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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I’m guessing some Argentines would be mad at Brazil being declared “Soccer Mexico”

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    All these Mexicos and he gets pissy about no one wanting to call it the "gulf of 'murica" 🙄

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Canada can be hockey Mexico?

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    [–] 92 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    for anyone wondering if this actually happened, it did. (in 2019)

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I was just thinking posters should include the dates for the Trump posts.

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    This is still far too generous - it assumes that they:

    • Know where the Falklands are (and they they are British)
    • Know where Brazil is
    • Know where actual Mexico is
    • Can spell "archipelago"
    • Wouldn't call Chile "helicopter Mexico"
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  • [–] 52 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    “Archipelago” is kind of a big word for their typical viewer, huh?

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The best part of this was how none of the "three Mexican countries" were Mexico.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I laughed when I saw "Soccer Mexico".

    It's called football. Let's do the math.

    Foot + ball = football

    Rugby + kicking = footrugby.

    Don't @ me.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Soccer is a British shortening of 'association football.' Aka association rules football.

    In the 1860-90s, one of several competing games / variants of the same gsme all called football including rugby, then called rugby football (rugby being the name of the town/ school that game was popularized in)

    American and canadian football are variants off of this version of 'rugby football,' Eventually dropping the name rugby (as they no longer had much association to that locale) british rugby, and its other variants, eventually dropped the football from their name.

    Technically though, for the game we generally think of as football, association rules football, (which again, soccer is just a shortening of) is the proper name. For instance, If you look up fifa, their name is Fédération Internationale de Football Association literally the international association football federation.

    And there are still other similar games that use football in the term, including american/ gridiron, Australian rules/ footy, and Gaelic football

    Just calling it football is technically using a term for all of those sports. Association football, or 'soccer' is the actual sport and rules we all mean.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    ...hermano, who listens to the British? FUTOBOOOOOOOOOOL!!! ⚽🥇🎉

    Every 👏 damn 👏 language 👏 in 👏 the 👏 world 👏 calls 👏 it 👏 football 👏

    Get your yankie "call to authority" britishisms tf outta here. We ain't colonies no more. Smh.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Last time I checked Argentina was wold cup champion and Brazil got humiliated by Germany 7:1. So it's Soccer Mexico and Samba Mexico.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    The US education system has been hollowed out for decades now with the single goal of being able to put fascists into power. Only with a dumb population can you pull off such horrendous shit and still get away with a dumb excuse

    The good thing about this is that there is so much incompetence going around that these fuckers will eventually break their new system by themselves.

    To make a trump like expression that is actually true; The US economy is already a bubble the size like nobody has seen before. I for one can't wait for that economy to pop, maybe then Americans can be bothered to do something about trump

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Referring to the Mexican states?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    I LOLed at "Soccer Mexico"

    It's funny how Brazil is just ingrained in my subconsciousness as "The Soccer Country" along with like Spain I think

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    It's hard for racists to differentiate people with brown skin. They just all come from Brownskinistan.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    I’d go with Tex-Mexico myself

    Can anyone pick out what Ecuador is in this map? The compression is keeping me from deciphering it. The rest are pretty funny.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Is that battle plan leaking secretary of WAR Peter Hegsheeth? Hoo rah?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Somewhere in "poor mexico" there is a bit of european rocket mexico 🚀

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    It's like those people who call all sodas "Coke."

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Wait... Are we going back to call it the Gulf of Mexico?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Wait until they hear about the mexistans.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    ..is Uruguay marked "worst Mexico" or "West Mexico"?

    I kinda doubt that EITHER is true, given that it's located to the East of Argentina and probably is MUCH better than those Paraguayan bastards!

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    Goddamnit we're so fucking stupid.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    As a Latin American I find this deeply offensive and would like to clarify to people that when you talk like that... you make a woman go mad... So be wise (Sí!) and keep on (Sí!) Reading the signs of my body.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Whoever made this picture doesn't know about Fishing Mexico, and I'm disappointed by that.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Taco Bell Mexico is the US, me thinks, but otherwise WHAT

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