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Just so y'all know how one of Lisbon's train station was yesterday... (There were more people downstairs literally sleeping on the floor because of this event - youth world journeys or whatever the name is English)
I think it was a total of 1.5M pilgrims. That's more than Lisbon's population in a good day.
Then the roads were blocked for cars.
There was a girl who fainted next to where I was due to dehydration and the police was next to her and she was still waiting for an ambulance when I departured because the ambulancea couldn't even get through.
All because of religion (an event I was very against, not because it's religious, but because we live in a secular government (?) - basically, religion and the government are two different things - and the government invested in this event).
I'm a Cristian myself and I found this to be pure bullshit (I'm not even talking about all the controversies going on in the Portuguese catholic church right now). If religion and politics are two different things, it should stay that way.
"Ah, but the government invested in concerts like Coldplay, Taylor Swift etc" that's culture, and they didn't spent 40 MILLION EUROS ON A STAGE! Also, we should invest more in culture. I think it has been 11 years since last time we were the European capital of culture (Guimarães 2012, my beloved city), now we have Évora 2023 (which doesn't make a lot of sense, but whatever)
"What about euro 2004? You didn't complain back then" I was not even one year old lol. I still believe events like this need to be held in economically stable countries. I was also against the Olympics in Rio because you can clearly see how most arenas were abandoned after the games and the Olympic village is basically useless. Well, at least with the euro stadiums, we still use them, which is not half bad. But we could have had used the money to invest in other sports (but that's asking for too much in Portugal)
"But you were also against the Qatar world cup and they are stable", Ofc I was. 1. Qatar doesn't even have any "football history" (there's a reason why they were immediately eliminated), holding it there didn't even made any sense. 2. Because of the first part, they had to invest millions in stadiums which could have been used in a better way (idk, promotion of human rights, but that's asking for too much) 3. HUMAN RIGHTS (omg, shocker)
I have very strong opinions regarding big events - I think that's obvious by this post.
Tell me you know nothing about 2004 without telling me bc how do you compare Greece, who looked bad in terms of squad but actually played good tactics and won against their biggest opponents (winning against Portugal TWICE in Portugal ???), to England who have one of the best squads yet they manage to do fuck nothing 😭😭😭😭😭
Like it’s okay if you don’t remember what went on in 2004, just stop acting like you know and stop the greece hate and acting like they were just lucky and didn’t deserve it bc ??? 😭😭 they showed up when they had to unlike..
Oh hey it's around 20 years this week since my first ever endometriosis flare-up! Happy birthday to my incurable disease I guess 🙃 the gift it has received is uhhh... the opportunity to give me ovulation pain