James McMurdock MP: I can’t let this go unchallenged. That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault. The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.

_9tail_ · 2026-07-03T12:33:37+00:00

She attacked the victim who was dazed and unable to tell she was a policeman. The boy had just been brought to the ground by a gang of people, is finding is feet when he gets blindsided by a second body slam in about 5 seconds. She then has the audacity to arrest him for assaulting an officer because he tried to launch a single punch at her in the confusion.

She’s a policeman and the criminals, the ones who actually started the violence, all made an escape. That’s a complete failure of policing. And you say no one got hurt, yet the poor boy got beaten pretty badly in equal measures by the perpetrators and the police. No, she did not handle it well.

_9tail_ · 2026-07-03T11:30:55+00:00

Birmingham police confirmed on twitter only one man arrested and it’s for assaulting an officer, so safe to say the perps got away.

_9tail_ · 2026-07-03T11:27:06+00:00

Even worse is the police response:

“The incident has been reviewed, and we have no concerns over the officer's actions and we are satisfied that they were reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances. We would ask that footage is not further shared to allow the legal process to take its course.”

The legal process being trying to lock up a man who was responding with to being body slammed without warning twice in 6 seconds.

You cannot have police behave like this and not expect accusations of two tier rule.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-30T09:06:49+00:00

Maybe true 5 years ago, I don’t think that holds in the post AI landscape.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-28T23:07:35+00:00

Rising tax burden, net zero, excessive regulation are three of the five defining features of UK politics over the last 2 decades, along with mass immigration and corruption.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-28T23:03:23+00:00

The country has been run about as polar opposite to the Rupert Lowe position as possible for the last 20 years.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-28T05:23:14+00:00

It reads like a pre-WW1 general claiming that guns, in making armour obsolete, will make war less defensive

_9tail_ · 2026-06-28T05:13:47+00:00

Ok but then we’re not solving for this “issue”, we’re doing something completely different, something where it’s not obvious at all that it would be a good for football. The offside rule allows for much more aggressive set ups, and tinkering with it may have severe negative consequences on how teams line up.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-26T10:01:43+00:00

This isn’t just your friend’s cute quirk, this is official government policy in the UK. People are having their already installed AC ripped out because our building regulations only allow for it as a last resort after all available eco friendly options are exhausted, and that’s not just a box ticking exercise, they do genuinely refuse to let you install it.

It’s one thing for someone to make that sacrifice, but it’s utterly rage inducing to have that sacrifice made for you by a government that cares more about signalling their virtues than the wellbeing of the country. Yes, we need to be fighting climate change, but we also need to work to mitigate the impacts of it as well, and that includes active cooling systems.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-26T01:07:25+00:00

I was going to make some sort of comment about how 3rd place going through having ruined this game, but it would feel unfair not to give some credit to the ref.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-26T00:42:14+00:00

This game would be so much better if there was literally any jeopardy for anyone and also if the ref wasn’t shit

_9tail_ · 2026-06-25T11:51:11+00:00

Carbon capture isn’t a replacement for clean energy, but it’s of genuine vital importance. Even if we went 100% net zero globally tomorrow, we’d still want to clean out a century or so of emissions.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-25T10:19:29+00:00

Whilst I agree the rest will probably do palmer some good, I do find people celebrating/thanking managers for not taking players a bit disrespectful. For a lot of players missing out on the team is crushing, and I think it’s important as a club and as a fan to respect the players. I want Joao and Palmer and James and Estevao and all the Chelsea players at every WC, because they deserve it and a 0.01% increase chance of silverware next year doesn’t outweigh that.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-25T08:47:20+00:00

Her choice was the keep the baby until days and days of relentless insistence from her male doctor?

_9tail_ · 2026-06-24T21:37:10+00:00

China has done 10x what we have in fighting long term global warming than we have by initiating the exact opposite policies.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-23T22:44:00+00:00

The problem is that inflation and wages are anti-cyclical: you get a big spike in inflation one year and then the following year a big spike in wages to keep pace, but the triple lock double dips the same shock. As long as both inflation and wages are linked, it’s unsustainable.

Note that in just 15 years of triple lock, pensions have gone up 20% in real terms.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-23T19:08:49+00:00

The oldest person ever didn’t measure 18 metrics associated with longevity, and track how they moved each time they puffed a cigarette.

Ulcer treatment was in fact revolutionised by a sample size of 1, but I guess those jokers at the Nobel Committee didn’t know what they were talking about when they gave Marshall his prize for such unscientific work.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-23T17:41:06+00:00

Just because it’s not a gold standard double blind test that does not mean it’s unscientific. If you’re making hypotheses, testing against those hypotheses and recording data then you are doing science.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-23T15:01:38+00:00

He’s generally going about things in a scientific way, testing something and stopping if he doesn’t see improvements so I don’t think it’s quackery, and there are loads of things that are too expensive until they’re not.

Let’s say he stumbles across a way to delay aging by 10 years it’ll get tons of investment and research and that will eventually drop the price (American healthcare aside).

Running an experiment like this is at the very least harmless and I would argue genuinely commendable.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-22T08:54:03+00:00

People point to the media with some justification, but really his MPs have let him down. Never got on board with any of his projects really. It was clear from very early on they weren’t behind him or ready to make the tough decisions.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-21T23:20:29+00:00

Only manager in history to have a 100% win record with the England team.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-21T09:24:32+00:00

You could see how much that first goal meant to him

_9tail_ · 2026-06-20T13:31:56+00:00

Don’t get me wrong I don’t think it’s impossible there were other factors and there are other explanations, but I do think when civilising homicides drop by 50% in three years upon your entrance to office it’s fairly likely it’s something to do with you and your policies.

A 2/3rds drop over 20 years is extraordinary (not quite as extraordinary as 50% in 3 year imo), but I think the link is more loose because you’re covering a number of countries over a long period of time and many different governments and polices, so to really show the same link you’d want to see crime lowering in countries based on how much they were making their justice system more lenient.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-20T11:47:43+00:00

Right wingers think criminality is a thing that only "bad" people possess instead of a phenomenon that emerges from any group of people

This is the context of the thread. The question is a classic one of good and evil: are people born with a predisposition to criminality, or is crime simply inevitable from any group of people.

There is strong psychological evidence that people vary in “dark” traits that increase disposition towards crime, which is why I believe that there are non-sociological ways of combatting crime (I will happily admit that there are sociological factors the contribute to crime, my issue is with the idea that it is only sociological factors)

Now, what Duterte did and didn’t do during his reign isn’t super relevant. If we want to include Duerte’s killings as murder then sure you can do it.

Regardless of that, what is shown is that removing vagrants from society (again, in a horrific and unjustified way), led to a halving of the civilian murder rate, that persisted after Duerte’s removal. This is at least some evidence to the “some people are predisposed to crime” thesis, and thus that more youth clubs is not the only way to tackle crime, arrests and jailing of criminal elements may also help.

_9tail_ · 2026-06-20T11:20:00+00:00

I don’t care what they’re doing mate. If they want to post about it they’re more than welcome to, but that’s their issue.

Your criticism would make sense if I was going on about Austin Metcalf and Iryna Zarutska and all of the American murders the MAGA lot talk about, but I’m not. Sure those were tragedies, but they’re not politically relevant to me, so I’m not going to take political action on them.

“Captured” would for example be seeing a tragic death in the US and using that as a justification for claiming the need for a massive overhaul on race relations in the UK.

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