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Why not?

I feel pretty proud to be honest, as a city and a fanbase we know what it's like to be dehumanised and treated like shit. Well done the lads.

Fuck me, imagine having this as your twitter bio? “He’s a machine...handsome and going places” says @realDonaldTrump Funny as fuck watching the Republicans doubling down on trying to steamroller over their own people, there's only one way that'll end. It's something they've never learned, be it Iraq or Vietnam. Just throw weapons at the problem and stand aghast as people increasingly hate you.

Panto villain. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at governors during a White House videoconference, telling them that “most of you are weak” after states grappled with another night of anger and unrest following the killing of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police. According to a source on the call, Trump was “annoyed” with the governors for their response to the protests and urged law enforcement to crack down and make more arrests. "You’ve got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you’ll never see this stuff again,” Trump said, according to the source.

I think the entire philosophy of the way the American policing system works is wrong, it seems to be based on the use of force to bring obedience. Might is right, do as you're told or else. That's how you'd treat people if you were occupying them, not policing their communities. I think the police over here are largely shite and I'd only ever call them for a crime number so I could make an insurance claim (and they'e probably agree with me that that would be the only point) but they're (at least in theory) run along the lines of community policing and engagement, policing by consent rather than swarming on streets in numbers with guns and boots, you only really saw shit like that in the 80s, in inner cities or in Northern Ireland. Also, why is it so complicated over there? Apparently there are almost 18,000 law enforcement agencies over there, from Sheriff departments and state troopers, to city police and federal agencies. That's got to cause problems surely when it comes to things like, for instance, insisting on basic levels of intelligence, education or fitness.

Yeah this dcblackout bollocks looks like a bot farm or something, you can virtually smell the borscht through the screen. Need to follow my own advice and stay off Twitter, it really is the pits.

Wow

No idea, it's fucking weird though if it's true, and it's a big if. Some Ozzie professor was saying the other day he was weirded out by the fact it had seemingly gone straight from an animal virus to a human one with seemingly no sign of evolution, one day it was one thing then it was the next.

Tom Hardy channeling Ronnie Kray is a joy to behold, I like Arthur too - mad bastard, can't believe he's only two years older than me. The Nick Cave theme is class.

If this is true though. I'm fully onboard with the conspiracy theorists. A virus hits like a bomb, mainly hammering western Europe, the East Coast of the United Strates (its own specific strain) in an election year and as protestors are taking to the streets of hong kong, causing social and financial mayhem. A virus that's doing the sort of wacky shit doctors have never seen before, then it gets weak and fucks off?

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/new-coronavirus-losing-potency-top-18340690 The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday. "In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy," said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy's coronavirus contagion. "The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago," he told RAI television. A second doctor echoed Zangrillo's observations. "The strength the virus had two months ago is not the same strength it has today," said Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital in the city of Genoa. The government urged caution, saying it was far too soon to claim victory.

He was moved to a bunker under the White House at one point apparently where he tweeted 'Law and Order!' followed by 'Fake News!' Shittest Downfall scene ever.

Only just started watching this, it's fucking boss, best thing on British telly I've seen for years.

Fuck that, how much can anyone need a booshelf?

Despite what they say about not planning for herd immunity, surely the only way out is between herd immunity and a vaccine? Unless people want to live like this forever.