Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets
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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.
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@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.
Trump: "No no but wait, FIFA, wait, let's block paying customers from Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay from coming. That will certainly not affect the World Cup."
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I haven't supported sports in any way, shape or form since the mid 90's.
I love it when things like this happen.
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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 I've noticed Disney and other corporations have turned like this. Mr. Walt would be so mad if he was alive
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@benroyce @NatureMC @isotope239
I lost a team of six coders on a gig at Cantor Fitz.
@tuban_muzuru @NatureMC @isotope239
they got hit hard
i was at 5 wtc
9 story building between the towers
all my coworkers made it out. but they weren't spared the carnage
i still remember the zombies caked in asbestos dust wandering in a trance all the way up through times square
i spent hours on the phone with a friend who just ran across the brooklyn bridge having a mental breakdown
i'm not religious but i went and prayed at st. patricks
and the missing posters in grand central
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@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.
oh yeah, it's a tiny dent
but hopefully it focuses some people's attentions who don't care we got trump. there are certain things they do care about, and maybe now they will see the consequences
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I haven't supported sports in any way, shape or form since the mid 90's.
I love it when things like this happen.
@maddad @benroyce @StillIRise1963
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. I wish I could read her comments! Perhaps one of you gentlemen could ask her to unmute me if she would be willing in grace
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i'm blocked and suspended all over the damn place
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i'm blocked and suspended all over the damn place
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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 As exciting as this is, the rest of the article makes it sound like FIFA’s bottom line isn’t being damaged. Actual purchased tickets can’t be cancelled, and the demand for them hasn’t gone down.
FIFA is a global organization with millions who wanna watch their games; I’m worried 17K might end up just being a drop in the bucket.
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@tuban_muzuru @NatureMC @isotope239
they got hit hard
i was at 5 wtc
9 story building between the towers
all my coworkers made it out. but they weren't spared the carnage
i still remember the zombies caked in asbestos dust wandering in a trance all the way up through times square
i spent hours on the phone with a friend who just ran across the brooklyn bridge having a mental breakdown
i'm not religious but i went and prayed at st. patricks
and the missing posters in grand central
@benroyce @NatureMC @isotope239
The FDNY Wall
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oh yeah, it's a tiny dent
but hopefully it focuses some people's attentions who don't care we got trump. there are certain things they do care about, and maybe now they will see the consequences
@benroyce I do hope you’re right, but anyone with an IQ above room temperature (even in C) will avoid traveling to the States already, you don’t need to warn us.
The people flying over will also go on vacation in any authoritarian country elsewhere, because beaches and cheap drinks like the ones visiting Socotra that got stuck on the island. At least half of the people is more stupid than the median 
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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/
I have so many great US friends and colleagues. I would never dare enter the country under the current administration.
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just roll with it
a few early blocks bothered me
now i just don't care anymore
"oh hi...
oh bye..."
whatever
mastodon can be ridiculously harsh
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@benroyce As exciting as this is, the rest of the article makes it sound like FIFA’s bottom line isn’t being damaged. Actual purchased tickets can’t be cancelled, and the demand for them hasn’t gone down.
FIFA is a global organization with millions who wanna watch their games; I’m worried 17K might end up just being a drop in the bucket.
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@benroyce I do hope you’re right, but anyone with an IQ above room temperature (even in C) will avoid traveling to the States already, you don’t need to warn us.
The people flying over will also go on vacation in any authoritarian country elsewhere, because beaches and cheap drinks like the ones visiting Socotra that got stuck on the island. At least half of the people is more stupid than the median @benroyce That’s the reason for any cut in education anywhere. „panem et circensis“, keep them stupid and with cheap beer and gas and you can get away with basically anything. Before voting comes education and learning to think on your own.
Unpopular opinion: people voting left just because they have been told to aren’t better, they’re just as gullible. -
just roll with it
a few early blocks bothered me
now i just don't care anymore
"oh hi...
oh bye..."
whatever
mastodon can be ridiculously harsh
@benroyce @maddad @StillIRise1963
No doubt. It's cancel culture in the digital era.
She is damn funny and I like her toots. -
@grootinside @mossman @benroyce
Alternatively, the Trump Olympics will be tightly staged-managed. All the usual competitors will be welcome, but there'll be restrictions on what you can say and where you can go, and bad things will happen to countries and competitors who don't toe the line both inside and outside the competition. Countries who boycott the games will be hit with tariffs or worse. It'll be the most expensive and least tasteful Olympics of all time.
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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/
Given that it's a joint Mexico/USA/Canada hosting situation, I wonder if FIFA have contingency plans to move the USA matches to Mexico and Canada
