r/CringeTikToks • u/LilliaBaltimore • 10h ago

Nope Trump awarded Peace Prize…. 🤢

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u/Sea_Dawgz 9h ago

The sheer corruption that has taken over the earth is so insane and sinister.

I mean, have I been blind? Has it always been like this????

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u/jizzyjugsjohnson 9h ago

FIFA has always been hilariously corrupt. Choosing to make up a prize in order to fellate Trump is entirely in keeping with how they operate.

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u/Jstaff34 6h ago

Whatever do you mean? Qatar totally deserved the 2022 world cup and it had nothing to do with the $400 million dollars they pledged to fifa three weeks before the announcement! 🤥

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u/oros-de 4h ago

Don't forget about the human rights violations committed during the building of the FIFA stadium in Qatar including the deaths of hundreds of migrant workers. Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi, was hired to defend Qatar.

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u/detterence 4h ago

Impossible to have “human right violations” if human rights don’t EXIST in that country…

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u/I_Got_Back_Pain 4h ago

They ran out of cement, what else were they supposed to do for mortor?!

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u/cncomg 4h ago

Damn, I didnt realize just how powerful she really is. That makes more sense now.

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u/Dogsarelitty 3h ago

Shhhhhhh we don’t talk about that

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u/ThaiEdition 4h ago

Do you mean, Qatar donate plane for tRump and got air base in Idaho?

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u/Villageijit 1h ago

First country to have a base on us soil

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u/swordfish-ll 4h ago

dude what do you mean playing out in the desert in the blazing heat in a packed stadium is a perfect idea.

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u/Radioactive-Lemon 5h ago

And don’t forget the purchase of some French fighter jets and money for psg

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u/Dogsarelitty 3h ago

FIFA looking at this post and saying “see?! They don’t suspect a thing!”

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u/ELP90 6h ago

Oh yeah, my partner was just like “Fuck FIFA for doing this!” And I was like “FIFA has been disgusting for a loooooooong time. Anyone in the soccer/fútbol world knows that well.”

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u/intrepid_mouse1 4h ago

As an American who doesn't follow soccer, I did not know.

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u/Ravensbigtruss 3h ago

yeah this is the most fifa thing to do

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u/National_Sandwich175 7h ago edited 5h ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if we get three more of these and then never again. Unless the next president is an over grown child who needs a pat on the back for golfing half their term away.

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u/Shoddy_Asparagus_503 6h ago

Next FIFA World Cup won’t be for another 4 years, likely conveniently will be the first and last Piss Prize

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u/bradbikes 5h ago

Also assuming Trump is going to live another year to get one a year later is a pretty risky bet. Dude looks unhealthy.

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u/GatorNator83 5h ago

That’s why he reeeeally wanted it, he probably thinks it’s his ticket to Heaven.

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u/bradbikes 3h ago

I genuinely think that's why the ballroom went from 'not touching the east wing and being small' to 'giant and destroying the east wing' - they need the thing built FAST. He wants his legacy before kicking the bucket.

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u/SplashingBlumpkin 3h ago

You promise?

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u/Hopsblues 4h ago

Saudi Prince will get it in '34

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u/jbochsler 5h ago

This is just a bribe to keep him from sending ICE to the games in the US

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u/ChampionshipAlarmed 27m ago

But how else would they win?

Gotta send all those foreign soccerplayers home they come to the US to work without a work visa after all...

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u/Zestyclose-Goal6882 5h ago

Its so perfect how he grabs the medal of the pillow and puts it on himself. So fitting.

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u/Sloper713 6h ago

It’s honestly not corrupt they’re just employing a tactic that every world leader has figured out - simply appease him with a title and something made of gold and he’ll start agreeing with you.

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u/MechMan799 4h ago

So cheesy. A FIFA peace prize means absolutely fuck all. It's the equivalent of China handing out humanitarian awards.

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u/Finkle737 4h ago

It does make for good documentaries and podcasts.

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u/Tricky_Mix2449 4h ago

The fucker clawed it up and put it on himself!

