WEBVTT - Sportswashing and the Police State 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:13.480 It's sports. We're doing touch five yard penalty that the 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:21.920 Angels have become the Mariners circles now body checking? Yep, 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:26.000 this is the sports episode. Welcome to it could happen here, 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:30.000 your favorite sportscast. I'm not the host of this episode, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.479 but I'm talking for some reason. Uh, James and Chris? 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.800 Why are we talking about sports? To distract us from 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.640 the crumbling of society around us? But more specifically to 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:48.239 talk about how sports I used to launde other reputations 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.519 of dictatorial regimes. And I know Chris has got some 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.680 interesting stuff on Balsonaro's Brazil and sports. This is this is, 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.280 this is the way before that. Sorry, yeah, I should 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.040 measure this. This is okay, like this is, this is, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.680 this is, this is some wonderful pet era of vintage crimes. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:10.120 Oh good stuff. Okay. I love a Brazilian crime, no 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.720 matter what the vintage. So I'm excited to learn about 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:19.160 the how the NFL legitimizes the military police state anyway, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.840 um ye, and it's not even football, is it? So 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.680 multiple things they're doing wrong. I want to talk first 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.960 about like the original instance of what we're going to 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.960 call sports washing, because everyone else calls it sports washing too, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.040 So it's like using these big global mega events to 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.440 laund it the reputation of a pretty questionable regime. So 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.360 the o G instance of this is the nineteen thirty 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.400 six Olympics which were held in Berlin. You'll probably be 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.320 familiar with who was in charge in Berlin. In n 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.200 it was the Nazis. That's a spoiler, and the Nazis 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.240 were actually given the Olympics. The Olympics were given to 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.800 bind by Germany, which was considerably less ship than the Nazis, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.920 but the Nazis took them on and they're really around 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.160 with them, and lots of the symbology that we associate 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.240 with the Olympics today, that the raising of flags during 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.359 the medal ceremony, the playing of national anthems, parade of 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:15.640 flags are the opening ceremony, the torch relay, right, the 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.680 torch relay goes from o g Olympia in Greece to 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.720 wherever the Olympics are being held. It's it's this big 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.040 ceremonial thing, right that all of these things were created 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.040 by its guy called Carl D. M who was a 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:34.400 Nazi to draw stronger links between the Nazi Party and 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.600 the ancient Greeks and position the Nazis the inheritors of 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.160 this classical legacy, right, and the civilized people in the 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.840 barbaric world, like the Greeks saw themselves. And obviously the Olympics, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.120 if you aren't familiar, draws its legacy from a largely 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.240 mythical construct of a games that did actually happen in 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.240 ancient Greek Right, So they claimed to be like a 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.120 reconstruction of this Greek tradition, except in the Greek truition 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.840 everyone was naked, which I think would make the Olympics 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.880 much more watchable. We could, yeah, it's that is one 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.760 of the things. I would watch the male gymnastics way more, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:14.160 not just naked but oiled. Yeah, honestly, then's men's swimming 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.600 would be a lot more interesting. Yes it would. Yep, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.560 naked Olympics we can get behind. But they didn't bring 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.360 that back. Nazi didn't bring that back. They didn't have 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.800 some naked statues, but they weren't big into nudity. But 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:31.119 they fused a whole lot of fashy eugenic shit, right. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.880 So the reason that they started having these medal tables 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.560 was very much to reinforce their idea of the superiority 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.480 of one race over other races, right, didn't really work 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.640 out for them in ninety six because Jesse Owens turned 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.360 up and owned them lots of different events and g 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.640 o into being of course of black American sprinter and 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:56.040 long jumper, and it didn't well. The Natics Olympics did 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.920 exist to did help significantly in laundering the Nazi and 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.560 they hit away a lot of their bullshit like they 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.800 for instance, like all the Nazi Party newspapers like weren't 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.160 distributed for the time that foreigners were in the country. Right, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.400 They hit away anti Semitic slogans. They even had a 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.599 Jewish woman on the German Olympic team, because there was 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.040 lots of sort of faster and and sort of they're 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.479 like neo liberal liberal complaining. I guess about like, oh, no, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.480 you're being anti Semitic or you shouldn't. Oh look there's 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.479 a Jewish person on your team. It's fine. You guys 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.360 are great. You guys aren't anti Semitic at all. It's good. