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| ▲ | gadrev 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's ridiculous. Not being able to work (or having tools/certain websites fail randomly each time there's a high audience match) because "soccer" tells you a lot about the priorities of the country. Or at least of the elements that make these kinds of decisions and policies possible... We even got an isitchristmas.com-like website to track this (https://hayahora.futbol/). I admit I find it a bit amusing. |
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| ▲ | riffraff 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I can assure you the situation in Italy is just as bad. We do have an independent telecommunications authority, but it's been subservient to the Serie A (rather, the companies who own the broadcasting /streaming rights) diktat almost completely. |
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| ▲ | gonzalohm an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| In the US there is lobbying. In Spain there is soccer. I have seen crazy things done just for soccer. The town I used to live in closed my street for a few weeks during one world cup. I wasn't able to use my garage during all that time. Also, somehow small towns always find money available for soccer related stuff (like building stadiums, events, etc.) but there is no money for improving healthcare or building parks. I hated that |
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| ▲ | greenavocado 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > Also, somehow small towns always find money available for soccer related stuff (like building stadiums, events, etc.) but there is no money for improving healthcare or building parks. Bread and circuses. Whatever it takes to suppress the instinctual nationalistic ambitions of the people by redirecting their spirits and energy into /dev/null | |
| ▲ | dummydummy1234 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | ... Out of curiosity, why did they close the street? Was it to turn it into public walking space? (I'm trying to imagine a reason and coming up short...) | |
| ▲ | FireBeyond 16 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Also, somehow small towns always find money available for soccer related stuff (like building stadiums, events, etc.) but there is no money for improving healthcare or building parks. I mean Texas can hold a candle there. Nearly 30 high school football stadiums with 10,000+ capacity (and 20,000 in a few cases), built for amounts sometimes exceeding $50M each. Some of the stadiums are shared with track and field etc., but others are "exclusively used by the high school football teams". |
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