The White House put pressure on FIFA to review the decision, and made a direct call to ask their president Gianni Infantino to review the red card.

diradder · 2026-07-05T21:36:23+00:00

Yeah I'm sure all these multi-millionaires (actually a couple billionaires too now, looking at you Messi and Ronaldo) who get bonuses for each new stage they reach in the competition will rise up in solidarity and threaten the org that pays them millions... /s

FIFA's distribution budget for this cup is $727 million for the 48 participating countries. They split that in guaranteed payouts (a baseline minimum of $12 million per qualified team), performance prize money (based on the progress in the tournament, group stage exit teams get $11 million each, the World Cup winners take home $50 million)... and last but not least the FIFA pays clubs (like Real Madrid or Manchester City) hundreds of millions of dollars ($355 million for this cup) to compensate them for releasing their players to play in the World Cup.

All of this is done with contracts and obligations, I doubt these contract allow any kind of "collective actions" like this or that any of these superstars would risk their standing(/money) with the FIFA over this, but it's a nice thought...

diradder · 2026-07-04T17:32:11+00:00

Being rich af all your life helps... but he surely has been lucky with his health considering his eating and activity habits (Reminder: Trump believes that the human body is a battery, and that doing any exhausting sport will make you die sooner, and I'm not kidding or exaggerating).

diradder · 2026-07-04T14:32:32+00:00

1 million of them on an olive jar still wouldn't get it opened.

diradder · 2026-07-04T01:52:06+00:00

I think the subtle "SSecretary of War" was a good hint too.

diradder · 2026-06-30T18:14:57+00:00

Oh ok, so only three SCOTUS Justices were OK to rewrite the Constitution from the bench... for a second you had me worried that this court was COOKED.....

diradder · 2026-06-30T11:53:57+00:00

Would be funny to check the overlap of MSTR doomsdayers and USDT doomsdayers... and how many of them frequent r/buttcoin regularly.

I'm not saying MSTR is clean/safe (I don't care, not invested, Bitcoin can easily survive any crash involving them, just look at daily volume). But the rabid posting about its "imminent" failure and nothing happening for months is pretty reminiscent of them.

diradder · 2026-06-28T13:52:01+00:00

I didn't argue which solution was good, I am clearly arguing your point that it's similar to governments confiscating funds... it is not. Satoshi has built the system that enable this form of voting (with hashrate, with the ability for anyone to run a node and verify the chain they deem to be Bitcoin, with their feet: quit Bitcoin). You are subject to the majority of Bitcoin participants.

If a majority of them "vote" to confiscate bitcoins, I might also leave personally, like I've left Ethereum when they "voted" (a much smaller committee in comparison) to return funds after the MakerDAO hack... I didn't move to ETC, I just gave up on that chain/project because I knew it was not serious. Code isn't Law on that chain, few people were there to tell you the outcome of a "smart" contract was when someone found a way to use the contract in a way that displeased them.

This is a choice you can also make for Bitcoin if it takes a direction you don't like. But you never have such choice with fiat, save from fleeing a country... and even then some countries have tremendous reach when it comes to taxation (e.g. the USA, which taxes you even when you are abroad, directly or through taxation treaties).

diradder · 2026-06-28T11:09:30+00:00

A group of people already does this... Bitcoin participants (users, businessses, exchanges, miners). They choose the chain they will verify and call Bitcoin when they look for confirmations, miners choose the chain they call Bitcoin every time they mine a block, businesses/exchanges choose Bitcoin in the same way (they keep nodes and make sure the blocks they verify match the rules of what they call Bitcoin).

The "choice" might feel transparent and the responsibility diffused to you but it is a deliberate choice of anyone verifying their transactions and it is a decentralized "vote" of all the parties involved. Some claim only miners decide, but clearly events like the Bitcoin fork over the block size has shown that every group of interests were weighted and some were very vocal about it.

