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Merry Christmas to all Iron fans.

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There are still free and fair elections planned for the USA, so I wouldn’t describe him as a dictator. He certainly admires them though and I have no doubt that he would love to be one. He is acting like one, with the austentatious and tacky White House updates, grovelling of underlings and hatred of critical material of his government. They give a pretense of free speech concerns in Europe, but seem more bothered that Kremlin rubbish gets called out as disinformation and he is more than happy palling up to murderers of journalists from Saudi.

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Speaking of affronts to democracy, I see the ‘pro-free speech’ government of the USA are sanctioning bodies and people involved with highlighting disinformation. Apparently free speech does not include highlighting lies and free speech means shutting down those calling out lies.

Maybe the ‘totalitarian Marxist state’ is being brought in by Donald Trump?

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When we have a general election by 2029, will you admit you were wrong?

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There will be an election by then. Stop being paranoid.

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It’s ignited a ridiculous civil war among many of the talking heads, where Candace Owens has gone further off the rails and started ranting about how Israel killed Charlie Kirk, did 9/11, the Bondi Beach massacre, the slave trade and more (just swap Jews with Zionists and Israel and they will claim it’s just ‘legitimate criticism’), while spewing neo-Nazi-esque hate about Jews. Ben Shapiro has come out against her, while Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly decide there are ‘no enemies on the right’, so refuse to criticise Candace and make out it’s all lies and smears, and they are the victims really because people are upset at them standing with such reprehensible views.

https://x.com/yashar/status/2002177632809726126

Yes, this example isn’t specifically from the Kirk murder, but it was her Charlie Kirk conspiracies that started this spat.

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Finally a cure for my insomnia.

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Sometimes we might overestimate our critical thinking skills, and everyone gets things wrong.

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Aye, but it’s important to remember to self-reflect and think it’s not just those with different opinions who may have gone wayward in opinion. In this age of polarisation, all of us can succumb to tribal views and arguments that sound good because it fits prior beliefs.

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I suspect you will find some sympathy among many Scunny fans given our own recent history. Might be worth reaching out to the Iron Trust on social media too.

I will give something when I can.

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Accies

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They do it through private business? The world isn’t so simple.

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Things like digital face recognition do create worries. The conspiracies come when people talk about totalitarian Marxist one world governments or cabals being behind it and not it being driven by businesses in the west, like tech companies. With shops wanting it to help catch potential shoplifters and banks, among others, to protect from fraud on accounts with them.

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I am willing to bet that general elections will go ahead by 2029 and Starmer will likely be voted out and with minimal foul play. Which would be odd for a totalitarian.

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“Consecutive governments”. So nothing to do with Marxist Totalitarianism then?

Given the government have been terrible with communications and formulating any kind of coherent plan and policy to date, I would say it’s more likely that this is because of clumsiness and poorly thought through ideas over clever plots to bring in tyranny, which would probably require a greater degree of competence than what we have witnessed. With the many u-turns and incoherence.

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Yes, I know your claims over more lockdowns (that didn’t happen) were a joke. Now, consider that my original post shows that I am uneasy at the proposals put to change our judicial system and think maybe resorting to snark against someone who might have some agreement in opposition to these changes isn’t maybe the wisest idea.

All you ever do on this board is spoil for a fight to show how ‘right’ you are. Not by any kind of measured debate, but cherry picking and looking for any angle to convince your ego that you ‘won’.

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Snarky comments. That will convince me, I am sure. When are those imminent forever lockdowns coming? You promised them years ago.

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It’s a stupid decision, one of many, from the government which gives ammunition to conspiracy theorists. It’s likely motivated by the mess of the judicial system, with much backlog, but it harms judicial fairness.

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Butler needs to get a grip of this. Most fans back him and are happy with how he got us promoted and an overall decent season so far. Most aren’t blaming him or player effort for our recent slump.

As long as it isn’t abusive, negative comments are expected, even if some are overly negative at times. But that’s the price for free speech. People should temper themselves if they can, but they shouldn’t be forced to. Gesticulating for fans to go for asinine comments is ridiculous and makes him look bad. It’s the fans’ club as well, even if some might be negative. It doesn’t bode well if things really go awry.

This all said, I am glad he is the manager over an overrated lower non-league manager who tried and failed with a bigger budget. He achieved more with less.

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It’s no more revelling in defeat than criticism of Watson was revelling in him conceding.

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“We’d have lost 6-0 with Watson.”

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Maybe the reason we conceded goals and aren’t top of the league isn’t necessarily down to the goalkeeper after all.

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As an attempt at publicing the 3 up campaign. Doesn’t seem to be generating much attention though.

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Northumbiron

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https://x.com/ironbru_net/status/1985440034669908084

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All the best to him. It would be nice if the fans sung his name to show support, even if it is a small gesture.

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TheJuryeffsOut wrote:

Butlers original decision over keepers has been proven – we are second.

It went from Watson and Campbell will be a disaster, we could be sucked into a relegation fight because of the goals they concede to he is a disaster, we could be first if not for them.

Watson and Campbell have faults, and there are plenty of better keepers, but what irked me was that the criticism of them went far beyond what was merited. It’s why some thought that there was a tendency to be wanted to be seen as right above all else. A team second in the league, with one of the better goals conceded records, should not have people catastrophising about the goalkeeper.

Constructive criticism, yes, but much of the criticism wasn’t. It was “see, I told you he was crap.” Now we have Mahady and we should, of course, support him, but I hope there isn’t any attempts to use his performances to show how right someone was.

He made some errors in the National League Cup for the Leeds U21s, which would have people going “Watson again” if it was Watson, so he can make errors. This doesn’t make him a poor keeper, nor does it mean he is the definitive answer to all the supposed major faults we had at the back with Watson or Campbell.

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I’m not sure if he was good enough for a title challenge, but the way he was spoken about by detractors was as if he wasn’t good enough for Sunday League.

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The Man Utd and Sheff Wednesday wins will be more than enough for them to have pride. We would snap our hands off to have had a cup run like that, even with a routine defeat at the end.

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Hayes was on loan from Norwich, Keogh from Leeds too. Both good loanees who impressed.

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