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Reply | Kuwaiti PL doesn't start until 12 Sept
at 09:44 25 Jul 2025
I hope something is arranged, it doesn't feel right that such an important figure in the club's recent history just goes without a proper goodbye from the fans. |
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Reply | Some absolutely shocking penalties hahaha (n/t)
at 11:34 18 Jul 2025
I don't see it happen in other sports, Tennis is a good example where there is probably a similar gap in quality between the men and women, but each are enjoyed independently. In cricket which I follow closely I would say there is even more of a gap in the levels, and again as far as I'm aware men are either supporting of the women's game, or take no interest, there isn't this need to compare it. Seems to be an issue with a large group of male football fans, it's a bit of a sad indictment of things when a lot of posters on here only show up on threads about women's football if there is something to laugh at. |
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Reply | Texas floods are horrific and MAGA are excelling themselves again
at 14:06 9 Jul 2025
The thing I just don't get is why don't normal republicans care about any of this? Given how many people voted for Trump they can't all be complete far right conspiracy theory loving lunatics, there must be decent people in there who were mislead, why is there no reaction to anything from these people?
The behaviour of Ted Cruz that you highlighted, you couldn't have a worse series of events for a politician, slashes funding for weather services, weather services say they can't forecast potentially deadly weather as they could before as they are underfunded, and then in his state hundreds of people die including dozens of poor children at a Christian holiday camp, then he F**ks off on holiday. And yet it feels like none of it matters, none of it sticks to these people, is it all just shielded from people who only consume the right wing media?
And on a slightly different topic of the new big beautiful bill, I just don't understand how there isn't uproar. Trump won the votes of a lot of ordinary people struggling to make ends meet, struggling to afford groceries etc, and then forces through this legislation which will not only give billions in tax cuts to the most wealthy, but actually add to the tax burden of the poorest in the country. I mean I think any of us could have said he obviously wasn't going to make things better for those struggling, but it is that lack of reaction that I find the most alarming.
Sorry that turned into a bit of a ramble, but I am really starting to despair at what is happening in that country, it is becoming increasingly obvious he is just going to be able to do whatever he wants and there is going to be no meaningful push back at all, and it will effect everyone, not just Americans. I saw James Acaster say on a US talk show something along the lines of 'the US election is too important to the rest of the world to trust to the American people', that really does feel true. |
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Reply | U21s
at 21:14 21 Jun 2025
That little backheel was sublime, the more I see of him in this tournament the more it seems he might be too good for the championship. If that £35 million release clause is true I could see someone thinking he's worth it, because he will absolutely shine in the championship next year and for a young English talent you could easily add another 20 million to that price tag at the end of the year, especially if we go up. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 21:43 17 Jun 2025
You know the guy in the video was at an EDL rally, that is a handy shortcut for judging the type of person he is.
This is clearly an emotive subject, the basic facts of what has happened are horrifying, the failure of the system as a whole to safeguard vulnerable children and leave what seems like thousands to suffer organised abuse (the details of which are truly shocking), any right minded person is going to be upset and angry that this has been allowed to happen.
The issue of race is complicated, it obviously is a relevant factor in investigating these cases, and wasn't investigated and considered as it should have been by the appropriate authorities. It is however clear that the issue of race is being weaponised by people with an ulterior motive, the EDL and other far right groups over the past decade in the UK have not marched for other social justice or child abuse issues, I don't think Stephen Yaxley had much to say about the widespread child abuse in the Catholic church, and as was pointed out in a post above, the 50% of organised child exploitation cases perpetrated by white men doesn't get much of a mention. To counter that, the suggestion by some that anyone who raised the issue of race in relation to organised sexual crimes should be considered a racist or far right was not helpful, and it is likely this attitude amongst people responsible for safeguarding these children contributed to the continued failure to stop it.
