Rayvin

It's only ever right wing commentators who think the left prides itself on being tolerant, man Many left wingers I speak to are now fully murderous over political issues!

Diego knows more about the England set up than I do, apparently

Crow-d of raven lunatics. Robin me of my desire to keep reading.

I am wondering if woke culture has also contributed. I was surprised to see HF basically ignore those comments from Parky and I feel like overall we might have been pushed towards greater sensitivity in language choices over the past ten years, across the board.

So you went from all that kind of rhetoric to me not picking up on antisemitism in a mural that depicted rich people oppressing the world I think it's safe to say that I'm not in that bracket I've had a read through this and can see the consistency of your arguments here over the years, which indicates obviously it's something you feel strongly about. Good points too, interesting to re-read. Can also see my own which I would say are a little more nuanced now in the sense of having a broader understanding of the issue than I once did. I still basically feel the same way though, and blame Western imperialism for having gotten us to where we are.

It is incredibly important that we continue to identify that on the Israeli side of this, the actors in favour of continued aggression are Israeli politicians, and not "the Jews". In the same way that on the other side we consider that Hamas are Palestinian politicians, and not "the Muslims". I'm sure I saw something in the news the other day about people in London driving around and yelling antimisemitic nonsense. How is that helping, seriously. It does need to be a combined solution, and IMO that should mean all citizens as equals, all voting freely, combined Israeli/Palestinian parliament, etc. Let people get on with their lives and relegate the whole issue to history.

He's already had a pop at them for calling for Johnson to be sacked from what I remember seeing on RTG. I wonder how long before he regrets his decision.

Christ. So he fancied himself as a player, gave up - fancied himself in sport management, couldn't hack it despite all his advantages in life, gave up... and now fancies himself as a football club owner. He's exactly what you say he is.

You can only assume he'd never actually been to Sunderland when he made the decision. Otherwise I agree with Howay - I'm tempted to say that he picked them because he had been given a small sum of money (relatively) by his mum to spend on a club and he went looking around for one that was 'undervalued' in order to maximise his potential success from it. I can't believe for a second that some rich trust fund kid specifically went out of his way to choose Sunderland Football Club to invest in despite have billions in the bank.

They imposed a salary cap or something like that though, at club level? i.e. you have to have your overall salary spend within defined parameters consistent with the rest of the league. That fact alone should make bankrolling more difficult. It makes them more sustainable longer term though, arguably - but means they need to escape L1 by being a well constructed and managed team - something they've not managed to be in decades.

That's an incredible drop in revenue, mind. You have to wonder at what point that does lasting damage to the club tbh. I suppose the consequence is that they're now very much reliant on their fans - but with their attendances so low the potential impact of even that is greatly diminished. I think Dreyfus is going to have to bankroll them out of the league really.

So I guess they enjoyed that experience so much, they wanted a re-run

Why on earth did they offload Suarez out to a title contender? I see he scored 21 goals this season. Fucking mental decision.

Thanks for sharing that. For all we can criticise Hamas for the part they play in perpetuating the cycle of violence, I do sometimes wonder if we wouldn't be doing the same and worse if what had happened to Palestine had happened to us. Absolutely hopeless state of affairs for the Palestinian people, they're being persecuted just for being alive.

Followed some of this on RTG. Several on RTG pointing out that their 'fans' were totally invisible in the second half when the team needed them - and then apparently piped up again after the final whistle to applaud the team and sing 'Sunderland till I die'. How the fuck does that work? When your team needs them, fucking silent. When the team has been beaten and condemned to another year in league one - "starting singing marra, we need to prove that unlike the mags, we get behind the team when it matters!". 4 years in League One. The humiliation man. The shame they bring, frankly, on the whole region ffs. I'm tempted to say we just forget about them and move on to Boro being the local rivals, it's actually fairly embarrassing to claim that our derby is meant to be with them. Absolute trash. I don't understand why Toonraider has shown his face either tbh, he must be a glutton for fucking punishment. Spends 3 years taking all manner of shite on here for being an obvious mackem, all the while presumably planning to have his 'moment' where he can get some dig in against us for something and yet time and time again his club have failed him. Despite this, here he is, lubed up and bent over for everyone. We don't even have to go over to RTG to take the piss, we have a mackem prepared to come over and take it. Thanks for your services, Toonraider.

Gonna be an interesting one tonight. Will be a real test of character for that Sunderland team, to see if they can pull out a performance despite the shrill bleating and whining of 10k locals.

Fair.

So my logic was more that if they opened it up to public ownership as per royal mail, and gave priority to average citizens, that there might be enough people who think like us to grab a controlling stake.

The BBC seems to be in something of a shitstorm this morning - fresh calls for privitisation following it. Just wondering on that though - if it was privatised, could it end up actually impartial? So for instance, both the left and right believe it to be flawed against their own ends. What if it was largely bought into by the left/centre? If we ended up with a controlling stake in it, we could make it fully factual, could we not? Then we'd have a huge platform as a counter to all the right wing nonsense. I find it unlikely that the right wingers would take the same approach.

They're investing in it and some are, apparently, trying to be "part" of it due to the threat to their relevance. XRP is sorta built for those ones, it's not decentralised and is owned by a company. Their angle is to be the halfway house option that the banks can take up easily. And indeed, banks are keen. The US government is currently suing them though, so who knows where that ends up. I will pay my taxes though, guaranteed. Although if ewerk is right, it sounds like it'll more be the case that the whole thing will be a tax deductible loss..!

Weird one. I've not got an open position on ETH at the moment (closed earlier to boost my ADA position, trying to max out on the volatility). That sounds like... well idk. Transferring to a wallet isn't selling though.

Just reading back through this thread from when it was about $11k

I also invest in gold fwiw, and that has been pretty fucking mental in recent times as well. You'll just be sitting there watching the numbers day to day and suddenly some national reserve will dump or buy a great whack of it, and then it's just a frenzy. That actually happens less in crypto, in my experience..! Well, until the other day.

I think it hinges on the notion that the bubble will eventually burst and whoever is left standing holding the commodity at the end gets burned. Which is exactly the same as all the other movements I see on the stock and commodities markets tbf Although I suppose you could claim that with crypto, if you do believe it's going to die eventually, that will be a reckoning greater than any of the more established commodities. It's still the same principle though.

All of us here are capitalists, last I checked I prefer to view it as intelligent money profiting from stupid money. Which cuts both ways, and which I have been on both sides of the line on in my experience so far