“We weren’t able to gouge the rubes. We may have to charge reasonable rates and still make a bit of profit. Dammit!”
Can’t get blood from a stone.
No one can fucking afford to buy anything.
These companies that Mostly/only provide extraneous and unessential goods and services are about to start finding out.
I really wish people would see past the nanometer thick veneer of shiny that FIFA and every big team puts on, hiding their extreme corruption and bad habit coverups.
Football (suck it, USA) has so much money being thrown at it from all sides that it’s no wonder it has some of the worst institutions running the show. Yet a LOT of people will still go out of their way to “support” the team, despite being too fucking poor for said team’s own tastes.
Football (suck it, USA)
Not gonna include Australia or Canada or Japan in sucking it?
Can we stop with the usage of the word “aLaRm” on news headlines if people are not actually going to do anything?
“Alarm” doesn’t mean the person has to do anything. You can be alarmed without doing something about it
Personally, I boycott…
Same… 2nd one in a row.
When I was younger, the world Cup marked milestones in my life, I loved the atmosphere and excitement it brought every four years…
But as I grew older and wiser, I’m fucking done with that clownshow. Germany was great,but fuck eEverything since then (Russia, Qatar, and now canmexusa)
I’m not sure what’s funnier, the whining of these self-entitled business associations, the corruption exacted by FIFA, or the fact that they spent so much time fighting over who gets to shake down football fans that the fans just got up and left.
They basically just put US sports prices on football. Turns out non Americans are not willing to pay the price of a season ticket for a Champions League team to watch some smaller football nations play against each other.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
Yeah, they’d rather go to an oppressive country that used slave labor to build the stadium. Viture signaling at it’s best.
And football fans love to be shakem down, dangle some new shirts or an “official ball” in front and they bite. Real accomplishment by fifa
The fans left encouraged by ICE arresting and deporting anyone they can find.
And $15k visa bonds to enter the country didn’t help with traveling arrangements.
Yep, it has all been well managed. May be Demented Don is happy with his Peace Prize though a project management prize for this schemozzle is unlikely.
From his perspective, this is a win. A successful world cup would force Americans, at least temporarily, to think about the world as more than just them.
This keeps them isolated and ignorant.
The frog in the well… Votes for oligarchs.
This cup is going to be such a fucking disaster and I love it.
Honestly, same.
Could have been a great event, especially here in KC where we’ve had events with a million-plus people go off with less than ten arrests multiple times in recent memory.
But the billionaires, the fascists, and the bureaucrats have ruined it like they do with every fucking thing. I hope it fails spectacularly.
Yup.
Zero interest in sports but looking forward to YouTube autopsies of this clusterfuck of a trainwreck.
if scalpers are desperate to offload thier excessive amount of tickets for lower price, its a GOOD sign.
Dude I hate football because it’s corrupt and most players just act like children, but It’s the first time our national team (Jordan) reaches it and with a promising lineup too :(
Dont let the corrupt professional football stop you from enjoying an extremely fun and cheap sport!
I have no interest but it’d be hilarious if we (Canada) and Mexico can turn a profit on the thing while the US is passed over like the fly-over nation it so wants to be
Oh PLEASE I would love to see that. It makes me sad that this regime has got me cheering for the country to fail quicker so the cult will wake up so we can actually have some change.
When we fail, they’ll blame the left for not giving right wing shit “a try”.
If it ends up being bad enough to kill FIFA, I’ll throw a fucking party about it.
Cry me a river. Fuck FIFA. And I don’t really feel sorry for any officials/businesspeople who thought it’s a good idea to endorse this.
That violin is much too big.
Such a shame the creator of that hilarious picture doesn’t know where the bow goes playing violin
Tardigrade doing their best!
Well, people presumably don’t want to be arbitrarily arrested and dragged off to a concentration camp … or they just can’t stand fascists. Both are good reasons to boycott this criminal state. It’s about time, anyway, since FIFA is a plague too.
