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@lewintermusic You’re that fucking guy Brandon! Amazing stuff

Didn’t really wanna post my weight loss journey on twitter cause it’s full of trolls but here’s my progress so far. 6 months apart. Left - January 2026 Right - July 2026

@scottishkits2 Absolutely, should of smacked him harder to be fair. Paredes played rugby the entire tournament. Barco is going to have a miserable time at Chelsea, will be enjoying it from the red side of London

Hey but its ok when jude does it though isnt it?

@CarlosRodr54880 @Fran_Casaretto_ Best tweet yet 😂😭

@Fran_Casaretto_ Si creo q q ese balón entro , se descosió la Red y se volvió a coser por unos seres diminutos q tenemos los españoles para estas cosas, comprados en shein

¿Ustedes ven lo mismo que yo o estoy muy paranoico?

@northumbrian_ @Sriash99 So you generalize Americans and insult me because you misinterpreted my post, then cry wolf. Politely fuck off

@jrleighty @Sriash99 I guess my assumptions about Americans were correct.

I still don't know how he flew like that. Enzo tried to stop, but there was a contact. But I don't know if the contact was big enough for getting flipped in air.

@northumbrian_ @Sriash99 Maybe you have the reading level of a 2nd grader? Idk can’t help you there my friend it was very clear and obvious for most, just not you

@jrleighty @Sriash99 It is very difficult to tell when dealing with an American... my natural assumption is that you have zero understanding of sarcasm, know nothing about football and are as stupid as shit. The last few weeks has demonstrated this to me many thousands of times.

Probably watched the France & Spain highlights and knew they were going to get thumped 😂 hilarious narrative y’all are creating. I’m sure Argentina getting away with endless fouls like this during the match means everything was going against them😭 mind you this wasn’t even a card, nor was it checked. This is a red card and you’re thrown in jail in any other sport. Fuck off

I read this in Instagram 1. Scaloni arrives at the stadium and gets off the team bus in tears. 2. Messi and all the players come out of the locker room with their heads down. 3. During the pre-match team talk, Messi says: “Let’s forget about everything. Let’s just play. Forget about everything.” Enzo Fernández and Lisandro Martínez can clearly be seen crying. Nobody applauds the speech. Everyone looks sad. 4. During the warm-up, Messi keeps deliberately kicking shots wide of the goal. 5. The referee doesn’t show Spain a single yellow card. Oyarzabal hits Messi directly on the knee while the ball is nowhere near them, and Messi just looks at him without saying anything. 6. Cucurella covers his mouth and is not sent off. Enzo Fernández receives a red card, even though the Spanish player does a backflip to simulate the contact. 7. Scaloni uses a completely different tactical approach from all his previous matches: no midfield, leaving Messi and Julián Álvarez isolated up front while Spain dominates the game. Lautaro Martínez, who is usually an important option, never comes on. 8. Cuti Romero and Lisandro Martínez leave the match “injured,” but they don’t appear to be in pain or emotional. They are known as two of the toughest players on the team, and many fans find it unusual. 9. Leandro Paredes’ visible anger. 10. The Argentine players turn their backs on the Spanish players during the trophy ceremony. 11. Cuti Romero and Lisandro Martínez do not shake hands with Trump. 12. Spain barely celebrates.

This is just my opinion, but I have a problem with posts like this calling it a “smear campaign”. It completely buckets everyone who wanted “football to win” as some racist, bigoted, prejudice hater on Argentina. From the first match of the tournament to the very end, we saw one singular team in the tournament play like thugs. The most graceless winners and the most sour losers. This rhetoric against rooting against Argentina wasn’t a snap of the finger, we all got fucking tired of seeing them get away with things no other team in the tournament did, & against very small low ranked countries. They got babied by FIFA, & then football decided to step in and show them a beautiful ass kicking. It’s ignorant to think that people not wanting cheaters to win the biggest sporting event in the world are now some glorified racists. Messi also in the biggest match in the world showed his true colors, cheating to try and get Cucu sent off. Embarrassing state of affairs from the greatest player ever. Any effect on Argentina’s image is due to the image the Argentina team created themselves from day one.

