this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 85 points 1 year ago (10 children)

They wouldn't be able to afford it, would they?

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good point. Qatar is beyond wealthy but North Korea repeatedly has to threaten to nuke people in order to get aid packages.

[–] Mercival@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have quite a lot of money, particularly in foreign currency slush funds (see Room 39 for example). However the Kim family has the final say in what is government money and what never makes it onto the books.

They could probably afford a FIFA championship. It's admitting they have that kind of money, that would be a huge problem.

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And yet mfers still go in mass to these games in countries with extreme human rights issues and throw billions of dollars at merch.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (22 children)

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

![kim-salute](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/99201ba3-0f0c-4135-8ec5-6088b32a3f70.png "emoji kim-salute")

Uncritical support to the ideology of Juche and its implementation

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Korea has lots of big stadiums and the people there seems to like football so why couldn't they host a world cup?

[–] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think the DPRK wants to give an opportunity to basically any country in the world to plant spies. Considering the US used visits of the Atomic Energy Commission to infiltrate the DPRK in the 90s, welcoming thousands and thousands of difficult to vet corporate reps sounds like an open invitation for infiltration.

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[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

so why couldn't they host a world cup?

![us-foreign-policy](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7aaf9444-94ef-4e1e-ba7e-4c53615c92e6.png "emoji us-foreign-policy")

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well according to a .world poster in this thread that you and I can't see from our instance, the DPRK has slaves. But don't worry, this won't happen because a lemmy.ca user thinks that "Letting that many foreigners into North Korea would be a PR disaster for the Country."

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[–] wombat@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

[–] axont@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Many people are saying it!

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Okay guys, enlighten me. If Nestle is a 10 on the evil scale, what is Fifa?

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1/10 cos they would bribe the scale

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire.

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 41 points 1 year ago (10 children)

So many great additions to my block list today!

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[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

It's probably not logistically viable, but as a matter of principle, there is absolutely no reason why DPRK couldn't host to world cup. It's gone to plenty of worse countries.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Letting that many foreigners into North Korea would be a PR disaster for the Country.

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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Wtf based FIFA.

[–] Weebus@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been off Hexbear for a while wtf is this shit

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The consequences of federation.

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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Seems like a clear improvement to me

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Are you really suggesting the DPRK is worse than Qatar? Lmao.

Only the US will kill 20 percent of a population, establish a right wing military dictatorship in the south, and paint the democratic and progressive north as an evil regime worse than an absolute monarchy.

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[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

On a side note, what exactly are we censoring on that bottom photos.

Are we just censoring a bomb detonator box or are we censoring something else....

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[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (24 children)

if you think a WC in NK would be worse than in Saudi Arabia you’re up to your eyeballs in amerikkkan propaganda

Death to America

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[–] quazen@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Nuke dropped if a western country wins

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