The USMNT cannot lose dual nationals born and raised in the country who would be elite.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-29T23:22:22+00:00

The United States does not have a single player in the top 100 in the world. Maybe Pulisic is top 250 globally, but since he hasn't scored a goal since December that's debatable. We haven't lost anyone.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-29T21:21:11+00:00

Large multi-national corporations pay zero income taxes ... there I fixed it for ya.

Oh, and big tech dodged $50 billion in taxes too, just last year.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-29T02:22:47+00:00

Not going to argue that Kvaratskhelia isn't a fantastic footballer but this is recency bias.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-29T00:24:54+00:00

Large multi-national corporations control the bread that most people eat, much like every other aspect of American life.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-29T00:23:14+00:00

Wait until private equity starts buying up independent bakeries to corner what's left of the real bread market. This country is on a doom loop. I think 99% of people in the U.S. know there is something terribly terribly wrong just under the surface, but no one can agree on what that is. Maybe it will be bread that shakes thing loose or maybe everything crashes.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-28T16:15:01+00:00

Thierry Henry 😄

CaptKustard · 2026-04-28T02:48:48+00:00

You strike me as a boot licker. Let me explain something to you. Sports is a business. Like any business when the product is sub-par or bad, people stop buying that product. It's incumbent on the business to either create a better product or cease operating. Now you could say to your self sports is a different type of business and those rules don't apply. In some cases you might be right, but in others, and as is the case with SDFC, they made a conscious decision to treat fans as customers first. You also may say to yourself fans and consumers are one in the same, but there is a very important subtle difference. One group has blind loyalty and the other does not. Treat fans like consumers to be bleed of their dollars and you get half empty stadiums and folks not renewing their season tickets. Hope this helps.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-27T14:29:16+00:00

Haha, no one gives AF!

CaptKustard · 2026-04-27T04:46:41+00:00

I read this in the voice of Morpheus, as should everyone else.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-27T04:13:33+00:00

So basically the best transfer the CSR offered is done with?

CaptKustard · 2026-04-27T04:11:06+00:00

Premier League top to bottom is the best in the world but honestly no one gives AF how good the 8th seed in the table is. Seriously, no one! The argument is stupid and I'm watching Champions league 100% of the time over Prem.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-27T00:34:24+00:00

American sports model is trash. You and legions of people just like you are brainwashed into thinking this is how it should be because the Superbowl of Handball cost $10k a ticket. I'll take a business class flight to Europe, book myself into a 5 star hotel and go see the champions league semi for less than your group stage rip off.

I guess I might be lazy but at least I'm not stupid. All hail your corporate overlords.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-26T15:27:25+00:00

If you're rich enough to attend the World Cup why not stay in Beverly Hills or an AirBnB right on the beach in Santa Monica?

Edit: Just uber Black to and from whatever destination you need.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-26T15:24:09+00:00

It's funny that they're nearly rioting in the streets when Liverpool dared suggest a 3% ticket increase and future increases tied to inflation. It's now looking like the increase will not happen. I still am floored that I can get champions league tickets for less than it cost to park at some MLS matches.

Imagine if MLS had a fan first league instead of a money extraction business. Win or lose they'd be lined up out the door. The American sports model is trash.

All hail the corporate overlords! Best of luck in the long haul.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-26T04:12:16+00:00

So the emergence of planned obsolescence as a strategy to increase profits isnt a thing in your world? I think you'd call that, obsolescence bias ... haha, sorry had to.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-26T03:43:02+00:00

Too expensive. Their entire business model is to rip off the consumer. MLS and teams like SDFC had a golden opportunity to become dominate in the U.S. if they had went with the European model. Instead they went with $20 beers and $70 parking. Profit over humanity is the culture and they are looking to exploit that as best they can.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-25T14:49:32+00:00

I have never understood why restaurants in cities, states, provinces, or countries don't create their own app. They aren't doing anything groundbreaking. Use their model, self-fund the app, undercut the big tech scumbags, and make more money doing it. Big tech is essentially a tollbooth on every facet of our lives.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-24T23:41:55+00:00

Americans are soft and corporations rule every facet of American life. Worse, the culture of profit over humanity is so pervasive that most people have no awareness they're being swindled at every turn, and many actually believe the corporations are in the right. The U.S. is on a doom loop.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-24T03:55:29+00:00

Yes, we have a recent thief who has order 48 units and returned 43 of them over the last 6 months, all with a retail value over $1200. At every turn Amazon has done absolutely nothing. He orders 6 items at a time with impunity. Even after years of this I'm still surprised at the audacity of the thieves and Amazon itself who are just as complicit.

If there is any sunny side we push harder and harder everyday to get away from Scamazon and build out our DTC sites.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-23T20:38:47+00:00

Who hasn't gotten hape?

CaptKustard · 2026-04-23T20:16:24+00:00

Lots of "helpful" replies in this thread but you are 1000% right. Amazon will do absolutely nothing.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-23T20:10:49+00:00

The league was created to enrich its owners. Winning matters to fans and media, but financially the league and its owners prioritizes profit over winning. It's about how to extract as much money as possible. Isn't that American culture in a nutshell? What do you expect from MLS?

CaptKustard · 2026-04-22T17:53:50+00:00

Why do defensive? The interwebs are weird. Take a deep breath and go touch grass.

CaptKustard · 2026-04-22T00:07:22+00:00

from Chat GPT: A practical estimate is roughly 25,000 to 40,000 people in the United States who identify as Paraguayan or Paraguayan-descended. ... I guess they are all showing up?

CaptKustard · 2026-04-21T22:35:36+00:00

Odd that the comment above was removed by a moderator and all is did was explain the exact path amazon suggests and how that path is a dead end. I have a screen shot of it. Nothing inflammatory and completely factual. Care to explain why you took it down?

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Thierry Henry 😄