{"id":69182,"date":"2015-06-01T14:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69182"},"modified":"2015-06-01T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T22:50:53","slug":"the-us-tries-to-impose-its-morality-on-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69182","title":{"rendered":"The US Tries To Impose Its Morality On FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/not-not-from-the-onion-from-the-onion\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* On some level the US going after FIFA really is just a smaller-scale and less harmful version of invading Iraq or stirring up violence in the Ukraine. They\u2019re trying to impose their values, like democracy and integrity, on low-trust societies where those values aren\u2019t going to work.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: we don\u2019t have words for \u201cintegrity\u201d or \u201cgender\u201d in my Eastern European country. We had to import them recently from English.<\/p>\n<p>* As you imply Steve, big sport is all corrupt, and that corruption spreads right up to the highest echelons. For example, deep down, every horse-punter knows that racing is all rigged, yet they still keep wasting money following it.<br \/>\nFifa is an interesting case. Basically, England, the world\u2019s biggest soccer nation \u2013 a nation which literally has billions upon billions of pounds, and a fair amount of export earnings, tied up in this \u2018sport\u2019 \u2013 was severely aggrieved when they weren\u2019t awarded the world cup \u2013 which they saw as their \u2018right\u2019, correctly sniffed corruption at FIFA \u2013 although this is stating the obvious \u2013 and have been gunning for the head of Sepp Blatter ever since in that nasty, incessant witch-hunty sort of way only the British tabloid press can do.<br \/>\nNow, Blatter seems a decent enough fellow who isn\u2019t any more \u2018corrupt\u2019 than any other FIFA boss, but the British tabloid press in full throat combined with the full pomposity of the BBC matched with a sense of wounded English pride is a ferocious beast, that just will not ease off.<br \/>\nThe irony is that the domestic UK soccer industry is the most low down money grubbing cynical excuse for a \u2018sport\u2019 ever devised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * On some level the US going after FIFA really is just a smaller-scale and less harmful version of invading Iraq or stirring up violence in the Ukraine. They\u2019re trying to impose their values, like democracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,29731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-soccer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69184,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69182\/revisions\/69184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}