jumbliesJan 25
Jan Wildeboer 😷
90 years after the 1936 Olympics in Berlin that were instrumentalised by an authoritarian regime, I will definitely not give a minute of my time or a cent of my money to a world championship from an organisation that invented a peace prize to appease another authoritarian. #BoycottFIFA #FIFAWorldCup2026
Jan 25 at 1:28pmWeb
Show threadHans HafnerJan 25

@jwildeboer

for me the line was already crossed with the WorldCup in Katar.

I've completely stopped watching any of it since then and I don't miss it one bit.

But this year FIFA should be shown an actual and real dropoff in viewership, traffic and mentions.

Here's hoping.

Show threadmorphJan 25
@wonshu @jwildeboer
Sad enough that we pay twice for the crap even if we don't watch it - Telekom and GEZ. 100s of millions €uro public money to the Mafia.
Show threadHans HafnerJan 25

@morph

I agree that the public stations should not be buying the rights to those tournaments.

I'm afraid though that that would (unfortunately and wrongly so!) lead to even less acceptance of what publicly funded media means for an open society.

It's a terrible conundrum.

@jwildeboer

Show thread𝙲:\𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚣𝚎𝚗> █Jan 25
@wonshu @jwildeboer To me that line was crossed even before, with the russian world cup. I hated the Putin sportswashing so I didn't watch that one nor the one after that, eventhough my country won the former and came second in the latter. Not watching this one either.
Show threadRhysJan 25
@jwildeboer I feel a bit conflicted having paid to attend Wales's qualifiers, but whether we make it through the playoffs or not, accompanied by inconvenient timezones, I'm happy to give the freakshow a miss. The moneymen manage to suck the pleasure out of every basic thing.
Show threadChad McCulloughJan 25
@jwildeboer 💯
Show threadNeil MoffattJan 25
@jwildeboer Fifa vie with Trump for degree of corruption pathology.
Show threadDziadekJan 25

@jwildeboer

Thank you for making this connection. I had missed it.

Show threadtroy_friz_zellJan 25

@jwildeboer

I agree 100%. And FIFA has been absolutely horrific for decades. They've needed to be boycotted since the turn of the century.

So, hell yes, boycott FIFA and the Olympics. We in the US should be thinking of ways to disrupt both events in real time on the ground. Block traffic, use airhorns to disrupt the events, prevent teams from arriving on time, whatever can be done.

Sorry for the participants, they don't deserve this. But these are extraordinary times.

Show threadJimmyJan 25
@jwildeboer So I would like, sooo much, for every athlete in the Men's and Women's Sprint finals to be Black, for the U.S.A. team not to make the cut, and for records to be broken. THEN pantywaist bellends can S.T.F.U. when they see the world's victory on Fascist soil.
Show threadNömenlōonyJan 25
@jwildeboer I don't care for kickyball anyway; but even less so if England sends a team to this absolute abomination of corruption and Trump pleasing.
Show threadSharon McCarthyJan 25
@jwildeboer The US is a dangerous and lawless place. It is unsafe for the athletes, their families and fans. Get the games the hell out of the US!
Show thread🍀March Mastodoness🍀Jan 25
@jwildeboer Neither should you give time to the Olympics, whose committee is still holding the games despite Amerikkka embracing fascism.
Show threadBart AllenJan 25
@jwildeboer Good
Show threadMichael SchrammJan 25
@jwildeboer me neither
Show threadTravisJan 25
@jwildeboer exactly 👍
Show threadPlaying With FediverseJan 25
@jwildeboer
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Show threadJuan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪Jan 25
@jwildeboer The Olympics and the world cup are both forms of disaster capitalism. Infrastructure that will probably never be used again is forced upon countries. Populations are displaced ( guess who?), contractors and suppliers are imposed. Cities, countries are forced to acquire debt.
Then there's FIFAs money that doesn't really go to clubs, certainly not amateur which is where sport actually is. No worlcup, not for me.
Show threadPiranhallamaJan 26
@jwildeboer happily in Europe the games will be so late most people will be in bed at kick off. Small mercies.
Show threadSalvoJan 26
@jwildeboer @briankrebs
Are you sure it wasn’t a Piss Prize, in honour of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier#Kompromat_and_blackmail:_Trump
?
Steele dossier - Wikipedia

Show threadBaron VonskinnbackJan 26
@jwildeboer I stopped watching international football after everyone started losing their collective minds & booing players who took a knee, I don't need that toxic bullshit in my life...
Show threadLord SiegelbewahrerJan 26

@jwildeboer Unfortunately there will be enough idiots spending time in the stadiums. Most of them will say „sport should not be interfered with by politics“ or just „Oh, I don’t care about politics!“ (which I call the „Russian excuse“ because every Russian will answer any question about politics with it)

FIFA WC is a planned distraction like „panem et circenses“.

Show threadpedro 🍉Jan 26
@jwildeboer same.
Show threadMarcos DioneJan 26
@jwildeboer FIFA had done the same in '78 with the World Cup in a country 2y into a dictatorship, but it seems the host was selected 12y and 2 or 3 governments before, one of them _another_ dictatorship.
Show threadMarco R.Jan 25

@jwildeboer And they have a convenient list if sponsors, who are cvollaborating with this:
fifaworldcupnews.com/fifa-worl…

Sad to see Hyundai and Lenovo on the list...