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.320 We're sorted. And the US did nearly boycott the Olympics, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.560 but they decided not to. And that this guy called 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.440 every brandage who went on to be a piece of 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.960 ship of some right now. So like this Olympics, I 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.040 guess set the tone for the use of these massive 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.600 events to put on a show to the world and 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.400 bring the world's press and show them what you want 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:52.920 them to see and hide the stuff that you don't 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.320 want them to see, which I think is a nice 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:59.200 transition to talking about Brazil. Yeah, so we'll sort of 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.920 about that factive. Their sports has a second sort of 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.479 incredibly important internal political effect, which is that when when 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.320 when you have a sports thing that's large enough, like 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.479 when you have you know, like we have a World Cup, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.480 you have the Olympics show up, you have even to 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.159 sometime the Super Bowl, Like you what what it basically 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.760 creates is this like like it basically creates a temporary 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.279 sort of state of state of exception where just like 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.280 the sort of sort of normal functional society stops right 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:33.800 and you know, this can go. This can go in 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.560 a number of different ways. Like and anyone who ever 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.920 lived in Philadelphia, like okay, there there there's a version 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.160 of this in Philly where like after after the Eagles win, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.960 like for like fifteen hours, there are no laws like 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:52.680 when they just killed like thirty people. Yeah, well hundred 0:05:53.040 --> 0:06:04.000 ye was a yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got ahead 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.960 at the sports for killing tons of people. I think 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.200 that's likely to blame where the cops if we're having sports. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.000 But I mean, but that, but this, this is the 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.039 thing about sports, right, is that in order to sort 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.000 of like do security blah blah blah blah blo exceter etcetera, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.800 in order to make sure the game's work, you can 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.920 do fucking anything. Yes, right, justifies nasty s. Yeah, And 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.640 you know what, one of one of the things, one 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.120 of the sort of like examples that I wanted to 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.360 talk about about this happening is one that is really 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.040 not talked about that much, which is the two fourteen 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.960 World Cup in Brazil, which wound up i think, actually 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:40.120 having a pretty big impact on the way Brazilian politics 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.799 went and also just destroying the lives of unfathomable numbers 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:51.480 of people. So okay, so this whole thing, like I've 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.920 been in since it's happening to fourteen, It's been in 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.800 the works since like Lula was in office in like 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.920 the late twenty like late late two thousand's right, Um, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.360 this is this is like this is like one of 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.279 this is like one of the workers parties like big 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.240 things is that they're they're they're they're gonna have this 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.440 World Cup. Um, they've taken a ship ton of corporate 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.720 money to do it. They've taken you know, they've they've 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.960 they've spent they spent enormous about a political capital making 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.720 sure this is gonna happen, and the consequences of it 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.600 are just like astronomic. Something like two fifty thousand people 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.360 like lost their homes in order to like make way 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.840 for like the fucking stadiums and the fields and like 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.840 all of the sort of like bullshit around like all 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.920 the sort of security, theater stuff, all of like just 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.560 like debated. Yeah, and this is something that happens with Olympics, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.480 is to more famously, but like whenever you have a 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.800 sports event like this, there's just this giant cleansing that 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.920 happens of like anyone who's like onto the street, who's homeless, right, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.440 anyone who's just sort of like doesn't look right, particularly 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.960 anyone who's black just sort of like suddenly is like 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.640 disappeared by the police from this area. Um. But this, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.520 this this particular one in in in Brazil was interesting 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.120 because this is happening to just in fourteen, so and 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:09.800 she dozen thirteen, there were like enormous protests in Brazil 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.480 and actually there there's been another like set of soccer 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.160 events there in just thirteen then like something like eight 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.120 hundred thousand people were in the streets across Brazil like 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.040 protesting it. But yeah, there there were these like there's 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.320 enormous street movements. Is like like six percent of the 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.000 entire Brazilian population was in the streets. Um they were 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.520 like basically started as sort of like antiosterity protests because 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.199 cities were sort of like we're increasing the price of 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.079 like farris for stuff, and it gets it gets the 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.480 protest get kind of weird very quickly because on the 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.440 one hand, so like you have the Workers Party in power, right, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.400 and like the Workers Party has been sort of sliding 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.920 right by this point, but you have a sort of 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.120 like you have like a really bilitant left that's in 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:51.599 the street. You have a bunch of anarchist, you have 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.959 a bunch of autonomist or sort of like doing stuff. