Considering an average MLS game has an attendance around 22k im not sure you understand what you are attempting to dunk on.
But i get it, america dumb and what not. Meanwhile, quatar built their stadiums with slave labor, averaging 2 slave deaths a day on certain projects and every game was packed to the fucking gills.
What, making yourself an international pariah and also actively being hostile towards anyone who even just looks foreign who's in your borders is not good for tourism? Who could've guessed? I'm sure that spiking oil prices will fix it right
Well no shit. Who wants to disclose their entire lives to a fascist government, and then be at the absolute mercy of a bunch of homeschooled ICE morons?
Even when the world cup was in my country I didn't go to any matches. Not that I could afford it, but even if I could I still wouldn't have gone.
This time I won't even watch it on the TV. That's how much I dislike that fat cunt paedo and his regime.
I haven’t watched international soccer since they awarded Russia and Qatar with the World Cup. Fucking corrupt pieces of shit supporting the worst people.
Yes, boycotts matter. Real boycotts, like the Montgomery bus boycott that lasted for months and truly hurt the recipient financially - what MLK called "economic withdrawal".
Punctual boycotts like buying nothing for one day, or not watching something on TV, are just feel-good stuff that actually achieve nothing at all.
Also, I will point out that it took a lot more than not listening to Hitler's speeches on the radio to defeat him.
So yeah, do not watch the matches if it makes you feel better. But it won't change a damn thing.
The reason hotel maids and bartenders will be hurt is because the CEO's made leveraged bets and are losing their asses. That's not the fault of consumers who choose not to spend, that's the fault of the wealthy.
Or let me put it another way: I don't owe those workers to make their boss rich so he pisses a little of that wealth onto them. I would much rather provide a social safety net to help them out when their boss loses money being a prick.
Well I'm sure as fuck not going to feel morally obligated to provide the wealthy even more profit in either case, so that's actually moot. But if we're going to worry about the plight of the common man, let's go about it the right way.
Let me guess, if someone is held hostage for a ransom, and the ransom isn't paid, and the hostage is killed, you blame the person that didn't pay instead of the kidnapper?
Let them get screwed let your whole country crumble into nothing. You voted for this. And no I didn't whatever your country did and your letting it all happen.
Fascism was celebrated in 1936 Olympics so it is being celebrated in this World Cup. It was however Jesse Owens who is remembered about 1936. I can't find any examples this time around.
Canadian businesses are greedy also and from what I understand there is a shortage of bookings due to price. I heard they'll be charging $80+ for parking at BMO field. Offensive.
Exactly they're so disappointed but they didn't lower prices so a lifelong soccer fan with an average income like myself can afford to go. The way prices are right now, it's simply not an option, i couldn't afford it on a credit card even if i was willing to ruin my finances!
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Treczoks@lemmy.world · 126 pts · 65d
Somehow tourists don't like the prospect of potentially ending up in a concentration camp...
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 65d
"Oh you liked a posting calling the president fat? Let's see where we can extradite you."
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 65d
And paying 5K or whatever for the privilege
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 63d
It’s $5000,$10000, or $15000, just for a bond if your from a country the racists don’t like.
It’s fucking insane.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 65d
Ya I just don't understand the problem!
Velypso@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 64d
Its not going to matter.
Every stadium will be packed come game time.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 64d
With whom? Americans are just confused if people actually play football with their feet.
dellish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 64d
Ahhh yes, American Football, the game where you generally throw the ball.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 63d
... that is not even a ball but an ellipsoid.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 63d
Eggball.
Velypso@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 63d
Considering an average MLS game has an attendance around 22k im not sure you understand what you are attempting to dunk on.
But i get it, america dumb and what not. Meanwhile, quatar built their stadiums with slave labor, averaging 2 slave deaths a day on certain projects and every game was packed to the fucking gills.
Live in reality.
Astrealix@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 65d
What, making yourself an international pariah and also actively being hostile towards anyone who even just looks foreign who's in your borders is not good for tourism? Who could've guessed? I'm sure that spiking oil prices will fix it right
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 64d
Well no shit. Who wants to disclose their entire lives to a fascist government, and then be at the absolute mercy of a bunch of homeschooled ICE morons?
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 18 pts · 64d
You wish they had even that level of education...
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
This is basically the devil's bargain all those Qatari social media influencers made
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 63d
If they were homeschooled, they'd probably be better off.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 65d
Even when the world cup was in my country I didn't go to any matches. Not that I could afford it, but even if I could I still wouldn't have gone.
This time I won't even watch it on the TV. That's how much I dislike that fat cunt paedo and his regime.
(I also didn't watch it when it was in Qatar.)
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub · 35 pts · 65d
I haven’t watched international soccer since they awarded Russia and Qatar with the World Cup. Fucking corrupt pieces of shit supporting the worst people.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 14 pts · 65d
Fifa is just getting more corrupt too. They are really leaning into it, even after the last president or whatever had to step down because of it.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 9 pts · 65d
Really makes me wonder who they'll find to host the next World Cup.
Afghanistan, perhaps?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 65d
Maybe Argentina?
If Milei hasn't rendered it insolvent in time for the next host picking process, that is.
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 65d
Watch them do it in Israel
elvith@feddit.org · 6 pts · 65d
Guess where they'll build the stadiums... I heard they currently have a huge area of land paved flat
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d
Exactly
And they might even have lots of cheap labor from people that are starving
osanna@lemmy.vg · 1 pts · 64d
omg. that is so antisemitic! HOW DARE YOU?!
