What’s an unfortunate set of circumstances that were completely unavoidable and impossible to predict unless you had an IQ greater than that of a sea pickle.
It’s a good thing Donald Trump is an idiot otherwise he’d be utterly humiliated. Fortunately for him he’s incapable of such complex emotions.
Excellent. This is the first time we have seen a good outcome for anything during Trumps term so far.
Let the world cup crash and burn
Fuck Jerry Seinfeld though
He was never funny anyway. The rest of the cast are hilarious, but his character was just irritating, like him IRL
I was told hosting the World Cup would bring in eleventy zillion dollars.
Only Trump could fuck it up so badly
if anyone is as corrupt as trump, it would be the president of fifa.
Turns out people don’t want to come to your country when you harass them at the gate. Write that down, maybe we’ll remember it for later…probably not.
No qualms about all the slaves who died building the one in Qatar but if the wealthy might be inconvenienced, then it becomes an actual problem
No qualms about all the slaves who died building the one in Qatar
Also relatively unattended. In part because of the atrocious reputation of the county. But far more because it was 50⁰ C on a cool day out there.
The American Games don’t even have that excuse.
So far the immigration enforcement agency has managed to kill two people neither of them immigrants. Not that it would be better if they just killed immigrants, but at least they’d be sticking within their job description.
OK. First, FIFA booking out a heap of hotel rooms then dropping them when they realised they won’t be able to scalp them is shitty behaviour, but probably not out of the norm. Raising prices to astronomical heights is also shitty behaviour, but it’s the capitalist nation of the world so what do you expect?
The elephant in the room that got glossed over with one sentence in the article is: nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA. The place is a fucking disaster and the chances of a foreigner getting shot, locked up or deported for pretty much no reason is so high you’ve got to be a total fuckwit to want to go there. If I was given a free ticket to the US with spending money included, I’d still be asking for a refund.
I still hope the Canada and Mexico games are completely sold out though. Watching the juxtaposition of empty “free world” stadia vs full “shit hole country” stadia is going to be glorious.
nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA
You don’t need that many people to fill a stadium. And anyone rich enough to travel around the world for a football match isn’t going to be the type that TSA bothers.
Yeah, dumbshits may not even deport you back to your home country. You from Egypt? Maybe just put you on this plane to El Salvador. Close enough, right?
They won’t let that happen, they’ll give away tickets to homeless people to get bums on seats if that’s what it takes.
Literally bums on seats in that case.
We’re all just expendable little pawns in their money games. That’s the real sport to them.
Good
Excellent.
It is always going to be a “win” for the pedoking
Maybe they can use AI to fix this. /s
It’ll be fun zooming in on the “enhanced” crowd to see all the people with three arms and Francis Bacon faces.
This is PR, the group matches may be half full but i guarantee you every game after will be packed. I wish i was wrong but this is just wishful thinking.
i guarantee you every game after will be packed
Time will tell. I suspect there’s a certain bias, as the high rollers who can afford to fly halfway around the world to sit for a few games aren’t the ones TSA will be manhandling.
But I can also see a lot of foreign news media scaring people off from the games based purely on the growing reputation of fascist Western travel conditions.
I guess time will tell. There’s certainly not a shortage of locals who can fill a stadium. So it might be a moot point.
I do think we’ll see a bunch of empty seats in high profile matches though. Corporate accounts love to gobble up more prime seating than they know what to do with.
Boycott the shit outta this fash cup
The Aryan came third.
Second, and by all account Luz Long was a standup guy.
Long was the first to congratulate Owens, embracing the African-American in front of Adolf Hitler. Owens was later the best man at the wedding of Long’s son.
Don’t let out of context photos dictate the narrative and warp your views.
But the system was racist, whether he was or not.
The German was second.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics_–_Men’s_long_jump
Shouldn’t 2nd and 3rd be at different heights?
Most are only higher in the middle.
https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/Hamilton-Reuters.jpg
Both losers.
Settle down, Ricky Bobby
ist he 2nd? It would make sense for the stands to see the front side of the podium, no?
I’m gonna give you the lemmy peace prize for this, but skip me a few cool billion first
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Never done anything but that. Sadly that doesn’t matter, it will take SO MUCH before any boycott will have any actual effect on them, both from the average person and the ones putting in the real money, trading teams and players, building the stadiums etc. I have never had any interest in sports but my experience is that most people really like it but also have never given a single second of thought to the dealings of it all. It’s pure “Hurrdurr, team from my city/country make ball go into net or whatever make me happy”. It’s so fucking dumb.
It is the rich who are actually attending the games.
We could do by not watching it, but a lot of people only talk and when action requires minor inconvenience they will give up.
They don’t care if you or any other poors boycott, your pennies mean nothing to them. There needs to be more protestors outside the cup than audience inside it. Clog the stroads. Chant until the words of outside reality break the fantasy within.
If you live there absolutely. If you don’t do not travel to the States. They aggressively do not like foreigners.
Do not book a hotel room and fund the fascism machine in order to protest the fascism machine.
Anyway, I won’t be watching the World Cup.
I wasn’t before, but now i’m not doing it harder
Are you boycotting ???
Fuck that, I’m MANCOTTING
Now I’m hungry for pasta.
