Anyone who is mad enough to visit the US for attending a sports game in this day and age almost deserves that treatment. Like, are you ok?
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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With games taking place in both Mexico and Canada, does that make the entire US into flyover state?
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Oh hahahaha, now watch as you have the lowest WC attendance in history and be the first modern WC to lose money.
losing money on a sure thing would be totally on brand for donvict & co.
Ticket sales are already going so badly that they're CHEAPER on the secondhand market! Scalpers are taking a loss to get rid of them, which is pretty much unheard of for an event like a world cup.
People are even more wary of traveling to Trump's US than to the Emir's Qatar or Putin's Russia.
Cities hosting the WC almost never recoup their investments. Sure, it's a windfall for a select few, but it is a bad investment for everyone else.
I don't know why ~~you're~~ you were being downvoted, you're absolutely right.
As documented by an excellent Last Week Tonight segment and also another, FIFA and a select few rich people and corporations profiting off of lucrative contracts snatch up all the income and leave everyone else with all the expenses.
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I would not take such words as "jokes" anymore. I take them as an open and dire warning not to travel to the US until the government has been taken care of.
I would not take such words as “jokes” anymore.
Pretty much.
For anyone out of the loop: https://www.dw.com/en/german-nationals-us-immigration-detained-interrogation-ice-donald-trump/a-71987211
For real. I'm not risking losing thousands of Euros on flights because some CBP asshole on a power trip denies me entry. Not to mention the very real possibility to be held at some kind of detention facility
Just heard it on the radio that student exchanges with the US are failing; First, because parents here are afraid what happens to non-citizens in the US, and second, because US parents are wary to have foreigners in their home (no because they are afraid of foreigners or kids, but of what the US "ICE" GeStaPo might do).
Everyone, go to the world cup to beat up ICE and throw them in a prison where they can’t leave.
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Can the participating countries boycott the matches in that is held within the US?
Why should those countries be punished?
Exclude US and have them in Mx and Canada.
Or to piss them off more let Cuba and Venezuela hold some matches
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JD Vance attempted a charm offensive on Tuesday, and failed with the charm while succeeding in being offensive
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When you find "funny" how mean you can be to someone, you're just making sure everyone knows you're a fucking loser
You gonna deport the athletes too?
Yeah, whilst calling them illegal migrants stealing "the good working people of americas" jobs
I bet they'll do this to the ones who have a chance of beating American athletes.
That's most of them.
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What a swell idea, Vance! I've been trying to figure out how to persuade my compatriots why visiting the US aren't worth the risks, and it really helps when the Vice President makes my case for me. Cheers, buddy!
I’m just honestly so confused. Do they want to expel all non-white people and non-Christian white people, refuse entry to everyone including tourists, and basically just close themselves off from the rest of the world like a population of white hikikomori?
Don't you remember learning about Germany in school? According to history disabled people are going to the camps as well. And RFK has already annonced that they're going on a list. Then it's non-straight people. And then they came for...
Yes
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I wonder if the IOC will be using the World Cup as a test bed. This certainly will not go well - there will be horrific stories coming from the few athletes and tourists that DO come for some reason, and attendance will be otherwise annihilated. What are the chances that the 2028 Summer Olympics in LA get moved? They'll have 2 full years to ramp up in another city elsewhere in the world, probably one that has had the Olympics in the recent past and has the infrastructure built out already.
It won't be moved, like the Olympics wasn't moved from Berlin in 1936.
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A joke couched in truth
At this rate, they'll deport the players. Is it too late to move the 2026 world cup?
I can 100% guarantee at least one athlete is going to be refused entry.
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