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Climate change scientists are saying the phenomenon of over enthusiastic glee is more of a syndrome brought on by... well, changing climate. The same environmental factors caused the Thai team to weep on that particular day and caused the American girls to breastchest bump and laugh.
Gender experts are saying it goes deeper. That it is caused by the sport itself. A male province since for ever, soccer is irretrievably too masculine and delivers an adrenaline rush and a high when your physical prowess humiliates those trying to outdo you.
"It's to do with this ball. It brings out toxic masculinity in even the opposite sex !"
First, I'd bet a pile of francs that marketing has gone to each and every team encouraging over the top celebrations of every goal.
13-0 is a whomping. Get over yourselves Lebron.
Played against the best team ever to take the field and got wholloped - crying? get over yourselves and be glad you had a chance to take on the best.
And, yes, if the boys had done this they would be scrutinized too. In fact, between that statement and kool-aid hair I just lost all interest and I like high level competition, daughter and I were going to catch the games we could. I'm not on board with this crap.
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Wouldn't have happened if the Thais recruited a few lady boys transgenders on the team. But then all the lesb1ans on the US teams would walk out in a huff.
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I understand the thoughts in #8 but it is anything but classy to be poor winners like this.
Do you also get your jollies by beating up 5 year olds or the special needs team? The whole idea of the world competitions leads to this do we need another Jamaican Bob Sled team?
#11
Call them human shields. Bring in the B52s. Mass murder. Don't worry, it's morally OK as long as you call them human shields first.
Posted by: Herb McCoy ||
06/12/2019 16:22 Comments ||
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Piers can suck it. Americans don't care all that much for Soccer. Maybe we will if the teams keep doing really well. Maybe we will when Football goes away because of micro-concussions. I'm not holding my breath. When we suddenly take an interest salaries will go up (men and women) and the world will look back on the glory days when the US didn't care.
#13
Those women need to learn to be gracious winners.
And I'm going to repeat my call for Herb to get a time-out.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
06/12/2019 18:40 Comments ||
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And when you dilute the quality of the tournament by adding extra (fringe) squads that would not have participated in years past, well, there you have it.
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A few more thoughts - Thailand was badly outclassed in every metric - height, size, speed and skill. My prediction was 7-0 but once the 2nd half began the level of physical conditioning between the two teams became eyepopping as well, so the ass kicking wasn't a surprise at all.
[Jpost] Ankara thinks it can wait out the Trump administration’s threats to unwind the program by 2020
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... is engaged in the one its most high stakes diplomatic standoffs in recent memory as it risks its part in the F-35 program amid an emerging alliance with Russia.
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With 3D printing and 6 axis milling what the hell does the plane need Turkey for?
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#1 With 3D printing and 6 axis milling what the hell does the plane need Turkey for?
Posted by: 3dc 2019-06-12 00:34
...The word 'bribery' comes to mind. Every nation in the F-35 program was given some kind of part to build, the same way the B-1 (and IIRC the -35 as well) has parts being made in every congressional district in the country.
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Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
06/12/2019 4:27 Comments ||
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If they want the S-400 the hell with the bribe angle. Really!
[WashingtonInstitute] Although massive state resources have been mobilized against Imamoglu, the opposition candidate has taken up the mantle of the underdog who could challenge the status quo nationally, just as Erdogan himself did two decades ago.
Paper and arguments at link.
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[Epoch Times] Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed to oppose Soviet "authoritarian communism" and to support "democratic socialism."
Yet, according to Bishop E.W. Jackson, chairman of the new group Stand Against Communism, "Socialism and communism are exactly the same, and we will not allow euphemisms to lull us to sleep."
Who is right?
A set of experts assembled May 20 argued that America needs to beware of both.
They dedicated themselves to pushing back against the increasing prevalence in America of an ideology implicated in the extermination of an estimated 94,351,000 human lives, as of 1999.
The Soviet Union
Likewise, at a CNN town hall in New Hampshire, an attendee told Sanders that her father’s family had escaped the Soviet Union in 1979, "fleeing from some of the very socialist policies that you seem eager to implement in this country."
Sanders, however, attempted to distinguish Moscow’s murderous Marxism from his version of democratic socialism.
He began by arguing: "Is it your assumption that I supported or believe in authoritarian communism that existed in the Soviet Union? I don’t. I never have, and I opposed it. I believe in a vigorous democracy."
That might come as a surprise to those with whom he "honeymooned" in the USSR in 1988, a trip on which he sang "This Land Is Your Land" to his Russian hosts while shirtless after relaxing in a sauna.
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The brand of faux socialist self-aggrandizement and fascism supported by leftists is even worse. It may not aim to, but it won't bat an eyelid before allowing things worse than Stalin or Hitler. But they will do it with verbiage that makes them appear helpless, innocent and well-intentioned. Simply let the lawless and the corrupt take over slowly until everything's fucked. And then resign like May and say "I tried my best. I guess it was just America's time to go... sniff, sniff"
#2
The Communists called their nation the "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."
A Sov'et is a council, which in their case was a pretense at "democracy."
Posted by: Fred ||
06/12/2019 14:18 Comments ||
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Let's pause for a moment and listen to (avowed communist sympathizer) Pete Seeger's Sixteen Tons... The irony, at least to me, is that in a Socialism the whole economy is a "company store" owned and managed by the Government. They decide what is for sale, they decide how much it costs and they decide if a bank will loan you money to buy it -- freedom and democracy in a Democratic Socialism is a mirage...
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One difference is that the DSA types use taxes. They don't dare try to "own" everything, namely, private property & capital, so they use the tax man.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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