Yeah let's give the most financially lucrative sporting event in the world to a country that hates football AND foreigners. What's the worst that could happen??
Marcus Aurelius was right. You will lose friends you will lose lovers you will lose comfort but if in losing them you find yourself you have gained more than kings.
Exactly correct. The billionaire class is an economic tumor that has metastasized to every major organ in civilization in search of growth at all costs. The primary characteristic they share is psychopathy—they see humans as disposable objects. They are eating us alive.
At this stage, the US government no longer cares a single bit about the public backlash. They are hosting the World Cup, and they know perfectly well that their global image will be instantly sanitized and aggressively repackaged by the sheer theatrical spectacle of the event.
When the tournament finally concludes, the enduring global memory will be of the winning team lifting the golden trophy in a massive, state-of-the-art American stadium, and absolutely not the memory of the CBP detaining a Somali referee in Miami weeks beforehand, or the Homeland Security shamelessly denying visas to the entire Iranian national team, or the ICE agents rounding up vendors outside the arenas, or border agents humiliating foreign journalists at the airport.
Even the notoriously corrupt suits at FIFA understand this game perfectly well.
They are currently being dragged, relentlessly harassed online, petitioned, ratioed, and begged by activists to say something, do something, and somehow defend the battered integrity of their beloved sport.
But they know that the glittering product they are selling (the World Cup tournament) is completely bulletproof. They just need to quietly endure the temporary humiliation for now.
Once the first whistle blows, they know that everyone will predictably move on, suffer immediate collective amnesia, and desperately channel all that righteous energy into screaming at the packed stadiums, yelling at their massive TV screens, weeping in crowded sports bars, cursing at the referees, and stressing over their multi-game betting slips.
This is the intoxicating, brain-numbing power of sport, and the ancient Romans weaponized this exact bread-and-circus distraction to the absolute core. The only real, effective, and financially damaging protest against this massive PR machine is simply a total boycott. Your angry online tweets, your thoroughly researched human rights reports, your lengthy social media threads, your viral video rants, your petition signatures, and your beautifully formatted Amnesty International press releases are completely, and hilariously meaningless at this stage.
It's a 30 minute chopper ride to Sagana State Lodge,
It's equally 45 minutes to Nakuru State Lodge.
Meanwhile, patients are sharing beds in Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital wards, exactly 3km from the American Ebola center.
Human approval is unstable. Someone may praise you today and criticize you tomorrow, so it's wiser to anchor your life in deeper principles than in other people's opinions.
The US has refused to host Iran's national team for the World Cup even though they have to play all their games there
Which means they're based in Tijuana and will have to fly on the day of their games
I've never heard of this kind of discrimination in World Cup history