• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    Why would anyone come here? Even white tourists have been detained. God forbid a person of color come here, they may not make it home.

    It’s not safe here.

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    Honestly, as an American, who in the fuck would want to come here and risk being shot by an government representative or sent to an internment camp for watching football?

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    There are a lot of stupid football fans out there, but few are stupid enough to disregard their own safety.

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    Why would anyone want to travel to a fascist police state run by pedophiles? How is that fun? They’ve already said they are going to have their state sponsored terrorist police at airports looking through your phone to make sure you support the fundamentalist colonialist state of Israel and their genocide and to make sure you support king pedo and the fuck around gang or you could just go on a vacation to literally anywhere else and not have to deal with this clown show

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      Given past sports washing events, people don’t care about that.

      It seems to be a combination of extremely high ticket prices combined with a fear that ICE is going to disappear you when you’re traveling the country.

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    Lifelong football fan, fuck fifa fuck the world cup. Ill be at the park volunteering soccer coaching for local youths while the fascists have their epstein files distraction cup.

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    How could this happen tho? It’s not as if the country became a shithole with a gestapo arresting and sending to concentration camps to anyone that is not a clear white straight usian…

    Why would I want to risk being arrested or worse to see a soccer match? But also, why the hell would I want to give a single cent to a country that’s objectively making the lives of everyone in this world worse?

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      That and the tickets are absurdly expensive. So I go to the jail and go broke?

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    I have to travel to 'Murica every few months

    I’m loving the fact that the exchange rate has gotten better for me by a significant margin, that hotels are offering cheaper rates because they have rooms empty that would otherwise be full and that places are less busy with tourists

    I feel for the people who didn’t vote for Trump, but for those who did, and for those who could have voted against him but didn’t, they can suck the farts right out of my arsehole

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      We’re taking about someone who bankrupted four (4!) casinos. Some of them multiple times.

      He might be a successful grifter (though that’s probably more due to luck and being a useful and extremely easy to buy or convince puppet than any kind of talent), but a shrewd businessman he’s most definitely not.

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      > be Trump

      > be participant in largest blackmail influence network in history

      > banks, shahs, princes, empires, all crumble between your fingertips

      > get to bang models when they’re still teenager virgins

      > become president

      > “wow I’m the greatest genius ever, make American great again”

      > everyone talks shit about you but who cares? Have fun talking shit right back you’re the king of the world

      > FBI arrests your Mossad agent partner, he’s gonna squeal

      > you have to have him killed to keep everything from getting out

      > tfw “I’ll show them, I’ll destroy their precious country for what they made me do to you, Jeffrey”

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        My take is different.

        Trump was in bed with the New York Mafia for decades. The real bosses stayed as far away from him as possible, sending their stooges to control him.

        Trump had one really smart mentor, Roy Cohn. He ditched Cohn when Roy was diagnosed with AIDS.

        Trump thinks that he’s a genius because he does scams like selling NFTs and golden sneakers to chumps.

        A real boss would have quietly extorted $50 billion out of Saudi Arabia on Inauguration Day 2017 and then just been quiet.

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    By contrast, Airbnb has said the World Cup is to be “the biggest hosting event” in its history."

    When you have an unregulated marketplace like AirBnB the legitimate businesses will loose. AirBnB rentals destroys neighborhoods and kills hotels

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      Hotels suck in comparison to renting a place. Renting may be causing other problems but it isn’t like they bring nothing to the table. If hotels didn’t want to lose out then maybe they should have stopped charging $300/night for a closet with a shitty bed in it.

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        Yeah, lets hear you out when the residental house next door has new people in every week treating it as a hotel. Think of the average hotel guest you have experienced? Yeah that one EVERY week.

        Luckily my municipalityv/(Norway) will strike down hard on zoning violations if you run a commercial operation in a residential area.

        The initial idea was brilliant. Occasionally renting out a room in you house/flat. Or renting out a few weeks when you are yourself on vacation. But now that it’s businesses buying up housing and running them as hotels

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    This is what happens when you overprice the fucking tickets. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Fucking pieces of shit.