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I can’t imagine why the average football fan would risk going to the USA from another country right now. Even if they’re straight, white, Christian males.
Go to Mexico or Canada sure. But a fascist country with a stated goal of ethnic cleansing?
You're over-estimating the intelligence and political engagement of the average football fan.
I didn't think footballs were capable of either?
Oops.
I mean they were probably equivalent anyway, so I think you were okay.
Of course, where do you think Poland ball came from?
Poland?
Countryballs or Poland Ball are a popular meme/webcomic. I was making a silly joke.
Oh I know haha, I was making a silly joke too
Ah, I get it now... Oops lol
I think its not even the average football fan.
The peaceful suburbanite psyche of the average 'western' person hasn't been penetrated yet, even with all thats happened. Thats in large part due to the media, and how they don't cover the increasingly serious corruption, murders, and traitors.
A great current example is the sentencing and jailing of that national traitor from Reform UK. It caused barely a blip in the media, just phenomenal there wasn't a classic british media circus around it, so phenomenal I find it suspicious.
But its surely more than the media, maybe willful ignorance? Simple lack of care, a sort of "thats their business, not mine" attitude? I don't know, human behaviour is weird when it comes to inconvenience.
So much of this world seems to run on whatever is most convenient, (to be read as least mentally taxing), for the person in the decision makers position at the time. Be it a president, local cop, lawyer, teacher, or any other authority position, it always comes down to was it easier for that person to make that decision, or this decision.
Importantly, i think its the making of a decision not the outcomes of said decisions. So the easy decision could lead to harder to manage outcomes, but the decision maker at the time found that decision easiest to process as opposed a more complex option as the decision to go with.
But this event could be the reason why People wake up. Imagine some crazy fans breaks out in fights in the streets of dallas forinstance (like in russia vm) When ice or national guard begins shooting visitors of mixed countries. Then you'll see the fans blow up.
Maybe. I don't know. People have a lot less rights in other countries than their own. Theres a clear propaganda line I can see there, maybe it'd be flimsy, but it doesn't seem to take much 'justification'.
Especially those who can afford to go to the World Cup.
My FILs pal is spending over £100,000 to take him and his 3 pals.
That's a lot of money to spend on a trip that ends at an El Salvador concentration camp.
Fair point.
Obsessive fans wait 4 years for this, and the last World Cup showed that those idiots will spend thousands to visit your country, even if it’s doing some terrible things.
I’d forgotten about that one. Yeah. Wow.
Please let at least the English fans go, they're lovely.
Most games, including the finals, are hosted in the USA. This just won't happen.