Rayvin
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Just so we're clear, nothing in my comments beyond my belief that Trump disrupting the political machine was a good thing, is a statement of my support for any of his ideas. I do believe that he should be held accountable to the people who elected him though, in the same way as I would expect that from someone on the left. The media has a job to do there. I suspect they won't do this of course, and will instead continue to defend the overthrown political establishment - which, if they do, will give Trump the ability to claim that said establishment is stacking the deck against him, and that he couldn't realise his reforms. They need to hold him to account on things he said he would do, more than anything, if they want to defeat this movement. It needs to try and fail. The risk is that it might try and succeed of course...
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I'm not convinced it is 'leftie', it's abandoned the true left (economic progressiveness) for social and political progress. The latter being all well and good, but curiously lacking in impact on the lives of middle class elites. And it's parroting of identity politics is simply divisive. I don't expect them not to report on racism and sexism man, by all means report on it, but they're going to have to accept that these points aren't why the majority of people voted for him, and that therefore, these points aren't hugely important to most people. Certainly not as important as putting bread on the table. The Guardian's sneering middle class tone was taken down a few pegs after the election (aside from the initial hysterical release of articles crying about how sexist everyone was) and I'm grateful for it. As I said though, they've put some decent articles out there since. It's noticeable how many more articles are addressing the actual issues now, rather than just identity politics narratives.
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Some fair points there and I do agree that we need to give it more time. You're right about him sounding like he'll come through on some things.
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Alan Pardew - Poltroon sacked by a forrin team
Rayvin replied to Kid Dynamite's topic in Newcastle Forum
I'm 30 - graduated in 2008 and scrabbled around trying to get a job for a while - challenging as the recession hit that summer. But aye, there was that stint inside as well... -
Initially I would have agreed with you but I'm genuinely starting to wonder about him. For me, this was all about the message and not the man. The same with Corbyn - considering the individual is not a rational way of assessing what is best for a country - we should be looking at policies and how change can be brought about. Trump has managed to get himself into position with respect of bringing change, but I'm unsure about how effective he will be (and as said, how sincere he is about realising his goals). He needs to be held to account to ensure that he is able to put the people who voted for him in a stronger position. The media would be right to challenge him on this, surely?
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I'm referring to their opinion ed sections. Some of what the Guardian pulls together for political commentary is excellent, but much of what they publish or choose not to publish, is often driven by a fixed agenda (intersectional feminism, broadly speaking). I've read so many articles on there devoid of coherent factual analysis that it has become difficult for me to say that they're credible 100% of the time. When they're exposing political corruption or reporting on news events live, they're pretty strong. Not sure I agree on much else. Although with that said, they have put some far more solid articles out since Trump. It's not all about misogyny and racism after all, it seems. Curious that it was before his election.
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The Guardian has about faced a bit in the fall out which is great news. They're really being hammered for identity politics now and it's forcing some actual analysis rather than agenda driven nonsense. Still though, them getting on board with Trump is something I'm not sure I can imagine in any sort of scenario.
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Which bit? the bit about him not being good? At the very base level (not taking his actual politics into consideration), he's reneging on certain pre-election promises already by the sounds of it, doesn't have a particularly organised transition team (suggesting he didn't intend or plan to win), doesn't understand diplomacy to any great degree (although I can see that being a plus also) and seems unkeen on the idea of fully committing to the job. That leads me to think at best that he has no real plan for what to do with the political system he has just disrupted. Therefore, he'll be led by people in the background like Bannon. I'm undecided on Bannon, but it really could go either way with him and essentially renders Trump a puppet. A truly lasting change would be more likely to come about as a result of someone who fervently believes in what he or she has just been elected for, not what we appear to be getting with Trump... Do you think he looks sincere?
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Poor guy. Although ffs, how drunk would you have to be...
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Hang on, I thought the idea was that Trump was a disruptive force in politics, but ultimately one that we didn't really think was going to be a 'good president'? I can see the advantages of him being where he is, but I'm not looking forward to the next four years Darkest before the dawn and all that.
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Cheers Did Papa Lazaru (who I note doesn't post here anymore) ever live that down?
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Ah THAT one. Yeah I've seen that before Fair enough
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I couldn't find it based on a few slices of the title but fair enough
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Agree, 3-0 for me as well.
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Alan Pardew - Poltroon sacked by a forrin team
Rayvin replied to Kid Dynamite's topic in Newcastle Forum
I was 6 months into my working life back in 2009 ffs. -
You're enjoying these thread titles too much...
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I have a feeling this might be the case
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Alan Pardew - Poltroon sacked by a forrin team
Rayvin replied to Kid Dynamite's topic in Newcastle Forum
2009 is fucking ages ago by the way, it's a wildly different world To be honest, 2015 is starting to look fucking ages ago based on how the world is changing... -
This is a fair point, but unless you're there, how do you know he's doing this if the camera isn't following it...? I can quite readily believe it fwiw, I think Perez is worth having in the team personally - he does score after all. The only question for me is whether or not Mitro would score more.
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Is Tiote in the squad? Is he still alive, even?
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To add to this, it actually gives them more credibility this way around. If they kept it going he could point to all negative reporting as part of a lasting agenda - with this, they can set out that they've focused only on what he has done since being in power. I dunno, I don't think the media establishment are going to go down without a fight on this HF. They're loyal to the centre, not the right.
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This is a fair point I guess but he'll need them too... how else will he get his message across?
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They did that before this talk though. And I thought the gist was that they'd put it back if appropriate?
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This has shades of the Ben Arfa forum split...