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last day of the world cup finally i can't wait for futbol to leave gringos mouths who never cared for it they were just feeling fomo

everybidenjusthavegoodtime

give a man a guitar and he’ll play for a day, teach a man guitar and today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you

I swear to God I am so tired of this meme. You guys need to leave Wonderwall alone, seriously by now you should’ve somehow realized what you gotta do

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my friend asked if i was gonna stop laughing at wonderwall jokes.

i said maybe

windy-babe

Acabo de ver a un gringo "dominicano y latino" hacer un chiste de que Inglaterra es el único país latino que sigue jugando por las Malvinas, y a una gringa decir "Latinoamerica menos Argentina", no sé cómo expresar el asco que les tengo, claro que lo bloquee pero Dios, ya fuimos, ya fuimos completamente, los gringos ya no ven un límite con decir estas cosas de nosotros, ya no es políticamente incorrecto, ya no tienen miedo, no hay más linea que cruzar.

Ya fuimos.

tetrafelino

world cup final today no compremos bait hermanes

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.

marv-el-spot

FILMS WATCHED IN 2026 SEND HELP (2026) Dir. Sam Raimi

averiel

[girl who loves Evil Dead and Lost] : "sam raimi made this one for me."

talesfromthecrypts

Send Help (2026) dir. Sam Raimi

chappellland

Fuck you, Bradley!

pennywises

I guess as a VP, I would need somebody who is more of a people person. You know, somebody by my side who is well-liked. Who can charm a room. Who can make a deal. Somebody who golfs.

SEND HELP (2026) dir. Sam Raimi