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.960 But then also right wingers start showing up because it's 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.400 a protest against the governments and the government's like nominally 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:02.240 a left government. And yeah, this leads to just a 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:08.640 really confusing stative affairs. But but you know the next year, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.920 this like and the protest like keep going for like 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.199 a long time, and there's still like even after like 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.160 the largest ones are kind of pee doing out, there's 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:21.000 still purchas happening. But when the World Cup hits, like 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.120 the World Cup is that like is one of this 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.720 sort of like like the arth, like the law suddenly 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.959 doesn't work anymore. Like in orders to do this, you 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.920 have to sign, like there's something called the General Law 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.319 of the World Cup, which is like a bunch of 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.319 like laws that you have to sign that like physically 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.679 change what your laws are like in order to have 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.840 this event magnificent. I mean that's actually that's actually great. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.640 You should do more of that. The great thing about 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.640 FIFA is that they've sharing a commitment to human rights, 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.839 to quality and democracy, and so I'm sure there's rules 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.880 are good rules, and you know, so so there are 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.800 fun things like like it literally like parts of the 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.120 zillion Constitution are suspended. What parts like well, so physically 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.160 a bunch stuff about the right to strike, Like there's 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.319 a special court that's set up that like it like 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.200 that within forty eight hours like like decide on whether 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:13.680 a strike is legal or not and what the thing 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.560 is going to be like, So that's not very good. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.520 It's really they're all not real very bad. Like like 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.160 there's there's the Brazilian government spans like seventy million dollars 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.079 buying basically police equipment and like from the U S, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.880 from Germany and from Israel, which is like the holy 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.440 trinity of good normal countries where if you're buying shipped 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.320 from them, you're doing a good thing. See, I thought 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.839 we were going to talk about how you know, there's 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.080 moments in our society where the regular rules of engagement 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.120 are suspended, and in such we can use this moment 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.360 of extra opportunity to find new ways of liberatory of 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.240 experiencing liberatory freedom. People tried that, and and and and 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.160 instead a bunch of literally like they were driving tanks 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.880 through the street like into like like blockading off like 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.079 roads leading out of the favelos with tanks like it was. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:10.240 It was nuts, like some incredible videos at this time. Yeah, 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.960 there were like laws in Brazil about child labor, right, um, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.720 guess what doesn't apply to fifas you can so they 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:23.240 can have fucking ball boys. They basic child labor. They 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.800 also have they have these There are twenty thousand people 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.840 who are working for this event who are who are 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:33.600 classified as volunteers. You can just use them as basically 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:38.640 they started doing slave labor. Yeah, what's the what's the shocking? Yeah, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.320 I know, are they forced into this or do they 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:47.839 actually volunteer? Kind of Okay, so sometimes the actual you 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:52.520 know what actual slavery because it's it's not actual, Okay, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.599 the Brazilian government will do actual slavery, but like this 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.679 is yeah, this is not quite that, but it's a 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.280 bunch of people who are kind of yeah but yeah, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.640 who have who have no labor rights, like, and the 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.840 everything happens is there's there are there are enormous crackdowns, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.880 like they just start they start doing the thing that 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.160 like the US does it too, but I think I 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.959 think like Canada's is more than the U s where 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.280 it's like when when when they know a protest is 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.840 about to happen, they like go find the like six 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.280 people who they think are protest leaders just arrest them beforehand. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.960 They started doing that. They there's a bunch of people 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.320 who get tortured. There's a bunch of like the police 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:37.160 are basically just going ape shit. They like, yeah, they 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.959 there are some like that. There's a point in this 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.400 where like the garbage workers go on strike and they 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.800 actually win because it turns out that if if in 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.800 the middle of the World Cup there's fucking garbage piling 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.480 up on the street, like it's really bad. But like yeah, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:58.160 like this has like this has a just like absolutely 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:03.920 disastrous effects on like just just sort of what's like 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.560 everything is going on president in politics like um, one 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.400 of the things that Lula does. I'm gonna talk about 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.360 this more and in another Brazil episode, but Lula like 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.160 sent a bunch of Brazilian troops to invade haiti Um, 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.959 which fucking sucks. And then those troops came home and 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.439 they were used to occupy the favelas in real while 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.599 this was going on, and this kind of crushed like 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.200 what was left of the sort of left that had 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.600 been in the streets. Like they just got like they 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:36.000 just got they just got stomped because the Brazilian police 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:41.800 are on terrifying and like literally they're deploying colonial troops 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.040 like in the streets and and yeah, and so so 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.079 