Blake Wall

“blue check” Siarad Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Learning to be funny because I'm not that good looking

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

Is it antisemitism to ask you to fight wars you support ?

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Goyslop👇

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[lounger150 @coldsleeve]

they are in board meetings discussing how to stop you from buying $3 used 00s indie CDs . they have teams of scientists designing new ways to stop you from buying $15 Resident Evil xbox discs on eBay. theyve run the numbers and they will never recover from those DVDs you bought

[⟲ @unotfbg]

console wars ending with both sides committing suicide

[Leon 🌸💿 @LeonErikZ]

What's so hard to understand for so many people about that this is a bad thing? Charlie explains it perfectly

[Dre Guevara @DreGuevara3]

everything coming out of robotics is being designed to hunt and kill you for participating in government dissent

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

@mikemasm @upliftvegans At least you can admit it tasts awful

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

@CoreyTheX @XMoney You’re an idiot

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

Goy good, goyslop bad

[ADL @ADL]

A slur doesn't stop being a slur because teenagers started using it. Today's @nytimes "On Language" column treats the antisemitic slur "goyslop" as a fun linguistic curiosity rather than what it is: a term rooted in white supremacist conspiracy theories.

Normalizing this kind of language is dangerous. "Goyslop" is not just edgy slang. It combines "goy," the Hebrew word that colloquially refers to non-Jews, with "slop" to promote a conspiracy theory that Jewish people deliberately poison non-Jews with cheap food to keep them docile. It was coined and spread by antisemites and white supremacists. No amount of teenage adoption changes that origin.

Such terms spread negative stereotypes and conspiracy theories. Their normalization is exactly what the bigots who coined them aspire to. A bit more on this here: https://t.co/eHiz3qmayF

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

@PlayStalgiaX Star Wars battlefront 2
Or
Lord of the rings on ps2

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

@SStricklandMMA Not all heroes wear capes

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

You can't blame anyone else for the "loss of British culture" when you don't listen to British music created this millennium, don't go to gigs, don't watch British films, don't support arts funding, don't order eels when you have a takeaway and insist you don't watch the BBC.

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

@anon_opin Bring back sesame seed buns

[Annabunny 🐰 @BUNNIMODER]

this is literally exactly why we don't have solar because electricity prices go negative when you build enough and it not longer becomes a scarcity you need to pay 3 billionaires for access to

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

I agree that I was made to suffer state school

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

65,000 kids made to suffer

For nothing.

Evil.

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

I find it increasingly difficult not to hate real people in my life who made out I was crazy for saying exactly this

[Financial Times @FT]

Netanyahu’s West Bank plan: annexation by law https://t.co/4DoT4yOeLp

[Blake Wall @blakewall_]

@AndyGoode10 Not surprised england international is thinskinned