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[willmma]

World cup starts Sunday

Discuss

Specially interested in PainDog's Qatari perspective

[philphan]

[PainDog]

I hope everything goes smooth and Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia win at least one game each.

[Mr Meow]

I love the World Cup and can not wait.

Seeing some teams like Colombia and Italy not make it was nuts though.

I have a weird feeling the Dutch will take it. I do not know why. I simply do not.

[JACKnoneREACHER]

Just banned beer at the world cup venus

Part of them getting the world cup was saying alcohol sales would be allowed.....then psyche, gotcha! trapped ya bishes!

Slavery? Sure, go nuts, god bless. Beer at a soccer game? No fuckin chance

I hope those soccer fans start buttfucking in the streets.

Here's a super reasonable reaction to a reporter reporting



I hope everyone stays safe, seems like a disaster just waiting to happen though. Couldn't pay me to be there

[PainDog]

Just banned beer at the world cup venus

Part of them getting the world cup was saying alcohol sales would be allowed.....then psyche, gotcha! trapped ya bishes!

Slavery? Sure, go nuts, god bless. Beer at a soccer game? No fuckin chance

I hope those soccer fans start buttfucking in the streets.

Here's a super reasonable reaction to a reporter reporting



I hope everyone stays safe, seems like a disaster just waiting to happen though. Couldn't pay me to be there

They banned beer in the stadiums, which I will admit does not make sense.

Most of the other complaints are people taking things out of context. There is no slave labor here, and the western hypocrisy surrounding using cheap, usually Asian labor is ridiculous.

Western companies export jobs to Asia to take advantage of the cheap workforce, while Qatar imports cheap Asian labor to do jobs locally. If anything, Qatar has more direct control over the workforce than western companies like Apple do in their sweatshops in China.

I work in health and safety, and worker welfare is one of my areas of responsibility. I work directly with the labor force and know people's conditions.

I agree worker welfare needs to be improved, but that goes way beyond Qatar and involves the entire globalized capitalist system that is dependent upon endless growth and an endless supply of cheap goods.

The other accusations, like for gay rights, are also unfounded. There are openly gay people in the country; some even work in the company I work for.

Instead of the western media representing the country fairly, they take any negative event and use it to make broad-scale generalizations.

[Mr Meow]

Just banned beer at the world cup venus

Part of them getting the world cup was saying alcohol sales would be allowed.....then psyche, gotcha! trapped ya bishes!

Slavery? Sure, go nuts, god bless. Beer at a soccer game? No fuckin chance

I hope those soccer fans start buttfucking in the streets.

Here's a super reasonable reaction to a reporter reporting



I hope everyone stays safe, seems like a disaster just waiting to happen though. Couldn't pay me to be there

They banned beer in the stadiums, which I will admit does not make sense.

Most of the other complaints are people taking things out of context. There is no slave labor here, and the western hypocrisy surrounding using cheap, usually Asian labor is ridiculous.

Western companies export jobs to Asia to take advantage of the cheap workforce, while Qatar imports cheap Asian labor to do jobs locally. If anything, Qatar has more direct control over the workforce than western companies like Apple do in their sweatshops in China.

I work in health and safety, and worker welfare is one of my areas of responsibility. I work directly with the labor force and know people's conditions.

I agree worker welfare needs to be improved, but that goes way beyond Qatar and involves the entire globalized capitalist system that is dependent upon endless growth and an endless supply of cheap goods.

The other accusations, like for gay rights, are also unfounded. There are openly gay people in the country; some even work in the company I work for.

Instead of the western media representing the country fairly, they take any negative event and use it to make broad-scale generalizations.

Any country they picked to host could get shit on for something or another they are doing wrong. For awhile American media gave Qatar a pretty fair shake but I haven't seen anything but negative journalism about them the last 2 years or so.

Like you said, the US is hardly one to be throwing stones.

Lets relax and enjoy the games I say.

[PainDog]

Any country they picked to host could get shit on for something or another they are doing wrong. For awhile American media gave Qatar a pretty fair shake but I haven't seen anything but negative journalism about them the last 2 years or so.

Like you said, the US is hardly one to be throwing stones.

Lets relax and enjoy the games I say.

Thank you Meow, for being rational and level headed.

Qatar is, of course, not perfect and there are plenty of issues, but the issues which make the news are either beyond Qatar, like exploiting the developing world's workforce and resources (though the slave labor claims are just false), or are extremely exaggerated, like discrimination against the LGBT community.

Thanks again, I just hope everything goes smoothly and safely.

[hawgridoh]

Non-American football in Qatar with no booze, human rights violations everywhere, no hookers, and no booze?

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[willmma]

Qatar has been getting nothing but negative media. It's disgusting.

Slave labor and human rights violations are fake news.


That said
Go Canada!

[Ghost of PBells]

I don't blame them, sports fan + alcohol = bad times

[bruins2012]

This is Canada’s year!! We’re going to crush Croatia by 3 goals.

[Alexbkk75]

All I'll say is this

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I hope it will be a fun world cup with lots of upsets and shining underdogs stories. Enjoy guys (oops, no beer, I forgot )

[willmma]

This is Canada’s year!! We’re going to crush Croatia by 3 goals.

Well said.

For once you're making sense in sports

[philphan]

USA about to have a WHALE of a time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!