A thread to talk about the WWE/KSA deal

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Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

I mean, I still feel like there is a vague bit of prejudice behind the emphatic anti Saudi stuff but at the same time the more I learn about this deal the worst it sounds. I had thought it was just an expansion thing

# ¿ May 4, 2018 02:21

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 05:45

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

rare Magic card l00k posted:

On one hand it would be really, really, REALLY gross if Corey Graves got punished for being anti-Saudi Arabia.

On the other hand I want to see how many hoops people would jump through to defend WWE if they did.

I think we need to separate anti Saudi Arabia vs anti The Saudi Royal family. This seems to be an issue with the monarchy more than the people

# ¿ May 4, 2018 02:27

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

oatgan posted:

it was bigoted the other thousands of times

Yeah nothing about the Iran segment was out of character for the WWE it was just for the benefit of other brown people this time. Wwe has done empty jingoism for decades now it just seems weird because it's not our jingoism

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:05

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

I am looking Forward to the month long Ramadanger that ends with the Eid al Fight

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:08

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

sexpig by night posted:

is Vince just really a massive stan for a genuinely fuckin evil regime of dipshit cartoon rich people?

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:16

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

There's a part of that wants to tell the Saudi prince about Muhammad Hassan

Gaz-L posted:

I think Vince may actually be terrified that the XFL is going to tank again and he's going to lose hundreds of millions trying to make it work, so took a deal that bolsters WWE's coffers enough that they can take it.

XFL is wholly separate from Titan this time

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:21

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Gaz-L posted:

Sure it is. They just had a WWE exec pitching Orlando on taking an XFL team.

financially separate

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:24

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

sexpig by night posted:

The problem is they actively shilled for them not just in generic 'and boy what a lovely country' ways but just straight up lies by trying to make a brutally oppressive, colonial, theocracy sound like fuckin Wakanda in real life.

Yeah, when I was defending the WWE before the Rumble, I had assumed it was just expanding and doing overseas house shows, not straight up acting as a PR firm for the Saudi royal family

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:26

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Gaz-L posted:

And when Alpha Entertainment starts struggling, who's going to invest and bail them out? Or how is Vince going to raise more capital to inject into it?

I am almost positive the shareholders for WWE would riot

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:27

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Gaz-L posted:

Hence why you take the Saudi money, to try and make the bitter pill easier to swallow.

That's not how shareholders work. You don't get to take on a massive loss for the CEO's vanity just because you also found a profit somewhere else.

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:29

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

I must be out of the loop but where does the Saudi Royal family being responsible for 9/11 all of sudden come from

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:30

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Jerusalem posted:

Oh my God, I just realized that they probably think they ARE just like Wakanda

Nah, Saudis are mad racist towards blacks

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:48

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Now the Emirati, those fuckers think they are Wakanda

# ¿ May 4, 2018 03:49

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 05:45

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

This is why I want them to find out about Muhammad Hassan because you know they have no idea

# ¿ May 4, 2018 04:03

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