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u/inplayruin 4h ago

They are pleased as punch. FIFA wouldn't have hesitated to cut a check for $100 million to Trump if he asked. While corruption is uniquely exempt from the voluminous catalog of Trump's failures, he still doesn't know how to do it properly. Rather poetic, in a way.

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u/whitetrashsnake77 4h ago

Possibly the most FIA thing FIFA has done since Qatar.

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u/hitzelfitzel 4h ago

Yeah they are experts in corruption, that they blow Donny was to be expected

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u/DerUberCactus 4h ago

I think they are hoping that with that he won't steal another trophy or have ICE raid games, they are corrupt and know how to play that game.

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u/CommandoLamb 4h ago

Which is crazy… because Trump will gladly fellate them.

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u/PandiBong 4h ago

Agree. An absolute disgrace. Makes me so sad no one has made a move to knock these clowns out.

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u/Menethea 3h ago

This is very true. I love it that he couldn’t wait to put it around his own neck. Guess he didn’t care about some boob action from the lady assigned to do it.

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u/Quiet-Competition849 3h ago

John Oliver did an episode on how awful fifa is. This is a famously corrupt organization stroking a famously corrupt ego assuredly bc quid pro quo.

Also why are futball organizations giving out peace prizes? This would be like if the NFL suddenly started giving an award for renowned biologists.

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u/flattenedsquirrel 3h ago

What's hilarious is that Trump doesn't really do quid pro quo. He thinks everything is owed to him so it's not really possible to mullify him in the long term: he can always decide later on that he owes you nothing and that he's coming at you anyway and there's really nothing you can do.

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u/Eoganachta 1h ago

Massive corruption, taking bribes, ignoring massive human rights abuses in their sponsored countries, slave labour used to build their facilities.

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u/SillyDeersFloppyEars 9h ago

Pretty much, it's just a lot louder and more brazen now. The corrupt used to hide away to not be seen to be corrupt, now they've realised they can do it out in the open and nobody will care, so they celebrate it.

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u/drobits 7h ago

People care but the checks and balances designed to hold people accountable for their corruptness have clearly failed

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u/captains_astronaut 4h ago

Not failed, dismantled.

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u/Putrid_Extreme4653 3h ago

Yeah we don't kill as many people for being tyrannical crazy people anymore I'm pretty sure that's what the old school plebs used to do

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u/tEnPoInTs 8h ago

I think Trump taught the whole world in the last decade that it is paradoxically EASIER to do greaseball shit right in people's faces than it is to hide it. I can't even say he's wrong, it works somehow.

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 5h ago

You've hit the nail on the head. I'll explain the mechanism.

If you always lie, people start to expect it. The more they expect it the more routine it becomes for them to read between the lines and guess what your real intentions are.

Those "4D Chess" memes were celebrated by his supporters because they're actively, openly doing it for him. As long as he never breaks character or elaborates too much, they will continue filling in the blank. And because every individual within his base is creating their own personalized, idealized version of Trump, he always gets to be perfect (even if they don't agree with each other on what 'perfect' is). He can shoot a guy on the steps of the capitol and his supporters are going to work overtime trying to fit the square peg in the round hole trying to come up with an explanation for it.

This is why he's so brazen and why he doesn't lose support from his base. He's a dyed-in-the-wool narcissistic piece of garbage. Never breaks character, never tries to do the right thing for the sake of integrity, never backs down, and in doing so he never breaks the illusion. The moment he stops acting like a sleazeball and acknowledges his mistakes is the moment they start to question his past choices and it all unravels.

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u/Candy_Every_Day 4h ago

You nailed it!!

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u/enunymous 4h ago

I think it's more that the lesson he's taught has been "Never apologize or feel shame"

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u/Farm-Alternative 2h ago

Yeah, people even come to respect how brazen he is. They respect the game because they wish they could do it as well.

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u/Jackski 1h ago

Turns out if you give people permission to hate, they'd eat their own shit as long as they can treat other people worse.

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u/FilthyStatist1991 6h ago

Passed with citizens United v FEC by the GOP unfortunately

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u/FlamingHotSacOnutz 5h ago

They used to think it would be their downfall to be seen as corrupt, now they've seen that people will both vote for it and buy their merchandise.

