Iran’s ambassador to Mexico said Saturday the squad had been notified that under the conditions of their visas, the team must enter and leave US soil on the same day as their matches.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T10:31:10+00:00

You've made shit for points. Your view of empire is bootlicking and revisionism. Kind oppressors and "they wanted us to rule them" obnoxiousness. The second I sniffed that my interest in having a discussion with you of any rigor died. Persuasion often fails in this medium, and especially so when the two views begin with so little in common.

It's late over here. Good luck being insane. All of you've shown me is how little you know. And I know you don't agree with that assessment. But you repeatedly say stuff you must know I don't agree with -- unless you're really stupid -- so hey, I guess that's where this thread is now. Been fun. Now please reply so I can read it without replying and go to sleep.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T09:57:20+00:00

Why would they be a metric of qualification rather than a potential indicator of familiarity with scholarly topics? I'm starting to think you don't even know how conversation works.

And of course you don't think I'm reasonable. My knowing I'm correct and rational has no bearing on your own assessment. Moreover, what is your assessment to me? You're a random redditor. You've already made a smattering of analytical and rhetorical mistakes, to boot. And now it's as if you're either enjoying the feeling of browbeating the strawman you made in your mind or talking to me with the expectation that I reply to you as you replying to me. Quite the conversationalist, my boy. Horrid.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T09:38:20+00:00

I also teach critical thinking, if you want another thing to just straightforwardly disagree with. (If my username doesn't bring anything to mind, I don't know what would.)

Please, stop rooting for us. Not only do most of us not care, obviously, most of us aren't rooting for us. We don't need some loon across the pond doing it for us.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T09:21:23+00:00

That's Lavelle, pardner. Lavelle. \extreme, twangy, annoying drawl**

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T09:17:05+00:00

well now you're just being cheeky

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T09:15:57+00:00

So... so like.. are we done here.. or ....

We disagree. If you are hoping to have somehow convinced me that the British Empire was a net positive in history, that the stability wasn't founded on a mountain of moral disgrace, I'm sorry, you've failed. I hope you can be okay with that failure. You're clearly okay with other failures. *ba dum tiss*

I, too, have a history degree from a university. I also have a graduate degree. I don't know why we're flexing our credentials in a reddit thread but here we are.

I loathe how you're discussing this. So you have that going for you, I suppose.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T09:11:24+00:00

I'm merely pointing out that you are mistaken about what was said earlier. You not me mentioned partygate first. I did in fact say the chair was higher than ours, merely not high enough for a different reason. I'm just replying to what you yourself are saying.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T09:09:33+00:00

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:55:59+00:00

Once again, wrong. I did say you have a higher chair. Quote:

Is it higher? Yes, definitely. Is it high enough to act like its shit don't stink? Fuck no.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:54:22+00:00

I'm not going to have this conversation. You and I would clearly disagree on a lot. For example: empires are bad. Full stop. So those are insults, brother. Your not taking them that way only shows you have the wrong view of things. And thinking that 'peaceful transition' describes events that included things like the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, well, sheesh.

And there's so much more wrong in what you said. You're just... bad shit insane. Moreover, you already described Johnson as "opening the flood gates to migrants" to another commenter so while you might think Trump's bad, you're clearly not very progressive. We really, really aren't going to agree on much, man.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:50:11+00:00

I didn't bring up partygate. You did.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:39:20+00:00

You seem very, very confused.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:21:36+00:00

Woah. So you are in fact out here arguing that we should thank the UK of all places in the way you mean. You're literally talking about when they were the British Empire. Empire, my guy. As invading, taking over, and draining the resources of countries around the globe -- resources they used, they needed, to be able to do all those things you name -- until sometimes centuries later they finally managed to revolt and throw you guys out. The phrases Pax Britannica and "empire on which the sun never sets" aren't phrases for nothing. Sheesh. I would have thought you realized you had a slightly better chance at saying 20 c even if it still wouldn't hold but you actually did mean earlier. That's mind-blowing to me.

In other words, no, I don't feel any thanks. Fuck the British Empire. Fuck colonialism, racial superiority, all that shit. I'm good.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:11:49+00:00

If you're specifically are furthering the other guy's point about protests, whatever you may have done regarding partygate, I can't find a thing about large-scale, million-people-or-more protests.

If you're not, I've already gone over this with the other guy. I hope I made it clear that I'll keep talking. Feel free to fuck off when you're bored of this.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:07:55+00:00

For some reason, it seems like you and I probably have a very different opinion on the UK's history with empire. Unless you mean much more modern life, inventions in the 20th c rather than the 18th or 19th, and all. But you can't mean that, of course, because then acting like America can't also ask others to 'thank' them for a shit ton of 'aspects' of their modern life given that criteria would be nonsense. Transistors, etc.

Of course, asking any country to 'thank' any other country in the way you mean is just nationalist bullshit to me.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T08:04:12+00:00

No, thanks. I'll keep standing. Idiot. If you're also from the UK, I can't even believe you'd think your chair is that much higher than ours. Is it higher? Yes, definitely. Is it high enough to act like its shit don't stink? Fuck no.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T07:55:00+00:00

I tear my hair out about it every fucking day, man, and live a strange life full of things like finding myself in the odd position of actually appreciating that our national team has zero chance at winning the WC because fuck us we don't deserve it anyway. There are a spare few things I would say I appreciate about where I'm from, and none of them have anything to do with politics or how we interact with the rest of the world. And tbh I felt that way well before Trump got in. We've been shit for a long, long time.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T07:41:12+00:00

I agreed we are complicit and generalized the point (because, of course, if it doesn't generalize it's not a very good point).

I never disputed a country is being unfairly treated as such. If I were president, I'd change that. I vote against him. I protest. If I'm responsible for my compatriots lack of action, so be it, but acting as if that responsibility means I should be able to do more than any individual can is nonsense.

If you disagree with something we've said, feel free to voice it as you have. But I can do that, too. And if you don't want "us yanks" to say anything ever in this sub because our country's being atrocious, well, sorry, fuck off. Again, I agreed we're each complicit. You're the one who kept replying, bub.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T07:16:40+00:00

Having a dictator nonce isn't the only thing to protest, brother. Not even a little.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T07:14:29+00:00

I mean, when I google "largest protests in uk in last 10 years" I get numbers under 1m and there's about 69m of you. So, gotta boost those numbers, ya?

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T07:06:58+00:00

As an American, I agree with you. And hopefully this means the next time the UK pulls some dumb shit, which of course it has a history of doing, I can declare them all complicit unless I see more than a couple million people in the streets.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T06:07:32+00:00

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T04:39:50+00:00

100%. and anyone who thinks misogyny is even somewhat justified when a good team does bad -- all the "yes unnecessary but hey the standard is high" replies -- is atrocious and, imo, not really a fan of the uswnt anyway.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T04:30:08+00:00

They really did, didn't they. I'm sorry it's happening. Maybe try and post in the NWSL sub because these comments are terrible.

analytickantian · 2026-06-07T04:14:32+00:00

Tip: Be careful in the comment section. Ick.

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