This woman grew up privileged and is so desperate to appear to have hood (or barrio) credibility she says things that defy logic. Yes, they made this rule in order to keep black athletes from competing because of racism. Meanwhile Richardson will be replaced by another black woman. Meanwhile, Simone Biles has major sponsorship deals. America just doesn’t do racism that well I suppose.
The whole colonial thing is not only nonsensical but coming from AOC, a descendant of colonizers, it’s pathetic.
It’s also racist to say what AOC said, and she isn’t the only dummy to say it, as the implication is black athletes (implying blacks as a whole) are unable to follow rules unlike white people. Richardson admitted she knew the rules and that she broke them, and unlike the people trying to turn this into a race issue and further divide the nation, accepted the consequences.
I don’t wish to divide the nation of America. I don’t believe the issue had anything to do with race, to insinuate it does is retarded…
But I feel the need to point out sanctioning an athlete over a drug that doesn’t enhance performance and is legal in quite a few states/countries now is also retarded.
Change the guidelines or the federal regulatory standard. The USA will legalise soon anyway given how some 51% of the population appears to have tried it.
It’s an IOC, as in international, rule so whatever the US does, does not mean anything. These idiots like AOC don’t understand it has nothing to do with America because they have an American-centric view of the world. Marijuana is illegal in a bunch of nations on the IOC executive board. AOC is too dense to see how forcing our legal, social, and cultural standards on the rest of the world is acting like the imperial colonizers she hates so much. How about you not smoke pot if you know it will derail your career (especially when you might not have other options to make good money)? You can still fight to change the rule in the meantime if it means that much to you. But hey, why hold (black) people accountable for their actions when we can make this about white supremacy?
It should be noted, not by the woke race-baiters of course, that white athletes have faced suspensions as well for weed.
You can smoke pot as an athlete if you do so outside of competition.
Still, I do believe the international guideline ought to be changed, it’s a slow progression but I believe eventually (and nearly universally) cannabis will be treated akin to how tobacco products are treated.
Not encouraged or promoted, though use is legal and regulated.
I’m not qualified to understand things at the level you do by having spent so much time over there, but this situation has extremely eerie echoes of the Vietnam withdrawal with subsequent complete collapse. Equipment, advisors, and all…
I’m not educated on the Afghanistan debacle aside from the basics, but I’d like to know your take on it.
If troops are withdrawn, the Taliban takes back the country. The Taliban are an immensely oppressive extremist organisation relying on a barbaric interpretation of the Coran/Shariah law to enact their policies. Their ideologies are entrenched in jihadist fundamentalism
Why was getting troops into Afghanistan a bad idea? If you can keep the Taliban out surely the geopolitical benefits outweigh the detrimental impact that may occur if the Taliban gains a lot of land/power? I don’t know… That’s why I want your take on it, particularly as you’ve been “in the middle of it”.
Not barbaric, but literal. That’s the problem with comforting platitudes how “they don’t represent true Islam”. They do.
They’re doctrinally pure. It’s just that 7th century proscriptions about the handling of loot, slaves, beheadings and violence in general do not sit well with the Western world.
Seconded. I feel for the Afghan people as they’re about to go through (another) painful inflection point but this has been a 20-year goat rodeo with no positive outcomes of significance. Any calls to stay betray highly questionable motives IMO.
“Defund the police’ was a slogan that really backfired…”
No shit. Dumbest slogan possible.
Also loved this: “Mayor Jacob Frey has put forward his own proposal. He wants to reduce traffic stops, boost internal affairs, and give rank-and-file officers the power to intervene when they see professionalism slip among other officers…”
No shit again. While I have doubts that’s going to fix anything fundamental (especially how I think IA is viewed by other officers, but could be wrong) it’s at least a start on something that could potentially be helpful.
Ms. Bond is a fucking moron. The best part of the response was this quote though…
"dynamics only illustrate that police reform is about more than “hard, green dollars,” says Robbie Friedmann, a policing expert at Georgia State University. When a profession that is ostensibly built on service and honor is cast as immoral, the consequences can be severe.
“What the implications are is that officers are resigning, they’re retiring early, and new cadets are not coming in at the numbers police need them,” says Mr. Friedmann, who runs an international police officer exchange program. “When you erode the moral basis of police authority and police deterrent powers, that is a boomerang [that is] counterproductive to policing itself and detrimental to the society that we live in.”
“Her mission: Convince residents that, if core social and economic inequities were resolved, crime would abate and the city wouldn’t need a police department.”
The city wouldn’t need a police department? She isn’t a moron but mentally ill. Even communities with low crime still have police, why? Because there is a difference between low crime and no crime. Regardless, why don’t they resolve those inequities first, then revisit policing? Because that’s the hard part they have no solution for.
That, and no crime areas quickly become high crime areas when the crooks figure out there’s nobody patrolling and an abundance of soft targets and money.
. Feel sorry for them though.