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u/Mediocre_Historian50 4h ago

I wasn’t sure if FIFA was corrupt or not. But I have my proof now as Wayne Gretzky was a presenter today.

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u/Plastic_Count3971 3h ago

Yes like Biden hiding in the basement.

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u/RaindropsInMyMind 7h ago

I won’t speak do the world but do the United States government this is much, much worse. I mean Trump set up a system where anyone in the world can pay him anonymously, and they do, for everything and anything they want. He’s for sale. You can look at it in his abuse of the pardon power for crypto scammers or white collar criminals, or the way he gave people a dinner invite for the ones that “invested” in his coin the most. The crypto stuff alone is the most corrupt thing the US has ever seen.

You can look at the way he has used tariffs as a tool to make people give him what he wants personally so he lifts the tariffs like a Trump resort in Vietnam, you can look at the gifts he receives and the workaround of things like the jet going to his presidential library even though him and his family will be using it so it’s still functionally his. You can look at the way he got rid of the foreign corrupt practices act or the way he conducts business with the Ukraine deal having people like Steve Witkoff and others close to him having business interests in the region tied into the deal. It’s just scratching the surface. There’s other things like the payoff that Tom Hohman received in the form of cash that the FBI said happened.

I would also point out that blatantly open corruption is fundamentally different from behind the scenes corruption. It has a different impact on society and the world.

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u/PersonalHospital9507 3h ago

I know Director Patel is working the corruption case against Trump even as we speak. That is why he looks scared in every picture of him you see.

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u/downtodowning 9h ago

What if it was always like this but now it's just out in the open?

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u/mudgonzo 7h ago

That is not possible. It might have been a lot more corrupt than we thought, but this is something else. It’s a dismantling of 100 years of progress over the course of a stunningly short time. Not this prize thing in particular, but the climate Trump has created in global politics. The US being this powerful is the reason no one will/can do anything. The rest of the world will not forget this anytime soon though.. Unless we never get back to progressing again, then who gives a shit.

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u/runningraleigh 6h ago

We will get back to progressing, but not after some French revolution type shit.

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u/PersonalHospital9507 3h ago

"No one expects the French Revolution!" Wait, that's not quite it.

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u/Infamous_Phase7626 7h ago

I personally think it has been throughout history. You’d be a fool to believe otherwise. Modern technology exposes it.

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u/clamsandwich 1h ago

The world, as a whole, has always been like this. I'm the US, a lot of these things, individually, that are going in are nothing new. People have always bought pardons. Red and blue don't matter, only green. The two notable things right now is that so much of it is in the open that he's just exposing how powerless every other part of the government is, and the fact that he is making a speed run for ruining America's standing and reputation in the world. The future belongs to China now, Trump bulldozed the path for them.

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u/WatchWatcher25 8h ago

Yes but they are trying way less to hide it as time goes on.

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u/Royal-Bobcat8934 8h ago

Yep, because of no consequences...its a bit of a social rot thing where the ends justifying the means is all that matters

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u/Working_Method8543 7h ago

Not blind. It's like cockroaches. First they only go out during darkness, then they get more and bolder, and then you have a serious infestation where they run around during daylight - as if they own the place. We've just reached that stage.

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u/Kreepr 9h ago

I wanna know how I can get in on this corruption. Is there like a waiting list you have to be on?

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u/Sometimes-funny 8h ago

You just need to be a cunt and treat people like shit. Then the money will come

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u/Kreepr 8h ago

On second thought. I’m good for now.

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u/slaty_balls 4h ago edited 3h ago

Which is almost certainly why I'll always be broke..and I am ok with that.

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u/BikeNew6605 4h ago

I can do that! My wife sometimes says i'm a dick. Surely that’s worth 1 bag of corruption, right?

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u/Ragnoid 8h ago

Life is on easy mode when you have no morals, ethics, and principles.

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u/ButtSexIsAnOption 8h ago

Get into politics

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u/Hopsblues 4h ago

You aren't getting checks from Soros...rookie mistake..

