For the curious. I had no idea, and the article never explains.
Thanks!
For the even lazier:
“Sportswashing is a term used to describe the practice of individuals, groups, corporations, or governments using sports to improve reputations tarnished by wrongdoing. A form of propaganda, sportswashing can be accomplished through hosting sporting events, purchasing, or sponsoring sporting teams, or participating in a sport.”
Thank you! I had never heard of this term before.
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“If you have a Twitter account, I already know where you are.”
Um. Carving up is to make into little pieces… 😅🤷🏼♂️
“You will not have competition…and that’s good for the players and the fans who love golf.”
Ah yes. Lack of competition is always good for the fans. /s
More like it’s good for MBS’s bank account.
Utter shitstain upon humanity, Why is ‘6 Underground’ not a real thing to take care of evil like this?!?!
Follow the money. Nobody that’s profiting from Saudi Arabia will fuck with them no matter how horrible they are so long as business is lucrative. That’s why they get a free pass to do whatever they want.
Because if we murder people it doesn’t give them a chance to change.
It’s like suicide (which is self murder from my perspective). Permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Plus killing someone would cause the person doing the killing trauma as well as trauma for the murdered person’s family etc, that may lead to revenge and thus more murder. And the cycle can repeat ad infinitum.
Not that I don’t share the sentiment. I absolutely do. And I have obviously thought about it or I wouldn’t have this thought out of a response.
Or to give my grandma’s pithy reply, two wrongs don’t make a right.
This clown belongs underground.
We had a feeling.
there’s something darkly hilariously ironic that the failing petro-empires of the world will sponsor sports so people keep worrying about adults playing children’s games, instead of the enormous, world-wide multi-generational struggle that surviving climate catastrophe, created by their petro-billions, will require.
Can’t protest, the game’s on.
Well, I’ve never particularly cared for sports, either, so this improved my opinion of exactly nobody.
Again, sport in the US mostly own by corporation. Every other country, would host many events, yet when the Saudi do it, it is a sportswashing. What funny is, sport never stopped people from ignoring any other acts the saudi do. Which make this more like people crying because someone else have more money and willing to spend it on these activities taking them away from the US.
I mean, Arabia is too hot to enjoy outdoor sports anyway.
