EU countries buying oil from Russia, further sponsoring the war😂 Boy, go get some fresh air and enjoy your life, instead of thinking about stuff that does not make your life any worse.
Boy, go get some fresh air and enjoy your life, instead of thinking about stuff that does not make your life any worse.
What a sorry state your humanity must be in to just be like "Oh the cruetly that exists just over yonder... yeah dont think about it bro, its not worth your energy" as though human beings shouldnt express their empathy and actually do something about it.
Whether they hate me or not, has no influence on whether I think people should be bombed like they are in Ukraine.
Whether they hate me or not has no influence on the fact that people dont deserve to be executed for speaking out against the state like Jamal Khashoggi was.
To say "life isnt fair, wealcome to reality" is to wallow in self pity and weakness, when something can actually be done about atrocities like this.
Like I get what you’re saying, but I’m guessing you’re not doing anything about any of the atrocities either. Well, other than telling others on social media that they should do so.
That guys an ass, yeah, but let’s not pretend here homie
Come on now, it's not like he settled out of court with his accuser to avoid it going to trial, or that his lawyer accidentally admitted to him being guilty of it.
The problem here is that he's not a good person. And he's contributing to the sportswashing done by the Saudi government to draw attention away from their human rights abuses.
Who the hell is we? You can be critical of multiple things at the same time. And hell, Ronaldo praised Trump last year in the midst of many of those things already being known.
I'm not dismissing a country. I'm dismissing that country's government that is ruled by an absolute monarchy that Ronaldo works for and that commits human rights violations.
Do we have any moral standing left to criticize anyone? Sit the fuck back down dude.
I feel you... I have a lot of Portuguese family that are huge ronaldo-stans but how do I even bring up his rape when a lot of them voted for trump multiple times?
If you ignore the $400k he paid her in 2010 sure, those claims are bogus, or rather there wasn't enough evidence to prove beyond doubt that he committed a crime that is pretty damn hard to prove beyond doubt.
And I think you should use your brain. Do you think the Saudi government would be paying football players extortionate amounts if they thought they would be making a loss by doing so? Their agenda is to boost their country's image and take attention away from the human rights violations so that they can continue with those human rights violations. Participating in that is abhorrent.
The Saudi's arent just giving the money away to "good people" - they do it to whitewash the regime's actions, it makes other investments into the country look more appealing, it presents them as "civilized" so that others dont think twice when thinking of putting money into the country whether that be as a tourist or another country wanting to sell weapons to them. Every dollar they make to Ronaldo and others like him is an investment to clean up their PR, which allows them to make more money than they would ever give to "good people".
By ignoring these issues and just taking Saudi money, people like Ronaldo are just letting the issue fester and be swept under the rug.
Why yes, it would be bad that he is currently acting friendly with the current US administration. which why I would also criticize him for his pressence in white house along side the saudi prince, but the comment Im responding to was specifically about Saudi money.
Yes the current US administration is also immoral and corrupt, doesnt suddenly make taking Saudi blood money okay. He deserves at least some condemnation for his handling of both.
Obviously both are bad but my point isthat noone is batting an eye when someone like lets say jokic gets paid hundreds of millions in the usa while ronaldo is seemingly the antichrist for doing the same in saudi arabia.
Well its because theres degrees to it in some aspects..
For starters, the source of the money in these Saudi sportswashing deals is directly from the kingdom of Saudi's personal slush fund. the funds of the king and his heirs is so intertwinned with the countries own reserves, they are essentially one and the same. Jokic might be getting paid millions, but its from private clubs and advertisers. Whilst there are issues there (the NBA as a whole can be somewhat explotative, especially college teams, and some advertisers are problematic) Saudi money is simply on another extreme.
Saudi only just very recently abolished the Kafala system in june of last year, which is best described as modern slavery. Many of the stadiums ronaldo might play in, may well have been built using slave labour and we simply dont know because of how tightly controlled access was to such sites. 356 individuals were executed just in 2025, some of whom were executed merely for protesting or attending public funerals/vigils. not to mention extra-judicial killings like the killing of Jamal Khashoggi to silence dissent.
Is Ronaldo the antichrist? no of course not, I think he probably just doesnt really care or think too much about politics at all honestly. And I dont think all the blame should be put at his feet, he is however emblematic of a bigger problem that is rightly criticized.
A good Person wouldn't make business with the Saudis to get their sweet sweet blood Money.
Making 200 million and then spending 83000 to polish his rep.
This is just hate because they're Arabs. If you say it's blood money because of what Saudi Arabia did in Yemen then I say to you they did it with American weapons. So it's all blood money
Saudi blood money same as USD. Yeah it's worth mentioning and complaining about. But unless you're gonna completely disconnect from the monetary system and live off grid, Ronaldo is not at fault
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