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This is why I prefer DT. Constructive reviews of the game, as opposed to FB which is just filled with "sack everyone"

Just watch the highlights and we certainly had chances, couple of really good ones too in aouchiche right at the start, karlsson, and Clarkson in particular. It still has to click, with chemistry, and a bunch of players still not fully match sharp, plus the two today who have never played in the SPL, and others while little Scottish experience. I think we’ll come good, and based on results everyone is taking points off everyone except Celtic and hearts. I hate that the transfer window is open for a month of our season. I also hope we reflect on the number of preseason games we play. We look slow and need game time. It will come!

Yet another unfamiliar front three not quite getting it together, but individually I thought we weren't too bad save for a large spell in the second half. Created some really good chances. Aouchiche has two, Nisbet one, Jensen and Palaversa forced good saves, Polvara hits a post, Karlsson goes close too. There was a few times too there was a touch of the Elfsborg about us; Dorrington picking the front three out and we were on their back line. Sometimes you can see moves that have come from the training ground, but we just don't quite get it to work in a match. It'll click at some point, I'm sure of it. And, defensively we were okay too. Gyamfi isn't going to be racing up the byline much by the looks of things, but he's like another centre half at times and compliments Knoester well in that respect. Got to remember we had four debutants today (although granted one of those was Nisbet). Those four plus Lazetic are all lacking games and match sharpness. We'll see more from all of them. Crucially, all look like they have seen a football before. The next three games (Motherwell twice and Dundee United away) will be interesting as they both look handy up front, but are conceding for fun at the back.

I hadn't actually looked that high up the table to notice that Game in hand over most of the table too...

You'd have to be fairly mental to believe that. There hasn't been a left wing government in the US in at least fifty years, and given that the overwhelming majority of political violence comes from the state, there is zero chance of the left ever surpassing right wing violence.

I think we should start by sacking everyone, and then play the previously sacked u19s.

Unsurprisingly, I meant facing. Where's the sub editors here?

You were doing so well until you transformed into Dave Cameron

I would say that’s a very romanticised view of what he did. He never debated in good faith, there was never an openness to consider differing viewpoints, only pushing his own agenda (rooted in disinformation), mostly on people who were not equipped to “debate” with him. Plus the whole “debate me” schtick seems to be just the window dressing on what his Turning Point organisation was actually doing. Lots of prominent people in academia and journalism coming out saying they were targeted with harassment campaigns designed to silence them. Not saying that excuses what happened to him but he wasn’t just some politically-curious young man with a passion for debate. He was an activist for an agenda that will result in human death and suffering whether it be removal of healthcare, removal of access to safe abortion, consequences of false demonisation of vaccines, rhetoric on acceptability of gun deaths, and the general approach to diversity and immigration that will have lasting effects on millions of hard-working families.

The world would be a better place if we all avoided social media!

Absolutely. As I say, most violence is of the state. I'd argue that everyone is not against political violence, including you! It's just that we've created this artificial barrier that says that because the violence is of/by the state or country, that it's in some way legitimate. I'm sure there's a police shooting out there that you've (perhaps correctly) thought was justified. You might agree with Israel's right to defend itself, or a corporation's right to refuse someone health care. All of these things are political violence (similarly homelessness), based on a made-up, right wing, economic system. Most people see this violence as acceptable as they are told that it is acceptable, because it conforms to some arbitrary man-made laws. The US has exported political violence worldwide, toppling whichever governments didn't conform to its right wing economic agenda, backed by the IMF. At home, they arbitrarily decide that you can't consume particular drugs, whilst allowing the biggest pharmaceutical companies to murder people via fentanyl or other addictive drug of choice (those pharmaceutical companies exist, and lobby, because the right wing economic system allows it - and the right wing state deregulates it). What really is the difference between an IDF soldier killing a Gazan child, and some right wing/left wing/incel/trans (delete as appropriate) person who decided that they didn't like his politics? Meanwhile, the same people that brought you forty years of right wing, inhumane, unnatural, ecologically disastrous, anti-physics economic growth ideology, happen to also own the news networks that spend 24/7 telling you that the left/right is your enemy, stoking hate and division in order that nobody stops to question why their violence is somehow worse than the biggest source of political violence. Those people are your enemy. Fox news is your enemy, CNN, MSNBC are your enemy. Not your foreign neighbour, or the BLM/Proud boys lad from down the road.

"World's most unnecessary stat" thread for this shite