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[Janty @CFC_Janty]

Mbappe sending the referee to give the captains armband to Tchouameni 😭😭

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

They watched this guy and didn’t know he was on drugs?🤣🤣

[Wagleylfc @Wagleyy]

Nepali football has never hit this low, even when Ganesh Thapa was in charge. ANFA is in the hands of a few incompetent bastards and Sasmit, despite being a minister for the past 3/4 months, did fuck all. The league has been dead, half the players are off to Aus and football culture now looks non-existent. Players had to protest and beg officials to organize the league. What a disaster all around! 🤦🏻

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

geographical luck is a thing

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

"Until death all defeat is psychological."

[PD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 @1_2spaces]

Bruh scoring 4-5 goals in a single WC used to mean something, it used to get you the golden boot 😭😭😭

[RJ Clifford @RJcliffordMMA]

Beaten, battered, cornered and blind in both eyes ... Ilia STILL shoulder rolls, dips and pivots flawlessly like he's shadowboxing in an empty gym.

[polling plotting shooting poles @polplotting]

Norwegian citizen, born in Norway stucked in India, living on the streets, surviving

[Max Calendrillo @MaxCalendrillo]

It’s insane how much respect I have for the Topuria brothers.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

Brazil abandoned their traditional Samba football and started playing European football and that is how they lost it all. Fell off hard.

[K @RaskolXIV]

I can't be depressed
Life's so f good, I'm in Iceland in summer.

[jd @jdayz__]

World Cup is basically my best Africans vs your best Africans

[The Northern Observer @north_brah]

The fact that he did this after a fight in which his undefeated opponent went straight to the hospital for facial reconstruction surgery

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

The Topuria vs Gaethje fight smells fishy:

- American fighter.
- Held at the White House for the 250th anniversary of Independence.
- Donald Trump and the whole country watching it.
- You were undefeated and today you looked totally off your game.
- You've knocked out better legends.

RIGGED FIGHT?

[Makhachev Islam @MAKHACHEVMMA]

He who exalts himself will be humbled !

There’s levels in this game!

Congratulations Justin, you deserve this belt more than anyone!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿ABE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MRIRBT]

American broadcasters keep cutting to celebrities in the crowds and the UK commentators just go silent every time.

WE. DO. NOT. CARE.

No-one wants your horrible commercial culture to destroy football. This tournament is bad enough.

[K @RaskolXIV]

This is the worst brazilian game I have seen

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

This doesn’t feel like the World Cup man. Waiting all day just to watch one game feels weird.