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Never heard of him but he has a bad-ass name. It literally means "The Invader"

Sign of champions and what-not.... I keep looking incredulously at the table. We really have no right to be first with the season we had last year and the money everyone else spent this summer but....Conte!

People. Are. NOT. Always. Selfish. Fuck that idiotic, cynical, post-capitalism, consumerist-apologistic view of humanity!

So many mini-heart attacks. Where the f*ck is that whistle?!

If we concede we'll only have ourselves to blame for wasting all those chances. This is so frustrating!

WHAT are we doing?? FFS Pedro WHY??

How many more fouls before De Roon is booked?

Tbf, the fact that they are just refusing to mark Moses has certainly helped Not take anything away from how much we managed to improve during the half. Still, I think we can find a couple of more gears, especially in our passing.

Not setting the world on fire by any stretch but certainly a deserved lead. The thing about this system we are playing is that even when it's not clicking for us in the final third we're still incredibly difficult to break down.

That was an incredible 'strikers' goal'...whatever that means!

It's football, mate. Anyone is only as good as their last match to the fans.

Crap, Antonio won the manager of the month award. Now we're going to have to beat both Boro and the bloody award curse! On a serious note, complacency might be an issue here. I REALLY don't like it when everyone puts us as firm favorites for a match...

What a performance by Romeu in the first half. He's been fantastic whenever I've seen him this season. Very happy to see him finally grow into his own. Also, Ake with a headed goal!

Cornel West is one the brightest minds around. This is so brilliant and spot on: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/american-neoliberalism-cornel-west-2016-election

Noam Chomsky SIX years ago: “The United States is extremely lucky that no honest, charismatic figure has arisen...If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest this country is in real trouble because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of any coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer, we have an enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted minority...If the polls are accurate it is not the Republicans but the right-wing Republicans, the crazed Republicans, who will sweep the next election...The mood of the country is frightening. The level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions is not organized in a constructive way. It is going off into self-destructive fantasies.” http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/donald-trump-president-wins-election-noam-chomsky-prediction-a7406831.html The man has been basically right about almost everything for more than 60 years. Probably why you never see anything he says ever given any attention or weight in the mainstream.

I don't think it's fair at all to project the candidates moralities onto their voters. I think it silly to say that all those who voted Trump are okay with his racism misogyny and xenophobia just as it would be absurd to claim that everyone who voted Clinton is okay with endless wars to maintain the empire, unregulated banks and corporations and corruption (which no body is claiming). The problem with 'democracy' in the US is that most don't vote FOR a candidate but AGAINST another because everyone keeps shoving the broken two-party system down their throats and telling them to vote for the lesser of two evils...then you get president Trump! That's not to say that no bigots voted for Trump. Some are clearly and even proudly racist/homophobic...etc.But most are not. But even if we assume that all those who voted Trump are 'deplorables', now what? The answer is to not even challenge them? To let them win and flee? And I know that you comment about moving to Canada comes from your frustration and is probably not a sincere desire, but I'm talking about fleeing from the political debate. Because that is what liberals have been doing for some time. Shutting someone down by calling them racist/sexist/fascist...etc. is not winning the debate, it's basically conceding it. Getting offended and outraged by an idea does not destroy it. You need to debate it. Even if they are racist, even if they are misogynists; debate them, logically call out their bullshit, don't let their bigotry go unchallenged. It shouldn't be hard. We're the left. We're supposed to have the rational upper hand. But for some reason we think we've already won the culture debate and have stopped using logic and debating and instead replaced that with hurling insults and calling everyone on the right evil as if that has even persuaded anyone to change their opinions. The democratic party needs to quit this condescending holier than thou attitude and all the shaming and outrage. They need to stop blaming everyone else for their continued failure and start talking to the 60 million people and trying to understand why they voted for an obviously bigoted candidate like Trump over their Clinton.

Secular Talk on YouTube is quite good. DemocracyNow is the best. As for left news sites the Intercept is by far the best. Alternet can be good too.

Could have been 'salvaged' had the mainstream not insisted that Sanders was "unelectable" and the DNC not worked to sabotage him...

BY FAR the best thing I've heard about this whole thing: More than anyone the left is responsible for Trump and Brexit and the entire shit towards extreme right in the world.

No. Clinton is out of touch with reality she used fucking cold-war red-baiting tactics as her main strategy! The main reason for the immigration from South America to the US is the violence sponsored by the US itself. This has been true for decades now. From death-squads to dictatorships to actual invasions to military coups like recent one in Honduras or even right wing political coups like the recent one in Brazil and the one that keeps failing in Venezuela. Even if you put aside human empathy and natural desire to help those fleeing violence and poverty, the US as the main sponsor of the miseries of South America has a moral obligation to take in the resulting refugees at the very least. As for the drugs from Mexico the main reason for that is Reagan's 'War on Drugs' which is a racist political strategy aimed at criminalizing black lifestyles because blacks vote Democrats. It's also a war that the US has forced onto South American governments for various foreign policy reasons even though all of them, even Colombia, want to end it. Those 'major issues' are easily fixable because their solution is in the hands of the US government but no one, and certainly not Trump, want to address them because they are very useful distractions from the actual reasons of the decline in jobs, which are trade agreement and lack of regulation, and the high levels of crime which have complex socio-economic reasons that are mainly rooted in the continued segregation of the country and the deeply embedded systemic racism in it on one hand and the ever increasing economic gap due to the fact that concentrated private power rules the US political system.

No he didn't mean it at all. Nor the 'Muslim ban' nor the wall. None of those are actually achievable. They were just populist talk. As was Obama's 'change' rhetoric in 08 for that matter... They actually didn't. Clinton won the popular vote. He won the electoral college.

A tool that is evidently starting to lose its effectiveness, just like mainstream media.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Turns out the polls were rigged after all!

It's weird that not even an election this messed up can breakdown those division lines between the parties...