Calls are growing on social media for international soccer fans to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is being hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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[–] 225 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Our government is currently murdering citizens and disappearing brown people. Literally, why would anybody come here. My advice to everybody is that it's not worth the risk.

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  • [–] 141 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I can’t imagine why the average football fan would risk going to the USA from another country right now. Even if they’re straight, white, Christian males.

    Go to Mexico or Canada sure. But a fascist country with a stated goal of ethnic cleansing?

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  • [–] 102 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    You're over-estimating the intelligence and political engagement of the average football fan.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think its not even the average football fan.

    The peaceful suburbanite psyche of the average 'western' person hasn't been penetrated yet, even with all thats happened. Thats in large part due to the media, and how they don't cover the increasingly serious corruption, murders, and traitors.

    A great current example is the sentencing and jailing of that national traitor from Reform UK. It caused barely a blip in the media, just phenomenal there wasn't a classic british media circus around it, so phenomenal I find it suspicious.


    But its surely more than the media, maybe willful ignorance? Simple lack of care, a sort of "thats their business, not mine" attitude? I don't know, human behaviour is weird when it comes to inconvenience.

    So much of this world seems to run on whatever is most convenient, (to be read as least mentally taxing), for the person in the decision makers position at the time. Be it a president, local cop, lawyer, teacher, or any other authority position, it always comes down to was it easier for that person to make that decision, or this decision.

    Importantly, i think its the making of a decision not the outcomes of said decisions. So the easy decision could lead to harder to manage outcomes, but the decision maker at the time found that decision easiest to process as opposed a more complex option as the decision to go with.

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    [–] 99 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    American here. Don't come see us right now. Our place is a fucking mess and we really need to clean up, and it's gonna be a long, long time before we're ready for visitors.

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    [–] 73 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    If people watched the Qatar World Cup where they literally killed thousands of slaves to build the soccer stadiums, only to say that the US is too bad for them to deal with... You know things are getting rough.

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    [–] 70 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The teams should boycott.
    Begin with Spain and Brazil.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    and Brazil

    Yeah, we should, but money talks :(

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    So does being locked out of international tournaments.

    That said, if the six or seven really big footballing associations did, that’d fuck the whole tournament. That’d probably work to some degree.

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  • [–] 57 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I really hope the stadiums are totally empty. We must not repeat the mistakes of the 1936 Olympics. Boycott the world cup and also boycott all their sponsors and advertisers and demand they pull their ads and stop funding FIFA which is a totally corrupt organization.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    In a just world, this party would be considered so radioactive it would be Business 101 to lock the door in their face and make sure it's VERY clear you'd never serve their interests. To deal with them at all should risk being marked a traitor and shunned.

    Anybody who identifies with these bullies and thugs needs to have the privilege of watching that little red line plummet in real time.

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    [–] 42 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Boycott ALL international sports events in America or Russia. They don't deserve the attention or the economic boost.

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    [–] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I would be genuinely shocked if FIFA notices or feels any impact. Qatar was a huge success for them regardless of their country’s issues.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I mean Qatar was not actively attacking locations that were hosting games nor was it actively arresting all foreigners in their country for the crime of being in their country.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Neither will USA for 2 months (I’m guessing). I’m just saying I think soccer fans value soccer much more than they value justice.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    But, people have to plan a trip to the US much more than 2 months in advance. If the brownshirts don’t scare them, they still have to consider that they might get refused entry after paying for the flight, ticket car rental (they’ll need one) and hotel.

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    [–] 38 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    FIFA is getting a lot of good out of that peace prize.

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    [–] 38 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Save yourselves, don't visit America. We may have to live in hell but you don't have to.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Many cool Americans I knew were so proud and patriotic in the past. Reality has flipped. Stay strong. you live in a place that’s so scary it makes me try to protect myself at the other side on the globe. :( It’s bitter

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If People from outsite us seriously are attending this event, I loose all hope in humanity. Attending in Mexico or Canada is fine. But don't cross any boarders to the usa.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago

    It's not that I'm boycotting FIFA as much as I'm just not going to the US because I'm not a self-destructive idiot with a death wish.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    "FIFA PASS" to fast-track visas? Sounds like a convenient cover story for terrorists to get in easily.

    /s

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Don’t boycott the whole thing, just attend events in Canada and Mexico only.

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  • [–] 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You should always boycott the FIFA World cup

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago*

    World Cup in Mexico and Canada. Kick USA out, they don't understand Football and will terrorize fans.

    Edit: They didn't stop Nazi Germany to host Olympic games in 1936, it is not too late to stop USA to host World Cup and Olympic games while nazis are in power.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I live in one of the most popular tourist spots in the world, and I don't know why anyone from any country would visit America right now. It's a big world, go somewhere nice.

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "Calls are being made on social media" - In other words, the same accounts that were already calling for boycotts are continuing to do so.

    Talk is cheap, more so online.

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Americans are afraid to go outside in their own country, why the fuck would anyone come here?

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