He has his own version of Fox Gnus telling the people what he wants them to hear. Propaganda works. I have seen man in the street interviews in Moscow and the older people believe Putin is doing right. Many younger people are against it. Many more say they will not say anything due to the penalties, up to 15 years in jail.
The article's cloaked criticism that "it's hard to treat (the ban on Russian runners) as a particularly noble stance" isn't the point. The ban isn't intended to be noble. It's intended to add to the remarkable and unprecedented unity of the West that has developed almost overnight and continues to build in disgust over the Russian obscenity in Ukraine. I don't know what "worse atrocities" the writer might have in mind but if there are any they aren't the point either. And it doesn't matter that earlier bans in response to one national outrage or another didn't lead to improved behavior. What matters is now and whatever happens from here.
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
Americans of Japanese ancestry were interned, not just Japanese. If it were just Japanese, it would have been OK. Enemy foreign nations are interned all the time.
It was so bad that Japanese Americans were taken out of orphanages to be interned. Some of these kids had never seen another person of Japanese ancestry before they were interned. To justify this, you would have to believe there was something in Japanese DNA that would force them to be loyal an enemy nation.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
trump is a child rapist. We all know it.
Phantasmal (04-08-2022)
It was a world war, we won...case closed.
Tell the Japanese not to sneak attack Americans and we will leave them alone.
Last edited by McRocket; 04-08-2022 at 11:17 PM.
And where is the West's 'remarkable and unprecedented' criticism of the 85,000 children killed/starved to death in Yemen - largely due to the bombing/actions by Saudi Arabia, backed by America and GB?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_...ntion_in_Yemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni...0%93present%29
Sounds more to me like virtue signaling.
^Lying retard
"Polls show that Putin enjoys greater support among youth than among the public at large."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-biggest-fans/
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
If those athletes don't support the invasion, why ban them?
McRocket (04-08-2022)
So where are the sanctions to stop the Saudi's from bombing/destroying Yemen?
And the US and GB from supporting them?
Where over 85,000 children have died?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_...ntion_in_Yemen
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1100782
AProudLefty (04-08-2022)
I would support aid for Yemen, I have never supported our involvement, if you remember, Donald Trump help drone the area. I was very much against that and was happy when Congress took action, Trump vetoed it and finally, Biden is the one to pull back.
There are currently efforts to end the war.
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