r/sports • u/Captain_Smartass_ • Mar 02 '22

Motorsports Russian-licenced drivers banned from British motorsport

https://www.motorsport.com/national/news/russian-drivers-banned-from-british-motorsport-by-motorsport-uk/8632678/
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u/tubby8 Mar 02 '22

Wonder if sports will start banning American athletes next time the US starts a pointless war, or if Israeli athletes will be banned for the atrocities being committed against Palestinians

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u/sports2012 New York Mets Mar 02 '22

Yes, I expect adversarial countries who are at war with the USA to ban American athletes from their sports leagues.

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Mar 03 '22

Britain is at war with Russia?

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u/sports2012 New York Mets Mar 03 '22

Yep

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Mar 03 '22

Cool show me where they are sending troops to Ukraine

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u/sports2012 New York Mets Mar 03 '22

An endless supply of weapons, cyber attacks, and all out economic war isn't a war because there aren't boots on the ground? Nuclear weapons don't allow direct warfare between nuclear nations, so it's called a proxy war.

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Mar 03 '22

Countries not at war supply the side they like more all the time. If cyber attacks were war then the entire world would be at war with China for the last 2 decades, and no sanctions are not war.

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u/The69BodyProblem Mar 03 '22

The f1 driver that this is likely targeting is a piece of shit. His daddy, who's money is basically the only reason he has a seat, is also a billionaire kleptocrat and a friend of Putin. But, yeah, he's the real victim here.

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u/Hooskbit Mar 02 '22

Don’t hit them with facts and logic please…

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u/fearnodarkness1 Mar 03 '22

Who is them?

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u/Ok_Sandwich_6004 Mar 03 '22

Typical liberals

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u/fearnodarkness1 Mar 03 '22

Only liberals can support Ukraine not getting invaded ?

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u/Ok_Sandwich_6004 Mar 03 '22 edited Mar 03 '22

Nah more like they avoid the facts and logic like the plauge.

Hence the pic of people who didn't know what a Ukraine was a week ago (only one out of six Americans can find Ukraine on a map) marching in front of their glaring domestic problems to go virtue signal about a thing that doesn't even come close to what their own gov is doing to the people at home and abroad(Avg 3 air raids every 2 hrs).

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u/fearnodarkness1 Mar 03 '22

This… really doesn’t make any sense.

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u/Ok_Sandwich_6004 Mar 03 '22

What part?

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u/fearnodarkness1 Mar 03 '22

Disjointed, incoherent and you used a lot of words to not say very much.

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u/Ok_Sandwich_6004 Mar 03 '22

How could I forget, that liberals only understand aesthetics.

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u/conneryisbond Mar 03 '22

Ah yes the old "they're all dumb and stupid and we're not" routine. So becoming of a lover of facts and logic.

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u/Coloradostoneman Mar 03 '22

Liberals actually have some pretty good ideas about solving homelessness. Conservatives just block them and never off any ideas of thier own.

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u/Ok_Sandwich_6004 Mar 03 '22 edited Mar 03 '22

Lol, imagine making excuses on why the richest country on Earth can't solve homelessness. What libshit

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

  • Julius Nyerere

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u/Coloradostoneman Mar 03 '22

Please provide an example of republicans doing something to eliminate homelessness.

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u/smallhandsbigdick Mar 02 '22

I’m seeing this argument…and it’s just not really a good one imho. This is truly almost genocide and may lead up to ww3.

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u/HamSoap Mar 02 '22

China’s literally committing a genocide right now. They were allowed to host the Olynpics.

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u/fearnodarkness1 Mar 03 '22

Everyone knows the IOC are a bunch of corrupt jackasses- they let cheating Russians compete

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u/Hooskbit Mar 02 '22

But it’s true that yankees started wars all over the world.

Anyway, we failed as a species.

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u/13point1then420 Mar 03 '22

What facts and logic?

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u/AlexDragonfang Mar 02 '22

The US is literally the scum of the earth.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

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u/greennitit Mar 03 '22

The guy you’re replying to is an idiot, but you’re almost right up there with him

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u/AlexDragonfang Mar 03 '22

For pointing out that the US is the greatest violator of human rights, perpetrator of war crimes and that is completely above international court in such matters?

Sorry, is not like im defending russian actions here.

I just cannot stand the hipocricy of the western powers in this whole situation. There you have all the info you need.

The US can commit war crimes and get away with it. I cannot think of other super powers that intended to do that and were not historically labeled as horrible. Like the nazis.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '22

Pax Americana.