@splash_cousin @rodbrooksTV I agree in general, but man his subs today were really poor - totally ceded the midfield battle and spent the rest of the game trying to fix it
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Lucas Mirani
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Lucas Mirani
@LucasMirani
Used to work with ⚽ | was @ucberkeley | now doing economic history @LSEEcHist
London, England 参加日 Haziran 2015
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I love ragging England because it’s so much fun, but for the last 8 years, those cats have shown GUTS…
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@MoeSquare I feel like this will be a once in a generation moment where basically the entire world is supporting England
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@tombogert when the ref is doing his job properly? I don’t know, bro, it felt like a pretty clear dive and the replays make it look even worse. I have zero issue with that being called, and if you’re calling simulation, it’s supposed to be a yellow card.
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So, VAR steps in to give Embolo a second yellow because the referee made the wrong decision in the first place to book Paredes? If it was just a foul, not a yellow, it’s not reviewable.
Pure insanity. Game’s gone. Less VAR man. For the love of god
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Ben Shapiro being the one to say this
Ben Shapiro@benshapiro
Candace Owens is an IQ test. If you watch Candace and come away thinking that you are smarter, better informed, or more moral...you are retarded. If you echo or excuse her evil and vicious stupidity...you are worse than retarded. Don't be retarded.
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@CarlonCarpenter Perhaps bringing off one of your best technical outlets and replacing him with a 36 year old DM wasn't a great idea
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@KelseyTuoc @AlexGodofsky When I was like six, I set up a "security checkpoint" in front of the guest-room where my grandparents were staying and charged a dollar each time they wanted to come in or out.
By the time my mom put a stop to it, I'd probably made like $10
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@AlexGodofsky children absolutely love checkpoints. we had to make a house rule: no internal migration controls allowed
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We're visiting at a friend's house in vacation, another friend to join us in the afternoon. 6yo deputizes the children all morning in a project. When the second friend arrives it turns out the project was a stop sign and posters demanding money for a checkpoint at the driveway.
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@SebC__ Are you worth following? 😂
(Genuinely curious if you post on there at all). My experience with football on Linkedin is that it's almost all MBA speak but maybe I follow the wrong people
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@316simsim Not for a while, soccer is a pretty suburban sport in the US. Hasn't really taken hold as an urban sport in the way basketball has for example.
Pay-to-play becomes even more relevant when field space is limited and youth teams in cities are aimed at middle/upper-class families
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Will America ever have this in their national teams?
Romain Laplanche@rolapche
Thierry Henry a résumé l'esprit du football de rue en banlieue parisienne 🇫🇷 pour FOX Sports :
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Putting aside the overall unseriousness of a wealth tax, it is extremely unclear to me how a wealth tax would "improve the British industrial base"
hasanabi@hasanthehun
wow! rich people will continue holding entire economies hostage if there are modest redistributive policies that improve the industrial base & make the country more competitive and livable in the long run? never heard this one before!! it’s socialism or barbarism and the stooges of parasitic capital have let their preferences be known!
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@316simsim I'm not sure that they actually improved throughout the tournament.
Clearly an extremely talented group, but the next step is being able to make adjustments between/within games
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They play like an academy team stylistically. I can’t explain it, but you can tell Ouahbi is new to pro football especially in those last 20 minutes of the game
performative world cup enjoyer@bootcutgenes
This has been absolutely crap from Morocco. World Cup semi finalists and African champions*, they can’t be babied by saying it’s a good effort blah blah. This can’t be all you show up with
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@souljagoyteller Good luck building literally anything without trust that loans will be repaid
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I think it’s pretty obvious you’d pay off the debts; or at least give off the impression of paying them. If you want to control the commanding heights, you gotta have a good line of credit!
lina 🇵🇸🇦🇲@linaposting
You are the General Secretary of the American Social Democratic Labour Party. You just won your revolution. However, the greatest threat to Communism has arrived on your shores--foreign creditors. You have a choice to make.
