Arsenal Thread - 2022/23

[schfc6]

Where do you think 2/3rds of the money in Silicon Valley is coming from?

I’ll be honest, tech is not a field I know anything about. But I’m guessing like most of America, the origins start in oil?

 

[Stoned Rose]

Ha ha ha!

What an enormous fanny fart.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I’ll be honest, tech is not a field I know anything about. But I’m guessing like most of America, the origins start in oil?

Sorry, it was more a general question than one directed at you!

But pick a Silicon Valley start-up and it will have seed money attached from Softbank, PIF, ADIO, or somewhere else from the region. They're central to the growth of Uber, Snap, Lyft, WeWork, and also have huge investments and stocks in Disney, Microsoft, Nintendo, Alphabet, Meta and any other big player you care to name. If you use the internet you are almost definitely using a platform where the money, in one form or another, has come from "oil money". Whether it's the platform itself, its backend support like cloud features, the hardware you're on or anything else.

The region is shifting away from a reliance on oil to sport, entertainment and communications; biomedicine; tech; and property. Those industries are in desperate need of seed money. It's why I always get annoyed at the idea of "sport washing": it completely misses the point of what is happening right now if you think what they're doing at City is about ego or reputation.

 

[urban genie]

Anyone with a brain cell can find Kreonke owns waggoner ranch in Texas home to his 1200 oil wells.

this halfwit obviously cannot read or write to educate himself

 

[TinFoilHat]

Ha ha ha!

Is that our Jack?

 

[Gray]

Anyone with a brain cell can find Kreonke owns waggoner ranch in Texas home.to his 1200 oil wells.

thia halfwit obviously cannot read or write to educate himself

Absolutely correct, they just recite what they hear in the medium without doing any research on their own owner.

HYPOCRITES.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Ha ha ha!

"Arsenal have no oil money"

While wearing a top with their main sponsor Emirates on it and going to a football stadium called The Emirates.

You couldn't make it up

 

[Silva&Silva]

It's coming....

Looks like one of those zombie movies where the zombies are all trying to get at the same person.

 

[Silva&Silva]

Ha ha ha!

The toys have well and truly been thrown. I hope we batter them at the Etihad.

 

[Crouchinho]

Ha ha ha!

It's a pretty known fact they bribed their way into the top flight, by paying off voters. Instead of winning it by promotion, they were allowed into the top flight where they have stayed ever since.


Of course this is glorified like the Cantona kung Fu kick. Rather than anyone highlighting its immoral!