Ultimately the authorities responsible for safeguarding need to consider all factors equally in relation to those that might pose a threat to children or vulnerable people in their community, and if race is one of those factors then it needs to be investigated properly. The horrible irony is that by overlooking race in many cases due to a misplaced fear of political incorrectness, or so as not to add to racial tension, authorities have created an environment now where the vast majority of innocent Asian heritage people in these communities who are appalled by these cases will likely suffer suspicion and stigma. [Post edited 19 Jun 20:06]
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Reply | Air India 171
at 20:04 14 Jun 2025
That video is awful really, he is obviously a pilot himself and yet without any evidence he has basically said the most likely cause of the crash is the pilot accidentally withdrew the flaps instead of the landing gear? [Post edited 14 Jun 20:05]
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Reply | extraordinary footage this morning from the trump reich
at 10:11 11 Jun 2025
I saw another clip of a woman trying to get down a street to her apartment, and when she wouldn't turn back one of the police/guard just shot her in the chest with a rubber bullet. The scary thing is this is obviously the instruction, the government want these spark points to occur, moments that will provoke further protest, excusing further crack downs and violence because they want division and sides to form.
It will get really nasty I fear, because you have a situation where protestors against the government will not only be fuelled by a feeling of it being the right, just thing to do, but they will literally be on the right side of the law as well; court rulings saying that people cannot be deported with out due process are being ignored or tied up in further legal wrangling while the ICE raids (government sanctioned kidnapping) and deportations flights continue. [Post edited 11 Jun 10:11]
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Reply | Huni's count
at 07:39 8 Jun 2025
He also just beat the count in actual seconds, timed from when he hit the canvas to was on his feet it was just under 10 seconds. It was a ridiculous decision, definitely one favouring the home fighter. Others have said you could see in Huni's eyes he wasn't fit to carry on, well the ref didn't look in his eyes as far as I could tell, also if a fighter beats the count they then usually get checked over by the ref quickly before he resumes the fight, he should have at least had that opportunity. [Post edited 8 Jun 7:41]
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Reply | I assume we pocket the full £30m
at 18:24 29 May 2025
I know this conversation has already been had, but the statement from Ashton that the club are 'very well protected' just seems really odd as at the time he made the statement it already looked very likely we were getting relegated, and therefore that statement was going to be shown up as simply not true within a matter of weeks. I'm not criticising the clause itself, it may be that was the only way to get Delap to sign with competition from other clubs, just such a weird thing to say in an interview. [Post edited 29 May 18:24]
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Reply | I really hope we have got it right with Philogene
at 14:45 9 Apr 2025
I think 'a bit muddled' is being kind to be honest, as others have posted the list of players we have for the LW position is ridiculous, particularly when you consider how lightweight we seem in CM and probably another CF. I know particularly in January you have to go with who is available to a certain extent, but I think it is very hard to argue that those behind the scenes (Ashton and the scouting team/data analysis) have had a good season.
I would say the one positive in how badly this season has gone is we know now, 4 months before the start of the Championship season, what league we will be in next year, meaning we have time to make decisions about who stays. Conversations can be had with players openly about their future, and we can plan our recruitment without the ambiguity of what league we will be playing in. |
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Reply | Brandon Williams interview with Ben Foster
at 23:16 3 Apr 2025
I was a little surprised that in the interview he said that when he started to have some issues again off the pitch towards the end of 2023 we sent him back to Manchester to sort himself out, and come back when he was ready. I know we only had him on loan, and I am sure there is more to the situation, but it seems from the outside that sending him back into the environment he was struggling in before (sounds like issues with friends and family in the area) was never going to help things, and he says how things did get worse when he returned to Manchester. I am not being critical of the decision as for the playing group it seems it was the right call, our unity as a team was absolutely key for getting promoted and eliminating a possible distraction was probably the right decision, but for Brandon himself I don't feel like that can have helped his situation. |
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Reply | Trump’s tariffs
at 11:30 3 Apr 2025
The thing I don't understand is didn't a lot of manufacturing move out of the US (and other western countries) due to the significantly cheaper labour elsewhere? Given that this hasn't changed, even if some manufacturing did return to the US wouldn't the increased labour costs still mean that products are going to be more expensive? |
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Reply | Incels
at 10:04 2 Apr 2025
It's just about being open to the idea that people might change or reveal something about themselves which changes your view of them. I am not someone who militantly argues against anyone who holds a slightly different world view to me, I agree with your point that you can hold a contrary view on an issue such as Trans rights without it automatically being Transphobic, and I agree when Peterson focused far more on the free speech element of things rather than Trans people I wouldn't necessarily have described him as Transphobic, but that isn't what he does anymore.
