@WelBeast Football has evolved
Generally, teams now focus more on the the tactics, team balance n structure
Brazil National team n their coaches r still stuck with the old system where dribbles n individualism supersede tactics.
Brazil vs Germany in 2014
@WelBeast The rest of the world caught up. Brazil used to have a talent advantage, a coaching advantage, and an identity advantage. Now they mostly just have the talent advantage and even that gap isn't what it used to be.
@WelBeast Football has evolved from raw talent to organised systems and tactics that nullify individual brilliance; case in point what Australia did to Arder Guler of Turkiye.
With tariffs, the Iran War and now the threat by DHS to close most major US airports to international flights, the Trump admin loaded with unqualified partisan hacks is constantly looking for new and creative ways to wreck the economy while blaming Biden.
@kylegriffin1 Trump pardoning everyone was gonna be the easiest bet in history. Trump wants his entire staff to commit crimes on his behalf, and he is giving them full carte blanche to do so. The Presidential pardon power has become an absolute joke- it needs to be revised to prevent abuse.
@allenanalysis@LeeHolly81 Then he came for the trees. Trump is the most reckless, destructive, irresponsible person to ever occupy the Oval Office. (But who will rake the forest floor to prevent wildfires? /s)
@SenMarkKelly We have a Secretary of Defense calling for "No quarter" and a President who is absolutely gleeful about killing people. Both are beyond despicable.
MAGA treated the 13 service members killed during Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal like the worst tragedy in American history. Now troops are dying in Trump’s war with Iran, and the outrage has magically disappeared.
MAGAs are the most programmable people in America.
A month ago Iran never crossed their minds. Today they’re military strategists.
Four years ago they didn’t know what a trans person was. Now they’re obsessed with bathrooms.
Yesterday it was Bud Light.
Before that migrant caravans.
Before that drag queens.
Same outrage machine. New villain every week.
I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
Imagine believing immigrants are the reason you can't afford groceries while the federal government uses $220,000,000 of your tax dollars to make an ad to convince you that immigrants are the reason you can't afford groceries.
Myles Lewis Skelly by the way, I rate his attitude. Everytime I see the tunnel videos he's in high spirit.. Don't worry my boy your chance will come again, for now learn and enjoy.
The reason why City are still in a title race is because they signed Guehi and Semenyo. Those two are the reason why they are only 7pts behind Arsenal.
@clashreport That’s what Europe needs to understand. What happens in the Middle East affects Europe much much more than the US. And then the US will turn around and insult Europe for being “invaded”.