        The nation with a three-century history of military action whenever we need a resource or our corporate overlords demand a better profit margin.

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      I don’t know, maybe because they’re athletes and not the cause of the conflict?

      What a monumentally stupid fucking comment.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
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      lol i find it hilarious that you get downvoted for pointing out the obvious; why are 2 nations at war are playing football for entertainment in the nation with which you are at war

      it’s fucking bizarro

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          I don’t want it here either. Don’t come to Meadowlands Stadium. It would send a clear message if the final game (and any others held there) has zero attendance and zero viewers.

          We’re already jammed on weekends. Don’t come to NJ. Don’t attend the games.

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          Until the US Congress declares a war, we’re committed to a limited armed intervention. They’re calling it a war. The Iranian authorities don’t consider it being policed or limitedly intervened. For them, it’s a war.

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            I agree with you, and you are technically correct which I guess is rubbing people the wrong way.

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            Yankee logic: thirteen thousand air strikes is not a war because of some legalist mumbo jumbo. How dare they call it a war! If they do, they shouldn’t play sports.

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              They shouldn’t play sports with in our nation since they’re at war with us. If they were only playing games in Canada or Mexico, that would be a different situation.

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                Didn’t you just claim that it is not a war? Fucking clown.

                Regardless, this isn’t how any of this works. Sports have always been detached from politics. If your country can’t comprehend that, then you’re not fit to host a major sporting event.

                • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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                  To the USA, it is not a war. To Iran, it is a war. We’re not at war with them but they’re at war with us. If Iran was hosting the World Cup, we might send people there even though they’re a rival nation. If they say it’s a war, why should they send their people to us?

                  And, you’re absolutely right. We shouldn’t have all these people flooding in, slamming our underfunded infrastructure, and causing a situation where ICE is likely to pull some BS.

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                    You’re not at war, eventhough you bombed Iran 13000 times and killed thousands of civilians. Just a little excursion as your Führer put it? And you’re one of the more intellectual and reasonable specimens of your nation, I take it?

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      5 days ago

      Sports should be above that. We had the Olympics in Nazi Germany.

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        Why are we banning Russia then? But seriously, are you good with a team representing a country that is commiting a genocide or an offensive illegal war even as they play a game?