SolRo - 2015-05-17
It's a stupid exhibition game. Don't know why western media (and idiots) are so busy jerking off each other about it.
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Shanghai Tippytap - 2015-05-17 I don't quite understand how blatant pro-putin propaganda has found such a wide audience outside of Russia, like we should all be so lucky to live in an impoverished kleptocracy.
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SolRo - 2015-05-17 oh god, putin scored some goals in an exhibition match against a goalie that wasn't even trying.
this goes completely counter to our fact based cold-war brainwashing about how all foreign leaders we don't like must be physically and mentally inept and are only kept alive by the evil mana that flows through their veins.
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EvilHomer - 2015-05-18 Cena - I think the main reason is Putin's hardline moral stance, particularly in regards to his hatred of gays and rock bands. Putin is a man who stands up against everything that mainstream liberal Americans love, and is, in the words of Bryan Fischer, "a lion of Christianity". His unapologetic, swaggering manliness is a big part of it, too: Bush tried that approach, too, but HE usually came off not as a bad-ass, but as a fat child trying to play grown-up.
It can't be "a return" to the violence of the Dubya years, since we never actually left that; if anything, we've become even more violent under the current regime, the sole difference being that today, the five Democratic-Party-aligned media conglomerates which filter our popular discourse are giving our violence a pass. Now I guess it's possible, even likely, that your average TV-watching "conservative" Republican is just as dumb and misinformed as your average TV-watching "liberal" Democrat, and that the RWers really do buy into the hype that we've entered a grand new era of peace and tolerance. If that were the case, then I suppose working-class, hawkish Republicans might be forgiven for hating a warrior like Obama, who's invaded at least seven different countries, while idolizing a hippie like Putin, who's invaded two.
But rationally speaking, I think the main reason the right wingers love him is simply his macho attitude and his defense of traditional Russian values.
I don't know. Let's ask one. SolRo: why do you love Putin?
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EvilHomer - 2015-05-18 Granted, seeing Putin play a CANADIAN sport will probably not help his numbers with his adoring Republican fanbase. But at least it wasn't soccer.
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Hooker - 2015-05-17
He had my childhood hero, Pavel Bure, setting him up for those "goals." He ruined both my childhood hero and my favourite sport. I hate this man with a passion.
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Hooker - 2015-05-17 Also, "vlad-meer"
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SolRo - 2015-05-18 That's how stupid your mindset is.
You cant comprehend that the players would take it easy on the aging president of a country rather that going balls out and try to embarrass him.
It's called courtesy and respect.
If you ended up playing Obama in a game of (sport of your choice) I doubt you'd things any differently.
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Cena_mark - 2015-05-18 I don't get why people create such fanfare and demand awesome physical attributes from our leaders. WW2 was won by a president who could barely stand up.
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sasazuka - 2015-05-18 I'm a fatass, I don't think I could beat Obama at any sport, even if I gave it my 100%. :-/
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Miss Henson's 6th grade class - 2015-05-18 True, SolRo, true! But there's still a bit of a difference between "going a bit easy on him" and "letting him score eight goals." The first is courtesy, the second a blatant propaganda exercise.
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Hooker - 2015-05-18 SolRo, do you not understand what a cult of personality is at all?
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EvilHomer - 2015-05-18 Why is everyone ASSUMING that Putin didn't score these goals legitimately? Like it's so hard to believe that Putin could score 8 goals, on his own, in a competitive hockey game; that just because he's winning, the other team MUST HAVE BEEN taking it easy on him. That's your Western media propaganda-conditioning talking!
You People are all BRAINWASHED SHEEP and you make me SICK.
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Hooker - 2015-05-18 It _is_ entirely possible that the goaltender at 0:19 just decided to spite his team instead of make any effort at all.
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sasazuka - 2015-05-18 For that matter, it's not just that I'm a fatass, I never could skate and I also have always been the sort of person who runs away in terror when any sports-related projectile with more mass than a volleyball comes towards my head. I don't think I'd fare well against a dense rubber cylinder like a hockey puck coming at me at like 40 miles an hour.
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SolRo - 2015-05-18 Hooker, do you understand that this is bigger news in the western world than in Russia?
That should tell you something about your obsession/paranoia over Putin
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Hooker - 2015-05-18 SolRo, do you understand anything?
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SolRo - 2015-05-18 A lot more than you, apperently.
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spicediver - 2015-05-18
I want to see him scoring goals while riding bare-chested on that horse of his.
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Bort - 2015-05-18
Next we've got number 70, rocking what I call the "freshly mowed lawn". It doesn't have the movement or bounce of traditional hockey hair, but for him it's a good choice, frames his head, doesn't draw too much attention to the bald spot, nice tight look.
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yogarfield - 2015-05-18
He looks like my dead grandmother, what a loser.
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gmol - 2015-05-18
How is this so different than mitt and evander?
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SolRo - 2015-05-18 Because freedom
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Killer Joe - 2015-05-18 My guess would be that while Evander didn't beat Mitt to death in the ring as a show of class, he also didn't get knocked the fuck out by a politician. Though don't forget that Russia is where Mikey Rourke won his "fight" by KO.
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SolRo - 2015-05-19 it was a high scoring game for both teams, putin didn't even score the majority of the goals of his team...again, it was an exhibition match.
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Needtodestroy - 2015-05-19
Today I learned poeTV has an opinion about Vladimir Putins hockey skills.
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