Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
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@benroyce @tuban_muzuru Just speaking for Europe: It doesn't matter what is said in social media.
We have warnings by our Foreign ministries how to behave, and we read in our newspapers how innocent tourists were either prevented from entering the United States in the first place, or were repeatedly detained and hidden away in dubious prison camps before our embassies secured their release.
These facts are enough, we don't need social media. Your government does enough to keep people away.@NatureMC @benroyce @tuban_muzuru I'm a "native born" American with a US passport. In July I came through the port of entry at DFW. The place was swarming with heavily armed border and ICE agents just spoiling for a fight. I can only assume the situation has gotten much worse since then. If you are any shade of brown, you will be seriously hassled, that was happening months ago. I wouldn't want to chance being sent to a camp or deported for a football match.
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that's assuming usa is already full blown nazi germany
it's bad but it isn't that yet, so you can vote, and can make a difference
this rationale your presenting is saying a vote is useless. so people don't vote. so trump wins
so you're helping trump
do you want to help trump?
i don't think so, but that's what you're doing
so don't do it. don't present this "everything is already full blown fascism" fallacy. it doesn't help
@benroyce It's mostly frustration with Dem leadership being useless. For the record, I vote in every election, including state and local elections which are on odd-numbered years (VA).
But I have absolutely zero faith that the Democratic party, as it is now, will be able to stop Trump, or whomever else the fascists rally around after he's gone.
As for the historical parallels, look up how Germany's liberals sided with the Nazis to stop the socialists from gaining any power. We aren't there yet, but it's starting to rhyme.
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Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting
Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)
As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA
Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates
https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/
@benroyce so so good….
FIFA FAFOed indeed 
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@NatureMC @benroyce @tuban_muzuru I'm a "native born" American with a US passport. In July I came through the port of entry at DFW. The place was swarming with heavily armed border and ICE agents just spoiling for a fight. I can only assume the situation has gotten much worse since then. If you are any shade of brown, you will be seriously hassled, that was happening months ago. I wouldn't want to chance being sent to a camp or deported for a football match.
@isotope239 It is so horrible. Stay safe! @benroyce @tuban_muzuru
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but the current system doesn't work for them
this person seems deeply confused about some basic facts of what an fptp voting system is, and are stubbornly refusing to learn the reality
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@benroyce It's mostly frustration with Dem leadership being useless. For the record, I vote in every election, including state and local elections which are on odd-numbered years (VA).
But I have absolutely zero faith that the Democratic party, as it is now, will be able to stop Trump, or whomever else the fascists rally around after he's gone.
As for the historical parallels, look up how Germany's liberals sided with the Nazis to stop the socialists from gaining any power. We aren't there yet, but it's starting to rhyme.
the democrats fucking suck
it's just they're just not fascism
some of us want a real alternative
3rd party doesn't work. so i champion taking over the dem party. more aoc s and mamdanis. show up in the primaries and throw out the spineless dems
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and the account we're responding to not only doesn't know that is the only effect of a 3rd party vote in fptp, but also doesn't care
what a world
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@isotope239 It is so horrible. Stay safe! @benroyce @tuban_muzuru
@NatureMC @benroyce @tuban_muzuru Thanks, Petra! Since then, I've moved to the UK and don't plan on returning unless the US overcomes MAGA.
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@NatureMC @benroyce @tuban_muzuru Thanks, Petra! Since then, I've moved to the UK and don't plan on returning unless the US overcomes MAGA.
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Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting
Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)
As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA
Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates
https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/
@benroyce seems like its within the noise like we're still waiting for the intl olympic/kickball fans to figure it out already.
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@NatureMC @isotope239 @benroyce
Since 9/11 the USA is somehow broken.
Why do so many people lose faith in government? It's like religion, if all those people stop believing, they go to the ancient history department.
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@NatureMC @isotope239 @benroyce
Since 9/11 the USA is somehow broken.
Why do so many people lose faith in government? It's like religion, if all those people stop believing, they go to the ancient history department.
@tuban_muzuru @NatureMC @isotope239
yup, as i think i told you before, my last day of work at the wtc was 9/10/2001. i woke up late the next day so i never made it in
it really did shake our confidence, release all of our insecurities. and those insecurities morphed into derangement
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@RiaResists Reality anecdote: Half of my family fled from Hitler already in 1923 (yes, the danger could have been seen then), some later ... to the USA. Some of them fought against the Nazis as US soldiers in Europe.
Their grand-children and later generations are horrible MAGA heads now. To this day, I still cannot comprehend this betrayal of their *own* history (and I've cut the contact).
@NatureMC @benroyce @tuban_muzuru
Sometimes it’s best not to try to understand.
I realize my dumb-ass family only i vests RW nonsense at every opportunity.
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Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting
Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)
As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA
Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates
https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/
@benroyce
LOL
FIFA: Let's align ourselves with a brutal tyrant and present him with a fake trophy to make nice.FIFA (later): Oh shit. We did not expect that people do not want to spend their vacations in fascistland being brutalized by a tyrant and need to call an emergency meeting to figure this out.
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Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting
Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)
As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA
Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates
https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/
@benroyce THIS is GREAT NEWS!!
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@NatureMC @RiaResists @tuban_muzuru
some people just want to learn the hard way
@benroyce @NatureMC @tuban_muzuru
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@benroyce Immigration enforcement is shooting US citizens in the face. Why risk that as a foreigner taking a vacation?
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@benroyce THIS is GREAT NEWS!!
FAFO
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@tuban_muzuru @NatureMC @isotope239
yup, as i think i told you before, my last day of work at the wtc was 9/10/2001. i woke up late the next day so i never made it in
it really did shake our confidence, release all of our insecurities. and those insecurities morphed into derangement
@benroyce @NatureMC @isotope239
I lost a team of six coders on a gig at Cantor Fitz.
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Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting
Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)
As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA
Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates
https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/
@benroyce Following the discussion here, but here’s the unpopular fact: if this continues *every weekend* until the start of the world cup (20 weeks) that’ll be 340,000 tickets. Every world cup since '98 hat roughly 3 million ticket sales, Qatar 2022 about 3.4 million. So about 90%(!) will still be visiting even IF these cancellations continue. About 10% less doesn’t look like a full-featured boycott. Bad for the FIFA yes, but no emergency. People will still flock around the soccer ball.
