Soccer, sports and politics (R)

Yeah, but hair gel ions did make contact.

 

Adidas have confirmed no contact was made between the World Cup matchball and Cristiano Ronaldo, thanks to a 500Hz IMU sensor and Connected Ball Technology housed in Adidas’s Al Rihla used in the tournament… [emoji102][emoji777]

 

Is Qatar better or worse overall than the United States of America?

I believe Qatar is better as a society. They kill far fewer people, which should be right at the top of the list when it comes to judging moral values.

 

TROLL ALERT!

 

You can deem it trolling if you like, but it’s a completely valid view point (and sincere viewpoint from my perspective).

Qatari society has significant defects, but it is way better than American society when judged from a moral or ethical viewpoint. That isn’t even debatable - America kills and tortures on an industrial scale.

Americans don’t care because they’re on the other side of those abuses. Those of us on the receiving end are clear eyed about how hollow the US concerns about human rights in Qatar are.

 

Is that the definition for “better”? According to that definition Turkey and Pakistan are the best countries in the world.

 

Hi, Supernintendo Chalmers!

 

FIFA giving it to Qatar AND having to move it to November/December instead of playing in July is biting a lot of broadcasters and sponsors in the wallet right now.

 

The doctor said I wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there.

 

Aside from it being in the Winter and all the baggage with it in Qatar, Doha is in the same time zone as Moscow. Some World Cup! Two in a row in the same time zone. Terrible

 

The fingers in Iraq and Afghanistan were poked in by the US, not Pakistan or Turkey. The Turkey situation now is more Syria than Iraq, but Pakistan is down to the terrible situation in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan perfectly shows the hypocrisy of US foreign policy. Afghan government has funds frozen and sanctions imposed because of “concerns for women’s rights” whilst some Afghans are selling their own organs and children because there’s no food partly due to sanctions.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...ns-resort-to-selling-kidneys-to-feed-families

 

My cat's name is Mittens.

 

Dude, you are an American living in a Trumpy return to traditional American values.

There ain't enough difference in this country for you to clown like you're doing.

 

Wonder why they chose today to release this.


Iran has for the first time reported that more than 300 people have died in over two months of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody.

The Islamic republic has deployed state security forces against what it labels "riots" that broke out after the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian died on September 16, three days after her arrest for allegedly breaching Iran's dress code for women.

Thousands of Iranians and around 40 foreigners have been arrested and more than 2,000 people have been charged, according to judicial authorities.
Among these, six have been sentenced to death, with their appeals set to be heard by the Supreme Court.

 

Qatar isn’t Putin, and Qatar needs to fix its own problems. I am well aware that Qatar needs to rebalance its economy so that workers have more rights.

But America is worse than Qatar. It probably isn’t worse than Russia.

 

It’s an idiotically simplistic measure to compare countries. In general I’m not sure how you can reasonably compare a tiny country consisting primarily of foreign workers ruled over by a tiny homogeneous minority to a massive diverse country of several hundred million. Though it would be interesting to ask the female half of the human population which country they’d prefer to live in. And the answer is even more obvious for gay people.