PapafeCt

games, dogs, LFC, opinions and stuff

[PapafeCt @n_imprfct]

Following the cowardly attacks on Rushdie I decided it was time to brush up on my Blasphemous Literature™ and today they finally arrived 🤓📚

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@SarbV73646 @AnfieldSector You know more than Slot which is why he is a PL winning manager and you tweet about football.

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@SarbV73646 @AnfieldSector This is why sarbv73646 gets hired as a manager in the PL and makes the big bucks. Clearly a football genius Arne Slot should learn from

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@OleKristofferE Trenger at Gomez holder seg frisk nå

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@LFC Not "the" Guldbollen. Just Guldbollen. The "-en" suffix already means definite form. It's the same as "the" in English.

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@MagnusBarstad CuJo var fantastisk etter han kom inn. Isak hadde ikke bein igjen til å presse effektivt og Wirtz er en juvel vi må passe på at ikke skader seg igjen.

Har hatt mange tvilsomme bytter denne høsten, men i dag var det ganske prikkfritt.

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@OGadeholt @TobiasSD Undervurdert kommentar 🤭

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@JoshStrifeHayes My fav video of yours is still the one one medi-evil... Until you make one on goof troop

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@IanDarke Ian I enjoy your work and don't think you should be insulted for voicing your opinion, but I think you are failing to fully see the perspective of Liverpool fans in this matter.

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@theonaidoo007 @LFCVine It's the other brother

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@stammebark @Aftenposten Er for mye å forvente at folk som lever av å skrive vet hva ordene de bruker eller reagerer på betyr

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@stammebark Ang veganerpunktet så er det rart folk har hengt seg opp i dette med protein, som ikke er et problem, mens det finnes reelle utfordringer rundt å få i seg nok b12, jern og andre mineraler.

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@Thorin There was no afcon last year tho. He had an unprecedented Premier League season.

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@Thatfilmzguy @MrSunberg @Tjaernas

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@MufcWonItAll2 That's just assault, no? Surely should be banned from attending if he's identified?

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@krawf24 @_Jaycobb @xGPhilosophy And it was also the most blatant interference offside not given

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@AndrNilsen Kunne ikke vært mer enig. Episoden var morsom og hadde god satire av Kirk og andre debate bros. Det var ingen kall til vold, og Kirk selv likte parodien. Sett den gjerne på hylla mens folk sørger men det er ingen grunn til at denne skal "trekkes" permanent.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

The New York Times editorial board writes:

America Mourns Charlie Kirk

The assassination of Charlie Kirk — the founder of a youth political movement that helped revolutionize modern conservatism — at Utah Valley University on Wednesday is a tragedy. His killing is also part of a horrifying wave of political violence in America.

Since last year alone, a gunman killed a member of the Minnesota State Legislature and her husband and shot another Minnesota politician and his wife; a man set fire to the home of Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania; and a would-be assassin shot Donald Trump on the campaign trail. In 2022, an attacker broke into Representative Nancy Pelosi’s home and fractured her husband’s skull. In 2021, a violent mob attacked Congress, smashing windows and brutalizing police officers. In 2017, a gunman shot four people at a Republican practice for the congressional baseball game, badly wounding Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana.

While the motives of Mr. Kirk’s killer are unclear, Mr. Kirk was a prominent political figure speaking at a political event. His killing is political in its consequences.

Such violence is antithetical to America. The First Amendment — the first for a reason — enshrines our rights to freedom of speech and expression. Our country is based on the principle that we must disagree peacefully. Our political disagreements may be intense and emotional, but they should never be violent. This balance requires restraint. Americans have to accept that their side will lose sometimes and that they may feel angry about their defeats. We cannot act on that anger with violence.

Too many Americans are abandoning this ideal. Thirty-four percent of college students recently said they supported using violence in some circumstances to stop a campus speech, according to a poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression published a day before the Kirk shooting. Since 2021, that share has risen from 24 percent, which was already unacceptably high. Surveys of older adults are similarly alarming.

This editorial board disagreed with Mr. Kirk on many policy questions, and we are unreservedly horrified by his killing. We grieve for his loved ones. We mourn his death. Amanda Litman, president of the left-leaning group Run for Something, offered an appropriate response: “Political violence is meant to scare and silence — it is absolutely never acceptable. We don’t have to agree with someone to affirm they have a right to speak their mind without fearing for their life or safety.” Many prominent Democrats and Republicans offered similar sentiments.

Whatever the killer’s motives, it is clear that political violence is a problem that extends across ideology. Prominent conservatives, moderates and liberals have all been victims in recent years.
The intensity of our political debates will not disappear. The stakes are too high, and the country disagrees on too many important questions. But we Americans have lost some of our grace and empathy in recent years. We too often wish ill on our political opponents. We act as if people’s worth is determined by whether they identify as a Republican or a Democrat. We dehumanize those with whom we differ.

This is a moment to turn down the volume and reflect on our political culture. It is a moment for restraint, rather than cycles of vengeance or the suspension of civil liberties, as some urged on Wednesday. It is also a moment to engage with people who have different views from our own. When societies lose the ability to argue peacefully and resort to violence to resolve their political debates, it usually ends very badly.

[Helen Staniland @helenstaniland]

Constantly telling people that words are violence is incredibly dangerous.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Angel just published this incredibly well timed piece.

https://t.co/v94xDDoTpz