Sportswashing and the Police State

of dictatorial regimes. And I know Chris has got some interesting stuff on Balsonaro's Brazil and sports. This is this is, this is the way before that. Sorry, yeah, I should measure this. This is okay, like this is, this is, this is, this is some wonderful pet era of vintage crimes. Oh good stuff. Okay. I love a Brazilian crime, no matter what the vintage. So I'm excited to learn about the how the NFL legitimizes the military police state anyway, um ye, and it's not even football, is it? So

multiple things they're doing wrong. I want to talk first about like the original instance of what we're going to call sports washing, because everyone else calls it sports washing too, So it's like using these big global mega events to laund it the reputation of a pretty questionable regime. So the o G instance of this is the nineteen thirty six Olympics which were held in Berlin. You'll probably be familiar with who was in charge in Berlin. In n

it was the Nazis. That's a spoiler, and the Nazis

were actually given the Olympics. The Olympics were given to bind by Germany, which was considerably less ship than the Nazis, but the Nazis took them on and they're really around with them, and lots of the symbology that we associate with the Olympics today, that the raising of flags during the medal ceremony, the playing of national anthems, parade of flags are the opening ceremony, the torch relay, right, the torch relay goes from o g Olympia in Greece to

wherever the Olympics are being held. It's it's this big ceremonial thing, right that all of these things were created by its guy called Carl D. M who was a Nazi to draw stronger links between the Nazi Party and the ancient Greeks and position the Nazis the inheritors of this classical legacy, right, and the civilized people in the

barbaric world, like the Greeks saw themselves. And obviously the Olympics, if you aren't familiar, draws its legacy from a largely mythical construct of a games that did actually happen in ancient Greek Right, So they claimed to be like a reconstruction of this Greek tradition, except in the Greek truition everyone was naked, which I think would make the Olympics much more watchable. We could, yeah, it's that is one of the things. I would watch the male gymnastics way more,

not just naked but oiled. Yeah, honestly, then's men's swimming would be a lot more interesting. Yes it would. Yep, naked Olympics we can get behind. But they didn't bring that back. Nazi didn't bring that back. They didn't have some naked statues, but they weren't big into nudity. But they fused a whole lot of fashy eugenic shit, right.

So the reason that they started having these medal tables was very much to reinforce their idea of the superiority of one race over other races, right, didn't really work out for them in ninety six because Jesse Owens turned up and owned them lots of different events and g o into being of course of black American sprinter and

long jumper, and it didn't well. The Natics Olympics did exist to did help significantly in laundering the Nazi and they hit away a lot of their bullshit like they for instance, like all the Nazi Party newspapers like weren't distributed for the time that foreigners were in the country. Right, They hit away anti Semitic slogans. They even had a Jewish woman on the German Olympic team, because there was lots of sort of faster and and sort of they're

like neo liberal liberal complaining. I guess about like, oh, no, you're being anti Semitic or you shouldn't. Oh look there's a Jewish person on your team. It's fine. You guys are great. You guys aren't anti Semitic at all. It's good. We're sorted. And the US did nearly boycott the Olympics, but they decided not to. And that this guy called every brandage who went on to be a piece of

ship of some right now. So like this Olympics, I guess set the tone for the use of these massive events to put on a show to the world and bring the world's press and show them what you want them to see and hide the stuff that you don't want them to see, which I think is a nice transition to talking about Brazil. Yeah, so we'll sort of

about that factive. Their sports has a second sort of incredibly important internal political effect, which is that when when when you have a sports thing that's large enough, like when you have you know, like we have a World Cup, you have the Olympics show up, you have even to sometime the Super Bowl, Like you what what it basically creates is this like like it basically creates a temporary sort of state of state of exception where just like

the sort of sort of normal functional society stops right and you know, this can go. This can go in a number of different ways. Like and anyone who ever lived in Philadelphia, like okay, there there there's a version of this in Philly where like after after the Eagles win, like for like fifteen hours, there are no laws like when they just killed like thirty people. Yeah, well hundred ye was a yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got ahead

at the sports for killing tons of people. I think that's likely to blame where the cops if we're having sports. But I mean, but that, but this, this is the thing about sports, right, is that in order to sort of like do security blah blah blah blah blo exceter etcetera, in order to make sure the game's work, you can

