Sampson

Genuinely think he’s got Alzheimer’s and is basically a puppet at this point. Crazy how a bunch of 70-80 year old men are running the US, Russia and China

I’m also in a bit of a struggle phase but I find the winters always brutal in this regard. I hope everyone manages to make it through the holidays ok. I understand this is a tough time of year for many, thinking of loved ones past, and can compound the loneliness. Really wishing everyone has a Christmas and new year where they can at least find some peace of mind

Mate you unironically called Britain a liberal dictatorship and doommongered that “we need a war to reindusteualise” and endlessly flip-flip from Russia is going to roll through Europe, war is inevitable one day to Putin has destroyed his country and Russia is pathetic so we don’t need to fear them the next… and yet you’re posting on here as normal completely uncancelled. I say this in genuine good faith - no one has cancelled you or wants to cancel you, I get the feeling that you’ve probably been on Reddit or somewhere similar too much and to speculate (again genuinely not in a non-mean way) guess by your posts you also might be on the autistic spectrum and so get way too into thinking about the war as a kind of historic narrative like how we talk about a war from 100s of years ago nowadays, rather than the lives of people who are having the houses bombed and families murdered; please don’t go down the rabbit hole of “everyone is out to get me and trying to cancel me”, that’s exactly what algorithms are designed to do to keep people engaged and what gets people to end up voting nutters like Putin or Trump in power, because they constantly play into that feeling and tell people that everyone else is out to get them and they are the only person who can save them.

Genuinely didn’t. The moon doesn’t look like it does irl on a screen anyway

I’d say it’s neither and the moon’s colour is cream.

And they think tennis balls are yellow.

And Muppet’s Christmas Carol is just a surrealist anti-capitalist didactic drug trip about a guy hallucinating talking frogs and giant forgetful puppet versions of Brian Blessed that happens to occur at Christmas.

I agree. I think it’s good, not horrible nor amazing but I’d always happily take it in a buffet for example.

I think I must’ve confused her with Tara Palmer-Tomkinson as they both on I’m a Celeb back when it was the biggest show on tv.

This made me google Janet Street-Porter only to find she was still alive. I could’ve sworn she died about 10 years ago.

The problem is you can’t because everything gets posted and filmed on social media nowadays and you can get dog piled on for doing dumb things. I’ve often said that the biggest problem with social media is you aren’t allowed to do stupid things or make mistakes anymore, it will get held against you for the rest of your life. Your early adulthood from the age of 18-around 26/27 should be about going out and doing crazy things even while you have less responsibilities and less fear factor and aren’t as jaded or cynical about everything yet. Problem is social media essentially policing people’s behaviour (on both the left and right - the left with their virtual signalling policing of if you make political incorrect mistakes or tell silly jokes that were just meant for your mates; and the right with their “people are old enough to have responsibility at that age and if they break the rules they deserve to be punished” “we should be hard as possible on rule breakers” virtue signalling policing) meant younger people do feel more fear factor and have responsibility and cynicism forced onto them a lot more than they used to.

Should be a game of Cosmic Encounter. At least that turns war into a riotously fun bluffing and negotiation game where you can blow up your own planets and steal other player’s firepower.

Factories and mines will all be run by machines these days, reindustrialising won’t solve the fundamental problems of technology making human labour no longer needed. And “we need war”, get a grip! You’re talking about millions of people dying and everyone living in constant petrified fear of being bombed. I swear from your posts you think war is just a game of Risk with your friends over a weekend and not real people dying and living in petrifying fear on mass.

It’s inevitable with AI, heard on The News Agents podcast yesterday that graduate jobs down 33% in the space of 1 year which is utterly insane - that 1/3rd of jobs for young people are gone in a year. That’s the problem with this government and the opposition and perhaps even more so under Reform who are in Musk’s pocket and talking about deregulating AI and let big money run riot with it - we’re currently undergoing the biggest technological revolution in human history, bigger than the Industrial Revolution, bigger than the internet and the government and so much of the opposition are sat their dicking around arguing about 0.1% growth or shrinkage and taxes being put up or down a bit. None of that is going to matter in 5-10 years when all the jobs have been replaced by robots. This isn’t just the “oh AI will create new jobs, like how deindustrialisation under Thatcher created all these service jobs” stuff anymore - service jobs done by younger people are going, blue collar jobs are going, middle class office jobs are going and there’s going to be nothing to replace them with.

Bergkamp and Hesjey’s goals would’ve been at Filbert Street.

One of those things I think we’d all say we might do in that situation but that I think few of us would genuinely have the bravery to do when push came to shove.

Depends on what you mean by best? Just technique, how good it looks, or do you include importance and context of the game in that? Albrighton vs Sevilla for example is probably the one that felt the biggest and made me celebrate the most.

Feck me. If that is real, that guys is a fecking hero and should get the highest honours Australia can give.

No mention of Godspeed You! Black Emperor?

Scary thing is that this is the shit coming our way when his “good friend” Nigel Farage gets in power in 2029 and what 1/4 of our fellow citizens actually want to be ruled by.

Haha. Well my preference by this point, especially after the US and Russia have now semi-formally allied up against us would be a United States of Europe spanning from Iceland to Ukraine but that’s pipe dreams.

BBC is definitely starting to change its wording to become softer towards China and less soft towards the US now. Don’t know if it’s an editorial decision or just a subconscious one as the British public’s views on both countries are changing but there’s no way you’d have seen the main headline of this story being “US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy' “. That act of piracy quote would’ve been buried at the bottom of the article 18 months ago, not as a way to frame the headline.

I mean, it was a pretty much solely state distributed economy where the factories, farms and mines were collectively owned and the goods made by them were distributed by the state rather than individuals or corporations with money used essentially only as tokens, that sounds like a pure socialist economy to me. The USSR wasn’t like modern Russia where it’s lots of partially-state owned corporations competing with each other in the market owned by oligarchs or whatever. Nor modern China which hasn’t been communist since the 90s. Feels a bit “real Brexit has never been tried” when people say this. That being said talking about socialist and communist economies is a bit redundant in modern post-industrialised service and data driven economies of 2025. Debates about who should own the factories, farms and mines and the resources made by them are kind of irrelevant when most people work in service or distribution.

Yeah fr. Imagine if France invaded and bombed out south west England and everyone living there fled to the midlands and the north and you said “oh Bristol is just a bombed out shell nowadays, we should just give it up it’s like we’re like a bald man fighting over a comb. But Bristol is where people grew up and lived their whole lives, they feel memories of Clifton deep in their core; it’s where their parents and grandparents are buried as well as all the memories they had with them etc. I grew up in Leicestershire and also lived in Portsmouth for many many years, if either Leicester or Portsmouth got invaded, it wouldn’t just feel like “oh it doesn’t matter, it’s just a city; and I can go and move to Newcastle and start a new life there as that’ll still be British territory. Places where people spend years with their loved ones are important to people, trying to bat that off as Ukrainians fighting over a comb feels like a very sad and unempathetic way to view humans and humanity. It’s not a game of Risk where people are just fighting over dots on a map for the people living there, people are fighting over their identity and memories of loved ones.

You remember the last 2 world cups right? Both pure propaganda exercises in which the press in the uk were all saying “wow, can’t believe how smooth it’s been here” and kissing the Russian and Qatari arses. The Brazil one before where we did have all the anti-Balsanaro protests had the protests pretty much buried by the media (and those 2014 protests look way more important in hindsight as the ascension of Balsanaro and Erdogan in that summer in 2014 were arguably the start of the age of populism and anti-liberal democracy we’re in now).