• atropa@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    We have canceled all our football tickets and hotel acomedations for the 2026 World Cup.

    We request that you do the same,

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    How are they just now getting embarrassed?

    They presented a fucking ‘peace’ prize to a fascistic dictator and convicted rapist. They’re a fucking laughing stock right alongside the orange degenerate.

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    They can’t go any lower than this in their effort to appease a megalomaniac.

    If they were so worried about world peace they should have barred the Israeli football clubs from participating in any international tournaments.

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    These and the Olympics are going to be like the 1936 Olympics, but like a farcical tragicomedy.

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    Yeah… That’s just one anonymous source feeling some embarrassment.

    Fifa, however, doubled down on their decision to award the peace prize to Trump and said it did not comment on “hearsay”. A spokesperson said: “Fifa strongly supports its annual peace prize, an award to recognise exceptional actions for peace and unity.

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      Annual? Did fifa actually give these out before? I thought this was special just for Trump.

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        Yeah, that actually changes things. Not a lot, but very slightly. Like, whatever unit is smaller than a Planck length.

        Edit: it’s an “annual” prize, but Trump got the first one. I would be surprised if there was another, but maybe he’ll win that one too.

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    FIFA are giving peace prizes? Why? Their sense of importance is astounding. They need to get back to grassroots.

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      It’s just bribery. Give Trump something shiny and expensive with “Trump is great” written on it and he’ll treat you favorably.

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      Fifa want trump to change “soccer” to “football” and trump wanted a peace prize.

      So FIFA made up a peace prize and gave it to trump.

      And for like an afternoon trump rambled about how football should mean the same in America as everywhere else. But his followers didn’t latch on to it because no one in maga gives a fuck about soccer.

      Fifa gained nothing, and made people hate them even more. I really don’t know why Europe doesn’t just make their own. FIFA has been corrupt and holding the sport back for decades.

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      Because Obama got a Nobel peace prize, Trump is obsessed with getting one himself. That’s why.

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    15 hours ago

    Are they afraid their fake award is going to lose credibility because they gave it to the person they made it up for and he doesn’t deserve it?