• Red_October@piefed.world
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    2 hours ago

    I hate that his fucking followers will be more angry about this than the fact that he raped kids on Epstein’s island.

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      Well because he snaps his fingers and says it is a hoax. His followers just blindly trust anything he says.

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    This is one of the rare cases where I don’t disagree with Trump.

    But they could just call it what the rest of the world call their sport. “American Football”.

    It has their favorite word in it. America.

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    This is one of the things people don’t get about trump supporters. Establishment politicians would never suggest such a thing. They stick to the established political crap. The you get a guy like trump who just spouts whatever he hears or thinks. Stuff like how it doesn’t make sense that football is two drastically different sports. That is very appealing to a lot of people. He is saying the quiet parts out loud. He doesn’t actually “do” anything productive about it. But it wins over plenty of voters. Also, he lies so poorly you easily know.

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      They’ve gotten too much shit actually renamed though. Denali, Gulf of Mexico, sort of the Department of Defense, Institute of peace.

      They aren’t gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser. The NFL isn’t gonna do shit he wants. The owners have hated him since the 80s.

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        They aren’t gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser.

        He said, as if it weren’t true…

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    I don’t disagree, it needs a different name, has not much to do with feet, but really? A trophy is enough of a bribe for him to upset his base of NFL fans? Can someone bribe him to get us on Metric system?

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    That’s the unexpected right thing coming from Trump. Seriously, only Americans call a game played with hands “football” and a game played with feet “soccer.” Come on Trump, next fix the measurements so Americans don’t measure in pots and pans (or maybe it was cups and spoons) and thumbs and elbows (or maybe it was inches and feet).

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      The term “soccer” originated in the UK as a shortened slang for “assoc(iation) football”.

      The US didn’t come up with that term, like almost everything else, they stole it from someone. Don’t blame the U.S. for the UKs habit of abbreviating stuff.

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        Quick correction. We didnt steal it, we used it because of the British, then the British decided they didnt like the term anymore and swapped to “football” and Americans just kinda kept using it. Same thing with imperial measurements. They were invented by the British, we used them cause we were a british colony, then Britain changed their mind and Americans stuck with the original.

        Long story short, British invent something and the Americans use it cause former british colony, then the british change their mind and then make fun of the Americans while the pretend they werent the people who invented it in the first place.

        Its some gaslighting bullshit

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      Although the etomology of the word football is inconclusive, the most likely explanation is that it’s a game played on foot, rather than on a horse.

      Also, they’re both called football colloquially because they are both derived from a sport called Football but neither of them are actually “Football.” Association Football (Soccer) and Gridiron/American Football are the correct names. So really, people calling it Soccer are more correct than people who call it Football.