this this is the sort of second kind of thing 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.319 that you can get with sports, which is like on 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.040 the one hand they're used to start of whitewash regimes 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.480 and on the other hand they're used as as as 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.400 basically a way to like do fascism inside of a 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.040 state where you can you know, like you could you 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.520 could do a state of exception, right like the law 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.839 seas to a this uh, the state becomes like this 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.199 entity that can just sort of like do whatever it 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.400 wants to order to preserve itself. And it's a way 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.000 that you can just you know, you can socially cleanse 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.400 to ut people, in which something that would be like 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.600 you know, would genuinely be pretty difficult if you try 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.240 to do this in any other circumstance. But you know, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.800 it's it's sports, so you can just basically do ethnic 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:27.960 cleansings and yeah, it sucks as sometimes you can do 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.920 it with the support of the other So like the 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.640 World Cup, it's going to your Qatar, right and and 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.960 they one of the things is happening gives its quote 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:43.120 unquote security consultant from the participating nations are coming. So 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.240 you have this like incredible situation where like a the 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:53.000 Qatari and like police chief I believe has been like, hey, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.160 for your own safety, fans, if you do happen to 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.360 be gay and it's illegal to be gay right in Qatar. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.120 Like just guys, just don't hold hands with your partner 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.800 because it's not us who's going to come and beat 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.280 you up. It's it's the regular qataris right like you, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.440 you won't be safe and we can't protect you from 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.080 their violent homophobia. And then we've got like Britain's sending 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.840 soldiers to be like, yeah, let us help you with 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.800 your security consultations. Guys, we need to keep this country safe. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:21.760 Oh god, okay, so did you do you know what 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:27.800 else does violent security consultations? Is it Britain? Yes? Yeah, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.080 we were now sponsored by the Nation of Britain. Is 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.960 better help, better help online counseling. If you don't sign 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.720 up for therapy, a military a military team will break 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.320 through your windows and force you to go to therapy 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.200 with a car. That's that is that is the better 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:57.080 health guarantee. And we're back and I am not thinking 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.440 about people who I know who we're physically dragged by 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.760 cops in the therapy. It's great, it's a great never happened, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.320 never happened. No one's ever been forced to go to 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:12.160 therapy non consensually. It doesn't have Yeah, so yeah. Other 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:19.240 things that don't happen include include sports. Yeah, sports aren't 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.200 real their fingent of our imagination if we simply the 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:28.040 ontology of sports is fatally flawed. One might say that's 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.000 sports are a way of teaching people to be complying 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.240 with rules and to be administrators in the colonial empire. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.840 Or people can argue that sports offer a gamified version 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.800 of the world that allow you to recognize problem solving 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.280 in fun and creative ways and encourage team building. So 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.320 I don't actually like sports very much. And the other hand, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.000 do quite like sports, but I'm aware of the role 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.000 they play. Okay, so this is like a big thing 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:03.960 that the Gulf States do you um is particularly do 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.520 this sports bullshit? And Carter, I think, usually is smarter 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.200 about it than like Carter just has better pr People 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.359 in the saudiast do, and I mean they're they're slightly 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.720 helped by the fact that they are marginally less bad 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.720 than Saudi Arabia, like marginal, like this is a this 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.840 is a this is a this is a fucking a 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.040 bar that is so low you can trip over it, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.640 like I think we can just say both bad. Yeah, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.480 So should we talk about the Catholic system a little bit. Okay, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.000 So the Gulf States have this thing called the catholicis 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.440 now and there have been some alterations to it and 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.520 something that made it less bad in the last few years. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.920 But basically this is a system that lets Okay, so 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.480 there's a bud there's a lot of mirket workers, particularly 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:54.760 from Southeast Asia that like take jobs in the Gulf 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.440 because they pay they have The Gulf States have a 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:04.800 like a obscene, fanatical, like world rending amount of oil money, um. