The Doctor

I'm not judging him on the stint here but on his career to date, reasonable manager but not far too good for this division the way Enzo is based on their performances in this division

I mean Smith is a reasonable manager but at the same time, his Villa side needed the playoffs. I think if we'd appointed him we'd be on around 50-55 points and scrapping with Southampton, Ipswich and Leeds, not sprinting away from them

I would suggest it's against the best interests of the club because the players respond to the crowd, and by being negative as a crowd they damage team performances. Like, I'm not convinced there's not a correlation between the streaming out at 85 minutes and the recent spate of stoppage time goals we're conceding

Literally not the case, I was one of the biggest bad mouthers of Rodgers last season and called relegation in the first week of the season if he wasn't sacked. I've been critical of some of the game management this season particularly how it seems subs are preplanned at times, but criticise where criticism is actually warranted, and criticism of the style of play under Enzo from the "just **** it forward" bridge is not even remotely warranted.

This has literally been prompted by him talking about walking the moment people no longer believe in his way in relation to fans constantly grumbling about his way. Put the pieces together, it's a kids first jigsaw level puzzle

Tbh, if you don't like this style of play then it's time to **** off and support a different club, because it's not changing. You weirdos hound Enzo out because it's not blood and thunder stop the boats ball, you'll get another Puel. It's been 7 years since we sacked Ranieri 6 and half since Shakespeare, in that time we've gone from Puel to Rodgers to Enzo, and while each have executed it to varying degrees of success, they've been managers who've believed in possession football and death by a thousand passes. This is clearly what the higher ups at the club believe in and will make it the "Leicester way". Life as primarily a counter attacking side isn't coming back and you need to accept that or stop coming to games

So, he only likes the actual fans who turn up to support the team and doesn't like the moaning bastards who couldn't even spell UEFA but think they know football better than the guy with a UEFA pro license? Shocking.

Dogshit fans who applauded last season's team off and started fighting people who wanted Rodgers gone, while not celebrating an incredible manager with a ****ing 76% win rate. Genuinely think it's time to implement a basic football knowledge test to get tickets

Praet over Yunus is interesting, I thought Yunus looked more interested on Saturday but I guess he's going to be more covering for KDH when selected then

A ceasefire requires both parties to agree, and well... https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-says-it-will-abide-by-any-icj-ceasefire-order-if-israel-reciprocates-2024-01-25/ https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/israels-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire-demand-opposes-palestinian-statehood/videoshow/107061012.cms There's one party in there saying that under no circumstances will they agree to a ceasefire.

Stanton's ten stages of genocide is honestly something you should read about and that should be taught more generally. Genocide never starts out at full blast, it ramps up. Pretty much every society in history has done at least the first few stages (classification, symbolisation and discrimination), the concern is that it progresses further (dehumanisation, organisation, polarisation, preparation, persecution, extermination), and if you're telling me you don't see elements of dehumanisation in how, for instance, Governor Abbott talks about Mexicans, or De Santis about LGBT people, and the laws they enact to act on that, then I'd suggest paying more attention

Yea, it's very much a war crime (Article 8 of the Rome Statute, 2.b.ix) and if a hospital becomes a legitimate military target (for instance harbouring a general, then under Article 19 the hospital must be given advanced notice) but then again war crimes are basically Israel's stated MO when it comes to Gaza since October 7th (to quote the Israeli defence minister: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly") and, while the Hague has handed down a judgment saying hey don't do that, Israel has no intention of respecting that judgement (the national security minister literally tweeted "Hague Schmague" in response to the decision)

Already covered this in response to Burnley - really not unusual to know if your teachers are married, particularly if you come back after summer holidays and Ms Durst is now Mrs Jones, similarly trans teachers - pretty damn obvious if you finish year 4 with Ms Jane Doe and come back to year 5 to learn from Mr John Doe. In practice it creates a hostile environment for LGBT teachers where they have to be very vigilant about what snippets of their personal lives their students find out about.

I mean, "this isn't defamatory because his reputation is so trash you can't damage it" is a frankly hilarious precedent to set.

