Calls are growing on social media for international soccer fans to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is being hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    It’s not that I’m boycotting FIFA as much as I’m just not going to the US because I’m not a self-destructive idiot with a death wish.

  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    The USA govt will just buy the tickets and pay people to go and cheer for the dictator, ya know, the thing they always claim happens in the enemy countries

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    I live in one of the most popular tourist spots in the world, and I don’t know why anyone from any country would visit America right now. It’s a big world, go somewhere nice.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Hell if you want to go to a dictatorship fucking turkey is right there. Go see the remains of the Tomb of Halicarnassus, explore Istanbul, check out the ruins of the ancient Hittites. Better than pissing about New York or getting mauled by Death Valley if you’re German.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    It’s not about the attendees boycotting, since they are already with their heads in their asses, and rich enough to spent their money on this. It’s the hosts who can boycott the shit out of this corrupt event. But be careful, in 1968, in Mexico, the students threatened to boycott the Olympic Games and got massacred, which brought the Dirty War period of the government against dissident citizens. I can see this happening to America during this period of relentless imperial fall.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    Boycott ALL international sports events in America or Russia. They don’t deserve the attention or the economic boost.

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        4 months ago

        So does being locked out of international tournaments.

        That said, if the six or seven really big footballing associations did, that’d fuck the whole tournament. That’d probably work to some degree.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    First time U.S. is having the World Cup and Olympics in DECADES and it’s while this felon rapist traitor is running the show.

    Guess those things are off my bucket list.

  • demonsword@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The teams should be boycotting too, but that would require having a spine, such a thing is rarely found in the soccer football world.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    American here. Don’t come see us right now. Our place is a fucking mess and we really need to clean up, and it’s gonna be a long, long time before we’re ready for visitors.

  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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    4 months ago

    “FIFA PASS” to fast-track visas? Sounds like a convenient cover story for terrorists to get in easily.

    /s