Rayvin

I was looking at teenage pregnancy rates recently as part of a wider discussion I was having with someone on this, and oddly enough Florida has a lower incidence of the issue than the UK does. Even though abortion is free on the NHS here, far less stigmatised, and widely available. We had almost double the issue of Florida. Which does make me wonder a bit about what exactly is wrong in the UK for this to be such a common thing. Even my usual fallback of 'poverty' wouldn't really explain this well since you'd imagine Florida has plenty of it.

I raised this in the Biden thread but the central argument seems to be a legislative one? Or rather, the justifying argument seems to be. The Supreme Court isn't claiming that America should ban abortions, they're claiming that it was never a state level responsibility in the first place. Obviously the only reason it's happening is indeed because of the need to pander to the right wing bible belt, but the argument isn't on that premise.

Maybe so, but Trump appointed 3 right leaning supreme court judges - so his time in office continues to leave a dark legacy to this day. Granted, it would have been the same with any Republican leader - but it would not have happened under Clinton.

I have no idea how my mind even got to that. Obviously I meant crosshairs. Maybe it was autocorrect tbh, it could have been that I posted this from my phone So as I understand it, the legislative case for this being overturned is that it should never have been a state level decision in the first place because it doesn't sit comfortably under the remit of what the constitution currently stands for (and this is what state level rulings are supposed to cater to). I understand nowhere near enough of the American legal framework to give an opinion one way or the other on that, but I do wonder why the solution isn't then to go to the constitution and amend it in such a way that it does become a state level concern. The upshot will be that individual states will get to decide on the rules around this, likely returning America to a situation wherein women in some states have to travel to other states to have their needs met. It is a very regressive policy. I have also come to understand that the precedent of potentially overturning it has wide reaching ramifications for other laws, such as gay marriage and sex - which was legalised under an apparently similar framework to Roe vs Wade, and thus is vulnerable to the exact same reasoning being used to overturn this. The demographics for this are bizarre too. 60% of Americans believe things should remain as they are, including apparently a majority (slender) of the Republican party. Which leads you to wonder if perhaps we're seeing the same 35% of right wing nutjobs being catered to over there as we do here.

Roe vs Wade in the crossbars according to leaked supreme court draft. American twitter is beside itself. The US is just a mental country at times tbh.

This starts to feel like the issue is simply that we can't overhaul the whole squad overnight. They're not going to drop 500m in the summer to buy a whole new team. So ultimately, some of the "weaker" players will get new contracts for squad roles. That's fine IMO. Also Dummett isn't bad when fit.

Cowards, obviously.

I am fully on board for the first time we can say NUFC ladies had a higher turnout than SAFC men

Got to be happy for the retiring team captain who converted the first penalty, thus making sure she's managing a goal at St James before she goes out. Lovely stuff.

Amazing, thanks for sharing that. I must get up to the mountains again soon.

You also get the feeling that he thinks Newcastle is on similar levels of deprivation to Sunderland or Hartlepool. He's probably never been up this far. Also don't understand his point unless he imagines that the British government could have bought us and invested in the women's team. Patronising cunt. SA haven't invested a great deal into the region yet, although it'll come. The only difference so far is that we aren't owned by a penny pinching Southern fuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/01/newcastle-womens-katie-barker-fulfils-dream-after-breaking-new-ground

I actually have to confess that since the club has bothered to become a sporting institution after a decade and a half, I'm starting to be interested myself.

Any highlights?

I've not really been following this one so for me he could still be reading either "So Left it's Right - A Useful Idiot's Guide to Shooting Yourself in the Foot with your Principles" or "Freedumb: The Classical Liberal's Guide to 'Defending' your Civilisation by Discrediting its Intellectuals, Institutions, and Values."

What is your political alignment?

Well, Leeds it is then

It really has been. Almost every ball has been useless.

Everton deserve the win here tbh. Chelsea have been utter garbage.

It's on Azpi-etc really, stupidly caught in possession as basically last man. Not sure Chelsea would have scored anyway, but I don't think they were likely to concede either.

So Werner subbed off which is good because he was hopeless. Not sure who the front prong of the Chelsea attack now is though? Lots of nice midfield passing but absolutely fuck all of anything else.

Absolutely toothless from Chelsea. They've looked ok in midfield but they've got nothing going on in the final third.

Here comes the biggest bus parking exercise we'll ever see IMO.

Everton not done yet, seemingly.

That really fucking is the gameplan