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Sportswashing and the Police State

It Could Happen Here

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The World Cup and the Fucking Ballboys

The World Cup is going to your Qatar, right? So you can just so they can have fucking ballboys? They just spent on a base. There are like laws in Brazil about child labor, right? Guess what doesn't apply to FIFA? Some of them see the actual like actual slavery because like slavery is not actual slavery. But it's okay. It's a bunch of people who are kind of it's on cheering. The state becomes like this entity that can just sort of like do whatever it wants to order to preserve itself. And yeah, it sucks ass. Sometimes you can do it with the support of the other.

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