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[–] 8 points 4 months ago* (17 children)

International sports events are INTERNATIONAL, if you play so far outside the rules as Israel is doing, you don't deserve to participate in international events as a country.
Of course by that standard we shouldn't have participation from Russia and USA either.

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  • [+] -15 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    You brought up a problem. There is no means of determining what actions disqualify a country. To make it simple, just let all countries participate in contests and keep politics out.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    There's no means of determining what actions disqualify a country?

    You really think Russia was banned from IOC participation for no clear reason and that it wasn't explained at all? There are some very simple means you can employ to determine what actions disqualified them.

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  • [+] -9 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Then there would have to be a written list of disqualifying actions. Of course, this could differ depending on the contest. There are myriads of contests, beauty, music, movies, hotdog eating, chess etc. I would just make it simple and remove politics from all contests.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Don't pretend like you'd read such a list. You just said you had no way to figure out why a country would be banned from an international competition just one comment ago. If you couldn't even think of reading an official explanation, we're supposed to believe that a list that would be published in the same place would result in you being better informed?

    It's pretty dead simple to ban a country from competition for being warmongering and genocidal. What would be complicated?

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Proving it. Also, some countries have influence. Is there anyone investigating the US over attacking Venezuelan boats supposedly carrying drugs?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (5 children)

    What does that have to do with you not knowing that when countries get banned from international competitions, it's easy to find out exactly why, and that having such policies is pretty simple?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Remember the US attacked a Venezuelan boat, and some survived but was attacked again. Would use consider this an action that should result in a ban?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Oh so suddenly you found the means of determining what actions disqualify a country now?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Well, if that is a disqualifying act, why wasn't he US barred from participating in the World Cup?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There is no means of determining what actions disqualify a country.

    That is blatantly false, it's actually very easy to determine. For instance starting a war attacking another country unprovoked, could be a rule. Not committing genocide could be another rule.

    How do you arrive at the weird conclusion that such rules would be impossible to determine?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    There are obviously means of determining which actions disqualify a country. We know that because the fucking Russians were fucking disqualified. There were criteria, they met them, and they got banned.

    That's what a ban is. That's how basic shit works, troll. JFC.

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