Rayvin

Whenever someone uses the 'reported' joke it reminds me that I have access to the reports log, and that the damn thing really should notify me when a new report is raised. As it is, I go weeks sometimes without looking at it Tend to rely more on the fact that I'm on the more woke end of the spectrum on here, and that if I read everything I'll probably notice anything objectionable myself. I can see we have reports back to 2023 that aren't marked off as complete. I am now sorely tempted to do the admin on that...

I do think politicians need to be braver with this than it appears they're going to be. I have faith in the EU to do what is needed here between some manner of response and a longer term re-organisation, but the UK is so small minded on this stuff now (since we have no influence) that we're just going to be chasing shadows of the movements from everyone else. We need to get back into the EU. I'm already sick to death of being an irrelevance. Between that and immigration doubling since, it's just beyond me why anyone ever thought this was a good idea.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tax-cut-billionaires-starmer-musk-bezos-trade-3630807 Starmer has said tax cuts for Musk, Bezos and other billionaires are on the table in our negotiations with the US I just give up with politics tbh, it's hopeless.

Fair point, although presumably the plan at some point was for Minteh to be the future of that role.

I reckon we drop points against villa and arsenal but I reckon we beat Chelsea. Everton I'm actually a bit worried about tbh. Might need to ban Gemmill ahead of that game.

Actually makes the Minteh sale all the more annoying. Clearly we were happy with the planned development of that area, and PSR forces us to fuck it up just to sign a more expensive version a bit later.

La Liga getting a spanking here "Are you Tottenham in disguise" haha They're right to enjoy it tbh, we would.

Fair, almost as good as Brentford then

This is a winnable game for us - they're just another Brentford level team, we should be ok.

Also think the other teams around us are dropping points they shouldn't be quite often too. I think the run of results might end up being more forgiving than we imagine.

I feel like he just wants to prove himself too much. He needs to sit back a bit and just ease himself into the level, not being so desperate to score.

Well, that was a weird one to watch. Commentary not remotely interested in us, it was all about Leicester being utterly hopeless. And tbh.. not sure I can complain about that. We were fine but they were woeful. Good for us anyway, back in the mix once more.

Leicester are diabolical.

I'll accept whatever Howe decides as long as we win. Despite how up and down we've been this season we have a great chance to secure CL football and he needs to do whatever it's gonna take. Hopefully Gordon is determined to contribute over and above his previous level to make up for what happened.

I still waste maybe an hour of my day, every day, giving facts and evidence to people to counter this bullshit in servers I'm in on discord and so on. Some of them at least you can see that they struggle to push back when the echo chamber is shattered, and they end up conceding quite a bit. The only useful thing though that I've really learned from that is they need someone to hate either way - you can't turn them away from hating immigrants without giving them something else. I always use the rich, but in the end, I don't think that's particularly healthy either. So to some extent I think what social media does is just make people hateful first, and then harnesses that at targets second.

Yeah they have indeed been hamstrung by their management as well for sure, I don't even know why Levy runs a football club, he clearly has no interest in winning anything. Have to admit, I don't mind that they suck. They'd absolutely be rivals to us if they didn't so long may it continue.

I watched Clery's vid on Spurs and he's got a few ideas about why they've become so poor. On some of the stats they're a top 5 team but they let themselves down with decision making in the final third (not in a general sense, more specific to the style Ange wants them to play). They also get countered on a lot when they lose possession which in turn leads to the whole team needing to sprint back multiple times per game - this leads to injuries which makes the poor decision making in attack more pronounced as rhythms between players can't be achieved. I don't know if it's true but it was interesting to listen to.

Social media was a mistake. I don't even fucking use most of it anymore unless discord and WhatsApp count. All the rest of it is to me is a radicalisation platform.

My view, which is all theory, is that there are a few layers. 1 - This is an anti-globalist agenda seeking to do what Trump basically says and restore manufacturing back to the US. I think this comes probably informed by some scenario planning that US administrations had pre-Trump. America is diminishing as a power and will be overtaken by China. This represents significant strategic concern, especially since China retains so much manufacturing production itself. It could in theory outgun America in a weapons production arms race, over time. This is why the administration is so obsessed with natural resources - to make the US wholly self sufficient and separate to the whims of wider internationalism. Trump has referenced that foreign powers could hamstring US operations by withholding key aspects of their pipeline. 2 - Starting this trade war inevitably forces reciprocation from China. The administration wants this. China has banned/prevented natural mineral imports to the US as part of their response, something the US anticipated. This represents a demonstrable impact on American supply chains which undermines the security and gives a live example of the strategic risk noted in point 1. Trump can point to this and say 'look, see, we told you. We are vulnerable'. 3 - They invade Greenland, secure Ukraine, in order to ensure their own territorial control over these same minerals, thus meeting the goal of point 1. That's my conspiracy theory take.

Fair, they've basically just done worldwide Brexit in about 2 months. No way they're ready for it. Most of them didn't even seem to believe it was going to happen until the words were dribbling out of his mouth.

The fear/greed index on CNN is now at 4/100 "Extreme Fear". I'm trying to see if it's ever been that low before but so far I don't think so

He almost certainly is one to go mind. He's behind even the first team but also Miley and Willock IMO. Granted they all offer something a bit different but still.

I was too young to appreciate how good he was I suppose - just a kid so honestly didn't understand what made a player 'good' other than that they scored goals a lot. I still remember him firmly from that era though, he's one of the first 5 players I'd think of.

He was a right back if memory serves? No chance he gets in after Trippier. Honestly same for LB, think Hall will own that in any Top XIs soon.

I just checked on youtube and there are various Man Utd fan channels glorifying it that's another few years of hatred banked for me.