Alex Armas

Knoxville - Nashville. Mexican-American, Politico , Sports fan, Live music, Video games, Good eats. Go Vols! 🍊

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

@NashvilleBanker bank it

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

How come everyone with the name Angel is the furthest thing from one?

[Marsha Blackburn @VoteMarsha]

If you are an illegal alien here in Tennessee, we are going to find, apprehend, detain, convict, and deport you.

We're going to keep our communities safe.

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

@PBDsPodcast Fuck Andrew Bustamante! It will be misused. This is not okay.

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@MichaelLotfi Nothing goes better with Chinese takeout than Japanese anime I guess. 😂

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@WHLeavitt A.

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@stevena123456 @CBSNews Satan is a Democratic Socialist selling your land to foreign invaders and putting boys in girls dresses.

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@MichaelLotfi Interesting indeed. At this point I bet Monty beats Rose. And Marsha still wipes them both.

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@CBSNews Pow pow

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

So flock cameras? This CEO sucks.

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BREAKING: HOUSTON OFFICIALS IN FULL PANIC MODE! A massive SURGE of furious Americans is RIPPING DOWN, SMASHING, and DESTROYING Big Brother’s invasive Flock spy cameras — at least 4 obliterated in days alone!
• Patriots are draping the destroyed cameras in the AMERICAN FLAG as a bold symbol of defiance! “This camera has been cut down with an American flag on it. Another one is smashed on the ground a block away!”
• This rebellion is SPREADING like wildfire across the Carolinas and Georgia! The surveillance state is CRUMBLING — are YOU ready to join the fight for freedom? 🇺🇸🔥 #StopTheSpyCams #AmericanResistance #NoMoreBigBrother

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

@mattvanswol Cut them all down. Any politician supporting these is a a traitor.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is extremely suspicious

A Flock Camera is being installed right outside an ‘Academy Sports + Outdoors’

These sell firearms, but pay very close attention to where the camera is pointed. Right at the door. This isn’t tracking license plates, it’s literally installed and pointed directly at the door of the sporting store to capture who’s going in and out

Almost like it’s mass surveillance and could be tracking people purchasing firearms or into these hunting activities

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Police officer becomes a whistleblower and says that Flock Safety Cameras are not what were being told they are

He says they are not just capturing license plates, they are capturing everything and being used for mass surveillance without a warrant, “It records the make, the model, color, bumping stickers, you name it — it's a very sophisticated AI software that uses a camera system to track and monitor every vehicle that goes by the camera lens”

“This information is shared city to city and even state to state without a warrant”

“Your consent was never required nor even asked for or even thought about when your city governments was putting up this new technology.

For example, the chief of the Pateka Police Department, she was confronted by a local reporter on this very question of what gave them the right to put up these cameras without consulting the public. Her response was, so the criminals wouldn't know about it and avoid detection. So there you go. That's their best argument about”

He says he brought up concerns about privacy and transparency and in return he was suspended without pay

He says we are headed the same way as the soviets and China

He says this is what you’re told by authority, “If you are worrying about it, it's because you have something to hide.

The philosophy that this innovation is already grounded on is already proven to be rotten. It's grounded on this idea that you, the citizen, are first and foremost a potential suspect or potential defendant that needs to be tracked and monitored for your safety and for the safety of others. It's the same philosophy that the Soviets and many authoritarian states during the 20th century adopted, and we all know how that worked out for them. It's the same philosophy that the Chinese are currently adopting right now and they have a similar surveillance system”

Keep in mind I’ve also shared videos of the Flock camera called “Condor”

This goes beyond vehicles and actually tracks you as you walk by. The cameras follow you, can zoom in and automatically detect you in areas

This goes way beyond license plate reading. This is the mass surveillance network being established in America

We are right around the corner from a police state

[Sam Mahmood @TheSammahmood_]

The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.

I played soccer for 20+ years.

Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.

And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:

The US soccer infrastructure is broken.

In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.

For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:

Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.

But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.

From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.

Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.

That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.

Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.

The gap is massive.

And it shows.

American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.

But at the highest levels, that is not enough.

The biggest difference is technical comfort.

We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.

That comes down to volume.

Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.

In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.

Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.

But the return on invested capital is poor.

We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.

That is a broken operating model.

And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.

You inspect the system.

The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.

But the foundation is wrong.

We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.

Those are not the same thing.

Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.

I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.

I’m saying it because I lived it.

And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

@WHLeavitt Psycho

[Grandfather Purp @PurpyPurp]

Dear Algorithm,

This soccer shit stops after the World Cup. I appreciate the content you are feeding me currently, but once this ends I don’t want any more soccer on my timeline. You start feeding me premier league bullshit and we are going to have problems… Thanks!

- Purp

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

@Gitmo99 @RL9631 Bruh could pass as a female.

[Alex Armas @AlexArmasLobby]

Shut up bitch. That call was bullshit and you know it.