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If I'm not being mardy, I'm being sentimental. I come here to project my identity onto the internet. Because I'm worth it / alienated by late modernity.

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@AaronBastani The model is “neoliberalism” but what is that? A bastardisation of feudalism, financialism, corporatism, imperialism, liberalism and socialism when it comes to health.

And all those -isms unify to stop anything from changing that’s the ‘broad church coalition’ running things!

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@NFFCLMA There are ‘process clubs’ and there are ‘outcomes clubs’.

All big clubs or clubs that want to be ‘big clubs’ - carrying behind them big support - have to focus on outcomes/results/trophies even if it’s to their detriment on the pitch it’s about what gets people engaged off it!

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@NFFCLMA While that is true there is also the wider truth that any club with a fan base, history, pedigree, and all the attendant expectation levels, cannot act like a club that does not have any of that ‘baggage’ or external pressures.

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@OdysseusRex @btharris93 @JamesMelville Translation: You don’t want to understand how the system works because it would be highly detrimental to your ideas.

Saying the US is self-sufficient is worthy of a stand-up comedy routine - as is calling it a “republic” rather than an empire.

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@OdysseusRex @btharris93 @JamesMelville It has built up enormous consumer, corporate and government debts based on all oil being traded in dollars and invading or threatening to invade any country that tries to change that privilege.

It’s chosen to be an empire not a republic. An expensive and unsustainable empire.

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@OdysseusRex @btharris93 @JamesMelville Unfortunately, how can you trust them? How can you trust Putin? The difference is that we are living under the petrodollar system and so even if we hate Trump or Biden’s latest policy/propaganda it doesn’t alter fundamental truths that it’s all done to protect the same system.

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@btharris93 @OdysseusRex @JamesMelville Even if that were fully true (which it simply isn’t) it neglects the underlying truths that the US has been stoking the conflict and it could stop the slaughter of Ukrainians too. Ukrainians are dying because of two imperialist forces not just one. Open both your eyes/ears!

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@OdysseusRex @btharris93 @JamesMelville The only thing you have to say is deeply naive and based on wishful thinking or you just think it’s the correct thing to say to shield yourself. In the end you support the US because you think it’s in your interests to do so. The Russians do exactly the same thing for Russia.

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@OdysseusRex @btharris93 @JamesMelville Ukrainians and Russians are both Slavs and they are both getting slaughtered as the result of US foreign policy which Europe can’t/won’t stop. But you aren’t interested in that petrodollar truth, you’re only interested in another narrative which you want to be true.

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@btharris93 The biggest issue is that we’ve been fed a media diet of “Putin woke up one day and decided to invade for no underlying reasons at all”.

Back in reality there were underlying reasons and denying them just makes those doing so look as mad and bad as those they criticise.

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@btharris93 @JamesMelville How many Slavs do we want to subsidise the slaughter of because that’s what the US military industrial complex really wants?

If you had some wider geopolitical curiosity, or critical faculties, I think it would serve you very well indeed.

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@A_D_PHIL @AaronBastani He can play golf with anyone he likes, of course.

And I can form a judgement of him based on who he decides to knock about with by choice, of course.

It’s all very simple.

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@paul_grech Or certain Poles, or certain Uruguayans. Or Swedish-Bosnian-Croats.

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@NickMiller79 Both of them can’t say no to being with Donald Trump, though.

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@Dubstep1988 If only Donald Trump was there with his golf clubs asking for a re-match.

All this “Harry doesn’t do PR” or “he’s just a normal lad” it’s all absolute guff… the man’s a multimillionaire who’s played golf with Trump!

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@londonsblue18 @SamAS_91 Explain how it is not if certain clubs in a “league” pretending to be a “cup” or a “cup” pretending to be a “league”, have income steams that dwarf others who are considered to be “giants”.

What else describes that reality which makes the whole thing a matter of pretence?

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@TheeDonSimon @TomCollomosse Bournemouth are now the financially bigger team by TV money and squad value built over years.

If Milan had access to that income stream all the selective accounting you’re coming up with would have some kind of merit. However, it’s without merit because that’s not the case.

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@TheeDonSimon @TomCollomosse You are so selective! I’d apply for a job at Man City if I was as shameless and selective in the financial facts as you!

I’d just concentrate on Bournemouth beating Man City if I was you. It is a lot more impressive than them beating a Milan B team on and off the pitch!

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@peteotus EPL teams sharing out trophies because of financial doping is worse than Seville winning trophy after trophy post-selling off their best players and buying others, season after season.

But yes, both things have killed meaningful competition of European club football.