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"They've nowhere else to go" and "Hold your nose and keep the others out" works (1) if used sparingly (2) until it catastrophically doesn't.
Too many centre left parties have built their entire strategy around a tactic and got wrecked. Labour had warning in Scotland and haven't needed it.
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They will burn the party down before backing them. The Labour Left has never really had the organisation or will to do it - the current mess with Corbyn's new party illustrates it. The Labour right has no such qualms.
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Probably harder to stick a banging Nine Inch Nails soundtrack on, tbh
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It seems different from the dotcom bubble. That money seemed to be pushed in a lot of different directions, as investors tried to figure out who wins. Bust was bad, but the investment set up future growth.
Here most money seems to be going to the same places. So if AI bombs, just a crater...?
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Well objectively not in the aspect of scoring goals
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Bamford, for all his faults, would go on hot streaks. Can only hope DCL is the same. I think the point that "if DCL had lethal finishing he wouldn't be playing for us" is fair though.

More worried a side built on defence has leaked another two. Bijol for Struijk is probably worth trying out.
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Hopefully. But poor finishing will cost us against anyone.

Plus for a side built on defense that's another 2 concdede. Struijk has been caught out enough times that Bijol is worth agon
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Unlucky to concede late against Fulham
Unlucky to concede late against Bournemouth
Unlucky to not get anything off Spurs
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Unlucky to go down

I get it but we need to make a bit more of our own luck. We seem to be undone by lethal finishing we don't have at the minute.
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Far right Catholics, especially converts: St Thomas Aquinas something something natural law something something no taxation something something immigrants are bad

Typical mass going Catholics: St Anthony please just let me find my shit
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UK birthrate is now 1.44. That halves population in ~50 years. Guardian suggests 800 schools could close by *2029*

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Who is building houses, working the NHS, driving innovation and growth or fighting wars? Ignore the immortality, the policy is completely insane
Low birthrates in England could lead to ‘closure of 800 primary schools by 2029’
Primary pupil numbers could fall by 4% over next five years leading to reduction of 162,000 pupils, study finds
www.theguardian.com
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Genuinely don't think it's that. Think it's more learned helplessness and/or moderation as a virtue in itself. Politics is the art of the possible and not all compromise is nihilistic. But you have to clearly know and explain your own values for that to the case.
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Yes. Tons of micro parties that are highly committed and mobilised that get nowhere. You are making choices between principal and power before and after the vote. What you want and what is possible - not just in terms of getting votes but what can be implemented in reasonable time - are not the same
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The major difference with the UK is the US had a robust economy at the point of the election. Moderate policies that ensured that kept going might be successful. The UK is in a hole and doesn't have the same choices.
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Sometimes you have to play strategist. All politics is some form of compromise with principle and pragmatism.
The people who need to do it are Democratic strategists. The idea that every person with liberal views or beliefs need to do in case they alienate random conservatives is insane.
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He can be frustrating at times but he's always very level headed. Think that's typically what the club needs.
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3 points lost from basically a loss of concentration is the worrying thing. We also seem to invite teams onto us towards the end of games.
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I'd rather have Tanaka in there at home. More of a forward pass on him. 3 goals last week, but DCLs header was out of nothing and you aren't replicating that header every week.
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My argument is built on the idea joined-up data is a very powerful thing and we should careful with who has access to it.
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The government holds a lot of data but they don't necessarily have the ability to join and leverage it. This isn't really a way to prove your ID, it's a proposal to be able to join and leverage that data.

Belfast Catholics can imagine British Gov powers being used for discrimination pretty easily.
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It's not a fallacy to consider what risks exist with powers we give the government, and you don't have to reach too far for examples of governments establishing powers and the expanding them.
Present US is a cautionary tale.
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Also: how long before as much of that data is centralised and collated as possible, then fed to AI?

I'm sure it'll initially be very worthy, but how long before Grok is using it to show immigrants are all antifa, or something
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Aside from the merits, I just don't understand the messaging of "We need to challenge Farage's lies on immigration - and an ID Card is the way to do it.". What?
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I think it is a me problem, it's not unreasonable
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* would not abuse it
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Also why am I this bad at Hades 2? I recall being pretty good at Hades 1 by the end