• ivan@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    Each sensible country nowadays figured that all those Olympics and World Cups are now simply an enormous money sink and dick measuring contest for authoritarian hellholes, hence the protests in all somewhat sensible countries before each one.

    And I wouldn’t even go into massive corruption of all these international sports committees, with president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino specifically also being a fucking tone-deaf degenerate.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s an excuse to hire your buddies to do work to renovate or build a new stadium with taxpayer money. Privatized profits that are guaranteed for who is picked and these big construction outfits already have close ties to whoever is running the city anyway.

      Then you probably end up with free tickets to bring your whole family if you are into it…

      Corruption is everywhere transparency and accountability is not. I’ve yet to see a transparent governance model in use.