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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026

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Not sure if anything will come of this trend or it's a nothingburger.

This particular incident? Almost certainly a nothingburger. Nothing happened after Nowak's death beyond some impotent protests; two-tier policing and the Great Replacement continue.

Unlike the Nowak incident, here the young white man didn't die. Plus the young white man committed the sin of Hitting a Girl, which immediately makes him unsympathetic to both a large contingent of progressives and conservatives—even if she had the Power ImbalanceTM advantage of being a policewoman and he was hurt, confused, and disoriented by just having been culturally enriched.

The World Cup is on-going and especially with England still in it, this gives mainstream media more opportunities to bury or distract from the Birmingham story. Or play the reverse uno card with pro-black signal boosting: "See how Ngubu scored a fackin goal for us? Diversity is our strength!"

This particular incident? Almost certainly a nothingburger.

The Telegraph has now carried the story, and West Midlands Police have issued a press release saying they are now investigating who the African men were that carried out the attack (after initally saying that everything was fine on social media).

My prediction is that BBC News will be covering this tomorrow, along with the centrist papers like The Times. The Guardian will (reluctantly) follow the day after.

Depending on your definition of 'nothingburger', I would say the story is gaining traction. The victim will appear in court in a couple of weeks so I expect there'll be further coverage from that, whether he is found innocent or guilty.

So we can add to the meme! Sorry your daughter got raped and your son was subject to attack and then jail as a result of the attack, but that’s the price to win at soccer

It’s not even the meme with some of these football players. The “American” who got red carded Balogon was only born here. And left at 2 months. In no meaningful sense is he American. He’s basically just a mercenary. So even if there wasn’t the issue of raping my sister for a futball player - it’s basically fraud with him playing for America. He must be the second best at his position in England.

This is something that’s annoyed me about international competitions lately (eg Olympics). There is a certain level of mercenary happening all of the time that cheapens the national element.

We have atleast 2 starters who are just cup of coffee Americans. Looks like 2 more who were military base Americans to foreign wives but never really lived in States, which is probably fine but still stretchy.

For the World Cup for a country like the US I would probably kick the cup of coffee Americans off the team (Balogun and Robinson) but keep the Air Force military brats.

The World Baseball Classic I am fine with the extreme stretchiness because it’s only going to be an exhibition since baseball doesn’t lend itself to national competitions (load management on Pitchers) and the limited geography of the game. You would only have 4-5 competitive teams (USA, Dominican, Venezuela, Japan). Throwing together a mostly second tier US team of guys with Italian surnames for Italy expands the tournament.

Overall international play seems to have at a minimum 1 degree of stretchiness too much for me.

Is that less competitive compared to say basketball?

Serbia pushed the US to the brink in Olympic basketball quite recently.

I think a lot more countries could field a team in basketball. The gap in basketball between US and #2 in baseball was huge. The gap between US in baseball to the 2,3,4 teams today are likely smaller.

I’m not sure the U.S. would really be the favorite to win baseball. Both DR and Japan have great programs with a lot of talent.

You also have Venezuela, Korea, and other LATAM teams of varying quality.

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