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Sportswashing and the Police State

It Could Happen Here

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The World Cup in Brazil

The 2014 World Cup in Brazil wound up having a pretty big impact on the way Brazilian politics went and also just destroying the lives of unfathomable numbers of people. There are these like, there's enormous street movements, like like 6% of the entire Brazilian population was in the streets. And you know, this can go, this cango in a number of different ways. But I mean, but that but this is the thing about sports, right? Justifies nasty ass shit.

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