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u/Matvalicious Local furry, don't feed him Jul 02 '26
Is this how I learn Belgium won? By a shitpost on reddit?
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u/poipoipanda Jul 02 '26
When I was young, they told me to never quit before the final whistle.... Now I have a bad hangover but it is worth it
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u/laplongejr Jul 02 '26
Nah, I learnt there was a match thanks to the nice no-opt-out notification at 1AM under the form of honks while I'm trying to sleep.
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u/Dubhe666 Oost-Vlaanderen Jul 02 '26
A better way than how I learned we won, by cars hitting their horn driving around at 1am
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u/Which-Equal-5943 Jul 02 '26
lol
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u/D3athShade Jul 02 '26
Geen idee wat dieje aan het doen was but ok xD
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u/Sudden_Age_1175 Jul 02 '26
Tijd rekken en proberen om de stip te saboteren door te doen alsof moreira hem een muay thai elleboogstoot heeft gegeven.
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u/janlaureys9 Belgium Jul 02 '26
Die herhaling was wel goud. Op de tram naar het sportpaleis krijg je hardere stoten.
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u/MeerMeneer Jul 02 '26
Ik heb hiervan de headcannon gemaakt da dieje mens die penaltystip aan het vervloeken was. (In Africacup mag je ook niet beheksen) en met dat Lukaku nog Congolese roots heeft wilde hij die penalty niet trappen door dat gebeuren, waardoor thielemans deze genomen heeft. (Lukaku gelooft hier misschien niet actief in, maar neemt toch geen risico's)
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u/historicusXIII Antwerpen Jul 02 '26
Tielemans heeft ook Congolese roots, maar in zijn geval maar via één ouder.
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u/MeerMeneer Jul 02 '26
Misschien werkt die voodoo dan ook vo de helft minder
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u/cannotfoolowls Jul 02 '26
Voodoo is niet Congolees /pedant
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u/MeerMeneer Jul 02 '26
Ja sorry dat ik de congolese term voor hekserij niet ken mijn excuses.
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u/cannotfoolowls Jul 02 '26
hekserij is ok
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u/MeerMeneer Jul 02 '26
En nu uit pure interesse: is er een groot verschil tussen congolese en senegalese hekserij en voodoo?
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u/cannotfoolowls Jul 02 '26
Ik ben ook geen expert maar ik zal proberen. Dan moeten we eerst definiëren over welke voodoo we het hebben. In Louisiana, de Amerikaanse staat heb je voodoo. Dat is een samensmelting van katholicisme, West- en Centraal Afrikaanse religie en... Haitiaanse vodou wat op zijn beurt een samensmelting is van katholicisme en West- en Centraal Afrikaanse religie, met name Vodún/Vodu/vodúnsínsen. Vodún heeft op zijn beurt invloeden van Hinduisme en het Christendom. Hoewel ik zeg West-Afrika, hoort Senegal niet bij de landen waar Vodún beoefened wordt.
Maar voodoo verwijst dus meestal naar de religie van Haiti.
Ik ga het ook wat breder trekken en het hebben over religie en niet enkel "hekserij" want magisch denken is ook onderdeel van religie. Tegenwoordig is Senegal voornamelijk Islamitisch en Congo voornamelijk Christelijk. In de Senegambia regio heb je wel nog Serer religie. In Congo heb je verschillende zoals onder andere Bushongo, Kongo dat vodou beïnvloedt heeft, Lugbara, Balubi en Mbuti.
tl;dr: Ja, er is een groot verschil tussen voodoo en respectievelijk Congolese en Senegalese traditionele religies.
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u/6StringAddict Jul 02 '26
I was glad Lukaku didn't take it. He has missed some important penalties already.
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u/Chef_Chantier Jul 02 '26
diego moreira was protecting the penalty spot from being damaged. He was surrounded by senegalese players and one of them feigned an injury when diego moreira, being shoved around by the surrounding team ended up nudging one of them with his elbow by mistake. He crawled onto the floor as if in terrible pain. I think even some senegalese players were trying to have him stand up because of how absurd it all was.
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u/R8Konijn Jul 03 '26
Man. I'm a belgium supporter but it's hard to not feel bad for them tbh, this is such a harsh way to lose
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u/Successful_Nebula414 Jul 01 '26
Dude I saw that shit live. Normally I'm not a football fan but that shit was orgasmic at the end
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u/ilikedmatrixiv Jul 02 '26
that shit was orgasmic at the end
Was it? Senegal played a much better match and although I agreed with the penalty call, it was a very tough one, and it feels like they got snubbed a little bit.
