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"Real peace isn't just the absence of conflict. It's the presence of justice."
President James Marshall - Air Force One
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Reading the comments for that post is depressing.
Fascism has a very real chance of engulfing your country.
No point pussy footing around. It's because there are a lot of American fascists in it.
It won't end well. Especially for most of them. It will crush them. That's just what it does.
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Well, why don't you find out where he is now?
You won't even try.
But you won't find him if you could be bothered to bestir yourself.
He's gone.
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I think cheap food, or at least the choice, for strapped families to make that call, is really important.
We could stick the bloody stars and stripes on anything imported and people could make their own choice.
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It's a tough gig. But they are moaning fuckers.
One idea - farmers form co-operatives and own the abattoirs and food processing facilities, by lending to them through a Farming Bank. Then disintermediating supermarkets to sell directly.
They might like that, but then I'd import US food too 😆
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The best take I've heard is that Trump will call for a reproachment, and pretend to Musk he can come back into the tent, but he won't really forgive or forget.
He'll want Musk to crawl because he loves humiliating people. See Romney, Graham, Cruz, Little Marco.
Musk shouldn't fold, but he will.
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Did you say... a bermb?
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Yeah, but that'll do it for me!
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Is Elmo about to commit suicide in his cell? 😆
TBH I don't believe the election was rigged, but it would be funny as fuck if that started to gain traction.
Just one Tweet from Musk who, let's face it, is high as a kite right now ought to do it.
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I adore this story, and remember with pleasure reading it to my kids when they were little. My daughter was 8, my son 5. How they laughed!
Now, my daughter is 15 and, after the divorce, she doesn't speak to me. It was Mum who ran around 🤷♀️
Enjoy it while it lasts folks! You don't get it back.
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He may actually be going directly there.
He's got no fucking chance of going to Canada.
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Well, he's fucked now!
No pun intended, but richly deserved. And deeply hilarious 😆
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Turning X against Trump could be a fascinating ride... and with Murdoch (probably) soon to bow out?
Anything can happen.
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I've been predicting for some time that SpaceX is too strategically important to the US to be in the hands of one man.
I suddenly think that will start occurring to MAGA as well. Unless there is a 3rd act reconciliation, just in time for Elmo's money, he's finished. There can only be one winner.
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There may be a third act where they emotionally make up, just in time for Musk's money. But that Epstein jibe may not be undoable...
Seriously, Musk could end up wearing orange, not just kissing it, if this keeps up.
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That is absolutely fabulous. The two thin skinned fools are at each others throats. We did say Trump destroys everyone and everything he touches (though America is probably too big, even for him).
What Elmo doesn't realise is, Trump will come for SpaceX. He'll just be left with X 😆
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Har har
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Which is exactly why Steve Baker finds him so sexy apparently.
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What an asshole.
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Relieved to read they were peppercorns and not my first assumption...
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But he's not in control is he.
And I think the first place that will change is the UK media scene.
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The bottom three look right!
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That far-right hack isn't pretending to be a pollster anymore is he?
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Was that 'this is the house that cum built' episode?
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Or d.) ALL of the above and then make a judicious investment of your bungs in Apple's 1976 IPO of $1,000, making you and your family billionaires.
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3. Things will change when Murdoch dies.
Ticktock.
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2. If they were clear-eyed about it the destruction of Farage as a political personality would also be the primary aim of the Conservatives. Currently, it isn't.
If both parties worked together, I don't think it would be the hard to accomplish.
And Reform without him are nothing.
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1. Because fascism never really did take root here, nor communism. We can be glib about it, but there really is a tradition, however grounded in trust and compliance, of individual liberty.
That can and should be appealed to. But at the right time.
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I love em! My Dad was a Leeds lad and a massive fan. My earliest football memory was watching the European cup final (Ok, it's not quite, it was the semis when we beat Barcelona) on TV with my Dad.
I remember how excited he was and how gutted he was at the result. We was robbed. My team. For life.
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Are saying BratVeertz doesn't work?
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This shows you what MAGA and the GOP will be after Trump has his disabling 'health event'. A sack of eels. It will be wildly entertaining to see them rip each other apart.
Nobody can remotely replace him. Everybody will try, and every one of them despises the others. Internecine hell!
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Well, Lady K and of course Adrian Dittmann.
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Apparently, Lionel Messi will only watch football in a pub that sells Walkers.
It's certainly a surprise to me, I can tell you.
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Putting a clip from Braveheart in your post about Scotland means you lose the internet today, however much good faith was in your original post.
Sorry, but those are the rules. 🤷♀️
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They are a front for a white nationalist, ultra-conservative movement for sure, that wants to roll back progressive change by a century if they could. They are fully aligned to Putin's European agenda.
But it switches many people off saying that. They don't believe or understand it.
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People need to be reminded that Farage brought us expensive food and long holiday queues and that he wants to privatise the NHS.
Oh, and he loves that bully Donald Trump.
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Then you never wanted him did you? I don't recognise your view that he whips up hatred. I think that's in your head, quite frankly.
And he doesn't 'openly support genocide'. Who does? A monster. That's what you've made him.
Dehumanising someone based on ethnicity is a sin Mary. But you do you.
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Mary, why moan about being under the microscope for anything but football and then blithely doing exactly that?
Think of it this way. Solomon is a man. He is not his government. Israel is not its government. It's like not wanting an Englishman in the team in the 80s because of the Falklands war.
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The Champ is just vastly more fun than the Prem (and no VAR) but it's hellish to get out of.
Leeds had to break 50 year old club records right, left and centre.
But what alternative to chasing promotion is there? You have to dream. What about a European cup for promoted teams? To offset PSR?
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From the parochial to the plutocracy. But speaking as a Leeds fan, I see a super league already in the EPL, enforced by well meaning but crippling PSR for newly promoted clubs.
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It's depressing, but we may become a yo-yo team for a few seasons, before they inevitably (and correctly) change the rules to allow newly promoted teams to spend more in year 1.
They've created a Super League without trying. It's obviously unintentional because it has Brentford in it.
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Agreed.
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Yeah, but you kind of get where he's coming from. We need a fox in the box and that's not Piroe. We could do with someone pacier up front.
I actually think if we upgrade our 10 and midfield he'll score goals in the Prem. Just not hatfuls.
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I hate that! It saves us a few quid but we get players in late and it unbalances the whole squad.
It's so important for morale, expectations and confidence that we get a good start this time round. We need 10 points from the first 10 games, minimum.
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Wouldn't that accelerate the intradivisional divide? And you'd have to have relegation and promotion as a part of it.
I can see the rationale of a league or a league cup competition between say, Scotland, Netherlands, Belgium and the Nordic top teams. But I don't see it happening any time soon.
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I didn't know the per capita stat. Ok, so I may tentatively start to entertain your thesis 🙂
Do you have any thoughts on how Scotland can begin to address the relative competitive decline of club and country since the 70s? Has it already turned a corner?
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An astonishing statistic, thank you. Hard to believe and yes, you're right, it's a record that will never be broken. #LUFC