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Especially when he slots the highest pressure shots from difficult places against all comers in World Cups for the Saffers.

"No, no, Zia, mate... you're one of the good ones, OK?"

Well, that was much more difficult than it needed to be, but any one you walk away from. Bring on the final.

MP Rosie Duffield commented on Oberman's post, writing: "One can, and should hate what is happening in Gaza and also condemn the hideous events of October 7th. "It is agonising to see events unfold, and requires extremely careful, measured and well-considered comments and actions. This is not that." Quite.

Some try, that.

It does ask feel rather mid 1930s Germany, yes.

I think with easier access to digital devices things have become much more paperless now, though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4z7zyl0gwo Five leaders of far-right group the Proud Boys, who were convicted in connection to the 6 January, 2021 Capitol riot, have sued the US government for $100 million (£74m), claiming that their rights were violated during their prosecution. The five were convicted of plotting and taking part in the riot to overturn President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election. Trump pardoned or commuted their sentences earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in Florida on Friday, claims FBI agents and prosecutors were motivated by personal biases when prosecuting their cases. They argue their constitutional rights were trampled on "to punish and oppress political allies" of Trump. The lawsuit was filed by Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. Tarrio was found guilty of plotting the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, which happened as lawmakers were certifying former President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison, the longest out of the five. He was formally convicted of seditious conspiracy, a rarely used charge of planning to overthrow the government, and multiple other counts. The other four leaders faced similar charges, and were also sentenced to time behind bars. Their convictions were overturned by Trump, who issued approximately 1,500 pardons of people involved in the Capitol riot in January, on the day of his inauguration. The audacity is rather amazing, I'll hand it to them on that.

Finished FF7 Rebirth recently. ... certainly more questions than answers there, but what a fantastic game overall.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j728gvp94o Builders will be required to fit solar panels to the "vast majority" of new build homes in England under changes to be published this year, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has said. The regulations will require developers to add panels unless the buildings fall under certain exemptions such as being covered by shade. Speaking to the BBC, Miliband said the move was "just common sense" adding that solar panels would save the typical household £500 a year on their energy bills. Sensible in principle, though I'm sure the building industry will squawk about it.

This being said, with this in the US and Zia Yusuf in the UK, it's not been a bad day all round.

It's all talk right now. As entertaining as it is, let me know when one of them actually does something to harm the other.

Personally, I'd rather not play roulette with the future of civilisation, or even our and a great many species. Those are the stakes.

Let's say that they did. Does the rest of the world and the future deserve what he's doing and will do to them?

Yeah, that's what I meant - my major nitpick with the second game was that it simply got too bleak and so it became difficult to care.

Yeah, don't take the howling of the online incel mob as gospel - they did the same thing when the game came out. It's still very good, just doesn't scale the heights of the first game/season and veers into the too dark and bleak, imo.

In terms of raw numbers he lags behind, but yes, it's certainly not for lack of ambition. It's so deeply depressing to see people like that aspire to power in so many places and at so many points throughout history.

The cognitive dissonance of those who stand by and let it happen, and also the sheer monstrous sociopathy of those who carry out out (whatever the justification) and those who look at it and want to emulate it for their own self interest . Our species has to do better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgq0gy82wjo Gaza has become worse than hell on earth, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has told the BBC. In an interview at the ICRC's headquarters in Geneva, the organisation's president Mirjana Spoljaric said "humanity is failing" as it watched the horrors of the Gaza war. Speaking in a room close to a case displaying the ICRC's three Nobel Peace Prizes, I asked Ms Spoljaric about remarks she made in April, that Gaza was "hell on earth", and if anything had happened since to change her mind. "It has become worse… We cannot continue to watch what is happening. It's surpassing any acceptable, legal, moral, and humane standard. The level of destruction, the level of suffering. "More importantly, the fact that we are watching a people entirely stripped of its human dignity. It should really shock our collective conscience." Powerful words, powerful interview.

Nah, just throwing out a barb regarding the Beebs fact-checking and adjusting stories as new factual information comes in. Height of hypocrisy of course, seeing as this administration has a lot of form on both not bothering to fact check and then doubling down when they're shown to be wrong.

Yes. And that's why either they win, or there is a reckoning - for the people that act like this and the people like this administration who enable and embolden them.

Trump's press lackey not happy that the Beeb aren't being utterly sycophantic to them in the same way a lot of other areas of the media - American and otherwise - are, then.

Jon has it about right from one perspective, but also... 71 countries still criminalise LGBT relationships. 11 of them carry a potential death penalty for it. And that's just the criminally institutionalised discrimination, the everyday civil discrimination where LGBT folks have trouble obtaining healthcare, housing and work without being discriminated against is much more prevalent in many more places. Hell, the "gay panic" defence is still a viable defence for killing someone in some places. A prominent gay actor was shot dead for simply being that way in the US the other day (see the cvnts thread), and the case of Brianna Ghey shows such hate crimes happen in the UK too (thankfully, not as often). Progress is being made compared even to a decade or two ago, but there's still a way to go and yes, the discrimination is still rife even if a lot of folks either can't see it or pretend not to. Of course, if we're talking about the UK only then the issues aren't as bad as the majority of other places, but this discourse and Pride itself has never been just about one country. WRT it being a whole month rather than a day, I think that can be put down as the matter still being ongoing and requiring of attention as rights for LGBT people are still apparently a matter of debate for much, much more people than the other groups mentioned here.

Seriously, how do you reason with people whose ideology involves not only wanting you dead because of who you are, but taking pleasure in inflicting both that and physical and mental suffering beforehand? And how do you reason with those people when they are in number and highly motivated?

It would be easier if it was just the homegrown bigots to deal with, wouldn't it? Unfortunately there seems to be quite a few of those about at the present time.