Azmo23 - 2014-06-09
ends really strong
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bongoprophet - 2014-06-09
you really want to check out this whole episode for the final part about al-Assad
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Jet Bin Fever - 2014-06-10 They have the song part up on youtube if you're curious!
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Vaidency - 2014-06-10
He didn't even touch on the fairly frequent match fixing in international soccer, including at least up to the practice matches before the 2010 World Cup (although not yet proven in the tournament itself.)
Soccer games are much easier for corrupt referees to fix than most other sporting events because a single dodgy call leading to a penalty shot or red card can easily reverse the outcome of a game. It's the perfect sport for a gambling cartel to manipulate.
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GQ - 2014-06-10 Well, you can only do SO much in a half hour show with multiple stories, and the focus is on the corruption at the top.
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That guy - 2014-06-10 Though it is funny to think of S Korea's soccer federation as World Cup villains.
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exy - 2014-06-10 It would detract from his "but I just love soccer too much to care enough who's serving it up" counterpoint, maybe, as it addresses the quality of the games.
Rogue/Counter FIFA organization should get started up, use some old set of FIFA stadiums over and over for their "World Championships" or whatever, and just invite every country's b-team to 'em, until maybe people decide they prefer to play for (I'm granting) a less-evil organization's tournament. No doubt FIFA has all sorts of exclusivity contracts binding up, I dunno, players, and maybe its old stadiums.
Be glad to see all the modern, evil pro sports clubs just get organically replaced by grassroots teams. (I guess I don't mean the minor leagues, because aren't those generally scale models of the bigger ones?) Ones that valued their players and fans, that didn't put injured people on the field, etc. Maybe they play in smaller stadiums, are organized so profits are shared as dividends between players, owners, staff, etc. I'm sure NFL etc would forbid networks from showing such if they wanted to carry NFL games, but maybe this gives whichever global conglomerate doesn't have a great line on the NFL a chance to offer an alternative AFA. But maybe that guy shows FIFA and the other guy shows the WFL or whatever.
I might even find some interest in the results if cities' teams were composed of local athletes, rather than trading them around and such. (I guess they'd need to enforce a sabbatical period between teams, for when league players "happened to" move. Though that doesn't address initial recruitment.)
The fuck am I doing talking about sports.
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memedumpster - 2014-06-10
I am done trying to guess how bad the world is, it's always worse.
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Riskbreaker - 2014-06-10
Brazil has been protesting this charade since day one. Not the authorities of course. FIFA money is delicious money.
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Binro the Heretic - 2014-06-10
So why exactly do so many people think of the poor and powerless as "parasitic"?
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memedumpster - 2014-06-10 Capitalism is evil.
Or...!
Ayn Rand was a shitbag.
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James Woods - 2014-06-10
Amazing
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takewithfood - 2014-06-10
These clips should just auto-upload to PoeTV.
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