Ciaran

Tbf Fincher is now totally washed and is making straight-to-Netflix shite like The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth and the US remake of Squid Game

Idk about you but I'm not sure I've ever changed my mind based on a post - a well written article, video, etc sure. I feel like this is saying we can reverse engineer Sayre's Law if only pro immigration Blueskyers are brave enough

And the way to parliamentary representation is imo not going to be found in policing the language of pro immigration Bluesky users

Sure - but you're advocating others adopt "saner" language on the pro side, and endorsing Dan's post that those on the pro side should make the argument about why numbers should go up. I fail to see how either are the issue with the pro immigration side? They lack parliamentary representation?

And once you start believing that the specific points taken in defending immigration via posting on Bluesky can influence public opinion you have become delusional in a different but no less absurd way than those who believe civil war is coming to the UK because of immigration

Imo it would be better if less people who are interested in politics didn't LARP as if they were paid strategists or representatives. Usually debates about how best to appeal to public opinion usually end up imposing strict and rigid rules & logic on it when on most issues it is incoherent

And even weirder to basically pretend that the way people talk about it on Bluesky will influence the debate one jot. I feel like were this another issue the agency and political representation of the average pro voter wouldn't be so easily waived away

There is only one national UK party with consistently pro immigration messaging (the Greens), all of the others support restrictions and have employed "stop the boats" messaging. So it seems to me to be a bit odd to be talking about immigration as if the pro side has a lot of representation

What I don't get about this line of thought is it says those with pro immigration views must be disciplined in how they speak about it, "make the argument for numbers increasing etc" "talk about jobs in X industries etc", this line of thought would never be applied to those who are anti immigration?

*no one except City

(I only remember this game because I was there for it tbf)

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May have it to look forward to at city next season then...

Was discipline this bad under Maresca?

Chelsea

BREAKING: The NEC has sensationally BLOCKED Andy Burnham from standing to become the next Ayatollah

It's the Mar-a-Largo situation room (not at all metaphorical for the decline of the US's position as the global hegemon)

The thing is even if it was - it's absolutely fair enough to vote against the Labour Party on that basis. Starmer literally went on the radio and said Israel had the right to cut power and water. It's not cynicism to draw a red line there

His one tangible prescription for how Labour turn it around being "create a Minister for Standards of Living" is very funny also. Yeah, that'll fix the existential malaise

Very revealing that he assumes the Greens' Gaza policy *must* be cynical

Boring answer but Sean Bean as Ned Stark

I was the same, the 1968 America series is imo their best

YouTube video by Sky TV The Working Class

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Whoever that is has me blocked

Scorsese has weighed in on this

I think it's basically inarguable that Bickle himself is a moral vacuum though. Throughout the film people who don't understand him find different ways of seeing him for what he's not despite his actions and words

And in this house Travis Bickle is a hero. End of story!

Completely understand why Scorsese has in his most recent films dropped all subtext and turned to camera and said "these are bad people who did bad things" - because the subreddit of his fans consider Travis Bickle "morally grey"

City's wins have not been effortless believe me lmao. Only the last couple of games they've actually looked comfortable being 2-0 up - before that they were blowing 3-0 leads

There's a certain type of obnoxiousness that seems to save itself entirely for middle aged/old men