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Dodgy bank doing dodgy bank shit. Standard Chartered are a big bank with a history of doing dodgy shit - laundering money for terrorist organisations is honestly not all that surprising for them. I really wish they weren't our sponsor. A club in a city like Liverpool shouldn't have a massive London bank with a history of doing fucked up shit all over Africa and Asia plastered across the front of it's kit. I think it's mental clubs agreed that alcohol sponsors, like Carlsberg, who make shit beer but... were an iconic sponsor... shouldn't be allowed. But we've got shit like dodgy banks, gambling companies, and cryptocurrency bullshit all seen as morally okay.

The thing is Israel's demonstrated it can carry out very targetted attacks while minimising innocent loss of life, or even avoiding it entirely. When they assassinated the Iranian nuclear scientist, they had their robot machine gun programmed to only fire on him with facial recognition technology. So he was the only casualty. When they targeted the consulate attached to the Iranian embassy, they managed to only kill IRGC members with a missile strike. Israel can hit its enemies with extreme precision. The leaders of Hamas aren't even in Gaza - they're in Turkey now I believe. Israel could be using Mossad to go after them and cut the head off the snake. What Israel has demonstrated it is capable of in terms of precision tactics and what Israel has demonstrated in the way it's been fighting Hamas is they don't have any regard for civilian life if they think they can get away with it. And the current tactics don't do anything in the long term - it just causes short term misery for Palestinians in Gaza who will then be easily radicalised by what they've been through that they continue the cycle of violence for the next generations. The way Israel is fighting the war is sad honestly. At best, it's attempted genocide and several war crimes. People in Gaza are held hostage by Hamas, who have no actual regard for their safety - in fact, they view Israel not giving a shit about the use of human shields as a great thing for them propaganda wise... and it works. And Israeli leadership doesn't give a shit about their safety either - it seems any dead civilian in Israel is viewed as a potential terrorist so no sweat off anyone's back if any civilians die. It's an ugly war. You can't remove Hamas's culpability in the death they've brought to Gaza's doorstep... but you certainly also can't remove Israel's culpability. I also think it's weird too. We see Russia bomb Ukraine's hospitals and schools and they get universal condemnation for it. Quite rightly, too. But when Israel does the same thing, we're told it's not anywhere near as bad as what the Russians have done. Maybe war crimes should just be recognised as war crimes. Hamas are committing them by using civilians as human shields, absolutely. But Israel's also committing them by going ahead and declaring schools and hospitals legitimate targets of war and then having people tell them the blood of the dead kids is certainly not on their hands.

I went for Mittelstadt. Have shoe-horned Kane, Mbappe and Lukaku in. Bellingham as well. Same, in fact probably more than 3 times!

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USA!

The Tyranny of the Majority strikes again.

Caretaker coach Sabrina Wittmann goes into the new season as Ingolstadt's head coach.

It's Scotland.