All right everybody it is fine if you don’t love this Argentina team as much as previous ones, it is understandable if your heart broke for Egypt and you are still angry at what the referees did to them (I was 1000% Egypt in that game, myself) but we are now getting to levels of midwit anti-Argentina hate that can lead people to create a fictional country in their heads.

I am seeing people from like, England and Germany and the United States try to twist together **anti-imperialist* reasons for opposing the team from South America. Just admit you are English or that you like Spain, it’s OK. Yes, Messi took a photo with Netanyahu (and Evo Morales and Julius Malema) because he is a strange apolitical man who only cares about football and would do whatever his club is doing. Do I wish he was more like Maradona? Obviously, but who else is like Maradona? Argentina has a very robust left-wing working-class football culture. England actually did the genocide in Gaza and sent fans dressed as crusaders.

Yes, around 10,000 Nazis went to South America after World War II. This is a sad reality that the rest of Argentina (and Brazil and Chile) has had to deal with. Around ten million Nazis stayed in Europe, where they invented Nazism.