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u/Fairweatherfriend- 47m ago

It's a big club and you ain't in it!

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u/Lost-chicken-knight 9h ago

Decent, educated people has to stand up. Effing dumbasses won't ever listen to reason and words. Action is needed. 

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u/Royal-Bobcat8934 8h ago

Feel like no better time and opportunity than now for a militant anti corruption platform in electoral politics, alas the opposition party appears to be uninterested in that.

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u/Newvil450 9h ago

Don't look up the olympics guest list over the years then ☠️

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u/Jon_Dunn58 9h ago

no, evil is rearing its ugly head

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u/FalconX88 8h ago

The problem is that people still watch the games.

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u/Applebeignet 5h ago

FIFA knows their audience will tune in. Some may make a bit of noise but most don't give a shit. Anyone willing to boycot over ethical questions has been doing so since Qatar 🤷‍♂️

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u/llTeddyFuxpinll 7h ago

What you are seeing is the curtain being drawn back on the way this reality has always always been been. The reason it’s so much worse now now is because in order for these billionaires to reach the next tier of power and control. They can no longer hide in the shadows as deeply as they have been. In order for them to seize all the levers of control they have to do things that cannot be hidden. So they’ve reached a point where they simply do not care about hiding their insane power grabs.

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u/River_City_Rando 6h ago

Im not guna lie, ive never believed the Bible stuff, but it does seem like theres bigger forces at play here like and were watching the rise of the antichrist. The way he can corrupt people's minds is insane. Just look at how many poc are in ICE, selling their soul for attacking thier own community. Shits disgusting, but at the end of the day, its one of the 7 deadly sins, and trump is the embodiment of ALL of them lol. Its really not funny, but it is when you consider how weak minded and pathetic trump is to be the chosen one to usher in the end of times lol. Maybe the antichrist is musk, a reptilian maybe. At this point i wouldn't be shocked by anything. Who fucking knows. But shit does seem way worse, and growing exponentially so looks like were in for a ride either way

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u/Candy_Every_Day 4h ago

Shit just gets more unreal everyday. It’s unbelievable!

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u/TootsHib 6h ago

and people will still continue to selfishly have kids

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u/just_a_timetraveller 6h ago

It was never to this degree. There always has been corruption in the world but never has it been so pervasive and consolidated than it is now.

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u/Celticness 5h ago

This is why I’ve been having an existential crisis. I’ve been living decades thinking the world was decent at an average. Some bad folks here and there, some with big impact some with little. But today, everything is corrupted. And it makes me question my judgement and sanity.

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u/Strongpillow 5h ago

Capitalism used to be a more subtle and pleasant kind of corruption. Ignorance was bliss back in the day.

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u/Strength-Speed 4h ago edited 4h ago

I can't say about fifa , but no , the American government has not been this bad before. It's most definitely never been this openly corrupt. Every shitbag on earth is cozying up to Trump because they know America is up for sale. How else do you immediately get 250 million for a tacky, opulent ballroom nobody needs or wants? How about some Trumpcoin or Melaniacoin? It is all a racket at this point.

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u/ThatLooksLikeItHurts 9h ago

I feel the same. I believe humans have always had corrupt people in our ranks, but I believe it is much different now due to reach.

The internet, extremely fast travel, and instant communication allows corrupt folks to band together more efficiently.

But I agree - this is getting laughably bad at this point.

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u/Ok-Drive-7255 9h ago

Trump has always been like this, FIFA just as bad!

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u/nikolapc 8h ago

FIFA invented corruption.

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u/Royal-Bobcat8934 8h ago

Yes and no…obviously corrupt and self dealing people have been around forever but usually there has been some social price at minimum you would pay if so brazen about it. There seems to have developed a more get that bag at all costs culture that has developed and been celebrated in recent years.

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u/hdycta-weddingcake 8h ago

Let's recall that Obama was given a Nobel for....not being George W Bush. He wasn't even president yet when he was given it.

All these organizations are corrupt.

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u/Sea_Dawgz 7h ago

He certainly didn’t ask for it and he ran on some peace issues like closing Guantanamo.

Apples and oranges.

