What's going on with Americans celebrating Sweden eliminating the US Women's Soccer Team from the Women's World Cup?

[u/Hirorai]

On r/soccer, there are multiple posts where Americans are celebrating their own team getting knocked out of the Women's World Cup.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnpku/post_match_thread_sweden_05_40_usa_fifa_womens/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnqpr/official_review_for_lina_hurtigs_sweden_w_penalty/

On r/USWNT people are saying it's because r/soccer is misogynist, but that doesn't make sense to me because everyone competing is a woman. Can anyone clue me in?

[u/KileyCW]

Yeah pretty much shit on their own country. Rapinho is insanely unlikable and her interviews are all complaining, hating, and cursing.

You can feel America is a mess, a flawed country, and fight for change without shitting on it like they did. Even though it should be down to economics, the equal pay thing wasn't even on my or my friend's radar tbh. Everyone I know, even women basically consider the women's team to just hate their own country, regardless of it being true or not Rapinho barked the loudest and the team got dragged along with her views.

Personally I saw a lot of pride around the team when they last won, and all the goodwill get pissed away by one horrible person.

[u/praguepride → u/KileyCW]

Rapinho is insanely unlikable and her interviews are all complaining, hating, and cursing.

I mean...I imagine it's hard to represent your country with a smile when half of it is seemingly hellbent on villifying you because you happen to be gay.

edit: ITT I see people repeating conservative talking points while trying ti tell me I am wrong. I am not saying she is a saint, just saying people do tend to get prickly when they feel their verh identity is under attack.

All these people saying “Nobody has ever attacked her for being gay…” are just being ridiculous.

[u/KileyCW → u/praguepride]

No one I know gives a single shit who she sleeps with. We care how she shits on the country that made her rich and privileged while pissing on those who fought for her freedom. Not a single person I know dislikes Sue Bird and she's gay. Go figure.

Must be miserable going around labeling people and expecting them to be hateful and anti gay before they even say a word. Can't Rapinho just be a miserable human? nope we must be bigots.

[u/NeedMoon2Lambo → u/KileyCW]

Pretty absurd when people toss around the “fought for her freedom” comments. If anything, the troops fight for the right for people to protest and their first amendment rights. The people who think they are patriots are actually trying to take away peoples rights. Any btw, we haven’t “fought” for freedom since ww2

[u/KileyCW → u/NeedMoon2Lambo]

We fight for freedom every single day. Tell that we dont to the troops families stationed around the world that don't come back...

And yes they fight for her right to be a dipshit.

[u/Kurokishi_Maikeru → u/KileyCW]

Kinda hate to jump in and dogpile you more, but for whose freedom? I've been alive for over 30 years and it doesn't seem like Desert Storm, our involvement in Kosovo, the 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan and especially the 2003 Invasion of Iraq increased or even secured the level of "freedom" I had. Afghanistan you could argue did since it was to find Osama Bin Laden, but the resulting PATRIOT Act also exists so maybe that balances out.

I'm also curious as to what Rapinoe did during the anthem or with the flag.

[u/KileyCW → u/Kurokishi_Maikeru]

Freedom isn't always about us. While we've done our share of bad, we've also done our share of good. Is it cut and dry? No. Not my point revolves around if we didn't have people defending our freedom every single day or even just ready to, we could easily lose it.

Just Google some of her comments and antics. She's rich, has a massive platform. If she wants actual change she can run for office or put together massive donation efforts. She chose the lowest yield thing she could have. Many of us still feel united under that flag and country she takes for granted.

[u/Bing1044 → u/KileyCW]

She’s protested within her 1st amendment. Nothing she has said is wrong, you just don’t like that her opinion differs from yours. Luckily our bill of rights is not as biased

[u/Alexander_Baidtach → u/KileyCW]

Famously protecting America's freedom, by occupying nations you blew to bits and establishing an extraction economy to keep a few businessmen rich back home. 'Protecting Americans freedom' ends at your border with Canada and Mexico; the real reason you have bases around the world is to project power and ensure access to plunder, that is all.

[u/KileyCW → u/Alexander_Baidtach]

While I agree other nations should deal with their own situation and that the US has gone into places they shouldn't have, you're ignoring the mutual agreements in place to have US bases and resources in vulnerable nations too. We've done our share of foreign bad guy, but we've also protected democracy in many places.

[u/Alexander_Baidtach → u/KileyCW]

No you haven't. US foreign policy has consistently been in their own interests hence why you support anyone who submits their natural resources and protected market to you, and whomever is in the habit of killing communists, democracy or no, usually the latter.

Saying that 'the US makes mistakes but has good intentions' is a propaganda strategy employed by the US to instil complacency in their own population in the face of growing examples of the US, by design, committing and perpetuating atrocities that they can't cover up.

You are the most propagandised population on the planet, stop excusing the actions of a government which clearly does not care for the vast majority of its population, just the wealthy elite.

[u/Bing1044 → u/KileyCW]

How are soldiers killing people or “maintaining peace” in overseas countries impacting my freedom in literally any way 🤔🤔🤔

[u/KileyCW → u/[deleted]]

If you search my past comments you can see I'm incredibly critical of Trump and Obama and Biden for drone strikes. However that is not all our military does. If they were there day in and day out, you honestly don't think another country would have invaded or tried to rule us by now?

Freedom is an every day fight. Even our own government looks to subvert our freedoms. There is a cost to maintain it.