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  1. Oh dear, I tried to make it as simple as possible for you but, as expected, it's still beyond your intellectual capacity to understand the difference between a cause and a correlation. It is the job of immigration officials to assess whether an asylum seeker is genuine or presents a threat to UK law and values. It is not the job of those officials to make false assumptions that everyone arriving from a particular country must be a violent misogynist. Particularly not when many of those arriving from a place like Afghanistan have claimed asylum because they fought alongside UK troops in order to establish democracy and equality in defiance of Islamic fundamentalism.
  2. Trump continues to show signs of senility https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1754917298945605718?s=20
  3. For those of you who find it difficult to distinguish between the concept of a correlation and the concept of a cause, let's make the explanation easy for you by accepting that this particular individual should not have been in the country. Now we are left with the fact that he was nevertheless in the country, so we need to turn our attention to the question of what in fact caused him to behave in this despicable manner. The options are: A) He was an asylum seeker and in virtue of that fact was predisposed to throw acid at the woman and her children with whom he had been in a troubled relationship. Or B) He was a violent misogynist and in virtue of that fact was predisposed to throw acid at the woman and her children with whom he had been in a troubled relationship. I'll leave you to work out which of those two represents a statement of correlation, and which a causal explanation.
  4. Because many of those are fleeing the Taliban because they assisted our forces who were fighting to establish and defend equal rights for women. Why do you insist on making the obviously false generalisation that all Afghan men must be violently misogynist by virtue of being an Afghani?
  5. Absurd! The man had been in a relationship with the woman he attacked. How in God's name can that be seen as an entirely separate issue from domestic violence. That he shouldn't have been in the country at all is obviously an issue that must be addressed. That his act was an act of misogynist violence is simply undeniable. There are undoubted many people in the asylum seeker backlog who shouldn't be in the country. The majority of them are not going to commit acts of violence against women. The cause of this grotesque attack was misogyny, not being an asylum seeker.
  6. Utterly absurd. There is no causal connection between the fact of being an asylum seeker and being a person who violently abuses women. The abuse stems from ingrained misogynist attitudes. Something sadly prevalent in far too many men from all cultural backgrounds in this country. And I certainly didn't say anything remotely like "all men are complicit". Try reading what I actually said instead of making up BS to suit your racism.
  7. What an absurd post. Show me to causal connection between the fact of being an asylum seeker and being a violent misogynist. Sadly male abuse of women cuts across all cultures. Take a look at the governments figures FFS.
  8. Oh dear! Racism is not a good look. But do feel free to give details about all the Afghan asylum seekers you have met.
  9. He did NOT commit this hideous crime because he was an asylum seeker. He committed this crime because he shared a set of misogynistic assumptions along with millions of men in this country who think they own women as personal property to be abused and disposed of as they wish. You might wish to deflect from that fundamental truth to find another way to disparage asylum seekers but that is a FACT demonstrable by the simple perusal of government statistics.
  10. Current form (last 8 games) puts Norwich 6th and Ipswich 19th.
  11. I'm happy to see him get a positive press and make an assist. All I'm really questioning is the idea that his contribution was "game changing". I think McLean has much more claim to that for his second half performance. As for his assist "looking easy", that's because it was; strangely there was no pressure on him from any Cov defender so you wouldn't expect any player to fluff that tap back. Personally, I see him as a potentially very useful sub to bring on when experienced heads are needed, so hats off to Wagner for making that call.
  12. This issue is much more fundamentally about the tens of thousands of violent attacks perpetrated by men against women every year. NO violence against women is acceptable whether the man is an asylum seeker or otherwise.
  13. I think I must have been watching a different game. I've no problem with Barnes coming on as a sub but I fail to see what was so game changing about his contributions. One miss-hit shot that luckily made its way to Sargent, and admittedly a nice little lay off to Sainz, but hardly a difficult assist to play after Mclean and McCallum hard done the difficult work in creating the goal.
  14. Yep! That sounds pretty fair. I would just add to the pros the biggest pro of all: the fact we held on to Sargent, Sara, and Rowe. I very much doubt there were not significant tempting offers for all three.
  15. I can't imagine they would have ever been selected in the same starting team. I would take Sargent above Moore every day of the week.
  16. Against the lesser opposition of the Scottish PL this could be a real opportunity for Idah to find the natural scoring touch he demonstrated with his FA Cup hattrick. A great bit of transfer work by the club to loan him out and get a replacement in with an option to buy if he proves his potential.
  17. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-is-seen-as-a-laughing-fool-by-world-leaders-claims-former-security-advisor/ar-BB1hyJvS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=98ec7a97dcba4630aa2163641105bcf3&ei=18 This isn't the first time Bolton has been critical of Trump. In May 2023, he made similar comments about Trump's friendliness with other leaders. “I have been in those rooms with him when he met with those leaders, I believe they think he’s a laughing fool. And the idea that somehow his presence in office would have deterred Putin is flatly wrong,” he said on CNN before naming the Russian, Chinese and North Korean leaders.
  18. I took Sonyc's advice and treated IBT like the pathetic troll that he is by not bothering to feed him anymore. It was very good advice. In the meantime you might like to read this opinion from a former federal appellate judge J Michael Luttig, a staunch conservative, who has written to the Supreme Court to argue Trump should be legally disbarred from standing for office: “Trump incited, and therefore engaged in, an armed insurrection against the constitution’s express and foundational mandates that require the peaceful transfer of executive power to a newly-elected president,” Mr Luttig told the justices in a friend-of-the-court brief filed on Monday. “In doing so, Mr Trump disqualified himself under section 3 (of the constitution),” he added. Section 3 of the 14th amendment of the constitution prohibits anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding public office." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/conservative-judge-urges-supreme-court-to-toss-trump-from-ballot/ar-BB1hyINM
  19. Phew! At least we weren't playing the mighty Maidstone, 'eh Bringbackchippy.
  20. The only surprise is that we made it as high as 20th https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/uk-perceived-as-more-corrupt-lowest-score-global-index-transparency-international
  21. Rowe will be on his way in the summer, so if we can whack the price up now and get in a couple of decent replacements (winger and DM) then that might prove a wise move, as much as it would feel a shame to see him leave.
  22. Bloody hell! For those who can't find it Talk Sport 2. (also available at their site online if your radio can't pick it up)
  23. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/firm-part-owned-by-rishi-sunak-s-wife-set-for-millions-of-pounds-from-government/ar-BB1hmoqt
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