Posted on 12/20/2022 2:03:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
Argentina’s 2022 World Cup celebration almost took a catastrophic turn when a low-hanging power line nearly knocked Lionel Messi and four of his teammates off a moving open-top bus in Buenos Aires on Tuesday.
In video footage from the team’s World Cup victory parade, Messi, Leandro Paredes, Angel Di Maria, Rodrigo De Paul and Nicolas Otamendi can be seen sitting on the roof of a bus when De Paul noticed the cable and told his teammates to duck. All five players made it under the power line with seconds to spare as the bus carrying the team continued on the parade path.
However, Paredes’ hat was left behind after it was clipped by the power line and knocked off his head. The situation occurred as Argentina traveled through the streets around 2 a.m., while supporters celebrated the team’s triumphant World Cup win over France.
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But they did not roll around, writhing in faux pain, for 20 minutes?
If Messi had been killed then it would have meant one less communist bitch in the world.
Your train-of-thought: Messi - soccer - non-American sport - must be communist. Impressive intellectual power and deduction skills!
Also: in Bahia Blanca a 22-year-old fan was strangled by his flag scarf when it got stuck in the wheel of his motorcycle (like Isadora Duncan).
It’s more the other way around; the soccer players almost took out the power line.
“Your train-of-thought: Messi - soccer - non-American sport - must be communist. Impressive intellectual power and deduction skills!”
No, you would be exactly wrong on ALL of your assumptions.
Messi wears the infamous Che Guevara shirt and has openly professed his love of Che Guevara’s philosophy. Of course, he says these things in Spanish. Yes, I do speak Spanish. My wife left Cuba in 1959 because Che and his henchmen told her mother that they had to leave Cuba or be killed because my wife’s mother had been in the Batista government..
BTW, I do not begrudge the manufacturers of the Che Guevara shirt. They are obviously capitalists. However, I do find fault with those who wear the Che Guevara shirt and profess their love of his philosophy!
Can you now admit that ALL of your assumptions are dead wrong, INCLUDING your attempt at besmirching my motivations and politics? ;-)
Go home little boy, before you make yourself look like the bigger assumptive fool than you have already displayed for all of the world to see!
“Do you know anything about Messi? He’s a good man, and has not been outwardly political.”
Yes, I know about Messi and the things he says in his native language. He wears the infamous Che Guevara shirt AND professes his love of Che’s philosophy. On the world stage he keeps his mouth shut about politics so that his ‘fans’ do not desert him. He is communist through-and-through, period. With ‘good men’ like him in the world then was are in a world of trouble.
My wife left Cuba in 1959 because Che and his henchmen were turning on the heat because my wife’s mother had been in the Batista government.
Power Line
He was almost taken out by a blog?
That said, Messi is one of the ultimate symbols of capitalism in the market place, even if he wears a Che shirt (which I've never seen him in, but I'll take your word for it). I admire his talent, and that he seems to be a very good dad. If he believes in Marxism I will be disappointed, but I will still be able to enjoy his talent (though it is late in his career) and separate that from his beliefs.
I am sorry for what your wife and her family went through.
Yes unfortunately, socialism and communism have been pretty popular in Argentina for quite some time. A couple of my colleagues and I went there a few times in the late 90s and early 00s since the company I worked for was building a large plant in Bahia Blanca.
The Argentines tended to be warm, friendly people, but we learned right away to keep politics off the table. They did seem to admire Clinton, which told us all we needed to know. I even spotted an autographed picture of Bubba at a tango club we were taken to in Buenos Aires.
Great wine and exceptional beef, though.
Argies can’t decide whether they are Fascist, like Peron, or Commie, like Ché.
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