Yeah, just seems petty. I doubt Putin is getting a cut of her take.
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A similar situation has been playing out in international hockey. The NHL has resisted it until now. A cynical view would be that thereās too much money tied up in it to do anything else, but I hope the wolves are kept at bay regardless. One former star player has been very vocal about it, maybe there are others. A particular target has been Alex Ovechkin who has always been friends with (of a sort I guess) and/or had close ties with Putin, who is a big hockey fan. For one thing Ovi (as heās often called) has a picture of him and Putin on his Instagram page. He made a statement much like the one this opera singer made, but never took the picture down or went farther. Heās gotten heat from various quarters (including recently just because his son skated a bit at the league All-Star game, when many Ukrainian children donāt have anything like that privilege) but heās between a rock and a hard place obviously. Iām wondering how long the whole situation can continue. Russian players tend to go home over the summer to be with their families. Weāll see this summer I guess. Another star player Artemi Panarin is known to have anti-Putin views; he got some minor legal harassment last year. A lot of younger guys have potential military service requirements. One goalie got sucked into that over the summer.
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Maybe sheās been more overtly Putinist than I thought
She was very friendly in years past. She should have known just by looking at him that he would one day invade Ukraine.
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This cancellation is very short-sighted, imho.
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A Russian opera starās performance in Taiwan has been canceled over her stance on Russiaās invasion of Ukraine. Singer Anna Netrebko had received criticism for social media posts about the war that did not condemn Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Now the war is won!
Two women who falsely accused a man of sexual assault and damaged his career to pay large settlement.
Hmmm I think if you put his words in the context that the himself is providing at the beginning (that 80% of black people are NOT OK with white people=, itĀ“s understandable that he says that that can be considered a hate group and that itās best to stay away from them, keep things friendly, but donāt give the support he used to give to their community.
Badly expressed, playing with fire, but heās got a point.
āFo shizzle, my nizzle!ā
Mississippi meteorologist and news anchor apparently removed after quoting Snoop Dogg live on air
He does say that he canāt confirm that the closure is politically motivated.
Because they wonāt tell him the reason.
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āUncle Roger is gonna get canceled after tonight.ā Ngās accounts were suspended the very next day on Chinese social media sites Weibo and Bilibili.
Tbh most cancelled people deserved to be cancelled.
I think youāve said that before.
Itās an opinion that says more about you than anything else.
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I feel like none of you know Chinese at all. Her name is å¼µē§. ē§ means autumn. Thatās a perfectly fine name.
Eh, if you say so. This isnāt a hill Iām going to die on.
Itās not a hill. Itās the official translation. I read Harry Potter in Chinese.
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Okay, I believe you! Iām cool with the name Cho Chang! 
Yeah but whatās more likely:
Rowling imagined a beautiful Chinese name and gave it an odd non-standard Romanization years before a Chinese translation of the book was even imagined
Rowling had little knowledge of Chinese and made up a random Chinese-sounding name that she liked for the character, and the translators years later came up with the closest normal equivalent they could
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