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.

      • Cethin
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        81 year ago

        Hold up, assigning traits to a government made up by people (a group of people) is weird, but assigning traits to a different group of people isn’t? I don’t really disagree, but you can’t agree with the comment above you and agree with your comment also.

        • s0ykaf [he/him]
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          71 year ago

          you can’t agree with the comment above you and agree with your comment also.

          of course i can; if i couldn’t, i wouldn’t, but i did it, which is proof that i can do it

          • Cethin
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            41 year ago

            You can’t while being a reasonable, logically consistent person. You can if you argue in bad faith, which I expect but usually people don’t take pride in that.

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          211 year ago

          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.

            • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]
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              131 year ago

              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
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                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 [he/him, they/them]
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                  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
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                    21 year ago

                    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.

        • prole
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          51 year ago

          And here I thought I left reddit…

    • Cethin
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      61 year 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.

    • Gustavo
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      Governments are made by humans so… I guess human traits carry over