Rayvin

NK already is a failed state, so I don't know what that's supposed to mean? If it was absorbed into SK it would be better for China as an economic prospect. I actually think SK has the most to lose here. The last thing they want is millions of NK citizens suddenly becoming their responsibility and tanking their economy. I've heard this said a few times, it's not in SK's interests for this to happen. It is in China's, if they can do it without losing face.

I dunno about that... China are no fans of North Korea, considering them to be both an embarrassment and unpredictable. The problem is that China won't want a build up of US forces on their immediate border. But if they handle it like grown ups, China and the US could just pincer NK and get it over with, while preserving the integrity of China's national border. Of course they'd probably turn it into a land grab, but there we go. Still better than the current regime.

No, Trump's comments on the arms race were absolutely absurd. Economic sanctions on Russia, and 'diplomatic measures' against them, such as destabilising key allies, are what brought us to this point IMO. The Russian economy is struggling, of course, because of the US. The real question here, IMO, is why the West is so hellbent on provoking Russia at all.

I don't think Putin is enjoying this btw. He put heavy faith in a peace process and looking like an international statesmen, and Trump has prevented him from being able to do this now. Given that the Russians thought Trump was going to be a good thing for them, it seems clear that Trump is to Russia what Putin was to the West. An initially positive development that turned sour very quickly.

I see So you think Clinton would have backed down in the face of Putin's alpha male persona?

Is Trump actually going to solve the NK problem? I mean, is he serious? Fucking hell. Renton, fwiw, if he invades North Korea then I'll agree that he's more likely than Clinton to bring about WW3 One can only hope he has China's backing.

Given everything Clinton has said about putting Russia back in their box, I just don't think that's a supportable statement. You're basing this entirely on your 'feeling' that Trump is more likely to take us to war. To say again, as I note it has been entirely unanswered previously, as usual, Trump's response in Syria was less severe than what Clinton was calling for. Which was for all of his airbases to be destroyed. How do you think Russia would have responded to that, exactly?

That's quite possibly the most interesting thing I've read on here in some time

The video suggests that only about 5 people were involved, and the article mentions it lasted for 2 to 3 stops. Which is about 5 minutes

In that case maybe he'll forget that he's president eventually.

What exactly is Spicer's background? He looks like a village idiot kind of person. I don't actually understand why Trump, if he knows he's unsuited for this (As he presumably does, deep down) hasn't hired some astoundingly competent people instead of these cretins...

FFS. We really need to get over equating everything to the nazis, it's getting fucking ridiculous now.

I was messing around too tbf. I didn't actually mean you were a Tory

Hasn't it? Are...are we still living under feudalism?!? And yes, I can tell I'm not sure this is a recognised SJW issue though. Actual improvements to people's lives through addressing economic inequality isn't something they'd be interested in, as they're part of the bourgeois middle classes They're all about divide and rule. You sound like a Tory though

That would probably work, I grant you. For a generation at least. Maybe every couple of generations you need to bomb them so that living memory carries the threat of not submitting to the status quo. Alternatively, we can try and make positive change - controversial way to go of course. No money in it for those at the top.

I'm not elevating Pardew and Allardyce here, so much as saying there's probably not actually a lot to choose between many of them. I mean, even Guardiola has looked intransigent and tactically flawed this season - and he's supposedly the poster child for intelligent management.

You know the point I'm making. No one lives life thinking "well it was even shitter than this 100 years ago, so on that basis I should just pipe the fuck down".

Aye, you'd think so. So at the moment they're thinking "Fuck, I'm being left behind and have no hope for the future".

I'd be interested to see how either of them get on at a big club mind cos you never know. There are times when I think this whole management game in football is populated entirely by charlatans who don't know what they're doing. It'd be interesting to see one of them in charge of, say, Arsenal. Moyes at Man Utd might be the closest we've gotten and he had an arguably better record than Van Gaal, from memory.

When the blitz was happening, were people looking back at the Somme and thinking 'well this isn't so bad'?

That last point is what I've felt UAF and the EDL should have done years ago. We could nominate Sunderland as the venue. I watched an interview with Tommy Robinson on how the EDL got going, and actually, you can see how he ended up there. Of course he's just painting his side, but it sounds like the community he lived in was living in fear of violent gangs of asian men, embroiled in drugs, prostitution and all manner of general crime, and that local authorities were too scared to touch them. That's a failure of the establishment. Had stronger action been taken against such people, maybe we wouldn't have ended up here. But equally, maybe such action would have been branded Islamophobic and ultimately shouted down. I always end up thinking the whole thing is a massive political failure based around a project that wasn't properly thought through, communicated, or reinforced with solid cultural education. So now we're all fucking terrified of each other.

I mean, what people on here have said is true. I think Renton has the closest line to the centre on this: "This is about as good as it gets, what more do you want from us" is the centre's line. The problem, as has been expressed at great length, is that this is a tough fucking sell when you've got the super rich in the picture as well Especially when so much of the misery is centred on the young. Apparently Le Pen is polling well with younger voters. Says it all really. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/09/forgotten-france-marine-le-pen-president "Only Le Pen cares about us" The centre, as I've said before, can get to fuck. They're delivering us an absolute nightmare.

The French centre is collapsing as per what we've seen elsewhere: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/11/france-left-europe-jean-luc-melenchon-presidential-election

I know what you mean. As you said before, maybe it's nothing more than directors wanting to put their own mark on it, and finding such things easiest to do in the origin story. Vanity at the end of the day.

This is a fair point I suppose, but I can't remember how I felt about it at the time now sadly. I think the second one blew me away more though. Could have done without the cringetastic gif though Fucking hell Fantastic Four was bad.