Fantástico texto sobre como as campanhas de ódio, em especial as que vimos na Copa do Mundo, ganham tração facilmente nas redes. O efeito manada não depende de racionalidade nem de fatos concretos - se há uma grande quantidade de pessoas defendendo algo, elas devem ter razão.

@cesifoti Very educational & beautifully articulated César

Argentina’s behavioral crisis in the World Cup final has brought to light traits many of us in Latin America have internalized and that we need to come to terms with. In many countries, emotional self-control and the ability to admit mistakes are seen as virtues. A behavioral problem in parts of Latin America is that there are social circles where the opposite is often celebrated. This is the idea that someone who remains in control of their emotions is a coward or, depending on the situation, a traitor. If someone offends you, your family, your team, the reaction that is celebrated in these circles is not restraint but flipping the table. The more berserk you go, the more you show that you care. That is a harmful value to hold, and also, one that many of us once shared. I certainly had it internalized when I left Chile 20+ years ago. In fact, I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to unlearn what I grew up believing was the socially acceptable behavior. The second trait is an unwillingness to admit mistakes. You can always find an excuse, move the goalposts, or, once again, start a fight instead of publicly accepting that you’ve made a mistake. Admitting fault is a sign of weakness. Defending a losing position is a symbol of courage or, in sports, a test of loyalty. Together, these two traits are behavioral dynamite. People explode because they cannot admit fault, and double down. Instead of learning from their mistakes, they become prisoners of them. I grew up watching football with my father. When I was 10 or so, I was learning what was right and wrong from the way he interpreted the game. This included behavior both on and off the field. Only later in life did I realize that every penalty he called for, or contested, had little to do with the play itself. Whether a call was fair depended entirely on which team benefited. He was happy if his team received a nonexistent penalty or an opposing player got an undeserved red card. These traits are among the things that pushed me away from the continent. They are certainly not exclusive to Latin America or the Southern Cone. I’ve encountered them in people all over the world. In an important sense, these are behaviors that all of us exhibit as children. What strikes me as unusual from the place I am from is having been part of social circles where these behaviors were not seen as flaws of character but as virtues to be admired, celebrated, and enforced. These excessive forms of pride are not conducive to learning. They make it psychologically difficult to update one’s beliefs, accept responsibility, or improve. Although they become particularly visible in sports, they are by no means confined to them. Something I am proud to have learned is to apologize quickly and often. Not because it is too difficult, but because it was like learning a new language at old age. That doesn’t mean becoming a pushover. But I’ve learned that a man who never apologizes cannot be a man of integrity, because we all make mistakes. Argentina’s behavior on and off the field during the World Cup final was, to me, a particularly blatant expression of values that many people continue to defend. In some circles, these attitudes have become intertwined with ideas of national identity and loyalty. Yet they are shackles that ultimately limit our development, not because they make us lose a football match, but because they make it harder for us to learn from our mistakes. The right thing to do now is the least likely: offer an honest apology. If my interpretation is even partially correct, we are more likely to see the opposite. Never back down. Never apologize. Never control your emotions. There is such a thing as having the wrong values. I hope that one day we can do better.

Please please please don’t apologize. The players and their fans chose this path. They have no grace in victory or defeat. Thugs on the pitch with an embarrassment of just about everything going their way. What a beautiful wake up call seeing karma finally come back for them when one referee actually decided to have the balls to not allow them to get away with kick outs, persuading the ref, crowding the ref, disgusting/filthy tackles, cheating, throwing elbows, & trying to get opposition players sent of. An embarrassment on the biggest stage in the world, thats what we’ll remember Argentina for.

@DiegoGomezDeck @Tonga79 Obviamente hablo de los jugadores (que dieron muy mala imagen) y de esos argentinos que no han aceptado la derrota.

