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Does that make the UN American?

• petcat 2mo ago
  Is the UN a private organization legally incorporated in the US? The way that FIFA is in Europe/Switzerland?
  • triceratops 2mo ago
    Would FIFA be less corrupt if it were legally incorporated somewhere else? I didn't know registering an entity in another place automatically changed the character of the people that run it. That's magic. Literally mind-control.
    • petcat 2mo ago
      The point is that FIFA is a corrupt European institution and that has nothing to do with the US. But maybe you're trying to make a No True Scotsman argument.
      • triceratops 2mo ago
        > The point is that FIFA is a corrupt European institution It has "international" right there in the name. The vast majority of its members are not "European" in any sense. Calling it "European" is offensive to those members and to the footballing world as a whole. It reeks of a colonial attitude. I'll ask you again: what actually affects how an organization runs? The place that it's registered in, or the people in charge? FIFA has to be registered somewhere for legal reasons. That doesn't make it of that place. > But maybe you're trying to make a No True Scotsman argument. If FIFA were registered in the Caymans would you call it a Caymanian organization?
        • petcat 2mo ago
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