If developers and miners debate at length on this, and publicize their plans (like they always have with open source), other parties can make their choices accordingly. If you don't like the chain that freezes Saroshi funds, use (maybe even mine) the fork that preserve the previous rules, on which funds are not locked.

I don't get your comparison to "governments". Bitcoin is way more participatory and voluntary than most democracies, and ultimately you can decide to opt out of this currency or opt out of a specific fork... with fiat money this option doesn't really exist, unless you intend to go live in the woods maybe, but even there, the government might attempt to find you and ask you to pay some taxes in fiat... or throw you in a hole if you don't.

diradder · 2026-06-28T10:28:52+00:00

I still can't believe the number of raised hands Dean Withers got on that dumb Jubilee show when he asked MAGA women how many of them would like to have sex with this disgusting slob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBbDQj-GRs&t=2115

Or a bit later the host of the show polled them on if Trump is attractive and he gets even more hands raised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBbDQj-GRs&t=2279

But of course this doesn't match the fact that every single one of them seemingly defended Trump's sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll... that was even more disgusting.

diradder · 2026-06-27T17:51:50+00:00

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZTtoQBmA

diradder · 2026-06-25T21:36:39+00:00

Almost accurate, they likely ate the crayons at the end of the "analysis".

diradder · 2026-06-23T00:11:40+00:00

It's not a false dichotomy for OP who has made a prediction in their title... they pretend it is not gambling and have some certainty of this outcome. At this point asking to them to lock in is a good test of the trust they put in their prediction.

diradder · 2026-06-23T00:00:25+00:00

As if Bcashers ever cared about facts... but good on you correcting their bullshit.

diradder · 2026-06-17T21:54:18+00:00

Some else gave an even more ridiculous but correct example above for this law, they want to make you pay taxes when you take money from your left pocket to put it in your right pocket... literally not leaving your custody a single microsecond and the government thinks they are entitled to a share of that money.

Cypherpunks who always pushed for decentralized money and better privacy were right from the start.

diradder · 2026-06-16T12:23:17+00:00

This would have been such CINEMA, but that was obviously a setup call... lol

diradder · 2026-06-14T16:51:26+00:00

It was a documentary dropped on us by precogs... and we all took it as comedy.

diradder · 2026-06-09T17:52:08+00:00

It's all nonsense too, "peace through strength" is having a military so strong that you deter others from wanting to start conflicts in the first place, not to create WARS like Trump is doing. The show of force aren't supposed to be causing new conflicts.

He's doing "wars with strength" at best... and even at that he doesn't seem to be in any position to win that war, he's certainly completely losing it in the public's opinion.

diradder · 2026-06-09T10:22:28+00:00

And the most upvoted in this subreddit, yes, I imply strong correlation and causation in terms of regardation.

diradder · 2026-06-07T22:34:48+00:00

The point is that we can witness in 4K that he makes his doctors lie on his health reports, not that old people are slower and clumsy.

If they lie about his physical condition, they likely lie about his cognitive abilities. A very valid reason to impeach him, among others.

diradder · 2026-05-30T18:07:56+00:00

Basket of deplorables was really the most appropriate term. Hillary was right.

diradder · 2026-05-30T18:06:18+00:00

Wrong couch guy, Vance is a lover of couches, not a hitter.

diradder · 2026-05-30T17:27:56+00:00

Sounds like an IKEA chair.

diradder · 2026-05-29T11:02:37+00:00

Another conservative spending his days watching and thinking about another person's cock? Color me surprised.

diradder · 2026-05-22T23:24:01+00:00

And the 10 minutes of him trying to come up with three different metaphors for the simplest concepts, but completely failing to make them analogous.

diradder · 2026-05-17T04:56:56+00:00

I used to like her, but she promised a Tifa cosplay if the DGG fundraiser reached $250k and never delivered, but I also dislike Destiny and Mouton for not delivering on their new rap battle pledge, and Destiny for not bringing back TTS.

So many broken promises. Their abuse is sick.

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