Danny Houston

[𓆩♰𓆪 알잖아요 𓆩♰𓆪 @playboysoshi]

This is so scary. He has the frat voice and everything 😭

[Danny Houston @DanielJune19]

@JeffNadu Because Catholicism is a part of western civilization. Islam and pluralism is like oil and water.

[dank @cptdankkk]

Chad Ochocinco, who has 8 children with 7 women, says he chose their mothers based on athletic ability

“It wasn’t about having a woman that’s fine, look a certain way, got to be a certain color, a certain complexion, hair, and all this stuff that just didn’t matter. I needed athletes. I wanted athletes”

“You look at the kids. You look at the pedigree that I have created. It was all orchestrated. I told those that I dealt with during that time, ‘Did you run track in high school, did you cheer, did you do volleyball. Let me check your ankles.’ I always wanted to check women’s ankles because you have to understand, if I want athletes, the number one foundation for an elite athlete in any sport is your footwork. And if she had bad ankles, there’s no way I could procreate with you”

“She had no idea she was going through my own personal combine. We went to Dave & Buster’s. Why are we doing this. Why are we playing these games. Why are you taking me to the gym with you. Why are we playing one-on-one in basketball. I’m trying to understand and make sure that I am procreating with someone that is athletic”

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

You could read Aristotle about the necessity of shared blood in order for true philia to be possible in society.

Or you could just watch this clip from Masterchef.

[Danny Houston @DanielJune19]

@FuentesUpdates Hunter kept spewing non-sense my god

[Danny Houston @DanielJune19]

@NotJackKemp @nomoretendies Even controlling for income, blacks are still disproportionately violent.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The World Cup has brutally exposed how shallow the "racial solidarity" framework actually is.

Peruvians are openly declaring they'll root for Harry Kane and England in the semi-finals against Argentina because of very specific, very deep historical grudges:

Peru backed Argentina during the Falklands conflict decades ago, only to feel betrayed when Argentina supplied arms to Ecuador during the 1995 Cenepa War, plus the ongoing cultural jab of Argentines using "peruano" as a casual insult.

In other words, there is absolutely no such thing as "Latino solidarity." The whole construct is promoted by leftists in the West and astroturfed hard on Ivy League campuses by actually ignoring the complexities of history. Shared skin tone and shared language don't magically make you into a brotherhood. Ironically, they promote exactly the same race-only lens championed by race realists on the right.

The matchups have been an excellent way to dig deeper into history. I learned for example, that Mexico has zero beef with England because the British sold them arms during their fight for independence from Spain.

Turns out fellow Europeans did more to screw each other's colonial empires and decolonize each other than the subjects ever managed. So it's funny when it gets weaponized by today's third worlders. The ruse becomes clear when you see that they only care about colonialism of a *specific* (read: European white) kind. Everyone else from the Ottomans to the Arabs to the Chinese get a pass.

Populations mix, empires rise and fall, alliances flip, specific betrayals get remembered for generations, and national identity or even regional club loyalty almost always beats abstract racial essentialism.

I've seen people online treat the World Cup like a racial census. Black fans refusing to back any remaining team because they are "white colonizers." White fans abandoning their own squads for having too many non-white players. Cheering for matching melanin levels and broad ancestral categories is just dumb.

There is no such thing as black solidarity, Western/white solidarity, and there's CERTAINLY no such thing as Asian solitary (lol) and Latino solidarity. This is all just activist nonsense.

Yes people are tribal, but the tribes are usually smaller, older, and more specific than skin color or continent. History is messy, grudge-filled, and gloriously complicated.

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

How life starts to feel when you stop taking work so seriously

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This is not a right-wing parody video

Toronto Police actually posted this

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

“There will be no f*cking rowing in New York”

Brilliant 😂😂😂

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

This is sort of funny, and Brazil have definitely got worse, but it misdiagnoses the problem. In fact, this is a story of what has happened to society and with our economies, and the ideology of our ruling elites.

The first point to accept is that *all* football nations have lost their particular style: there has been a flattening of the way in which teams play. I first started watching football as a very young boy in the late eighties, and through until the early 2000s, most of the big nations maintained a distinct way of playing. The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Brazil and England all spring to mind. But two things have happened -- the first connected to the latter.

First, the Champions League (and later the Europa League) means that the best teams in Europe play each other almost every week during the season. That provides a consistently present interface for an accelerated exchange of ideas, formations, and tactics. But it also acts as a kind of gain of function research for football: there is now an extremely rapid cycle of tactical, transfer policy/player selection, and fitness innovation, response and counter response. The football OODA loop has never been tighter.

