• Insekticus@aussie.zone
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    9 hours ago

    Well, at least he’s focusing on the important things, like football ticket prices. Who needs to worry about the climate catastrophe, ecosystem collapse, plummeting global mental health, pollution, or any of that other nonsense. So long as the football tickets aren’t too cheap or too expensive…

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    14 hours ago

    How about he gets raging about things people are actually worried about? Like the cost of energy or housing or genocide in Palestine or climate change???

    I mean, yeah, FIFA are taking the piss but its not exactly top of the agenda.

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    13 hours ago

    How about you just don’t go?

    Literally do not come here unless you’re looking for a fight because that’s all you’ll get if you come to the US right now.

    I’m honestly just trying to keep people safe.

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    15 hours ago

    …while allowing private companies to tax people for basic necessities rights like water, when there are places where the companies can’t even supply the water they tax us for - clown

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    15 hours ago

    Is Starmer trying to win easy brownie points while he’s managing everything else horribly? It’s not like he can do anything about ticket prices for things on the other side of the world either.

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    14 hours ago

    These tickets are hyper luxury products. It’s not like they’re charging out the ass for diapers and formula. If the tickets sell, they weren’t too expensive.

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      10 hours ago

      Professional sports suck up taxpayer funds like there’s no tomorrow.

      Ticket price controls should be put in place across the world for any sports league, or team, that receives any public funding, including tax breaks, but of course that’s not a policy this turd would advocate for.

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    15 hours ago

    https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48707727/fifa-triples-best-available-world-cup-final-ticket-33k

    FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the FIFA World Cup final, making $32,970 seats available Thursday for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

    Soccer’s governing body listed those seats as front category 1 on its sales site on a day that saw members of Congress question the pricing structure for World Cup tickets and ask FIFA for more transparency on asking prices.

    FIFA previously had a high price of $10,990 for category 1 at the final. However, that ticket was now available Thursday night only as wheelchair and easy access amenity category 1.

    Tickets for the July 14 semifinal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, were listed at $11,130, $4,330, $3,710 and $2,705. Seats for the following day’s semifinal at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium were at $10,635, $3,545 and $2,725.

    More expensive than for NFL tickets!

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2026/01/21/super-bowl-60-ticket-prices-purchase-cheapest/88274794007/

    Face value for tickets to Super Bowl 60 range from $950 to $8,500, according to Friedman, who provided USA TODAY Sports a screenshot of a seating chart with ticket prices.