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[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

America, start your engines.

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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.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

BREAKING: FIFA has cleared the way for U.S. star Folarin Balogun to play in the USA's round of 16 match vs Belgium on Monday, confirmed by FOX Sports' @ByDougMcIntyre and @MelissaMOrtiz

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[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Happy 4th of July to everyone, including the haters and losers!

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@inthestarsuk @AMAZlNGNATURE Looks like the Dark Hedges in Ireland

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@AgitpropMaster Never expected to hear Ozma on an edit, nice

[America @america]

America is the greatest country in the world and it’s not even close 🇺🇸

[Shaun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 @shaunvlog_]

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[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

@Pontifex SUBMIT TO ROME

[asspiss8 @asspiss817614]

*Henry Ford in shitty AAA open world video game*

Thomas Edison: Focus, Ford.

Henry Ford:

[grant @grntmrrshll]

@elonmusk please help my pay off my student loans, it’s a lot of money for me but it’s not a lot for you
🙏🙏🙏

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

“Disabled children can be such a burden to families. Why won’t you support abortion in cases of disability?”

Because de Gaulle never did

[Sir Doge of the Coin ⚔️ @dogeofficialceo]

Top Democrat influencer Harry Sisson
reportedly ‘furious’ claiming Bonnie Blue STOLE his idea to sleep with 1000 men in 24 hours

[grant @grntmrrshll]

@HobbyMatt89 @starkcanarie Shouldn’t it be in Braille

[grant @grntmrrshll]

@JumpTrailers she could loose a few