It’s predictable. Qatar is shitty, but it’s shitty to its own people. Traveling spectators for the World Cup don’t really care about that because it doesn’t affect them. When the concern is the fan experience itself, then you have the PR nightmare this current WC is experiencing.
That may have also been the same year WWE had that televised empty arena match between The Rock and Mick Foley. Yes it’s a thing but like you say, this was the first one that was overtly political and the buildup was just overtly racist.
Ha! Did yall ever see Ghosts of Mississippi? Yeah, the Beckwith character played by James Woods was a watered down version of the actual guy. I mean if that feculant peasant wasn’t a “racist,” then no one in human history ever has been. To even suggest that he wasn’t is to deny the existence of racism itself.
See and people are making the rounds on social media touting this as a “logical” decision, like it’s defensible. It’s not logical; it’s emotional. It’s like a, to use your word, spineless parent sending their kid to timeout but ultimately giving them the candy for which they were begging out loud in a crowded store. Boy yeah, that parent really showed that kid! Really taught him a lesson!
it’s not hard at all. All you have to do is remind yourself that we have never been “the world police,” and the notion that we have is just a bedtime story that we’ve been stroking ourselves with since 1947
That’s just an effect of the sheer dishonest nature of right wing America in general. They are so goddamned fanatic that there could be indisputable video evidence showing an identified Donald Trump raping an identified 13-14 year old girl, and every single Trump loving motherfucker on planet Earth would just wave their hand and say it was an AI liberal commie hoax. That’s why the Clinton thing would be on Fox/Newsmax non-stop and why it would be all over the internet: because the accusation itself is a newsworthy item, and of course the right wing hates Clinton, so there’s no conflict. And try as they might to play this feeble little game of “I know you are, but what am I?” no, the so-called “librul media” outlets do not possess this kind of agenda to cover for Bill Clinton. That’s why they covered that stupid Whitewater investigation through and through even though it was a fat nothing burger that still somehow succeeded in giving birth to bullshit conspiracy theories on the right. Anyways, to even consider that their chickenshit little god king raped minors is so inconceivably blasphemous to them that they will sweep that shit under the rug and pretend whatever evidence that does exist is a hoax.
In all likelihood it won’t make a difference in the same way that Biden wasn’t able to secure a resumption of the Iranian nuclear deal: because the NATO countries will just say: “well that’s well and good for you to be so kind, but here’s the deal: your population is fucking stupid. Your little orange wimp drove your country to the precipice of an economic catastrophe, even before any of you motherfuckers heard the word “coronavirus,” and yet you elected him again because despite his successor’s best efforts, your voting population was too easily distracted by simple phrases like “the price of bacon,” “democrats want open borders,” “law and order” and other shit he doesn’t believe. They took all those bumper sticker slogans at face value, and still believed that January 6th was not the massive crime it actually was. So thank you for your earnest apologies and we have no doubt as to your sincerity to rebuild a relationship with us, but we cannot in good conscience trust that your hideously uneducated, reality-averse voting population won’t get easily distracted and fuck up again in 4 years.”
If the Democrats somehow turn the tide in November, the following sentence absolutely needs to be a part of the mainstream American political consciousness, and for years to come: ICE is a terrorist organization None of this kid gloves “well that’s where they’re at/we must agree to disagree” shit: ICE is a terrorist organization
Son, you need to sit this one out. When you’re in the agitator business, you need to at least make some effort to make it look like you believe what you say. When you just go to Truth Social and copy-paste, it shows. Do better
Oh yes, the idiot jingoists are definitely out in full force today. They can’t wait to say something today that will have them fitted for face eggs later on. That’s that nationalism, and you all know the saying: Nationalism is politics for…basic people
Well Noriega was never the actual head of state. He was the de facto ruler, and was supported by the US in that capacity for reasons that had little to do with Panama. The United States wanted to use Panama as a de facto military base (as they did Honduras) for Reagan’s little terrorist war against Nicaragua. Very unusual case that I don’t 100% put in the same category as Greece in 1947, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Brazil 1964, Dominican Republic/Indonesia 1965, Chile 1973, Honduras 2009, etc