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Derka

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  1. shameful.
  2. also fwiw, i don’t remember the exact context because it was awhile back and it came and went very quickly, but there was a controversy 4-5 years ago when pulisic liked an ig post from some far right wing nut job who was showing off his collection of 200 guns and making veiled threats of violence towards the left or something equally fucking hateful, dangerous, and stupid. someone got a hold of pulisic and he unliked the photo, but the screenshots are still around somewhere. i’ve never rooted for him since then. Clint Dempsey is my GOAT.
  3. pulisic is one of those trumpers who wants to do that embarrassing fucking dance after scoring a goal but then doesn’t like it when he gets asked about it, and tries to downplay is as something that’s just lighthearted and fun to do. 🙄
  4. that actually is a cool story bro, and informative. thanks for sharing.
  5. i’m gonna say something that you aren’t going to hear any other arsenal fans say, but i’m actually a huge fan of florian wirtz and i still expect him to become a key player for liverpool. it’s not unusual for guys to have an adjustment period when changing leagues, teams, play styles, etc. he’s too talented to flop imo.
  6. oh yeah, to add on to this point, i am friends on instagram with a ton of my former students who are now adults, and you can actually see the divide between those kids whose parents worked their asses off and/or got scholarships in order to attend our school, vs those who just come from wealth and would never consider going to a lesser school, despite paying anywhere from $20-$35k per year per student (lots of families with 3-4 kids at the school) over the years. for example, you’ll see kids who graduated and went off to UT, Oregon, or Cal, and they will post about the current events and the political atmosphere, eg supporting trans rights or disavowing donald trump. meanwhile, the super wealthy kids they went to school with for 12 years are posting photos on their yachts in greece, or at the taylor swift concert in london, or on a girl’s trip (so, four 20 year old girls from four different wealthy families) to italy, spain, and portugal. ghey may have gone to school together for 12 years, but they come from and live in different worlds. the truly wealthy folks can be “the best people you know” (seriously, it’s been heartbreaking for my mom and me to have so many close relationships with these types of people from our school), but they will still vote republican every time, and they will always be so disconnected from the world that the rest of us live in that they’ll never come close to being able to empathize or commiserate.
  7. a lot of people here really don’t want to admit this, but the likes of brock cunningham, shay holle, and michael taaffe (westlake athletes) are the exact kind of people we’re talking about here. i obviously don’t know these three personally, im just using them as an example, but this is exactly who we’re talking about. oh yeah, as i’m typing this, im remembering that huston street, one of the nicest guys ive met from UT, is a big time trumper. the bottom line is that people who truly come from privilege are totally clueless as to what it’s like to not be born on 3rd base, just healthy, handsome, educated, and wealthy your entire life. they aren’t the 1%, but they damn sure have no idea what life is like for those on the other side of the tracks. for them it’s just a bunch of negative noise that they can easily choose not to focus on. i mean, do you think the kids from westlake are worried about having food to eat at school as they prepare for cotillion or the debutante ball? nah. that shit is for the poors to worry about. they’re just gonna keep on loving jesus, voting for trump, and enjoying the perks of wealth which separate them from reality.
  8. as funny as this is, it’s still mildly enraging to see english people rationalizing that they lost “1-3”.
  9. josh heupel is one fat, dumb moron.
  10. he missed a big one last week. he has permanent deer-in-the-headlights look.
  11. worst clock management of the season. totally inexplicable. torbush.
  12. what in the HELL is tennessee doing here?!? how do you just stand around and let 20+ seconds go off the clock??
  13. Derka

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    the name “puka nacua” really brings out whatever philly/bawlmer accent this guy’s got going on.
  14. javy is still el mago. just robbed david hamilton of an rbi hit.
  15. the pitt player trying to keep the ball alive and chunking it behind him like it’s a “band is on the field” play is hilarious.
  16. in an era where nobody bats .300 i think this is pretty cool.
  17. sunderland are in third. this is not a drill.
  18. working in the elite parts of west austin for as long as i did i saw a lot of this. the super wealthy republicans stay busy enough in their own world- a world totally separate from the one that you, i, and most of us live in- to ever even realize just how horrible and real all of this is for the rest of us. and people will try to tell them, but they just do what all rich people do, and poo poo it (“oh don’t be so dramatic” or “where are you getting this from?” and the like). any time they’re confronted with what’s really going on they just brush it off and keep it moving. “good vibes man; life is good; why are these people so upset all the time? can’t we all just get along?”. these are the things they sincerely tell themselves for the half second that something in their world confronts them with reality. all of this very real bullshit doesn’t enter their world, which for them means it must not be real, and isn’t something they should waste their time thinking about. again, life is good; why be so upset all of the time?
  19. peanut tillman on leaving the fbi: “at the end of the day i want to be on the right side of history.”
  20. i root against all us national teams/individual athletes who endorse trump. easiest decision of my life. fuck these people.
  21. two outstanding finishes from brentofrd today, up 3-1 on man u with ~1 min left.
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