Fuck the world cup. Literally nobody i know cares about it.
Even if you don’t care about it, I’ve seen like no ads for it. Usually they are playing by now and plastered everywhere. Only thing I’ve seen is shitty looking merch at gas stations and Walgreens.
Huh, now that you mention it, I don’t see much promotional merch in Japan either. They usually have stuff to support the national team for these kind of events. But I guess they wouldn’t even be able to print packages in Samurai Blue since even our potato chips packaging will soon be black and white.
The lack of promotion is weird now that you’ve point it out
It is not. They sold the tickets, mostly to first level skalpers, so they are good and don’t need any more advertising.
Yeah I’ve only seen the shitty merch at airports and nothing else, and I live near a host city.
Well anything beyond ticket sales is still game.
They probably have sold all tickets to first-level skalpers (and maybe to a handful of real fans) long ago, so why waste money on advertizing?
Wouldn’t it be fucking brilliant if scalpers were left holding the bag as it were - thousands of unsold tickets!
When is it happening? Next year?
This summer, I believe. Starting early June.
Oh I love the world cup and am very excited about it… in general.
Specifically I hate that this corrupt fucking government is going to be participating in it at all.
I use to love it… Pretty much right up until Germany, but since then?
Russia? Qatar? Amerikkka??
Nah, I’m fucking done with FIFA, and their world peace prize
To be fair, FIFA is almost as corrupt as Trump
Which is really saying something.
FIFA is like, world class level corruption. Sepp Blatter is the GOAT and Trump is getting close.
Watch it on pirated broadcasts.
Plus with Ebola it just seems extremely not worth it right now.
Don’t forget, the US also has measels and typhus.
I’d be more afraid of ICE concentration camps. But if an Ebola infected person would attend this event, it would get interesting fast.
Ebola is not that contagious. It’s not like airborne COVID
itor other similar viruses.
WTF!!! World Cup is The most important event in the World. No other sport event can get close. And yes, USA (backed by FIFA) fucked World cup by introducing Half-Time Show. Nonsense.
And it’s the most embarassing world cup ever because it’s in this shithole country with a child raping president overseeing it. If there’s one wc to boycott in your life it’s this one.
When they were still debating it I sent a letter to my MLA saying it is ridiculous.
I can’t figure out who actually thought any of this was a good idea other than marketing people and idiots who never planned to attend any of it. It’s phenomenally punitive to fans.
Short of having a private jet, who is going to more than 2 or 3 games? Who is honestly expected to just scamper around a region of a whole continent, then criss-cross a whole continent, to support their country other than people paid to by their country’s Ministry of Sport or something similar to attend every game? People who follow sports teams around the US during a season of anything are an infinitely tiny group.
Like a team outside of your small Group stage? Fuck you, the games are 4000km apart. Instead of enjoying games for the game itself, you can only be a nationalist.
If the winner of Group H gets to the final (lol) they will have gone from playing a territory spanning Atlanta to Jalisco, then literally bouncing back and forth between the West Coast and Texas until heading to NJ. They might have flown enough miles to circle the globe by the time they’re done.
What city will see even a notably economic benefit from what amounts to 6 weeks of highly compressed MLS setup? The only thing that’s concentrated here is taking expensive flights. Everything else is diluted to the point of being worthless.
This whole Cup should be considered a human rights abuse, by all accounts.
Yes that’s what they want, rich people from around the globe flying in to Miami and all the working class people can fuck off. Im just following what they designed.
This one, and the last two as well…
That’s another reason. Hosting a world cup in an European country where you can easily reach all game locations within a few hours by train or car is different than one where you have to fly a few hours to get to the next game.
I’m willing to allow for them to receive FIFA peace prizes as recompense.
How is this Possible? They gave Trump the PEACE PRIZE!
*“Piece of shit prize”
The field gets installed on the white house lawn after the cage match is taken down
