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On a different note, this is your new foreign minister, UK? Really? REALLY?!

Not sure if that is what you mean but that sounds a lot like you are excusing people and society from any responsibility for the depressingly high suicide attempts for transgender people (around 40% iirc). That's just plain wrong. Of course discrimination against transgender people plays a huge part in that when 78% have experience physical harassment and 35% have been sexually assaulted! That's without even getting into the discrimination against them from employers and the enormous wage gap from transgender people. 15% of transgender people make under 10K per year in the US; four times more likely than cisgender people. Yeah, I'd be more inclined to kill my self if I were making less than 800$ per month too! I don't put much emphasis on labels but calling it a mental illness is not in any way helpful (I personally don't find my cisgenderism to be that mentally healthy either!). It's not something that can be 'cured' but again it does legitimize discrimination. Lastly, I don't know why you are expecting all transgender people to share personality traits. That's usually a symptom of underlying bias. They're just people with a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth. That doesn't mean they aren't as complex as any other human or don't have all sorts of personalities. Weird and irrational to suggest otherwise. EDIT: Right now in my community, similar arguments are being made but about homosexual people regarding how it is supposedly is a disease and linked to other mental illnesses with some even saying that the high suicide rates among homosexuals here is 'natural'; basically arguments that were made against homosexuals in the US and Europe in the 80s and 90s, but we've luckily moved away from that. So, I hope and do genuinely believe that we will move away from the discussion about mental illness and suicides among transgender people once they are better integrated into society.

Probably for similar reasons why any couple who are not religious want to get married, plus the added the desire to get a marriage just because a lot of people in power say that they can't get one based on their sexual orientation. I don't personally believe in 'contractual' marriage** but I can see some of the advantages it gives, mainly to protect the rights of both members of the union in the case of a split/divorce. And besides taxation, adoption is nearly impossible in most cases unless you are legally married. As well as other small matters regarding things like how you interact with banks, bureaucracies, even employers...etc. But most of all, keeping marriage illegal for queer people legitimizes bias and discrimination against them and further disenfranchises from society. The numbers for physical harassment and suicide attempts for gay and especially transgender individuals are just horrifying. Legalizing marriage for them it by no means solves these but it's a step towards them not being the 'other' anymore. **Ironically, and somewhat related to this topic, despite that fact, me and a lot of the younger generation here have been fighting for years for the right for civil marriage.

Ema Giulianelli? Snub Real Madrid?! Silly season, indeed..

I think the management probably have in the back of their mind that Conte will probably be here for 2-3 seasons at best, as is usually the case, after which he'd probably take the new goalkeeping coach with him (still haven't memorized his name) and they realize that Lollichon is the better of the two and would like to still have him here after Conte leaves. That and probably we don't want him to join Petr at Arsenal.

Yeah, absolutely, you CAN partially blame the 'good' members of ISIS who are not killing innocents for the deeds of those who are because of their choice to join such an organization just like you can partially blame good cops for the crimes and institutional racism carried out by the organization. THAT is exactly what I'm saying.

Yeah, because an armed organization is the same as an ideology, or a range of ideologies, in the case of Islam. Go fish

Of course there are good people in the police, but the organization itself is a tool for the powerful to oppress minorities and the vulnerable. Its members, even the genuinely good people, bare a moral responsibility for what the order is committing even if they do not kill themselves. Saying that the answer is not street justice is ignoring the street injustices and crimes that are being committed everyday and wanting them to continue. There are demos everyday. In fact, yesterday there were demos all over the US, almost completely ignored by media and politicians alike. The capacity of demos for change is very small and even when they might bring change around it comes at a painfully slow rate when innocent people are being gunned down every day. There is no equivalency between those who shot the cops and the cops who murder unarmed black men. Not by a long shot. Not even if the attackers, like the cops, don't even get charged. Not even if they use taxpayer money to pay for their legal fees and paid vacations. It'll play out like it always has throughout history. Oppressed people will rise up and fight and eventually get their rights and free themselves, most likely through violent resistance. Power to the people.

And then people are shocked that people shot cops in Dallas. Attacking members of an armed organization that oppresses and murders vulnerable minorities on a daily basis is RESISTANCE.

Just saw the videos. Not NEARLY enough outrage and anger, man. Fucking burn down every cop station in the state and hang the murderous bastards in every town center!

Yeah, the world is fucked up and speeding down the unavoidable path to doom in the very near future, but on the bright side British politics is providing a lot of entertainment!

Started to cringe at that then remembered that he's no longer our problem and we can just sit back and enjoy the drama

As @Blue_Fox_ said, it's great to have him here a few days early so he can start working on building and molding his squad..

I think you mean 'wonderful'

Jokes on you. I'm not really fasting and I just had something that is 8765439913 times better than pizza

Fucks sake...WHO makes those decisions? Based on what?!

Shoarma? In Ramadan while I'm fasting?! You bastard!

That'll do!

Looks done with the medical happening right now. Know little of the guy, but if what I'm reading that he is a striker who can hold up play is true, then I'm all for it. PS: If this thread calls him the 'New Drogba' one more time he will most certainly flop, just like the new Kaka, the new Lampard and our answer to Messi... PS2: Someone come up with a nickname for him because I can't pronounce his last name.

Oh it was definitely a bit of both, mate, at least in my opinion. He was unlucky in the CL draw on one hand (not to mention THAT disgraceful match that should not have been against Galatasaray), but on the other he also failed to win the Coppa Italia in any of his 3 seasons at Juve despite being massive favorites for it in his last 2 seasons there. Yes, Juve had a sort of mental block for winning that 10th Coppa Italia since the late nineties, but Conte as well frustratingly refused to adapt his team according to the strengths of Napoli and Lazio. Imo, the matches against Belgium and Spain show a level of reading and understanding of opposition teams better than he ever showed at Juve which would suggest that he has evolved in that respect..

He was called a bad cup manager in Italy. Definitely proving people wrong in this tournament.

I don't think the question should be at all whether we should let him go. Simply, if he wants to stay prove that last season was a fluke he should of course be given the opportunity to but also if he wants to leave he should absolutely be allowed to as well.

Performance of the tournament so far?

I think democracy is more important. And this is coming from a guy who is not a big believer that democracy actually exists. But even keeping up the pretense of democracy is important, imo. Even if you think this will be more bad than good for the majority of British people, which I do, you can't baby the population. These categorizing of voters like this gets on my nerves. The whole point of them is create stereotypes to slag off one group or another and to help the losing to create excuses for their failures to reach out to segments of the voters.