THE LOSS by the United States of America’s women’s soccer team at the FIFA Women’s World Cup was unexpected and disappointing for the players, coaches and supporters, but it wasn’t the end of the world.
As a coach of numerous school sporting teams, including soccer, my main message was, “Do your best, play fair and you can walk off with your head held high.” Winning wasn’t the most important part although it was good.
Ex-US President Donald Trump, however, saw the result as indicating that “The USA is going to Hell!!!” and then included some inappropriate and incorrect comments about President Joe Biden.
There must be better ways of determining a country’s standard, including health access, economics, educational outcomes, crime statistics and even as they do in Bhutan, the citizens’ happiness index.
America should focus on the number of innocent people shot rather than the number of goals shot. Now it’s time to barrack for the Australian women’s soccer team.
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Don’t let the lies lie
A YouTube blog site has made an announcement in regard to false claims about the US 2020 election that “…we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.” An odd statement surely.
This is certainly a negative approach as not calling out false information and conspiracies gives them some credibility when they are “published” on a major media site.
Attaching a big red “liar” logo to false information pages would just make it a farce, so why allow the lies?
Are YouTube viewer numbers declining? I doubt it.
Are they afraid that if Trump returns, they will have to be on his positive side? If so, then politics, media, and the truth will make strange bedfellows.
Fortunately, most newspapers still tell the truth and only the truth so there is hope if more people can be encouraged to pick up a paper rather than looking at a screen of lies. (dennis.fitzgerald.letters@gmail.com)/PN
