• panthera_@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    You brought up a problem. There is no means of determining what actions disqualify a country. To make it simple, just let all countries participate in contests and keep politics out.

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      4 hours ago

      There is no means of determining what actions disqualify a country.

      That is blatantly false, it’s actually very easy to determine. For instance starting a war attacking another country unprovoked, could be a rule. Not committing genocide could be another rule.

      How do you arrive at the weird conclusion that such rules would be impossible to determine?

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      8 hours ago

      There are obviously means of determining which actions disqualify a country. We know that because the fucking Russians were fucking disqualified. There were criteria, they met them, and they got banned.

      That’s what a ban is. That’s how basic shit works, troll. JFC.

    • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 hours ago

      There’s no means of determining what actions disqualify a country?

      You really think Russia was banned from IOC participation for no clear reason and that it wasn’t explained at all? There are some very simple means you can employ to determine what actions disqualified them.

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        16 hours ago

        Then there would have to be a written list of disqualifying actions. Of course, this could differ depending on the contest. There are myriads of contests, beauty, music, movies, hotdog eating, chess etc. I would just make it simple and remove politics from all contests.

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          31 minutes ago

          Why? Why would there need to be a written list?

          You seem to think this is the law or something. FIFA can do whatever they want with their tournament.

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          15 hours ago

          Don’t pretend like you’d read such a list. You just said you had no way to figure out why a country would be banned from an international competition just one comment ago. If you couldn’t even think of reading an official explanation, we’re supposed to believe that a list that would be published in the same place would result in you being better informed?

          It’s pretty dead simple to ban a country from competition for being warmongering and genocidal. What would be complicated?

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            8 hours ago

            Proving it. Also, some countries have influence. Is there anyone investigating the US over attacking Venezuelan boats supposedly carrying drugs?

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              7 hours ago

              What does that have to do with you not knowing that when countries get banned from international competitions, it’s easy to find out exactly why, and that having such policies is pretty simple?