I totally agree that women should make the same as men in similar jobs, but the WNBA is a money-losing venture supported by the NBA, and has a fraction of the NBA's viewership.
The WNBA has nothing to do with her playing in Russia. She decided to go to Russia to play in the Russian Premier League during the WNBA's offseason while Russia was ramping up its Ukraine invasion. Very, very bad idea.
And going to a pariah state that was ramping up an invasion of Ukraine was her only option to make some extra scratch? Or was it just the easiest? Her decision has created a diplomatic calamity with Putin and President Biden will take the blame for it.
Naw, if she got someone rich and on TV to plead her case, tfg might have at least met with them. I mean, if the someone was female and at least moderately attractive. He wouldn't have pushed his buddy on it, though.
Is that the other guy? I'm not sure why Biden's WH is making poor Griner sit in a Russian prison so they can hash out the release of some other person.
Where anywhere on the planet is claiming one had "not intended" to break the law accepted by the courts? I can accept that she's a political pawn (bad timing for her), and the sentences for what's a minor infraction in the US is extremely harsh, but high-profile people (especially) who break the laws in other countries are likely to be made examples of. She'll be lucky to only do a few months before she's quietly deported.
Yeah... what's the law in Arizona have to do with the law in Russia? Sorry, but I've seen too many USAnians use that excuse when they're caught with firearms in Mexico. That, or the always popular, "ooops". Countries have their own laws, and even if they're stupid ones, foreigners -- including people from the USA -- are expected to follow them as well.
I mean the general sense, it just seems like a lot of trouble to go through for someone your country doesn't have to deal with. Russia's motives are definitely just cruelty and gaining bargaining chips.
In hindsight, probably not the best thread to wonder this aloud.
There's a difference between anti-Griner sentiments and pointing out that she has culpability in this. We can have empathy for her situation and try to secure her freedom without ignoring or minimizing important facts.
A lot of this is from people complaining that it was only hash oil, what the problem? The problem is that's not your call to make but the government to where you are traveling. I don't care how backwards the law there is, it's the law. Going to another county - especially one that's as repressive as Russia - means being aware of what can go wrong. Yes, she made a mistake but honestly, that's not a legal excuse. Demanding she be let go because you don't think it's a big deal or a real crime completely misses the point - this was the logical consequence of her choices and actions. We should be trying to free her not because she didn't do anything wrong but because it's unsafe for her to be there as an American in this crisis.
People need to separate out their support for MJ and this scenario. Crossing international borders is no joke and you need to be aware of what's on your person. Change out "hash oil" with "gun" and how many people would be sympatric to the "I forgot" justification.
Mistakes happen but that doesn't mean you didn't technically commit a crime. It's up to the law to decide to be lenient or not and if you are in a country not know for that, you're screwed.
Putin being a liar doesn't mean she didn't bring them. That's a false equivalence.
Honestly, she probably forgot. It happens. I'm not sure why exactly everyone keeps acting like she didn't have them when even her family and lawyers didn't make that claim. We can call BS on Putin's hostage taking without adding our own falsehoods into the mix.
I read an inaccurate report, then. It does make more sense that they search her bags coming in rather than leaving.
I totally agree that women should make the same as men in similar jobs, but the WNBA is a money-losing venture supported by the NBA, and has a fraction of the NBA's viewership.
The WNBA has nothing to do with her playing in Russia. She decided to go to Russia to play in the Russian Premier League during the WNBA's offseason while Russia was ramping up its Ukraine invasion. Very, very bad idea.
And going to a pariah state that was ramping up an invasion of Ukraine was her only option to make some extra scratch? Or was it just the easiest? Her decision has created a diplomatic calamity with Putin and President Biden will take the blame for it.
Because Putin, logical clear thinking individual that he is, was definitely not looking for something to be pissed off at the US for.
Griner is lucky Biden is in office instead of Putin’s puppet. Trump wouldn’t have lifted a finger to get her released or met with her wife.
Did she get released? I hope so.
Naw, if she got someone rich and on TV to plead her case, tfg might have at least met with them. I mean, if the someone was female and at least moderately attractive. He wouldn't have pushed his buddy on it, though.
Is that the other guy? I'm not sure why Biden's WH is making poor Griner sit in a Russian prison so they can hash out the release of some other person.
Where anywhere on the planet is claiming one had "not intended" to break the law accepted by the courts? I can accept that she's a political pawn (bad timing for her), and the sentences for what's a minor infraction in the US is extremely harsh, but high-profile people (especially) who break the laws in other countries are likely to be made examples of. She'll be lucky to only do a few months before she's quietly deported.
Yeah... what's the law in Arizona have to do with the law in Russia? Sorry, but I've seen too many USAnians use that excuse when they're caught with firearms in Mexico. That, or the always popular, "ooops". Countries have their own laws, and even if they're stupid ones, foreigners -- including people from the USA -- are expected to follow them as well.
Not yet as far as I know
I mean the general sense, it just seems like a lot of trouble to go through for someone your country doesn't have to deal with. Russia's motives are definitely just cruelty and gaining bargaining chips.
In hindsight, probably not the best thread to wonder this aloud.
There's a difference between anti-Griner sentiments and pointing out that she has culpability in this. We can have empathy for her situation and try to secure her freedom without ignoring or minimizing important facts.
A lot of this is from people complaining that it was only hash oil, what the problem? The problem is that's not your call to make but the government to where you are traveling. I don't care how backwards the law there is, it's the law. Going to another county - especially one that's as repressive as Russia - means being aware of what can go wrong. Yes, she made a mistake but honestly, that's not a legal excuse. Demanding she be let go because you don't think it's a big deal or a real crime completely misses the point - this was the logical consequence of her choices and actions. We should be trying to free her not because she didn't do anything wrong but because it's unsafe for her to be there as an American in this crisis.
People need to separate out their support for MJ and this scenario. Crossing international borders is no joke and you need to be aware of what's on your person. Change out "hash oil" with "gun" and how many people would be sympatric to the "I forgot" justification.
Mistakes happen but that doesn't mean you didn't technically commit a crime. It's up to the law to decide to be lenient or not and if you are in a country not know for that, you're screwed.
Putin being a liar doesn't mean she didn't bring them. That's a false equivalence.
Honestly, she probably forgot. It happens. I'm not sure why exactly everyone keeps acting like she didn't have them when even her family and lawyers didn't make that claim. We can call BS on Putin's hostage taking without adding our own falsehoods into the mix.