Extreme whatabouttism, wow. This article is not even about the US. Pretty much nobody is mentioning war crimes in the whole world cup debacle. It is about modern slave labour and human rights. And human rights are a very low bar, to be honest. You can still live a very shitty life when all your human rights are in tact. And defending to not even give people that minimum in dignity is the hill you want to die on? Because „bUt tHe UsA iS aLsO bAd“? Yea they are, and it feels like every second post on reddit mentions something bad about the US and they are the butt of the joke world wide for the last 20 years. Now it is Qatar‘s turn to be criticised a bit, at least a couple weeks and then nobody will care about them again beyond the question if we buy their oil or gas.
The world cup should have never gone to Qatar, and I hope it is enough of a shit show that it will not end up in Saudi Arabia in a couple years. FIFA is corrupt and most people do not care, but there is a line how openly corrupt you can be, and FIFA found out the hard way.
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Extreme whatabouttism, wow. This article is not even about the US. Pretty much nobody is mentioning war crimes in the whole world cup debacle. It is about modern slave labour and human rights. And human rights are a very low bar, to be honest. You can still live a very shitty life when all your human rights are in tact. And defending to not even give people that minimum in dignity is the hill you want to die on? Because „bUt tHe UsA iS aLsO bAd“? Yea they are, and it feels like every second post on reddit mentions something bad about the US and they are the butt of the joke world wide for the last 20 years. Now it is Qatar‘s turn to be criticised a bit, at least a couple weeks and then nobody will care about them again beyond the question if we buy their oil or gas.
The world cup should have never gone to Qatar, and I hope it is enough of a shit show that it will not end up in Saudi Arabia in a couple years. FIFA is corrupt and most people do not care, but there is a line how openly corrupt you can be, and FIFA found out the hard way.