Rayvin
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It's the rage I watch for. It's validating.
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Pie spot on as usual. The BBC should hire him at this point, he'd be a superb journalist outside of even the satire.
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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.
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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.
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Bring it on, it's the will of the people.
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Russian asset. Him and Parky I reckon.
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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.
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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?
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My bad, saw the word 'fed' and assumed FBI. Either way, pretty disturbing.
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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.
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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
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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
Rayvin replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
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. -
Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
Rayvin replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
"Fuck the Greek Civilisation" feels like it could have been on a Brexit poster. -
That is a superb article. I'm amazed it's come from the Telegraph. Proper fucking journalism, and nice to see.
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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?
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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!
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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..!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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I wouldn't go that far. He has a long way to go to win from where he is. It's not like Corbyn vs Johnson here either, it's closer to Johnson versus Cameron. The sensible right will vote for the Cameron in that scenario every time.
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Currently on the cusp of appointing a former Australian PM to negotiate in "our national interest" with a current Australian PM. Boris is pathetic.
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Really sorry to hear this Renton - she'll be glad her brother is there for her at least, cruel as life is.
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Reasonable worst case scenario for the end of the year, according to the government: - Army on the streets - Food drops by the airforce - Navy intervening in turf wars between fishermen - Widespread disease rampant through livestock - Riots https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/the-sun-publish-cabinet-office-paper-on-impacts-of-brexit-and-covid-19-1-6805548 I think we might be in trouble if even Johnson's government is now fully considering things like the above. In part because it'll almost certainly be worse than their "reasonable" worst case, and in part because if this is the worst case, even if they've identified what they need to do months in advance, they're too incompetent to handle the 'on the fly' aspects of managing the situation anyway. As they've proven time and time again.
