With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasingly aggressive deployment of federal immigration agents.“I had to cancel my World Cup plans,” wrote R...
as bad as the US is, pretty sure Qatar is worse and nobody gave a shit then. Sports fans don’t have morals.
Yeah the whole meme of “sportsball is for dummies” kinda bugs me as I have a few ridiculously intelligent friends who are huge sports fans, but there’s no denying that the average smartness of sports fans does indeed seem lower. It’s not because of something wrong with sports, it’s just that they’re intrinsically pretty easy to understand. The barrier to entry, intellectually, is lower. In a way, that’s great, because it’s something anyone can enjoy. But it doesn’t bode well for the general fan base’s ability to do things like critical thinking.
I was at the final game of Club World Cup last year when that moron was there. People were cheering him. Don’t get me wrong, a significant number were booing him and giving him the finger, even on the big LED wall. But I feel like a large number just weren’t politically-minded enough to feel anything other than “ermagerd! Its da Pressident!!!1” and cheer for him.