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The land of opportunity requires a 15k entry fee just to watch ur kid play soccer
376 upvotes, 35 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Banger Memes. "The land of opportunity requires a 15k entry fee just to watch ur kid play soccer"
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Anonymous 1d

America should never have been allowed to host the world cup

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Anonymous 1d

It’s not a fee. It’s a deposit of either $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000 which is decided by a U.S. Consular Officer. You get your money back for leaving the U.S. on or before the end of your visa. It was put in place for 50 countries with the highest rates of overstaying their visa to ensure that they leave before or when it is up.

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Anonymous 1d

Visas should not be that expensive. There is no need other than racism and collective punishment.

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Anonymous 1d

The US is fascist

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Anonymous 1d

God bless America

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Honestly, I think this administration has endured that we won’t host it for awhile. Lots of problems that range from visas to transportation to the actual stadiums. A lot of price gauging

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

You still need to have the money to make the deposit.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1d

The president is a child rapist and republicans support it

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Anonymous replying to -> stoner22 1d

You’re addicting to anger. You make up in your head whatever the worst possible thing is, and then make yourself actually believe it just to get a dopamine and adrenaline spike. Relax, nobody is after you. You’re safe. You’ll survive.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1d

I love how this type of comment always has some kind of typo or spelling issue.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

Funny to think that I’d say it’s been a major success here

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 1d

most of the WC headlines have just been highlighting how xenophobic the US is becoming, sure there’s been “number go up” success financially, but the impact on our standing in the world has become “we only want the *right* kind of people coming in” and we get to do this dance all over again for the olympics in 2 years

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 18h

this omg idk what ppl aren’t comprehending about this when MANY countries have the same policies to combat common visa overstays/ illegal immigration

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 16h

Yeah? It’s like NINE FUCKING DOLLARS. Stop listening to your dad regurgitate Fox News talking points.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 16h

What’s $ 9

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 15h

Idr understand saying number go up in this context

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 15h

Ikr you’d think somebody died based on the tone in here. “They’ll live” comes to mind for me too

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 8h

ticket sales, viewership, hotels, local businesses getting lots more attention from tiktoks going viral, etc. all of it is making the US a shit ton of money

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 6h

A few people not being let in lmao there has also been plenty of stories of people loving their time here. Quit your crying and remove yourself from this planet. We have good border security deal with it

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 6h

take that fee up w the ppl who continuously overstay their visas and ruin it for actual law abiding tourists🤷 regardless, that players mother and many others are getting their visas figured out by the US Secretary of State himself

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4h

What does that have to do with this and visas or immigration restrictions though… You guys upvote anything lol tf

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 4h

Like it sounds like you’re just talking about the world cup in general which like, yeah, it’s big money. For like every country that ever hosts it. What are you guys trying to say do you even know

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 4h

“a few people not being let in” brother, almost 25% of countries in the WC have visa rejection rates over 50%, but sure that italian guy getting free coke refills is all of the WC experience for every visitor

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 4h

9 said that the world cup had been a success, i replied that it may have been a success *financially* but its been highlighting a lot of the uglier parts of our society and government *politically* with who we’ve rejected entry to or been hostile toward (iran, somalia, egypt, etc)

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 2h

Me?

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 1h

Yeah I can read man. I’mmm saying that besides the fact that’s not how you use that phrase “number go up”, or at least it’s a clunky, unconventional way to use it, and besides the fact that literally applies to every World Cup and every nation who hosts it, You’re just saying a whole bunch of nothing and claiming it’s somehow highlighting some xenophobia and connecting it to politics and it’s ridiculous and silly and doesn’t make any sense. And the whackos here upvote it in droves even if hardl

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1h

hardly makes a lick of sense. Simply bc they like the political tone you took It’s so weird to watch all the time on here. You guys are so politically charged and see this stuff everywhere bc you want to see it everywhere so badly

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1h

if it hardly*

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1h

“Making the US a shit ton of money” 🤦🙄 who cares. Is that a problem? And besides, not exactly. It makes FIFA money. Yeah it’s like a non trivial boost to the US economy but on the whole, it’s completely negligible to the US economy and hardly a drop in the bucket. Nobody would notice if it weren’t here It seems to me this was barely a coherent thought, and that you just had a destination you wanted to go which was complaining about the US as a nation on the whole and insulting and complaining a

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1h

about the current administration. Honestly, to me, like the OP, it just sounds like hardly a coherent thought. These 3 things barely have anything to do with each other, The World Cup, it’s financial effect on the host country and the immigration policies of the US or US politics. You guys look for any opportunity to complain and arrive at the destination you want. It doesn’t even matter to most of you if you’re upvoting non sequitur ramble as long as it aligns with how you feel emotionally and

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 1h

politically

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 29m

Yeah, let’s rely on Marco Rubio, that always works out… you can’t act like this is normal for anywhere in the world because, spoiler, it isn’t. We’re hosting a world event, and customs isn’t nearly as incompetent as people believe when they FLY IN to the US. The primary issue is with the southern border, and instead of enforcing regulations there our President sends the National Guard to MINNESOTA? How dense can you be?

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 25m

So far it has made $19b for the US.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 9m

No it hasn’t. I don’t really want to have to take the time to explain why you’re wrong but it seems I’m going to have to bc you’re either being purposefully ignorant bc you feel a certain way emotionally and politically about what I said, or you’re actually genuinely struggling to understand the complete picture. Before I take the time writing this out however, I want to stress how annoying and stressful it is that you guys do this stuff and how I shouldn’t have to explain stuff that I’m pretty

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 6m

sure anybody should be smart enough to understand and elucidate the entire truth of with a search engine and more than 30 seconds of reading and googling.

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