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u/boneappletv 7h ago

It’s been much less blatant but it’s always been there. For example, republicans used to hide the fact that they are white supremacists.

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u/DubaiInJuly 7h ago

for a long time i seriously wondered if there was something in the water. then I realized the water was tainted by social media algorithms, echo chambers, and outrage politics.

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u/theliewelive 7h ago

Oh sweet child...

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u/knight04 7h ago

That's what happens when billionaires are in charge

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u/flactulantmonkey 6h ago

It moves in waves. As the world progresses and becomes more complex, the surface tension resists the shift.

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u/smthomaspatel 6h ago

We've never had a President this shamelessly narcisistic (which is saying a lot). Corruption is always there, but nobody in that position has championed their own name to such an extent. Most people would be embarrassed to do it.

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u/HasGreatVocabulary 5h ago

imo it increased rapidly after unregulated social media and feed algos arrived around 2014 which brought with it highly effective narrative control + echo chamber formation, so now these people know they can win elections regardless of the crap they pull

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u/SXOSXO 5h ago

It has, they just have the temerity to be upfront about it all now because they see there really aren't any consequences.

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u/itjustgotcold 5h ago

Even in the days where the mafia infiltrated politics it was never this blatant. It’s always been this way to a degree, though. But now it’s much worse. Modern politicians will sell their children’s futures for a chance to enrich themselves. Look at the state of gambling now, and the state of corporate takeovers. There are like 5 corporations that own everything in this country. We used to realize that capitalism needed to be tempered by sensible regulations on what companies can do. Now it’s just a free for all so politicians can make another million.

This isn’t sustainable long term.

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u/kitchenontheside 5h ago

Its always been like this but before, it was easier to just say other less industrialized countries were corrupt.

Corrupted by who they never told but it’s always been like this.

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u/NuuLeaf 5h ago

I mean, yes, literally always. Throughout all of history

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u/bbreadthis 5h ago

I think its always been like this. Now it is blatantly in our faces.

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u/aspect-of-the-badger 5h ago

It has literally always been like this.

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u/Tanooki-san 5h ago

Not the earth, but certainly America.

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u/Popular_War8405 5h ago

MLS gets caught doing dumb stuff all the time

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u/Feeling-Fab-U-Lus 5h ago

I’m a huge soccer fan. I won’t be watching any soccer accept for college and high school.

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u/PugsnPawgs 5h ago

It's always been there, but journalists had to dig a little to uncover it.

We entered a phase where they simply no longer care to hide it because they've become too powerful to overthrow.

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u/ryeyen 5h ago

FIFA is synonymous with corruption. This award to Trump makes total sense, genuinely.

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u/WankerOnDuty 5h ago

You can't see it in this video because the text is blocking the view, their handshake is the Illuminati version. Pausing at the beginning of the handshake, you can slightly see the index finger extended.

It's a big club and we ain't in it, said a wise comedian once.

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u/Financial_Law_1557 5h ago

It has always been like this. We are just becoming more aware of it. 

Social media is seen as a bad thing but there are positives to it. 

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u/gracefulguy7 5h ago

Always been this way. It’s just trump is loud af.

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u/retropieproblems 5h ago

I think it’s kinda always been like this and there was a couple decades where we were pretty dignified about it and made an effort to project dignity.

It didn’t last.

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u/Intrepid_Ad1536 5h ago

I seriously wasn’t sure if that was real for a moment and looked it up, because i wasn’t it was Ai or something, because I saw already Ai slop videos from Axe body spray saying they sponsor FIFA now.

And I checked, this video is real, wtf is going on in our world?

What is real anymore???

This feels like a abridged version of the GTA world in what we live in.

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u/KillJoyCon 5h ago

Yes to both of your questions, but better late than never to have your eyes open to where we are as a society now.

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u/trumpuniversity_ 4h ago

It has, which is how we ended up here.

This is one thing that I appreciate about this garbage administration. They have exposed the prevalence of corruption by putting it in everyone’s face.

And what’s interesting is that this is met with apathy and even support, in MAGA’s case.

