@BellegardeSZN Unironically, I think within the next, say, ten tournaments they will expand the tournament even further and the group stage will consist of groups of five instead of four.
@rmathematicus Yes, science as an institution relies on certain metaphysical and epistemological presuppositions
No, these presuppositions are not “religious ones”
Yes, you can have objective truth given atheism
No, there’s no such thing as a uniform “scientific method”.
@soliarsism itself is inherently political and that victory for a certain team means a victory for a certain kind of politics, thus political affiliations should be the primary basis onto which we should declare football allegiance. And once we accept the weaker thesis, you will (2/3)
@atlast_sheknew Sure, but I’m sure you can understand the original tweet implies a far stronger claim.
At any rate, this country went to shit when WOKEiam the conquerer came over here on illegal channel boats and imposed his WOKE French language. French elites have fucked everything up since.
@soliarsism@Dylllllllllann@PanasonicDX4500 Having countries compete against each other is not political. Games can have political overtones if geopolitical tensions exist, but there is nothing actually inherently political in Barbados playing a match against Laos.
@atlast_sheknew My point being that Scotland was just as willing a participant in British colonialism as England was. You don’t get to begrudge Britain for historic colonialism when you participated willingly in said colonialism.
The UK is one of the most regionally unequal countries in Western Europe. Large swathes of the country outside the South East are completely barren of economic opportunity.
“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is not left-wing rhetoric and never will be.
Facts are impenetrable, there is NOTHING against white people.
If you're unhappy, it's because you're a miserable failure all on your own.
Try growing a personality and caring about other people, you be surprised how many people are willing to help you out.
@rape_netanyahu@SunAa633134 Can you back up this claim? Independence is, according to essentially every survey done, a minority position in both Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland a bit more inconsistent but did vote against independence in 2014.
@slackkejakke They know more than you do. Their great great great great great granddad once slipped on a pint of Guinness, which makes them basically Scottish.
(Okay, yes, Guinness is Irish, but they do think that’s basically the same thing)
@WCWIcon@SebMilbank To have “basic empathy” is to support “positive” discrimination, reparations, or whatever fringe culture war issue, and if you disagree you lack “basic empathy” or do not have “basic human decency”. It’s a classic case of motte and bailey.
@WCWIcon@SebMilbank The problem is that “having empathy” is meant here extremely narrowly as “supporting my exact political positions on absolutely everything” and claiming the moral high ground whenever somebody trips an imaginary tripwire. (1/2)