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I’ve heard people use the term since at least 2012 in football mostly in regards to UAE based ownership of Manchester City, but also Qatari ownership of PSG. Definitely been used more and more recently though.

Honestly most of the time I feel like it is classic eurocentric/racist stuff because the term is basically only ever applied to ownership or funding that is not from EU/UK/US.

I’m sure there is some genuine “sportswashing” going on that could be studied but I find it hard to believe that the Saudi Public Investment Fund decided to buy Newcastle or spend billions on golf competitions because they want random sports watching westerners to have a better opinion of the monarchy, which seems to me to be what the term sportswashing suggests

This is a good way to think about it, thanks

It seems like a lot of big chains (cough walmart) would rather spend thousands and thousands on dubiously successful loss prevention schemes and security equipment rather than just hiring more staff to work tills instead of having 95% self checkouts. I’m no business genius but I can’t imagine the math there works out.

Gen Z all snuggle together in one bed not even cause there’s nowhere else just cause we want to

It’s interesting to me how popular/mainstream anime seems to be these days. When I used to watch a ton of it like 15+ years ago it was super niche in north america, now I feel like it comes up in discussion all of the time with people I wouldnt expect to watch it.

I’ve seen the National Geographic clothes here in Canada but CNN brand clothing is just something else

This just makes me wish I were any good at chess cause I feel like the non-pawn side would be able to win pretty easily but honestly I’m not sure

Hot take if you lack critical thinking skills and read CNN or the BBC as gospel I guess, but we dont do that around here

This is top quality post never considered it from that perspective before, thanks

Cars are one of the biggest scams and money pits in western society. So much of our personal and civil resources are used to maintain cars and the infrastructure necessary for them. While I do love the act of driving cars and find them cool as hell, I really wish I didn’t have to rely on one to work and survive.