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Boycott the World Cup, don’t watch on tv or in person. Don’t spend a penny on this shit show.
Hm, I wonder how the current prices compare to the 1994 prices, that was the last time USA hosted the FIFA World Cup. There was also the 1996 Olympics.
Why are the US even hosting this event? They don't care about football and seemingly they don't care about tourism anymore.
It's the only logical place. Trump won the FIFA peace prize. It's only fair they hold the world cup in his country.
it’s not gonna go well
The World Cup has long since been a money grubbing exercise by FIFA.
Previously in Russia, Qatar... Saudi Arabia coming up soon. USA feels on brand in this crowd.
lol fuck the world cup
Only $80?
Sports gambling tainted all professional sports. I'll go watch a little league game for athletes performing at their best the whole game.
Those are the most likely to have been rigged by betting clowns, since they drawn so little attention
so many millions angry, but not angry enough to rise up en masse and remove thr thorn
Surely you don't expect tourists to do what Americans don't have the balls to do.
not here, no. but whats happening here is also being born in other countries. just as they expect us to fight it off here, i expect them to fight it off there for the same reasons
Other countries still have the rule of law so rising up isn't required. Turkey (I have no idea how it's supposed to be spelt now Tuekïë?) managed to get rid of their dictator by just voting him out.
Fuck professional sports. Get a life, go outside, do some exercise, stop living vicariously through millionaires kicking a plastic ball.
Why not let people enjoy things?
I've no problem with people enjoying things, but...
Phillips-Hunter estimates it will take him two years to pay off the credit card debt he’s taking on for his six-day trip to the U.S., including the $1,350 he spent on a ticket for the Scotland-Morocco match.
That's absolutely insane, to watch a game.
My tolerance and support for other peoples’ recreational activities ends when my tax dollars get embezzled and funneled to billionaires in the name of “fun”.
Agreed. I'm happy to let people enjoy PLENTY of stuff I think is a stupid waste of time. Because when grown-ass adults decide to play Beyblade they're not doing it in a stadium paid for by tax breaks made by defunding my public schools and road repairs.
People seem to enjoy a lot of things that actively destroy the planet, support slavery and hurt animals.
What like the US passtime of hunting? The call is coming from inside the building.
I agree, so why force yourselves onto an entire city? Let us enjoy our city.
You (the royal "you") can enjoy watching sports if you want..... But if you then criticise me for watching Street Fighter 6 EVO tournament stream, then fuck you.
Also, sort out this drinking and gambling problem with sports already.
We could have had public transit and commuter trains all over the country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
in the twin cities of minnesota, there was 500+ miles of tracks, nearly 1000 streetcars, and an annual ridership of 200 million. that's equivalent to every single person that lived there making at least six trips per week, every single week. (modern day metro transit serves over 2.5 million people and has an annual ridership, bus and light rail, of about 45 million)
I can't speak for other countries, but at the world cup in Germany, your ticket to the stadium was your ticket for public transit, and it was all inclusive.
They often do that for large conventions in Germany in general. At least at a city level.
*Laughs in American
It's a lack of joined up thinking is what it is. Surely the US want as many people as possible at the tournaments (or at least city officials do, it's anyone's guess what the admin think is going on), the amount of money tourists pay to stay in a hotel will far exceed the amount of money they pay on these over inflated public transit tickets. So make public transit affordable, so they actually come to the event, stay in the hotel, and spend money in the local economy.
Or you can try and price gouge them on a bus ticket and they won't come. Now you've made no money at all, well done.
The US's problem isn't that it's a hyper capitalist country, it's a hyper capitalist country run by MBA business study incompetents who only care about chasing short term profits at the expense of long-term profits.
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Yeah, don't come here. It's shit.
I also wonder if they're aware of public drinking/intoxication laws in the US.
As another user mentioned, the Evan Edinger did an interesting video on the transit situation in the last couple weeks
FIFA, in their infinite wisdom, made the decision to have all the parking around MetLife Stadium used for (paid) fan and merch space. MetLife is primarily built for car traffic, so this is a disaster waiting to happen. Yet another example of their greed and hubris. This was so poorly thought out.
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Yeah, I saw that New York/New Jersey transit will be absurdly expensive for getting to MetLife stadium. Everyone is gouging for the World Cup.
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If you come here you'll have a bad time
That's alright, I plan to purchase a gatling gun. If I can say it's for hunting or home defense they'll hand it over right, I think that's how it works.
These costs should be borne by the organization that is earning money out of these events, which is FIFA. It should not always be the host cities that take on all the expenses,” Gogishvili said, noting the soccer body’s expected $13 billion revenue from 2023-26.
Huge events like this and the Olympics cost local communities a ton of money.
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