I’m often quite cynical about the state and near term future of the world but stuff like this melts my cold, black heart instantly. pure, unbridled joy on display. the World Cup is so beautiful
“Football was popular because the poor were happy to play with a ball. When football turned into dishonest business, that is when the wealthy classes saw an opportunity in it, and since then it no longer belongs to the poor.”
— Marcelo Bielsa
The World Cup fans falling in love with America aren’t in the places MAGA controls ... they’re in New York, LA, Seattle. Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston, the cities Republicans have spent a decade calling dangerous, godless hellholes that apparently the entire world wants to visit.