Bruce Spanner

Fuck's going on with those eggs, Baz?

Just done the draws for each grouping, well my very able four year old daughter did for fairness sake. Looking good for Istvan, not so much Ardja and the Preacher Man...

Hi all, Cheers for signing up. Would you all do the poll and leave your team name here and I'll start building. I'll set up separate threads for Keepers (2), Defenders (8), Midfielders (6), Attackers (6), no taking the piss with what is and isn't a midfielder. I will randomise all the drafts so it's as fair as can be and we can have them all going simultaniously which will make it a lot quicker to get started proper. If we have a system where you select your player and the tag the next person they'll get a notification that it's their turn (@whatever) If we get this done quickish I will build the simiulation through the week and aim for the Community Shield next Saturday/Sunday. That sound like a plan? @Bjornebye @Karl_b @John102 @No2 @Pidge @Strontium Dog™ @sir roger @Mr Holliday @Istvan Kuntstain @The Golden Eel @Paulie Dangerously @Skidfingers McGonical @Alex_K @Street Preacher @rb14 @aRdja @Dynamite @Captain Turdseye @Scott_M

And we have a winner! Right I'll set up a thread on the Draft Forum.

That was one idea, but maybe selecting players for a certain manager might make it more interesting.

By category, it’ll make things quicker, all will be randomised to even things out. The only question is do we draft managers, or all have the same one? Once we have the last person I’ll set a poll up on the draft forum.

Bruce Stig Scott 102 Fake Captain Bruce’s Mate Dynamite Breakfast Blert. Sir Rog The Dog. No2 RB14 Preacher Alex K Skids  Paulie Pidge Golden Eel  Istvan Last place available!

Shit just got real, the game has been downloaded and I am ready to get started on this shit! Last two places!

He'll leave behind as little evidence as possible... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/historians-having-to-tape-together-records-that-trump-tore-up

Two places left!

Yes. We'll also play the League Cup, FA Cup and I'll fix it so we're all in the CL as well.

Bruce Stig Scott 102 Fake Captain Bruce’s Mate Dynamite Breakfast Blert. Sir Rog The Dog. No2 RB14 Preacher Alex K Skids  Paulie Pidge 3 spaces left! I might be able to get this set up today at this point.

You’re in, await further instructions and i promise I’ll throw around some outrageous slurs at some point just for you.

Waddell was peerless. ' 'When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer...Bristow's only 27.''

Bruce Stig Scott 102 Fake Captain Bruce’s Mate Dynamite Breakfast Blert. Sir Rog The Dog. No2 RB14 Preacher Alex K Six spaces left!

So we’re in broad agreements on most things then, the bolded though is where we find difference as I believe that ‘the political class’ have engaged and weaponised the ‘Everyman’ for political ends and now we’re in a precarious situation as the genie is out of the bottle as you have to accept formally fringe views as relevant when they are anything but. Centrism works as it appeals to all, in some way, and should, by definition, work for all, if only marginally. I don’t want it, you, I suppose, don’t want it, the far right and left don’t want it, but most would as it’s just continuity.

3) So 70m then. 4) I don’t know, but the lens is very much on social media and how they’re significant in this. I think there’ll be some form of censorship and removal of anonymity, I’m not sure how positive this is, but we need a radical rethink as something has gone very, very fucking wrong. Caveat: I’m not sure all of this is confined to US boarders and isn’t part of a larger geopolitical game of brinkmanship.

No tokenism here, brother. Just sign up and we can all work together to solve intolerance and get rid of the rest of these cunts.

Yes, but free will and choice has to be factored in or you’ll allow any crank to do as they will because they ‘believe it’ Its not possible, or permissible, to have this as a precedent.

1) Not you, them.. 2) No, a percentage of these are a massive issue, like the small band of emboldened cunts in the UK aligned with Brexit. I’m not, overly, concerned with the majority, though Botha needs to be understood. I’m more concerned about the small, very vocal, minority who have been weaponised, they’re the problem and they’ve been, and are being, used for whatever political ends this leads to. 3) it’s 70+m why double it? It makes no difference. 4) The next ‘Trump’ if they’re competent will walk this bullshit and that’s a very real concern.

No, the advisors, tech people, briefers, sponsors, legitimisers, co-conspirators, vested interests, media’s alignments, nudge department’s and any other cunt under the sun who allowed this joke to run roughshod over democratic process for the last four years. Everybody, including the people who have been mind raped to accept this fucking nonsense, are culpable to a greater or lesser degree. No excuses.

I agree wholeheartedly, he’s a Freudian ID made flesh, but those that enabled this bullshit are, or are adjacent, and they are the people we need to be concerned with, not specifically the Orange Helmet. Its a modern version of totalitarianism, and maybe it has been arrived at accidentally, but there, as here, the moves and ideas lead down that road. I don’t think we can sleep on this, it’s abhorrent .

