r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen • 1d ago
Sports This is giving me LIFE !!!!
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u/Dyuujen 1d ago
They gonna be losing a lot more now that their hero retired
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u/modsactfunny 1d ago
For the second time
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u/Choice-Strike1 1d ago
They were so trash the first time he retired in protest and got so much worse he had to come back. They're cooked for the next generation, hopefully
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u/modsactfunny 1d ago
But had one of the best front lines in national team history: di Maria, Messi Kun and Higuain...the rest of the tram was stacked too
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u/Choice-Strike1 1d ago
Those guys would do amazing for their clubs and then come together to stink it up. I remember one season when Higuain scored like 50 goals all season for his club then missed like double digit chances in one game for Argentina to lose
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u/Odd-Time-2026 18h ago
The 2010 Argentina squad was stacked but they made the mistake of hiring Maradona to manage. His idea of coaching was to put his best players in one starting XI and tell them to go enjoy themselves. That mostly worked until they met Germany who thrashed them 4-0.
He also made controversial decisions like leaving Javier Zanetti out of the squad who while 37 was still good enough to win a treble with Inter Milan in the same year while playing most of their games. That guy could have at least fixed the right side of their defence.
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u/MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda 1d ago
Didn't care who they lost to as long as they lost. I watched with many other people in London. First time I've watched football in a large group. A few white people were hanging but mainly black. We had as much celebration for the Red Card /sending off we did for the final whistle.
It was glorious.
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u/TheCommonKoala 21h ago
Some of these ignorant Argentina fans just refuse to understand this simple fact. The way they swarm any thread speaking on the racism of Argentina's team/fanbase at this world cup just reinforces why people don't support them
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u/JJIce7 22h ago
Spain also has an ugly history with racism and soccer
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u/TheCommonKoala 22h ago
Okay? Argentina was the one with several anti-black racist incidents throughout this year's tournament and the team was caught singing that racist bus song. Choosing to root against Argentina was a very easy decision plus Spain has two prominent black stars.
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u/Formal-Finance83 21h ago
It’s not about celebrating Spain’s win, it’s about celebrating Argentina‘s loss.
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u/MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda 22h ago
Yes I know-I understand that but what about your statement changes any of the facts? Argentinian players continued to be racist, carrying on their time honoured tradition of open racism. Filming themselves a few years ago singing Racist songs. Also, I could travel to Spain but Argentina is off limits to me. They have not evolved to even be able to hide their racism-they are knuckle dragging racists of the worst kind.
Argentina is one of the most racist countries on the planet and I applaud their Loss.
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u/OrganismFlesh 20h ago
That's like asking why we would celebrate Republicans losing the midterms even though both parties have a history of shafting their Black constituents.
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u/polikuji09 6h ago
I mean as much as I want to have rose tinted glasses Spain just 2 weeks ago had a politician reinforcing the racist France argument.
This year had Spanish fans telling Lamine to go back to Morocco. Also a higher percent of Argentinians are more comfortable living before a neighbor of another race then most European countries (I believe similar to France).
But a lot of the Argentinian players are scumbag racists though.
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u/SoFla_King 17h ago
It’s more current. Spain has recent history of throwing bananas at black players. Also too many instances of calling black players monkeys and other derogatory things.
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u/AprilVampire277 22h ago
Have you seen the shit the Spain crowd was screaming at Yamal? 💀 Screaming racism at open air
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u/Outrageous_Front_636 1d ago
"You know they both racist right?" NO. FUCKING. DUH.
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u/masalamedicine 17h ago
For real. Is there a European country without a history of racism?
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u/Im_Verdugo 1d ago
Colonizer vs. Colonizer
https://giphy.com/gifs/sVcw8ugzGCTgKCAgUY
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u/Realistic-Art5227 1d ago
Did you see who was left in the semis it was all colonizers pick the one u hate the least
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u/VisualStructure5 1d ago
facts I was rooting for France because at least they had more than one brotha on the field.
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u/Realistic-Art5227 1d ago
Same and once they failed I moved to Spain just bc I wanted Argentina to lose and they at least had one black player 😭😭
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u/iluvchromosomes 1d ago
Wait until everyone finds out how much colonizing Spain, a majority white country, did. lmao
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u/Realistic-Art5227 1d ago
Lmfao they know… no one is shocked to find out Spain did colonization… the options were France England Spain or Argentina it was slim pickings.
