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[–] 356 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Boycott the shit outta this fash cup

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  • [–] 60 points 5 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 88 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Shouldn’t 2nd and 3rd be at different heights?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They don't care if you or any other poors boycott, your pennies mean nothing to them. There needs to be more protestors outside the cup than audience inside it. Clog the stroads. Chant until the words of outside reality break the fantasy within.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    If you live there absolutely. If you don't do not travel to the States. They aggressively do not like foreigners.

    Do not book a hotel room and fund the fascism machine in order to protest the fascism machine.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months 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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  • [–] 206 points 5 months ago* (17 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.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (15 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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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    I'm confused as to why you think converting your money was a notable act? What was the alternative?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    More people dumping usd means lower demand for it, potentially lowers it's value. I know it's more complicated than that and my contribution is basically pennies but I'm hoping it helps a bit

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    That's... not how currency markets works. At all. Tell me, what do you think happened to the dollars?

    You essentially exported them. More US dollars are now in international use than before.

    As you said, not a significant amount in any way, but just bizarre to celebrate contributing almost nothing to the wrong outcome.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Do you want them to hold onto it forever, never use it or burn them? (Which will lower inflation for usd based economies anyway)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    No? But... Just not think that they're doing anything particularly notable? Keeping their money in dollars wasn't an option anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    And so it's not contributing to the wrong outcome, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    They're saying (bizarrely, as if moving abroad but keeping their currency in dollars was a realistic option anyway) that it somehow contributes to reducing the influence of the dollar worldwide.

    It doesn't. It means someone bought US dollars using a different currency (more of an exchange, but the initiating party is essentially buying) and now someone has US dollars that they need to spend. Either by buying products direct from the USA, or by they themselves selling US dollars to someone else, circulating it, until eventually it is repatriated (or destroyed, physically or in value, I guess).

    The way you reduce a currency's influence is by making it unstable or devaluing it, basically anything that stops people wanting to buy it or accept it as stored value.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    They decoupled, they don't have to follow US news and for each bad news hurt both psychologically and financially.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    ... yes? That's what emigration is

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why would they keep their USD if they don't spend it anymore and they clearly do not believe the country is going down a good path?

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  • [–] 129 points 5 months 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?

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months 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.

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  • [–] 109 points 5 months ago (20 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.

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (17 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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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Cheerleading might come close.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Its also very dangerous and they've avoided being labeled a "sport" to avoid certain regulations. According to this article it accounts for over 50% of catastrophic injuries in female athletes - https://www.sportsmed.org/membership/sports-medicine-update/winter-2025/flips-falls-and-fractures-the-reality-of-cheerleading-injuries

    It may have gotten better in recent years, it's been a while since I read up on the subject.

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    LOL. Liberty Media, Indy 500...

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    No one outside of USA has heard of either. FIFA is a global organisation.

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  • [+] -14 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    No one outside the USA has heard of Formula 1? Ok.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Indy 500 has nothing to do with Formula 1. Different cars, different rules, different drivers, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Liberty Media owns Formula One Management (FOM), the company responsible for the production of F1 as a piece of media, while the International Automobile Federation (FIA) is responsible for the rule formula itself, the stewards, marshalls, race director, etc.

    So when the person said, “no one outside of the US has heard of either” they were wrong. Liberty Media certainly isn’t as well-known a name as Formula 1, but it owns Formula 1.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    And Formula one is massively corrupt. F1 races are also hotbeds of human trafficking.

    There may be some races, but ladies, that's not why your husband is there.

    IndyCar is run by a few billionaires who all support MAGA, and your government spends hundreds of millions of your taxpayer dollars supporting teams.

    Roger Penske getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom for no reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    There may be some races, but ladies, that’s not why your husband is there.

    Maybe if your husband is a millionaire. The formula fans I personally know, regardless of gender, like fast cars not trafficked humans.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    F1 races are also hotbeds of human trafficking.

    According to some Russian propaganda conspiracy forum?

    There may be some races, but ladies, that's not why your husband is there.

    Sure, nobody who goes to a race goes to see cars drive quickly...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not familiar with the corruption of Indy 500 and I hadn't heard of Liberty Media until reading this comment chain. Is Liberty Media a US based org or does F1 just have some events in the US?

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  • [–] 57 points 5 months ago (5 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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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 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.

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  • [+] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like what happens with the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Like at London 2012 where there was a ban on chips (fries for our US friends) from anywhere that wasn't McDs until backlash got strong enough. Imagine granting a single company the sole right to chopping potatoes into long sticks and putting them in hot oil for a few minutes. Even in the glorious 2010s and the days of the "millennial lifestyle subsidy" our ugly late stage capitalism was showing.

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  • [–] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    No problem.

    FIFA's inaugural Peace Prize winner will fix everything.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    To be clear... you mean he's going to determine the winning team, right?

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    Maybe they can use AI to fix this. /s

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (7 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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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You know, rounding tourists up into detention centers because they brought their work phone on their vacation is not normal behavior. Even if you want to deport them, fine - it's your country, but detaining is not just a bit over the top.

    Let them figure out where to stay and how to get home as soon as possible, then deny entry in the futre. Like a normal country that doesn't get off on "tough" rhetoric.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    They didn’t just bring their work phone, they admitted to an immigration officer they planned on performing a job in the United States. Also, other countries will detain you pending deportation as well. The US is unique because of the number of deportations and the speed they are building new facilities to deport people.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    You do realize that it's not just a single tourist who's been detained in the US right? Did you forget this one? You can go find more as well.

    And no, it is not normal to detain pending deportation unless there are specific risks with the person in question, for example if you've committed an actual crime or if you're likely to not leave voluntarily.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Wtf does that matter? We're locking people up! What's legitimate about that unless they've committed terrible crimes or are a threat to the public?

    Holy shit, that lady was gonna tattoo someone!

    Send them home, don't put them in jail.

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  • [+] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 78 points 5 months ago (4 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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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago

    Nobody wants to be in the deportation world cup

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months 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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    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.

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