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Are you claiming that Covid did not originate from a Wuhan lab leak?

That was partly my point but like I said, that one example isn't relevant to the broader point about censorship.

I don't think the individual case is particularly relevant to the broader point anyway. Who is providing the fact checking in your scenario? Who decides what is evidence based? Is speculation never allowed prior to something becoming fact checked and evidence based?

There was a level of evidence yes but less than desirable because the Chinese didn't want to release any for obvious reasons.

I didn't say a complete block on censorship, I said I prefer a state of affairs where there is less censorship than more. If we are looking at censorship then I certainly don't want the government deciding what the truth is and what is bullshit. At the time it was a disgrace that legitimate narratives about China developing Covid were suppressed as one example under the mistaken belief that it was fake news. Look at the lengths that people have had to go to before the government would refer to Pakistani rape gangs and acknowledge a problem. Those are just two relatively minor recent examples.

I think it's a combination of his own epiphany that he's been having for a few years now and the fact that Trump would probsbly forced him to do much of this stuff anyway and he doesn't want a fight about it. Either way it's great news, dei initiatives are cancerous and need removing and I'd far rather we had less censorship online than more so it's a good direction of travel.

Trying to stretch a metaphor about trusting authority into the middle ages when authorities were busy throwing leeches on people and boring holes in skulls is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen on here. If anything that suggests the total opposite and that we very much shouldn't be listening to what those in power tell us to do.

It's not a wildly unlikely claim is it, given we have documented evidence of authorities demanding that of twitter pre Musk. I also don't see why he'd lie about something that could be so easily disproven.

You fucking idiot.

Good. Dumping dei and censorship is not perfect but it's better than the alternative.

Two things can be true. Clearly authorities meddled to suppress many things outside of the narrative they wanted regarding the vaccine. At the same time, the vaccine is as safe as other vaccines and people who bash vaccines are hard of thinking.

Interesting Streeting referring to Pakistani rape gangs. That's a welcome change that wouldn't have happened a few months ago. One step closer to admitting they are actually a problem.

I always found him equally excoriating to both sides during his interviews. He's been heavily critical and no fan of the tories for years. I don't see what about his criticism were inaccurate? Likewise, I often disagree with you but appreciate you don't just start shouting insults and respect your point of view.

Just call it something else then. City of culture makes it sound like there's something culturally significant about these shitholes.

Like I said, you'd dismiss it based on who it is rather than what it says. The photo is there because how she looked and acted in the house was in the article.

An excellent article that those inclined to do so will ignore because they don't like Andrew Neil. He's 100% right though, Labour and their actions have made the economy significantly worse.

Happy to say I haven't been for many years. Why do they always encourage ridicule by giving these things to the worst places in the country? Wasn't Portsmouth up for it at some point?

I expect it's more that it's sports republic money in the group rather than Southampton money personally. Maybe the kid is really good and we will be able to sell him for more. I agree with you it does seem like a lot. 2-3 million seems more appropriate.

Given it's such a small amount I'm not overly fussed about it but I think it underlines yet again that load sof officials are distracted with their minds elsewhere instead of being 100% invested in improving our lot. I'd be more up for this sort of thing when we are comfortable mid table premier league side.

If he ended up in prison he'd just be running the country from a cell.

We don't breed success, we buy it at 4.5x it's value from our feeder club.

It's not the signing of Ramsdale that made it pointless. It was not competing in virtually every other area of the pitch that made it so.

It was pointless in hindsight because we made very few other signings of Premier league quality so it was a waste of time.

Not sure if it was a parody or something but someone said that goats used to feed on the brush and no longer do as it isn't cost effective which made the situation much worse.

I still like Ramsdale but it was a completely pointless signing in hindsight. Will likely make our money back in the summer and will possibly never even remember he played for us in a few years time.