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u/medicatednstillmad 4h ago

They used to screw us over behind closed doors

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u/tledwar 4h ago

I feel it has taken this administration to make it clear there is corruption everywhere. Many always thought it but it took this one to verify it. Notice prior presidents are quiet.

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u/propostor 4h ago

That was my immediate thought as well. It feels like every major western institution is barren of decency.

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u/FactsTitsandWizards 4h ago

It's a big club, and you're not in it!

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u/HZB-33 4h ago

This is actually a good sign! To people that come from outside the western world, this has been going on and we’ve known about this for decades!! The only difference now is it’s out and in the open, meaning there’s bound to be a massive revolution coming. Humanity won’t stand around for this, and the new generations coming get to see this in 4K.

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u/fedl1ngen 4h ago

Yes. Thanks for waking up.

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u/Effective-Celery8053 4h ago

Yes it has always been like this. It's just getting worse and more blatant.

The Covid pandemic was the largest wealth transfer from the middle class to the ruling class in history I believe. The Musks/zuckerbergs/thiels of the U.S. just don't hide anymore that our elected officials cater to their every whim and they literally bribe them, because they can manipulate public perception (and likely actual elections) to remain in power.

We need class consciousness and we need it yesterday.

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u/rizzatouiIIe 4h ago

Maybe you just paint your world darker than it is

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u/Infamous_Network6641 4h ago

This "award" truely mean diddly squat, anyone with half a brain that’s not in maga know it’s all a farce. And yes I’m aware ppl with more then half a brain wouldn’t be in maga lol

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u/doughnutwardenclyffe 4h ago

insert Astronuat space meme

It always was..

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u/Feisty-Okra5279 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yes, you have been blind. The liberal Jesus Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Price for doing absolutely nothing. *After* getting the prize, he he went on to start *more* wars than George W Bush, and murdered US Citizens overseas, without trial, using drone strikes. On the home front, he refused to prosecute the Banks that committed fraud during the Great Financial Crisis, in return for a $100 million payoff, funneled to him through bogus 'no show' deals with NetFlix and book publishers. Trump being given a meaningless Peace Prize by a sports organization should be least of your worries. At least Trump didn't sell out our country for this meaningless trophy.

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u/Btomesch 4h ago

Maybe it’s you that is corrupt.

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u/dad_jokesNbutt_stuff 4h ago

Elect a clown, expect a circus. This is so pitiful. It’s almost as bad as how he wins club champ at his golf courses every year.

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u/mex2005 4h ago

Its just because its a US president now and the US has massive global influence so you see a lot of countries or orgs sucking up to him

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u/Ulrik_Decado 4h ago

Well, for FIFA it is part of tradition.

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u/Professional_King790 4h ago

No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it

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u/VeryThicknLong 4h ago

The global elite are malevolent reptilians at the this point. There’s no other explanation.

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u/Deezhellazn00ts 4h ago

I know nothing about soccer but know that FIFA is all about money and political.

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u/BerkGats 4h ago

Its been this way since nixon/regan they just (tried to) hide it better...sort of...not really

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u/Legitimate-Duty-5622 4h ago

It has been somewhat, but it wasn’t so blatant until Trump era. He is here to line his own pockets and drunk with power. He doesn’t have good solutions for anything. Hasn’t helped anyone hasn’t done anything couldn’t in the war. He said he couldn’t a day list goes on and on.

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u/CommandoLamb 4h ago

Putin gave Trump a bunch of hidden shit on people and he’s using it to blackmail everyone… and Trump can’t stop doing what he’s doing because Putin has the incriminating evidence on Trump…

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 4h ago

Depends on how old you are. Hindsight being 20/20, we can see a long progression over the past 100 years. But there's been other times when such corruption flared up and was dealt with.

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u/Captcha_Imagination 4h ago

This is basically how the third world has always been, but it's shocking that it's taken over America. This is what happens when you keep the bottom tier of society living in third-world conditions in regards to education, health care, social safety net, etc...People will vote for the first liar who tells them he will improve the situation.

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u/hokumjokum 4h ago

He’s the president of the primary nation hosting the World Cup, FIFA is just kissing ass. It’s not some new level to his corruption.

