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"FacebookPinterest\n\nWelcome back to Make it Stop, where we list five things this week that must stop.\n\n1. The 2022 Qatar World Cup. I&amp;amp;#x2019;m more than used to big-time sports officials engaging in flagrant abuses of power: NFL teams misappropriating public stadium funds, IOC officials taking bribes, Yankee Stadium security guards choking you if you want to take a piss during God Bless America, etc. And yet, those shady dealings pale in comparison to the breathtaking, open display of human rights abuses going on right now in preparation for the Qatar World Cup, an enterprise that stunk to high hell from the very beginning.\n\nThe Guardian reported that one construction worker has died per day in the construction of World Cup infrastructure, and the dead workers may be the lucky ones, because the survivors have been forced to work essentially as slaves in 100+-degree temperatures. And yet the show will go on, despite potentially THOUSANDS of workers dying to make it happen. Is there not one country out there that has the sack to say no to this? I&amp;amp;#x2019;m a sports fan and therefore I have warped priorities when it comes to my team&amp;amp;#x2019;s welfare, but this even I couldn&amp;amp;#x2019;t stomach. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s not worth seeing the USMNT try to escape the Group of Death when there is a LITERAL group of death resulting from this tournament&amp;amp;#x2019;s staging. It shouldn&amp;amp;#x2019;t happen. It can&amp;amp;#x2019;t happen. And yet, it will. Sepp Blatter is the worst. In far less essential crimes\u2026\n\n2. Poorly labeled vegan cookies and ice cream. Go to a Whole Foods now and you have to make a concerted effort to find the one box of cookies that isn&amp;amp;#x2019;t made of discarded soy bean husks. There can&amp;amp;#x2019;t possibly be such a large market out there for such horrible &amp;amp;#x201C;treats&amp;amp;#x201D;. I refuse to believe it. Ever bite into a Vegan cookie? It&amp;amp;#x2019;s like an expired Powerbar. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s not a cookie.\n\n3. Ted Cruz. In this case, the &amp;amp;#x201C;make it stop&amp;amp;#x201D; command is literal. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s one thing to take a stand and speak for 20+ hours in order to fight for something you believe in: civil rights, an oil pipeline, prevention of an air strike, etc. But Cruz is different because he&amp;amp;#x2019;s fighting for nothing. He&amp;amp;#x2019;s taking a stand against taking stands. He&amp;amp;#x2019;s the guy at your office who pooh-poohs the group takeout order and then offers no alternative joint to order from. Cruz is part of an aggressively nihilistic group of politicians whose sole aim is to not do anything and to prevent anyone else from doing anything. They are governmental malware.\n\n4. The NYT Vows section. Last week&amp;amp;#x2019;s &amp;amp;#x201C;Yoga instructor who ran over a five-year-old&amp;amp;#x201D; profile was the final straw. This section exists solely so that Americans can stare in horror at a new couple&amp;amp;#x2019;s collective vanity. There&amp;amp;#x2019;s no public service in letting these idiots prattle on forever about their pigeon-blood dresses and embellished meet-cutes. I&amp;amp;#x2019;d much rather have a DIVORCES section.\n\n5. Bud Selig&amp;amp;#x2019;s &amp;amp;#x201C;retirement&amp;amp;#x201D; news. I hate it when people announce their retirements a year or two in advance. Don&amp;amp;#x2019;t tease me about your impending absence when I want you gone NOW. Every retirement announcement should come equipped with the words &amp;amp;#x201C;effective immediately&amp;amp;#x201D; or else they should be declared invalid. Do your job, and then leave. Don&amp;amp;#x2019;t pre-retire. That doesn&amp;amp;#x2019;t mean anything. You&amp;amp;#x2019;re still here.\n\nDrew Magary is a GQ correspondent and a staff writer for Deadspin. Follow him on Twitter via @drewmagary and pre-order his new book about fatherhood, Someone Could Get Hurt, at his website"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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