::: spoiler spoiler /s :::
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 64d
Fuck… can I bet on this on Kalshi or whatever, it’s for sure gonna happen now and I might as well get in early
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 63d
They recently tried to host Copa America and had to change hosts last minute because they couldn't afford to pay contractors
Damage@feddit.it · 11 pts · 65d
Italy getting repeatedly eliminated from the world cup is one of the best things that happened to this country in the last years
architect@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 64d
Better late than never.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · -21 pts · 65d
Not watching soccer on TV isn't the anti-fascist resistance flex you think it is.
Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 65d
Boycotts matter. Advertisers spend a lot of money on air time and they know when they're not getting a return on views.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · -6 pts · 65d
Yes, boycotts matter. Real boycotts, like the Montgomery bus boycott that lasted for months and truly hurt the recipient financially - what MLK called "economic withdrawal".
Punctual boycotts like buying nothing for one day, or not watching something on TV, are just feel-good stuff that actually achieve nothing at all.
Also, I will point out that it took a lot more than not listening to Hitler's speeches on the radio to defeat him.
So yeah, do not watch the matches if it makes you feel better. But it won't change a damn thing.
PoastRotato@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 65d
Well thank god we have heroes like you to remind us that our minor acts of resistance are completely pointless. God forbid we build up to anything 🙄
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · -10 pts · 65d
Minor acts of resistance aren't pointless: pointless acts of resistance are pointless.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 65d
You sure did pick the perfect username.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · -2 pts · 65d
architect@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 64d
You shouldn’t watch anything put on by that org FIFA. Doesn’t really matter how little it does.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 64d
Well it isn't the worlds problem. America isn't doing anything for itself why would we do anything.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 65d
I don't want to be here and I live here.
Unworthy545Seal@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 64d
Most americans don't like this type of football, but the rest of the world does.
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 65d
Good.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · -31 pts · 65d
No it isn't.
There are plenty of people who are going to lose money and/or jobs because of this. Trump and his cronies aren't going to be hurt.
Don't celebrate hotel maids and servers getting screwed
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 65d
The reason hotel maids and bartenders will be hurt is because the CEO's made leveraged bets and are losing their asses. That's not the fault of consumers who choose not to spend, that's the fault of the wealthy.
Or let me put it another way: I don't owe those workers to make their boss rich so he pisses a little of that wealth onto them. I would much rather provide a social safety net to help them out when their boss loses money being a prick.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 64d
Good news, you're doing NEITHER.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 64d
Well I'm sure as fuck not going to feel morally obligated to provide the wealthy even more profit in either case, so that's actually moot. But if we're going to worry about the plight of the common man, let's go about it the right way.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 64d
The delusion that literally every employer is a billionaire is fucking embarrassing.
By deluding yourself into thinking a business of any size is the same as mega corporations and doing nothing else. Good work.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
Where do you even read the word "billionaire"? What are you talking about?
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 65d
What a profoundly American way of seeing things.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 65d
I hope they all have the day they voted for then.
Count042@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 64d
Let me guess, if someone is held hostage for a ransom, and the ransom isn't paid, and the hostage is killed, you blame the person that didn't pay instead of the kidnapper?
Literally the same moral logic.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · -5 pts · 64d
First, explain to me what part of "Don’t celebrate hotel maids and servers getting screwed" is so offensive to you.
Count042@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 64d
Apparently reading comprehension is also not a strong suit for you.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · -5 pts · 64d
In other words, you realize I'm right and don't have the stomach to admit it, so you double down on cheap insults.
Go ahead, explain why celebrating wage earners bad luck is a great thing.
ELI5
Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 64d
Let them get screwed let your whole country crumble into nothing. You voted for this. And no I didn't whatever your country did and your letting it all happen.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 64d
Well, the guy I responded to didn't answer so it looks like I was right.
And by your logic, the people who got A-bombed in Hiroshima deserved it because they didn't rise up against the Emperor.
I'm impressed by your compassion
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 22 pts · 65d
How is this Possible? They gave him the PEACE PRIZE for GODS Sake!
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 65d
This should be the worst sporting event ever. 1936 Olympics should be a shining star in comparison.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 9 pts · 65d
Actually, the 1936 Olympics were quite successful despite efforts to boycott them.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d
Fascism was celebrated in 1936 Olympics so it is being celebrated in this World Cup. It was however Jesse Owens who is remembered about 1936. I can't find any examples this time around.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 3 pts · 65d
Does Cuba have a team in it?
Would be nice to see them beat the US team in the last round on US soil.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 64d
No, they didn't qualify. They did qualify for the "youth" version, but that's later and in Qatar.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 65d
a major reason= the major reasonTryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 65d
Good
fox2263@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 65d
What about Canada and Mexico ones? Are they better attended?
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d
Tourist should floor Canada and help their economy.
But if you have to go to the US at least do not spend your money in red states.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 65d
Canadian businesses are greedy also and from what I understand there is a shortage of bookings due to price. I heard they'll be charging $80+ for parking at BMO field. Offensive.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 64d
Yep andblits of our businesses are American.
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 64d
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 64d
Money talks, bullshit walks.
We'll see what happens when this starts hitting the bottom line of big businesses.
devolution@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 64d
Countries don't like also being treated as vassal states for rednecks.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 64d
Dissappointing to who?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 64d
All the scalpers who expected to flip pre-sold units on the secondary market
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 63d
oh no...should we start a crowdfund for them?
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 63d
Exactly they're so disappointed but they didn't lower prices so a lifelong soccer fan with an average income like myself can afford to go. The way prices are right now, it's simply not an option, i couldn't afford it on a credit card even if i was willing to ruin my finances!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 64d
Good
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 64d
Let's sell the house and go watch a few world cup games!
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 64d
American itself is the reason.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 64d
At the end of the day the fans supporting their teams get screwed the most.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 65d
Which infantino is this cluster fuck going to get blamed on more?
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 64d