Shit like this really makes me want to completely abandon my principles and just start scamming stupid right-wing assholes. Because they will clearly give their money to anybody as long as doing so allows them to publicly say that they’re pro-fascism and anti-[brown people/foreign people/gay people/any people who…

My first thought as well. Redacting a document is not difficult. In a sane world, I’d automatically assume leak. But in our world, you really can’t discount the very real possibility of rank stupidity.

Secondly, who in the world says, “I can’t believe they’re not working (few work harder)!”

Seriously. We have two options for offside, regardless of where we decide that anything off is off or everything off is off.

I saw you’d posted this somewhere else (I think you posted it? maybe someone else did?) and... holy shit, that just blows me away. Like, I watched the entire game, I knew City was fucking destroying them, but holy goddamned shit.

The only part of it that I can understand is that there is a thrill to watching a historic thing in sports. Knowing you’re watching a team/performer/whatever that is performing better, by some objective measure, than any previous—and likely better than anybody you’ll see for quite some time, perhaps in your…

Yeah I mean that’s all fair enough. 

Again this is only ‘controversial’ because it happened to Man City and the media believes they should win all 114 points this season, so it’s a travesty they were ‘robbed’

I wish there were no VAR stoppages at all, and I think they still need to take steps to make them shorter, but one of the aspects of the Prem’s implementation of VAR I actually like is that it seems speedier than some others. I can’t think of a VAR review this season that’s gone longer than like 30 seconds, and most…

Sure, Bush had a higher body count, but Bush didn’t spend his entire tenure actively trying to sew discord among his people, drive wedges through his country. Bush was old-fashioned polite GOP racist, absolutely, but Trump’s actively trying to start a race war simply to win elections. And I think you’re also…

Sure, but I actually started thinking about something related after I posted my comment chock full of intentionally-hypberbolic hypotheticals: they could all be seen as akin to falsely yelling “fire” in a theater. 

Right? Of all the ridiculous stats, the possession numbers being as mundane as they were was definitely the most surprising to me. And that’s in spite of the fact that one of the stats is that City had more shots by a literal order of magnitude! But I was still more surprised to see that Tottenham had something like…

Fair. It’s an interesting thought experiment: is there anyone I wouldn’t want allowed into this country simply based on things they’d said?

Denying anyone entry to your country—let alone legislators from your closest ally—because you don’t like things they’ve said is something that’s done by dictators and banana republics and fascist thugs. It’s horseshit. It’s yet another astounding reminder of how far both the leadership of both countries has fallen…

First of all, VAR didn’t steal shit, if anything stole anything, the handball rule did. We’re two rounds into the season and holy shit am I already bored of people whining about VAR. I’ve overall been pretty impressed with its implementation. It still has a long way to go, and there’s a ton that needs to be improved…

I’m continually amazed that the president of the United States of America attacks anti-fascists as regularly as he does, and gets away with it. Don’t get me wrong, I understand why he does it: because if he loses the support of the racists and the fascists he’ll have no base left. And because he has absolutely no…

No, that’s precisely nobody’s argument. The argument is that we should establish a universal basic income so that people can survive after their jobs are phased out for more efficient solutions.

I have a soft spot for fast food breakfast sandwiches. I don’t eat them with any regularity because I like my waistline where it is, thanks, but if I’m in a hurry or on the road or have a morning errand that takes me past a TimHos or whatever, yeah I’ll pick one up once in a while.

And remember all the times we railed against Biden for putting his hands on womens’ shoulders or waists in pictures?

Yep. It was bad enough when I lived in a major city, but a couple of years ago I moved out to a rural area. Overall I love it out here, but the medical situation is fucking dire. There are so few specialists that you have to schedule months in advance, as you say. There are therapists, but no psychologists within an…