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[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

I often get asked why I’m a Barça fan. Or, more specifically, what made me a Barça fan.

The answer is, and always has been, very clear. Identity. Culture. A way of being that transcends anything money can buy.

Everyone is different. I’m not here to tell you there’s a ‘right’ way to love a football club. But for me, watching a club so deeply connected and committed to an identity was, for lack of a better phrase, just so bloody cool.

And while it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, and we have absolutely lost our way at times, the beauty has always been in finding our way back. Back to the identity laid down by the great Johan Cruyff decades ago. Back to what makes Barça, Barça.

I watch clubs throw hundreds of millions at their squads season after season only to get nowhere. Then I look at us, rebuilding from the lowest of lows after making those very same mistakes, turning once again to our identity and achieving infinitely more than essentially unlimited wealth could buy.

What does that speak to?

For me, it’s simple. Our identity is priceless.

[꒰ঌ( ◜ ✿ ◝ )໒꒱ @ponyvillechud]

we’ve lived so long without ai why does everyone act like they can’t live without it now

[John Duncan @Johntheduncan]

I think it's pretty weird that plagiarism is being held up as worse than laundering an explicitly eugenicist race science through the university

[Z @BrianZisook]

It’s the exact same script.

They’re all reading from the EXACT SAME SCRIPT.

“It’s just a tool.”

“If you don’t adapt, you’ll get left behind.”

The commercial music industry dates back 500 years. We’ve never had trouble creating music without AI.

The nonsense is propaganda.

[Nthanda Manduwi 🌍 @NthandaManduwi]

Hurts me to say this: Africa will not be saved by entrepreneurship. We cannot vibecode ourselves into the 4th industrial revolution. We still need to industrialize. To achieve this, we need stronger and better public institutions. We need extremely competent leaders at the helm.

[Amilcar Baleni @AmilcarDBaleni]

Besides being Racist, Afriforum is Anti-South Africa, Undermines our National Sovereignty, goes around the world spreading lies and propaganda that seriously hurts the international standing of our country. It is an organization against transformation, land redistribution, and empowering of Black People, which defends White Privilege.

Go on, go learn from them, go learn how to hate Black People, How to spread lies and Hate, go learn propaganda and fundraising on fear.

[Olamide . @olamide_adee]

“At the root of Africa’s suffering, you'll find more traitors than coloniser.” – Patrice Lumumba.

[Wiz Fajita @trillary_banks_]

“I don’t care if you’re white, black, green, or purple” -someone who definitely cares that you’re black

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

AI. IS. POPULAR. BECAUSE. IT. GIVES. DUMB. PEOPLE. THE. ILLUSION. THEY. ARE. SMART. AND UNCREATIVE. PEOPLE. THE. ILLUSION. THEY. ARE. ARTISTIC.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

FC Barcelona is, and forever will be, football heritage. The pinnacle of the sport, ESPECIALLY for a midfielder.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

There is no measurement tool to capture the scale of this embarrassing take. The FIFA President is being held to account for his own nefarious actions. It is a big part of the job to further global development. The ‘friend’ gimmick is a way to buy loyalty, secure votes, and receive endorsements like this which fly in the face of reality.

Is this ‘friend’ the one that successfully pushed for a change in the frequency of AFCON? That made the 2025 tournament move for his Club World Cup? That didn’t deliver the promises over African Super League? That did nothing when African Referee of the Year Omar Artan was robbed of his World Cup dream? Who didn’t help African fans that couldn’t travel to the WC due to blanket bans or the visa bond of $15,000, which was dropped too late and saw Vozinha's own mother miss his historic debut.

Do you know who Gianni Infantino considers his friend? Donald Trump. Tell me, what’s his position on South Africa and how has he treated the country, Minister?

[Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead]

This is like being a meth head and asking someone who's never done meth how they're going to get through their day without meth

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT"
WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

[Spiderparker08 @cineviewflix]

I hope every right-winger realizes just how irrelevant they are. Nobody gives a FUCK what your bigoted asses have to say. Y’all an endangered species just fade out of existence like the dinosaurs you are.

[🕷️ @dxvd123]

Read for 30 minutes and rewarded myself with 5hrs screentime

[Constantine 🤔 @OhHiConstantine]

@GolfweekNichols Never ceases to annoy me how having absolutely no shame continues to be an advantageous trait in this world.

[Ol @lorens385]

This is a racist rant. Plain and simple

[Yak @spoon_straps]

You don’t understand how rattled I was when this video dropped

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

The FIFA is not a private equity fund. It is an association with statutes, regulations, and a fiduciary responsibility to protect the global game. If you sell football's crown jewels to private investors, you also sell part of the game – especially its soul. Money matters, but it must never become everything. #FIFA #Football #GianniInfantino

[Dan @mufc_dan87]

You just know that somewhere Alexi Lalas is drafting a tweet detailing why a World Cup without European teams "would be great for investors and shareholders." The absolute danger that he is.

[UEFA @UEFA]

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