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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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The attendance for the next FIFA cup was already looking bad, and I can't imagine the US government wanting your history of online activity to help it even a bit.
I can't wait to see high attendance in Mexico and Canada-hosted matches, with rock bottom attendance in the US. Even US fans travelling domestically, don't go, especially to the states that are falling into line with Trump.
Not that it will actually be recognized for what it is. I may put together a bingo card on the ways media spins it.
I've been boycotting the world cup for a decade because they can't stop giving the host status to horrible states
Yeah looking at the attendance for the world club competition is pretty bad.
Maybe that will finally kill off the giant amorphous blob of human rights violations known as FIFA
People should boycott it outright.
The entire event industry is a front for sex trafficking.
The last one was in some barbarian gulf state, now it's even worse. Fuck FIFA