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@316simsim I don't see Camavinga doing the work in midfield that Rabiot does
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@KelseyTuoc This was basically my parents' justification for homeschooling
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I disagree with Alpha School's approach on some stuff but my agreement on this is very very strong and getting this right is important enough to cover for many other mistakes
MacKenzie Price@mackenzieprice
I don’t think we’ve ever had a kid whose knowledge level matched their grade level across every core subject. That’s why fixed grade levels don’t work. A kid should be allowed to do 7th grade math and 4th grade writing at the same time.
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@Tyler_A_Harper Not unrelatedly, it feels like today's college students arrive on campus more sure of their beliefs and opinions than ever before. People's political identity is basically baked in before they even start college
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Illiteracy is already baked in before college freshmen ever arrive in the classroom of some tenured radical, real or imagined, who hates the Western canon. Those people may be annoying but they’re not causing the decline of reading.
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I am broadly sympathetic to the claim that curricular choices literature and humanities departments made have contributed to their decline, but today kids arrive at college (even “elite” ones) half-literate. The problem is not decolonial theory it’s that the kids just can’t read.
Liza Libes@pensandpoison
I really admire @rosehorowitch and have been following her work on the decline of literature over the past two years now. But @TheAtlantic is (purposely?) withholding a very important piece of the puzzle: English departments themselves simply no longer teach literature. For the the past few decades, English departments across the country have been treating literary education as a vehicle for the promotion of far leftist ideologies, and, of course, no one is going to care about literature if they believe that the purpose of reading fiction is to promote radical gender ideology. Elite English departments across the country guide the perception of the cultural milieu amongst the general public. If the world's most elite universities are telling students that Shakespeare writes about transgenderism or that Jane Austen is complicit in imperialist expansion, then these ideas not only seep into high school English classrooms but also affect the next generations of readers. I, too, would have no interest in reading Shakespeare if I were told that the Bard writes about queer desire. But this is precisely what's happening in English departments across the country, and no one wants to talk about how much it's affecting our country's general decline in literacy. If we want to restore the love of literature and to inspire people to read again, then we must teach classic literature as an art form—as a means of exploring the human condition rather than as a vehicle for political change. If future generations understand the beauty of literature once again, then maybe we'll create a civilization whose citizens love reading once more.
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@souljagoyteller I can only speak for India but it's probably a combination of:
No culture of playing at young ages, prioritization of education rather than sports, lack of quality coaching, no defined pathways for talented players
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@LenKingCole @hbrooks_coach Oh I'm not saying he's smart lol. I'm saying he exists in a media ecosystem that rewards his lack of insight and preparation.
He's not a character in the sense he's faking it, he's a character in the sense that the audience rewards his flanderization
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@hbrooks_coach @LucasMirani There’s another video from last week, he’s definitely not playing a character. He doesn’t have any knowledge in regards to the topic, the fact that they keep saying “finished 17th twice”.
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@hbrooks_coach I think the depressing thing is that they play these characters because it sells, people have revealed their preferences.
It's as much a problem with an audience rewarding caricature as it is with pundits choosing to project to the lowest common denominator
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@LucasMirani Fair point . But surely there has to be a semblance of common sense and intelligence?
Otherwise anyone can literally say anything with zero substance and it’s seen as okay?
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@316simsim I could also see Gordon and Madueke (probably as a sub) having success against them. Tuchel will be comfortable ceding possession. They don't have someone who can cope with Bellingham's verticality (assuming he doesn't get suspended)
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Argentina are the slowest team left in the competition. You can beat them for pace and their defense can’t defend big spaces well.
France are the worst matchup for them
Nihal | نهال@nihalist___
ok missed Trezeguet and Marmoush chances aside. Argentinian comeback aside. how are you supposed to seriously defend against Argentina when you breathe next to an Argentinian player and you get fouled and carded immediately?
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