do fucking anything. Yes, right, justifies nasty s. Yeah, And you know what, one of one of the things, one of the sort of like examples that I wanted to talk about about this happening is one that is really not talked about that much, which is the two fourteen World Cup in Brazil, which wound up i think, actually having a pretty big impact on the way Brazilian politics went and also just destroying the lives of unfathomable numbers

of people. So okay, so this whole thing, like I've been in since it's happening to fourteen, It's been in the works since like Lula was in office in like the late twenty like late late two thousand's right, Um, this is this is like this is like one of this is like one of the workers parties like big things is that they're they're they're they're gonna have this World Cup. Um, they've taken a ship ton of corporate

money to do it. They've taken you know, they've they've they've spent they spent enormous about a political capital making sure this is gonna happen, and the consequences of it are just like astronomic. Something like two fifty thousand people like lost their homes in order to like make way for like the fucking stadiums and the fields and like all of the sort of like bullshit around like all the sort of security, theater stuff, all of like just

like debated. Yeah, and this is something that happens with Olympics, is to more famously, but like whenever you have a sports event like this, there's just this giant cleansing that happens of like anyone who's like onto the street, who's homeless, right, anyone who's just sort of like doesn't look right, particularly anyone who's black just sort of like suddenly is like

disappeared by the police from this area. Um. But this, this this particular one in in in Brazil was interesting because this is happening to just in fourteen, so and she dozen thirteen, there were like enormous protests in Brazil and actually there there's been another like set of soccer events there in just thirteen then like something like eight hundred thousand people were in the streets across Brazil like protesting it. But yeah, there there were these like there's

enormous street movements. Is like like six percent of the

entire Brazilian population was in the streets. Um they were like basically started as sort of like antiosterity protests because cities were sort of like we're increasing the price of like farris for stuff, and it gets it gets the protest get kind of weird very quickly because on the one hand, so like you have the Workers Party in power, right, and like the Workers Party has been sort of sliding right by this point, but you have a sort of like you have like a really bilitant left that's in

the street. You have a bunch of anarchist, you have a bunch of autonomist or sort of like doing stuff. But then also right wingers start showing up because it's a protest against the governments and the government's like nominally a left government. And yeah, this leads to just a

really confusing stative affairs. But but you know the next year, this like and the protest like keep going for like a long time, and there's still like even after like the largest ones are kind of pee doing out, there's still purchas happening. But when the World Cup hits, like the World Cup is that like is one of this sort of like like the arth, like the law suddenly

doesn't work anymore. Like in orders to do this, you have to sign, like there's something called the General Law of the World Cup, which is like a bunch of like laws that you have to sign that like physically change what your laws are like in order to have this event magnificent. I mean that's actually that's actually great.

You should do more of that. The great thing about FIFA is that they've sharing a commitment to human rights, to quality and democracy, and so I'm sure there's rules are good rules, and you know, so so there are fun things like like it literally like parts of the

zillion Constitution are suspended. What parts like well, so physically a bunch stuff about the right to strike, Like there's a special court that's set up that like it like that within forty eight hours like like decide on whether a strike is legal or not and what the thing is going to be like, So that's not very good.

It's really they're all not real very bad. Like like there's there's the Brazilian government spans like seventy million dollars buying basically police equipment and like from the U S, from Germany and from Israel, which is like the holy trinity of good normal countries where if you're buying shipped

from them, you're doing a good thing. See, I thought we were going to talk about how you know, there's moments in our society where the regular rules of engagement are suspended, and in such we can use this moment of extra opportunity to find new ways of liberatory of

experiencing liberatory freedom. People tried that, and and and and instead a bunch of literally like they were driving tanks through the street like into like like blockading off like roads leading out of the favelos with tanks like it was. It was nuts, like some incredible videos at this time. Yeah, there were like laws in Brazil about child labor, right, um, guess what doesn't apply to fifas you can so they

can have fucking ball boys. They basic child labor. They also have they have these There are twenty thousand people who are working for this event who are who are classified as volunteers. You can just use them as basically they started doing slave labor. Yeah, what's the what's the shocking? Yeah, I know, are they forced into this or do they

actually volunteer? Kind of Okay, so sometimes the actual you know what actual slavery because it's it's not actual, Okay, the Brazilian government will do actual slavery, but like this is yeah, this is not quite that, but it's a bunch of people who are kind of yeah but yeah, who have who have no labor rights, like, and the everything happens is there's there are there are enormous crackdowns, like they just start they start doing the thing that like the US does it too, but I think I

