US Vice President JD Vance endured a chorus of “boos” as US athletes began their march at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, after Israeli athletes faced the same unwarm welcome.

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[–] [S] 219 points 9 months ago

Good. I hope he is made unwelcome everywhere he goes for the rest of his life.

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  • [–] 144 points 9 months ago

    This is what I like to hear.

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  • [–] 103 points 9 months ago

    Heartwarming

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  • [–] 92 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    "Stern warning".

    Booo! Oh wait, you're serious, let me boo even harder.

    BOOOOOOOOO!

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  • [–] 68 points 9 months ago

    Guess they kept people from bringing rotten fruit and vegetables in to throw at him.

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Did he even say "thank you"?

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  • [–] 51 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Who the fuck thinks a stern warning will prevent fans and visitors from booing evil scumbags. The IOC are out of touch, out of date and out of ideas

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  • [–] 49 points 9 months ago

    Feel good story of the day

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  • [–] 78 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Didn’t boo the athletes, just Vance. 

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The Israel athletes got booed hard. It felt good too hear

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I missed that because I was baking when they came out

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Why is israel allowed to play but not russia again?

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Russia was caught doping. It has nothing to do with politics.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "Are they saying 'Boo' or 'Booance?'"

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    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Trump's reaction. The "Oooo" face is funny. Trump fucking hates Vance. You can tell.

    https://youtu.be/-kSMQk0CQcs

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    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (2 children)

    If you've ever been booed, I'm not sure this take would feel great.

    I support making Vance feel unwelcome (and that was indeed the target, not team USA). I'm less enthused about the athletes being targeted. The optics of 'we shame all associated to things we dislike' is aspect conservative voters claim to fear/dislike from progressives.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    I'll have more sympathy if they publicly make statements condemning the genocide that their country is committing. Until then, sucks to suck. They are not the victims here.

    The optics of ‘we shame all associated to things we dislike’

    "Dislike" is way underselling this. I "dislike" pineapple on pizza. This is something rather different.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    Hans? Are we the baddies?

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    Just Dumb's oligarch convoy required 14 airplanes and 100 vehicles. WTF, how much did that shit cost?

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    [–] 29 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I watched some but not the entire thing. Did other countries leaders get shown while their athletes walked out our just Vance during the USA? None of what I watched showed other leaders. Maybe they weren't there? I don't know

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It depends on their recognition status I guess. They showed princess Anne I think when Great Britain entered. And a few others.

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    [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Boooooooooooooo!

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    OoOoooOoo. Stern warning.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    This genuinely makes me happy

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Every israeli athletes should be investigated to see if they served in the battlefield killing innocent palestinians

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Western countries are complicit.
    They might do it but then it's just to mislead the population.
    One case I know where they started the investigation after the scum had already left the country.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    We deserve it.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Lucky it was just "boo"

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    I mean, I think Russia has been banned for a while now.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They usually let them compete under the Olympic flag I believe

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Fuck fascists!

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Ya love to see it!

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  • As an Usian, keep it up...

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I watched a video. I couldn't hear them. I Just had to take the anouncer's word.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Yes, very good.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    That guy looks like he has black eye.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    epstein distraction conveniently at the time theres more news on that.

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  • AWESOME, but the attendees should not have attended. Would have made a bigger statement, tons, if not all, of seats empty.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Article's video literally just gets replaced with an ad.

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    👆 Swipe for next article

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That website is cancer without an ad block on mobile. Get a better mobile browser mate.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I have ublock origin? Is the filter in the annoyance lists? Maybe I didn't enable them.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I just installed Brave back in the day when it was one of the only mobile browsers with built in adblock. Still works fine and never have to fuck with lists. So I've just left it as default for external links. I don't do much article reading on mobile unless Lemmy links me somewhere so have never bothered to change. I'm sure there are better options though.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Brave tracks you, and then there's the whole crypto thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Yeah. I don't do anything on my phone that I don't assume is tracked. It's a good rule to live by. False sense of privacy in things like Signal or otherwise are just that. If you can visually see the text or images on your phone assume it's going to Palantir. If you have a burner phone. It's associated with you if you so much as bring it near your personal phone.

    Being paranoid and assuming everything digital is watched is the only real security you can have.

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