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1 hour ago, VillaChris said:

They can't have got many more points than us at this stage last season, we had 15 points by end of November so factor in extra 2-3 games and it's not that big a difference.

After 12 games we had 11 points, Leeds currently have 14. That also includes us having played Tottenham, Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool, so it's not like they would've had a much harder start.

Although come back in one game, as we had 14 points after 13 games when we beat Newcasltle.

30 minutes ago, villakram said:

Dubios how?

No primary source has come out and denied the veracity of the material.

One can argue about the ethics of releasing private material, but this story was censored by twitter and widely suppressed.

The story in which:

- Biden's foreign policy advisor said he had never even heard of the guy Biden supposedly met through Hunter. (Pozharskyi)

- A State Department advisor named in the emails said the same thing, and also had all of her records subpoenaed by a GOP-led investigation, which found no mention of Pozharskyi.

- Authenticity of the documents and origin could not be determined

- Some reporters at the NYP refused to add their byline to the story over doubts about it's credibility. Of the two reporters credited on the article, one said she did not know she was attached until the story was published.

- The report said Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor that was investigating Burisma, despite there being no such investigation.

- The NYP also said Hunter introduced Biden to Pozharskyi, despite the emails only mentioning an "opportunity" and there being no evidence a meeting actually happened.

- The emails were supposedly obtained when Hunter Biden flew from California, to drop his laptop off at a hardware store in Delaware (that just so happened to be owned by someone close to Guiliani), left it to be repaired for water damage, left no contact information and never returned or paid for it despite the potentially damaging material on it. Oh, and the guy who took the laptop can't be sure who actually dropped it off because he has face blindness or something.

- The FBI had known about and subpoenaed these documents a year ago. To investigate Russian disinformation efforts against Biden...

- Material similar to the hard drive contents had been circulating Ukraine in 2019, with the express purpose of being sold to allies of Donald Trump for $5m. A former advisor to the Ukrainian president has said this type of Kompromat has been very active the last year or two in reaction to US political events, especially when Guiliani specifically called for damging material on the Biden's, saying the materials available were "extremely hard to verify, yet very easy to fake".

Think I got most of the dodgy details about that story, is that enough to claim it's dubious?

Edit: I forgot to add that Fox, one of Trump's biggest supporters, refused to touch the story because it lacked credibility.

I'm sure anyone who cares about Hunter Biden having his taxes investigated for Chinese business links is just as interested in the $200000 Trump paid in taxes to China from an undisclosed bank account...

5 minutes ago, Michelsen said:

Yeah, all of that is true, but really doesn’t counter anything I said. See above for clarification, if needed. 

Yeah, fair, I only saw your reply to vliiakram after I posted. Although I would say that whilst there's a lot of anti-Semitism in the US right, I don't think it's a big enough issue for them that it would be a reason not to vote for someone anymore than them simply being a Democrat.

The 12 days of Christmas. I swear I never see stuff about them during the actual 12 days of Christmas (25th Dec - 5th Jan). For instance there's a twitter account I follow that is currently on Day 8 of their 12 Days, but what are they going to do from the 13th-24th? Just stop two weeks before Christmas, or go for another 12 days?

Just get it right!

21 hours ago, Michelsen said:

Sure, but anti-semittism is rife among southern racist types, and Old Conservative Christian White Man sure beats Young Liberal Jewish Man among in their game of bigotted top trumps. 

It's a bit more complicated than that. American Protestantism, in particular South Evangelicalism, has a wierd death cult element to it (more so than other religions before anyone says anything), in that they believe for the second coming of Jesus to happen (and therefore the apocalypse/rapture in which they get taken to heaven) requires the Jewish people to have a homeland in Israel, which results in a strange type of Zionism in which they are simultaneously anti-Semitic and pro-Israel. So voting for a Jewish person only really becomes an issue when they don't align with the rest of the platform i.e. Bernie Sanders.

This is also partly why the US government is so pro-Israel, as those hard right Christian communities have such a massive influence on the way the US is run, particularly the Republican party.

