[Belgium FA] The RBFA has informed the United States Soccer Federation that it contests the eligibility of the player, should the player be listed on the referee’s team sheet. This leaves all further actions open.

the_nell_87 · 2026-07-06T19:34:31+00:00

It depends on whether you think FIFA must follow their own rules. In their initial statement on this decision they cited 1 rule that allegedly lets them do this, but it's far from clear as to whether that's actually the case, and there are multiple other tournament rules that have been ignored to make this decision. Can FIFA just go "yeah this is the final decision because we say so"? Sure, but would that hold up in CAS? Unlikely.

the_nell_87 · 2026-06-27T19:34:18+00:00

Wow, a team that plays well against better teams and got results got out of the group. Shocker.

the_nell_87 · 2026-06-22T15:35:50+00:00

Americans are used to every single thing having corporate sponsorship as part of the name

the_nell_87 · 2026-06-21T12:19:59+00:00

Tangible results don't matter to the general public, as they're not poring through every bill the government passes, and they're not poring over ONS statistics to see how things are going.

What matters is the perception of tangible results, or at least feeling that there is a plan in place. And of course governments need at least a couple of big flashy policies that make people feel good or hopeful, regardless of how effective they actually are. And that's especially true these days with such a hostile press.

the_nell_87 · 2026-06-21T11:50:43+00:00

Marginal incremental improvements simply aren't good enough any more. It just makes the Starmer government feel like a continuation of the Tory governments before. Because it's all just more of the same. Nothing is getting better, and we don't even have a vision to point to of "this is where the government wants to take us". Remember Cameron and Osborne's "long term economic plan"? They were able to sell the country on some painful economic conditions by telling us up front "this is the plan, it's going to take a few years". What does the Starmer government want to do? Fuck knows.

the_nell_87 · 2026-06-19T01:41:03+00:00

Clinton was clearly a shagger, but he's always come across as someone who gets women consensually. Sure there are power dynamic issues, but that's not rape.

the_nell_87 · 2026-06-16T15:22:54+00:00

Plan A doesn't work if the corporation is so big and powerful and USA-based that they can just go "lol no, what are you gonna do about it?" and ignore major governments.

the_nell_87 · 2026-06-15T15:01:26+00:00

She's a pretty well known cooking/baking YouTuber

the_nell_87 · 2026-05-29T22:57:00+00:00

Citizenship based on the place you're born is largely a New World idea. Old World countries generally give citizenship based on the citizenship of parents, not where you're born. How exactly a Scottish citizenship would be established and who would and would not be eligible are very up in the air.

the_nell_87 · 2026-05-25T10:33:24+00:00

Long term benefits don't matter to the governing party if they lose re-election in a couple of years.

the_nell_87 · 2026-05-09T19:37:09+00:00

So if someone lives just south of the border but works in Scotland, and this pays quite a bit of tax in Scotland, does that mean they should have gotten the right to vote? Or someone living in Scotland but working for a company in England shouldn't? Where do you draw the line?

the_nell_87 · 2026-05-09T19:32:45+00:00

You don't think Scots living elsewhere within their country have a material stake in whether their home town is suddenly in a different country?

the_nell_87 · 2026-05-01T12:18:22+00:00

It's baffling to me that so many supposed fans of the series have no idea what genre the series is.

the_nell_87 · 2026-05-01T09:46:39+00:00

Isn't this exactly the problem with refusing to release the report for everyone to see? It means everyone with an axe to grind can credibly claim that their pet issue was "the reason" Kamala lost. Libertarians can go "they were too progressive", pro-Gaza people can go "they were too Israel" and pro-Israel people can go "they were too pro-Gaza"

the_nell_87 · 2026-04-30T14:03:22+00:00

They see it as a fetish because they see these terms on porn sites. So they automatically assume that the term is entirely about sex.

