The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on "Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on
Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track. Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

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On 11/30/2021 9:18 AM, Mark Jackson wrote:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on "Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track.-a Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

As if the U.S. has any room to talk. Yea jingoistic nationalism.
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On 11/30/2021 10:36 AM, Heron wrote:

On 11/30/2021 9:18 AM, Mark Jackson wrote:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on
"Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on
Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track.-a Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

As if the U.S. has any room to talk. Yea jingoistic nationalism.

As if the UK has no systemic racism, racial disparity or inequality.

Greenwashing, sportswashing; global PR agencies have outdone themselves.
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On 2021-11-30 7:36 a.m., Heron wrote:

On 11/30/2021 9:18 AM, Mark Jackson wrote:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on
"Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on
Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track.-a Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

As if the U.S. has any room to talk. Yea jingoistic nationalism.

Really?

What was "jingoistic" about that comic?
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On 11/30/2021 10:22 AM, News wrote:

On 11/30/2021 10:36 AM, Heron wrote:

On 11/30/2021 9:18 AM, Mark Jackson wrote:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on
"Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia
on Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign
construction workers at the Saudi track.-a Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

As if the U.S. has any room to talk. Yea jingoistic nationalism.

As if the UK has no systemic racism, racial disparity or inequality.

No disagreement there.

Greenwashing, sportswashing; global PR agencies have outdone themselves.

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On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 7:18:20 AM UTC-8, Mark Jackson wrote:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on "Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track. Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

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Forgot the USGP.
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On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 9:48:30 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:

Really?

fuck off troll

What was "jingoistic" about that comic?

fuck off troll
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Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on "Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on
Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track. Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

Thanks for that. Maybe I'm weird, but it works in the opposite way
for me. When a scuzzy regime hosts a popular sporting event, to me
that increases the taint on the commercial rights holders, rather
than reducing the taint on the scuzzy regime. It just draws attention
to the corruptness we know is there, but chose to overlook most of
the time. Some cases - Russia and Qatar managing to host everything -
make it impossible to overlook.

Phil
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On 12/2/2021 7:55 AM, Phil Carmody wrote:

Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on
"Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on
Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track. Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

Thanks for that. Maybe I'm weird, but it works in the opposite way
for me. When a scuzzy regime hosts a popular sporting event, to me
that increases the taint on the commercial rights holders, rather
than reducing the taint on the scuzzy regime. It just draws attention
to the corruptness we know is there, but chose to overlook most of
the time. Some cases - Russia and Qatar managing to host everything -
make it impossible to overlook.

Phil

Bingo. Same with greenwashing.
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On 3/12/2021 1:55 am, Phil Carmody wrote:

Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

The sports-oriented comic strip Tank McNamara has started an arc on
"Sportswashing," mentioning the F1 events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia on
Monday and continuing today with commentary on foreign construction
workers at the Saudi track. Starts here:

https://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2021/11/29

Thanks for that. Maybe I'm weird, but it works in the opposite way
for me. When a scuzzy regime hosts a popular sporting event, to me
that increases the taint on the commercial rights holders, rather
than reducing the taint on the scuzzy regime. It just draws attention
to the corruptness we know is there, but chose to overlook most of
the time. Some cases - Russia and Qatar managing to host everything -
make it impossible to overlook.

Phil

I couldn't agree more Phil. Scuzzy regimes usually have plenty of money - seeing who's got their
hands out for it (and are willing to close their eyes to anything else) says the most.
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Shaun.

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in the DSM"
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