Rayvin

I agreed with this straight from the off as well fwiw. I still agree now.

Likewise - but for instance, we could get there right this moment if we all agreed to give Putin full dominion over the entire Western world. Is that a price worth paying for peace? What I'm saying is that either we accept that we're prepared to give him peace no matter the cost, or we have to acknowledge that there are red lines. The problem we seem to have is that no one is very certain on what those red lines are. I think we've been caught entirely unaware with this move tbh.

I think you have a lot of valid points in general about the US being belligerent and I would normally be one that side of the aisle too, but I cannot see how this is anything other than squarely on Putin. This may well be part of a wider US geopolitical issue, but it is also very clearly a matter of Ukraine's right to exist. It is very much also their war - primarily their war, in fact. They are being conquered by an imperialist power. Whether the US is a total shitshow is an entirely separate point on this matter IMO because Putin launched this all off his own bat to "solve the Ukraine question for future generations of Russians" as he said himself. I would also say that the article I linked puts forward two options - obviously the author prefers that we surrender to the psychotic bully (and I do get why because lives saved and so on are a factor. How many lives is national autonomy, your nation, you culture, worth?) But the other side is we become actively involved. Which I would support. I don't know what sort of hellish world we would be living in if we just let Putin have Ukraine. And then when he takes something else, then what? Let that happen. Etc. If Putin is prepared to engage in wars of aggression like this, we've already lost the battle on solving things peacefully. It's him who should be desperately looking for an off ramp, not us who should be trying to find him one.

I dunno, looks like he's taken it on board and made the comment in ignorance. I think intent is everything with this sort of stuff personally, and it's not clear to me that he had any genuine racist intent. Ignorance yes.

Good piece, basically arguing that we have to either go to war, or cede Ukraine - since that's where it's going to end up anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/27/ukraine-war-end-putin-russia-talks

Well Villareal have collapsed Fair play to Liverpool I guess.

It's not far off what Liverpool have been delivering on this showing, tbf

Aye sorry. Was reading an article about last night's game at the same time

I mean Fernandinho has straight out passed it out of play at least twice.

Aye the ref hasn't got a thing wrong so far that I've seen.

Is this how Liverpool normally play? Overhit passes, lack of craft, few ideas? I appreciate Villareal are super defensive but even so...

Aye but that's only cos you guys are stinking up League One

I feel like it's moving in that direction too - what I can't for the life of me figure out is why. If this is the great mistake that we generally consider it to be, on Putin's end, why would he double down on it. He can't honestly imagine he can take the entire West in a conventional fight so part of me starts wondering if he really does just want an excuse to nuke somebody. If he invades another European nation, I don't see what choice we have.

Awesome stuff, well done. As far as I'm concerned that's a significant achievement and you should feel rightly proud. Good luck with the run in!

I'm a big believer in the interdependency of markets and I would broadly consider myself to be a globalist. But I think we're doing it in a very exploitative way. Have no concept at all of what any sort of alternative would be to it that doesn't involve civilizational regression.

Mid 30s, so yeah I missed this wave of the 80s. Presumably somewhere between then and now we entered into the exciting world of late stage capitalism.

I agree with the caveat also of long term planning, planting the seeds of trees that our children will live in the shade of, etc. Not that any government I've ever seen has been remotely interested in this concept.

Honestly I don't think councils are structurally fit for purpose anyway so it's more of a symbolic thing. I wouldn't vote Tory at a local council election because it suggests that my vote condones all manner of fucking nonsense that is happening at the national level. It's the same reason I won't vote Labour nationally until they move back to a pro-EU stance, if they ever do.

Just read an article about Pogba and the shame it is that his peak years were wasted by incompetence at Man Utd. Apparently he's leaving in the summer as he's rejected their contract offer - is he one of those players who needs to be played properly to get the best out of, and could thus do a job for us - or is he a busted flush? I get the impression from what is being said that money would probably convince him to join us if it came to it. Not particularly saying we even need him mind.

She wants to be careful not to wear a skirt by the sound of it.

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Mind, if we somehow do get relegated now there'll be no living with him

Lap of honour on game 14 by players and staff to crown this achievement. Visiting Leicester City players look on with bemusement, joined by the rest of the country.

I mean tbf, there's a context that matters here. It's not like City celebrated or were even aware whenever it was that they became mathematically certain not to go down. The whole league starts the season in a relegation battle in CT's eyes, clearly

I'd prefer us to have a decent showing against Arsenal anyway - the team does deserve appreciation for the season and I feel like doing it off the back of a 4-0 battering would take away from it a bit.