Gabe Paredes

🇻🇪🇨🇱🇺🇸 | Visca Barça | Fútbol, Film & Public Transportation Aficionado | Recovering Journalist | Opinions are my own.

[Noah Riffe @NoahRiffe]

The amazing thing about soccer at a national level is you can disagree or even hate the way your country is run and still back your team.

The USMNT is full of immigrant stories, fights to get out of poverty, and is antithetical to white supremacist narratives our leaders push.

[🥺😭😹 @__EQSS__]

Americans on my TL saying this isn’t a red card LMFAOOO

[ollie @downtheolleyway]

this is the opposite of woke, this assumes that black people cant be English.

[Jeff @JeffFcb14]

Como los gringos ven a Pochettino

[J G @OldTownJG]

Non soccer fans not understanding what is and isn't a card is always the most frustrating part of every World Cup cycle. It sucks for Balogun since it was clearly accidental, but it was definitely a red card.

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Funny watching these guys act like birthright citizenship was proposed and implemented for the first time today.

[Tyler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @IAmMudded]

Make America Great Britain again is objectively hilarious, yanks are soft as fuck

[Russ' TD ⚡ @RussFcb]

Son is that Michael Jordan in the NBA Finals being compared to Ronaldo against Uzbekistan

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

This account is so fucking fake

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

Actually hilarious to say the US empire has historically been propping up left-wingers in Latin America bro read one book

[Copa Além da Copa @copaalemdacopa]

Isso é muito legal e a identificação das torcidas com as seleções é sempre um show.

Dito isso, é uma vergonha que Senegal (e Costa do Marfim, Haiti e Irã) não possam ter torcedores vindos dos seus países nos EUA. É uma mancha eterna na história das Copas, não nos esqueçamos.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

Credit to Curacao, but Ecuador… this is embarrassing.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DHSgov: Did you know our starting forward is a US citizen through birthright citizenship? You’re trying to strip away that right.

Did you know an additional 6 Team USA players were born outside US soil?

Did you know half the team are dual citizens?

Also, Happy Juneteenth

[Joe Bernstein @Bernstein]

I'm just going to say it—

There is a kind of coastal American soccer fan who believes his fandom makes him a cosmopolitan global citizen, who cannot bring himself to root for the USMNT because it represents the parochialism his soccer fandom is meant to transcend.

I hate him.

[USMNT burner @burnerusmnt]

The irony of homeland security using a pucture of balogun whos eligible thru birthright citizenship

[Eric Ou @ericcouu]

Playing both side of the fields tonight

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

If a white girl invites you to her pilates class, that’s a sign of great respect in their culture

[rokhannacycle @RoKhannaNews]

stop doing shit like this please

[Sweet Meteor O'Death @smod4real]

I don’t like the way the U.S. is treating Iran’s national soccer team for multiple reasons:

1. It comes off as petty and vindictive. These are professional athletes, not IRGC psychos who would threaten security.

2. Putting unique burdens on their team ruins one of the best things about international sports—the level playing field.

3. It makes the average Iranian think the U.S. is the bad guy and hands the regime a free propaganda victory. This is not the way to show the people of Iran the U.S. is on their side.

4. It wastes a prime opportunity to develop potential intelligence assets.