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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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Oh wow, I did not know that.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months 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.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months 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.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

I'm going to vote for him in multiple states

[–] SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Some hexbear users really hate being decent when conversing.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You get what you give shrug-outta-hecks

[–] SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You get what you give

Same energy

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[–] SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

joker-gaming

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fuck off, don't be a dick.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know that's not true.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

Are you okay?

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stop. Just stop. Act normal.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

warf-wtf

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months 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.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] Staines@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] Staines@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

And here I thought I left reddit...