Just from a quick google these are a couple of things he has said in the last couple of years on the Trans issue:
He described gender affirming care as: "The worst atrocities of the 20th century—this is medical malpractice on a massive scale." and stood by this assertion when pressed on whether he included Nazi medical experiments in his consideration
He dehumanises Trans people, claiming it is all a conspiracy, and portrays trans people as a threat rather than as individuals: "The trans movement is not about compassion or rights. It’s a weaponized ideology aimed at destroying the foundations of Western civilization." |
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Reply | Incels
at 09:41 2 Apr 2025
So judging someone based on the views they hold is 'liberal'?
I prefaced my post by saying 'if you have listened to anything he has said in the last 5 years', because as others have said, his rhetoric has changed a lot in recent years. The Cathy Newman interview was 7 years ago, the majority of free speech stuff with Trudeau was further back than that I believe. I didn't necessarily agree with anything he was saying then, but I can see how he was seen as a voice in the debates that deserved to be listened to, you just can't say that for pretty much anything he has said recently.
I know you apparently stopped reading this thread after 7 words, but if you had read what Dan copied in, his comments on enforced monogamy, and still choose to defend him then yes I would stand by my suggestion that your posts are quite revealing. |
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Reply | Incels
at 23:13 1 Apr 2025
If you have listened to anything he has said in the past 5 years and still stand by what you have said here that is quite a revealing post; I don't really see how anyone could listen to any of the angry, culture-war baiting, woman hating stuff he has come out with recently and agree with any of it unless you are yourself aligned with that way of thinking. |
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Reply | Incels
at 11:56 1 Apr 2025
Incel culture is not just the belief that men have a right to demand sex from women, that is the extreme end of it, but it is also just the belief amongst certain young men that women, feminism, or society in general are to blame for their lack of 'success', however they may define it. Peterson repeatedly asserts that modern feminism and social progress have left men behind, pushing the belief that society favours women at men’s expense which is core to the incel culture. |
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Reply | Incels
at 11:08 1 Apr 2025
That may have been his message originally, I don't really know, but as others have said he is as bad as any of them lot now, the majority of his content/interviews now focus on attacking what he deems 'woke culture', attacking feminists, trans people, denying climate change. He uses big words and sounds intellectual, but is pretty much spreading hate and lies every time he opens his mouth, all of it pretty much aimed at angry young men/boys. [Post edited 1 Apr 11:09]
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Reply | £500 a year better off a year
at 11:49 27 Mar 2025
The example of Costa is a good one for the type of company that I think it would be relatively easy to rework tax law so that they do pay a fair amount of tax based on their profits, largely because the vast majority of their profits come from sales in UK based coffee shops. They couldn't just move manufacturing/offices elsewhere like a lot of big companies that don't rely on a physical presence in the UK, companies like this would be an easy starting place to tighten tax loopholes without the risk of driving business/jobs overseas (at least in my opinion, I have no real knowledge on the subject though so I may be wrong). |
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Reply | Letby
at 00:31 20 Mar 2025
It is really strange, I saw that on the BBC news website and assumed it was a piece about the concerns around the safety of the conviction, and the rejection of a retrial, but then found it to be just presenting as fact many of the things that are now being widely questioned.
I have no idea whether she is guilty or not, but it seems more and more like it needs to be looked at again given the questions raised about the original trial.
I don't think it is some sort of conspiracy or anything like that, but from some of what I have read it does seem as though it was a neonatal unit that was struggling, and perhaps thinking one person was responsible for all that was going wrong on the unit was more palatable than more widespread issues with the quality of care. I think I read that a letter put forward by 14 experts who reviewed the medical evidence concluded that there is no medical evidence she murdered or harmed any of the babies, and that the newborns suffered from poor medical care or natural causes. Also some of the methods used by the prosecution seemed really questionable, I believe they presented a graph which they stated showed all the deaths/incidents on the unit over the time in question, and how they all lined up with Letby's shifts, however it turned out they had only plotted the deaths/incidents when she was on shift, and had omitted a number of others that didn't fit their argument. [Post edited 20 Mar 0:37]
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Reply | Alex has arrived
at 10:03 4 Feb 2025
It does make you wonder what happened in the summer, I assume Palmer would have been available for a similar amount then? I know every decision is easy with hindsight, but how did we decide to pay 5x more (and probably more in wage) for Muric then, only to make this transfer now? |
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