Second, and connected to this, there has been an extreme version of the Pareto Principle income inequality that has happened among western societies as a whole. Wealth, partly due to the Champions League, and partly due to the Premier League, has accrued to a smaller and smaller number of teams, even as the size of the pie, due to the massive increase in TV revenue in Europe, has expanded beyond all recognition. This means that all the best players in the world end up in the same handful of clubs. We can name them: Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Juventus, Bayern Munich, PSG, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Furthermore, with the advent of global scouting networks and post-Moneyball databases, this means the best players from anywhere in the world, often at young ages. Remember when an unknown player would have a great World Cup and find himself playing for, say, Tottenham or Monaco or wherever? Those days are gone. We know about every player in the most minute detail. There is no mystery. The good players are already in Europe.

The first time I noticed this process of wealth accumulation was with the great Ajax team of 1995. I was only just a teenager, and that team was like a revelation for me in terms of the way football could be played. All of them (bar Danny Blind and Frank Rijkaard, who were an earlier generation) came up through the Ajax academy system and blossomed at the same time. They played in the Ajax/Dutch style (4-3-3, with two wingers that stayed very wide, and a centre back pushing into midfield when they had the ball, holding possession playing in the opponent's final third). But within two seasons, the entire team was broken up: Davids, Seedorf, Klijvert, Ovremars, Rijzeger, Kanu, Litmanen, even Van Gaal, the young manager -- they'd all gone to richer clubs elsewhere. In the 1960s or 70s, they'd have stayed together and won multiple European trophies. In England, we saw a similar thing with Southampton. Newcastle are suffering the same now.

All this means that players don't stay in their home environments and countries, with their clubs, and the process of mimesis breaks down. Add that to the first point, related to the way intra-European football forces a flattening through various mechanisms, and you have what we see now.

A couple of World Cups ago, the Netherlands played a 3-5-2, to my absolute horror. The Netherlands playing without proper wingers! Now we have a Brazilian team that has two Arsenal players, two Man U players, one Newcastle player -- even a Bournemouth player, for goodness sake. And they'll all have had the majority of their careers outside Brazil. Some will have left when they were 15 or 16, scouted by Shaktar Donetsk (famous for bringing in young Brazilian players) or Real Madrid. Why are we therefore surprised that they play like any other European team?

The Netherlands style lives on -- but through Barcelona and therefore the Spain national team (via Cruyff, and thence Guardiola), not in the Netherlands national team. But the Brazil style (a languid slow, slow, slow, punctuated by sudden bursts of incredible skill, raking passes, speed, and crackerjack long shots) is dead. When better Brazilian players emerge in future, and maybe they return to winning World Cups, they'll do so as Europeans would, not Brazilians. The German and Italian styles are also dead. The English style is also pretty much dead, although that was an evolutionary dead end in terms of International Football, so we do not lament it.

This, rather than boozing or religion, is the reason for what we see with the Brazil national team. I find it deeply sad. But no doubt the neoliberal progressives who run our countries will view it as a great success.

@AaronBastani @WilliamClouston @georgegalloway @jj_bull

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

The history of the USA (woke edition):

[FOX 4 NEWS @FOX4]

"WE'RE GOING TO WALMART"

FOX 4 viewer zekey says he and his dad were headed to the Arlington Walmart to buy some Australia shirts when a crowd of Aussies marched into the store.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Karoline Leavitt, who has a three-decade age gap with her wealthy husband, says Gen Z is “lazy” and born with “silver spoons in their mouths," and that if they misbehave, they should be sent to “Iran” and “Cuba.”

Gen Z faces some of the most disparate wealth inequality in US history, with relative purchasing power, especially of homes, greatly diminished.

Follow: @AFpost

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Juvenile elephants went on a killing spree.

No poachers. No food shortage.

They were murdering rhinos, attacking jeeps, and fighting each other.

The cause? The older bull elephants, the fathers, weren’t there.

Once the bulls arrived, the chaos stopped almost instantly.

Chris Williamson uses this Kruger National Park story to show what happens without mature male guidance.

Powerful parallel for humans too.

What do you think this says about the importance of fathers in society?

[Danny Houston @DanielJune19]

@JamieBonkiewicz I don’t care

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Un tipo salio a la calle a ver que hacia su perro y lo encontró jugando con un carpincho

[Danny Houston @DanielJune19]

@alex_kirshner You’re such a bitch