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Also hard to get worked up about this anymore given that there is literally no political will to do anything meaningful about it. I mean I'll keep voting for the right side of this, but it just doesn't matter beyond that what I do. This is eventually going to come down to a simple reality I think - do we get to viable fusion power before climate change dismantles human society. No one else is going to do a damn thing, that much is clear - so either science saves us, or we cook.

That is surreal, are we supposed to hearing all of that or not? All that stuff about coffee sounded like she should be off mic or something. How difficult is it to just bullshit your way through that question anyway? "Yes, the area has a look of affluence to it but actually there are indeed some areas within our community that suffer what is perhaps a hidden level of deprivation in certain places, and it is important that we are aware of this and sensitive to the needs of these people." Fucking hell...

At least we're not selling him to a PL team because you know damn well that if we ever did, his 2 games of being unstoppable every year would be against us.

Aye, we need to wait for Le Tissier to come out and tell us what the craic actually is, he's the oracle of our time after all.

It's been an interesting back and forth nonetheless

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/17/labour-mps-keir-starmer-tories-two-child-benefit-limit Labour will not get rid of the two child limit on Universal Credit payments. Apparently to do so would cost £1.3bn, but would also lift 250,000 children out of poverty. Just over £5000 per child. Or to put it another way, Labour deems a child in poverty to be worth less than £5000. EDIT - apologies, I misspoke - That's 250k children out of poverty, and a further 850k out of deep poverty. I don't really know what deep poverty is compared to poverty, but either way that reduces the per child cost significantly. Removing this cap is apparently the most cost effective way of dealing with this issue.

Yeah, on reflection I guess that was an inevitable series of follow up posts

Is it just me or has the text to gif ratio on here swung over in favour of the latter in recent weeks. Xgifs at an all time high.

Am confused. Is he guilty or innocent? It looks to me like he's just been determined to be not guilty, so why is this lad on twitter claiming that all these footballers liking the post are doing anything wrong? Huge disclaimer on this post - I haven't followed the story.

Starting to think we need to sign someone more for social cohesion on the forum than for the club itself ffs

Have no real sense for how good the Russia league is but those numbers are decent. Is it better than the Scottish league?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11329469/Suella-Bravermans-tofu-eating-wokerati-rant-full.html Not going to derail the thread further but for absolutely clarity for those who don't know my politics, I was taking the piss.

Can't believe Musk is attacking free speech like this. Restricting what people can see ffs. A card carrying member of the tofu eating wokerati, clearly.

Fair enough, but as a ressurance, no one on here is going to call for bans except in the most extreme circumstances - and even then there's a good deal of hand wringing about it. We prefer to hound people off the site rather than ban them, from what I've seen We've let mackems run amok without doing a damn thing other than setting essembee on them (they probably would have preferred to have been banned). We've let wums of all stripes sign up and have a go. The only person I can recall us banning in any recent history was Quiff and there was good reason behind it, unfortunately. We're not a ban-happy community at all. As for AH, I don't think I've seen him make a fully serious post in the entire time I've been on this forum

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that AH calling for bans is probably not meant to be taken seriously

I'm rapidly losing interest tbh Wake me up when we actually sign someone.

Done. It's an interesting issue, good luck with the study.

Labour are locked in on this strategy now so I don't see the point in complaining anymore. I won't vote for them unless their manifesto convinces me that for all the damage they're currently enabling, they're actually going to be a net good via other factors. I have no real hope of that but we'll see where it goes. I'd be really interested in comparing New Labour's general political position with the one Starmer appears to be taking up. I'm tempted to say the latter would be on the right of the former, but that's just speculation for now.

One of the elite Russian mercenary groups, Wagner, has driven tanks into a Russian city to try to hold the Russian MOD accountable for losses in Ukraine. It's starting to look like a coup.

That interview is a little painful but nonetheless nice to see him involved

Agreeing with yourself on this one mate.

I think this is honestly where I am The hysteria would be incredible. And honestly pretty justifiable. But I don't really see what anyone can do about it and that would be amazing Mind you, I'd actually be fairly surprised if it actually happened.

Justified on it costing too much then. What is it Labour are actually going to do, when they take office? Hearing a lot about what they're not going to do, precious little on what they are.

Exactly so, and they've been clear about this from the outset. Whether because of FFP, or because they just don't want to spend a fuckton of money all at once, this isn't a project where the club just gets supercharged overnight. I still maintain that everything we've done so far, we could have been doing under any ambitious owner at all. And that is absolutely fine, we will end up with a better, stronger club as a consequence. One that has earned its place at the top, rather than just having bought everyone in the room straight out of the gate.

Can you still see parsnip, and if so, what is the threshold for viewing it?