*Exciting sportsball news. No fans in the stands or hotels
@bruces Expect lots of very tight shots of the players, avoiding the emptiness. And I imagine people who *did* get a ticket will get bumped to closer.
@bruces almost forgot about this absurdity: „US drops $15,000 visa deposit for foreign fans with World Cup tickets“.
Somehow I’d still not be comfortable travelling to USA. What if they suddenly decide to make it mandatory again? Not to speak about the threat of deportation to an almost concentration camp
@bruces ruin international relations and threaten tourists with deportations, and suddenly nobody wants to visit your country anymore. i'm baffled how people could assume there's a connection between these issues.
@bruces thank goodness! Everyone will be much safer that way. The games should not be permitted to proceed in a country as lawless and dangerous as the United States
@bruces the development entitled USA to a price of „fuck around and find out“
@bruces Making our country inhospitable has consequences I guess.
I work in an office a few blocks from Lumen Field in Seattle. The city has been just dumping effort into preparing for this thing, "huge crowds, need lots of extra preparation" and I don't understand why at all.
The stadium has the same number of seats it always has. The Seahawks play sold out games there all the time. Even the Sounders sell it out on occasion. Taylor Swift and other touring musical acts sell it out.
Why are we supposed to need all this extra pomp and circumstance and shit for *these* events in particular?
@bruces don’t even watch it on TV. Boycott this shit. FIFA made their fascist apologist stance very clear. #fuckfifa #fucktheworldcup #fucktrump
Strange that no-one wants to risk fascist kidnapping and death squads to watch a few football games 🤔🤷♂️
@bruces The article also says that FIFA like booked a bunch of hotel rooms, so there was a shortage, and then canceled them. They are hopelessly, corrupt.
@bruces New York City is giving away 50 tickets by raffle to generate free publicity. Its all over the news and my partner even got an email their union about this.