Because he can't lift his arms high enough for them

And the Sunderland game. Be fair to him, this will be the first mid week game at Leicester this season where he won't miss an obvious penalty on Fatawu

Ultimately this sort of shit is why people talk about Trump as a Hitler figure, because it's his party acolytes that are waging lawfare against gay people and trying to make border crossings from Mexico lethal (the moderate republicans have about as much control as the corbynites do of UK labour). The fact that it's all happening under Biden is an aside (although it does somewhat encourage the parallel, he could stop a lot of this with executive orders and enforcement of things like Title IX, but doesn't because he's more wedded to the system than protecting people from exceptional circumstances; a Von Hindenburg if you will)

I mean it literally given you're not reading a thing said. Once again: there is no indication that the law exists in the candidate guide, there is no indication it exists in the candidacy papers. It is not a law that is enforced in any way, or rather was not enforced in any way until a couple of weeks ago: whether there were candidates in the past that would have fallen foul of it had it been enforced before is irrelevant because again "The candidate forms don’t instruct applicants to list previous names, and the statute is not listed in the state’s 33-page candidate guide" - in practice the law was not a thing. Take into consideration that Ohio are currently pushing one of the most aggressive drag show bans going with House Bill 245, which defines drag to include: “performers or entertainers who exhibit a gender identity that is different from the performer’s or entertainer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts, or other physical markers.” (for reference this would make the royal philharmonic orchestra considered an adult only cabaret show if they so much as had a trans musician in the cast) and what this is is clearly an obscure law that was never previously enforced being brought back out to stop a minority from standing for election while the electoral bodies attempt to ban said minority from public life.

The idea of hooliganism in 2006 is hilarious tbh, like 2 decades too late

Is literacy not a skill taught in Burnley? So again: this Ohio law is not enforced in any way prior to this election, and part of that is because it's never been publicised as a law, indeed it's not in the guidance for candidates seeking election: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/22/ohio-trans-candidates/ "The candidate forms don’t instruct applicants to list previous names, and the statute is not listed in the state’s 33-page candidate guide." Nor is it the intent of the law (there's no intent to deceive by not listing their old name). It is a non-enforced law that the election bodies didn't recognise, right up until there was a chance to use it to stop a trans candidate. As for Florida's Don't Say Gay law, learn what a hypothetical is. The law has not caused that yet, however the law is structured in a way that means it could happen and very tightly restricts LGBT teachers in their jobs in a way that it doesn't to their cishet counterparts

A law not mentioned anywhere in the information for candidacy, without space put on the candidacy form to do so, that just happened to be enforced for the first time when a trans person ran for office. A literal child would be more inquisitive as to what's going on there than you are. So the Don't Say Gay law bans any mention of being LGBT in K-3 through to 12th grade (age 18), setting aside how regressive it is to outright ban that discussion (it's basically section 28 equivalent and that was destructive to an entire generation of LGBTQ people in the UK), the ban is deliberately vague to the point that a gay male teacher could easily be found in breach of it if the kids ask how his summer was and he says he went on holiday with his husband, or a trans woman teacher could be in breach of it for introducing herself as Mrs Smith. In essence it mandates constructive dismissal of LGBT teachers

True, I don't think trump in particular has thought that far ahead, not to be too mean but he doesn't seem intelligent enough to be capable of putting together any sort of strategy, however I would argue the power behind him in the republican party are capable of that and are doing so. I guess that would make Trump more of a Papen than Hitler figure in that he just craves power and will work with those who do want systemic extermination of Muslims and gays to get it, but will end up putting those genocidal maniacs in charge

Budget cuts innit, gotta recoup the cost of the Rwanda deal somehow

The planet is called earth. If you don't see the similarities in the way that Trump and his supporters go on about Muslims and Mexicans, or the similarities in the laws in early Nazi Germany forbidding Jews from participating in society fully and the raft of anti-LGBT legislation being put out in states like Florida (who's don't say gay law effectively bans LGBT teachers) and Ohio (who recently disqualified a trans woman from standing for office on the basis of her being trans), driven by the GOP, then you're being deliberately obtuse.

I mean, the whole point of learning from history is to prevent something like Hitler happening again. Nazi Germany didn't just go from Hitler entering power straight into a full blown genocide, there was an escalation, spreading propaganda, engaging in lawfare to ban Jews from being teachers, from holding public office, dehumanising until a genocide was the next step. Trump is giving clear indications of doing similar hence the comparison, we shouldn't wait until the genocide actually begins to call out the path the US is on