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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 hour ago

Many seemingly invincible businesses empires have collapsed on some beautiful ordinary day when people just said "you know, we can't pay for this, this is not the price we can pay - we would want to keep doing this, but the price clearly outweighs any benefits to us".

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 hours ago

Nobody wants to be in the deportation world cup

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 13 points 3 hours ago
[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours 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.

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 hours ago
[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours 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.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

2024 sitouts: are we a joke to you?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 21 points 5 hours ago

Nobody likes you anymore

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours 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.

[–] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago

Good news then!

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I hope Canadians grow a pair and boycott the entire thing. Fuck FIFA.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

I don't think a lot of Canadians or Mexicans are going to be able to afford to go to the games in their own countries. They may be hosting, but the ticket prices are absurd.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That will never happen. Based on some of the events and attendance of those events the World Cup will be fine. Everybody just won’t be able to charge 1000% markups.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You said everything will be fine but the entire point is that's not true... Things might be fine for ticket sales for the venues. But that doesn't mean they're fine for local businesses and local taxpayers who thought that they would be generating revenue for their local communities.

And that's the whole point, right? This is commercialized to perfection and everyone has their payouts cleanly carved out so that local communities lose. A few very large corporations win, and of course the international soccer organization is notoriously corrupt and has been, so you know that they're getting their payouts.

In other words, this is what happens when you have monopolies and capitalism is left unchecked. The customer gets f*****, local communities get f*****, some rich people make more money, and f*** them for being such greedy assholes.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 49 minutes ago

Sounds like what happens with the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.

[–] some_guy 29 points 10 hours ago (1 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.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca -5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn’t the Australia one for a legitimate reason though? They messed up and admitted they were traveling to tattoo someone on a tourist visa.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If memory serves that was a German Tattoo artist. The Australian was deported for being pro-Palestinian.

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 16 points 11 hours ago

Hmm…does this mean the Mexican and Canadian host cities are going to get swamped instead?

I have zero interest in attending a game, but I do have to make trips to Toronto and the traffic, even at the best of times…

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 112 points 17 hours 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?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

i heard the scalpers were trying to sell it on the different subs related to the world cup, most of them get balked and thier posts getting deleted.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 42 points 14 hours 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.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 319 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

Boycott the shit outta this fash cup

[–] M137@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

Never done anything but that. Sadly that doesn't matter, it will take SO MUCH before any boycott will have any actual effect on them, both from the average person and the ones putting in the real money, trading teams and players, building the stadiums etc. I have never had any interest in sports but my experience is that most people really like it but also have never given a single second of thought to the dealings of it all. It's pure "Hurrdurr, team from my city/country make ball go into net or whatever make me happy". It's so fucking dumb.

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 184 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

also fifa and thier president is corrupt as hell anyways.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 28 points 16 hours ago (7 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

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Power to you

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[–] newton@feddit.online 29 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Next Iran wins Against murica in fifa 2026

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[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 52 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

No problem.

FIFA's inaugural Peace Prize winner will fix everything.

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[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 55 points 18 hours ago
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