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This is exactly what I was thinking when reading about the recent Olympic boycotts. Our hands are not so clean to have any moral high ground.

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A boycott would mean the players would not go like the real boycotts of 1980 Moscow or 1984 Los Angeles. This fake boycott of diplomats is not even performative art.

Virtue theater

> https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores

> access to political rights and civil liberties

> Score: United States 83, Iran 16

I guess their hands are a little bit dirtier than the USA

Who worked out those scores?

"Freedom House is a non-profit, non-governmental organization in Washington, D.C., that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights. ... The organization was 66% funded by grants from the U.S. government in 2006, a number which has increased to 86% in 2016."

Do you doubt any particular part of the data? Funding source is only relevant if you can show it intentionally wrongdo funding previously.

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