Rayvin
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Not unaffordable ones though, I would think. BTW Parky, I remember you saying that this would never happen - that the banks and so on would collude behind the scenes to prevent Brexit happening. I'm not bringing this up to be awkward, but why do you think it's going through despite the harm it seems set to do to such powerful establishment actors?
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Alan Pardew - Poltroon sacked by a forrin team
Rayvin replied to Kid Dynamite's topic in Newcastle Forum
Weird to see him claiming that he had us in credit in terms of transfers. Surely it was well known that such matters had almost nothing to do with him? -
Retros for diving would certainly help the game become less frustrating, but it's hard to see it coming in as teams like Barcelona would suffer badly. I guess you'd also have to decide if someone had just fallen over or not.
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I think his point is that other calls can have an equal say in deciding the game, and that if you're going to eliminate all error on things like goals, you should do the same on the others. Not sure I agree though as the rules are applied equally at the end of the day, and both teams have the potential benefit.
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Does Gemmill even post any more? He's been AWOL for a while now. Presumably on Reddit with the other "cool" kids.
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Don't worry by the way, if brexit is a disaster, Nigel Farage has stated that he will be leaving the country. So there's one inevitable positive. http://uk.businessinsider.com/nigel-farage-will-leave-britain-if-brexit-is-a-disaster-2017-3
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Nah I'd say he's right about this one. Good for them. Also, it'll help placate people while they're sending the thought police round for crimes against religions with special status.
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That might be the most Daily Mail headline I've seen in some time.
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I'm always uncomfortable when anyone mentions 're-education'. Sounds Orwellian.
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Fair enough.
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What do you think though - should universities be able to discipline professors and students for not using preferred pronouns?
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Not looked at Joe Rogan before. I guess I could give it a look but you haven't exactly sold him here The thing with Peterson is that he seems to be a freedom of speech advocate in the truest sense, and simply won't be told what he can and can't say - and that principle alone has landed him in his coveted position as Canadian SJW's Most Wanted. It's laughable in my view, given that cavernous gap in intellect between him and the muppets chanting slogans at him while he tries to talk. I don't know how widespread this sort of thing is, but it does occasionally appear that certain universities in North America are being taken over by these people, and that they're subjecting everything to ideological purity tests. Looks almost religious in terms of how they operate. Have to say mind, Peterson is a bit of an awkward orator. Not entirely sure he's quite realised what he's gotten himself into here.
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I haven't. Not sure what bearing that has on anything given that my judgements were based on Canada's government policies rather than an assessment of their populace. For clarity though, I don't think Canadians in general are left wing regressives. I just think that their government is a firm advocate of such things. But then, that's just based on what I read in the MSM, so who knows?
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Peterson I've encountered before - I'm not in a position to judge him really in an academic sense as he's clearly more well informed than I am. He does appear to be in middle of the 'culture war' out there, though. I mean, to be fair to him, the videos I've seen of people literally just screaming over the top of him as he attempts to have rational discussions with willing students in an academic environment is frankly pathetic. Seems to be some suggestion that he might be charged with hate crimes soon for not using people's preferred personal pronouns It's all very dramatic.
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It works for them only though. Well, at least as far as I can tell. The left appear to fight identity politics based on othering the mainstream voters. I suppose you could make an argument for the 'women's vote' being a good way of implementing identity politics to appeal to a 'majority' voter base, but it just doesn't work. Largely because most women aren't all that arsed about it as a tactic (apparently, given that a fairly large number of women voted for Trump). The left could at least work on a collective identity around unity and economic progress. That could bring people together who basically have the same lots in life. They don't do this though, they go for simplistic racial and gender strategies.
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I do, yes. Given that I believe she lost because she was bigging up her 'woman' status rather than addressing people's actual concerns - a belief I hold having read articles about how blue collar workers in some of the more industrially inclined states, that had voted Democrat every election for the past 30 years, suddenly decided she had no message for them. Both sides have sullied themselves with identity politics drivel, it's just that the right are so much better at it than the left are. The left should be calling out identity politics as a flawed means of progress and labelling it as divisive and unhelpful. Instead, they're dying on their own sword.
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I feel like that in General Chat sometimes.
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All Republican Presidents do that though. And then the Dems reverse it. That's well within the bounds of normality. Not disagreeing that it's a poor decision, but we would have expected that with any Republican in charge.
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Agree with this - Article 50 is coming and this is well known by the markets. After the referendum it was a shock, but I'd be surprised to see another fall on the same scale. The sad thing is that the Brexiters will probably crow about this as if this means that people are coming around to their way of thinking.
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He fought fire with fire on the campaign trail, identity politics was used by all and sundry. No political force at the moment can claim to be 'unifying'. These people aren't nazis though. Not yet, not in their current form. If we get these people in now, and they 'act' on behalf of the enraged and left behind, it might conceivably have saved us from a more extreme reaction further down the line. I suppose it probably does also embolden the hard right, but realistically, I don't think that makes people any more likely to subscribe to their views.
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You're right on the first statement there tbf, that does encapsulate our view points. Not sure I'd go so far as to say the 'demise' of Neoliberalism, but more the readjustment to better serve more people. I don't think it'll bounce back the other way as such, I just think it'll force the left and centre to realign themselves behind people again. The left is never going to win in its current guise, and the centre is in the same boat now IMO, or at least heading that way. I'm still hoping for an Alt Left.
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Aye but that's because you think he's there because people are hateful idiots, and that this in turn means that they're a problem we have to solve by virtue of who they are. Whereas I think they're desperate idiots, who've been ignored by mainstream politics - and that this is going to force mainstream politics to change for the better (because it'll die if it doesn't).
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I didn't say you shouldn't worry. You absolutely should, as your set of opinions and general belief structure hasn't taken you to the same conclusions as mine. I'm just saying that I'm not worrying. Not yet at least.
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Aye, I saw that post too. I know I get stick on here for complaining about SJWs and the regressive wing of leftist politics, but Canada is the nation that most closely encapsulates their value systems. So it's not an entirely surprising move from them, especially with Trudeau in charge.
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Well no, I'm concerned about Article 50. Fuck knows what we're going to get out of that. I'm just not worried about Trump. Not at the moment at least.