its quite incredible to watch this vanity project play out as a Scottish person when just yesterday he told us that we're not entitled to democracy and then completely blanked all of our media to instead have a pint
nobody knows wtf is going on in fbtwt and it’s truly something else bc what do you mean people know the details of conor mcgregor’s rape case but they don’t know conor mcgregor?
at what point does scottish larp as a colonised countries actually become condescending or even offensive to people from legitimately colonised countries?
1. I cannot believe this discourse is still ongoing.
2. I cannot believe how stupid it has become.
3. The football giant (not poor little global south underdog), reigning champion, best-player-of-all-time-haver, and one of the tournament favourites has a football culture well-known to be chauvinistic and violent, and it almost certainly was the beneficiary of favourable officiating based on the statistics alone. If you don’t know this you don’t know anything about football.
4. The reasons for the officiating bias might be quite banal not some grand conspiracy.
5. Every narrative that strays too far beyond this is some absurd form of projection that shows the outsized influence of amplified social media dreck and how every single topic under the sun becomes a reservoir for broader political discontents, however tenuously related.
Streets saying Argentina was forced to lose the final or be banned from the world cup for 10 years for the Falklands sign. I believe it too cuz that wasn’t Argentina out on that pitch