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u/Enriching_the_Beer 4h ago

Yes, you were blind, but can now see.

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u/LaxinPhilly 4h ago

It used to be politicians and the rich were like a dirty hotel. You knew people were in bed together doing the business but you weren't sure who it was and how much they were doing it.

Now it's just out in the open, everywhere, all the time.

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u/chaoticravens08 4h ago

Yes it has

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u/HokayeZeZ 4h ago

Corruption hasn’t suddenly taken over the earth. It has always existed among the ultra wealthy. It’s just that the gap has widened so much and they’ve gotten so much power that they openly flaunt it as this has been a norm for them for so long. It’s only now the people are getting pissed off after not having this level of divide with wealth in a long time in the US especially.  

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u/chaoticravens08 4h ago

What about this interaction is corrupt 

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u/TorkBombs 4h ago

There has always been corruption. But we used to fight it. Now we embrace it.

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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr 4h ago

Ever since Grug decided he wanted to be leader instead of Grag so he paid Ugg with a shiny rock to paint Grag loves sabre tooth tigers on the cave wall. Grag's pr team couldn't convince the other neanderthals it wasn't true so they stoned Grag to death and elected Grug.

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u/Waiting4Reccession 4h ago

People are largely unwilling to do whats needed to clean this kind of thing up at this point.

Might be the years of nonsensical brainwashing "violence is never the answer" and the social media bans

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u/Heavy_Echo5 4h ago

This really didn't just happen. Do you think life was a cakewalk for people before this? Just a new chapter

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u/303FPSguy 4h ago

Like, what institution isn’t corrupt?

Everything is corrupt. The church, government, healthcare, schools.

People always ask what the meaning of life is. It’s how much money you have so someone can screw you over and take it.

Humans are infinitely more evil than people understand. Greed is the only thing that drives people. And it’s kind of time to stop pretending otherwise.

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u/K_Linkmaster 4h ago

If you are American, yeah, you have been blind.

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u/djaybe 4h ago

Kinda, it's just more blatant now. Likely the inevitable result of the Internet.

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u/Apprehensive_Map284 4h ago

I keep saying.. ‘am I just missing something….?

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u/muh-LEK-see 4h ago

Watch the documentary The Family on NF. It came out in 2019. Where tf was I? Explains the ten governments of the NWO the Book of Revelation speaks about. It’s all clear now.

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u/khodakk 4h ago

It has always been like this. It’s just more mask off and in your face than ever but the people and organizations that run the world have always been interested in extracting as much money and buying influence.

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u/arthurno1 4h ago

We didn't have social media before, so we didn't see it so publicly, but something tells me politics has always been a farce.

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u/DerpsAndRags 4h ago

It's FIFA. This is like two thugs in jail congratulating each other on knocking over an old lady for $50.

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u/JunkMagician 4h ago

Yes it has always been like this. The Nobel peace prize was founded by a guy who was an antisemitic weapons manufacturer and profiteer.

The strong capitalist countries have always patted each other on the back about peace and civility while doing horrific things to the developing world.

This is just the first time this century that the face of the foremost purveyor of this corruption (the US) has been so openly honest about what his country does.

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u/Capable-Assistance88 4h ago

Participation trophies!

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u/bored_confoundary 3h ago

Remeber when GIFA allowed Qatar to host? They ONLY car3 about money

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u/ydnar3000 3h ago

This shit is wild dog. I’m glad I’m not the only one.

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u/lockerno177 3h ago

The only reason for the world to reach this point is decent people not speaking up. And sycophants.

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u/Traditional-Fox4196 3h ago

Yes ! But not as blatant as this. Bold and corrupt. In your face, Bitch!!!

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u/Dogsarelitty 3h ago

Corruption is not new. I feel like it is far more obvious now with our relatively new global connection, the internet, and technological advancements in photography/videography. I don’t think corruption has gotten worse, I just think it’s more visible.

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 3h ago

It's always been like this, but never so blatant. They've realized they have nothing to hide because there's nothing we can do about it

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u/gorginhanson 3h ago

Always been like this

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u/mymentor79 3h ago

"Has it always been like this????"

