Aaron

@Selene_Mariposa Pitiful AI post

FIFA is floating a 64-team World Cup, and the whole football world is groaning. I am not. I just think they will do it badly, because they always do it badly. So here is the version that works. Sixteen groups of four. Two advance. That gives you a clean 32-team knockout bracket and kills the ugliest thing about the current format, those eight best third-place finishers they invented because 48 does not divide cleanly into anything. It was a fudge and everyone knew it. Sixty-four fixes it by accident. 127 matches. 64 nations. And the champion still plays only eight games. You doubled the field and did not add a step to the winner's road. Now the part that changes everything. One group, one city. Sixteen groups. Sixteen host cities. Your group plays every match in the same place. Fans book one hotel, one flight, one week off work, and settle in. Right now a supporter chases their team across a continent, three cities, three flights, three hotels, and half of them just give up and watch from home. Under this, a city does not host a match. A city adopts four countries for two weeks. And oh, the cities are going to have opinions. Whoever draws Japan should just relax. Those fans will stay after every match and clean the stadium, and if they get bored they may simply tidy up the whole city while they are at it. You will get your town back better than you left it. Whoever draws Scotland needs to order the booze in advance. All of it. Call your distributor now. The Tartan Army will be the best-behaved, most joyful, most catastrophically thirsty guests you have ever hosted, and they will make lifelong friends of everyone they meet, right up until the beer runs out and there is a diplomatic incident. Whoever draws the Netherlands needs to source orange buses. And orange everything. Those people will turn your downtown into a citrus flood, they will bring a marching band nobody asked for, and honestly it will be the best two weeks your city has ever had. Whoever draws Argentina, may God be with you. Whoever draws Norway, get the salmon in. Whoever draws Mexico, congratulations, your city just became a party and you were not consulted. That is a World Cup. Not a logistics exercise. A town square with the whole world in it. And here is the money. The moment the seeding is announced, the entire bracket exists. Every path, every matchup, every city, on one sheet of paper, months out. Bracket mania. Global bracket mania. Americans fill out 60 to 70 million brackets every March for a college basketball tournament. Office pools. Group chats. Grandmothers picking by mascot. It is the most engaging fortnight on our calendar and it exists entirely because you can see the whole map at once. Now do that with the entire planet. Which means killing the draw. Let us be honest about what that ceremony is. A man in a suit pulling balls from a bowl while the world pretends the biggest decision of the tournament was left to chance. It is a plot device, and it always bends the same direction. Toward the money, toward the hosts, toward the broadcast windows. The draw is not a ritual. It is a lever. So do it the American way. A committee seeds all 64, publishes the criteria, announces the bracket live, then defends it in public while the whole planet screams at the television. Transparency does not kill the drama. It creates it. And oh yeah. Kill the third place game. Nobody cares that you are the second best loser. Two heartbroken teams playing an exhibition in front of people who came for something else. No child has ever dreamed of lifting that trophy. Cut it. More nations. Cleaner bracket. One city per group. A bracket you can hold in your hand. Show me the committee. Show me the criteria. Then hand me a pen. I have picks to make. 🦋

@bankertobuilder Beautiful work

Bought this old house from some guy named Frank Removed the water feature (maintenance nightmare), cleaned up the overgrown shrubs, and rezoned it to commercial Now it’s actually a useful structure Not sure what this guy was doing

@Jeff_TheFcknMan @USMNTWorldCup26 @RobUsry The fuck it is

@USMNTWorldCup26 @RobUsry Promotion/relegation is Unamerican

Free marketing idea for MLS: More good soccer players allowed on rosters that aren't Inter Miami

@Polymarket “I just like helping pussies feel better and recover faster”

JUST IN: Senegal’s team doctor at the 2026 World Cup revealed to be a gynecologist, without the appropriate sports-medicine credentials.

@BunkerPm @JamesBaker865 @ElAvatarTang @SCFCJosh96 This is such a ridiculous opinion. Under this worldview, the Holocaust was not illegal

@JamesBaker865 @Aaron16ozs @ElAvatarTang @KevDrinksCorona @SCFCJosh96 I view the world from the perspective of nations which signed convention establishing what is the rule of the international law. They signed, not HR nannies.

"The big country should have a right to the smaller landmass nearby" interesting

@AndrewLipo @PaulSpacey 4’7” my guy

@Aaron16ozs @PaulSpacey Yes

Messi has shorter limbs and would have ended up around 4’7” in height if he didn’t get injections at Barca as a kid. And people keep talking about “we just need our best athletes to choose soccer over NFL.”

@OvieO Looks like Argentina has to deal with the best actors

This is what so many of us have been saying. Yes, VAR controversies happen, but you usually win some and lose some. Maybe 50/50. Maybe 70/30. With Argentina, every single VAR intervention - or lack of it - goes their way. 100/0.

