Nazi puns are not funny Anne Frankly shouldn’t be allowed!

Your comments are taking me out of mein kampfort zone.

I’ll let you know that I happen to find these comments very offensive, a relative of mine died in the camps….. He fell from the guard tower

Somethings not reich about this. She should Adolph a better attitude. Eva go for a Braunz

“no doubts” that the sportswoman “respected the fundamental values of the (German) constitution and the Olympic values” .. Liar, liar, Panzer fire. She should putsch her money wehr her macht is and get Goerring, at least there’ll be more liebensraum in the canoe.

I believe in equality for all. I’d be prepared to giz eveybodiez a fair crack of ze whip

She wasn’t cast out….

Gagsy you say she wasnt cast out. Do you not think pressure was put on her to go. I view this as being cast out.

I don’t know – I don’t think the article says one way or the other.

Yeah sure they aren’t. Maybe you should look up a bit of Olympic history. Where did the torch run come from?

that was then, this is now Barry

Barry Godwin O’Neill, the Nazis did not invent the Olympics. They used it.

Don’t leave us hanging Barry, where did the torch run come from?

Saying you’re communist does not auto-matically entail hate and a violent ethos. Neo-Nazi does. Comprende?

Good try Gary, good try. All the trolls salute you :)

I really hate sarcastic crap like “nice try” and troll calling. If you really think someone’s a troll don’t respond to them.

Frankly he has a point, history has proven the extreme left are just as dangerous as the extreme right (the hint is in the name: “extreme”). Just because the communists weren’t as useful a propaganda tool as the Nazis doesn’t erase the enormous amount of harm they did to millions of people. People should think twice about describing themselves as communist given the history of the word.

I’m a radical leftist, I stand for equality and democracy and workers’ emancipation. What you’re forgetting is that Stalin, Mao, none of those people were actually left-wing at all. The extreme-right breed hatred and pit people against each other. The extreme left don’t. You just like to pretend or want to pretend they have done or do. Your analysis of history is Junior Cert level at best. If I call myself an alien would you believe I’m from another planet too?

The problem, Martin, is that there’s a far too much shifting of the goal-posts in defining what radical or extreme left-wing ideologies are. You say that Stalin or Mao weren’t left-wing, but others say there were. If we’re relying on subjective definitions and opinions rather than fact, than everything is effectively meaningless. I can say that Enda Kenny is actually an anarchist. Why is that true? Because I say so! How is he an anarchist? Because he is destabilising the political apparatus and promoting distrust in centralised representative democracy. He only appears to be an incompetent moderate right-winger. You see? I don’t mean for this to only apply to you, this subjectivity is rampant in what you say and in what many of your opponents say. But it damages your argument. Mao and Stalin came to power under a communist flag, and communism is a left-wing ideology. Just because they did terrible, undemocratic and inhumane things does not cancel out the fact that they came from the left.

How can you ask a question and replace the use of a ? with several exclamation marks?

It seems too much, but this athlete has taken it on themselves to stand down from the team – I think their position isn’t a flattering one but then, she has given up a lot previously due to her links with this boyfriend. Maybe she has decided that she does side with him and to defend a position as being guilty by association would expose that she is.
Of course that’s speculation on why she has decided not to defend her position but the fact remains, she has stepped down from her place – not been forced out.

PO, you’re not only passing up an opportunity to slag off Germans, you’re defending one? Frankly, I’m impressed. I didn’t see that coming.

NK doesn’t matter the nationality. Its the pressure applied to quit because of someone else’s beliefs…!!!

I agree with you completely. Another thing I didn’t see coming. Pretty much any person with Irish descendants knows of a family member, probably long passed away, who was actively involved in the IRB/IRA. They probably also have a relation who was a priest or nun. This doesn’t mean that they are IRA supporters or supporters of the Church. I like your ranting. But it makes me happy that you can make sensible comments as well.

But she wasn’t banned…..