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I have a friend who moved his family recently to Spain, partly because of gun violence, but more broadly I think because of the general political environment here. I wouldn't mind doing the same.

There was a group of teenage girls huddled together outside the mall, sobbing. A reporter said that one of them said that they were scared to go to school and now just scared to go anywhere. We have permanently traumatized young people here. Kindergartners do active shooter drills. Think about what that instills in the psyche of a child. Imagine being a young student and you've done monthly drills for a few years and then one day you start hearing the AR-15 firing down the hallway. It is beyond a nightmare what's become of this country.

Crack social media team back then.

The club should give us the option to buy a sponsor-free shirt. Most people would probably pay extra.

I don't like the Blackburn style squares look. The white one is fine without the yellow/gold which ruins it. I love yellow/gold accents on our shirts, but it doesn't really work on white. The dark blue and all claret shirts don't really do much for me.

Annoying. Really annoying. Teams around us dropping points. We could've really made a move on 4th!

Can't believe we lost to these clowns.

Wait until the weather gets hotter and the political campaigning/Trump prosecutions ramp up. And whatever happens THIS summer won't be nearly as bad as next.

Still unsure if it was intentional or not.

Yes. If you want to meet me in the US Politics thread, I can speak at length at about it.

I suppose for some people, royal events like this are a comforting reminder that even in an era of high anxiety, the Crown continues as a symbol of strength and security.

Norway hasn't been in a WC or Euros since 2000??

I guess it would depend on how fed up people are at the rich and powerful **** them over and then rubbing their noses in it like this. No offense to any true blue monarchists on here, I'm just a cynical foreigner.

That money could pay a lot of utility bills and fill some pantry shelves. Unless somebody crunched the numbers and determined that the money the royals generate from tourism justifies the public outlay, but I'm assuming that would be a pipe dream.

Does the British taxpayer pay for this event, or do the Windsors? If the public is being forced to fund this in a time of severe austerity, there should be mass protests, IMO.

It just occurred to me that Odergaard and Haaland are teammates for Norway. Both really young and already probably Norway's greatest ever players, apologies to John Carew. What is prospects for Euro 2024? Can they qualify?

Great save Pope, great half from Pope.

What was the capacity at St. James Park in the 80s?

Gabriel is surprisingly tall.

The Saudicastle players like their orange boots, don't they?

Good game, glad they're both going for it.

I expect our kit to be released at the very last minute so they have time to integrate the new badge across our branding and at Villa Park. So, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Yeah, that is the worst feature of Nike shirts since it was introduced. Awful.

Not a pen, but watch what happens

We've reached the stage in this slaughter continuum where 8 dead isn't quite impactful enough to get the top headline in national papers. Double digit deaths or children-only seem to do the trick in that regard. Eventually any body count under 20 will be deemed sad, but not so unusual that we can't just mop up the blood and brain matter and get on with our lives. Which isn't to say that this massacre hasn't been in the news. It has, and it's pushed other shooting deaths even further toward the back page, specifically another shooting in Texas. A Mexican-American family moved to a town in Texas a year ago or so, to open a horse training school. When they bought their house, they didn't know their neighbor was a white supremacist. The racist told the father of two teen girls that he didn't want Hispanics in his neighborhood, and he set about harassing them by shining lights into their windows, spying on them with a scope, just menacing them. Until the other day, when he shot the father over a dozen times and killed him. The Right wing here has been clamoring for civil war. Sometimes it feels like they've already started it, and every demographic outside of white heterosexuals and front line Antifa is facing the brunt of it. The Governor of Texas Greg Abbott is trying to pardon the convicted killer of a BLM protester for no other reason than because the killer is openly right wing and the victim was openly left wing. Abbott in essence condoning the vigilante murder of left wing citizens and stating through his actions that he will use his power as governor to overturn a jury's sentence to protect right wing vigilantes.