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.
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.
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
I’m confused as to why you think converting your money was a notable act? What was the alternative?
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
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.
Do you want them to hold onto it forever, never use it or burn them? (Which will lower inflation for usd based economies anyway)
No? But… Just not think that they’re doing anything particularly notable? Keeping their money in dollars wasn’t an option anyway.
And so it’s not contributing to the wrong outcome, right?
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.
I was told hosting the World Cup would bring in eleventy zillion dollars.
Only Trump could fuck it up so badly
Excellent. This is the first time we have seen a good outcome for anything during Trumps term so far.
The AHLA said this does not align with Fifa’s statement that more than five million tickets have been sold, external and it creates a risk that “the anticipated economic lift may fall short”.
Lol…
It’s obvious what’s happening, but it’s not as good as people are thinking.
The reason to kets are so expensive, is American reselling processes.
Scalpers ought up all the tickets immediately, and instantly relisted them for higher. New scalpers are buying those, and listing them again.
Everytime they’re resold, another cut gets taken out by Ticketmaster. And Fifa is likely getting a piece of that in addition to their original piece.
FIFA is going to make a shit ton of money. Scalpers may lose some, but what little “economic incentive” from the games won’t materialize, because we’re almost guaranteed to have a bunch of “unsold” tickets that were sold 4-5 times already.
People already there may be able to capitalize on tickets being cheap right before games start as scalpers panic, but no one will travel short notice. And once the first games air with a bunch of empty seats, people will try to wait till last minute and buy tickets. Likely getting ripped off at the event and trying to enter with fake tickets
The entire thing is going to turn into a giant cluserfuck, and that’s without ICE running around like they’re almost guaranteed to.
You couldn’t pay me enough to show up in the general vicinity of one of these games
Boycott the shit outta this fash cup
The Aryan came third.
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.
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?
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.
FIFA is up there as one of the most corrupt organizations out there. There’s not a US sporting org that even comes close.
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.
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.
Anyway, I won’t be watching the World Cup.
I wasn’t before, but now i’m not doing it harder
Are you boycotting ???
Fuck that, I’m MANCOTTING
Now I’m hungry for pasta.
I prefer pizzas
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
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.
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