I don't know why people are happy she is being treated harshly. It's incredibly harsh any way you look at it. How that brings joy or how that makes you think you've won some argument is beyond me.

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No one is happy. I think MANY recognize she brought this on herself. That's if she isn't a Russian asset.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Maybe this is why
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2 ... is-season/

What about general apathy? I just don't care about it. Any of it.

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Yeah, I think that actually makes more sense. Honestly, when I hear anything about most celebrities, I kinda roll my eyes.

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Yep.

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at least she did something. i dont really consider top tier sports athletes as celebrities. they might have similar natural gifts, but i'll respect any sports athlete first before any movie actor or model.

this one really is about her stance against america. she hated it so much it diluted her views about the rest of the world. im all for criticizing our government, but if youre going to do that don't expect them to go out of their way to help you.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Life comes at you fast.

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And that brings you joy how?

At best, this is a mildly pleasing "I told you so."

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You know the answer to that. Bob is a miserable human being that takes pleasure in other peoples misery.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

I'll happily remind her when she is back on US soil.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

She picked a very unfortunate time to make this mistake.

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I wouldn't say it gives me joy..mildly amusing? I mean after she shit all over this country, what she wouldn't give to be back here.

Lotta pro-Russian sentiment up in here. грустный!

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Yeah when the alternative means being locked up in A Russian hellhole prison.

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She gets to bathe once a week and sleep with 100 women and sew uniforms for the police

She will get through this https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/11357563 ... pussy-riot

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

The whole back story about Russian billionaires creating a fake womens pro basketball league to launder money, and then having women's basketball players from around the world willfully travel there to participate is interesting.

Watched a few game highlights on YouTube, and there are maybe a few hundred fans at the games, guess they wanted to keep this a secret?

A coworker's niece played with Griner at Baylor. She makes big $ to play in Europe compared to WNBA, like $250k to $80 difference. She was last playing in Romania in 2019, we haven't talked about her lately, I'll ask this weekend.

Another garbage Julie-esque take on how it's actually America's fault:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sk ... -in-russia



Lost revenue? You need to have revenue before you can lose it.

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The article is indeed dumb but I think the dumbness goes beyond Julie. Idk why y'all obsessed with her

It betrays a shocking inability to grasp how market economies work. And salaries are different from revenue. It shouldn't have been published due to its inaccuracies.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Wait’ll she finds out why they make so much more in Russia and who’s paying them.

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It's a recurring theme for her. She seems to believe that particular people- usually women, often herself- "deserve" to be paid a particular amount for performing "work" that is clearly not valued enough by others to justify the payments she believes to be appropriate.

It would be like me complaining that I have had to endure the drudgery of cajoling people into purchasing products they don't want in order to eat when I should have been able to tour the world with Hazardous Youth and get paid like Mick Jagger and bang supermodels every night.

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i was going to make a mention of england's football pyramid to compare--that there are hundreds of players that make less than $40k a year to play professionally. they take second jobs as painters or construction workers, etc.

but even here in the US, professional softball players and la crosse players make roughly what a WNBA player makes. in some cases maybe even less. same as lower level MLS players. they find a way to make a living or at least don't bitch about it or have articles written about it.