r/SipsTea • u/yorocky89A • Jul 07 '26

Feels good man Well done, Belgium! 🇧🇪

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u/isnoe Jul 07 '26

Belgium was the better team from the beginning.

There wasn't a chance US survived them, no matter the roster they pulled out.

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u/Jason_Steakcum Jul 07 '26

Americans: We played Belgium?

Euros: *seething glare*

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u/SoggyBiscuitVet Jul 07 '26

I knew it was them because theyre always the bad guys usually in the Indiana Jones movies. 

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u/sunnysideofthestr Jul 07 '26

Germans … not Belgians . I know it is near but Belgium is too small to provide enough bad guys for Indiana jones

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u/gapedoutpeehole Jul 07 '26

That's why he did a side quest to Indonesia

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u/pahamack Jul 07 '26

they absolutely could.

Raiders was set in 1936. Which means this is during the time Belgium was doing untold atrocities in the Congo. And they kept on fucking with the Congo after independence in 1960.

They absolutely could be Nazi-like bad guys in Indy movies.

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u/Mean_Introduction543 Jul 07 '26

Even funnier is that in pretty sure in the expanded universe (outside of the movies) Indy fought in the Belgian army in WW1

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u/Glass_Fix7426 Jul 07 '26

King Léopold did the atrocities, Belgians cleaned up the mess.

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u/lordph8 Jul 07 '26

You do have to give the Belgians a hand...

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u/Oddant1 Jul 07 '26

I am genuinely sad we didn't get Belgium v DR Congo in this tournament.

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u/ash_tar Jul 07 '26

Belgians and Congolese don't hate each other (which is rather graceful of the Congolese). I was rooting for Congo as well, they did a great tournament.

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u/ash_tar Jul 07 '26

The atrocities of Congo Free state were end of 19th century, until the handover in 1908. First report came out on 1904.

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u/Gerf93 Jul 07 '26

It is kinda funny that the Germans are the bad guys in the Indiana Jones movies, when in reality if there was someone who were going to go grave robbing and artifact pillaging, it would more likely be the British or Americans.

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u/sunnysideofthestr Jul 07 '26

So ignorant. In 1936 the atrocities you are referring to were long finished - it happens in the 19th century.

However in 1936 KKK was still burning black people in America … so you should just shut your mouth and accept that you had your ass kicked today.

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u/ulykke Jul 07 '26

It happened into the 20th century, as the Free State was annexed as a colony in 1908, so only after that the atrocities were stopped.

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u/pahamack Jul 07 '26

oh and magically the Belgians were the good guys after 1908?

Weren't they STILL fucking with the Congo after 1960? Colluding with the Americans and the CIA to assassinate Lumumba?

Oh and I'm not American lol. Fuck all colonizers.

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u/Kaatochacha Jul 07 '26

1) Belgium has a better soccer team. 2) Don't even try to downplay the Belgian Congo horror. How that managed to get relegated to the dustbin of history is appalling to me.

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u/alohadawg Jul 07 '26

Not used to xenophobic nonsense from Europeans. Weird

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u/SingleDebate1043 Jul 07 '26

I see bots pushing this

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u/toj077 Jul 07 '26

In any future Indy movies the US Americans would play the fascist role. But Hollywood will never tell you the real story. And US allergy to humble pie won't either.

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u/toe-schlooper Jul 07 '26

The Belgians are just Dutch & French and the Dutch are basically German, while the French are just Germans who speak a little fancier and are bigger pricks.

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u/YouOk5350 Jul 07 '26

Idk Belgians cleared out a ton of Africa

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u/GenXPowaah Jul 07 '26

The Congelese would disagree with you on that one

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u/slavelabor52 Jul 07 '26

Yea what they did in the Congo actually makes the British seem tame by comparison

Edit: I should say Leopold II not they. Average citizenry rarely have much to do with these things its always the aristocracy

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u/Stock-Luck3390 Jul 07 '26

Idk dude bad enough to get a good protion of a continent to hate you

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u/PhthaloVonLangborste Jul 07 '26

I just learned about the guy who helped bring back beavers to Belgium.

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u/Ok_Common_5631 Jul 07 '26

To be fair, Belgium is responsible for Congo in Africa.

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u/wannacumnbeatmeoff Jul 07 '26

Also Belgians are so grey they make the Germans look like a Pride march.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 07 '26

It's a country of 11.8 million people I think there are enough bad people there to pad out one Indiana Jones flick

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u/l3lasphemy Jul 07 '26

Leopold II did enough for you guys for a while...

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u/Strange_Horse9178 Jul 07 '26

For himself*

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u/l3lasphemy Jul 07 '26

Doesn't really matter who benefited from it. Belgium still provided a monster.

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u/Strange_Horse9178 Jul 07 '26

Give any random country and you'll find a monster. Good thing the US didn't commit atrocities en masse. Phew! 🙄 What an idiot.

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u/SignoreBanana Jul 07 '26

No no you see Belgium is full of French people

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u/plinnskol Jul 07 '26

How dare you belittle Jones like that?! He takes down Nazis. It’s the admirable Mr. Jason_Steakcum that hunts down the Flemish!

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u/alohadawg Jul 07 '26

Weren't the Belgians the ones wearing those red hats actually tryna help (by killing Indy several times, but still) save the world?