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I had already decided to ignore this shit, just like Qatar, but FFS.
To quote Super Hans: "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people."
What we've learned from the release of the UFO files...
Aliens abduct cows and probe humans looking for the Epstein files.
Apropos of something.
Freedom is not being permitted to take a vehicle licenced by some authority on a road licenced by the same; it is to walk unimpeded across shared land.
The former is acquiescence to a claim of dominion; the latter is agency, uninterrupted.
Permission to drive is not freedom, but the marker of a well kept canine on an extendable leash.
Bark, bitch. Bark!
I am seeing a discussion unfold complaining about the price of glasses in the UK and US and seeing people quoting 1000 of local currency as cost.
WTF are you buying? Persol, Jacques Marie Mage, or some other designer frame?
I got two pairs with Zeiss lenses, one a pair of green coat light reactive sunglasses mimicking classic 1960s grades, both in my prescription.
£400
Proving that Glasgow will deep-fry anything, I present to you a deep fried chippy.
The ongoing issues regarding World Cup ticket sales will be assuaged away. Tickets are evidently overpriced, and it appears that there may be attempts to wait for price drops and to wait for the release of more, cheaper tickets. Thus, sales are slow.
There is animosity towards both FIFA and the Trump regime, but note: everything is functioning as desired.
You see, at over $4000 dollars a pop for the most coveted, pitch-side seats, pricing was never set for the fan but the glamour of the spectacle. This is, and has been for a long time, by design. Sport in general and notably football has led to an oligarch's paradise, where the most sumptuous tickets are comped, and the photogenic fan is the mere backdrop to the advertising event. The sumptuous backdrop.
This is by design. It is the influence of television, which shifted athletes to being firmly hawkers of product, and clubs from local entities to global brands. The product is not merely the event, but all products attached to the event, clubs, players, and most of all advertising.
Advertising within a stadium is limited by its nature. Thus, the crowd is irrelevant from the perspective of potential purchase.
Thus, any complaints over the sales being slow are largely an irrelevance. If the stadiums are full enough, it is good enough.
The point is television, streaming, the advertising opportunity via engagement with the event.
What would be a disaster for FIFA and the US, and a genuine black eye, is a failure of the television fan to pay attention to the event. Such marks inattention to the product, and inattention to the advertising which underpins the spectacle. If you aren't watching, you aren't being primed to buy. If you aren't watching, you aren't engaging in the discourse of exceptionalism. If you aren't watching, predictions about future capital collapse.
Damaged prestige of the host nation due to slow ticket sales pales in comparison to the host nation being so toxic that consumers, particularly WHALE consumers with the highest spending power, simply don't engage with the event. That marks a collapse of the spectacle to the product model.
To host a World Cup which no one watched is far more damaging to national prestige and oligarchical pride than a few empty seats. That marks disengagement. That fucks profit projections. That wipes billions from the share values of the companies engaged in the spectacle. That tanks investment. The sends jitters through markets.
When the World Cup rolls around, and if you are genuine in your desire to affect change against the Trump regime, cancel any sports packages with your content provider, watch not one minute of the event, and observe the shit hitting the fan.
Or keep choking down the shit and saying, "this is fine".
CRAZY English football predictions from 1994 are SCARY! 🤯 #nufc #footballfans #premierleague #epl
"Trump says 'a whole civilisation will die tonight' if Iran doesn't make deal, as US hits Kharg Island".
Narcissistic, paedophilic hotelier threatens increasing war crimes.
Artemis is the goddess of hunting and the wilderness.
Anas Sarwar is definitely a rocket hunting in the wilderness for a plan.
His self-assessment checks out.
Well done, Anas.
Well done.
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@alexanderdyas@mindly.social
It likely was, but I am now more interested to see A: if there was an uptick of Eric's in that time period; B; how many Eric Partridges there are in the world.
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@TheBreadmonkey
This is the Thomas De Quincey revision for a long time we didn't know we needed.
Now we do.
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arses