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Much better.
Very judicious use of the word "they".
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"Reds" ????
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To benefit, they’d actually have to pay it in the first place.
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Single transferable voting would give a far more representative result than first past the post.
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He knew he was in for a tough time so he ran away. Same old story.
#TACO
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It’s time the US paid its own way and stopped relying on other countries to subsidize its inability to balance its books. Stop buying US government bonds.
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New owners want to spread the talent around?
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If I'm reading this correctly, Utah has an electorate of 2.2m. In the last senate vote, Lee won with 572K of the votes ... 26% of the voting population voted for him. And no Democrat stood against him.
The US is weird.
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Nice work Peter! (Bookmarked!)
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You link only goes to your localhost, which is shame, because I'm interested.
But the least said about that last comment, the better.
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The international game is highly profitable - that's why the cartel at the top of the game and not interested in growing the sport.
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Ironically, Aviron Bayonnais made a profit in financial year 2023-4. They've made a profit in four of the last six seasons.
(if you believe chat GPT)
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Most of the money comes from Union handouts. The URC TV deal is tiny. Expenses are huge (flying everywhere). So costs are rising and revenue is flat.
You'd need to be "challenged" to want to "invest" in that. It's a charity sport.
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And of course richer unions can drive clubs out of business in poorer unions simply through unsustainable wage inflation. There is no opportunity to drop down a league. They can simply bankrupt the sport in poorer countries.
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Unions who run the sport are also massively in debt & use that debt to fund union-owned teams. And to be fair to the French, at least they have a salary cap, so they can reduce that if sustainability becomes an issue. Union-run clubs and competitions have no cap and so are completely out of control.
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Regime violence = good
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www.npr.org/2024/11/21/n...
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…. and their families, and their neighbours families and innocent people who just happened to be in the area.
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Quality > Quantity
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"Nobody else seems to want the job".
🎯
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🎶 If looks could kill they probably will ...
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MACO
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John Lord, eat your heart out.
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So little value attached to human life. What makes a nation so callous?