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u/Mar-helko 17h ago
I’m Brazilian, and there are so many cases of Argentinians going to Brazil and doing what they did with Speed that I already hated them before this World Cup happened.
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u/Ok_Shoulder_9492 1d ago edited 1d ago
This too funny. Black folk for the most part don’t watch soccer but we all came out to stomp on Argentinas grave
Edit: my bad folk, y’all got it. Yeah, I’m speaking in the lense as an American.
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u/peanutbutter_invader 1d ago
Black americans**
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u/pennypoobear 1d ago
Woman in vid is jamaican
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u/freetrambopaline 1d ago
They love football/soccer in Jamaica. Go there and mention Arsenal, you'll make a few friends quick
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u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen 1d ago
Facts. Most of us black Americans DON'T care too much about Futbol.
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u/CheeseDonutCat 21h ago
Most Americans of any colour don't care too much about Futbol if you want to go down that route. There's a reason it's one of the lower down sports in the US after NFL, NBA, MLB. Even probably College Football and NASCAR is watched more than MLS in the US. Obviously there was a big spike in Soccer watching during the World Cup.
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u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen 21h ago
Facts.
Honestly I only started watching because of what I heard that Senator Celeste say. And then when that iShowSpeed stuff started happening.
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u/CheeseDonutCat 21h ago
Similar violence happened just a day before the World Cup final in a Rugby match between Argentina versus England (in Argentina).
Rugby competition called Nations Championship for anyone who wants to look it up, but another sport not really watched in the US. This one way less than Soccer/Futbol I would imagine.
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u/iPufftrees 18h ago
Throughout the South and Midwest, I’d wager even High School football is probably more popular than Futbol.
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u/FarContribution9896 1d ago
"black folk fotbthr most part don't watch soccer" is a truly outrageously wrong statement. You've never left the US have you?
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u/TexasLife34 1d ago
The worst part is Spain is no more innocent in the shit they pulled. Honestly imo its be worse because they did it of their own accord.
Argentina was forced into it for the most part through corruption and promises of financial and medical advancements.
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u/Due_Description_7298 20h ago
Sure the 1.2billion black folks in Africa plus the significant number of black and mixed race people in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean don't watch football 🤡
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u/No-Leopard639 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not remotely into soccer, but I do know most of their fans are racist AF. I mean, its europe. My college professor did her doctorate thesis on racism in FIFA. She was so awesome.
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u/freetrambopaline 1d ago
Your not wrong I'm European black. Europe is racist, however in Europe our governments actively discourage racism.
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u/TheOriginalKrampus 23h ago
Depends on the country. Also depends on the racism. When it comes to cheap labor from the global south, "preserving their culture", and anything immigration related, European Nations cat get pretty racist.
I was all over Western Europe the summer of the 2008 Euro Cup and I saw some shit. Especially in the Netherlands. When we boarded a train from Amsterdam to Belgium, immigration cops singled out my PR friend for a "random" drugs search. Then about half an hour into our train ride, more immigration/customs cops went through our train car and searhed every single black passenger. None of the white ones. Even though the white kids all had drugs. The moment the cops left, two white girls in our group pulled out a big bag of weed and started rolling joints.
Edit: Spain won that tourney too. And the streets of Paris erupted in Spain fans from across Latin America and Europe dancing and singing. Was a good day.
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u/freetrambopaline 23h ago
Weed is legal in the Netherlands. It doesn't excuse how they treated you. That sucks to hear.
I hate to say and please tell me if I'm wrong. I've been to the Netherlands and didn't have a problem. If your American it might of been because of that
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u/TheOriginalKrampus 23h ago
This was the train from Netherlands to Belgium. Weed was legal in Netherlands, but not Belgium, so they had customs agents searching people traveling out of Netherlands to make sure they're not bringing drugs to places where it's illegal.
They treated me fine. I yelled at the cops who took my friend aside, felt bad for him. But he was clean, shrugged it off, and got to enjoy the rest of our trip. He's doing fine. Last I hear he is a successful immigration attorney.
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u/freetrambopaline 23h ago
That sucks but it's nice to hear that you shook it off. Europe with all our problems no question about that. Is still one of the most beautiful places in the world rich in history and culture. I hope you enjoyed what you could.
