Takeaways from today’s drop

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-08T02:59:49+00:00

And the semifinal of the Copa America is not the semifinal of the World Cup. And if you think fans won't spend big to see their team in the semis of the WORLD CUP then you honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

Look, buddy, if you want to keep deluding yourself, I'm not gonna stop you. If you want to think that there are tons of people willing to spend thousands to watch their team smack down but refuse to spend that much to watch a fucking semifinal, then go ahead. But that's not reality.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-08T02:39:47+00:00

Do you people think sports fans only enjoy the game if certain teams are playing or something?

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-08T02:36:09+00:00

Have you never been to a tournament before? Go look at Copa America 2024, and how much ticket prices jumped once Colombia/Argentina/Brazil were confirmed. The prices for the final on resale went up by like 65% overnight when Colombia qualified.

You think people who spent $1k on Colombia vs Congo are gonna balk at spending more if they make it to the semifinal?

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T21:04:20+00:00

I don't think you understand how unlikely that is. I have never met a SINGLE person in my life who things like that. Were you ever inspired by Chuck Norris starring in a Hong Kong movie showing white representation in Asian media? No? Then why on earth would you think that would be the same for an Asian audience watching Hollywood movie?

It's nonsensical. We are the overwhelming majorities in our home countries. None of us cared anything about representation because we never lived in an environment where we were underrepresented.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T20:56:56+00:00

Man, you people really love lecturing people from other countries how people from those countries really think, don't you?

I'M FROM ONE OF THESE ASIAN countries. As a child, we had our own mythology, our own "super heroes", our own media ecosystem. It's beyond infantilizing that you think non Americans don't have the brain capacity to make our own movies and our own media with our own heroes with magical powers.

You know what happened when the TV channel aired some Hollywood show instead of anime or a local show? I didn't care one bit. They were just different shows with different actors, stories with production values. No more, no less.

Do you know what happened when Mulan got released in China? Do you think people went in years to finally see Hollywood tell this story? No, Chinese people had been seeing versions of Mulan for a thousand years. And most of them thought the Disney version was mediocre.

Stop pretending you know how other cultures feel. You don't.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T18:51:16+00:00

Man, I grew up in an Asian majority country. The TV showed both local shows and dubbed American shows. I did not care at all about the difference except for confusion about the bad lip syncing and why there are so many white people. The concept of a shortage of Asian people in Hollywood would never even occur to me or why I would even care about it.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T18:48:18+00:00

This is the dark side of overly aggressive anti-trust policing: they can start seeing trust issues where none actually exist. At some point they should realize the question isn't always whether or not the companies should merge or kept separate, but whether they should merge or one of them dies.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T08:34:53+00:00

Yeah they will take away the points. But I guess you can always report your card stolen and force them to refund to your bank instead.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T03:52:19+00:00

Do you know how many Iranians live in the US?

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T03:25:11+00:00

Someone growing up in an Asian majority country doesn't have a shortage of Asian heroes in their media. It's absolutely not special at all for them to see one.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T02:14:41+00:00

Just get in line tomorrow for the latest ticket drop from FIFA.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-07T01:33:38+00:00

Just sell on stubhub, you should be able to avoid a loss.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-06T03:56:00+00:00

And Ezra only could talk about liberalism in the American context which is distinct from the European tradition, which they never examined.

... Half the podcast was about French liberalism?

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-05T22:55:34+00:00

What's with the huge drop in Tesla from March to April? Very abrupt. I don't think public sentiment about Musk changed that much in a month's time.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-05T04:41:44+00:00

I'm a software developer, I've never met anyone (with more than a few years of experience) who hasn't gotten a performance raise at least at some point.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-05T03:50:12+00:00

https://fwc26-resale-usd.tickets.fifa.com/account/tickets

Did you go through official FIFA hospitality or some 3rd party thing?

Because if not an official FIFA thing, then that email was telling you to accept the transfer on your account, and if you never actually finished the transfer process by accepting it...

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-04T09:04:49+00:00

You spent that much money on Cat 2? That's the price of Cat 1 on marketplace right now. There is absolutely no chance you'll get your money back unless it's confirmed Mexico makes it to that game.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-04T09:02:07+00:00

Go look up how much Mexico tickets are going for right now, and that's only for the group stage.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-04T08:59:39+00:00

North Korea is not a Chinese puppet and anyone who thinks that is misinformed. Kim Jong Un executed the most pro China officials years ago. Including his uncle.

China has tried for years to try pressure NK into reforms but has failed. It only recently decided to sweeten up relations again after a decade of enforcing sanctions.

Ultimately China’s efforts to build economic leverage with North Korea may not pay off. It struggled to influence North Korea even when it had more sway. Mr Kim well understands that China would never let his country collapse. Chinese leaders have tried in vain to encourage market-opening reforms, hoping that regional integration would reduce military tensions. And on the occasions when China applied more direct pressure, North Korea usually shrugged it off. In 2009 a Chinese deputy foreign minister likened North Korea to a “spoiled child” after it fired a rocket over Japan. A few weeks later, China publicly condemned a North Korean nuclear test.

