• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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.

    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      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

  • Sektor@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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.

  • dellish@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      11 hours ago

      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.

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        We’re all just expendable little pawns in their money games. That’s the real sport to them.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    considering LA was the first site of the “ice invasion” it got people scared as it was heavily televised throughout the world. THE MSM realized it so they stopped reporting on ice raids as much as they did.

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    17 hours ago

    And after FIFA gave the prestigious FIFA peace prize to that great peacemaker we call our President. (/s, if that wasn’t obvious).

  • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    I don’t feel like being shot because I will inevitably call an ICE agent a Nazi and tell him to go fuck himself.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
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    15 hours ago

    Many seemingly invincible businesses empires have collapsed on some beautiful ordinary day when people just said “you know, we can’t pay for this, this is not the price we can pay - we would want to keep doing this, but the price clearly outweighs any benefits to us”.