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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.
Boycott the shit outta this fash cup
I’m gonna give you the lemmy peace prize for this, but skip me a few cool billion first
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.
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.
I was told hosting the World Cup would bring in eleventy zillion dollars.
Only Trump could fuck it up so badly
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
Thanks to everyone refusing to spend money in or toward my country right now, you're literally keeping money away from an organization trying to terrorize and imprison us or worse.
Screwing over FIFA is a nice cherry on top too.
I'm leaving the US and one of the first things I did was convert all my USD to local currency. I'm doing my best to actively extract from the US and bring it elsewhere, to hell with my home country
if anyone is as corrupt as trump, it would be the president of fifa.
So, a lot of tickets have been sold, but no hotels have been booked so far? Maybe ticket scalpers don't need hotels?
And why the heck should anybody travel to the US under the current administration, where ICE puts random people in concentration camps?
Yep bunch of scalpers gonna be out cash....and honestly hope no one from a foreign country comes here until ICE is gone. I think people are realizing how dangerous it is to come here as a foreigner right now.
I highly recommend people avoid the USA. It's really bad. Yes, you will be arrested and the more time you spend in prison, the more money they get. So they won't let you go for months/years. Don't come here.
Good
Excellent.
Fuck FIFA and their boot licking, corrupt bullshit. Somehow I think they've managed to be more corrupt than any of the US based sporting organizations.
FIFA is up there as one of the most corrupt organizations out there. There's not a US sporting org that even comes close.
It is always going to be a "win" for the pedoking
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.
If the World Cup has a lot of half empty stadia, I'd be happy.
It might be interesting if the Mexican and Canadian stadia were full though.
Nobody wants to be in the deportation world cup
Anyway, I won't be watching the World Cup.
That's what happens when 70 million voters drink too much nasty Orange Kool-Aid. FIFA should move all the knock out stage matches, including the final, to Mexico and Canada.
The AHLA said this does not align with Fifa's statement that more than five million tickets have been sold,, external and it creates a risk that "the anticipated economic lift may fall short".
Lol...
It's obvious what's happening, but it's not as good as people are thinking.
The reason to kets are so expensive, is American reselling processes.
Scalpers ought up all the tickets immediately, and instantly relisted them for higher. New scalpers are buying those, and listing them again.
Everytime they're resold, another cut gets taken out by Ticketmaster. And Fifa is likely getting a piece of that in addition to their original piece.
FIFA is going to make a shit ton of money. Scalpers may lose some, but what little "economic incentive" from the games won't materialize, because we're almost guaranteed to have a bunch of "unsold" tickets that were sold 4-5 times already.
People already there may be able to capitalize on tickets being cheap right before games start as scalpers panic, but no one will travel short notice. And once the first games air with a bunch of empty seats, people will try to wait till last minute and buy tickets. Likely getting ripped off at the event and trying to enter with fake tickets
The entire thing is going to turn into a giant cluserfuck, and that's without ICE running around like they're almost guaranteed to.
You couldn't pay me enough to show up in the general vicinity of one of these games
Everytime they're resold, another cut gets taken out by Ticketmaster.
Yep, this is why the scalper issue will never get resolved, because they also benefit from it. They will literally do every convoluted way to “prevent” scalping except the actual solution: resales can only be done at original ticket price or lower, and no reselling fees go to ticketmaster.
I know I wouldn't want to travel here. White ladies from Canada, UK, and Australia have ended up in detention centers. They're supposed to be the demographic MAGA pretends to want to protect.
And after FIFA gave the prestigious FIFA peace prize to that great peacemaker we call our President. (/s, if that wasn't obvious).
Excellent. This is the first time we have seen a good outcome for anything during Trumps term so far.
Good.
Aww man, you're telling me they hiked the prices for nothing?
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.
Nobody likes you anymore
They have it at meadowlands, and NJT wants $98.. Most of the European guests assume they can just walk the mile, but that area is such a car dependent hellscape that you literally can't 🤣🤣🤣 Really paints a picture of the US.. If the top city can't have basic transit or walkable areas then I wouldn't want to return.
I don't feel like being shot because I will inevitably call an ICE agent a Nazi and tell him to go fuck himself.
Your pedo boss made it crystal clear that it doesn't want "aliens" in the US. Why are you all acting surprised when no "aliens" are coming? Or is the surprised because we are the "right kind of alien"?