@BunkerPm @ElAvatarTang @JamesBaker865 @KevDrinksCorona @SCFCJosh96 Yes thanks more evidence for me

@Aaron16ozs @ElAvatarTang @JamesBaker865 @KevDrinksCorona @SCFCJosh96

@BunkerPm @ElAvatarTang @JamesBaker865 @KevDrinksCorona @SCFCJosh96 First clear your grok bullshit before you link some braindead reply. And point 1 agrees with me, even with the ridiculous wiki citation rofl

@Aaron16ozs @ElAvatarTang @JamesBaker865 @KevDrinksCorona @SCFCJosh96 voted what? x.com/i/grok/share/1…

@HaruhiCrowley @Steve_Sailer @NobletStrength I think it’s pretty clear. He has a very weird body shape. Most people playing soccer don’t have his weird proportions so you have no way to practice against him.

@Steve_Sailer @NobletStrength Why do people call Messi 'magic'? Obviously he has a great set of traits as a foundation, both physical and mental, but watching him play it isn't entirely clear why he is beating defenders when there are others players who are just as quick and capable

I think a lot of the soccer community vastly underestimates how much genetics play in whether someone has the potential to become a good soccer player and it's exactly because soccer players tend to not be so incredibly huge like NFL or NBA players. They're just as much outliers.

@AndrewLipo @PaulSpacey lol are you fr

@PaulSpacey So how tall would he have been if he didn’t recieve the injections ?

@jmw232323 @TuscanyBayBooks @swearimnotpaul I know. Can’t believe those fucking terrorists took out our tallest stadium

@TuscanyBayBooks @swearimnotpaul in the US, they just fly airplanes into buildings

England is arguably the best-suited country to host the men's World Cup, and they haven't held it since 1966.

@asdfg56665781 @ElAvatarTang @Cosmicelectron @Bingoidshongoli @SCFCJosh96 Damn you were cooking until you brought up the Indians

@ElAvatarTang @Cosmicelectron @Bingoidshongoli @SCFCJosh96 Right, just like the Native Americans in the US!

@ElAvatarTang @Cosmicelectron @Bingoidshongoli @SCFCJosh96 Europeans living in South America but it's not settler colonialism 🙄

@ElAvatarTang @JamesBaker865 @KevDrinksCorona @SCFCJosh96 That’s not what Crimea voted for

@JamesBaker865 @KevDrinksCorona @SCFCJosh96 Yes, it was all part of the Russian empire, and any Russian claim to them was extinguished when Ukraine, that included Crimea, voted for its independence, which was allowed by Soviet law.

@ElAvatarTang @Volingert @TheNativist_ @SCFCJosh96 Just because Spain leaves for a bit doesn’t mean you can just take their shit

@Volingert @TheNativist_ @SCFCJosh96 You're mixing Puerto Soledad, the Spanish settlement evacuated to Montevideo during the independence wars, with the very same town, resettled in 1826 by Argentina, that got invaded by the UK in 1833.

@realpedroleo @DnlYn2892212345 @ofreacharound @WhoreRammer40K While i agree, this happens in most sports where there is a single ref. IMO the only thing that makes it unique in soccer is that set pieces have a far higher rate of scoring (where games are relatively lower scoring), so the impact can be far greater

@DnlYn2892212345 @ofreacharound @WhoreRammer40K They choose when to apply the rules. They do not apply the rules consistently, nor does fifa do a good job applying its own rules.

Soccer is the most European of sports because while the athletes are real and there is actual activity, the final outcomes are determined by procedural manipulation of random bureaucrats

@Steve_Sailer This statement only holds true for the attacking positions

The better you are at soccer, the less you run. Messi is the smartest, so he mostly strolls and stands. I don't recall that being true of comparable North American sports like ice hockey and basketball. Were Gretzky and Jordan famous for moving as little as possible?

@terfdoz @Terminus1488 @ChampionsOTIce @chudluva @stonetoss Colored girls like whites, even the ones that are called racist

@Terminus1488 @ChampionsOTIce @chudluva @stonetoss I don't get this joke

When an edgelord says "I hate niggers," what he means is that he's still going to help the little old black lady in a wheelchair get her groceries from a high shelf without her needing to ask first. When a Leftist says "We just want free healthcare," what they mean is that they'll publicly cheer if you get murdered in front of your children for mildly disagreeing with Leftism on Facebook.

@Foldedspace @wolfsxblood24 Sour ass sandwiches no thanks

@wolfsxblood24 Schlotzsky's is the best anyway.

How the fuck did Quiznos collapse and Subway thrived?

@Nico222North @inextension @wolfsxblood24 Be fr

@inextension @wolfsxblood24 Nothing makes you wanna eat food more than associating it with rodents lol.