5 hours ago, The_Steve said:

Honest English lad Kane there being reckless and getting away with it again 

 

 

He does it all the time, I hate it. Not sure if he gets away with it because he's England captain or because football doesn't take dangerous play seriously enough.

Just now, villa4europe said:

That's the PL and a bit of Europe though

Its a different take to how fifa used it in the WC, the leagues are making a mess of it and I don't think it's 100% innocence as to why 

The PL want these lines and this rule

I would say they don't want VAR scrutinising their decisions, so are making a farce of it on purpose.

5 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

So @Stevo985 i clicked on the opening of this thread you were a strong advocat of it. Do you still feel this way? Not picking on you, generally asking as you were one really in favour of it. So i would like to see if you still feel the same?

For me VAR has absolutely killed the game. Its just not fun anymore. Its a **** disaster.

As someone who wanted VAR,  I still want it in the sport, but PGMOL need to be binned off, get rid of all of them and start again. Give some rugby refs a crash course in the rules of football. Anything but get rid of PGMOL.

4 minutes ago, Zatman said:

but its only wrong in the Premier League, this crap doesnt happen as often elsewhere. Premier League are so arrogant that they use a different system than all other leagues

Absolutely this is on the FA/PGMOL, two organisations that for some reason have just stubbornly refused to learn from any other sport or try to improve themselves.

He's offside because Ogbonna has pushed him, so why the **** didn't we get a penalty?

I'm a bit fed up of Klopp's moaning, but this reporter on BT is being a right nob about it, happy to see Klopp not put up with it.

Genuinely think that the reason VAR is so shit in England is because the refs are dragging their feet on it so much and almost trying to make it as shit as possible. There doesn't seem to be as much controversy over it in European competitions or at the World Cup.

It's an absolute joke that penalty was given after ours was overturned last week. Also, how come Brighton got to so much added time when we didn't even get our full 4 minutes?

This could've gone in the Virus thread or Things that cheer you up as the story that made me think of this is actually pretty funny, but the Magna Carta pisses me off, or more how people just don't actually know what it is piss me off. How can so many people think that what is essentially a peace treaty (that was ignored by both sides) between a King and some Barons from 800 years ago when most people were peasants is any way applicable to the modern day or can override modern laws? And then how stupid do you have to be that when you're told that's not what the Magna Carta means and it doesn't apply to you, that you still bang on about it?

8 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

This is very interesting. The info can be digested in many different ways.

I would be interested to see population figures alongside this and how that has changed over the years.

Also, if we agree (haha) that Trump was an outlier in terms of his winning the Presidency, can the figures above for this election be taken at face value i.e. as a trend of moving more this way. In 2016 it appears that Trump counties contributed to 36% of GDP.

"In short, 2020’s map continues to reflect a striking split between the large, dense, metropolitan counties that voted Democratic and the mostly exurban, small-town, or rural counties that voted Republican."

From the think tank's website about that image.

Also relevant:

1 minute ago, ml1dch said:

Isn’t that a bit of an odd comparison, given it wasn't? A heavily edited version is what was played on Radio 1 (and other stations).

And a censored version of Fairytale of New Yrok will still be played.

Edit: not censored, a radio friendly version with different lyrics for those lines.

I wonder if anyone complaining about that would have an issue with, for example, WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion being played on Radio 1 completely uncensored? 

Winks for Henderson, that will solve everything 

Feels harsh to say this after 10 minutes as he's only 17, but Bellingham has been shit so far.

Grealish off?

You unselfish prick Jack 

Just now, TheAuthority said:

Is Hourihane playing? 

Half expecting him to pass to Grealish and then just stand still watching him soon.

3 hours ago, a m ole said:

City have bigger priorities and fortunately FFP will limit them.

My biggest worry is more that another team would be willing to pay more than the release clause, so City trigger it then sell him immediately to make a bit of profit, rather than them buying him back to go in to their squad.