@zDamascus Just make it full leg or something the way it’s been for the games nearly 2 century history
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Studs Terkel Stan
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The infinite discourse comes back so it's time to remind people that if you change how offsides are decided, you are simply making another arbitrary limit up, and when the player will be 0.1mm away from that limit, you will also say "this is stupid!!!"
Just accept the rule lol
ESPN FC@ESPNFC
Colombia was this close to a game-winning goal 🤯
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@mikefountains It’s annoying bc no ref on earth would be catching that which makes it not an unfair advantage by default that de factor near uniformity in non-enforcement means it’s a novel and unserious application of a good rule
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@noamscheiber As a huge fan who has seen the shift on offsides, I completely agree. It’s inane to me, we need pinpoint tech to call off goals because a player is cursed with a bigger big toe than the man marking him
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Whats strange about soccer: It employs absurd mathematical precision to police offsides, a rule that mostly matters in spirit rather than in strict application. (You just don't want cherrypicking) But its extremely casual about timekeeping, whose literal application matters a ton
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@soapboxheroin @LinkofSunshine Okay that’s our current competitor right now though so a pretty meaningful example
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@actsmaniac @morematerial This is very true, but also, have you ever had to apply to rent on your own? Not exactly a pleasure cruise, quick, or oftentimes even fair
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@morematerial would be very annoying to have to deal with government bureaucracy and waiting lists each time you needed some human shelter
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rent control is pretty empirically not great policy but if you refuse to try to understand why it’s appealing to people and keep sneering at them, you will keep losing and you will like what comes after even less than a rent freeze which only affects a sliver of housing stock
Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@TrueSlazac
Nothing will make you lose faith in leftism more than arguing about rent control They simply refuse to learn about the consequences of the policies they support, they can’t conceive second order effects
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@BlueBoxDave I’m sorry it just is a global, liberal game. It’s too international and frankly too culturally rich in many ways for there to be a world where Shane Gillis-Portnifying soccer is gonna work. This sport has academic textbooks written about it and has stopped civil wars.
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Alexi Lalas represents exactly the American bro-dude that soccer needs to be a commercial success in the U.S., but this is a problem for many long established fans who view the sport as a kind of elite, niche, and very liberal pastime.
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@KalchasSmile @favelaoverlord I don’t necessarily agree with it being “violence” but I believe the idea stems from the concept that, at least in theory, a state having the material and social resources to house everyone and choosing not to do so is condemning them to suffering. Reality is ofc more complicated
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@favelaoverlord Trying to figure out what she means by "homelessness is violence." This is obviously part of their liturgical language, but I cannot figure out what this means at all.
Does she mean if a homeless tries to break into your house you use violence to stop them?
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> claims repetitively to have no morals or moral instinct
> switch flips and immediately begins whining about the immorality of colonialism
couldn’t even hold it together for 40 seconds
Cultured Chud@cultured_chud
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@underIineoasl Idk this is not a great Saudi squad and Cape Verde has a ton of discipline in the back and showed against Uruguay that they are more than capable of sustained attacking possession
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@GoodVibePolitik From a purely footballing perspective this Bosnia team would struggle quite a bit against the U.S. (their Italy win was somewhat down to the Italians’ slow and disconnected recently style) however this would be kinda funny can’t lie
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Good thing it’s gonna be Bosnia vs. Iran
Matthew Petti 👨🎓@matthew_petti
If we get a USA-IRN match I would not put it past the Trump administration to do some really weasly bad sportsmanship.
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@longjohnshirley @soberapprentice This is mostly just ppl taking the piss at the expense of kpop lmfao
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@soberapprentice wtf is up with socialists trying to ascribe some kind of backwards morality to this. Being free to perform or enjoy pop music is an obvious social good. Talking about art like it can be “degenerate” is literally Nazi shit. Unless you are being sarcastic here. I can’t tell.
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The proletarian stare breaks through the degenerate bourgeois illusions.
Interesting things@awkwardgoogle
North Koreans reacting to watching a K-pop girl group for the first time (2018).
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@ClwnPrncCharlie Cool. Computa, now instruct the subject to order a pizza herself on the phone
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@NotPotBol Becoming head of the regional planning commission so I can create a commune bloc that begins exactly where that Paris suburb Mbappe grew up in and includes the entire Iberian peninsula and Morocco and also also apparently Cape Verde
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Under communism we will make arbitrary borders for the purpose of World Cup teams. Local administrative commune 24 is going to kick all your asses.
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And also you have to hope some big sports event isn’t distracting young people from voting lol.
Eric@Ericrse37986
If young people fail to turnout in Zohran’s NYC of all places, then it should be a warning for Abdul El-Sayed and other future progressive candidates that they can’t rely on young people turning out to win. Need to actually persuade older, higher propensity voters to win.
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@Staroxvia also like I can sorta get Platner anxieties but wtf did Talarico do? he's like famously, to the point where it is arguably an electoral liability, tolerant and outspokenly socially progressive
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khive: you better allow us to not do everything in our power to make sure ken paxton loses
🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾@sephius1999
Leftists: You better allow us to be racist and sexist or Susan Collins and Ken Paxton are gonna win.
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@InlandCaGuy we need to stop acting like its ideological when its a personality problem
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I continue to find it hilarious how online leftists are (rightly) shit talking Crockett for this but also keep calling her a centrist while all the online centrists also hate her and were super pro Talarico. They don't realize they are a horseshoe of hating normie Dem candidates
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) tells The Dallas Morning News she doesn't know whether she would support Talarico's campaign for US Senate in Texas Crockett: “I have no idea. I am more focused on down-ballot races in general.”
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@JohnPapola Have you lived in Copenhagen or spent time there? It’s fantastic and I felt every bit as materially wealthy and prosperous as I did here. High taxes and high prices corresponded to good service, quality, and well run public goods. Safer and cleaner than any U.S. city
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The American left is in love with a Europe that is simply, substantially poorer in real median terms than we are. They have no pride in the US, but dream of imaginary Copenhagen, intentionally ignorant (but mostly just lying) about how poor they are compared to us. This euro obsession goes back to Woodrow Wilson, their beloved, disgraced racist eugenicist forebear.
Working class Americans live very well by European standards. We can do even better, by being even less like Europe, with even freer markets and cheaper energy.
Our poorest states like Mississippi have median incomes that rival the large euro economies. The gap grows when looking at disposable income.
The Economist@TheEconomist
European football fans visiting America are discovering the mass affluence of the country’s suburbs. The wealth enticing holidaymakers troubles European elites. America, once a peer, seems to be racing ahead econ.st/4uKt4ga Illustration: Álvaro Bernis
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@Halalcoholism Cool can you tell your moron center backs to stop scoring own goals?
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This is not even true, we just find you guys annoying. Not much more to it than that.
🅱️askerville@WB_Baskerville
One of the funniest things about the World Cup/Olympics/whatever is how Australia truly believes they have like a massive bitter sports rivalry with the United States and Americans have zero awareness of this
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@sovietwithsazon Tbf the attack is a bit grim outside of Plata
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There is no excuse whatsoever for the second ranked team in the continent, behind only to the previous world cup champions, with two UCL stars to be tied 0-0 at half time with a country whose at the world cup for their very first time im fighting everybody
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