• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    abhorrent prices for public transit to go see the games

    We’re talking about qualifying for the games, not hosting them.

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      8 hours ago

      We’re talking about qualifying for the games, not hosting them.

      I guess they didn’t pay enough in bribes to the children’s game mafia then

      Also we’re in the fucking memes community. FIFA is a gigantic meme. FIFA and corruption are like chocolate and peanut butter…

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        8 hours ago

        You don’t “pay bribes” to qualify, you win matches against other countries in your region. Plenty of corruption to find at FIFA but this accusation just doesn’t make sense.

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          8 hours ago

          Holy shit dude it’s a meme joking about how corrupt FIFA is and a conspiracy theory that they pair up strong teams to eliminate them for whoever paid the most, chill out.

          ⚽ Tell me where I hurt you by pointing to it on this soccer ball

          Edit: do you also think professional wrestling is real? Because the leap in logic from “yeah the obviously corrupt organization that has a documented history of abuse and bribery wouldn’t accept large bribes to fix the games they run in secret” is on the same level as believing the punisher really threw mankind off hell in a cell 16 feet through an announcers table.