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u/TheOriginalKrampus 22h ago
Of course. Europe is beautiful. So much history and culture. I always love going.
I don't mean to suggest that Europe is alone in racism. I mean, I don't need to tell you, but racism is everywhere.
I'm American. It's real bad at home. Always has been. Just a little different than in Europe. I got a friend from Singapore. Also really racist there too. I live in Eastern Europe right now. Racism pretty bad, but especially by border agents.
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u/WearyCopy5686 23h ago
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u/freetrambopaline 23h ago
I never said they're doing a great job, but they're trying.
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u/WearyCopy5686 23h ago
They can do much better than that especially when Europe created race etc.
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u/freetrambopaline 23h ago
We are doing much better than America. In America your president posted pictures of the Obama's as gorillas!?! In Europe that is the end of your political career.
Europe may of invented the race thing but my god Americans ran with it, and when the world started to move on you brought it right back. There's more flagrant Nazis in America then in Germany.
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u/WearyCopy5686 23h ago
Do you want me to go there about Europe’s current ties to literal genocide as we speak or how racism in sports is so bad in Europe that players retire due to the abuse?
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u/freetrambopaline 23h ago
Europe is by no means a saint. France fucked Africa along with the UK and Belgium a history that we get taught in all it's atrocities we don't sugar coat it. But in the states, your racism feels like a yearning for the old days. a sheer disstain for progression.
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u/WearyCopy5686 23h ago
Your racism is a yearning for the old days when Ruopean governments have no divested from the spoils of colonialism and buddy up with countries like Israel. How can these countries be far less racist but include Israel in Eurovision and Brexit happened recently?
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u/freetrambopaline 23h ago
Colonialism through our Europe is now looked as a negative. It's now just evolved in corporate colonialism Apple needs to get that cobalt from somewhere...
Israel are committing atrocities no doubt about that. but Eurovision is not that deep, its signing contest. And Brexit really only hurt Britain... I know I'm British. Brexit was a referendum that shouldn't of even been allowed and played of the fact that the poor people are getting robbed by big bad EU. Funny because The UK had the biggest sway in any vote, the right to veto any action and also EU funded alot of our stuff.
The Brexit vote most likely came from the living crisis post 2008 global financial crisis.
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u/Spainiswhite 1d ago
I'm glad Spain won, but I was hoping for Norway or Switzerland
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u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen 1d ago
Lol I didn't care for Spain to win neither. But I definitely didn't want Argentina to win
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u/MiyamotoKnows 23h ago
OK Argentina you lost so you know the rules. Loser has to take all the nazis in the world and… why are you grinning?
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u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen 23h ago
Yes folks. I think that we all know that Spain ain't no better. We got it. But Argentina is the one that has been in camera view lately being racist. And that burger shop that they have. Oh hell nah. Lol that doesn't sit right with me😮🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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u/MosessaurusRex 18h ago
Theres also another burger place in argentina that has a racially insensitive name, you can get a holocaust burger!
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u/NinjaBRUSH 1d ago edited 22h ago
I don’t even watch soccer but was happy that racist ass country lost
Edit: Obviously there’s racism in both countries. Racism is everywhere, racist people are everywhere.
What matters are written protections plus enforcement. Spain comes out ahead of Argentina. Spain has stronger legal and institutional protections to Black people than Argentina.
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u/LITMAC97 1d ago
> I don’t even watch soccer
Yeah, it’s very apparent. Spain is racist as hell. They have chants against their own black players.
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u/PhoenixRedditor7 1d ago
I mean yeah it’s great, but Spain isn’t that much better either.
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u/Background_Hat964 23h ago
Dude they’re not better at all, they’re actually way worse. Spain has a notoriously bad racism problem among their fanbase. UEFA had to start an anti-hate campaign specifically because of how bad it got. The black players in La Liga have been subjected to racist chants, bananas thrown at them, burned effigies, etc. the collective brain rot on here I swear.
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u/TheCommonKoala 21h ago
As a football fan, I'm going to say between Argentina and Spain, Argentina's team and fanbase have been far more racist throughout this tournament. There were SEVERAL anti-black racist incidents at Argentina matches that FIFA had to investigate and the team/ fanbase said nothing about it. No one is saying Spain isn't racist but it's painfully easy to understand why black people were rooting against Argentina.
