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National teams should agree to only play at Canadian and Mexican sites. That would make a real statement to the rest of the world as they refuse to cross the border, and embarrass Trump. Some will cross, and he will still crown the “winner.” Bonus: FIFA president Infantino will look like an idiot.

Absolutely. And viewers must boycott the sham Olympics that the beer and soda companies will want to mount in the absence of a real Olympics.

Frankly, it's also just dangerous to travel to America. I wouldn't encourage anyone to visit here casually right now.

We can barely get countries to disallow Israel's sports teams at a handful of events after their government turned Gaza into glass The world isn't gonna do shit about this beyond making a few disapproving statements. And I hate that so, so much

Sorry to tell you guys, but the world has given up on the United States already. Nobody is coming to help you. If you want to fix things, step one might be to find a young, charismatic and intelligent opposition leader.

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Not a chance....... England versus USA final for the taking! 🤣🤣🤣

well said.

Anyone supporting FIFA after the "Fake Peace Prize" are:.........[just insert any bad word here]🤮

The world should cease all contact!

Way too late to try to apply morals to those events They won't care and almost certainly won't notice.

Money runs the World Cup and the Olympics, not morals. But don't fret because this is a green light for other countries to do the same. Trump will set the world on fire before being held accountable for his crimes. We are pawns in the demented fantasies of a madman. #EpsteinFiles #Venezuela

Boycott the World Cup. Boycott the World Cup. Absolutely Incompetent Administration. Release The Epstein Files. Fight Fascism With Everything You Have. Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy will Prevail. #Freedom #Liberty #Democracy #Fight #Fascism #taco #Epstein #WorldCup

World Baseball Classic too

Yeah. What other choice is there? Not to mention; do you really want to put your athletes on American soil right now? On basic safety grounds.

And honestly the UN needs to decamp to Geneva for the indefinite future too.

And this doesn't have to mean harming the athletes! There are Olympic venues all the hell over. Pick one and redirect the athletes there! Who cares if it's not ideal for tourism, they could still fulfill the spirit of the games. Non-garbage Americans could even compete under the Olympic flag.

Do we really think the people in charge would give a damn about a World Cup boycott? In their eyes its "only soccer". The IOC maybe, but hard to know where things will be in 2+ years.

It's just another American state; it'll only get shunned if America gets shunned first.

From the outside it looks like there's still laneway to go on the downwards trajectory. Reversing it takes a lot of action and time, I guess.

You have been asleep for the entire 21st century

What’s incredible is erasing decades of context.

Stop being such a stupid motherfucker

I can only hope that the rot has set in in the US military, and they find a way to fuck it up. I have no respect for military forces who execute illegal missions of aggression.

Hegseth is a piss pig and a piss pig will piss up more things than you might first anticipate.

Are you serious right now?

And yes, that means dead US troops. Trump chose this path.

*sigh* welcome to Reddit

Jfc

Most importantly, Faine You n yours staying safe🤗

Guys this isn’t discord

A lot of people are replying to this with some version of “oh ho ho, but no one boycotted the Cup in Qatar or the Olympics in Russia and China, what’s the point?” the fact that people all too often have the ethics of swine does not mean it is thus stupid and naive to demand better anyway

We need microblogging footnotes!

See also: responding to my take with a 7 post thread explaining in excruciating detail why I’m wrong. I promise I’m not reading an essay from a random stranger today.

Ah yes, the Madonna/whore theory of social media. Shame on you for not being the shitpoaster equivalent of the subservient virginal feeeeemale who is also an expert at all things seggsual

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I mean I’m sorry but yes, we should get the sanctions, we should be the ones who can’t travel or use banks and have to blow to foreign tourists for cash. Even if it doesn’t happen, we should assume that’s what’s in store for us if we don’t extract the country from the grip of these fucking goblins

Let's be realistic. Europe is now on it's own. Our best hope is a weaker USA for the next century. Similar to Russia after the Cold War. Poor, disorganised and unable to hurt The Free World.

I do in fact understand this, but of course, this is Bluesky and I understand that means everyone here is contractually obliged to assume everybody else here is both tragically under-educated and Bad

Looking forward to another year of hoping other nations can come up with ways to sufficiently punish us that might actually hurt him.

I wonder if fifa might move it to Europe?