think like Canada's is more than the U s where it's like when when when they know a protest is about to happen, they like go find the like six people who they think are protest leaders just arrest them beforehand. They started doing that. They there's a bunch of people who get tortured. There's a bunch of like the police are basically just going ape shit. They like, yeah, they

there are some like that. There's a point in this where like the garbage workers go on strike and they actually win because it turns out that if if in the middle of the World Cup there's fucking garbage piling up on the street, like it's really bad. But like yeah, like this has like this has a just like absolutely disastrous effects on like just just sort of what's like everything is going on president in politics like um, one

of the things that Lula does. I'm gonna talk about this more and in another Brazil episode, but Lula like sent a bunch of Brazilian troops to invade haiti Um, which fucking sucks. And then those troops came home and they were used to occupy the favelas in real while this was going on, and this kind of crushed like what was left of the sort of left that had

been in the streets. Like they just got like they just got they just got stomped because the Brazilian police are on terrifying and like literally they're deploying colonial troops like in the streets and and yeah, and so so this this is the sort of second kind of thing that you can get with sports, which is like on the one hand they're used to start of whitewash regimes and on the other hand they're used as as as basically a way to like do fascism inside of a

state where you can you know, like you could you could do a state of exception, right like the law seas to a this uh, the state becomes like this entity that can just sort of like do whatever it wants to order to preserve itself. And it's a way that you can just you know, you can socially cleanse to ut people, in which something that would be like you know, would genuinely be pretty difficult if you try

to do this in any other circumstance. But you know, it's it's sports, so you can just basically do ethnic cleansings and yeah, it sucks as sometimes you can do it with the support of the other So like the World Cup, it's going to your Qatar, right and and they one of the things is happening gives its quote

unquote security consultant from the participating nations are coming. So you have this like incredible situation where like a the Qatari and like police chief I believe has been like, hey, for your own safety, fans, if you do happen to be gay and it's illegal to be gay right in Qatar. Like just guys, just don't hold hands with your partner because it's not us who's going to come and beat you up. It's it's the regular qataris right like you, you won't be safe and we can't protect you from

their violent homophobia. And then we've got like Britain's sending soldiers to be like, yeah, let us help you with your security consultations. Guys, we need to keep this country safe. Oh god, okay, so did you do you know what else does violent security consultations? Is it Britain? Yes? Yeah, we were now sponsored by the Nation of Britain. Is

better help, better help online counseling. If you don't sign up for therapy, a military a military team will break through your windows and force you to go to therapy with a car. That's that is that is the better health guarantee. And we're back and I am not thinking about people who I know who we're physically dragged by cops in the therapy. It's great, it's a great never happened, never happened. No one's ever been forced to go to therapy non consensually. It doesn't have Yeah, so yeah. Other

things that don't happen include include sports. Yeah, sports aren't real their fingent of our imagination if we simply the ontology of sports is fatally flawed. One might say that's sports are a way of teaching people to be complying with rules and to be administrators in the colonial empire. Or people can argue that sports offer a gamified version of the world that allow you to recognize problem solving in fun and creative ways and encourage team building. So

I don't actually like sports very much. And the other hand, do quite like sports, but I'm aware of the role they play. Okay, so this is like a big thing that the Gulf States do you um is particularly do

this sports bullshit? And Carter, I think, usually is smarter about it than like Carter just has better pr People in the saudiast do, and I mean they're they're slightly helped by the fact that they are marginally less bad than Saudi Arabia, like marginal, like this is a this is a this is a this is a fucking a bar that is so low you can trip over it, like I think we can just say both bad. Yeah,

So should we talk about the Catholic system a little bit. Okay, So the Gulf States have this thing called the catholicis now and there have been some alterations to it and something that made it less bad in the last few years.

