Viking_Hippie @ Viking_Hippie @lemmy.world

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There's corruption, then there's ridiculously blatant corruption, and then there's FIFA.

How long before a winning bid from Israel? North Korea? Some fucking anarcho-capitalist island in international waters without any football pitches?

Saudi Arabia is the lone candidate for 2034

Well that's fucking great! I wonder how many bids were rejected without due consideration in order to make sure of that..

The Saudi bid "presents a very strong all-round proposition, reflected in the results of the technical evaluation, which assesses the proposed infrastructure (both sporting and general) as well as its commercial potential," Fifa said in its report.

Translation to honesty: $$$$

"It is important to note that the bid involves significant opportunities for positive human rights impact," added Fifa.

Translation to honesty: if you think Saudi Arabia has been sportswashing their murderous regime until now, just wait until we get started!

Infantino: "Today I feel journalistic and dismembered!"

Nah, I was a gastric surgeon, not a proctologist or urologist 😉

Brb, ordering minus a million cases of vintage Dom Perignon!

Besides the financial windfall, im gonna get so damn sober! 🥳

It's all we need to do!

Just remember that 🎵in Cyberlaaaand we onlyyy drink 🎵 DIET COKE.

Or Denmark 😮‍💨

No worries 🙂

Gabrielle Catglesias? 😛

This is written as if the election were still in the future

Because it was at the time

It very much was a joke, yes 😁

Not disputing that. Absolute dunce, that one 😁

Yes, the objectively correct one.

INSANE how heavy entertainment systems use to be, to hold up old fat backs

I know it sees a lot of action, but I wouldn't go so far as calling your mom's bed an entertainment system..

Matrix documentation?

You mean like Neo's passport? Trinity's birth certificate? Morpheus' receipt for those shades?

lol throw a colon

I did, and now I'm no longer licensed to perform surgery!

I wish that was true, but unfortunately gaslighting and other forms of propaganda is much more effective than most people think.

You don't have to be an idiot to be fooled by effective messaging and messaging doesn't have to make sense to be effective.

No no, you've got it backwards: NYT is paying competent people obscene amounts of money to be as willfully obtuse as humanly possible without too many readers catching on.

See their coverage of anything to do with cops, Israel, conservative Democrats (including but not limited to the entirety of the DNC leadership), and "moderate Republicans" (actually paleoconservatives made to look less extreme by literal fascists and anarcho-capitalists taking over).

They're not the "paper of record" because of the quality of their reporting as much as their popularity amongst the rich and powerful who decide what goes on the record.

I read the penultimate one as "EAT RIGHT FOR BETTER DEATH" at first 😄

I'm not your guy, pal

moose crows.

A terrifying hybrid species that weigh a thousand pounds, can fly, and remember the faces of those who have wronged them.