Adrianna Merlucci

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Can’t score at MetLife Stadium

Giants 🤝 Spain
Jets Argentina

[Julia @midgepurces]

Man 😭

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Ok hear me out: instead of all of us having to become extremely knowledgeable on a new infectious disease every 3-6 months, what if we got a large group of experts together and just put them in charge of giving us easy to understand health recommendations. They could also do things like track outbreaks and predict future concerns.

[Mike @hammerito]

Once again, one US team has four stars above their crest, one for every World Cup they’ve won. All hail the USWNT, the pride of America

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that the United States Women's National Soccer Team has won 4 World Cups.

[The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦 @Rob_ThaBuilder]

Regardless of where you stand on Balogun-Gate, the whole reaction to both sides highlights some very key differences in the American vs European mindset.

In the American mind, "getting it right" is the most important thing. Thats how justice is served, is by getting to the correct result based on the play on the field.

The European mind is different though. They have an instinct towards bureaucracy and are obsessed with process. The Process must be respected. Respecting process is more important than the specifics of what happened on the field.

And thats why you get this wild take thats fairly common where a Euro will say something like "He didnt deserve the red card, but once it was given it cannot be overturned!".

To the American mind, justice is served by getting the call right, regardless of process. To the European mind, justice is served by respecting process, regardless of the result.

Its a fascinating look into the psyche of both, and if I'm permitted a little armchair psychoanalysis of both groups, id say the reason lies in their history. The Europeans spent centuries as the peasant class of Europe, essentially being forced to accept whatever shit the aristocracy piled up on them. There was no "appeals" process, they took what they had too, because there was no other option. In this environment, a certain "acceptance of one's fate" or immunity to overt injustice likely seeped into the national psyches. No one had success by "fighting the power", the power imbalance was simply too great. What eventually saved them though, was process. Rules-based orders were the only thing that gave them a semblance of power vs the aristorcracies of their upper classes. And so they came to revere Process as the Ultimate Good and working OUTSIDE process as the Ultimate Evil.

The Americans, on the other hand, never developed their national psyche in the world of Kings and Aristocrats. Class was far less rigid in the new world, and risk-taking WAS highly rewarded there. "Fighting the power" to "do what was right" WAS greatly rewarded during the American Revolution when a few great men "fought the power" and were gifted with what would become the most powerful, prosperous country on Earth. And so a certain disdain against "process" took hold, a general feeling that "process" was only as good as long as it provided fair and just outcomes. As opposed to the European model, where "process " was the only thing that had given them anything close TO "fair and just outcomes".

So in that context, the massive gap between both sides makes sense

Or maybe this is all nonsense and its just anti-American, pro-Euro tribalism, who knows 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Julie Stewart-Binks @JSB_TV]

What I keep thinking about is how Balogun and the @usmnt players - who did nothing wrong in this situation - will feel the effects of the White House intervening for likely the rest of their careers. It draws parallels to the U.S. men’s hockey team, who, had WH officials never been in the locker room, would have had their moment.

[Derrico Henrio (Noah Kahan Superhater) @derrico_henrio]

The most conservative person you know is defending an anchor baby with their lives while the most liberal person you know is calling Europeans faggots for bitching about him playing. The World Cup is beautiful

[Jodi Beggs @jodiecongirl]

a great example here of how all the data science in the world cannot make up for a lack of domain knowledge, since many customers can explain the phenomenon pretty clearly

[Renzo Carvalho 🇵🇸 @_doblues]

O Neymar fazer esse gol e sair provocando o goleiro da Noruega dizendo “comigo não” perdendo tempo enquanto a seleção é eliminada foi uma das coisas mais constrangedoras que eu já assisti nesse esporte. E isso define o que o Neymar é e sempre foi: um autocentrado.

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Big win for birthright citizenship

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

That was not the definition of a red card.

[emilia 🍒🥇🏆 @lexiescarina]

the top scorer of the usmnt this world cup is Own Goal (2)

[Adrianna Merlucci @amerlucci]

@WomensGameMIB @NWSL Especially when it has a few ⭐️

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

Cue the music 😁

[JB 🐻✨🍉 @JBfromDC89]

how life feels when the team you jumped on the bandwagon for two weeks ago wins the championship in a sport you don’t normally watch

[Tervis Scoot @tervisscoot]

They were teammates like 4 months ago this guy is such a dick

[New Jersey @NJGov]

Photo taken in East Rutherford, New Jersey

[sarah @bettekporter]

i miss the women's world cup, i do nawt care about these men