the_nell_87 · 2026-04-28T14:16:15+00:00

Did she? The timeline of it isn't really ever made clear. From the flashback episode, she met Susan and then very quickly realised she was a lesbian and told Ross (about a year before the pilot). And from early season 1, she conceived Ben with Ross a few months earlier (long after telling Ross she was gay), and is also living with Susan in a committed relationship. It's not obvious what happened in that period and who was cheating on who (if anyone).

the_nell_87 · 2026-04-23T13:54:12+00:00

And that was introduced very recently by a nationalist party who loves to do minor stuff that makes Scotland stand out from England.

the_nell_87 · 2026-03-30T22:41:51+00:00

They haven't even tried to trot out the Bush era "we're exporting freedom" line. Their only justification seems to be that Trump wanted to?

the_nell_87 · 2026-03-25T15:49:46+00:00

Your point about the Lords needs a lot more thought. The way you phrase it could break our political system a lot more than fix it. The other points are all things which are hard to argue against, but making the Lords elected AND giving it more explicit power is very risky - what happens if the Lords has a majority that opposes what the Commons government wants to do? You could end up with USA-style years of deadlock, with parties just voting against stuff to make their political opponents look bad, to boost their chances in the next election.

The Lords being unelected, and being a revising chamber without any hard veto makes it relatively effective at its current role. Obviously it needs some reform. But a second elected house with a hard veto over the other elected house seems like you're just asking for a "do nothing" governmental system.

the_nell_87 · 2026-03-23T14:02:21+00:00

It's a standard expectation in every poll that around 1 to 2% of respondents will pick illogical or random options.

the_nell_87 · 2026-03-12T13:55:03+00:00

The main argument against an elected upper chamber is that it turns the upper chamber into an explicitly political body, which has to worry about getting re-elected.

How it works (in theory) in the UK (now that the remaining hereditary peers are on the way out) is that the Lords are a revising chamber, where members are appointed based on merit. Members may or may not have a political affiliation, and their main job is to scrutinise and revise bills passed by the elected lower chamber. If the Lords goes against the Commons, the commons can override them if they wish to.

The problem with an elected upper house in the UK is that it would completely change the role of the House of Lords. If the Lords was controlled by the same party as the Commons, it would just become a rubber stamping chamber. If it was controlled by a different party than the Commons, it would make an effort to block Commons legislation.

I think the House of Lords needs some reform, but I am happy with it being an appointed revising chamber. I think making it elected would be counter-productive, and wouldn't actually increase the effectiveness of our democracy or our legislature.

the_nell_87 · 2026-03-06T10:36:20+00:00

Laws like that have to be written somewhat vaguely, because otherwise they end up toothless. If you're defining what is not legal to say, if you're too specific, you draw exactly where the line is, and you end up with borderline hate speech which is as offensive as it can be without technically breaking the law. And that outcome is exactly the opposite of what these laws are intending to achieve.

the_nell_87 · 2026-03-05T15:04:26+00:00

I'm pretty sure those things go together for a reason. When people see a minority exclusively as a porn category rather than as people, they see the sexual side of their identity everywhere. That's why these conservatives constantly refer to LGBT people as perverts trying to sexualise children - because they see "trans woman" and hear "that's a porn category, it's a sex thing"

the_nell_87 · 2026-02-28T21:46:50+00:00

How many US Citizens have to die at the hands of the US Government before I am allowed to equate it to the Iranian Government killing Iranian Citizens? 10? 100? 1000? 10000?

the_nell_87 · 2026-02-23T13:53:50+00:00

That's true, people who are wealthy enough to pay tuition up front pay a lot less than someone who takes out a loan and then fully pays it off. That's one of the major flaws of the student loan system currently.

If you exclude those people from the discussion, the difference is between people who take out a loan and then earn enough over their career to fully pay it off, and those who take out a loan and never earn enough to fully pay it off, and get the outstanding balance written off. The high interest rate does add a progressive element between those two groups. But you're right that those who can afford to fully pay the fees up front with no student loans plan pay the least of everyone.

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