But basically this is a system that lets Okay, so there's a bud there's a lot of mirket workers, particularly from Southeast Asia that like take jobs in the Gulf because they pay they have The Gulf States have a like a obscene, fanatical, like world rending amount of oil money, um. And so people you know, come seeking these jobs because they need to feed their families, and you know, there's a huge amount of oil money here, like they have

just every petro dollar um. But the way this labor system basically works is that like, in order to like be in the country, you have to have a job, right you like, you like very specifically have to have

a job, and your employer has to be there. And so very very bad things start to happen when you have a group of people who you can just like instantly destroy the life of and so these will happen where for example, like so you okay, so you show up, you show up to Carter right, and your boss will just take your fucking passport and it's just gone, right, And you know, it's like, okay, if if you don't do literally everything they tell you, like you, you're not

gonna get you hastrot back. You're just fucked. And this creates a like a genuinely like very close to slavery has a lot of the fucking horrors. Like you, there have been a bunch of stories people like fucking jumping out of buildings trying to escape and then like being dragged back Like it's fucking horrifying labor conditions. Um, and it's not not indentured servitude. Yeah, absolutely is. It's yeah, it is. It is one of the worst. It's it's one of the worst labor regimes on earth that is

not literally slavery. It is. It is. It is in the category of technically not slavery, but like very horrific close. Yeah it is. It is. It is one of the worst things that exists. A serious and genuine solution to if you want to solve like a bunch of the problems of all of the bullshit that's happening in the Gulf region. If you gave every single one of these migrant workers like several artillery batteries and a bunch of assault rifles like instantly, like so many of the problems

of this region would be solved. Yeah. So I was just looking up statistics. Six thousand, five hundred of these workers have died in cutters since it was awarded the World Cup. Like that's that's uh, that's that's a pretty alarming um number of Like so it's from India, Bangladesh, no pause forri Lanka prices like that, right, I think, Yeah, these people have absolutely no rights and they have incredibly

dangerous working conditions. And also we got about like people are super fucking racist, Like yes, like that it's it's it's the kind of racism that you get when you have literally like basically pure absolute power over someone. It is a it is a fucking trip. Yeah. People will literally have to pay off the debts that they include, like you pay a recruitment trophee or a travel fee to get these jobs. Like we're not messing around when we say it's an indentured certitude. Yeah, and it's very

hard to do that. Your your your employees can just you know, like they can just withhold your pay eight for whatever the fun reason, because yeah, because it's absolute power. There's like a few should I read. There's one that's an example of one of these deaths that I could read if we want so. This guy, um Madhubal Apoly I think his name. He's from India. He was forty three. He left his wife and his thirteen year old son, Rejesh in India to take a job in catering, and

they never saw him again. One late night, when his roommate returned to his dorm, he found Bullapai's body on the floor. Like thousands of other sudden and unexplained death, it's passing was recorded his heart failure due to natural causes. Despite working for his employer for six years, his wife and son received a hundred and fourteen thousand rupees it's about a thousand pounds about a thousand dollars now, as well in compensation and unpaid salary. Jess had no idea

why his father died. He had no health problems, he said, there was nothing wrong with him. Yeah, pretty, there's I'll will link the Guardian story. But there are dozens of these stories of people who die working in extra heat for long hours and no breaks and terrible conditions. It's

pretty terrible shit. Yeah, and a lot of these And also, and this is the only thing we should point out, is a lot a lot of people have died directly building, yes, the stadium stadium, Yeah, which is like just like the absolute human horror of why on why are we using Like why are we building a giant fucking soccer stadium in the middle of like in the fucking desert, Like, yeah, Jesus Christ, in a place with no endemic soccer culture.

It's not like the stadium is like, you know, going to be packed week in and week out with the Qatari Altra is doing teapots and ship like it just exists for people to come once to watch this spectacle

and then leave again. I mean, it's the same thing with all the Olympics stuff, right, Like they like tank a city's economy to build a whole like basically miniatured like village in town that then becomes useless after like a yeah, some of them will just get turned into like I don't know, that's what the Olympics are for. The Olympics are like a gathering place for a transnational bourgeoilie and they have always been there right like they

when they started. For a very long time, the Olympics had an amateurism clause which meant that like quote unquote, professional athletes couldn't take part, which was designed such that like Bosua, people who had enough leisure time to train could compete, but working class people who needed to take time off to train couldn't be compensated for that time off, right, they couldn't even be compensated for their time off taken

to travel and compete at the Games. So like, the Olympics are doing what they're supposed to do, which is is bringing these elite people together, but a Coca Cola benefits more from every Olympics in the city that hosts it. Yeah, yeah, I mean, and obviously that's the Olympics are heavily tied to nationalism. UM that has a whole bunch of you know, not great a munch of the national symbology comes from

