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Iran bans weightlifter for life after he shakes Israeli’s hand on podium (www.aljazeera.com)
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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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[–] 195 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 82 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Assigning human traits to governments is so weird lol

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    politics for liberals are just a big reality show

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They are made by people in the end

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Oh wow, I did not know that.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm going to vote for him in multiple states

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd expect no less from a user of such a liberal instance.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hey now, only we are allowed to insult us

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    From one lib to another I thought that was high praise sorry

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Fuck off, don't be a dick.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You know that's not true.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

    Are you okay?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Stop. Just stop. Act normal.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    warf-wtf

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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.

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