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@himbopresident Buhhh what did those players do besides be born to an American and develop as players in Europe? Wait

The handwringing over whether it's OK to cheer for the US is just a result of the fact that most international sports competition fans in the US skew left-liberal, but it is genuinely funny how nobody has the sense of conflict elsewhere. my woke British friends cheer for England

@USMNTBaldEagle No. He looked a step off last night.

Were we too harsh on Tim Ream? It looked like he had lost a step in MLS, or was he just saving it all for the #USMNT ?

@WB_Baskerville I put it this way: Messi made a billion dollars playing soccer...a billion dollars without the use of his hands. That's impressive.

It’s actually insane that the entire world likes this and we’re the only ones that like football. Imagine not being American.

Fan sneaked tequila into the stadium in a flask disguised as a mobile. Mexicans are light years ahead of us.

Anthony Bourdain: “…the world is, in fact, filled with mostly good and decent people who are simply doing the best they can. Everybody, it turns out, is proud of their food (when they have it). They enjoy sharing it with others (if they can). They love their children...”

@CryptoNomad15 @LFCAmericanReds sure. Like cycling. He practices solo at home when he doesn't have training. The point was athletes in this country drift away quite easily because it's not a sport that holds a big cultural spot in this country.

@fidgspinz @LFCAmericanReds No it’s just not a priority for “him” or “you.” To lazy to get to work and train solo which builds professional players. You guys need to follow what’s trendy or popular. Real athletes played soccer daily and made it. Many kids are doing it today.

The whole “if the USA’s best athletes played soccer, we’d be the best in the world” take is perhaps the biggest example of missing the point I’ve ever seen in the sports world.

@Joeinblack I see...only more problems.

So the $7 trillion of our money that that the government took and spent last year solved every problem seven times over? I think that would’ve made the news.

I was at Casey's when I saw a meth head jump across the store and try to start a fight with a man waiting in line by bucking up, contorting his face, and jerking his fists forward. And the man, wearing a Love's uniform like he'd just gotten off his shirt, an Orange Fanta tucked underneath his arm, just kept chewing on his gum, no change in his expression, while looking at this guy's contorted face. He just goes, "Be careful or your face will get stuck will that." And I keep thinking about this man and how so many people posit themselves as gurus, enlightened beings, masculine agents, masters of autonomy, accumulating clout and money by pretending to know how to move through this world, but almost none of them would have reacted with the same poise as this Love's manager with a handlebar mustache waiting in line to buy snacks. They don't know how to keep themselves from flinching when a punch comes.

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

Algerians doing jigs in Kansas... Brits eating barbecue in Texas... Koreans doing full on kegstands in Mexico... just goes to show that the entire world can be united by the simple concept of getting really drunk and watching a sporting event

Seven hours. All children.

@EricRSammons No street culture so it won't really take off

My whole life I’ve been told that soccer is about to become huge in America. Still waiting.

8yr old niece just said there’s a country in the world cup called “doctor congo”

AI safety people say policy will only move after a "warning shot," some visible disaster that finally wakes the public up. cars have killed 40,000 americans a year for sixty years and the response was wider roads. i have bad news about warning shots

Kebab guy actually does care about me. One time my gf got a kebab with her coworker and bossman informed me of the incident

Actually >3 Millennia, way pre-Herodotus who mentioned it in the 5th C BC.

a bus every 6-7 minutes is the entire secret of good transit. no schedule, no app, you just show up. the kids have been screaming the answer at us for over a year. six seveeen. headways. they're talking about headways

If anyone says that the man who has fallen after baptism cannot rise again through God’s grace, let him be anathema —The Council of Trent

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