On July 15, 2026, Argentina’s national team beat England 2-1 in the World Cup semifinal match in Atlanta, Georgia, advancing to the final against Spain. It was a stunning victory since Argentina trailed England 1-0 for most of the game but scored two goals within seven minutes at the very end of the match. A moment minutes after the end of the match stood out as the most worth highlighting and is the reason for this post. The Argentine players, facing thousands of jubilant fans in the Atlanta stadium, unfurled a banner that read in Spanish: “LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS” (The Malvinas Belong to Argentina), drawing louder cheers from the stands. This article provides historical background to this conflict.

July 19, 2026

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Giving Thatcher a thumbs up because Argentinians are assholes too. What’s a little US ally presence in South America gonna do

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          that’s the thing, this sort of racism exists everywhere in latin america and to varying degrees, so i’m struggling to figure out why argentina is getting hit by it when other examples aren’t.

          • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            All I can offer is that I haven’t yet been called a monkey by someone who lives elsewhere.

            • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              12 hours ago

              Their behavior reminded me of Mexicans from DF who regard the rest of the country as a bunch of nacos.

      • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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        8 days ago

        because they’re chauvinist pieces of shit, who think because currently argentina is going through the 2001 crisis again it means some fuck up shit that’s actually true about their countries, because it’s always projection. in all of latam every few years we have a change in politics and there’s a right wing government. hell, paraguay has had a right wing government (el partido colorado) for decades but I guess since they don’t know shit about paraguay they dont have anything to say. they don’t know anything about fujimori’s crime so it’s only argentinians right? who’s bolsonaro?

        its a very different thing when a right wing government arises in latam than when it does it the west, and they lack the mental capacity to aknowledge this distinction. specially in argentina, we had a dictatorship and after that multiple slave debts to keep argentina in check, they murdered the communists, forced mass migration, ruined a lot of lives and potential political organization. THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE, FROM THESE VERY SAME COUNTRIES DID THAT. and now come here telling shit about argentina this argentina that. and after all of this shit, we still have free education, free healthcare, and we have a lot more soul and life than them. that’s milei’s plan, the us cant stand that a baknrupt country has better social welfare than their shitass country so they came here to destroy that and leave us in complete ruin. after that we’ll stop being right wing and we will become the country they feel sorry for.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          … after all of this shit, we still have free education, free healthcare, and we have a lot more soul and life than them. that’s milei’s plan, the us cant stand that a baknrupt country has better social welfare than their shitass country so they came here to destroy that and leave us in complete ruin. after that we’ll stop being right wing and we will become the country they feel sorry for.

          only if it gets noticed, of which our media will deftly hide these facts.