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[-] inkblade@lemmy.world 88 points 2 weeks ago

Cancel the world cup. Education is way more important than costly distractions.

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

As a Canadian whose city is also hosting World Cup games I 100% agree. cancel it. It's a cluster fuck. My city was going to have some FIFA festival thing and at first it was "tickets will be free" then city council changed their minds and said "actually no, now you have to pay" THEN they changed their minds and said "free for some, the rest need to pay".

They're also now starting to roll out a "clean up the city" crap which actually means remove all encampents, tents, people living on the streets and get them out of sight so the precious world cup tourists don't see them. house them? put them in shelters? no we have no housing and the shelters are full. we're just going to "remove them".

[-] liuther9@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same as everywhere. Cops will drive them 200+ km away from city. At least it is not a winter outside

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

At this point a lot of the budget has already been used. Cancelling now you wouldn't have any of the returns from tourism etc.

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