r/SipsTea • u/yorocky89A • Jul 07 '26

Feels good man Well done, Belgium! 🇧🇪

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u/SignoreBanana Jul 07 '26

Yep. They made our US team look like amateurs and embarrassed them on the public stage. Theres no other way to dice that tomato.

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u/rintzscar Jul 07 '26

Here's the actual problem. The US team did quite well during the tournament as a whole. They outperformed what most actual football fans would consider their ceiling. Yet, the media and especially the Americans here on Reddit hyped them up so much that they were bound to not meet expectations. The simple truth is that the US football team is around top 20 in the world and is not even close to the actual good teams. But media hype always kills good performances because they're hidden behind the expectations of insane performances.

The Trump shit show didn't help either.

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u/mmmpeg Jul 07 '26

I laughed at those posts and all the rah, rah, the US will take the Cup. Ah, the folly of youth.

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u/rintzscar Jul 07 '26

It's not the folly of youth. It's the folly of 100 years of propaganda brainwashing a people they're special, the greatest, the best, etc.

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u/mmmpeg Jul 07 '26

True, I wanted to say something different, but since I’m high I couldn’t remember