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hello

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people don't know the first thing about anglo-saxons as evidenced by half the replies being bewilderment over the inclusion of scotland

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Bro...

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the groupchat that soft-launched a thousand situationships

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@hodge_stick the 'true scouser' bit is kind of tedious when the city proper is only 500k people

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it was ai to start with until some freak broke a raccoon's spine to farm content

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atheists trying to avoid white monster goth mommies deftones berserk

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@sahib14384912 to pimp a [ulysses] butterfly bravo kendrick

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just watched "the diggers" by tom cruise. zero stars; wildly misrepresented the whole movement

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@hardlybjorking open tunings are actually so fun you're just a hater

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@napravoedelo @mlanetrain

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social media would have me believe that pakistan is the only arab country in the world

[✦Lex @onaly_star]

I am Syrian, not Arab.

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@ignacio06980814 @AshoreDreath @angelicTA_ Had nothing to do with the UK besides bombing it?

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@zila_machado the fog

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twitter users when they see any norwegian male above the age of thirty

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you guys see it right

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@Blekhy1 Transphobic father and son duo named Dick and Tucker

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Laugh it up Europeans, if we forced every citizen in our country to play soccer instead of school or employment for the last 100 years, we would have beaten you easily.

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There's nothing wrong with wanting your country to win, just don't pretend it's because you're so virtuous and moral.

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Every post from americans this world cup reads like this

[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.

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what the hell does this have to do with the usa

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇬🇧 London's Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, just posted a tweet to celebrate the UK's Pride day, which organizers decided should occur on the 4th of July this year.

He said, "Today at Pride in London, we’ll show the world that love will always triumph over hate."

Not sure why the capital needs to be covered in more LGBTQ flags than it has ever seen Union Jacks, but okay.

Source: @MayorofLondon, Writer: Mhedi

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@nikicaga Take that however you choose

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@nikicaga It's a shame the falklands became such a sore point because Argentina is undoubtedly the most spiritually English country in Latin America