@theawayfans It’s not an entertainment. ‘Showbiz’ is. Football is sport. Competition. If it’s entertaining, that’s a bonus. When it’s best, it is an art form. But it ain’t entertainment. That’s why most modern football authorities have ruined the game and modern football fans are clueless.
@KeithWa05505561@ExtremeFootbal4 Arrogant yes (and why not, he was top drawer) but plank, no. Nothing wooden about him. Silky. That era CFC were portrayed as Kings Road dilettante dandies and Leeds the dour, tough, hard northern bastards, but Chels could look after themselves, don’t you worry about that!
@meganekenyon Newham Independents aren’t ‘left’. They are self-serving opportunists. If the people who are hoodwinked by them had voted Green instead, we’d have a Green Mayor.
@BeBetterMan_ My Italian nonno told me at a young age, the aristocrats & (what would now be) oligarchs stole their riches from or off the back of others & like all thieves know price of everything, value of nothing. Vulgarians one & all. You can dress a turd in finery, but it’s still a turd.
@StepJones8@RepRileyMoore@DeepSouthProud You’re all racists. And stupid. You’re all ‘naturalised citizens’. You’re all settler colonisers. And you’ve fucked up the world for everyone else.
Our understanding of what could be a catastrophic conflict between the West's ruling neoliberals and Iran is missing the elephant in the room.
Since deindustrialisation, Western economies were financialised and became dominated by networks of investors - the 'creditor class'. The big players exert influence to the extent that they operate as a shadow-government behind elected politicians.
Their income depends on wholesale privatisation of assets - existing and under development - as investment targets. Their ability to indebt individuals, households, companies and nations ensures a constant flow of free money, in the form of compound interest, into their bank accounts.
Many Iranian exiles are finance and tech entrepreneurs who fled the country to get rich. Exclusion from global payment systems made business difficult, but the fundamental problem was 'riba', the strict Islamic laws controlling usury. Look it up yourselves, it's a complex system that still holds but can be circumvented in some cases needed by a modern economy. However, Shariah-compliant arrangements such as mudarabah, musharakah and ijara insist on some degree of profit-sharing and repayment negotiation. This restricts the profiteering enjoyed by the Western creditor class, who operate by monopolised and manipulated market prices of borrowing, dollar domination and their militarised ability to subjugate developing nations as resource colonies and investment targets.
In C14, European morality, customs and law shifted from sympathy for the debtor to discipline on behalf of the private creditor. By C17, even the monarchs and the state were placed under that disciplinary regime as bond markets grew. This culture was, of course, exported to the US. This the core of the East-West clash - it rests on a fundamental cultural-economic disparity that determines the reproduction of class-structured wealth and power. Powerful Eastern nations such as China, Russia and Iran have their own ways of restricting and disciplining the investment banking system, which the Western creditor class cannot accept.
The creditor class have been subjugating nations and funding wars for centuries. Schumpeter's 'creative destruction' has a dark, violent kernel which he understated. They don't care how many ways of life are disrupted, or how much infrastructure is destroyed - they make fortunes rebuilding it in the most tasteless styles and for the most crass purposes imaginable. They don't care how many peasants and workers die, men, women, or children, because they regard us as inferior and dispensable. The Epstein network is little more than the creditor class's entourage.
The creditor class is our principal enemy and must be consigned to history's dustbin. The production of money as investment must be brought under full public control.
@PeterTatchell Mate, I campaigned for you in 1983 but now you’re making a real fool of yourself. You were anti-establishment but now you’re peddling their BS. When and how did you get compromised?
@TiceRichard Even simpler answer. They’re the spineless, gutless, morally bankrupt obsequious toads who are supine in the face of the psychopathic imperialist US empire. Bit like you, you disgusting pos.