Quote (fender @ Nov 24 2022 11:53am)
interesting. can you be a bit more specific? what exactly do you find so annoying? what do you regard just empty "virtue signalling"? kneeling before the match? commentators wearing armbands that FIFA banned for teams? the discussion of qatar's terrible human rights record? all of it combined?
and that really annoys you more than the fact that a country with no football tradition whatsoever blatantly bribed its way to hosting a world cup? a world cup that, against all tradition and established season planning, has to be held in the winter? it's more "annoying" than the fact that literally thousands of workers, held in slave-like conditions, died building the infrastructure for it, in a country that blatantly disregards the rights of women and LGBT+ people?
i mean, i've said before that i had rather seen the big national football associations like the DFB and the FA outright boycott the event, which would have put some real (economic) pressure on FIFA, but since this didn't happen, i'd rather see people drawing attention to the issues than seeing bribed shills like david beckham and gianni infantino pretending all those problems simply don't exist...
for a change i mostly agree, but saying that thousands died building the stadiums is blatant misinformation
the ~6k number floating around is the amount of total deaths from all causes out of 2 something million migrant workers over several years
nobody in his right mind denies the terrible conditions and that the official numbers are bs