Saudi Arabia to pull investment from LIV Golf tour (www.middleeasteye.net)
from technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to world@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 15:57
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68047850

Kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund to stop funding breakaway competition, as major projects continue to be scaled back.

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iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 16:12 next collapse

What are they preparing for?

Makhno@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 16:17 next collapse

World War 3

iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 16:18 next collapse

Kinda what I eas thinking

UnspecificGravity@piefed.social on 30 Apr 18:34 collapse

Exactly. Same reason the UAE pulled out of OPEC.

The resource and ideological wars are already under way and countries with the means to do so are taking their positions to take the best advantage they can.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 30 Apr 20:23 collapse

Its reactionary because oil funds aren’t flowing right now.

DrCake@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 16:51 next collapse

Hopefully this is because they now realise sportswashing doesn’t really work. I’m sure it still does to some extent but everytime they do something like this there’s a lot of articles about the human rights violations and killings. Can’t be good long term

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 30 Apr 20:23 collapse

Nah, they just have cashflow problems because they aren’t moving much oil right now.

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io on 30 Apr 18:14 next collapse

Hah, hah. It was a good way to figure out which golfers are all-in on misogyny and chainsawing journalists. Turns out it's a lot of them.

JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world on 01 May 04:50 collapse

Its a good way to find out who wants an exorbitant payday for minimal effort.

Morality aside, it’s the same as the comedians that did the last tour. It is all about the money. They never agreed with the actions of these offensive regimes. Hell i don’t agree with the actions of my own. But I’m not getting paid ten million to look the other way so it’s easy to stand on the high road and judge.

I would love to say I myself am above that sort of influence, but I’m probably not. I could internally justify far less to be honest.

Malyca@lemmy.zip on 30 Apr 21:21 next collapse

Lol I guess bribing the idiot isn’t going well

HubertManne@piefed.social on 30 Apr 22:02 next collapse

I honestly thought they fully owned that and several other bs things.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 23:56 collapse

Sorry guys, this one is my fault.

They tweeted about golf. I tweeted back that they “gulf up deez nutz” so I think they realize that golf will make them gay and had to pull out prematurely.