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.
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.
They won’t let that happen, they’ll give away tickets to homeless people to get bums on seats if that’s what it takes.
Literally bums on seats in that case.
We’re all just expendable little pawns in their money games. That’s the real sport to them.
Yeah, dumbshits may not even deport you back to your home country. You from Egypt? Maybe just put you on this plane to El Salvador. Close enough, right?
nobody in their right mind wants to visit the USA
You don’t need that many people to fill a stadium. And anyone rich enough to travel around the world for a football match isn’t going to be the type that TSA bothers.
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.
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
No qualms about all the slaves who died building the one in Qatar
Also relatively unattended. In part because of the atrocious reputation of the county. But far more because it was 50⁰ C on a cool day out there.
The American Games don’t even have that excuse.
So far the immigration enforcement agency has managed to kill two people neither of them immigrants. Not that it would be better if they just killed immigrants, but at least they’d be sticking within their job description.
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?
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.
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.
Never crossed my mind.
Even before diaper Donnie took power, I still didn’t wanna go to the USA. It’s been a shit hole for decades. Longer than I’ve been alive
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.
Maybe they can use AI to fix this. /s
It’ll be fun zooming in on the “enhanced” crowd to see all the people with three arms and Francis Bacon faces.
I was told hosting the World Cup would bring in eleventy zillion dollars.
Only Trump could fuck it up so badly
Good
Excellent.
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.
I hope Canadians grow a pair and boycott the entire thing. Fuck FIFA.
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.
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.
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.
Sounds like what happens with the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
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.
Fuck Jerry Seinfeld though
He was never funny anyway. The rest of the cast are hilarious, but his character was just irritating, like him IRL
Nobody wants to be in the deportation world cup
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.
2024 sitouts: are we a joke to you?
if anyone is as corrupt as trump, it would be the president of fifa.
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.
i guarantee you every game after will be packed
Time will tell. I suspect there’s a certain bias, as the high rollers who can afford to fly halfway around the world to sit for a few games aren’t the ones TSA will be manhandling.
But I can also see a lot of foreign news media scaring people off from the games based purely on the growing reputation of fascist Western travel conditions.
I guess time will tell. There’s certainly not a shortage of locals who can fill a stadium. So it might be a moot point.
I do think we’ll see a bunch of empty seats in high profile matches though. Corporate accounts love to gobble up more prime seating than they know what to do with.
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.
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.
If memory serves that was a German Tattoo artist. The Australian was deported for being pro-Palestinian.
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.
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.
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.
There’s been more than one Australian lady.