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.280 And so people you know, come seeking these jobs because 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.080 they need to feed their families, and you know, there's 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:10.920 a huge amount of oil money here, like they have 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:16.480 just every petro dollar um. But the way this labor 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.639 system basically works is that like, in order to like 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.880 be in the country, you have to have a job, 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.840 right you like, you like very specifically have to have 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:28.440 a job, and your employer has to be there. And 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.600 so very very bad things start to happen when you 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.240 have a group of people who you can just like 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.320 instantly destroy the life of and so these will happen 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:41.199 where for example, like so you okay, so you show up, 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.000 you show up to Carter right, and your boss will 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.280 just take your fucking passport and it's just gone, right, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.000 And you know, it's like, okay, if if you don't 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.359 do literally everything they tell you, like you, you're not 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.320 gonna get you hastrot back. You're just fucked. And this 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:02.560 creates a like a genuinely like very close to slavery 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.639 has a lot of the fucking horrors. Like you, there 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.560 have been a bunch of stories people like fucking jumping 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.880 out of buildings trying to escape and then like being 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:17.520 dragged back Like it's fucking horrifying labor conditions. Um, and 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:23.360 it's not not indentured servitude. Yeah, absolutely is. It's yeah, 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.560 it is. It is one of the worst. It's it's 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.520 one of the worst labor regimes on earth that is 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.760 not literally slavery. It is. It is. It is in 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:37.280 the category of technically not slavery, but like very horrific close. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.840 Yeah it is. It is. It is one of the 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.000 worst things that exists. A serious and genuine solution to 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.359 if you want to solve like a bunch of the 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.440 problems of all of the bullshit that's happening in the 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.159 Gulf region. If you gave every single one of these 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.879 migrant workers like several artillery batteries and a bunch of 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:58.160 assault rifles like instantly, like so many of the problems 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.840 of this region would be solved. Yeah. So I was 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.479 just looking up statistics. Six thousand, five hundred of these 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.920 workers have died in cutters since it was awarded the 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:13.520 World Cup. Like that's that's uh, that's that's a pretty 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:18.200 alarming um number of Like so it's from India, Bangladesh, 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.680 no pause forri Lanka prices like that, right, I think, Yeah, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.520 these people have absolutely no rights and they have incredibly 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:28.120 dangerous working conditions. And also we got about like people 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:33.120 are super fucking racist, Like yes, like that it's it's 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.800 it's the kind of racism that you get when you 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:40.440 have literally like basically pure absolute power over someone. It 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.760 is a it is a fucking trip. Yeah. People will 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.520 literally have to pay off the debts that they include, 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.120 like you pay a recruitment trophee or a travel fee 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.240 to get these jobs. Like we're not messing around when 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.600 we say it's an indentured certitude. Yeah, and it's very 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.879 hard to do that. Your your your employees can just 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.200 you know, like they can just withhold your pay eight 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:05.639 for whatever the fun reason, because yeah, because it's absolute power. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.320 There's like a few should I read. There's one that's 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:09.960 an example of one of these deaths that I could 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.840 read if we want so. This guy, um Madhubal Apoly 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.520 I think his name. He's from India. He was forty three. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.119 He left his wife and his thirteen year old son, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.200 Rejesh in India to take a job in catering, and 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.680 they never saw him again. One late night, when his 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.600 roommate returned to his dorm, he found Bullapai's body on 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.520 the floor. Like thousands of other sudden and unexplained death, 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.719 it's passing was recorded his heart failure due to natural causes. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.920 Despite working for his employer for six years, his wife 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.960 and son received a hundred and fourteen thousand rupees it's 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.439 about a thousand pounds about a thousand dollars now, as 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:47.359 well in compensation and unpaid salary. Jess had no idea 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.960 why his father died. He had no health problems, he said, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:54.600 there was nothing wrong with him. Yeah, pretty, there's I'll 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.040 will link the Guardian story. But there are dozens of 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.400 these stories of people who die working in extra heat 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.320 for long hours and no breaks and terrible conditions. It's 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:07.240 pretty terrible shit. Yeah, and a lot of these And also, 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:08.640 and this is the only thing we should point out, 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.400 is a lot a lot of people have died directly building, yes, 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:19.080 the stadium stadium, Yeah, which is like just like the 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.200 absolute human horror of why on why are we using 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.760 Like why are we building a giant fucking soccer stadium 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.520 in the middle of like in the fucking desert, Like, yeah, 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:32.560 Jesus Christ, in a place with no endemic soccer culture. 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:34.439 It's not like the stadium is like, you know, going 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.119 to be packed week in and week out with the 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.800 Qatari Altra is doing teapots and ship like it just 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.879 exists for people to come once to watch this spectacle 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.239 and then leave again. I mean, it's the same thing 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:50.000 with all the Olympics stuff, right, Like they like tank 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:55.600 a city's economy to build a whole like basically miniatured 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:59.760 like village in town that then becomes useless after like 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.440 a yeah, some of them will just get turned into 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.879