2010. South Africa. They said theft will be at an all-time high. Unsafe for world cup. Didn't happen.
2014. Brazil. Complained about some of the remote places the venues were. Unsafe for players. Didn't happen.
2018. Russia. "It's not a democracy". There would be marginalization. People would not even be free or allowed entry. Didn't happen.
2022. Qatar. " Slave built stadiums ". A morally bankrupt nation. " It cannot be fun". The tournament is horrible. No alcohols. Religious intolerance. Didn't happen.
2026. US. All the above happening.
We see.
After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal. What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.
Ethanol for cars is made from crops growing on subsidized fertilizer. The subsidy was for growing crops for food security. But now, tens of thousands of crores of subsidy will be subsumed into manufacturing ethanol. Don't tell me no one told you that before ...
“My relationship with my club began the same way it does for most football fans: before I was old enough to understand what I was getting myself into. When I was nine, my uncle introduced me to a team with a cannon on its shirt, a grizzled captain named Tony Adams, and players like Nwankwo Kanu who had been born in Africa but now lived somewhere else, just like me. Arsenal felt familiar before I even understood why.
“And then there was the manager, a man who I initially thought had been named after the club and then believed that somehow the club must have been named after him. Arsene Wenger may have struggled with his raincoat, but rarely with his orchestra. The football his teams played sang.
“But what was once the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present.
“We won. We are champions of England. And we are just one game away from being crowned champions of Europe too.”
@ZohranKMamdani, mayor of New York City, writes for The Athletic on what Arsenal means to him.
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Indians are probably the only people who will mock you instead of supporting you when you demand basic infrastructure, basic necessities, and accountability from the government. No wonder this mess never ends.
Funny how Some idiots are demanding accountability from a Insta meme account created 4–5 days ago, while spending 12 years defending a PM who has carefully avoided a single proper unscripted press conference. A random meme page hurts their sentiments, but unemployment, inflation, paper leaks, corruption, media control, agency misuse, and complete lack of transparency never bothered them. For them, questioning power is anti national, but blindly worshipping power is patriotism. That’s the level of propaganda addiction and intellectual collapse we are dealing with 🙂
Regardless of football, this is the kind of mindset everyone should have.
Just because I’m tired doesn’t mean I’m done. I’m only done when it’s actually finished. And that’s something I’ve been learning the hard way.
People who blindly defend BJP even after fuel hikes, unemployment, paper leaks, corruption, and rising hatred are not patriots they are helping normalize failure and injustice in the country.