the whole "rigged for Argentina" online discourse is a great case study on how the general population is frighteningly easy to manipulate with simple propaganda. and how it's especially effective on the less educated, or "casuals"/"larpers"
you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
Scaloni has been the worst coach since the round of 32. Great coach in the 2022 run but his cowardice will cost Argentina dearly in this World Cup. Your best players always have to start no matter your sentiment
Everything is starting to make sense, the reports of multiple X accounts being payed to slander Messi is proving to be true
Yesterday I’ve never seen anything like it
Lionel Messi is the first player to score in SEVEN consecutive World Cup matches, a run that goes back to Argentina’s Round of 16 game against Australia in 2022.
The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure.
If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new happens.
You have to touch the world to win.
Travel more. Talk to strangers. Try a new coffee spot. Post on social media. Start a side hustle.
The world rewards motion. You don't find opportunity sitting still.
It's only when Ronaldo is having a stinkfest, we'll be seeing all these gaslighting tweets.
"Can't you love both players?"
"Just enjoy the game?"
When Messi was suffering in the wilderness, we know what you people did.
Take your sermons to the church. Osuofia will see shege.