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I will do my part from America and not watch. When is it?
First match is 11th of June, the final is the 19th of July.
why do you need to know if you are not watching.
Just so I would know if I had accomplished the task or not. To be safe, I’ll avoid Buffalo Wild Wings for 2026.
Sports fans will never boycott anything. They are loyal to their teams, not morals nor logic. Can’t diverge from the groupthink. Gotta be a team player.
There’s multiple psychology papers on this exact subject.
sports is basically political in nature, it make sense to have 1 side or the other.
Among football fans there’s no real loyalty to a national team. They don’t give a shit about that. People going to world cup matches are casuals. Hardcore fans will actually be the most likely ones to boycott the world cup.
Pointless until the nations boycott.
If lots of people cancel their tickets, post pictures of cancelled tickets or stickers and apparel saying “no fascist world cup”, and social media is flooded with it, nations are much more likely to pull out. Stop being such a negative Nancy.
People can only do what is in their power to do.
It’s a case of ‘if you don’t like what’s going on, don’t engage’. I’ve boycotted watching the last WC and I’ll boycott watching this too. Will it make a difference? Probably not, not while the majority whinge and fold, but I’m not whining that there was nothing I could do.
I have a lot of respect for people handing in their tickets, at best that’s a shitload of planning and organisation they’ve burned to do the right thing.
Its certainly not pointless. Every lost dollar every lost ratings point makes a difference.
If I didn’t live in the US, I sure wouldn’t come here
as bad as the US is, pretty sure Qatar is worse and nobody gave a shit then. Sports fans don’t have morals.
Yeah the whole meme of “sportsball is for dummies” kinda bugs me as I have a few ridiculously intelligent friends who are huge sports fans, but there’s no denying that the average smartness of sports fans does indeed seem lower. It’s not because of something wrong with sports, it’s just that they’re intrinsically pretty easy to understand. The barrier to entry, intellectually, is lower. In a way, that’s great, because it’s something anyone can enjoy. But it doesn’t bode well for the general fan base’s ability to do things like critical thinking.
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In my experience living in a Football crazy country, Football fans’ almost invariably secondarize moral or principles (in they have any) to their love of the game or whatever team they’re fans of.
I really don’t expect anybody but a handful of people to boycott the World cup as a question of principle, though given the stories coming from there it’s possible that a sense of self-preservation will see many people refrain from going to watch games in the US, but that will be purelly driven by selfish reasons rather than “taking a stand for what is right”.
Football is one of the greatest sources of tribalist identity around and for most people tribalism sits above any and all moral, ethics or principles (as is obvious for example in how MAGA types are defending those Pedophiles who are “chiefs” of their tribe, or how many people take their moral stand on the Gaza Genocide from whatever their favority party leaders say, rather than it being purelly based on the inherent morality of the actions commited there).
I mean, boycott fifa all the time, they are awful.
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Supporting the Trump admin is like the least egregious thing FIFA has ever done.
Agreed, that “Peace Prize” was up there though…
Is it not FIFA who is usually bribed rather than them faltering some big orange baby with a make believe award.
Yeah but because of their readiness to take bribes they have literally set about in motion events that are resulted in large numbers of people being killed.
Going to that thing would be like going to Hitler’s birthday party. No self loving human person should be entertaining these terrible people unless they are slaves…I hope you guys who are slaves do find a way out one day.
The fascist FIFA organization needs to be shunned and destroyed everywhere
Sepp Blatter is the world’s second biggest cunt,
I was never much of a sports fan, but there is no fucking way I am going to the US right now.
I think the fifa peace prize winner just started an illegal war.
Definitely in favor of this idea, and not just because I wasn’t looking forward to the large influx of tourists.
