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@socialistadri She's our Charlie Kirk, almost as funny seeing her get smoked
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@hasanthehun Maybe Queen Lindsey died from shock at the salacious rumours about yourself and Mitch
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good thing mitch is still alive!
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).
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Israelis being clavicular's target audience is perhaps the least surprising thing ever
clavcel@JamesDragousn
KingClavicular just got absolutely mobbed in Israel and they are now calling him the “Jewish Speed”
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@ClaireyWestside Nailed it. I like when you the lunatics come out like this as it's a great BLAMO exercise - Block and Move on
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@socialistadri @CountBinface I love when the streams crossover to British politics and this is so peak
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@Jake_Kanter Please, I'm begging your Auntie. 4OD or whatever they call it is the worst built streaming software known to man.
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Could The Great British Bake Off once again rise at the BBC? It's possible as the BBC holds talks with Channel 4 about hosting its content on iPlayer. Also: Ouch at Matt Brittin describing C4 as "very subscale." deadline.com/2026/07/bbc-ch…
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@WilderThingy @WordMercenary This. They call themselves World Champions in various sports only they play professionally. American Exceptionalism permeates all aspects of culture
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@WordMercenary I think it might also be because popular American team sports don't tend to play teams from other countries and so they don't have a century of grudges to draw upon.
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@ellencarmichael It's called American Exceptionalism, fuck off
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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.

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