i highly doubt that it's going to turn off any significant number of viewers. only the crazy ideologues care enough to boycott over something so trivial.
Well, first, nobody can address 1000 things in one world cup. So they've chosen to address human rights and individual freedoms. And since those two things affect every single person on the planet, I'm gonna have to dispute your argument about affecting a larger number of people. Doesn't get any larger than the entire planet full of people.
the FIFA uncovered documentary on Netflix is a good watch
Who said the entire planet is gay? The entire planet is human. And humans include gay people, males and females, people of all ethnicities and religions, etc.
Written by bigots for bigots. Please delete. You are killing what was once a good thread
That was terrible. Kid will be back for the next one. Good player, terrible circumstance.
Why would that matter? I‘m failing to see the relevance.
Not sure if you are being serious but I'll bite. The China Olympics was just a couple years ago, I don't think you were in grade school at that time, or maybe I'm wrong, so your analogy of support of Alzheimer's research kind of falls flat, I figure it was made in jest? Human rights violations are serious no matter who is committing them, I think we can agree on that. The organizers of the Olympics and the World Cup are all adults and knew of the atrocities China was committing against the Uyghurs, just as FIFA and the world knows about Qatar and treatment of gays, they were not grade school age (maybe just in intellect, definitely adults in greed). FIFA accepted the bid from Qatar because of money (They had no issues back when they accepted the bid), just like everyone accepted the China Olympics, no one wanted to offend them (Money, Money, Money), seems like hypocrisy to me.
Was it hypocritical of women, back in the early 1900s, to protest their lack of voting rights if they hadn't also protested every other possible thing that was wrong in the world beforehand?
Wow, you’re really stretching. Were you in grade school in 1900 too? We are, well at least I am, discussing the last two years. Sure, ok then I was against the crucifixion too.
I'm not stretching. I am, however, eating blueberry yoghurt with pecans - so at least I'm being a little healthy.
Right, which is why there’s nothing wrong BLM rhetoric and ALM is an illegitimate, immoral, political re-direct.
Never understand people's objections to BLM. It's another incredibly simple question: do you or don't you believe black lives matter?
Right?
I thought this was a soccer thread, but since you keep this going. I do not know a single person that believe Black Lives don’t matter, just in case you want to question this too, I believe Black Lives Matter. People are against the organization BLM that has proven to be corrupt.
This. I'll get this off my chest now and then move on to commenting on the teams and games in this thread. I HATE, HATE, HATE that the World Cup is taking place in winter.
Who would've thought supporting human rights and individual freedoms would be controversial.
this is the hand we've been dealt, and it was known early on, including during the bidding process that a summer tournament in qatar was untenable. $omehow, $omething, and $omeone convinced enough member$ of the Ex-co to vote for Qatar and $crew the US out of the tournament this year.
I know. That's why I gotta just bitch about it this one time and move on. There's so much other sports going on right now, it's ridiculous.
the thing is, aside from sunday early game football, there's very little overlap, so you CAN pay attention to all of it, if you so choose.
And yet you challenged my assertion of human rights violations in China when I bought it up. I guess you just cherry pick what bothers you. I’m done, you are either just trying to get a rise or are being intentionally obtuse. Bye
You're right. Maybe a good time for a leave of absence until January.
Maybe that’s your own feeling, but overall That’s not accurate. Asserting BLM is misguided and anti-other races (i.e. espousing ALM instead) clearly shows malice to that particular social cause. It is not about corruption. BTW, what corruption ? That comment shows your true ‘colors’, pardon the pun.
Not if (a) you're married and, ideally, have young kids, (b) you sell the aforementioned expenses, investing the profits wisely, and (c) you either are a sociopath or can play that role.
I did not challenge any such thing. I mostly ignored what you said about China because it was 100% irrelevant to the USMNT and it's decision to show support for human rights and individual freedoms in this world cup.
