oh man, the europeans, who kept their mouths shut as qatar built soccer stadiums with slave labor, are super mad over a questionable red card being overturned
The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.
Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.
To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.
In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.
The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.
Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.
So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.
Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.
Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.
Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.
250 years ago our greatest grandfathers beat the dogshit out of the most powerful military on the planet over a 3% tax and now we can’t deport 100 million immigrants that hate us because women and gays think it would be mean
A German soccer fan is brought to tears over how nice he’s been treated in America
He says he was afraid to come to America for the FIFA World Cup because European media portrays America as dangerous. He’s spent weeks in America and can’t believe how it’s the exact opposite
“I fall in love with this country, and this was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium”
“Following the German soccer team from Houston to Boston. Sebastian was afraid of coming over, saying that the news in Europe painted a picture of America being dangerous. But at every stop, from the moment he landed, he says everyone has treated him with kindness and respect and has not felt unsafe.”
“Americans are not rude. Germans are not rude. If we are together, we can achieve great things”
The media is the enemy of the people and it seems to be true everywhere
I looked into data and found the real problem
90%+ of the mainstream media in America is Left leaning
And in Europe, over 80%+ of their mainstream media is Left leaning
That’s the problem right there. Liberals are destroying societies with their control of the media
It’s pretty embarrassing that most people who defend Islam don’t seem to understand that since 700AD it hasn’t changed.
The throat cutting, stabbing, murdering and raping is the same as it ever was.
You know, Josh, I’m 100% ok with Muslim rapists being terrified of getting shot and killed by vigilantes.
I’m ok with their complicit families being terrified.
I’m ok with them not feeling safe in my country.
Maybe they should just NOT RAPE women.
How about that, Josh?
@clashreport 'Sorry we kidnapped your family and sold them into slavery, made your son into a janissary and put your daughter into a harem, we'll look after the holy sites and we're really BASED and hate Jews, we promise we're on your side!'
"There's no way 250,000 girls were raped in the UK. That number must be exaggerated."
Okay, let's pretend it's exaggerated, just for the sake of argument.
How many children need to be raped for you to be upset about it?
This is, bar none, the worst thing I have ever read. I have known about the Rape Gangs longer than a lot of americans, but even I did not grasp the scope or scale of what went on. Forget about Epstein, this was a crime against humanity on the scale of the Holocaust, of the Khmer Rouge, or of the lsraeIi atrocities in Gaza.
This was the systematic, intentional, targeted kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of White, Christian girls in England, specifically chosen due to their race and religion.
11 year olds had their vaginal walls used as bottle openers, and were then forced to consume the alcohol. Girls were raped with car keys and and baseball bats. 12 year olds with whiskey bottles inserted into their anus and smashed. Pre-teens raped by dogs.
The NHS is complicit. The British police is complicit. Damn near every single british politician over the past thirty years is complicit. The media is complicit. Anyone who ran cover for this must be put to death following a tribunal.
Nothing short of the public executions of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people, followed by the deportation of millions more is sufficient. Nothing will provide justice; that is the scale of the action required to merely get this to stop.
A bit odd, don’t you think?
As soon as Muslims started immigrating to Japan, its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples started burning down, just like the churches in Europe.
You can get a million decrepit Boomers, traitors, women, and nons out in the city square and it doesn't matter so long as the young men put on the black and take action. The future is always with the young men. Democracy is fake. They understand this. You will too.
you know what gg it’s over but really quick before I go back to my positivity gimmick
Knicks fans, I just gotta say, y’all have been nothing but miserable little goblins this entire series. Truly the least fun I had with any fanbase.
Thanks to the Thunder, Wolves, and Blazers fans who at the very least earned my respect.
Wish nothing but negativity for you all moving forward. 🩶