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Why on earth do some people think it’s okay to include USA with countries like Qatar? USA isn’t perfect, but being gay isn’t punishable by jail time here.
Well, not since 2003, at least. For now.
it's disgusting to organize public, worldwide events in barbaric countries.
Is "World Cup" public? I assume this is an event organised by private (for-profit) entity (FIFA).
They're embroiled in politics at the highest level because football / soccer arguably is the world's most popular (spectator) sport, which is something politicians gladly make use of to promote their own agendas and careers.
FIFA World Cups more often than not involve large public infrastructure programs.
FIFA and its high-ranking officials on the other hand profit in various ways, too, from "mere" tax holidays to downright corruption.
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Isn't it safe to conclude he's talking about the host country of the World Cup?
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Did you, uh, look?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_involvement_in_the_Syri...
(p.s. Russia's wars are not exactly proxy wars lately...)
Please refresh my memory - why is the World Cup being held in Qatar???
After all Alan Turing was supposed to have been gay and his input is all over computers and smart phones!
Now I also hope this is actually designed to cut down on people trafficking and the exploitation of the less fortunate, because there have been some nasty diseases going around and virus hide in parts of the body where the immune system cant go, like the testes, ovaries, eyes and brain.
Why is no one trying to kick Qatar out of the Swift network?
Probably the fact that it's not at war with one of our "allies". And because it's not threatening to use nuclear weapons, bombing civilians, taking children hostage, disrupting food supply chains...
how they can know? besides forbidding dating apps i don't think police officers will sit in the bars to make sure no one is going home with someone they just met. though the rules there are quite strict due to the fact this is islamic state
lol. You’re assuming they’ll enforce the law truthfully (however stupid the law itself is). If they arrest some foreigners at random, claiming they broke some law, what are you going to do? Maybe they’ll think twice about messing with Americans or some other powerful country’s citizens, but what about other less powerful countries? Even if you do get the case thrown out, do you really wanna go through the Qatari lega…
There is plenty of entertainment around that doesn't support a medieval dictator.