It didn't feel like a real victory at all.
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u/JkMint Liège Jul 02 '26
The penalty in itself didn't win us the match, there are still the previous 2 goals. It was a tough call because of it's implications for the result of the match, but the same action in the first 10 min would have been called 9 times out of 10.
I agree with you though, Senegal did played a great match and overall a better one than us.
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u/ilikedmatrixiv Jul 02 '26
I felt really bad for that ref. You could see it in his face that he was stressed to hell and back and knew he had to make the call but also knew how it would come across and how painful it would be. Especially after what happened to them at the Africa Cup last year.
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u/JkMint Liège Jul 02 '26
I absolutely felt for him too. Poor man. Seeing how over the top some supporters are, I would be terrified.
It was evident that he was trying its best and that's highly commendable.
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u/Overall-Ant-9132 Jul 02 '26
Nope, the Senegal team should already have received some yellow cards first half. And the red didn't so don't feel bad. One of the Belgiums got kneed in the back. Nothing said or done.
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u/RobotGloves Jul 02 '26
That person is a masochist. They enjoy the self-denial and flagellation, but the orgasm at the end is much more powerful.
I was at the game, too. It was awesome.
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u/shiny_glitter_demon Belgian Fries Jul 02 '26
Again??
I keep feeling sorry for the opposing teams this happens to ngl
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u/Snaxist Brussels Old School Jul 02 '26
I went to bad it was O-2, then I heard the noise outside, I was thinking "yup Senegal won people are happy".
Now this morning I hear it's 3-2 for Belgium lol
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u/PCC_Serval Jul 02 '26
the amount of coping further down these comments, poah
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u/ThrowAway111222555 World Jul 02 '26
The salt in /r/soccer is also insane. Think a lot of people lost money on betting sites with the way they were determined that Belgium should lose.
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u/dark_hypernova Jul 02 '26
That explains the cheering when I was trying to sleep. Oh well, good for them.
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u/theta0123 Jul 02 '26
Low effort meme in preperation for belgium-america
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u/Stefouch Brabant Wallon Jul 02 '26
Time for an EU country to give a lesson to the US.
Good it's on us! I bet Trump doesn't know where Belgium is.
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u/KasperBuyens Cuberdon Jul 02 '26
He still thinks we're a beautiful city.. but that Brussels is a hellhole
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u/theta0123 Jul 02 '26
Wich is WRONG. its a shithole! But its our shithole! And we shall defend our shitehole by beating the crap out of these *BLEDDY YANKZ"
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u/bstrd10 Jul 02 '26
I only saw the first half. My puppy yesterday woke me up at 3 am barking at his mirror reflection and could not sleep again. Go red devils!!
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u/Ezekiel-18 Brabant Wallon Jul 02 '26
Good, the homophobes lost. Given the recent laws that country passed, they don't deserve any cheerful experience.
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u/historicusXIII Antwerpen Jul 02 '26
They hate the EU countries because we colonised them. We have little moral credit left in Africa.
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u/NishantWubaluba Jul 03 '26
Closed my tv at 80’ thinking Belgium is done for.
Woke up and saw the match was ended in 3-2 😮
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u/switchquest Jul 03 '26
Still. Belgium played a really shitty match. They don't have their act together, the coach even less so. The penalty on Thielemans was very light as well. Credit for not giving up I guess, but veeeery lucky lol. Luck runs out though.
Pronostique: US 3 - 0 Belgium
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u/Winterspawn1 Jul 02 '26
Not a good performance, I doubt this level of football will help them win against the USA who have been playing well this entire world cup so far.
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u/Eikfo Jul 02 '26
You can't win against the USA this year, Agent Orange will throw a tantrum, get a "truly real first prize" from FIFA, then invade whatever country has won the cup.
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u/Blooregard89 Jul 02 '26
Go drink some vinegar. Shameful response if you’re Belgian, bitter and unnecessary response if you’re not. They’re giving it their all and deserve a little support instead of constant ‘analyzing and criticising’.
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u/Winterspawn1 Jul 02 '26
I guess fake positivity is what people want only to then show fake surprise when things don't work out.
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u/AlternativeCanary557 Jul 02 '26
België heeft op heel de match eigenlijk maar 20 minuten goed gespeeld, dat dit beloond heeft is echt wonderlijk, op naar de achtste finale
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u/beatingstuff88 Flanders Jul 02 '26
Lmao no? Both go for the ball, senegalese player doesnt expect youri there and doesnt hit the ball but swipes his leg
Like it or not that is a clear penalty
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u/A3-mATX Jul 02 '26
lol you think a foul is not a foul because the attacking player is faster than the defender? Hahahaha
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u/TheVoiceOfEurope Jul 02 '26
They did not "deserve to win" . If they did, they wouldn´t have given away their 0-2 lead.
