Sports

the degree of sportswashing that Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent the other theocratic oil petrostates) has pulled off in the past few years really, to me, demonstrates how... i dunno... far off the mark (for lack of a better wording) the moral panic about China's influence in the global economy is generally? in a lot of ways these governments are worse, but there's been generously 1/1000th the outrage about how impossible they've made it for someone to actually divest from things they own. often it falls to fans and individuals to drum up outrage--and like, that's not gonna work here, lol. they don't care.