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mindlight · Wednesday at 10:09 PM

essentialsaltes said:
Sorry, no.

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Muslim countries are quite predictably anti US. Steer the conversation to the Uighurs and watch the polling change.

The largest concern is that the four biggest European countries are now more pro China as is Australia/Canada (Five eyes). The US is on the brink of losing the European alliance that has secured its global dominance. That is a major concern for global stability, international trade and the cause of freedom.

Chesterton · 2026-07-16T07:36:15-0500

mindlight said:
The US is on the brink of losing the European alliance that has secured its global dominance.

Who/what is this European alliance, and how have they secured our global dominance?

Hans Blaster · 2026-07-16T07:40:21-0500

Chesterton said:
Who/what is this European alliance,

FIFA. Haven't you been paying attention?

Chesterton said:
and how have they secured our global dominance?

Clearly not. Though when England loses to France in the 3rd place game that will be funny.

Say it aint so · 2026-07-16T10:20:38-0500

Vambram said:
Junk trash polling supporting the global progressive left socialist communist agenda.

You forgot "pinko" and btw, how is Edith?

mindlight · 2026-07-16T10:41:38-0500

Hans Blaster said:
FIFA. Haven't you been paying attention?

FIFAs bias has not been European this year - maybe you need to pay more attention

Hans Blaster said:
Clearly not. Though when England loses to France in the 3rd place game that will be funny.

To the French maybe- but are you in a high enough league to comment on this? Did you even support your own team in this competition?

Hans Blaster · 2026-07-16T11:05:00-0500

mindlight said:
FIFAs bias has not been European this year - maybe you need to pay more attention

Are you that obtuse? I was making a joke to deflect from the divergence of this thread to international politics. But FIFA sure looks European to me. Most of the games I watched included 1 European team. FIFA stinks of classical European aristocracy and corruption (just like the IOC). It is no wonder Trump (sorry to mention him) feels at home with them.

mindlight said:
To the French maybe-

I don't know why the French would laugh at winning. The rest of us who don't care for for the english, we will enjoy the laugh. I have no reason to like england. My ancestors never went there (and a few were oppressed by the english). I've never even been to *New* England, let alone the old version.

mindlight said:
but are you in a high enough league to comment on this?

I am not in any league. I am a spectator who stopped watching 10 days ago.

mindlight said:
Did you even support your own team in this competition?

Of course I did. That's why I stopped watching 10 days ago -- nothing else to see. (I did accidentally flip over to the last 10-15 minutes of that match where that Norwegian Viking fellow scored two goals at the end. But those were the only minutes of non-US games I watched. So my laughter at the english will wait until I see the score show up on some website like this one. (During the olympics, I watched every US Hockey game in full and almost nothing else. I think I saw a little sliding live.)

Toodles.

mindlight · 2026-07-16T13:23:02-0500

Hans Blaster said:
Are you that obtuse? I was making a joke to deflect from the divergence of this thread to international politics. But FIFA sure looks European to me. Most of the games I watched included 1 European team. FIFA stinks of classical European aristocracy and corruption (just like the IOC). It is no wonder Trump (sorry to mention him) feels at home with them.

I don't know why the French would laugh at winning. The rest of us who don't care for for the english, we will enjoy the laugh. I have no reason to like england. My ancestors never went there (and a few were oppressed by the english). I've never even been to *New* England, let alone the old version.

I am not in any league. I am a spectator who stopped watching 10 days ago.

Of course I did. That's why I stopped watching 10 days ago -- nothing else to see. (I did accidentally flip over to the last 10-15 minutes of that match where that Norwegian Viking fellow scored two goals at the end. But those were the only minutes of non-US games I watched. So my laughter at the english will wait until I see the score show up on some website like this one. (During the olympics, I watched every US Hockey game in full and almost nothing else. I think I saw a little sliding live.)

Toodles.

Wow you make even China attractive. Good job you do not represent the deepest American feelings about God or indeed Europe. But at least you speak intelligible English I suppose.

Of course you are factually incorrect about FIFA. The FIFA council is distributed across six continents so not mainly European. When it comes to corruption perhaps Americans in glass houses should not throw stones and given Trumps recent behavior especially not.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

Oppressed by the English!!! America was English for its first two centuries. Your ignorance of global geopolitics not withstanding you are right this thread was not really about that. I am thankful to the North Americans hosting this years world cup and overall I think it has been a success.
The English still have one more game to go. But I am hoping more for a Waterloo than a Castillon. I guess you are more a Battle of New Orleans kind of guy but America will not be fighting in this last battle will it!

Bye, Felicia

Chesterton · 2026-07-16T14:04:44-0500

mindlight said:
Wow you make even China attractive.

I thought you said China was already more attractive? And I'm still waiting to hear about this European alliance, and how they have secured our global dominance. I remember reading something about a Marshall Plan, and something about the U.K. and Germany consistently not meeting their NATO defense spending targets, and other such things. I'm really curious what alliance we need.

mindlight said:
Bye, Felicia

Felicia?

mindlight · 2026-07-16T16:53:39-0500

Chesterton said:
thought you said China was already more attractive? And I'm still waiting to hear about this European alliance, and how they have secured our global dominance. I remember reading something about a Marshall Plan, and something about the U.K. and Germany consistently not meeting their NATO defense spending targets, and other such things. I'm really curious what alliance we need.

