2026-09-28 00:33 UTC
‘Irish team entered the pitch wearing black armbands in recognition of "all lives lost in the conflict’.”
What do you call 11 Ed Sheerans chasing a ball? The Irish football team.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/0927/1593093-first-half-goals-see-ireland-past-israel-in-debrecen/
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Replies (3)
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 2026-09-28 00:34
Man, good thing this Irish football team wasn’t around during the Holocaust or they’d be wearing black armbands to mourn both the Nazis and their victims.
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@knowprose@mastodon.social 2026-09-28 00:41
@aral@mastodon.ar.al well, there is an implicit judo in it. To acknowledge losses on both sides means each side has to acknowledge the deaths of the other. Extremes only tend to look at one side. Theirs. The middle is what moves and needs to. Of course, the football team could have done nothing. Apathy. Instead they chose to speak for the dead. The dead don't have sides. Just the living do that.
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@lindarosesmit@mastodon.social 2026-09-28 01:58
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Quds network sees this differently