alt Hacker News> They literally went to the king with gold in hands.
Exactly what I was thinking about when I was writing my comment.
I can understand that big corpos are not our friends and are purely money driven, but publicly bribing the president with gold is on a level no one ever expected. Right in line with the Fifa peace price.
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fhdkweig • yesterday at 4:06 PM
And don't forget the $400 million airplane that is probably filled with listening devices that will feed info to all of our enemies.
IDK, the FIFA world peace prize was completely unsurprising to me. It’s a massively corrupt institution and has been for decades. It’s out of the norm in a US context, for sure, but that kind of thing is penny ante for an organization whose Wikipedia article has multiple subsections on corruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA?wprov=sfti1#Corruption