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If only he ‘legitimately criticised Israel’ like those who made twitter accounts called ‘Anne Frank’ and said Zionists need to be juiced to death (a Green candidate), that Jews did 9/11 (another Green candidate), called Jews inbred (Hasan Piker), attended memorials to Black September terrorists (Corbyn). Then he’d have been able to have held similar views about Jews and be a goody being ‘smeared’ for opposing ethnic cleansing.

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so It’s an old fashioned response to perceived laziness? I still find joy in great comment but pics leave me assuming it’s AI and I dismiss it

I think part of the joy in art is seeing the ingenuity of the human brain, as much as possible. Photoshop still allows for that, it’s the human doing the editing. With AI, it’s just developed by prompts and that is insipid if it is for anything but enhancement. I can maybe get behind an AI enhanced image already created, but not one developed from prompts.

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Kemi thought he was ok being a candidate because he was only a councillor, responsible for things like bins, and not a big deal like an MP. Shows how much she thinks of her councillors too.

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A photoshopped version would take more human ingenuity in creating the image beyond prompts fed to AI.

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Bad, cliched whimsical poetry that props up in local newspapers and the like. They are often connected to misplaced nostalgia about the ‘good old days’. Case in point:

https://x.com/portraitinflesh/status/2084290910330716585/photo/1

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This one should not be geoblocked.

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It’s ridiculous that it has taken until now for Farage to come under fire and even more so for Farage to weaponise security concerns to villainise anyone who dares question his dodgy dealings.

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I share concenrs about cost, but if it is done well, and funds are raised without breaking anyone’s bank, fair enough.

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Well, the UN already love doing stuff like giving women’s rights conferences to Iran, who imprison women for showing hair, human rights chairs to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and China, while its staff involve itself in pogroms. So it wouldn’t be that surprising to see a corrupt FIFA head join a rotten organisation.

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RIP.

I hope and expect there to be a minute’s silence before the first game of the season.

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It’s quite amusing that they were let off by officials so many times in the tournament and still couldn’t win it. Jokers.

Remarkably, they seem to think they are the picked on by referees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThreeLions/comments/1v1kx7j/its_true_the_refereeing_was_bad_and_it_was/

I am also not sure how that stinking performance, where they didn’t register a single shot until 117 minutes, could be seen as an unpopular opinion to hold. If England played like that, we would have been embarrassed and calling for inquests. It was so bad I felt happy that they not only lost, but played so badly and put in a humiliating performance for the whole world to see. They see it as good. probably because they did some good elbows to the back.

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What galls me is that the likes of Enzo Fernandez, Lisandro Martinez and Mac Allister will turn up at their PL clubs next month as though none of the shithousery and political banner waving ever happened and pick up their inflated wages.

If Chelsea and their new Spanish manager have an ounce of integrity then they should consider terminating Fernandez’s contract.

Fernandez is apparently angling for a move to Real Madrid.

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It would have been a travesty for football if Argentina won that. Absolutely awful performance, one of the worst, most embarrassing final performances I can remember. They did nothing but sit back and shithouse. They were only saved from losing comfortably because Spain don’t have a great attack. It would have been embarrassing if a team that registered 0 shots until deep into extra time, won.

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We were defending like the Alamo before 72 minutes. None of what I am saying is to excuse Tuchel. He shouldn’t be making these comments publicly, nor should he have leaned into negative tactics by bringing more defenders on. He shoulders a large portion of responsibility. However, this kind of mentality has shown its head time and time again under different managers, so I don’t think it’s all down to that. It is Tuchel’s job to coach that out of them, however.

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AB will have watched and have seen and heard TT doubling down defending his tactics.
What do fans know about football at best they’ve managed under 14 kids teams.

To be fair, I think there is some truth in what Tuchel said. The retreat to defending like the Alamo has happened under more than one manager, so while I don’t think Tuchel helped with those subs and found little success in pushing them up, I think mentality needs to change. It’s like our players are geared to thinking “now to see it out” at 1-0 and I think this has been instilled by more than Tuchel. To learn from this, the FA needs to look at how to coach this out of them during the youth level and maybe, in time, we can go to the next step.

The positives are that we can now regularly make it far in tournaments, so something is going right, and we can say we are among the best in the world (if not quite yet the best). It’s not like the overhyped 20 year ago team, we are a force to be reckoned with and proved that for 60 minutes against Argentina.

