The Super-Elite Is Tightening Its Grip on Combat Sports
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https://jacobin.com/2026/06/ufc-freedom-trump-white-saudis
Beneath the spectacle of fighters beating each other bloody on the White House South Lawn, fight promoters, tech billionaires, and the Saudi government are working to concentrate wealth and power in fewer, richer hands.
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I’m not sure why I’m supposed to give a crap
You’re supposed to be excited because we’re that much closer to the hunger games.
Bread and circuses. And athletes are not billionaires even if they are paid well to destroy her bodies for our enjoyment
They are also tightening their grip on useful parts of the economy.
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The unquenchable bloodlust and desire for violence by the psychopathic wealthy is truly one of the most sickening aspects of the human-constructed reality we were born into. Whether it’s slavery or child-eating, it’s the darkest stain on our species.
The colosseum of Rome saw wealthy slavers sell humans for sport and saw those same people killed and eaten for entertainment.
I can see why the rich are happy to send us back into the stone age; it must have been so easy to trick people with propaganda and lies as to who their enemies were (immigrants, foreign empires, the poor, etc) and distract from the real enemies (the wealthy) because there was no way of checking what was and wasn’t true.
Eh, I dunno about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration
Great, get a good grip around it’s neck.