So if it wasn't completely obvious back then, the Olympic boxing scandal was basically a kremlin op. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/... - ThreadSky

katelynburns.com • 144 days ago

So if it wasn't completely obvious back then, the Olympic boxing scandal was basically a kremlin op.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/17/russia-paris-olympics-boxing-gender/

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frangsbo.bsky.social•144 days ago

It *was* obvious. But thanks for additional confirmation.

bouldergone.bsky.social•144 days ago

GOD DAMMIT OF COURSE

emilyatlast.bsky.social•144 days ago

The bigots will never admit that they were played.

hi-lucy.bsky.social•144 days ago

Played? Most of them miss their favourite programs from Russia Today.

kbkorb.bsky.social•144 days ago

I'm curious whether Rowling is a dupe or complicit.

tinklepit.bsky.social•143 days ago

Dupe, but complicit.

boleteful.bsky.social•144 days ago

Basically both, Putin has praise her.

gammera2k.bsky.social•144 days ago

I think a lot of the people involved are just easily duped. Why pay people when they'll do it for free, you know?

phill.hallambaker.com•144 days ago

I noticed something weird happening in Edinburgh for a while before JKR turned. Several lesbian friends there suddenly spouting TERF nonsense.

Looks to me that after Kremlin shill Alex Salmond was booted from SNP, they used anti-Trans to build his new party Alba.

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kbkorb.bsky.social•144 days ago

Interesting. Was there a specific turn JKR took? Is there any evidence of that?

hi-lucy.bsky.social•144 days ago

phill.hallambaker.com•144 days ago

Alba is not a large party but it has many of the people who meet the Kremlin Influence Agent profile - sex abusing men spewing Kremlin talking points for no obvious reason.

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phill.hallambaker.com•144 days ago

Looked to me like there were individuals in SNP deliberately doing nonsense stuff to give the Alba fascists something to complain about. A pretend feud to boost the profiles of both sets of Kremlin agents.

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kaiabell.bsky.social•144 days ago

My guess is that it was just catnip to her. Transphobes seem to seize on any narrative that allows them to imagine their transphobia (and misogyny) as a noble quality in a heroic fight against an imaginary enemy.

hi-lucy.bsky.social•144 days ago

Why would you even be remotely unsure, she is unhinged and will go on a transphobic rant at a mirror if it looked at her the wrong way.

kbkorb.bsky.social•144 days ago

That doesn't reveal whether she's also complicit in helping Putin.

thaxter.bsky.social•144 days ago

I think op runners know well enough to let useful idiots run on their own steam.

espressoandcats.bsky.social•144 days ago

Most intelligence assets don’t know they’re assets.

reverendjesus.com•144 days ago

That's why it would be easy to goad her into it without sympathy toward Russia's goals.

kbkorb.bsky.social•144 days ago

Yes.

thefilmcanary.bsky.social•143 days ago

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•144 days ago

No difference at that level. Complicit

kbkorb.bsky.social•144 days ago

Morally, definitely. She's aware of Putin's motives and in that sense going along with them.

kbkorb.bsky.social•144 days ago

But then I've known for some time Rowling is immoral.

skywitches.net•144 days ago

She’s an adult with access to every view and expert, and she made her choices, doubling down every time on hatred.

kbkorb.bsky.social•144 days ago

Agree. I'm interested in active complicity.

Putin's anti-democracy campaign has been very successful and has pulled in many. Is she one?

sydney-bauer.com•144 days ago

God every writer on earth (I’ve done this) loves bringing up Santo Domingo 2006 lmao

anxioudacity.bsky.social•144 days ago

Shocked, shocked. Well not that shocked, etc

tackmanbabcock.bsky.social•144 days ago

kompromat on McLaren plain as hell

joppu.bsky.social•143 days ago

📌

supermathskid.bsky.social•143 days ago

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! Well not that shocked

derrelldurrett.bsky.social•144 days ago

Honestly, I figured at the time that they were folks who were just honestly freaked out about trans folks. Which, OK, own that! Learn to deal!

Learning they're Russian operatives is just a depressing commentary on our compatriots' patriotism and intelligence.

kduffy.bsky.social•144 days ago

I hope she becomes a billionaire from the defamation lawsuits

tathompson.bsky.social•144 days ago

Carini getting $100K for quitting her bout with Khelif and acting hurt certainly suggests that she was in on the plan. I wish the article had been able to prove that. With a 3-2 prior record she was as undeserving an Olympian as Raygun.

justleanin.bsky.social•144 days ago

She was hurt because she promised her father she would win before he died lmao she wasn't in pain, she believed she disappointed her parent from beyond the grave and the media manipulated it

tathompson.bsky.social•144 days ago

She wasn't in pain? She said Khelif hit her like she'd never been hit before. She'd never imagined being hit like that! How did that not cause her pain?

seandacey.bsky.social•144 days ago

She got hit like that because she didn’t protect her face.

justleanin.bsky.social•144 days ago

Okay you just said she was acting hurt. Do you think she was hurt or not

gammera2k.bsky.social•144 days ago

It probably didn't feel good, but it the punch didn't appear to even make her lose her balance.

justleanin.bsky.social•144 days ago

Exactly. She was overconfident, tried to (sorry I'm a gamer not, not a wrestling fan) tank the fight. Realized "oh no, I need to be better defensively to take this win" and forfeited before the fight she told her father about gave her unrecoverable damage. But she was still miserable about losing

rainsurname.bsky.social•144 days ago

She had done something like this before, getting hit hard in the face, falling down in a remarkably controlled-looking manner that did not turn her ankle in any way, then clutching the ankle & saying she was injured.

