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Do your worst.
“The weird, generous, loud, excessive, funny, sincere, over-salted, underfunded, chaotic, open-hearted country where a hotel receptionist gives strangers a ride in the rain so they do not have to walk an hour to a stadium.
(2/5)
Established universe with tens of thousands of years of history but we keep getting stories from roughly the same hundred-year stretch.
Lady Libertie wrote an essay that describes how I feel about the World Cup so far. The screenshots are some of the opening text, but this pull quote is the heart of the story and resonated with me.
(4/5)
Make it 100 and we’re getting closer to my goal.
“The country where visiting fans discover ranch dressing, ballparks, gas-station empires, a gallon of milk and the strange civic sacrament of eating food you do not understand in a place you did not plan to love.”
(3/5)
Someone come do this to my back.
“I did not expect how much Americans needed to watch other people enjoy America.
Not the empire. Not the oligarchs. Not the political machine. Not the billionaire rot sitting on top of us like a gilded vulture. I mean America. The actual country.
(1/5)
Watching this unfold is reminding me of who we are at our best and has me hoping to see us get back there again. The link to the article is here:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
(5/5)