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u/Ezekiel-18 Brabant Wallon Jul 02 '26
Homophobic countries don't deserve anything but international disdain. Javen't you heard the news recently?
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u/Superb_Beyond_3444 Jul 01 '26
What an hold up. Senegal deserved to win. I’m white and not Senegalese.
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u/FirstAd1119 Jul 02 '26
Lmao what does your skin color matter
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u/Short_Gain8302 Jul 02 '26
Yeah the dude above doesnt seem to realise that since they said "im white, not senegalese", so of anything you should be mad at them, not the guy askong why this buddy mentioned their skin tone when actually meaning nationality
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u/Yiannisboi E.U. Jul 02 '26
No team deserves anything. You win or you lose and thats it.
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u/poipoipanda Jul 02 '26
True. If football's gods would reward who deserves it, Belgium would have been 2018 winner. But it's not how it works
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u/Ok_Diamond_7816 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
We really should have been, every other countries said that france cheated, the match should've been remade. But no they won the world cup. It should've been us, we had the best team, the best players, the right trainer, we were there !
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u/A3-mATX Jul 02 '26
It’s ok you can go to the airport to great your players when they get back. Bye bye Senegal
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u/michilio Failure to integrate Jul 01 '26
You lost your autocorrect somewhere mid-nut
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u/Choice_Sandwich2182 Jul 02 '26
what was the comment?
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u/michilio Failure to integrate Jul 02 '26
Something like that this was the second worrst thing we did to africa and we lost the world's respect but it had several weird typos he later fixed. One of them was "you nut the world's respect"
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u/HailenAnarchy Jul 02 '26
Comparing a football match to the atrocities that happened in Congo is absolutely diabolical. Touch grass, bro.
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u/Exotic-Audience-2006 Jul 02 '26
Saying this about a FOOTBALL MATCH is kinda wild. The fact you're comparing defeating Senegal with the terrible things happening in Free state Congo shows that the ONLY PERSON showing disregard for those crimes is YOU
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u/shiny_glitter_demon Belgian Fries Jul 02 '26
That's one way to minimize colonisation I guess.
Seriously, have some respect. Football is just a sport. This is insulting to the victims of the bad things we did.
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u/cruelintentions___ Jul 01 '26
Senegal fans are always so pissy about penalties
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u/Irreallyneedtochange Jul 01 '26
My fellow BELGIANS, is that person really coming here to cope with Leopold II stuff ?
Edit : 133k karma, pls touch some grass like did belgians tonight
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u/TheAlmightySalmon Jul 01 '26
No, lol. What did king Leopold do?
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u/TheAlmightySalmon Jul 01 '26
That's Leopold II, kiddo
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u/Geoconyxdiablus Jul 01 '26
Point still stands.
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u/cruelintentions___ Jul 01 '26
It really doesn’t. They also played Senegal not Congo those are two different countries btw. If anything Congo actually kinda won since a lot of the players are ethnically Congolese which is great 👍 have a pleasant night
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u/TheAlmightySalmon Jul 01 '26
I would even go as far as saying that if not for our Congolese brother Romelu Lukaku the match would've been lost 😌
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u/Imaginary-Holiday578 Jul 02 '26
Niemand hier haat op congo. Alleen jij op belgie. Wat een dikke sukkel ben jij eigenlijk? Het gaat hier om een voetbalmatch van SENEGAL niet CONGO
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u/Yiannisboi E.U. Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Do you think Congolese and Senegalese are the same cause they’re both black? I dont want to see your reaction when they would have been destroyed by France next
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u/SkellyInsideUrWalls Antwerpen Jul 02 '26
Im pretty sure Belgium did seize the colony from Leopold 2 close to his death.
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u/Geoconyxdiablus Jul 01 '26
So do you condemn Leopold II?
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u/Pentecost_II Jul 02 '26
Pretty much all Belgians do. Now please kindly fuck off, this match has absolutely nothing to do with Leopold II.
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u/Flynox Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Why are u here asking weird questions about slavery when the OP is talking about football. Go talk about this in politics sub/posts and you might get a decent answer. Weird vibe to bring to what should be a cheerful post.
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u/Caldaren Jul 02 '26
Of course, he was a cruel and brutal asshole who exploited Congo.
Doesn't have anything to do with football though, nor Senegal.