Este es, quizás, el vídeo más descarado de la Final de la Copa del Mundo. Todos vimos cómo Enzo Fernández casi mata a Pau Cubarsí, pero si te fijas, más abajo, un jugador de Argentina, Nicolás Tagliafico, ve la tremenda patada de su compañero y, sabiendo que la ha cagado, se le ocurre tirarse al suelo y fingir una lesión. Enzo recibe la tarjeta roja, pero Messi se acerca al árbitro señalando a su compañero argentino caído (a Tagliafico) diciendo que está lesionado. Afortunadamente no coló. Son delincuentes, no jugadores de fútbol.

@UsoVicente @JosRica10517203 @Sriash99 So Issac Newton basically claimed that if you are an Argentinian you can get away with borderline murder in any major tournament and it not be deemed a foul.

@JosRica10517203 @jrleighty @Sriash99 Que és la "física Newton"?

@RikardN @Sriash99 This exactly ^

@jrleighty @Sriash99 Haha! The situation is not that complicated (got the sarcasm) Cubarsi is a football player and focused on getting to the ball to play it. Enzo is a thug focused on getting to Cubarsi. Enzos objective is not to play the ball but to intimidate so that Cubarsi hesitate the next tim

The other team who had even remotely an ounce of controversy surrounding them compared to this Argentina squad was Paraguay and that was for WWE wrestling France in the Round of 16 with elbows, kick outs, punches that the referee chose to keep a blind eye to. You know how much of a cheating and corrupt team filled with thuggery tactics you have to be to out do just that Paraguay performance. Insert Argentina 😭

@TouchlineX Literally facts. EVERY team had wayyy more controversial calls but the spot light is only on Argentina. Why??

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Rodrigo de Paul: "I see how many people were waiting for this fall…" "Spreading baseless conspiracy theories throughout the competition to soothe the pain of not being able to experience what we Argentines were experiencing."

@WFCsupporter @Sriash99 When you fail to take a hint of sarcasm.. you are an idiot

@jrleighty @Sriash99 Your a prime example of an idiot

@northumbrian_ @Sriash99 It’s called sarcasm, because the initial post was that stupid. The last sentence in my response might just apply to you my friend

@jrleighty @Sriash99 You are clinically insane if you genuinely believe that

@Hitee_ Watch the game and see who threw and elbow into him 2 minutes into the game, along with Enzo through an elbow into Elliot Anderson’s back. Fuck these scum players, don’t defend this. We don’t need this level of nonsense in the game

I don’t defend what Paredes did after the game yesterday, it was stupid. What I do question is the selective outrage from those who dismissed Jude Bellingham slapping an Argentine player, yet suddenly find their moral compass over Paredes. Standards should be consistent, not selective.

@Uyscuti016 @UcheKl There’s nothing to promote mate. Anyone with the smallest bit of IQ who watched the tournament that can set player bias & prejudice aside could see there was one team in this tournament who had everything go there way. Cope harder ✌️

@jrleighty @UcheKl i get you’re just trying to bank in some elon funds and promote your hate with the trending agenda on ground,so good luck on that..peace.

If you think the online campaigns against Messi and Argentina did not affect refereeing and FIFA decisions against them, and also ultimately not being awarded the Golden ball award for best player, then you haven’t been paying attention.

@Uyscuti016 @UcheKl awww

@jrleighty @UcheKl * “a population of dumb hate filled persons “,dude said the whole world.😭

@Uyscuti016 @UcheKl Tarnishing what? 😭😂 the whole world saw on the biggest sporting stage ever Argentina are the biggest fucking losers in the history of the sport. The video is just the cherry on top for you

@jrleighty @UcheKl mate,i’m not watching a 40 minutes biased video accumulated for the sole purpose of tarnishing a national teams image.🤷🏾‍♂️👍🏾

@Bonmatimessi Not even a yellow, not even checked. 😂😭 fuck off you prick

The Argentina campaign definitely had an effect on this World Cup. Referees were pressured into being harsher thsn usual on them and Messi lost out on a deserved Golden Ball, likely to spare FIFA any controversy from the casuals (and haters) who bought into the narrative