World cup fans are supporting Fascism so fuck them into poverty.
Boycott the World Cup, don’t watch on tv or in person. Don’t spend a penny on this shit show.
This world cup reminds me of the Berlin Olympic games
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.
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.
The answer is always $
it’s not gonna go well
lol fuck the world cup
Compared to Canada 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, where your event ticket got you on the busses or Skytrain for free.
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.
*Laughs in American
You just tell us if you need a socialized hug, okay?
Laughs in $22 train ticket from Sydney Airport to Central Station.
Remember to protect your social services from the neoliberal plague or this could be you.
About 40 years too late for that advice. 😒
It’s never too late
Vote
The airports can be far away from the city center. I recently paid 10 euros to get to the airport by bus but it was 1h drive. Where I live it’s more like 15 minutes and it’s about 2 euros.
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.
They often do that for large conventions in Germany in general. At least at a city level.
I think it was the same in Russia, it included the visa and public transit, or maybe you could buy a package that included all? 🤔
I think Russia even included long distance public transport, that wasn’t included in Germany if I remember correctly.
Yes you are right, I just asked my friend who attended
You displayed a fifa credential on a lanyard and you could ride long distance trains between host cities and local public transit for free
I dislike FIFA and Russia, but this is how it should be done.
Didn’t it also include special accommodations for homosexuals?
Yes, the US thought of this as a great idea and made the same for everyone with a slightly foreign appearance.
Yeah, don’t come here. It’s shit.
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.
Just wait until you hear what country you have to travel to.
“Country”
“Cuntery”
Has it been renamed to Trumplandia yet?
It’s been Dumfukistan since 2016.
Magastan.
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.
Putting any games at the Medowlands was just dumb as fuck. There are plenty of stadiums in urban centers which would have been great sites and already have lodging, dining, and entertainment infrastructure.
Same with Boston. The games are being played in Foxboro, next to a strip mall, a train ride away from the city (they’ll have the new platform finished by June 12th, promise)
Absolutely, these are really dumb places to pick.
Did FIFA decide that?
We’re sorry, WHAT?!
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.
Enjoy things that don’t use your money to fund corruption and illegal activities.
I agree, so why force yourselves onto an entire city? Let us enjoy our city.
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.
Hunting can be necessary, such as to cull the deer population where I live. If there were no hunting, the population would completely collapse from starvation.
That’s such an American response. The only reason that animal populations get out of control is because all their natural predators were haunted to extinction centuries ago. Nature is quite capable looking after itself when humans stop dicking around with it
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.
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.
And possibly a lot of costs on unused big new shiny infrastructure after the event.
All the World Cup games are being played in NFL stadiums in the US and existing soccer stadiums in Canada and Mexico. As far as I know there isn’t much new infrastructure being built for this one. The Olympics, on the other hand, have an obscene amount of specialized infrastructure that gets built and is typically abandoned after the games.
While that might be that case for this world
incup, it’s not always like that.
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)