the Nazis direct like that, yeah exactly. But also on the flip side of that, there's other stuff like UM have like Taiwan having to compete compete as Chinese Taipei and not use their actual flag, which is other like, yes, the alternative would be more, you know, embracing the country as like as a nationalist thing, like as it's as

its own nation. But still it's it is, it's still not great that they can't they can't compete under their actual you know, it's like a name and yeah, and and and and you know and like and then this is like Carter's kind of Weirdly, this is slightly backfire on Carter a little bit because, like Carter, Carter works the best as a sort of diplomatic power when nobody pays attention to it. And then the like absolute fucking brain geniuses at the Guitari Roule elite were like, what

if we fucking drew attention to ourselves? And that everyone was like, wait, hold on, this place is fucked, but this has not stopped it. FIFA is like maybe the only ruling sports body more corrupt in the Olympic Committee. Like it is is incredibly staggering, like a group of people who have figured out a way to just like help a city ethnically cleanse a bunch of its population and then extract enormous amount of wealth and then look

good while doing it. Yeah, it is. It's it's an exercise and like pointing, pointing over there while you steal someone's wallet, you know. Yeah, So I think that the last thing thing we want to talk about was talking about what the specialities have been doing this two. Because yes, one of the sport so I'm most familiar with obviously is like cycling. It's the sport I competed in and it's recently seen this influx of money from petrochemical states. Right, so we have like you a E teen, we had

a Dubai team for a while. Um we there is like a tour of Cutter and the Tour of Dubai. Now that like, these are not places wants to go ride about it, right, they're hot, they're flat, they're terrible. But like bike races have always served as a way to consolidate nations, right, That's why the Tour of France exists. It's like it's literally a loop and being like, hey, you're included in this, and like in in Europe, they're often used to consolidate nations that exist outside of states, right,

like Flanders, Catalonia, the Basque country, Wallonia. All of these places have bike races that delineate who belongs in and who belongs out. Slightly different in these petrochemical economies because more delineates a look at us. We're a great country and totally normal, and you can come here and do sports and and please don't look at the way that we treat our workers from Southeast Asia, like um, it's it's please ignore our seventeen wars, like all the school

bus full of children we've blown up. Do not look at Yemens like yeah, which also, by the way, I do want, I do want to just put this room. And Carter also fucking involved in Yemen. Same with the UAE. They nobody ever talks about it. They also fucking doing this. Do not left him off the book for this bullshit.

H Yeah, Yeah, it's interesting to see it, Like it's interesting to see some fan groups organizing like against this ship, right, And chiefly I think it's gonna it's about stuff that you're about to talk about, I think, which is the purchasing of clubs by these these very wealthy interests. I find it fascinating to see that there has always been an anti fascist element in football actus right, There have

always been clubs that have been anti fascists. Those clubs have always tended to oppose like ownership of the clubs that they are fans of by finance capital. But it's interesting to see that now articulated against these petrochemical regimes in the Middle East, right Like its Keith from fucking Bolton and his mates who go to the football match every Saturday now and I'm fucking past because I allow an lgbt Q rights in Qatar. But yeah, it's it's

very funny to see. And also it's nice to see, right, Like, it's good see people sharing solidarity. Like you can't display in theory, can't display pride flags in stadium or anywhere else in Qatar right now. No people were talking about taking them anyway. So maybe someone will do an epic like Pride flag or TFO at the Olympics, which would be uh, I don't know, I've never seen the World Cup. Then they might all get disappeared, but yeah, then the

entire with caution. Yeah, then then the stadium collapses and there we go. Okay. So the other thing that's sort of been happening is that Staidly has been buying up a bunch of clubs, but they brought Britain's Premier League Newcastle United team. There's like bought it. They have they they staides have this this thing called the Public Investment Fund, which is like it's kind of like a sovereign wealth fund kind of. They just use it to like it buy ship and they've they've been doing a bunch of

sports stuff. They've also been pushing into the sports, which is interesting the disasters. Yeah, so they bought the e s L, which is the does it still stand for Electronic Sports League especially? I think it still does, So there doesn't Okay, you're about to be a biggest and say sports on sports. No, they're video games. It's better than actually better than regular sports. They're different chess. The same ship is happening here. So the e s L is like one of the it's it's it basically ate

a bunch of the other. So they used to be a bunch of sort of circuits for a bunch of different like E sports games, right, things like kind of strikes seems like StarCraft, Um, those are those sort of I think there's another what's the other big one that s L does. Um seems to be most counts. Yeah, it's it's mostly kind of striking. They basically consumed all of the like StarCraft, so they used to be I M and dream Hack that dude stuff, and they've eaten

