Giulio Mattioli 16, July #TrendHysterie Giulio Mattioli: Fascinating how Italy... Fascinating how Italy is becoming the paragon of bad football: "You're even worse than Italy!" is the utmost offense these days 😂😱😂😂 https://x.com/giulio_mattioli/status/2077827635665584302
Giulio Mattioli 14, July #TrendHysterie Giulio Mattioli: This is the best & worst thing... This is the best & worst thing about football: for so many key decisions it's damned if you do damned if you don't. This maximizes the possibility for recrimination. Ultimately, *that's what the fans want* (they'll find it boring otherwise) but they don't often admit it.
Giulio Mattioli 13, July #WirtschaftWackelt Giulio Mattioli: What I remember from the 2010s... What I remember from the 2010s is many arguing that a large trade surplus is proof of sound policymaking & industriousness & something all countries should aspire to (or suffer what they must) It would be good if we could use this crisis to revisit those assumptions a wee bit
Giulio Mattioli 09, July #TrendHysterie Giulio Mattioli: This is very interesting... This is very interesting: France's railway is the most affected and Italy's the least affected by heatwaves. But read the fine print https://chuuchuu.com/heatwave
Giulio Mattioli 08, July #TrendHysterie Giulio Mattioli: This whole saga has exposed quite an interesting psychology... This whole saga has exposed quite an interesting psychology: - winning is the most important thing - anything is allowed to win - redefine everything that stands in the way of winning as "unfair" and to be overturned - if you lose, argue you could have won if you had tried
Giulio Mattioli 06, July #TrendHysterie Giulio Mattioli: Another symptom of the Italianisation of Europe Another symptom of the Italianisation of Europe: that famous Churchill quip about Italians ""losing wars as if they were football matches, and football matches as if they were wars" now applies to Europe
Giulio Mattioli 02, July #Merzomat Giulio Mattioli: Strikes me as a measure fully in the Berlusconi... Strikes me as a measure fully in the Berlusconi / Meloni style of populism in that it's entirely symbolic stuff and it will either be ignored or circumvented or it will actually make the problem it tries to address worse.