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’d be churlish to call it anything other...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/16/if-trump-looks-like-a-fascist-and-acts-like-a-fascist-then-maybe-he-is-one ’Assurances that “fascism couldn’t happen here” are always appealing in Anglo-Saxon countries that think themselves immune because “it” never did. The US and UK did not experience rule by Nazism or communism in the 20th century and the ignorance our lucky histories fostered has weakened our defences in the 21st. Even after all that has happened in Washington, apparently serious voices insist we cannot compare Donald Trump to any variety of fascist. Conservatives habitually say that liberals call everything they don’t like fascist, forgetting that the moral of Aesop’s fable was that the boy who cried wolf was right in the end. They used to chortle about “Trump derangement syndrome” that spreads in stages like cancer until sufferers “cannot distinguish fantasy from reality”. They have bitten their tongues now that the reality of Trumpism is deranged mobs trying to overthrow democracy. Their silence was broken last week by the historian of Nazism, Richard Evans, who with the effortless ability to miss every point a professorship at Cambridge bestows, decided now was the moment to denounce his colleagues, Timothy Snyder and Sarah Churchwell. They might compare the Trump and fascist movements but “few who have described Trump as a fascist can be called real experts in the field”, he wrote in the New Statesman with an audible sniff. “Genuine specialists”, such as, and since you asked, himself, “agree that whatever else he is, Trump is not a fascist”. Before we get to why the argument matters, I should say the New Statesman needs to expand its fact-checking department. Snyder, whose work on how democracies turn into dictatorships is essential reading, does not say that the Trump movement is “fascist”. He writes that “post-truth is pre-fascism and Trump has been our post-truth president”. Churchwell’s astonishing studies of how German Nazis and American white supremacists fed off each other are a revelation. (And I come from the old left and thought I had learned about everything that was rotten with America at my mother’s knee.) When asked, she says she too is careful and characterises the Trump movement as “neo-fascist”. The use of “fascism” in political debate is both a call to arms and a declaration of war. For once you say you are fighting fascism there can be no retreat. By talking of “pre-fascism” or “neo-fascism”, you acknowledge that the F-word is not a bomb you should detonate lightly; you also acknowledge the gravity of the times. The alternatives look like the euphemisms of formerly safe societies that, like Caliban, cannot bear to see their face in the mirror. The Trump leadership cult, the attacks on any source of information the leader does not authorise, the racist conspiracy theories, the servile media that amplify the leader’s lies are not “conservative” in any understanding of the term. How about populist? If it means anything today, populism is supporting the people against the elite. But what could be more elitist than denying the result of the people’s vote with the big lie, the Joseph Goebbels lie, that Trump won the election he lost and then inciting brainwashed followers to storm democratic institutions? Followers, I should add, who included men dressed in “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirts and waving Confederate flags and wannabe stormtroopers crying “sieg heil!” and “total negro death”. “Far right” and “extreme right” are no help. They are just polite ways of saying neo-fascist. In his The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton, the pre-eminent authority on its ideology, wrote that the Ku Klux Klan in 1867 rather than Mussolini’s squadristi in 1920 could be seen as the first fascist movement. As with the Nazi party, the embittered officers of a defeated army formed the Klan. They mourned the defeat of the Confederacy and did not accept the legitimacy of the US government. They had uniforms, white robes rather than leather jackets, the fantasies of racial supremacy and deployed terror to maintain the subjugation of African Americans. Last week, police sources told the Washington Post they were shocked to see “former law enforcement and military personnel as well as senior business executives” among the Washington mob. If they had known the history of military and bourgeois support for fascism, they would have been less surprised. It isn’t always powered by “the left behind”. Paxton said last week that he had “resisted for a long time applying the fascist label to Donald J Trump”, but Trump’s incitement of the invasion of the Capitol “removes my objection to the fascist label”. Republicans fear assassination if they vote to impeach Trump. Rupert Murdoch’s broadcasters are delivering barely veiled threats of violent insurrection if the Democrats pursue impeachment. “We see what’s happening around this country, how 50 state houses are being threatened on Inauguration Day,” warned one. “This is the last thing you want to do.” I can see three objections to calling a large section of the Republican party pre-fascist. The first can be dismissed with a flick of the fingers as it comes from a self-interested right that has to pretend it is not in the grip of a deep sickness – and not only in the United States. The second is the old soothing “it can’t happen here” exceptionalism of the Anglo-Saxon west, which has yet to learn that the US and UK are exceptional in the 21st century for all the wrong reasons. The third sounds intelligent but is the dumbest of all. You should not call Trump or any other leader a pre- or neo-fascist or any kind of fascist until he has gone the whole hog and transformed his society into a totalitarian war machine. The example of the stages of cancer, so beloved by believers in Trump derangement syndrome, explains the stupidity. Imagine you are a doctor looking at pre-cancerous cells or an early-stage cancer that has not grown deeply into tissue. The door bursts open and a chorus of Fox Newspresenters and Cambridge dons cry that “real experts in the field” agree that on no account should you call it cancer until it has metastasised and spread through the whole body. A competent doctor would insist on calling a fatal disease by its real name and not leave treatment until it was too late to stop it. So should you.’

1, 4, A and any slag that disagrees can come at me.