What’s funny about this is also they’re shutting down the train station that serves this stadium for eight hours every match. Only ticket holders for this one match can use Penn Station. The problem? Penn Station just happens to be the most used train station in the Western hemisphere, with 500,000 (!!!) people using it to commute every day. No trains in or out except this World Cup train for eight hours on a random weekday. What are the half a million people who commute into New York City using Penn Station gonna do for those days? Who the fuck knows…
It’s optimistic of you to think any Americans will have jobs then.
cant wait for the world to see first-hand what a stupid and evil place the US is. it’s gonna do so much damage to our reputation lol
I think whatever reputation the yanks had was gone a while ago already.
1: there’s people in the iranian government who think most americans have read de tocqueville. the global perceptions of us, even if they’re worse than 10 years ago, aren’t even close to reality
2: my comment was originally intended to be about perceptions of the quality of life in america, which i imagine most people still think is better than it is, rather than perceptions of our government and foreign policy, which are obviously pretty well known at this point. sorry, should have made that more clear clear
what is the year on that tocqueville quote? it looks like a still from VHS
EDIT:
Thinking about that time in 1998 when former Iranian President Sayyid Mohammad Khatami assumed that most Americans have read Alexis de Tocqueville. This is the polite Persian shade we love to see lmao
I have to imagine he was being at least a little facetious, right? Surely he didn’t actually believe that.
yeah it seems like a backhanded way to say the opposite
ah shit i’m dumb, i thought that was recent (since the start of the war with iran) and unironic
ah yeah that’s a good point. the rest of the world’s perception of Burgerland is still probably riding the coattails of hollywood films and tv shows etc. Probably it’s only been in the social media era of the last decade or so that the curtain’s being pulled back ever so slightly.
which i imagine most people still think is better than it is,
I think most people outside of the US still imagine the average American living like in a 90s sitcom, not even accurate back then, but far less accurate now.
Holy shit, why that price?
FIFA doesnt want to pay for the extra capacity necessary to transport all the extra passengers
If your city gets flooded with rich dipshits, why not?
On the flip side, philadelphia said transit from it’s games will be free… while the transit agency is seriously strapped for cash. There’ll be high demand, I think normal pricing would’ve been fine
That’s a whopping distance of 14 miles (22.5 km).
that’s gotta be more expensive than a rideshare
