Biden administration expected to announce diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics this week

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  1. Pro_Line_FL

    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    By the sounds of it US athletes will be able to compete, but US government officials will boycott the game. I am glad they did not prevent the athletes from going at this late stage given the fact that they have prepared for the even for a long time.

    Biden administration expected to announce diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics this week
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/politics/biden-beijing-olympics-boycott/index.html
    The Biden administration is expected to announce this week that no US government officials will attend the 2022 Beijing Olympics, implementing a diplomatic boycott of the games, according to several sources.

    The move would allow the US to send a message on the world stage to China without preventing US athletes from competing. The National Security Council, which has been privately discussing the boycott, declined to comment.
    President Joe Biden told reporters last month that he was weighing a diplomatic boycott as Democratic and Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, advocated for one in protest of China's human rights abuses.
     
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    what message?

    Does anyone even care if taxpayer funded hacks go to the games?

    Boy that Biden admin sure is taking a strong stance here.
     
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    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, many like to see them represent the US and fly our flag in the world stage.
     
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    What about the BIDEN REGIME'S human rights abuses??
     
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    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Open a thread and discuss. I don't care for Soviet style whataboutism on every thread.
     
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    I'm saying the Biden Regime should be looking in the mirror before pointing the finger at China...
     
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    And what "human right's" abuses has Biden committed?
     
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    Would you support him if he made a policy that athletes couldn't compete?
     
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    absolutely. If they wish to cite human rights issues then be consistent. If we don't send taxpayer funded hacks, then don't send athletes either.

    Sorry athletes, this stuff happens. There is no contract that guarantees that you will go to the Olympics
     
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    I heard you the first time. Open a thread and discuss. I don't care for Soviet style whataboutism on every thread.
     
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    Isn't that what the athletes do? I mean other than running and jumping and stuff?
     
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    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, they do it every 4 years at the Olympics. Its a great honor to represent your country.

    Jimmy Carter boycotted (along with 60 other countries) the Soviet Olympics in 1980.
     
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    Coerced/forced medical procedures, for starters. Although, this crime against humanity is occurring across much of the world atm (especially in the Western World).
     
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    Yeah, basic health precautions are totally the same thing as genocide. The right to one's religion is the same thing as the right to infect people with a disease.
     
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    I don't care what you don't care about. My thought is relevant to the topic and I will post it here if I feel like posting it here.
     
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    ummm, your comment back to me was about the taxpayer funded hacks who would not be attending,. You stated that some like to see them there.......................who? Who in the audience cares if taxpayer funded hacks attend???????? Do you watch the olympics hoping to catch a glimpse of a hack or to see the athletes compete?
     
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    Coerced and forced medical procedures are not "basic health precautions".

    I cannot infect people with a disease that I do not have.

    Additionally, 'unvaccinated' and/or 'unmasked' does NOT equal 'diseased'.
     
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    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Whatever gets you through the night. Only mods can stop you from derailing threads, so be my guest.
     
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    No one is forced. If you don't want the vaccine, no one is going to hold you down. You can feel free to help keep spreading the disease and breeding new variants just so you can "own the libs."


    The vaccine and the masks help prevent the spread of the disease. But I can't convince you to care about the lives of health of others. You are free to not give a **** about anyone but yourself.

    But comparing workplace health measures to genocide is bat **** insane. There's a difference between OSHA and the Holocaust, for example.
     
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    Yes, watching US athletes compete at the world stage is quite popular. You can call them hacks or anything you want. Whatever gets you through the night.
     
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    umm, the guy for whom you voted only told taxpayer funded hacks that they could not go. The athletes are still allowed
     
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    You underestimate how seriously countries treat this ****.
     
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    uh huh

    do you tune in to see the hacks or the athletes?
     
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    ... yet. And attacking people's financial well-being (via access to jobs, healthcare, via fines, and etc), while not literally forcing a needle into them, is effectively (via intense coercion) forcing a needle into them.

    The Biden Regime is exhausting all coercive options first before resorting to literal force, as literal force would lend itself to extremely bad optics.

    I cannot spread a disease that I do not have. I cannot "breed new variants" of a disease that I do not have. The "variant" nonsense is all make believe anyway (as it is not possible to have a variant of a variant).

    People who are masked and/or vaccinated still can and still do contract and spread COVID. How can you logically claim that those people are not "spreading the disease" or "breeding new variants", yet completely healthy unmasked/unvaccinated people ARE somehow spreading them?

    You have officially thrown all logic and reason out the window on this issue, dude.

    No, they don't. The disease is still spreading all over regardless. See Gibraltar. See South Korea. See Italy. See France. See the UK. And that's just a few examples.

    I care enough about peoples lives and health to be honest with them about it and to present them with HELPFUL measures that they can take to improve it instead of HARMFUL ones to destroy it. Maybe it's YOU who doesn't care about the lives and health of others??

    Except they aren't health measures and this whole COVID tyranny has absolutely bum **** NOTHING to do with health... Rather, it is all about compliance. It is all about tyranny.

    IF it actually had anything to do with health, then why are companies with <100 employees exempt from mandates? Why do vaccinated people (who still contract and spread COVID all the same) get special benefits while unvaccinated people don't?

    The COVID fear mongering is all a con job to get people even further divided from each other (now by vaccination status) so that they war against each other instead of the political elite who are tyrannically oppressing and controlling them.
     
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    Ignoring my example doesn't make it go away, dude.

    Piss off.
     

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