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Belarus sprinter looks to future after Tokyo Olympic ordeal

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By VANESSA GERA

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Great for them. Congratulations and all the best to their future.

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Don’t go jogging alone.

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Good for Tsimanouskaya, good for Poland. She chose freedom and democracy over totalitarian, tyrannical Belarus.

I look forward to seeing her compete for Poland in 2024!

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I'm curious as to why she keeps bringing up her grandmother.... Wouldn't even just mentioning her involvement put her in danger?

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s/coash/coach/ please

So, in Belarus, being against violence isn't allowed?

She said she had problems with sports officials after posting a message against violence on Instagram and was told she would face dismissal from the country's national team if she did it again.

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I hope she'll be careful living in neighboring Poland, maybe a little too close to "Minsk the Merciless" Lukashenko for comfort. But now that she has shown she can easily outrun him, let's hope she'll soon be able to outlive him.

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Good for her.

The much maligned on the internet Japanese police came through once again. It was pretty amazing how she was able to approach them and convey her fear using only a translation app on her phone.

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“I hope that a time will come soon when Belarus could be free and people will have freedom of speech,” Tsimanouskaya said.

Freedom of speech is a key freedom that many of the leftists are trying to take away by censorship and penalties for voicing opinions not inline with the left leaning governments. It is happening in the US, Hong Kong, and many other countries.

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CrashTestDummyToday

The notion that Free Speech is a key freedom that many on the left are trying to take away from us through censorship and punishment for expressing views that are not in line with left wing governments has been a classic argument of the left and right together for the last few years, just switch the political direction. In the case of arguments about the left, it tends to be the screaming right, indulging in Qanon and similar delusions. In the case of the left, it tends to be the classic argumentum ad hitlerum. As a rule, the right argues for the loss of freedoms that the left is trying to take away, while the left argues for the loss of freedoms that the right is trying to take away.

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At least she can run fast.

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Robert CikkiToday 

* **The notion that Free Speech is a key freedom that many on the left are trying to take away from us through censorship and punishment for expressing views that are not in line with left wing governments has been a classic argument of the left and right together for the last few years, just switch the political direction. In the case of arguments about the left, it tends to be the screaming right, indulging in Qanon and similar delusions. In the case of the left, it tends to be the classic argumentum ad hitlerum. As a rule, the right argues for the loss of freedoms that the left is trying to take away, while the left argues for the loss of freedoms that the right is trying to take away.*

The right is not censoring people or penalizing people for having different opinions, they are just adamantly debating against those views. The companies that hold all the power now in media and social media are very liberal leftist companies that have been censoring right leaning opinions. The US media and social media has blocked countless medical doctors on the frontlines of COVID from speaking their opinions about COVID. In HK and China, the CCP have arrested countless people for making critical remarks of the government. Regardless you think any opinions are delusional, they are still opinions and freedom of speech. There are countless liberal opinions that I think are delusional as well, so touche'.

Name one example of a right leaning company censoring, blocking, or cancel culture-ing a person for having a liberal opinion.

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