During the end of Sotuhgate’s reign, the Southgate fans were saying the players weren’t good enough and we could only go far because of him, while Southgate’s detractors said the players were the best and his tactics let us down. I think the reality is in between. We do have good players and a good squad, but not quite the best, so they deserve respect while recognition that we need to change something to go that one better.

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Overall, I think that’s a good thing. More choice the better for me.

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I think Klopp will be off to manage Germany.

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Ultimately, we can look back and say we are a top 4 side, but it was the manner of defeat yesterday that sticks in my craw. After Italy in 2021 I felt that was when I knew Southgate didn’t have the tactical nous to win against top opposition and I expected Tuchel to be better, given he was brought in to bring that element to the team. However, yesterday was every bit as bad for poor game management. Up until we scored I thought it was an even game and it could go either way. Argentina were always going to push for it, so some defending capabilities were expected, but those decisions to put more defenders on just invited pressure to a team who knows how to come from behind. Egypt tried and failed, Switzerland were maybe forced into it somewhat with the 10 men, but tried and failed. So we look at that and try again, but with zero attacking outlets at all. Madness. If we had the game plan of the first 55 minutes we may still have lost, but at least it would have been giving it our all. That feels now like a what could have been. Tuchel overthought it and tried to be too clever in nullifying Argentina.

I don’t want to go on to the manager’s head; he’s achieved as much as Southgate has in the world cup (and I don’t mean that as a slight against Southgate) and we gave Southgate more chances, while Tuchel has had success. I feel those who praised Southgate for getting us far can’t criticise Tuchel whose failure was similar to Southgate’s, while still pushing us far. However, people are saying who else is there. Well, there is a Pep Guardiola available. He has little else to prove at club level, the FA could say “you have achieved so much, winning an international tournament will cement you as the best manager ever” and Pep reportedly likes living in England. I am not saying we should go for him and backstab Tuchel, just pointing out there is a good manager who might take it.

Oh well, at least I will get 12 points from yesterday’s game in the prediction league.

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Unfortunately irony will be missed by some unless there’s a whopping crying with laughter face emoji at the end of each sentence.

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It’s good to see remarks that acknowledge that the UK has things to be proud of. It’s a common belief among the right that liberals and the left don’t like the country and that stereotype comes from mocking ‘flag shaggers’ for expressions of patriotic pride. Like when Emily Thornberry mocked a white van man for adorning his house with England flags a decade ago. I don’t like the unite the Kingdom activists and think many have bad motives, but to many, criticism will fall on deaf ears when much of it seemed to damn the flag itself. To me, the UK is great because we are a country that has progressed so much with gay rights, women’s rights, rights for black people and so on. We have shown great values where there has been assimilation and people can be seen as welcome no matter their sexuality or ethnicity. Not everyone is so welcoming, but we’ve done a better job than many nations.

None of this means the country has had a spotless past or present; there are creeping issues today with a growing intolerance and we made many historical mistakes that harmed others. However, no country has a record with few blemishes and we have done something to acknowledge our past (more than what can be said for Japan, Turkey or Russia, who have had worse records at times).

I think some liberals cringe at patriotic pride because it seems burlish and putting oneself above others, but I think it is healthy to have a pride in where you’re from. Why bother improving the country if you think it has no merit? It doesn’t mean you need to tip into jingoism – every country has positives and negatives, but looking at the good points and having pride shouldn’t be taboo. The French seem to manage it from all sides of their politics, so we can too, surely.

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That’s 2 world cup semi finals out of 3 and 2 successive Euro finals. While we have had our fortune, few teams don’t when reaching this stage, and that consistent level of progression in tournaments shows we have something. Under 2 different managers now, so it cannot be put down to just the manager.

We missed Rice when he came off, but it all worked out. No yellows for him and Bellingham. I was worried about that, but I felt the ref did a good job in letting the game flow and all major decisions were correct.

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64 wrote:

When do you consider it was once great?
Our much revered royals sell their daughters for influence,politicians have traditionally connived and murdered their way to the top.We celebrate it too. Perhaps the vile woman will get a statue along with the slave traders and pirates that made it a once great country

Widdecombe held some archaic and, in my opinion, bigoted views. However, there is a world of difference between her and a slave trader or pirate.

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Maybe Positivity Dave will be signing a contract to exclusively post on the iron insider forum, when that comes out, given he is now the communication outlet for the club.

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A title for Fiddlers Elbow.

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He must be. I was thinking of Obertan, but got mixed up.

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I think Egypt had tired out.

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The problem is now that every VAR decision will be questioned for corruption and will be seen with more weight than before, including that bizarre disallowed goal. A foul ages before is now in the remit of VAR apparently.

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