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*Night Falls ~ Evening Star starts playing when I enter the room even though I'm human* Hey guys.

ok no that was mean of me, let me rephrase: if you're going to emit and opinion, in this case about futbol, it would behoove you to understand the game, the legacy of the teams involved within it, the idiosyncrasies of their styles, and so on. otherwise you would end up pulling a "shinzo abe uses anime to drive the natality rate up"

telumendils

elbiotipo

I usually don't want to talk like this since diaspora backgrounds are so complex... but a guy who claims to speak for the Global South and lives in Washington DC... Yeah.

mirthalegrandd

There’s an entire literary genre built around the cosmopolitan who loves the Global South—as long as the Global South loses with elegance and dignity. Ishaan Tharoor has written a masterpiece in that genre.

He makes a list of the World Cup’s "charming countries": the Japanese cleaning the stadium, the kind Koreans, Vozinha, the noble loser. All lovable, endearing, unforgettable. All eliminated.

The truth is that this kind of picturesque admiration comes with conditions. The "other" is worth celebrating only as long as they remain endearing. And more often than not, they’re considered endearing because they lose and pose no threat to power.

Tharoor built his "love" for Argentina around its decline: hyperinflation, chaos, a team supposedly suffering from injustice. That’s an aesthetic relationship with the periphery. The moment the periphery stops being picturesque and starts winning, the toy breaks.

His use of Eduardo Galeano’s quote about Maradona and Napoli makes the point obvious: it celebrates a dark South humiliating the white North that had despised it. Then he uses that same quote to argue that Argentina is now the North. That’s where the unspoken assumption slips in: the South American who "looks" European somehow no longer counts as a victory for the Global South.

Argentina is part of the Global South whether he likes it or not. That isn’t something he gets to decide based on whether he finds the country sympathetic. On top of that, he argues that Argentina has become part of the establishment because Milei was supposedly going to be sitting next to Trump in the stands (which now doesn't even appear to be true). It’s exactly the opposite.

An Argentine invited to a stadium in New Jersey, sitting beside the people who hold power, is about as peripheral a scene as you can imagine.

Mistaking proximity for power is a basic analytical error. We were never less sovereign than when we were at our friendliest with those in power. The embrace is submission without friction—a surrender. The problem isn't that Argentina somehow became "bad." The reality is much simpler: Tharoor liked an Argentina that lost.

That says far more about him than it does about Argentina.

#postee esto mismo el otro día #casi que te hacen estar de acuerdo con esa parte del facundo que sarmiento tira #'¡Ay del pueblo que no tiene fe en sí mismo! ¡Para ése no se han hecho las grandes cosas!'#casi

ok that was all fun but since the final is tomorrow let's all now make a promise to stop talking about fulbo when we don't know ball okay

en criollo: le re hicieron la cama a deschamps

semi-imaginary-place

The most it's so over we're so back it's so over we're so back it's so over game of all time

alinkunchiki

We forgot about Teto

esthermika

drowning in plushie... it is heaven

elbiotipo

teoría conspirativa: Tuchel (el técnico de Inglaterra, es alemán) apoya nuestros reclamos legítimos en el Atlántico Sur y por eso no metió a Saka en la semifinal porque si lo hacía nos goleaba

(mentira, igual seguro jugaban para el orto)

rui-cifer

france has one job in its historical destiny and it's rubbing dirt in anglos' face but ever since they burned their Catholic Bodhisattva Jeanne D'arc, their Catholic god has cursed them to lose to the awful transphobic bog apes forever.

elbiotipo

ksdhljhsldjkhljkshj que fue este partido

elbiotipo

fue como ver la final de Argentina Francia excepto que esta vez los dos fueron Argentina y nada importaba

Muy borgesiano todo

y6dazo

Coffee spelt backwards is eeffoc, and before Manhattan Café has her coffee she doesn’t give eeffoc

rui-cifer

this would not be happening in mélenchon's france.

rui-cifer

had Napoleon Bonaparte, herstory on horseback, emerged victorious as the rightful historical force, the sickeningly monarchist, transphobic, one of the two arch-capitalist failed states of "England" would not be around, either.