them all. And the e s L just got like bought out by like like the saudiastucking investment company, by and by by by a new sort of like media group thing at the Saudiast Forum that's headed by fucking former Activision CEO Brian Ward. Actually unbelievable. Yeah, who who's the guy who engineered the fucking Activision Blizzard merger and is now going on to do this bullshit a savvy games group. Yeah, I mean, like like like et sports as always, there's funds always sucked, Like a bunch of

the stuff is funded by like fucking cryptocurrency. Right now, I think the sports I just know, you can't take it seriously. It's the best. But yeah, they the Saudis have taken by beloved StarCraft League. I will be waging an unending holy war against them until they fucking ceased to exist. And yeah, yeah you become a stock Craft too. Again. It sucks. All I know about East Sports is Sonic

Fox and Smash Brothers. That's all I know, because everything else just seems like people who are having a fun

time playing video games. That's great. It was so my my post dog was funded by the IOC, and like at the time I was there, there was this massive like first of all, there was like a lot of boom iss discussing a v sports for sports and then whether they should be incorporated in the Olympics, And it was extremely funny to watch, like these people completely failed to understand the fundamental like you know, sports of physical contest with the metal element, right, doesn't matter if you're

moving a thumbs or your whole buddy. But it was very funny towards these people. I want to say this because this is okay, So it's just really funny. But also people get like really seriously injured doing the sports ship, like particularly Starker. There's a lot of Starker players who like sucking paralyzed, who have like like serious year damage

of their spines. Yeah, because they have like StarCraft players, like especially older days, you know, people like practicing sixteen hours a day, right, and they're sitting in a chair and they're they're fucking but you know they have like four PM, right, so you're doing like like six hundred actions in a minute, and people's people's risks just explode, like people get fucking like damage their spines like a

nerve damage. Like it sucks. Um. I have a friend who's a human physiologist who used to work for the Department of Defense here and said, diego helping like you know, like high speed m B people be better at killing people, uh, Navy people, I guess in San Diego, and then left to work for Red Bull in their sports to oh yeah, yeah, yeah, to be the human physiologist who like, yeah, optimizes people set up so that they're listed a angle and like guests,

I'm actually training, And I guess we won't be happy until Taiwan is playing Fortnite in a democratized, decentralized East Sports league that has union workers. And I guess that's what we're advocating for now. Yeah, that's the one goal

of this podcast. There is a there's a MYANMA National Unity Government e sports team, so actually that there was actually a whole thing in competitive StarCraft where someone someone held up someone held up a Hong Kong flag and they fucking like they cut the stream and fired this actually fired the two like like They not only fired the guy who held the thing up, they fired the two fucking casters who like who were just there. Well

it happens. Yeah, so critical respect that person is. See the John Carlos, that's the raised fist moment of the sports. Yeah so yeah, fuck sports do bad things. Make them

do good things overthrowing local governments. Yeah, I mean the the revolutionary I mean this is this has been written about by like actual academics, but the revolutionary but the revolutionary potential of like soccer hooligans and football hooligans are like it's massive, Like one on one thing, We'll do an episode about the fucking the Turkish soccer ultras who fucking stole a back hoe and we're driving it around Turkey. Doesn't thirty destroying fucking police barricades with it, sick of

ship every lots of like into Rear Square. Their Egyptian ultras were leading in the Maidan. It was Ukrainian nottras. And there's a really good book called twelve which people should read if they're interested in the polite to cool uh potential of football ultras. We should we should do something about like hooligans in general. But yes, this was supposed to kind of be about the various ways that

there's sports things that are kind of messed up. Yeah, maybe just regular one more thing, you can stop these fucking giant mega events from happening in your city, like people, people successfully do this. They've done this with the Olympics, have done this sub lesser sound the World Cup. But yeah, and if you can do that, like please do like don't you don't have to let these fucking sports company bullshit like exact ethnically cleanse your city. You just don't.

You can stop No Olympics l A is something that people in the U should look at. Yeah, that is That is your action item for today is look up. I think we've talked about an Olympics before, but then to Olympics on the park and the last thing I will I will give an Easter egg. There's there's one sport I actually like on ironically you enjoy curling. No not, fuck you you racists. That's the episode. It could happen

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