This broke my heart and I can't stop thinking about it.
Iran has all odds stacked against them its crazy.
First of all, they are literally being forced to sleep in Tijuana, Mexico every single night after they play. And its not like their games are right over the boarder in San Diego… they are in Seattle… across the US. AND they have to cross the border and go through immigration JUST to come back and compete the next game. And GO BACK and sleep there after a full on game.
Their captain said it himself:
"This is a disastrous World Cup. They have done everything possible to eliminate us. That's what they want, they want us out."
And after last night their defender is on camera breaking down:
"I don't know why we have such bad luck. I don't know what our people have done to deserve this. We just wanted to make them happy."
These guys are fighting for an entire country while the system fights back.
And then you watch Messi on the same stage committing fouls that would 100% be a yellow or red for ANYONE else and they don't give him a thing.
Not even a warning.
One team can't even sleep in the host country. They remove their goals yet the other is untouchable.
Being the underdog doesn't just mean fighting the opponent. It means fighting the referees, FIFA, and the whole system at the same time.
Honestly, it makes it that much obvious that the World Cup is rigged
“WE NEED TO LET THEM DO INSIDER TRADING TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES”
That was the actual argument just made in defense of politicians trading stocks.
Members of Congress make $174,000 a year.
The median American income is roughly $63,000. (3x less)
Meanwhile the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour… also unchanged since 2009.
And you’re seriously being told politicians need access to insider trading to survive.
The system is designed to lead earth to neo-feudalism.
And it’s becoming more brazen by the year.
Asset ownership consolidates upward.
Living standards decline downward.
The middle class gets squeezed from both ends and disappears while the elite class accumulates more wealth, more influence, and more protection.
Leaving behind a permanent underclass.
And a permanent political-financial aristocracy at the top…
Unfortunately I think maturing as a woman is realising that misogyny is so ingrained in everything and quite literally impossible to avoid. It's in our media, it's in our light hearted conversations. It's in the expectation that your mum will have dinner ready. It's the man staring down your shirt on the train. It's in the jokes you overhear at the pub. It's that one line in your favourite TV show. It's your male relatives sitting down after Christmas dinner. It's the conversation you have with a 'well meaning' man at your hospitality job. We're tragically used to it.
It’s wild how society treats women’s safety like a personal responsibility instead of a collective failure. Women are taught to scan rooms, share locations, clutch keys, second-guess outfits... while men are rarely taught that entitlement to women’s bodies isn’t normal. That’s not “precaution,” that’s conditioning
It’s so exhausting living in a system where nearly every place is designed to take money, every moment is supposed to cost money, everything is about money. It’s like our entire lives are just for rent, nowhere to sit down for free, nowhere to rest, then you pay again.
Met Gala: $100K tickets, Bezos as chair. Meanwhile, 70% of Americans can't afford food/housing.
Amazon workers pee in bottles, get fired for organizing, tackled by police for protesting.
This is Trump's America.
Shame on the billionaire class.
You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy