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[Rarii @ai__Koko]

Come to grips with your intuition... Hear the whispers of your soul.

[Trey the Explainer @Trey_Explainer]

Homie got a glimpse into an alternate timeline

[isaac Samuel @rhaplord]

It's interesting to read how astonished explorers were to find that the Africans they encountered were equally well-travelled

Barth in 1850 met Africans in Bagirmi (Chad) who had visited Basra (Iraq), kept works of Plato, and were as inquisitive about Europe as he was abt Africa

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

In the 1904 St Louis Olympics, American race scientists went to The Congo & abducted African tribesmen, brought them to America & forced them to compete against top White athletes to prove the superiority of the White race. Now they don’t want to compete with Africans no more

[Julián @HerrStjarnblom]

@xspotsdamark In Colombia we have Lucumi, Mina, Congo, Viafara, Balanta, Carabali. They are very common surnames.

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

I’m watching this Colombia game, & an Afro-Colombian player, Yerry Mina, subs in for another Afro-Colombian, Jhon Lucumi, & my mind is just blown.
Mina is what Portuguese called enslaved West Africans from the Gold Coast because many of them were shipped from the slave fort El Mina in Ghana. And Lucumi comes from the Yoruba phrase Olu Kumi, meaning “My friend”, which is what enslaved Yoruba called each other in the Americas. Fascinating🤯

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

EVANGELICALISM AND THE DECLINE OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL 🇧🇷

After yet another World Cup defeat Brazil is again soul searching - “Why has Brazil become so bad at one of the only things it still used to be good at?”

One of the most popular explanations among Brazilians this time is the rise of evangelicalism in Brazil, especially Pentecostalism. The argument goes that this has ‘spiritually’ undermined the Brazilian team. At the 2022 census about 27% of Brazil’s population over 10 identified as evangelical Protestants. In 2000 the percentage was 15.4% and in 1980 6.6%. A common explanation for this growth is that Pentecostal and evangelical churches were able to expand so rapidly over the past half century because they offered a new version of Christianity that prioritised close-knit local communities, energetic worship and a ‘message of personal transformation’ (and some also say in a derisive sense more ‘accessible’ ‘lower barrier to entry’ version of Christianity, with everything that entails) that especially resonated with ‘urban and lower-income’ Brazilians during Brazil’s comparatively economically and culturally stagnant recent history. In particular, with the kinds of demographics who lived in or adjacent to Brazilian favelas that football wunderkinds used to be drawn from

This is a kind of version of the other main explanation I have heard for Brazil’s decline; that it lost its swag, its samba, its Latin flair - or ‘duende’. You can’t really empirically prove these claims of course and both arguments (see more of this other argument below) make different root claims but the commonality they share is that Brazilian football used to have a kind of playful Latin - maybe you could say Catholic - magic to it. It was very flashy and improvised but it was also a sort of highly skilled dance that you ‘flowed’ with, it was almost liturgical. (Argentina for instance a team that still has a bit more of this)

The Evangelical argument extends into how it has affected social dynamics in the favelas too. I can’t really speak on how accurate these claims are but apparently it has made families more cautious and less communal, less inclined to ‘let kids go out and play’ ie play football with other favela kids - the focus is instead on ‘staying safe’ and ‘individual hard work at school’. For the players from this new milieu that still do get selected for top-flight football then the effect is it makes them more individualistic, less inclined to cooperate, less likely to see it as ‘a group dance’ and more inclined instead to ‘just charge in’ etc

This is what they say! You are free to buy into that however much you want. Possibly a lot of this is just ‘cope’ so-called from a country that maybe too much ties its entire identity to football. Does seem to me that part of the finger-pointing too is you can spin it as a kind of neo-colonialism, in a cultural sense. That it comes from America, from the West. You can see quite extreme left wing Brazilian accounts repeating this claim so you do have reason to be a little sceptical in that

In any case the decline is obviously multi-causal - you can also point to the rise of European football, lack of money, bad tactics or coaching, changing tactics worldwide that no longer favour Brazil, everybody else is just that good now etc. On the right, you will hear too that the decline is related to the decline of the Brazilian nation generally ie greater incompetence all round. It isn’t just that lost their Latin - or Catholic - flair, it is that they became more ‘Third World’. Evangelicalism in this sense then would be less a problem of Calvinist Predestination Teutonic Weberian Protestant Work Ethic Protestantism - more a problem of, in the extreme, Sub-Saharan African village church with a corrugated iron roof Evangelicalism

Either way there is a general feeling that the death of Brazil football represents the loss of a version of the national soul - that Brazil has now somehow changed for the worse

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[🌤️ @damonslacefront]

@bigsnugga idk who seriously thinks interracial relationships are the answer to racism, but this is a hilarious and historically accurate rebuttal

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

unrelated little tidbit about paraguay, in the early 1800s they had a dictator who made it illegal for white people to marry other white people in order to get rid of the european elite class

[dracojeremy @jeremyb___]

Egypt it’s time to pick up that ECOWAS forms, don’t worry about geography

[ellie566 @ellie5661]

says recovering not recovered do u think he ever relapses?

[shaka ⚡️ @shxkxbabu]

“pls just try me” 😭

[ostonox @ostonox]

i'm crying man zohran saw team USA's performance and has mandated nonstop training camps until 2030

[du bist gut genug @narsipereira]

neopentecostalismo é isso aí

tudo é obstáculo a ser superado. tudo é aprendizado. "Deus sabe de todas as coisas".

falta CULPA. confissão. autoflagelação. promessa. dedicação. e por fim, a vitória.

[Mick @mickjenkins]

Let’s fucking gooooooooo

[its me @Jordan_T729]

bc here around age 6, they get a pigskin and a speech that goes like this

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Swiss coach looks like a cocaine dealer from the 70s

[Dani. @DanivonSimons]

Haaland es ese 9 que te hacías en el Fifa cuando eras chiquito. Gigante, tosco, tiro en 99, cabezazo en 99, velocidad, todo