Of all the scandals that FIFA have made for themselves around this World Cup, the ticket one might be the hardest to shake.
But it’s part of a trend of cultural events being taken over by/staged for the corporate class. On the commodification of experience:
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factors that may have lead to keith ellison dropping his endorsement of hao nguyen and only endorsing cedrick frazier for hennepin county attorney: nguyen has boosted BOTH ilhan omar's challengers latonya reeves and julie le, and he shared county delegates' personal data with a third party
More evidence that we're not getting close to this goal without significance public subsidy bsky.app/profile/mprn...
keith ellison had endorsed both cedrick frazier and hao nguyen for hennepin county attorney, and now, days before the convention, it's been made clear he's no longer endorsing nguyen. his endorsement has been removed from nguyen's website in addition to this video
Usually I subscribe to live television for the six weeks of this, but because of FIFA’s gross packaging for this year’s tourney, just gonna catch whichever games work allows at the Black Hart, enjoying it with others, as it should be.
This isn't a terrible plan but it relies completely on the private market to supply new housing and it's not clear how any of her proposals will lead to 100k+ new units being developed.