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  1. Rayvin
    Socialism carried out by a bunch of people who don't believe in it, are woefully incompetent anyway, and who have literally no plan or intention of moving towards a sustainable outcome. It's basically as if some twat coked up and let loose with the family credit cards, overpaying for things, and buying things he doesn't need - and when the rush passes, he'll be left penniless and in debt with no better option than to make his family even worse off than they were before in order to pay everything back. It's not socialism, it's just incompetence.
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    The fact that we paid £40m for Joelinton doesn't mean anyone else would have tbf I think £40m - £50m is about right in terms of what he's worth within our team, maybe with some add ons. Not sure he's done enough to justify that to a buying club yet though - maybe next summer but I can't really see anyone coming in for him at that level presently.
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    I guess now is the time where we are using the total power of "walking away" as a negotiating tactic. We've been told for years that this is the move that will bring the EU to their knees, so it's the moment of truth...
  4. Rayvin
    Aye but he's our best player by a country mile. He will be expensive even under Ashley, and while you guys will inevitably have the cash, whether you're prepared to overspend on him is another thing. He's a star though, and fans have really warmed to him for his character too. He'd be a big loss to us. At the same time this club is going nowhere so I kind of hope he manages to escape as soon as possible and go somewhere with some vague hope of winning something.
  5. Rayvin
    It's the rage I watch for. It's validating.
  6. Rayvin
    Pie spot on as usual. The BBC should hire him at this point, he'd be a superb journalist outside of even the satire.
  7. Rayvin
    I saw an article in the Guardian the other day which i -think- is encouraging, sort of. It was a series of interviews done with redwall voters - they "liked" Boris because he was positive and patriotic, and while their faith in him has been shaken now, they're still with him. With Starmer, they're not clear what he stands for and are wary. However, there's a lot of time before the next election and Johnson seems to be just about the only Tory they care for. Since he won't contest the next election, it's unclear to me that the Tories have anyone who could win them over on the same basis. They might of course just move the goalposts when the time comes, but they may also being telling the truth. Maybe it is a personality cult around Johnson more than anything else for a lot of them.
  8. Rayvin
    I find myself increasingly 'done'. I imagine this is the point at which idealism, which I suppose I clung too longer than most tend to, fades into nothing more than grim pragmatism and hoping to die before it gets really bad.
  9. Rayvin
    Bring it on, it's the will of the people.
  10. Rayvin
    Russian asset. Him and Parky I reckon.
  11. Rayvin
    The weird thing with Wikileaks is that I think the majority opinion on it would be that its broadly supported by left wingers. Would suggest that Putin is playing both sides against each other.
  12. Rayvin
    That is very true actually. And lends credence to the notion that they could indeed be a Russian op. But is that because they're not saying anything, or because the press have moved on?
  13. Rayvin
    My bad, saw the word 'fed' and assumed FBI. Either way, pretty disturbing.
  14. Rayvin
    The protester who shot a Trump supported a few days ago has been executed by the FBI. I thought the US was already in a dark place, but now I see that they have further to go in that direction.
  15. Rayvin
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/02/sewage-sludge-containing-human-waste-uk We're importing literal Dutch shit for use as fertiliser for our food
  16. Rayvin
    They won't forget this tbf, they're a very patriotic country and believe themselves broadly responsible for all of civilisation to date. Although maybe they're less proud of that these days than they once were.
  17. Rayvin
    "Fuck the Greek Civilisation" feels like it could have been on a Brexit poster.
  18. Rayvin
    That is a superb article. I'm amazed it's come from the Telegraph. Proper fucking journalism, and nice to see.
  19. Rayvin
    It's hard to imagine, if he does go, what the point in all of this was for Johnson. Devastate the country just to be PM for a year and a half? No one is going to remember him fondly after this, he won't be considered a hero or a national treasure. What the fuck has the point been for him personally?
  20. Rayvin
    I'll level with you. I wasn't really paying much attention to what he was saying at that point and just filled in things around the edges based on what I thought I heard. Maybe he said he read this in the Times indeed Either way, the message is the important thing!
  21. Rayvin
    Labour on level with the Tories in the polls. Both on 40%. This is clearly good news, but then I've also been told by my dad who knows a guy who is on conversational terms with Cumming's dad (I know) that the plan is for Johnson to step down in January after having delivered Brexit, for Cummings to go with him, and then you would expect the Tories to use that as an opportunity to draw a line under everything, once again. It'll be interesting to see where that takes us in the end but while this is positive news it'll need to keep up for quite a while..!
  22. Rayvin
    Yeah that's true tbh, and I'm not sure they can see it, so insular they are. In 4 years he has brought the American hegemony to its knees. There is no chance whatsoever that they will be the sole superpower by the end of a second term, if indeed it is still possible to say that about them now. Granted, it's probably best for the world that they aren't in that position anyway, but the speed of the decline is creating power vacuums all over the place which are being filled by other immature civilisations (Russia, China, Brazil). If we saw the Western world unify across a broadly European set of ideals, I think that would be a positive end to the US empire. As it is, we're going to get Putin-lite all over the place.
  23. Rayvin
    Fair tbh, it says a lot about how far gone I think the world is now that I consider the Cameron that waved in austerity as benign.. kind of stunned I even said that
  24. Rayvin
    I mean, I'm considering Biden to be a pre-Brexit catastrophe Cameron. The benign, first term Cameron. Not the Cthulu Destroyer of Worlds version of his second term.
  25. Rayvin
    I'm fairly well established as left wing. I would vote for Biden here every time because Trump is too great a threat to take a moral stand over. It's not the normal kinda bullshit where you can't tell the two sides apart.
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