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Iran has banned a weightlifter from sports for life and dissolved a sports committee after the athlete greeted an Israeli counterpart on a podium.

Mostafa Rajaei, a veteran weightlifter, finished second in his category in the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships in Poland and stood on a podium with an Iranian flag wrapped around him on Saturday.

On anther step of the podium stood Maksim Svirsky from Israel, who finished third.

The two athletes shook hands and took a picture together, which led to the Iran Weightlifting Federation banning Rajaei from all sports for life due to what it called an “unforgivable” transgression.

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[–] [email protected] 196 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You’ve gotta be pretty insecure to have a complete breakdown over a minor issue. Really makes Irans government appear weak.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Assigning human traits to governments is so weird lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are made by people in the end

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, yeah it's obvious, but when people say that X company or country looks weak/happy/pissed, they are refering to the board of directors or congress that are taking the decisions, naming the country instead of the whole sentence is easier.

You can still find it weird ofc, I was just trying to explain why people do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please teach me more of your liberal ways, I'm really starting to understand how the world works now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't get the need of being so passive aggresive with someone trying to hold a conversation. Have a nice day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you were actually interested in a conversation you would have answered my other replies to you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am answering them, although those are in a different thread of comments. I have literally 5 comments from your user in my inbox and all of them have been answered.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are the links to hexbear users saying they are going to vote for Trump?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sent in the other comment, I couldn't bother because I had to search for them again, but since you insist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I'm going to vote for him in multiple states

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some hexbear users really hate being decent when conversing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You get what you give shrug-outta-hecks

Same energy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you think being treated with derision on a niche webforum made by Marxists is equivalent to being killed on live television, then yeah sure. If that's the case though you should logout

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was like a 2/10 on the “being a dick” scale

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, its pretty true. It was very mild sarcasm lol

Are you okay?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not gonna explain how immediate hostility followed by sarcastic bullshit in response to totally normal behavior is dickish. Just be normal guys.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the problem people have with Hexbear specifically. You can almost never have a normal conversation with them. The other day someone (who happened to be from hexbear, but I didn't realize it at the time of posting) posted an article and said it said something totally different than the actual contents. I pointed out that they were wrong, and they then went through my entire comment history to pick things out and misrepresented them to make themselves feel better I guess. It was weird, but it's similar to at least half of my interactions with hexbear users.

Thank you for calling them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's the second person from hexbear that you didn't realise at the time of posting. You're going to have to get better at spotting us if we're so awful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I generally don't care what instance people are from. I notice hexbear after the fact often because of how bad (aka, not logical) their arguments tend to be. They're usually fallacious at best if they even defend a position, but often they just go on offense on something random because their original position was indefensible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're likely getting that response because Hexbear has developed it's own culture of having earnest conversations that are intended to enrich and inform the users taking part in the discussion.

The derisive, dismissive responses are a reaction to someone breaking that etiquette by grandstanding, accusing people of logical fallacies, or resorting to insults: these are things that indicate that the person isn't sincerely interested in trying to understand the person they are speaking to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And here I thought I left reddit...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

politics for liberals are just a big reality show

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hold up, assigning traits to a government made up by people (a group of people) is weird, but assigning traits to a different group of people isn't? I don't really disagree, but you can't agree with the comment above you and agree with your comment also.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can't agree with the comment above you and agree with your comment also.

of course i can; if i couldn't, i wouldn't, but i did it, which is proof that i can do it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can't while being a reasonable, logically consistent person. You can if you argue in bad faith, which I expect but usually people don't take pride in that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They're not comprised of robots. Apply synecdoche.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well governments are made of people...

If you're assigning human traits to the building the government is in, sure it's stupid. Recognizing the traits of the people representing the state is pretty normal though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If they act like children...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Governments are made by humans so… I guess human traits carry over

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, all this does is broadcast weakness. It’s a pathetic reaction.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Islamists are fragile nut cases

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Soft as puppy shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Where have you been?