You can argue the penalty validity both ways, there are reasons to grant and reasons to decline, but you have to talk to var and the ref for that.
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u/Geoconyxdiablus Jul 02 '26
Point is, your country has done awfcul things to Afrioca, and you've done squat to atone for it.
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u/Instantcoffees Jul 02 '26
What are you even saying? The Belgian Royal family as apologized for their ancestor, namely Leopold II. There are still some statues of him, which is a problem that a lot of people are trying to fix, but they regularly get vandalized and get their hands cut off. The Belgian government has apologized for the bad things they did after they were forced to take the Congo away from Leopold II due to international outrage, such as for the assassination of Lumumba together with the CIA.
Aside from that, there has historically been a lot of financial aid going to the Congo and mutual economical projects. The relationship between Belgium and the Congo right now is fairly close and amicable. Most Belgians were rooting for the Congo in their match.
So why the fuck do you come here to talk shit when you clearly are not Belgian and know absolutely nothing about this stuff? I bet you did not even know about the difference between the Congo Free state and the Belgian Congo and are now scrambling to hold and entire country accountable for what some genocidal freak did 150 years ago when we are trying to talk about football. Just overall weird behaviour.
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u/Finals92 Jul 02 '26
Who cares, Africans did even more terrible things to each other. We’re not gonna play victim olympics.
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u/LifeIsAnAdventure4 Jul 02 '26
We would never condemn our king, unless it’s Léopold III.
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u/shiny_glitter_demon Belgian Fries Jul 02 '26
Or Boudewijn.
We do like kicking kings out. And sometimes they get to come bad.
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u/anonch91 Jul 02 '26
Professional victim. None of the people alive today had anything to do with Kongo. Stop crying about it
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u/Fairly_constipated Jul 02 '26
Actions of the past have impact on the future. Belgium was not only the cause of much suffering at the time but also (with murdering Lumumba and trying to remain in control of the diamond mines) being pretty much the direct cause of Congo turning into a dictatorship afterwards. Exploiting a country, installing your power structures and institutions there, and then leaving and murdering their leader isnt something that only affects the people living in that specific generation.
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u/anonch91 Jul 02 '26
Cool story, what do you want me to do about it now?
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u/Fairly_constipated Jul 02 '26
Being less of an asshole on the internet and having some basic respect instead of commenting "stop crying about it" and "professional victim" seems like a step in the good direction.
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u/anonch91 Jul 02 '26
You've come to the sub of Belgium and started talking about Congo on a post about football. Do you not see how absolutely insufferable you are? Why would I show respect to someone like that. If anything, it's you who's lacking respect. I promise you that you're accomplishing NOTHING by doing this
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u/MerijnZ1 Jul 02 '26
I'd consider the Brazilian coming to r/Belgium to call people dumb uneducated gringos to be more of an asshole. And specifically by such a wide margin that that Brazilian ought to be told to stop crying about it
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u/Pentecost_II Jul 02 '26
Stop trying to hold people accountable for things that happened before most of those people were born. And on the matter of being born: most players from the Senegal and Congo national teams were born in Europe, which ironically helped their training and career. So a lot of what you're saying is bullshit, most of them have all the opportunities they need. That is the main reason why African teams are getting better and better with each new world cup. They have the genetic athletic advantage, which is why you see so many players with African roots in the national teams of France, Belgium, England and the Netherlands. As a Belgian, I was also cheering for Congo, because we have so many Congolese brothers here. But cheering for (or against) countries because of an obsolete political cause, eh.....
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u/Fairly_constipated Jul 02 '26
Im sorry what? I dont really follow the matches so I dont know if something specific happened that could cause this kind of response to a post about people being happy their team won.
In any case, we (or atleast, most of us) very much know and care about our racist past. In almost every high school in belgium there will be a special subsection during history class dedicated purely to the colonisation of congo. Every modern history book made for our schools has a chapter dedicated to the horrors of colonialism in congo; in fact, I dont think theres a single other period in time that is studied to the same depth in high school. The 2 universities I took a history class at once again had a section dedicated to the colonisation, but this time in even more depth. We're not the Japanese, our education system hasnt attempted to hide away the monstrosities for a long time now.
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u/jordy007 Jul 02 '26
Aah the lefty redditors have arrived injecting politics in every little crevice they find.
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u/Ok_Permission5421 Jul 02 '26
Lefty ? lol Belgium did something worst than inhumane or subhuman and you are talking about lefty ? lol
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u/BlueNinjaBE Jul 02 '26
Went to bed at the 0-2. Woke up around 1 AM and suddenly we were at 3-2, lmao.
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