Anonymous #3 5w

olympics viewing is not a hobby. it's a pastime at best

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Anonymous #2 5w

you can be happy while also feeling negatively about something. ik a lot of people don't have the emotional or intellectual range to hold that many (2) things in their heads at once but it's actually pretty common!

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Anonymous #4 4w

This isn’t holding two feelings in your head at once, this is you being hateful about the USA just because everyone is celebrating it. I can understand normal criticism of the country but taking the time to remind everyone about how bad the country is while everyone is celebrating our athletes beating a strong rival (Canada) is disingenuous “intellectual range” and is actually just being a hater. The guys skating don’t have anything to do with what’s going on, your anger is misguided.

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Anonymous #2 4w

the olympics has been and always will be a political tool - just like every international sports organization if people want to express that they don't feel happy about people celebrating the US right now that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do - is it not? those people can be angry at the government people are representing without "hating" the athletes, right?

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Anonymous #4 4w

celebrating American athletes winning gold isn’t enabling ICE to kill U.S. citizens

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Anonymous #3 4w

who said it was?

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Anonymous #4 4w

like genuinely what’s the issue with Americans celebrating American ice hockey victories? you people find a way to make everything a critique about power, sometimes we can just enjoy things?

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Anonymous #3 4w

so... are you just gonna dodge these questions?

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Anonymous #4 4w

idk why people being upset about people celebrating the U.S. is perfectly reasonable, I see it as being contrary for the sake of being contrary and quite literally nothing else of substance second question is true but it comes off as performative moral superiority when in reality some people just enjoy international sports as a hobby

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Anonymous #3 4w

"for the sake of being contrary" well i do think ppl are "contrary" to the admin/government. i also think the olympics are an international forum that attracts a lot of eyes. people want to be proud of the nation they celebrate. many aren't and think this is a petty distraction. seems like a reasonable and opportune time to express that. and you agree that people can do that without hating athletes. what's the issue?

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