gammera2k.bsky.social•144 days ago

The headgear prolly helps, but i've seen women's boxing matches that ended in a KO in half the time. .

pyrholidon.bsky.social•144 days ago

It is literally a combat sport. You will be hurt.

phill.hallambaker.com•144 days ago

Carini refused the Russian cash.

takethepith.bsky.social•144 days ago

I was thinking the same thing. Nobody at the elite level of boxing is going to voluntarily quit a fight because they got hurt by a punch. It's preposterous.

majeff.bsky.social•144 days ago

And the opening ceremony nonsense.

phantompharaoh777.bsky.social•144 days ago

That was obvious

maledicta.bsky.social•144 days ago

To recap: this woman beat a Russian boxer. Russia, which is notorious for cheating in every sport imaginable, said "We have a secret test that proves she's a man. No, you can't see the results." And right wingers everywhere said, "Rock solid - good enough for us!"

bc.swifties.social•144 days ago

I wonder if he was also doping because Russian olympiads are ALWAYS accused of doing that

arolpin.bsky.social•144 days ago

When the West has testimony admitting to it, and are able to find the holes in the wall used to swap urine samples, I think we can say the Russians have been proven to have systemic doping operations, not just that they’re always accused of it.

ranamar.bsky.social•144 days ago

Also when a documentary about it suddenly turned from a story about how to fool doping tests to a story about extracting the former head of the (corrupt) Russian testing lab because the person he reported to died of an inexplicable "heart attack".

carlgt1.bsky.social•143 days ago

It’s easy for the Kremlin as western (especially US) conservatives will carry out their work for free

edgeoforever.bsky.social•144 days ago

I call it the Nazi Internationale. It’s older than you think. Tfg is one of its results.

kithrup.bsky.social•144 days ago

Can we spread far and wide how a certain TERF author is at best an unintentional russian supporter?

kithrup.bsky.social•144 days ago

The question is: Russian stooge, or Russian tool.

kithrup.bsky.social•144 days ago

I just gotta think people in Scotland might have opinions about this.

sirdandoesstuff.bsky.social•144 days ago

Useful idiot, I think. She’s far too much of a vain and self-opinionated blue check to take marching orders from anyone.

kithrup.bsky.social•144 days ago

My understanding -- @cstross.bsky.social? -- is that saying Scottish people don't Russia is quite an understatement.

evieghj.bsky.social•144 days ago

I believe the traditional term is a useful fool or useful idiot, thoufh we may need to adjust to avoid unfairly implying people with intelectual disabilities deserve comparison to she-who-should-not-be-online.

kithrup.bsky.social•144 days ago

Yes but I feel like we should emphasize that she's either a Russian stooge, or a Russian tool.

bezoar.bsky.social•144 days ago

Putin got his money's worth. $50M/year to work Westerners up and drive polarization.

sebastianra.bsky.social•144 days ago

Of course it was. The next unsurprising thing to surface will be that Elon had his fingers in it, too

thx3188.bsky.social•144 days ago

nah, he's just a useful idiot like Rowling

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•144 days ago

📌

chickenlady.bsky.social•144 days ago

I really did .

Why is no one LISTENING?

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•144 days ago

Yeah. This has been reported for some time.

americanjoy.bsky.social•144 days ago

I find it unbelievable how people can be so “naïve” (?) about Russian Imperialism at play. What surprises me the most are the American Boomers who fall for it. I can't even articulate my feelings anymore.
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chickenlady.bsky.social•144 days ago

righteoushazard.bsky.social•144 days ago

From the moment the bell rung on the fight it was like reading the same damned kremlin op script I've seen over and over, right up to the obviously inevitable wading in by the usual anti-trans billionaire useful-idiot bigots JK Rowling and Musk

monkyhead.com•144 days ago

shocker

filbi.bsky.social•144 days ago

Can't read due to paywall

therake.bsky.social•144 days ago

Hilariously the lasting effect has been to keep the U.K.'s most popular transphobe from tweeting again less she lose even more money in her upcoming civil suit!

Swing and a miss there!

dymvue.bsky.social•144 days ago

Well, some had their suspicions.

phill.hallambaker.com•144 days ago

I was pointing out the tick-tock on this at the time.

As usual, people gaslighted. Some folk just wanted to believe the bigotry and were determined to ignore the obvious.

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•144 days ago

We need to put a cordon sanitaire around Russia - any person or organization associated with it in any way invariably turns out to be a kremlin plant.

retrogem.bsky.social•144 days ago

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scsmith4.bsky.social•144 days ago

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dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social•144 days ago

Most bad things in the world these days seem to be just that

thx3188.bsky.social•144 days ago

i guess it's at least a little nice for it to not all be us for once

srboisvert.bsky.social•144 days ago

This also might provide a hint for motive for the English anti-trans obsession given that London in particular and England in general is a awash in Russian oligarch money.

mclowder.bsky.social•144 days ago

Imagine that! The bigots are all dopey pawns of foreign authoritarians. Again.

jrekkavik.bsky.social•144 days ago

It was completely obvious back then.

alherix.bsky.social•144 days ago

What a surprise!

schala42.bsky.social•144 days ago

🫢 Shock! Surprise!
Wait, no, the other thing… 🤦🏼‍♀️

mvucdaggie.bsky.social•143 days ago

Knew it.

followmal.bsky.social•144 days ago

📌

rainsurname.bsky.social•144 days ago

Amazing how many people respond to "there are women with XY chromosomes, actually" with "then they aren't women."

I enjoyed telling them X & Y aren't actually letters, but shapes, & shapes can vary, & just how many karyotypes there actually are.

And also there was no evidence she was XY, so STFU.