Iran scored a winning goal in each of their 3 matches, each one was overturned by VAR. The way they’ve been treated and what they’ve had to overcome is absurd, no other team was barred to stay in the host country, no other team’s country is being bombed by the host country.
In the world of injustice, this may seem small, but in the world of international sport it’s deeply unjust.
They might think their performance was disappointing, but it was far from it. They played with heart and captured the hearts of people across the world.
he’s simultaneously telling me it looks fake and weird, and insisting it has to be real anyway, because why would youtube post bullshit. it’s so hard for him to understand that youtube is just random people posting whatever, not some legacy media company or whatever
i think boomer gullibility about ai has less to do with technological ignorance, than it does with their deference to authority / officialdom / process / institutions. let me explain:
i’m bringing this up because my dad told me to look up when the fifa opening ceremonies are. i told him there’s one in each country, starting tomorrow. he found some slop ass videos of a ceremony that allegedly took place today, and could not believe youtube would lie to him
zero patience for the nonsensical discourse around these Synagogues and their active, willful and proud support for genocide and the theft of Palestinian land.
My religious community's entire political and religious trajectory was forever altered and manipulated through raids, entrapment, informants and CVE-programs -- we were made politically and spiritually impotent by design, making us a community today with zero political vision and power. Our charities were shut down, made criminal; our mosques became filled with deputized members of the community looking out for "radicalization" -- a nonsensical practice that still exists today. No one cared about the sacred nature of a place of worship then, no one cared about the protection of our young men then.
The problem isn't just one synagogue that sells stolen Palestinian land - it's every single one which refuses to ideologically and materially separate itself from Zionism, from Israel, from the extermination of a nation.
It says that the capacity for sovereign action by states structurally opposed to imperialism counts for a lot more than Western Marxists are willing to admit.