I’m watching the World Cup match-up between Germany and the US.  Very surreal experience … unless the other match-up in the grouping comes out to a blow-out with this game coming out to a blow-out as well, both teams are advancing, so everything’s just anti-climactic as it moves to a 1-0 Germany win.  EVERYONE WINS!  Everyone in the stands over there in Brazil, Germans, Americans … are cheering.

This was a revenge game, of course… Germany still smarting over what the US did to them during World War 2.

And then we get the celebration shots from across the country.  Big flags, Stars and stripes… and…  superhero costumes… Captain America and Wonder Woman… maybe that In These Times article complaining about superhero movies as akin to Ancient Greeks worshiping their gods was right…

And then…

The “Don’t Tread on Me” snake flag…

Wait.  What?  When you dump it into a soccer game… Does that even mean anything anymore?

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