Sampson

I do wonder whether the tech bro billionaires like Bezos are regretting getting behind Trump yet.

He hasn't been good for like 4 or 5 years now though. Why would anyone pay £9mil for someone who was good half a decade ago? May as well pay £9mil for Marc Albrighton in that case.

The Simpsons in the 90s was great too.

I wonder who Trump is supporting

Yep it’s the same with Trump - destroying one institution is not enough. They’ll always be one more who is to blame on destroying the country that they need to go after - it’s the tried and tested route to authoritarianism and how populism crosses the line to fascism. These right wing populists feed on negativity and making out the country is completely broken and only they can fix it by taking on whatever the latest thing is that’s causing all the problems with the country. Therefore they always need one more thing to blame all the woes of the country on. Farage never has a single good thing to say about the country, he is ferociously anti-patriotic, but that’s also kind of the point. The fact most people (including Boris Johnson) never really understood what the EU actually was helped to. They can tie the ECHR together with it even though they are completely different things because they’re both European institutions. It helps them to make out Brexit wasn’t radical enough even though England, Scotland and Wales already left everything in the EU so you can’t really get a harder or more radical Brexit other than moving the Customs Union from the Irish Sea to the Irish border and therefore almost certainly starting the process of Northern Ireland ceding from the UK and creating a united Ireland.

And there we go. Farage 2029 is fully in motion now. Badenoch is Franz von Papen-ing it at a time Starmer is Neville Chamberlain-ing it.

I think he was fine. He was a 6/10 player who at least had the work rate. More than you can say for a lot of others.

Danny Ward is unquestionably the most damaging. In that he was expected to be a replacement for one of our greatest ever players and was League Two level and that and Rodgers’ blind spot to him and insistence on playing him was catastrophically bad for the club. If we had even a mediocre PL keeper then we easily stay up 2 seasons ago. Daka similar story. Was meant to be the marquee long term replacement for Vardy but looked out of his depth in the Championship.

Nothing but pure vice signalling.

Thanks I might give it a try

They haven’t even taken like a 1/3rd of the country’s landmass. How can you even call that a concession (?)

Pretty sure that was Corbyn not Starmer tbf but may be wrong.

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The issue isn’t the population numbers per se, it’s the population distribution - I.e. that it’s going to be a population of mostly older people who require a lot more help from the state in terms of pension, healthcare costs, disability benefits etc. mixed with much less workers to generate income for the state. South Korea is already past the point where it can’t reverse the fact it will be a country of majority over 65s in the future. Many of whom end up it cramped old people’s homes which are already well over capacity. Then there’s the issues of democracy. How can you change these things when the majority of voters are all over 65 and crammed in retirement home. They have a right to vote for their own interests in terms of pension, state funded healthcare etc. But you can’t realistically provide these things without large scale immigration from Africa and the Middle East, which is where the majority of young people will come from (which itself is becoming politically impossible because immigration has become so politically weaponsised) or making people work 60+ hour weeks. “The natural ebb and flow” also usually means brutal world wars, pandemics or inhumane governments trying to change a populations distribution through force I.e. forced deportation or worse of certain demographics. But lots of suffering regardless.