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Reply | Visiting America
at 10:49 29 Mar 2025
I think I understand now. We aren't in a relegation scrap. We are 9 points clear of Wolves for promotion to the Championship. Everyone's been reading the table incorrectly. Who's to say I'm wrong? My perspective is as valid as anyone else's, is it not?
You can use this argument to prop up any malicious ideology. Is fascism a perspective? Is genocide a perspective? Is paedophilia a perspective?
There is an objective truth. The abstraction of logic is the betrayal of logic. Ignorance isn't a perspective and labeling it as such doesn't validate it. Perspectives aren't inherently equal. Attacking institutions that pursue objective truth is a necessary step on the path to autocracy because these institutions are where we 'negotiate this impasse'. |
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Reply | Hesgeth Vance etc when confronted with the truth
at 11:10 28 Mar 2025
I listened to a podcast recently that you might want to check out. Maria Ressa was the guest on Jon Stewart's show.
The very very short version of it is that social media and data tracking has been used to create algorithms that manipulate us into hatred of one another. It's the AI version of divide and conquer.
I know we've gone through very divisive periods previously and come out stronger, but I can't say that I'm optimistic about what's to come. My hope is that we survive the next few years and then the pendulum swings into a new progressive era. My fear is that inequality continues to escalate and that the masses eventually revolt against their oppressors. It might end up in the same place, but it would involve a lot more misery.
As an aside, I'm a bit troubled by some of the rhetoric around here recently. What the United States has been falls under the umbrella of liberal democracy, but that's mostly down to the fact that the definition of 'liberal democracy' is so broad and open to interpretation that laying claim to inclusion is enough for membership. Much of what has allowed the United States to remain relatively free from tyrants has been tradition, but this administration is not following tradition. This is a power grab that will test the constitutional integrity of a system designed 250ish years ago and the outcome is uncertain. What's happening is not 'the will of the people' and it does no good to conflate what this administration is doing with what Americans want, because what Americans want has never really mattered that much when it comes to politics. |
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Reply | Hesgeth Vance etc when confronted with the truth
at 00:44 28 Mar 2025
You can only be shocked by anything MJT says if you don't know anything about her. This is about as civil as she gets. I've never seen a stronger case against Intelligent Design.
If you don't know who she is, you have to check out her wiki page. We get some really weird politicians from podunk districts, but she is on another level.
That reporter knew exactly what was going to happen. |
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Reply | Could Trump and Farage be classified as traitors
at 16:51 5 Mar 2025
Can you classify Trump as a traitor? I doubt it. Do I believe he is one? Yes.
Everything that is happening makes sense if you view it through the lens that he is Putin's puppet. |
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Reply | Trump
at 06:35 1 Mar 2025
Spend a week watching Fox News 24/7 and you will begin to understand. |
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Reply | Same s***,different day.
at 15:56 11 Feb 2025
...and in our bodies. Research is finding nanoplastics everywhere and in much higher concentrations than expected with harmful effects that we are only just beginning to study.
Plastics will, in all likelihood, end up in the same category as leaded gasoline and asbestos, marketed and sold as a miracles of modern science, but ultimately a significant hazard to our species and environment. |
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Reply | I'm feeling we're gonna win the next three in the league. (n/t)
at 07:57 8 Feb 2025
When we went down in 2002, we won only 9 matches in league play that season, but 7 of those came during an 8-match stretch during the middle of the season. We climbed from dead last up to 12th before falling apart.
The season is long and there are still twists and turns to come. |
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Reply | Good to hear Trump playing politics with the air crash
at 20:04 30 Jan 2025
No one knows the precise causes of this at present, but that isn't really what's at issue here. He is making bigoted accusations without having any evidence to support them.
I do not know how DEI initiatives could yield staff shortages considering that they are attempting to expand the list of potential candidates for such positions. I do know that his administration has promised to gut government spending by slashing federal jobs. I do know that they have already tried to force out many federal employees by encouraging their resignations this week. I do know that he eliminated an aviation safety committee just a week ago, just as I know that he did the same with a pandemic response team shortly before the Covid-19 outbreak. |
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Reply | Good to hear Trump playing politics with the air crash
at 19:48 30 Jan 2025
That's pretty much how it has always been in the United States. Disability determinations are made by unqualified individuals who start under the assumption that laziness is the cause of all unemployment. Even if approved, the payments are capped far below the poverty line. |
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Reply | Well, sky seem hopeful
at 18:38 28 Jan 2025
This is overstated. We were scuffling in the middle of our League One promotion season until we brought in Clarke, Broadhead, and Hirst in the January window. We were dominant thereafter. If we have needs (which we do), then we have to address them. New faces aren’t the problem as long as you are getting the right players in. |
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Reply | Which player from the League One team will you be most gutted to see leave?
at 15:20 24 Jan 2025
Some are already gone.
