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Even if the Russians were staunch Putin supporters being used as political pawns, what better way to counter their propaganda than to kick their asses on the ice?
We beat them in the cold war and its one of the best moments in hockey history. If they had been banned from the Olympics we'd never have gotten that victory over the Soviet machine.

Things like that help the public perception.
 
I think I'm off this board. Not really because of individual users, but because trying to keep up a strained sense of bonhomie and business-as-usual is getting exhausting and a bit depressing, and I suspect will get moreso in the coming months and years.

So thank you for all the laughs, and thanks to @Tryamw in particular for all the likes.
I am sorry for the ways I may have contributed. Could we make a community pact to avoid talking about any politics?. I’m really sad you don’t feel this is a welcoming place.
 
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I think I'm off this board. Not really because of individual users, but because trying to keep up a strained sense of bonhomie and business-as-usual is getting exhausting and a bit depressing, and I suspect will get moreso in the coming months and years.

So thank you for all the laughs, and thanks to @Tryamw in particular for all the likes.
I would be sad to see you leave but I understand one must do what is best for their own mental health.

If you are indeed leaving and you have nothing to lose maybe you could elucidate us as to the exact reason(s)?
 
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I think I'm off this board. Not really because of individual users, but because trying to keep up a strained sense of bonhomie and business-as-usual is getting exhausting and a bit depressing, and I suspect will get moreso in the coming months and years.

So thank you for all the laughs, and thanks to @Tryamw in particular for all the likes.

I am sorry for the ways I may have contributed. Could we make a community pact to avoid talking about any politics?. I’m really sad you don’t feel this is a welcoming place.

I could be wrong, but I don't think he wants to not talk about it and pretend life is normal when some things are definitely not normal and hard to pretend otherwise.
 


Damn paladin.
That word? WHEN TALKING ABOUT SLAVIN?
I can relate to this because all my characters, including BG3 are of a chaotic neutral nature
So you are not truly roleplaying then.
Yeah, I couldn't get past character creation when I had to choose my penis or vulva
I mean, I am stuck in puberty in this. I always end up making a Dark/Night Elf Rogue/Hunter.
I am never the voice of reason. I am the voice of malicious compliance, anti authoritarianism, and helping people that aren't annoying.

Remember scratch? Remember the scene where you get to that shitty suburb of BG and that woman who was his master was clearly abusing him? Borsig the rogue nuked her ass, then stuffed her entire body in Leazel's pack, then we rolled her corpse into the gorge before the bridge to rot. Don't be mean to dogs. I then went and threw the coins that I looted off her, was like 6 or something, at the whiney refugee beggars by the town entrance, and watched a fight break out while eating a turkey leg.

Also, I slaughtered the mouthy guard at the entrance to the main city. Don't talk shit. Guess I will in fact NOT be picking up that can, innit? I think after that I helped some lost kid find his mom and refused the reward.
Yeah, you are just being yourself :D. (No hate)
I'd like this post if I could.
You have been a bad boy again?
what a game.

If this is the new thing it nukes the all stars. Loving this,

Next year don't exclude some of the best players. Please add Russia and ROW teams. ROW with Danish, Czech, German, Swiss, Latvian, Slovak, etc would compete as well.
Yeah, I am not doing rest of the world. Bring back Czechoslovakia? Fine. Bring back Austria-Hungary with Orbán out of power? Fine. But not this.

We still have some national pride goddammit.
Haiti version or Africa version?


It’s not legit best on best without Russia though, period.
And Russian state uses sports as propaganda, so it can legitimately drink diarrhea.
It means he wants to punish russian hockey players becuause of what's essentially a slavic civil war.

Hopefully it will be over soon since the firehoseof money and equipment is being turned off. Also UA troops are defecting in droves. Not good. It's not sustianable and needs to end.
It’s kinda ironic that so many centuries later they unmade the concept of a civil war the same way HYW gave French their national identity.

Slavs are anything but united anyway.

It’s just Russians love eroding the culture of others. Hell know how far they got with Belarus…

Couple of hurt feelings from Russian players. My eyes are dry. I want to see this much whining from all the “keep politics out of sports” crowd once Switzerland isn’t allowed its own team just because many of their best players play at home.
I never understood why anyone thinks what Putin is doing has anything to do with Svech, Kooch, Vasi, Kucherov, etc.

Agree let them play. The ban is obviously not hurting Putin or his invasion. Also is there anything him or the Russian war machine gains out of it?
I bear no will against you for your opinion, but y’all fail to understand how Russian brass thinks.
Even if the Russians were staunch Putin supporters being used as political pawns, what better way to counter their propaganda than to kick their asses on the ice?
That’s … a good selling point.

That being said, we didn’t play Germany at the 1940 politics either.
Why? BECAUSE THEY OCCUPIED OUT COUNTRY.
I think I'm off this board. Not really because of individual users, but because trying to keep up a strained sense of bonhomie and business-as-usual is getting exhausting and a bit depressing, and I suspect will get moreso in the coming months and years.

So thank you for all the laughs, and thanks to @Tryamw in particular for all the likes.
Completely understandable, we should have a sole thread for politics (this one?) to keep it out of other conversations.
 
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I could be wrong, but I don't think he wants to not talk about it and pretend life is normal when some things are definitely not normal and hard to pretend otherwise.
My wife’s country is going to shit. Like they are absolutely backpedaling to the 90s level of corruption and oligarchy.

My country may go to shit next election, because we might re-elect our Temu version of Berlusconi. That fu^ker keeps appealing to the need of cancelling Green Deal. Who do you think signed it….
There is no ideology. It’s not a party. It’s a company.

I am not gonna comment on YOU of A. Y’all live there. And if there is a thing I hate, it’s being told how I should feel. So I should do what I preach.
 
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We beat them in the cold war and its one of the best moments in hockey history. If they had been banned from the Olympics we'd never have gotten that victory over the Soviet machine.
The problem here is that this time it's a hot war that was started by Russia's invasion.
 
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