re: Should America and any country of decency boycott the Qatar World Cup

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You would think with the had of US Soccer being an Indian he would have a pretty big problem with this

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Erm No. Indians are not one homologous population that all thinks for each other. I hate the human rights violations happening in Qatar. But those Indians working there have jobs that they wouldn't back in India. Poor white Italians, Irish and Poles died building the skyscrapers of the US. Now poor Indians, Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Pakis are dying building shite in the most economically well off corner of that part of the world.

Boycotting is never going to happen. The US has a military base in Qatar that helps it balance Iran out in the gulf. Do you really believe that the US establishment will want to jeopardize that by boycotting Qatar's biggest prestige project till date? The sheiks are going to keep building vanity projects and workers are going to keep dying. As long as the oil money keeps flowing into that part of the world it is going to remain a pain in the arse for the rest of the world in every single way possible. It is time we accept this and move on.

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The dumbest thing about FIFA is that Bermuda and Guam have as much representation as Spain and England.

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It is actually a very important and very smart thing to do. If this wasn't the case the Brits would literally be running FIFA into eternity. Every country having equal representation balances out the playing field. Corruption is inherent in business and the corruption in FIFA is not a function of the equal representation. If you believe there is a single multinational enterprise that is not engaging in corruption at some level or the other you're being naive.