Unless they get dragged in. The way Maduro's getting dragged in or the way he wants to drag Greenland, Canada, Panama, etc. in.

I always do anyway because sport is boring

100% Hopefully, they will step up and do the right thing!

And it is clearly extremely unsafe to travel to the US under Republican rule.

In LA we don’t even WANT to host the Olympics. They’re using it as an excuse to further militarize the police and criminalize homeless people so they can get rid of them to make LA appear “clean” for all the visitors. It’s heinous

If he was ever left alone to feed himself, he would be liable to make the frozen pizza with the shrink wrap still on it.

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I’m boycotting the US games. I’d still be keen to go to a match in Mexico or Canada.

Yeah, I'd 100% support that.

Not the World Cup … Trump has no plan but wants the adoration of what FIFA brings … Brazil withdraws from the World Cup would devastate it and Trump … far too many commenting as if Trump has a plan ..

Then Trump will be killing our owners . But I guess it’s ok to kill them right?

They seem quite happy with a "World Series" where no other nation is involved

The US is not a safe country for anyone.

Dang. Both happening in LA, and we could use some positive news. But, as it breaks my heart, I agree.

Trump hates Los Angeles and he would be just as happy to see the games fail however. It won't affect him and will please his red state base

If they look at my social media history I wouldn't get a visa. And I wouldn't want one.

Give them the isolation they so idealise and make it hurt

REALLY HARD to do that while avoiding United States airspace, which you KNOW this criminal administration would make an issue

The governing bodies of both sports are garbage, unfortunately. Another major sport that should boycott the US is Formula 1, but the FIA, as a governing body, is also garbage.

I wonder if these world athletes would be safe in the US?

personally, 'boycotted' - not watched - Soccer World cup, 2-3 last tournees Reasons: not even human rights; player safety/conditions('+30'C &more..); 'co-Businesses'; or even Fifa(corruption) -> It just gotten so boring. (Thgh, all said matter) Yet, no belief the 'exclusions' in sports w much effect

And, to their credit, half of them have said “yeah, couldn’t care that much about the games, let’s just get together”.

But snooker must survive

Were the white supremacist terror-squads not already enough for people? It's literally unsafe to hold the events!

I think the world should take both those events away from our country if there’s a way for them to do that. Heartbroken for Venezuelans tonight.

You know it won’t happen because it’s football and they are all non-political 🤡

It must happen if the rest of the world isn’t to be complicit. . bsky.app/profile/rich...

I think that's going to be a tough sell. If people cared more about human rights and morals over sports, the governing bodies would not be the most corrupt international organizations around. And people have bought tickets, booked vacation etc a long time ago. But it would be lovely!

I love the World Cup more than anything in the world. Anything. Anything. And I agree. It needs to be boycotted or moved. Or, better yet, the administration and its garbage puppets should be purged with Zlatan fire.

FIFA gave him a fake peace prize! They’re every bit as corrupt and rancid as he is. The only way to hit them is in the wallet.

I’ve been wondering for nearly a year if anyone would come.

The regime doesn’t care: They’ll just take the money and proclaim that the US won every event for the greatness of Dear Leader.

I'm from Seattle and I have been waiting my whole life for my hometown to get a World Cup match. But yeah, boycott that shit.

NEVER going to happen.

You'd think it'd be the easiest thing in the fucking world to boycott - it's expensive, it takes a lot of energy for travel, it's a thing that happens every 4 years... And yet.

Should, but won't.

The world should boycott but make the decision as late as possible so corrupt FIFA can’t get replacements, ideally teams should simply fail to turn up to matches and leave the sight of stadiums with no teams on the pitch. Infantino’s corruption has ruined the sport

It is like the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Yep. At the rate they're going, a secret police force will be as much of a prerequisite as a grade 1 circuit in 5 years.

It’s more the profitability. The only one that’s fallen off in the last 5 years is France other than Russia which went for obvious reasons. Spa for example makes a loss nearly every year.

Unfortunately, this is true.

I’ll expand on that: Nations boycotting the World Cup should schedule friendlies with the Venezuelan national teams* throughout that entire month. *Men’s AND women’s, and maybe even U-18s, so as not to run the Venezuelans into exhaustion playing 2-3 games a week for four weeks straight.