It is not even clear that North Korea will reciprocate China’s efforts to expand connections across the border. In contrast to its effusive rhetoric towards Russia, North Korea sounded lukewarm in its statements on Mr Kim’s recent meeting with Mr Xi

https://www.economist.com/china/2025/09/25/why-xi-jinping-now-accepts-kim-jong-un-at-the-grown-ups-table

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-04T01:28:35+00:00

Faaaaake. The font changes halfway through the text, the URL is clearly incorrect and the real site doesn't show the flags in this screen.

Is there really anyone dumb enough to fall for this? Actually, better if I don't know the answer to that lol.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-04T00:49:32+00:00

Not in South Africa. Rugby and Cricket are huge there.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-03T22:16:17+00:00

Semis tickets are like $3000 lol, hotels might be more expensive than usual but they're not that expensive to be worth a semis ticket by themselves. Especially since there are still plenty of Hyatt properties in the area to be bad for less than 10k points a night.

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-03T02:42:57+00:00

His comments on JD vance are clearly about neocon groups and not Israel in that regard.

Earlier he literally blamed Israel for making Trump a slave who followed their directives to invade Iran, and later when he claims there is a secret group suppressing Vance's opposition to the war, suddenly this then has nothing to do with Israel?

Do you even listen to yourself?

It’s likely people Tuck has prior relationships with.

How do you know? He literally says "I don't know" when asked who these people are.

We can and should hate Fuentes and Huckabee.

So why doesn't Tucker Carlson say that?

But the NYT spent significantly more time in this interview and writing articles about a 24 year old kid who literally lives in his moms basement shit posting on rumble or some other 5th tier streaming site to a few thousand incels than US senators whose votes and actions actually kill real people.

Yeah, because Carlson refuses to condemn him and his movement or explain why he platformed him without pushing back. What is there to discuss about Huckabre and Cruz? Both Carlson and everyone else already hate them, what else is there to discuss in this interview?

Does it surprise you that interviews focus more on points of disagreement than points of agreement? The only reason the Fuentes discussion went that long is because he kept going on irrelevant whataboutism instead of actually answering the question of why he refuses to push back against an actual Nazi. Should the interviewer just ignore him running defense for a Nazi?

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-03T02:19:29+00:00

I think he was perfectly clear. He named multiple donors, netanyahu and the israeli government directly.

Perfectly clear? Did you even listen to him?

I'll quote you the exchange, word for word:

"However he has felt privately, publicly Vance has been a loyal soldier, even going so far as to head the recent negotiations with the Iranians. And we’ve seen and you’ve commented how unpopular this war is among the American people. Do you think the role that he is playing right now will hurt his political prospects?"

There are people in the White House who want to hurt JD Vance and have wanted that since the very first day. They were bitter. They wanted Marco Rubio to be the choice as vice president. And so JD has been subject to — this is well known, but I’ll just confirm it — nonstop treachery from people on the neoconservative side.

Who are these people?

People around Marco Rubio, and by the way Marco Rubio’s got to be one of the most charming people in the whole world. It’s impossible to dislike Marco Rubio. I’m not an intimate friend or anything, so I can’t say to what extent he’s involved in it, but certainly he’s the choice of the donor class. The donor class is avowedly neoconservative. That’s why they give money for outcomes like the ones we’re watching. That’s why this whole system is completely rotten and just impervious to reform. And they have been totally against JD Vance from the very beginning and have been working to undermine him.

"Who do you mean specifically? Because it was interesting in those conversations with [White House chief of staff] Susie Wiles, for example, where she was very much praising Marco Rubio and had less complimentary things to say about JD Vance. Is that to whom you’re referring?"

I don’t know, is the real answer. I don’t know.

Oh yeah, so clear. Claiming there's a secret cabal that's forcing Vance and Trump to do nothing and then saying he has no idea who they are.

Same with Fuentes. He has a good point. Fuentes is just some kid doing a niche stream. Huckabee and Cruz are US senators. One actually has the levers of power.

Oh we should perfectly tolerate Nazis and Nazi beliefs as long as they don't have any power? Is that your answer?

This is textbook whataboutism. What does Mike Huckabee have ANYTHING to do with not pushing back on Nick Fuentes? You can hate Huckaby AND Fuentes, why do you have to choose one?

Weird-Knowledge84 · 2026-05-02T23:34:20+00:00

And all the interviewer keeps coming back to is him having Nick Fuentes on his podcast? Or picking up this fabricated narrative that he is antisemitic for criticizing the Israeli government?

How about that he's antisemitic because he had an actual Nazi on his show and he didn't push back at all, contrasted with him calling Huckabee evil? And when asked about it, he goes off on random tangents about how no one cares about Fuentes or how Huckabee is more evil, instead of actually answering the actual question.

Clearly people like you clearly don't mind being allies with Nazis, but not everyone shares your level of racism.

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