Mark
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@ASvanevik You guys are so in need of a hero, it’s pathetic.
Now every americans is a fan of Haaland. Their new Sydney Sweeney.
You don’t see any Canadians or Aussies cheering for Haaland cause he’s White..
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Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.
Why?
1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.
3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.
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@SteveLovesAmmo Israel, Japan is a great friend but not as strong militarily
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@BillMelugin_ It’s almost like they’re trying to lose this game…🎰
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DEVELOPING: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is being met with overwhelmingly positive reviews. Early critic responses have noted that Matt Damon & Robert Pattinson are excellent and Nolan’s use of IMAX cameras comes through in a resounding way. I’m seeing the film next Thursday & I truly can’t wait. I hope these early reviews are accurate.
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@MarkKillough4 @TrooperBenKs That looks good! I can see most the ingredients, what’s the sauce recipe?
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@savemejebus234 @TickledOrange @NancyH_60 No, just you fn Canucks, Aussie’s, Islamo-Iranian’s, ChiComm’s and woke a$$ liberal English people, other than that we’re beloved the world over.
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@TickledOrange @NancyH_60 Belgium players should sit down at the opening kick . Fn no wonder the world hates the USA .
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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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