Cheating and grifting in their DNA
The more interesting question would be, why the UFC is supporting a fascist regime and what kind of action antifascist fans will take and which kind of individuals are openly boycotting this kind of endorsement. Any?
I suspect that the type of people who watch UFC and the type of people who agree with fascists have a very sizable overlap.
Scumbag family.
Here are the alleged screenshots. (Edit: Without having to allow the X API.)
What the fuck is up with that story with the link on the sentence alleging that Eric Trump had a fake account tricking people, that leads to the article about Trump wanting the UFC ring to be permanent, which makes zero mention of Eric trump, the word “fake”, the word “post”, and in reading the entire thing it says NOTHING about any of that stuff.
SI.com using link highlighting to manufacture consent? Seeing a “fact” highlighted in a link to another article now makes it true for the people who won’t click through to read up on it?
So Sports Illustrated has been kind of complicated these last several years. Pretty much the only reason I put it here is because the screenshots themselves on every other website I could find were through the X API, which is a) fragile in terms of link rot and b) not ideal for anyone not wanting to give Musk traffic.
On Wikipedia, we use their post-June 2019 articles on a case-by-case basis. Moreover, this is part of their “on SI” thing, meaning that it’s “MMA Knockout” which Sports Illustrated hosts.
As for that specific link, I don’t think MMA Knockout or this author is some kind of meticulous consent-manufacturing machine; I chalk it up to incompetence and lack of care. I’ve written a lot of articles, and I can think of a ton of times where I either linked to the wrong thing (probably not the case here), accidentally placed a link in the wrong part of the text, or even very often had text with a relevant link/citation and then accidentally left it when I changed the text to something unrelated. It’s a real thing that happens, and I have to assume MMA Knockout has minimal editorial oversight to catch these sorts of issues. (If I were assuming malice, I would chalk it up to shameless SEO, not to manufacturing consent, but that’s also I think farfetched because you could just shoehorn in “relevant” text.)
xcancel is a thing
Grift? In THIS family?? Who would have thought???
