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Media thread 2022/23
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bobbyowenquiff
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I once sat next to the then Editor (Rushbridger). He could not have been more patronising about Manchester even though the event was in Manchester. As Richard Leese once said about the Guardian staff: middle class tossers.The Guardian has no real interest in, affection for, or understanding of Manchester. They dropped the city from their name in 1959 and then left for London. They've never been profitable so they used the ads from MEN, all the old weeklies and Auto Trader to prop them up financially, but they never employed anyone from there because the G was completely hijacked by Oxbridge public school kids from Establishment families a good while ago and they looked down on Mancs. When the financial crash came they sold the MEN for well under its value, put the money in a tax-avoiding trust which was not ethically invested, and then very quickly burned through the cash. Every so often they run an 'isn't what's going on “in the north/Manchester terrible' piece to burnish “their credentials. I know people who worked for them at the time of the sale who can talk all day about the hypocrisy of that outfit.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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WhatsApp Wankers!!!Totally agree. There may well be a legitimate point to make about influence and power. But as you say, there's no balance here. That's my problem with coverage of our club and the owners generally. It's an organised and clear smear campaign.
UAE doesnt have a perfect human rights record (neither do we or USA)
Amnesty Int confirmed that UAE executed 1 person last year (although they believe there may have been more) USA had 11 confirmed. At least 9 more were sentenced to death in the UAE last year, in the USA it was 18. But America has approx 8% (2382) of the worlds total people living under a death sentence. (NB that's for UAE in total not just Abu Dhabi)
Yet for some reason the press only seem to care about them oil addicted Arabs, and not them good old gun toting freedom loving war mongers the US of fucking A.
Get to fuck the lot of you two faced hypocritical clickbait merchants.
Amnesty Int confirmed that UAE executed 1 person last year (although they believe there may have been more) USA had 11 confirmed. At least 9 more were sentenced to death in the UAE last year, in the USA it was 18. But America has approx 8% (2382) of the worlds total people living under a death sentence. (NB that's for UAE in total not just Abu Dhabi)
Yet for some reason the press only seem to care about them oil addicted Arabs, and not them good old gun toting freedom loving war mongers the US of fucking A.
Get to fuck the lot of you two faced hypocritical clickbait merchants.
Onholiday(somemightsay)
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I know mate I was taking the piss - obviously not very well as usual...........He’s also building on brownfield sites, no difference.
mac
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If you are sentenced to death surely you have done a little tad wrong. Eye for an eye as they sayUAE doesnt have a perfect human rights record (neither do we or USA)
Amnesty Int confirmed that UAE executed 1 person last year (although they believe there may have been more) USA had 11 confirmed. At least 9 more were sentenced to death in the UAE last year, in the USA it was 18. But America has approx 8% (2382) of the worlds total people living under a death sentence. (NB that's for UAE in total not just Abu Dhabi)
Yet for some reason the press only seem to care about them oil addicted Arabs, and not them good old gun toting freedom loving war mongers the US of fucking A.
Get to fuck the lot of you two faced hypocritical clickbait merchants.
Not debating the pros and cons of the sentence merely that from a human rights point of view (as seen by Amnesty International - a relatively neutral none government organisation) the death penalty is the ultimate restriction on human rights.
Elbow beards
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And they've just criminalised abortion. Not the most forward facing nation.UAE doesnt have a perfect human rights record (neither do we or USA)
Amnesty Int confirmed that UAE executed 1 person last year (although they believe there may have been more) USA had 11 confirmed. At least 9 more were sentenced to death in the UAE last year, in the USA it was 18. But America has approx 8% (2382) of the worlds total people living under a death sentence. (NB that's for UAE in total not just Abu Dhabi)
Yet for some reason the press only seem to care about them oil addicted Arabs, and not them good old gun toting freedom loving war mongers the US of fucking A.
Get to fuck the lot of you two faced hypocritical clickbait merchants.
Man_City_Loyal
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I see the usual bellends from The Athletic are jumping all over this. Choreograped, clear and obvious.
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Spot on. I'm an American and if our military accidentally uses a drone on a bad target and kills civilians it's in the news for about a day.Because morality is whatever the leaders of the richest and most powerful western nations say it is. There are many wonderful things about Britain and the US and the societies we live in, but the reality is 'we' also perpetuate all kinds of abuses of human rights directly and indirectly, at home and abroad, to further all kinds of corporate and geopolitical interests, but somehow it's 'different' when 'we' do it. That's not to justify any human rights abuses. Just that the idea that it's only 'them' who are capable of behaving badly is the most disingenuous of fairytales.
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