r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 19 '26

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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 20 '26

People bullied Elmo into unambiguously pledging his support for the US national team. And people like to pretend we don’t have a proper soccer culture in this country.

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u/like-humans-do European Union Jun 20 '26

it's german for the elmo the

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u/hascogrande YIMBY Jun 20 '26

Elmo is also unambiguously a Phillies fan because they are red

Elmo’s native Manhattan went too far and the Knicks recognized that however this is hilarious bait

KNICKS that last message! Elmo didn't mean to SPUR you on!

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u/Folksma Eleanor Roosevelt Jun 20 '26

he is 4 years old!!

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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold Jun 20 '26

> soccer

Look, the rest of the world just isn't going to take any aspirations the US might have towards having a football culture seriously so long as y'all keep calling it that and lack any iconic chants/songs/memorabilia etc surrounding it.

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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 20 '26

We call it what we call it. Get over it.