Would the USA exist without Europe?

Historically the answer to this question is of course a no brainer. The USA would not exist at all without Europe in its present successful form. It would probably exist as a collection of smaller less consequential countries. 1)The USA was built-on a European foundation it's constitution is a...

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Chesterton said:
Felicia

1995, Friday, slang

Hans Blaster · 2026-07-16T20:58:22-0500

mindlight said:
Wow you make even China attractive.

I didn't say anything about China.

mindlight said:
Good job you do not represent the deepest American feelings about God or indeed Europe.

Europe? My post wasn't about Europe. It was about soccer, FIFA, and that island off the European coast called Britain. God? I mentioned nothing about any god, European, non-European, or otherwise.

mindlight said:
But at least you speak intelligible English I suppose.

I don't know how you would know that. My post was written not spoken.

mindlight said:
Of course you are factually incorrect about FIFA. The FIFA council is distributed across six continents so not mainly European.

FIFA looks like a Euro dominated from far away where I only hear about it when their big soccer tourney is going on or they are being corrupt. For some odd region, the corrupt FIFA officials seem to be mostly European. (I may be mashing in some corrupt European IOC officials.) The top teams are largely European.

mindlight said:
When it comes to corruption perhaps Americans in glass houses should not throw stones and given Trumps recent behavior especially not.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

What makes you think I find Trump to be anything other than repulsive and un-American?

mindlight said:
Oppressed by the English!!! America was English for its first two centuries.

Is your English reading comprehension not that good? I said *my ancestors*. What about "my ancestors" implies that they lived in colonial America? (Nothing, you can't tell either way.) Speaking about ignorance, have you never heard of the English colonization of Ireland? A few of my ancestors lived under the English boot before they left for the 50-year-old American republic. The rest of them came later from the European continent (including from France).

mindlight said:
Your ignorance of global geopolitics

LOL.

mindlight said:
not withstanding you are right this thread was not really about that.

And you completely missed that my post was a joke. Chesterton got it.

mindlight said:
I am thankful to the North Americans hosting this years world cup and overall I think it has been a success.

It seems so.

mindlight said:
The English still have one more game to go. But I am hoping more for a Waterloo than a Castillon. I guess you are more a Battle of New Orleans kind of guy but America will not be fighting in this last battle will it!

I'm going to go with the Battle/blockade of the Chesapeake.

mindlight said:
Bye, Felicia

Your guess is wrong. Neither "Hans" nor "Felicia" is my name.

Pommer · 2026-07-16T22:30:33-0500

Watching other people targue (a word I’ll gladly coin, tonight, a weak portmanteau of “talk-argue”), is great fun.
I can almost smell the beer and hear the crack of peanut shells.

Thank you, well done all!

GoldenBoy89 · 2026-07-16T23:29:09-0500

mindlight said:
England should have continued the attack. We gave Messi too much space in the last quarter.

He wouldn't be Messi if he made things easy for the other team.

mindlight said:
The Argentines are still sore at losing the Falklands War, but that was not their land to take. We have lost three times since then at high level in the World Cup. The way England will/has described these Argentine defeats is in terms of Maradonas cheating ( hand of God goal), Beckhams Red Card and FIFA corruption and bias to its hosts continent.

The fact that the Argentines also play excellent football should also be acknowledged.

They are still sore and more than that, it's baked into the culture and national mythos of the Argentine people in a way that the islands just are not for the majority of England, I'm assuming. I doubt there are any large murals of the islands anywhere England like you see in Arg. There are no songs that I know of in your football chants that mention that war. In Argentina these islands are a very big deal to them. The younger ones aren't so crazy about the issue anymore but my parent's generation are rabidly anti British. It's a real tragedy what happened with this senseless war and most people understand it was the dictatorship in power at the time that committed them to this conflict, not England but still, the strong nationalist sentiment it inspired in an entire generation has totally shaped modern Argentinian identity and culture and so it only follows this would come through in their football culture. They may have lost that war but they are going to stick it to the English on the pitch any and every chance they get from now until eternity.

Pommer · 2026-07-16T23:42:07-0500

mindlight said:
England should have continued the attack. We gave Messi too much space in the last quarter.

The Argentines are still sore at losing the Falklands War, but that was not their land to take. We have lost three times since then at high level in the World Cup. The way England will/has described these Argentine defeats is in terms of Maradonas cheating ( hand of God goal), Beckhams Red Card and FIFA corruption and bias to its hosts continent.

The fact that the Argentines also play excellent football should also be acknowledged.

Mixing sports with politics (especially international politics) is a time-honored tradition, to be sure, but we needn’t do it every time.

Gene2memE · 2026-07-17T00:39:17-0500

Chesterton said:
Who/what is this European alliance,

Ubisoft

Chesterton said:
and how have they secured our global dominance?

Poorly made open world RPGs.

7thKeeper · 2026-07-17T01:05:59-0500

Gene2memE said:
Ubisoft

Do not mention the devils true name.

Pommer · 2026-07-17T02:19:17-0500

Gene2memE said:
Poorly made open world RPGs.

I betcha it’d be real fun to run a Nation as big and bad as the USA, loads!

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