Prodigal Daughter

Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@BigbyWolf92 @Openly Step 1: This isn’t happening and it never happened. Step 2: It happened before but it was a rare outlier. Step 3: OK it’s happening, but it’s a good thing. Step 4: It’s happening and you’re a crazy evil extremist if you think it shouldn’t be happening.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@GoodHunter00 @DschlopesIsBack It was like watching someone shoot fish in a barrel.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@DschlopesIsBack You are truly the troll master.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@banter44 @ChloeCole People are who they are.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@n0harmn0shit @ChloeCole If a person’s entire identity is reliant upon other people “affirming” their delusions, then how people think of you is the most important thing in the world.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@Deb54352200 @TexasBelle @samstein @Carrasquillo

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@EcciusMaximus Former sex workers and meth heads who have been saved have an obligation to share their testimony with others who may think it’s impossible for God’s grace and forgiveness to reach them.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@CartoonsHateHer OMG, you look just like Lizzo!

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@Dispropoganda @DebLaughton So you’re saying we should’ve stayed home since the outcomes was already decided?

OK, maybe we will next time.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@AGreenNamek @AzPetrich Just because most women’s sports are boring doesn’t mean that women’s teams and locker rooms should be invaded by men.

I hope that clears it up for you.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

Matt Freese, you had 1 job!!!

[American Ultras Talk @usmntaut]

Never call Matt Freese up again. Hope he gets booed at every NYCFC game he plays. To do that in a World Cup match is unforgivable.

[American Ultras Talk @usmntaut]

Never call Matt Freese up again. Hope he gets booed at every NYCFC game he plays. To do that in a World Cup match is unforgivable.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@usmntaut He had 1 job!!!

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@OldWest1453 So true! It reminds me of the time my Dad made the terrible mistake of going to get another beer during a Tyson fight.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@YeezyTaughtMe72 The costumes are inaccurate and look like they came from Party City, the cinematography looks bleak and ugly, the translation used is by a prof who has contempt for the source material, and the casting choices—even if there were no race issues— were completely abysmal.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@Rainmakers28 @Austen He could’ve applied for an 01 visa and become a citizen that way. Again, your argument is tired

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@Rainmakers28 @Austen Balogun still would’ve qualified for an 01 visa (exceptional talent and ability) even if he wasn’t a citizen. So this argument is tired.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@ZachLowy Balogun would’ve qualified for an 01 visa for people of exceptional skill and talent.

[Prodigal Daughter @ProdigalDaugh16]

@fiago7 The red card was unjust and shouldn’t have happened in the first place. It was an accident.