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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
@petealexharris@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross

You can't hold a world championship for anything in a country whose government policy arbitrarily excludes competitors from parts of the world. At least, you can't and expect people to take it and the prizes seriously.

Maybe sporting events are thought of in the USA like their "World" Series.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@cstross @GeofCox Man, fascists are racist now? What’s the world coming to?

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Ellipsis... 🇨🇦
Ellipsis... 🇨🇦
@tobiaspatton@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@aral @cstross @GeofCox What's next? Misogyny? I mean ... come on!

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@aral @GeofCox "It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!"

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ScottyC
ScottyC
@scotec65@cyberplace.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@cstross This is an example of American "meritocracy".

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Zonkerh
Zonkerh
@zonkerh@mindly.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@cstross There’s speculation that the U20 runners would be likely to try to defect and that is why they were the ones who were refused visas. But we really don’t know the actual reason behind this racist decision.

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@zonkerh Who the HELL would want to defect to Trump's America?!?

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D. Robinette
D. Robinette
@darren_robinette@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@cstross
I am a runner and live in Tallahassee. Ashamed this didn’t even make the local news. Internationals should just stop coming here for the next few years. I fear the World Cup is going to be a disaster. Not that FIFA is any high moral group.

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Toni Aittoniemi
Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@cstross MAGA playing fair like usual, huh? They can’t win if they can’t compete!

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elbci
elbci
@elbci@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@cstross

1. Stop calling 'racist' every single injustice - it's week and dilutes the meaning of the word "racism"

2. Stop this "uh oh Trump" BS, Guantanamo was not Trump, Indonesia 1965 was not Trump, nor was Gadaffi murder, nor was 1953 coup against Mosaddegh, nor was... Fighting the person leaves the system in place

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@elbci You're shouting at somebody else and @-ing me. Please desist and choose your targets more accurately.

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elbci
elbci
@elbci@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@cstross
Oh, I'm sory to have disturbed your results-agnostic 'resistance'.

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@elbci Oh fuck off, you American twatnugget.

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Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@pa27@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@cstross Disgraceful, if not a surprise. Also time to boycott the fifa peace prize world cup.

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Andrew J Spaulding
Andrew J Spaulding
@AJ_andrew69@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@cstross. I think every country should boycott going to the United States for anything.

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Gondor
Gondor
@grootinside@troet.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@cstross
I'd expect every sports team to cancel their participation of such "restricted" competitions.

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U.Lancier
U.Lancier
@Ulan_KA@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@cstross
„Championship of fascist and US-brown-nosing nations Cross-Country“

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Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
@sabrinaweb71@sociale.network replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@cstross now athletes from other countries should boycott the championship

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RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:
RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:
@rootwyrm@weird.autos replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@cstross what's even more embarrassing is that the original Nazis invited *everyone* to the Olympics, absolutely certain it would prove Aryan superiority.

And these Nazis are such chickenshit cowards about theirs, they won't let any non-whites compete. And how much you want to bet anyone who beats the 'Aryans' gets Gestapo'd or just shot?

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Sharon McCarthy
Sharon McCarthy
@ienvision@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@cstross Get international sport out of the US - It is too dangerous (and capricious)

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Donald Roy
Donald Roy
@djr2024@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross

By comparison #jesseowens was allowed to take part in the 1936 Berlin Olympics!

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François @Prague
François @Prague
@FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross Even Hitler let black athletes compete in Berlin in 36. That says a lot.

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Phosphenes
Phosphenes
@Phosphenes@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross

They're still upset over Jesse Owens

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Brad Macpherson
Brad Macpherson
@brad@1040ste.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross No venue change? Maybe some international organisations need to be boycotted or replaced.

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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
@petealexharris@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross

You can't hold a world championship for anything in a country whose government policy arbitrarily excludes competitors from parts of the world. At least, you can't and expect people to take it and the prizes seriously.

Maybe sporting events are thought of in the USA like their "World" Series.

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@petealexharris TBF, the Olympics and the XC Championships were allocated sites before Trump was elected. But this is the inevitable consequence of putting a Nazi-lover in the White House.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@cstross @petealexharris

Does anybody see how ridiculous this is of whitey excluding the best talent in the world so that they can win a prize saying they are the best in the world?

Because the rest of the world is and will go off and do what they do right along with the country run by incompetent white men chosen for their identity politics.

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