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Biden looks like he might be at risk next time out though... becoming slightly concerned that the US might just be mental enough to bring Trump back.

Platform of "careful now"? Idk man, but whatever they're doing, I don't see why they'd be incentivised to change it. Maybe I'm wrong..!

Yeah and if that's how it goes, I promise all of you, I'll hold my hands up. I really hope that's what we see. But I just feel like there's too much chance that they immediately start thinking "well we won on this platform, we should stay here so that we can win next time too". And then everyone will be telling me that we have to keep the Tories out next time, the risk is too great, etc etc.

I think it's important not to confuse 'better than the Tories' with 'good'.

Fuck this season.

Yeah. And what he fails to really sell is the idea that there's any real alternative path to head down for people in his (or my) boat anyway. I keep coming back to just spoiling my ballot because I'm now so disengaged with it all, so devoid of hope, that I can't even get started trying to believe in any of it anyway. From any party or side. So what he's really saying is that people like us should head into political nihilism. Which is where I am, but I'm not sure I'd advocate it for anyone else.

I mean yeah, I do agree with that. Despite having alignment with him in many senses I've never had a lot of time for Jones. It does all just seem performative.

I read it - it's more or less the same reason I chucked in membership ages ago but I have to admit I'm not sure why it's taken him so long to get to that point. Writing has been on the wall for anyone who thinks like him for some time now, nothing is 'new' about where we are. So on that basis yes, I suspect it's been done to maximise attention whereas it could and should have been done as soon as Starmer started abandoning the pledges that had him elected to leadership.

Have to admit, I saw it and while I felt repulsed and ill, nothing about it made me think it should be removed What did we pull it down for? it cant be the nudity, ive seen worse on here. Is it that the picture would be potentially legally problematic?

I am genuinely curious why Sunak even got himself into all this. It feels at times like he was just propelled into it by Cummings and then given the keys to the entire fucking country by default. Why is he here, does he even care about any of this?

Presumably that bit is inarguable.

I am genuinely looking forward to their wipe out. Although you still have to wonder if that inevitable 25% will still find a way to justify voting for them anyway.

Seriously Going back to Alex' rule here. There is always one reactionary right wing nut job on this forum, at any given time. What I don't understand is how they coordinate it so well... it's like an almost perfect conveyor belt of batshit Q Anon styled misinformed nonsense and it always, always finds us. It either always is Quiff, or they have some sort of rotational system across multiple forums ffs.

Ah it's CT isn't it. I've been low activity on here so long I'm forgetting the memes. My bad, ignore me

Unsure if I am the resident Corbynite but as said earlier, I still think it's a huge missed opportunity

I continue to despair at Starmer. He is consistently inconsistent and IMO a complete waste of an opportunity. A boiled turnip could beat the Tories this time out and would probably be more effective.

Can't fault them for effort, is what it is.

I think it was Alex who said that a longstanding TT rule was that there must always be one "against the grain" deviant. Can't get my head around how persistent that rule is tbh. I reckon only around 75% of them are Quiff too.

Tear along the dotted lines - Italian animation that perfectly captures the millennial mindset and the depressing era we live in, while still being funny. It's on Netflix, I strongly recommend it but watch it in English cos in Italian with subs the dialogue moves too fast to actually read.

I think for a lot of people this should be filed more under "depressing and real" than "funny" mind you

Merry Christmas lads. Hope you all have a lovely day.

Don't think we were remotely arsed about Europa, it was CL or bust. We tried, just didn't quite have the experience or penetration. Ugh, it's sickening, we were 35 mins away from an amazing night. Sincerely grateful to this side for getting us into the thing again though - great players, great team. Standing ovation from me. Thanks lads.

I think this depends on the extent to which one believes that there is a spiritual dimension to the universe. I am not religious, but I do believe this - there are enough signs of it to convince me. So I have thought to myself at times, what would the 'rules' for a spiritual component to reality look like - and I think I sort of settled on them being likely similar to the physical universe. So when we die, our physical body is broken down and transformed/recycled into other materials or lifeforms, they continue to be 'used' as part of physical reality. I think I believe that the same would therefore be true of our spiritual energy. It is broken down and returned to the 'whole', whatever that is. I do not believe we would retain consciousness or any real sense of ourselves as an individual, but I do think there would be a great peace in the restoration of our spirits with the wider sea of energies. I also feel that the decisions we take over the course of our lives influence the flavour of energy returned. If we are broken people with significant damage, we return energy that carries that damage, thus harming the overall whole. We therefore have a responsibility to work on ourselves and our pain so that what we return to the sea is as pure as possible. Sorry for being late to the thread on this, I do appreciate it's moved on a bit.

Rough result but we all know why it happened. Absolutely no criticism of Trippier for me despite the goals, we all know why those errors happened too. Pickford celebrating is fine IMO, he will know these moments will be few and far between against us and most of the time he's being humiliated - watch out for the return leg at St James where he sprints down the tunnel in tears at full time. Aa for the rest of this month, it's gonna be rough. I think the position I've landed on is that even if we lost every single game until January, I'm going to struggle to blame the players or the team. They're working so hard and they've got my support either way. We know this is a very good team, we know the try, we know the system works.