Jackson and Donacien. I had a great appreciation for both. Jackson worked his backside off every time he was on the pitch. Donacien didn't provide much going forward, but he calmed the nerves when protecting a lead. Never gets caught out. Always composed. He is a defender's defender.
I was really impressed with Walton's professionalism when he lost his job to Hladky through injury. It's hard to hold on to a quality number two at the keeper spot because they almost never get on the pitch.
Edmundson and Burgess. Burgess has evolved into a really good player. Edmundson stepped up whenever we needed him to.
Burns is at the top of the list for me though. My opinion of him has changed dramatically since his arrival. I was underwhelmed with the initial signing. I thought he was a candidate for replacement when we were promoted to the second tier. As last season progressed, I wondered how we would cope if he got injured.
I wish all of these guys had gotten a chance to represent us at least once in the top tier. |
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Reply | Leicester - PSR
at 12:10 14 Jan 2025
This seems to be it. I read an Athletic article recently that mentioned it was unlikely any clubs would be found in violation this season, but it also made it seem as though that is due in large part to teams figuring out how to bend the rules by selling assets to secure additional income or by shuffling youth players back and forth between clubs. |
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Reply | Half-time amusement
at 04:42 7 Jan 2025
Do you believe that "tiny minority issues" had anything to do with him purchasing his own media platform, starting a company that drills into the earth, starting a satellite communication platform, or starting his own space program?
This isn't difficult to figure out. He's a megalomaniac bent on world domination and he knows that stoking hatred and fear will create political instability that he can exploit for personal gain.
He isn't a humanitarian and he isn't acting on behalf of anyone other than himself. |
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Reply | Elon Musk's wealth
at 01:32 2 Jan 2025
It seems a waste to package them. Ian Fleming would've given each their own book. |
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Reply | Tactically outsmarted again sadly.
at 22:18 21 Dec 2024
There is a far more obvious culprit at work here than tactical consistency. It's never a good sign when a manager is constantly changing formations.
There is much we didn't know coming into this season. There is much we have learned over the last few months. We'll get our chance to address our shortcomings soon enough.
There is a process to this and panic doesn't help. |
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Reply | Players you’d forgotten played for us
at 21:47 11 Dec 2024
Garvan had more. I thought it was criminal the way Keane chased Garvan out of town. He was part of a very successful youth team for us and accrued all of those appearances at a very young age, but he went straight into Keane's dog house and was dumped for a small fee to Palace. They also picked up Delaney on a free after we released him and those two players helped get Palace back into the top flight.
Tommy Smith broke through during the same era and had many more appearances than either.
I've always had a soft spot for academy products. There aren't many to choose from these days. |
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Reply | This assassination in New York
at 19:56 10 Dec 2024
I've personally always been dumbfounded that this sort of thing doesn't happen frequently. There are many disaffected individuals with access to firearms in this country, but they always shoot one another instead of the architects of their misery.
Interesting that he was captured on the same day that the charges against Daniel Penny were dismissed. You almost have to get caught in the act of killing a homeless person to end up getting arrested as there just isn't much interest in an investigation otherwise.
I greatly envy your NHS. Don't give an inch of ground to anyone that suggests privatizing your healthcare system. |
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Reply | Hitzlsperger has his say
at 14:44 5 Dec 2024
I have an issue with this line of thinking.
There is the theory of intersectionality. We are complex and these broad and sweeping categorizations do a disservice to individuals because privilege can't really be assigned this way and neither can justice be meted out through such a narrow lens.
The argument goes... "if everything else is equal, then 'variable X' is a disadvantage." The issue with this is that everything else never is equal. We can measure disparities in society statistically, but inequality isn't a flat tax and everyone is a victim through some particular lens, so it doesn't really get us anywhere.
50 years ago, one of the arguments for feminism in the United States was the disparity in post-secondary education opportunities, but the rates have flipped to where females are much more likely to attend college and to receive a degree than their male counterparts. The conversation is clearly far more complex than something that can be distilled down to a flippant comment like, "Will no-one think of the truly persecuted people here, straight white blokes. " One can certainly be a member of a perceived minority group and still hold prejudices and discriminate based upon those prejudices.
The goal isn't to change the beliefs of everyone to reflect societal mores. The goal is to stamp out discrimination. This initiative seems to be attempting the former and I fail to see how it can lead to the latter. |
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