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u/Ok_Confection622 22h ago
These temporary fans don’t know how bad they treat Vinicius. Spain is worse, for a fact.
Good thing that this team won because if it went to penalties and Nico Williams or Lamine Yamal missed, well. Just ask Saka and England.
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u/dexter_sinister 21h ago
At the same time, many Spain fans are overjoyed and proudly willing to accept a multicultural team as the pride and future of the nation.
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u/looking_4_freedom 19h ago
Im glad solely bc of the whole Mbappe thing! Like, that kind of hate doesn't deserve to be rewarded!
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u/Sufficient_Two7499 16h ago
How racist is Argentina that people are excited racist Spain beat them…?
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u/New-Frosting-7177 7h ago
Every country in the World Cup is just as racist if not worse than Argentina. Look how long it took you all to find out Argentina was racist lol
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u/ApprehensiveAd4027 1d ago
They know racism is also prevalent in Spain right..?
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u/working-dad-reviews 1d ago
Of course, but Spain at least lets black people in their country and on their sports teams.
Argentina literally used their black population as cannon fodder in wartime.
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u/slowburnangry 1d ago
And the Moors (Black Africans) saved Spain during the European dark ages.
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u/yourlocaltouya 1d ago
That sounds fascinating, what event are you referring to?
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u/LITMAC97 1d ago
I’m mestizo and I’ve never had or even experienced violent racism in Argentina in the same way I’ve experienced it in Europe. This whole “Argentina doesn’t let black people in their country” is a lie.
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u/PangolinJust8693 23h ago
Humm i am black and I have had whitepeople tell me of the horrible things they saw in Argentina.
Also you can see online to lot of black people in the US being called the n word by Argentinian supporters. They even caused some mess in Atlanta. They are the only supporters who had such consistent bad press. And that’s for a reason
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u/numbmillenial 1d ago
I didn't hear anything about Spanish fans telling Black Americans to go back to our country while they were in fact, visiting our country.
We know Spain is racist, but there's levels.
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u/packeddit 1d ago
Lesssr of 2 evils in terms of having to pick one…that’s what this was all about.
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u/IronClaw84 1d ago
Yeah, this is a bit odd. I mean, not as bad as Argentina. But still. Spain has major issues with racism too.
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u/MagmaSeraph 1d ago
Its funny that half of my Jamaican cousins were rooting for Argentina while the other half were rooting for Spain.
Its a good thing they are on different parts of the planet now cuz it would have gotten UGLY.
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u/Electronic-Return914 22h ago
It’s kind of funny to me that Black ppl celebrate Argentina losing (and rightly so) as if Spain is any better.
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u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen 21h ago
WE NEVER SAID THAT SPAIN WAS BETTER!!!!!! OMG
Are any of y'all not understanding this. We know already. Right now, we just want Argentina to NOT win the futbol game. Lol damn
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u/Morrihitman 1d ago
Just want to remind everyone, if you think Spain is not racist check out how Vini Jr gets treated in every away game he plays
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u/Hi_iAMchrisHansen 1d ago
But we know this already. We just ddnt want Argentina to win the world cup. We already about Spain and all of Europe. We got it
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u/Practical_Apricot690 1d ago
I get the whole argentina bad thing but this is just ridiculous lol like as a former spanish colony who do yall think they learned the whole racism thing from???
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u/slowburnangry 1d ago
We all understand that, but it's not really relevant to this particular matter.
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u/GhostEBlueBoi 22h ago
Ngl it feels uncomfortable as a Latino seeing non Latinos jump Argentina and their fans. That’s our job.
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u/Cranberry1265 20h ago
Not one time Spain Won!! just happy that Argentina lost, pathetic. Celebrate your Spain victory..
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u/kinglittlenc 7h ago
I dont know where we got this narrative that Argentina somehow more racist than European nations that colonized the world.
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u/quemecontursi 3h ago
When the world powers—slavocrats and authors of apartheid until not long ago—return everything they stole from South America, Africa, and Asia, only then we can start talking. Also, how many countrys has education and healthcare free for foreigners like Argentina?
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u/Honest-Spring-5963 58m ago
Yeah boy I remember Duolingo trying to give me the Argentina outfit. Miss me with that. I know where most fled to after losing WWII is this the same country with that burger or is that another country. Either way seems like things got Messi during that final round.
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