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[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@IanHest You must be living under a rock. In Latin America or has been called out as the biggest corruption scandal in FIFA’s infamous history

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

The “sportsmanlike” thing to do btw, since you all seem to care about that so much after Paraguay - France, is for Balogun to refuse to play, own his red card and not accept undue advantages from the US President

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@MesserBest @CouchNish You wouldn't even need a goalie or a defence against this...

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@PumaChairo Acá hacen algo que le llaman "peacamole" que está hecho con chícharos. Es similar a algo que comen acá ya que se llaman "mushy peas", como una pasta de chícharos cocidos. Al guacamole normal lo dejan muy aguado,no le ponen nada de chile o sal, si acaso jitomate nada más, limón.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@UnstableSudaca @Seb__flyte1 She is indigenous.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@sadsenfics @teruuu_ikm “Cártel” no se utiliza solo para referirse al narcotráfico. Es un término económico. Su significado es más bien un conjunto de actores económicos que mantienen un acuerdo para evitar la competencia y asegurarse protección mutua. Por ejemplo: el cártel inmobiliario.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.

The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.

When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.

That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.

It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@hishoespanic @berteles95 @ideainofensiva "el oaxaqueño azteca" JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@majogm Porque eran ornitólogos, buscaban aves exóticas, y ciertas aves suelen estar cerca de basureros porque ahí siempre hay comida garantizada.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@AkilahObviously It is funny how there aren’t many nepo babies in ballet or opera. But in acting? Well, that’s a different story…

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@cuck1eberryfinn @JamesPPoole You can make a very, very, very loose adaptation with a lot of artistic licence, and still make it a great adaptation at the same time IF you respect the spirit of the original source. In this case, she missed the point entirely AND made a bad film. The complaining is justified.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@HalimaNyomi Hadley Freeman was also stoking that fire...

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today, I am thinking of the countless victims of Epstein’s vile abuse.

The files are an appalling reminder of a rotten political system that shields the rich & powerful from accountability.

We need to build a new kind of politics — one that protects the safety & dignity of all.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@AugustinaJJD @FeserEdward @WingerBen94 And they want to remain part of the Kingdom of Denmark, by a very large majority.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@ollywand3r @WorstDisorder You don’t read world literature at all in high school!?

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@FaveatFortuna @KayBurley I lived in Tower Hamlets, a street away from the East London Mosque, and I would often walk home at 2 am or even later. Never had a problem.

[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@aaorval303 @nochaveznada No tiene dinero, tiene puras deudas… qué país lo va a dejar invertir cuando saben que no va a pagar un peso en impuestos y que se puede ir como el ratero que es en el momento que le exijan saldar la deuda?

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[Ro @FocaSateluca]

@thegxuniverse @gamestop Of course not, because manufacturing them in the US would be even more expensive than importing them from abroad, not to mention that it will take an eternity to set the facilities and materials in the US.