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[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 266 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Boycott the shit outta this fash cup

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m gonna give you the lemmy peace prize for this, but skip me a few cool billion first

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 147 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (15 children)

FIFA is up there as one of the most corrupt organizations out there. There's not a US sporting org that even comes close.

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

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

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 32 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 13 points 1 month ago

That was pretty much how things worked for Ticketmaster in Norway when I had someone bail on going to a festival we were planning on attending together, as I recall. So it can be addressed, just probably need to be in a country with a functional government and regulations.

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[–] magnue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Would be funny if the only people attending the games were the last scalpers left holding the bag like 'eh may as well'

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 37 points 1 month ago
[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No problem.

FIFA's inaugural Peace Prize winner will fix everything.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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"?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Apparently white South Africans are the right kind.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] deddit@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe they can use AI to fix this. :)

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago
[–] Meat_Of_Nan@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I genuinely hope not a single person shows up.

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[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago

Nobody wants to be in the deportation world cup

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] newton@feddit.online 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Next Iran wins Against murica in fifa 2026

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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'll be utterly humiliated. Fortunately for him he's incapable of such complex emotions.

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hey just a general PSA; can anyone help me find my tiny violin I think I lost it somewhere

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This article is still trying to sale the world cup to Americans. Blue dot fever is everywhere this summer. The only reason you should be traveling for the world cup is to hold up a sign on the outside calling for the arrest BB and Trump.

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[–] iknownothing@gehirneimer.de 18 points 1 month ago
[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

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

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyway, I won't be watching the World Cup.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I wasn't before, but now i'm not doing it harder

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I don't feel like being shot because I will inevitably call an ICE agent a Nazi and tell him to go fuck himself.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

US = play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Oh noes FIFAs a bust.

Oh well.

Next.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 month ago
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Nobody likes you anymore

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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