Rayvin

I know, I just... Tbh I'm just screaming into the void anyway.

I didn't have a passion for Corbyn - please just internalise this point. I had an intense disillusionment with literally everything that wasn't Corbyn. This has not changed. You are currently witnessing my intense disillusionment with the shitshow that is the political machinations of this country. I was on the brink of simply giving up on voting pre-Corbyn, and nothing has happened since he came along that makes me think that any other status quo party has learned a damn thing from why he is where he is, and even why Brexit happened. This farce about anti-semitism is staggering. Has anyone been killed by an anti-semitic left winger yet? Has anyone even been assaulted? All we have are vague fucking accusations of this and that at a time when we are a couple of steps away from a war with a major power. It's just... I don't even understand this country. It's fucking insane.

Re: the BBC, I don't think they lie or are inaccurate. I just don't think they report on everything that they should.

And if May had been accused of anti-semitism, you'd have been crying about it. Yawn.

I think we should have gone through the proper channels and, if the Russians obstructed the process the whole way, allowed that to speak for itself as far as the international community is concerned.

Could see that coming a mile off.

It's literally in your profile information Banned after 3 posts.

What is the point in having a "UN", or the Convention against chemical weapons, if we're simply not going to pay any attention to them? I assume you support the wholesale disbanding of both institutions then? Or do their rules not apply to us, making them instead an tool by which powerful nations keep smaller ones in check? I can't get my head around why so many people think it's acceptable to just fly off the handle like this in response to such things. We are being led by the least competent leaders any of us have ever seen, and we'll criticise them left and right about everything, right up until the opportunity to go and blow up other countries is on the table, and then they have our full, unquestioning, compliant backing.

We need to start pushing critical thinking at school level to combat misinformation, but aside from that, the media needs to be held to actual standards for their reporting. Lying by omission is the biggest problem IMO. I note that the reporting on 'fake news' has turned people back to the MSM though, public trust is now back to 60%. Staggering IMO, but if people have nowhere decent to turn, I guess the least bad option becomes the only viable one. Interestingly the report says more and more people simply aren't reading news anymore. That's presumably the real consequence of all of this. As for Syria, yeah, we'll never know what the deal actually was.

The alternative was to go through the proper channels.

I'm lazy

Ah. I'm not yet fluent in mackem abbreviations I guess.

I'm just countering conspiracy theories with conspiracy theories. I don't give a shit who did what here, I just don't want us to go to war.

What is that last one?

What if there was an attack and it was carried out by the rebels? Given that basically the entire Western World had publicly announced that Assad would be staying and that he had effectively "won", an attack by the Syrians using chemweps makes little sense either.

Aye I mean, we should be in a good position to pick up players from Southampton as well, as has been mentioned before - but still, I just don't like Palace.

I can't believe we're getting rid of both Stoke and WBA in the same fell swoop. If Palace could find a way back into the mire as well it would be a perfect season in terms of relegations.

Aye, technically true with Stoke having played a game more. Think we can ignore the whole thing now. The bottom 3 will stay as they are IMO.

That would be tragic

Just noticed someone pointing out that their match thread on us vs Arsenal is twice as long as the one on NO. Granted there seems to have been a high number of our lot on there (including The Fish of course) but even so that's bizarre. If that 6 in a row irrelevance had never happened, I wonder what they would be clinging on to right now.

Is it just me or is essembee trying harder to be normal now that we have something to be happy about?

Mbemba is still here?!

Nice. Really good move for the Switch as well.

I'm encouraged that HF seems to think we will net spend £70m this summer.