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Personally, I’d let them both go. Neither good enough or strong/aggressive enough to deliver what we need in defence. Molloy can go too for same reason. Knoester & Tobers (to see if he’s actually a player or not cause lets be honest, none of us know yet) are the only two I’d keep back there, then 2/3 signings that actually fit the bill for this league (Gogic would be one for me even if we only got a year or two out of him) so we can play back 4/5 as required…

I don't think anyone who doesn't live in or near Edinburgh quite gets how difficult it is to want Hearts to win I'm not particularly proud of myself but it is a very basic gut reaction

Not sure I agree. All depends on wages.

I’m interested in why spuds with votes don’t affect power. Surely the birth of the Labour Party in the UK ushered in real change in terms of welfare state, NHS, etc? Brexit is an anomaly as it was a plebiscite as opposed to representative democracy.

That was the last full season, but Celtic may yet win the Cup. Harder to work out, but rhere will be a few days between the end of the season and the Cup Final when the trophy cabinets might be empty. A bit nerdy.

I think you’re wildly wrong but that’s ok

Brexit was never meant to be voted through. Trumps first election as well. Both had the same shady backing of course but no way did the political establishment want either. Spuds with votes still hold power

In what way has Brexit affected power?

No it isn't. The biggest threat they face is that their system based on growth can't cope when the materials that the growth is based on are declining across the board. The nostalgic cunts are exactly what Western democracies need and want to distract from that. The mistake you're making here is that you seem to be suggesting that Western democracies have ever belonged to the people within them, rather than the people who control them. Western democracies don't really give much of a fuck what you or I think, and if it helps to algorithm the fuck out of a few 60+ year olds, then that's what will be done.

I believe it was the 1954-55 season. Aberdeen won the League, Clyde won the Scottish Cup and Hearts won the League Cup.

Brexit?

I don't bother. You could be right. That's not because of a lack of education, it's because of a lack of a particular type of education. Representative democracy is an abstract system that has been concocted to exclude those uneducated in its ways. Any educated person making the statement of yours I quote would recognise that's an example of a systemic problem. If poor people are excluded, then representative democracy is illegitimate (it is, for more reasons than that). It's just another example of people thinking that they've gained something when in reality they haven't - in this case, poor people being given the right to vote. Like making slavery illegal after you've built the system in which they'll remain indentured. Giving poor people the vote after you've designed a system that ensures that voting doesn't effect power. The best part about it is that you have an army of professional middle class people (like me and you) educated in the ways of the system that act as gatekeepers, scornful of those who don't, or can't, participate. After all, it can't be us that's the issue.

Wouldn’t lose any sleep if we let Geiger go now.

If Hearts win the league, there is an almost universal acceptance that they won't make it to the group stages of the Champions League. But what is they're emboldened by the league win, spend big in summer, and do make the group stages? That nets them a guaranteed £16m plus ticket sales and £s per points gained. You can say that hurt Rangers and Celtic. But is it good for Aberdeen?

Hence the Alba Party It’s tried and tested system around the world though. Guns, trans, ferries, immigrants, camper vans - take a wedge issue and unleash the bots. Guaranteed Dave down the pub is going to fall for it. The biggest threat western democracies face right now is nostalgic cunts with Facebook accounts

So I gave this one a go, but afraid to say I really struggled with it early doors and subsequently stopped reading. The problem with audio books for me, is that because I only really listen whilst walking the dog I'm hearing them in short snippets and if they don't grab me right away, I'm always going to struggle to continue with it, whereas it takes a lot for me not to finish a book that I'm actually reading. Don't know if that'll make sense or not, but just the way I am. Rattling through paperbacks and kindle editions at some rate as I'm now onto my 42nd book of the year and I have finished all of them

You may be onto something! Boomers don't really understand the internet so when right wing (Gen X) influencers post something they may not have the skill set to decipher it?

Without Facebook there wouldn’t be a Reform Ltd. It’s quite funny watching boomers (bless their wee cotton socks) replying in huge numbers to bots on local newspaper sites Guys, if it’s got a dog picture, 2 pals and hates Muslims, it’s probably not human

Where is all this talk of signing Morrison coming from ? Thought he was on a long term contract at QPR and would imagine he would not only command a fee but also potentially be on a decent wedge. IMHO value for money is questionable Next.

It’s not entirely a trope. There’s good polling data on correlation between population characteristics and voting patterns.

I work for a large oil services company and safe to say that over 90% of the folk in the office are university educated. Most of these folk are right wing, with quite a few reformers amongst them. I'm a qualified accountant, but not university educated, but very much on the left politically. Id say a reasonably educated person would vote, whilst folk from poorer backgrounds tend not to bother. I think it's a right wing trope, that the 'educated' are all wokist, lentil munching, left wingers. Social Media has to take a large share of the blame for the rise of the right wing nut jobs.

When was the last point in time in which neither of the cheeks had a domestic trophy in their cabinet? Ahead of the cup final thats a real possibility. Much as I hate Hearts I’d quite like to see that happen. in an ideal world all three would get done for some kind of infringement of the rules and Motherwell win the league!!

All things being equal, best to avoid voting for a cunt, I’d say. That said, it can be hard to tell. For my sins I worked in Whitehall for many years, and someone’s public image and their private behaviours can be poles apart. I’ve worked with some horrible politicians whose politics I largely agreed with and vice versa. The cuntometer is pretty hard to calibrate I reckon.

Morrison has some big flaws. It's fairly clear that we have to play a back three if he's in it, to make up for those. That's fine, but it then means that wingers won't be a thing either. I think Milne has the potential to be better than Morrison over time, and I'd be inclined to stick with him as the development player.

Yes. But cunts can sometimes be right, even if by accident. Is someone that just tries to be the opposite of a cunt the one to vote for? Or are they just a different type of cunt?