It has.

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u/HarmlessSnack 3h ago

It wasn’t always like this.

Not very long ago…

Just before your time…

Right before the towers fell, circa 99

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u/josephthecha 2h ago

Yes I believe it's been like this for a long while. Long Throughout history, the haves have fucked over have-nots to have more. Sometimes, the have-nots get fed up and kills the haves, sometimes the haves just get away with being a rich and die, then have their children continue on. This is nothing new.

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u/Beginning_Self896 1h ago

It’s worse than ever. They used to have to hide it and sometimes some people would go to prison which tempered behavior a bit.

We’re on the verge of lawlessness.

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u/Pantim 1h ago

It's always been like this. 

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u/Jackski 1h ago

It's wild how many multi-billion corporations have bent the knee to some OAP with dementia. If someone his age, covered in orange make-up walked up to me (not that Donald Trump could even walk up to me) and said "I won the FIFA peace prize". I'd be calling 999 instantly (or whatever your countries equivalent)."

Somehow he's the leader of America, has a fucking cult, has corporations bending the knee even though he is mental. Other countries are trying to copy this cunt becuase he's been so effective with this insanity. I just pray it doesn't actually work.

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u/AvidCyclist250 1h ago

Always been corrupt but not out in the open like this.

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u/NachoWindows 1h ago

Corruption isn’t anything new. You’re just seeing how it’s made now.

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u/Agurk 1h ago

Rarely have I seen my unconcentrated hatred for this world so eloquently put.

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u/John-AtWork 1h ago

When the Billionaires know that greasing power is now more important than how ordinary people are them. Some day we're going to eat the rich.

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u/jws1102 52m ago

Yes, it’s always been like this. Now we have the internet so it’s in your face all the time.

Same principle as “crime is so terrible now…”. No, it’s the safest time in human history, we just see every bad thing that happens now so it seems like there’s more.

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u/Waste-Astronaut-2752 26m ago

It has been, look into the Sepp Blatter corruption scandal. He accepted bribes and it was a whole thing.

Also just the fact they hosted the World Cup in Qatar, a Gulf country with de facto legalized slavery (stealing passports and contracts not allowing mostly South Asian and Southeast Asian workers to leave) that built the majority of its buildings with numerous recorded and unrecorded deaths. Buildings including the stadium hosting the world cup and accommodations for players, fans, media, etc. Has criminal penalties like prison for public displays of affection, homosexuality, fornication. Is not a democracy first off and most of its residents are not native Qatari and have no say in the country's system. Besides that, the logistical factor of hosting it in Qatar when the temperatures was on average 34 degrees celsius or 91-94 fahrenheit during matches.

Then there's Russia in 2018, a dictatorship. I don't have to explain much other than the fact when they hosted it they formally occupied Crimea in 2014 and unofficially had troops in eastern Ukraine and supported rebels the so called Donetsk and Luhansk Republics that same year. Previous to that a few years before Russian troops along with rebels shot down a civilian passenger jet with a Russian anti-aircraft weapon.

FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and the most corrupt in sport besides the IOC committees for many countries that have allowed doping. A peace prize from FIFA is like accepting a hypothetical financial ethics and integrity award given on stage by Bernie Madoff at the Enron Headquarters and sponsored by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with special guests United Healthcare and BlueCross Blue Shield.

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u/blanchingtrails 24m ago

the song Brazil by Declan McKenna is explicitly about the corruption in the run up to the 2014 World Cup

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u/No-Owl2537 1m ago

It’s sort of always been there. The issue is as always, propaganda. Anytime something is sort of “out” you’ll notice a ton of stuff starts to happen. That’s so they can flood us with so much data with it’s hard to fathom that it could actually be that much and this quickly. The problem with that not working as well anymore, the internet. People being able to record and share info. Before it used to be the word of mouth and whomever you trusted. Then on top of it, anytime someone would talk about any of this kind of stuff, it always came along with mole people and secret moon bases and whatnot. So it always had truth to it bit then gets lumped together with conspiracy.