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Reread the original comment you quoted, rather than just the 5 words you snipped out of context, the words GBNews are 6 words before your quote starts.

Would have to research it a bit and am on my way out to 5-aside so if anyone else wants to do so feel free. If I remember rightly there was one point where GBN had literally 0 viewers. EDIT: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/15/gb-news-shows-attracted-zero-viewers-after-boycott-over-taking-the-knee Also, on their first week GBN had 50K, sky had 57K and BBC have 110K. Since then GBN has dropped to something like 15K whereas the other two have held pretty firm

The original comment was with regards to GB News. Everything is relative. BBC is better respected than almost all media outlets in the UK. Less so than scientists and charities but significantly more so than GB News and the work of Paul Joseph Watson. And, to be honest, I would say the BBC is well respected amongst the silent majority. It tends to be people on the far ends of the political spectrum that complain about it, and that usually includes me, but in this case and with regards to the other dross sources posted even I must admit it is generally very highly regarded.

In context "people like me" ment people who wanted Ralph to stay, people not like me ment Ralph people who wanted Ralph gone. It was lucky people like me were in charge (people who didn't want to get rid of Ralph) as he is still here and is doing well. Hope this helps. This has 0 relevance to Everton. I also think Rafa is doing a good job, he's under pressure for completely different reasons though. He lost both his best forwards and had to replace them with guys who cost less than £1.5m between them. Also, the fans hate him because of a historical connection to liverpool.

Yeah. The BBC gets a lot of shit, some of it rightly so, for not being perfect but they are in another league when you compare them to GB News.

Do you have evidence this happens? Hospitals are most certainly not "perfect breeding ground for a virus". They actually do a huge amount to prevent viral contamination, as they are hospitals. They don't just shove the COVID cases in the old people wing and have them share thermometers.

It's super strange to talk about propaganda with relation to the news network backed up by basically every peer reviewed scientific journal, every independent charity, and every state funded scientific institution in the world along with the world health organisation which is literally set up to study such things whilst peddling this inflated death number nonsense. If you want true numbers then look at excess death compared to previous years. It very closely matches the reported death number when deconvolved with other effects owing to lockdown and natural variation. Downplaying the number who have died from COVID is very silly. Here is a source, https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker, unless the economist is also too much of a "daily propaganda digest" for you.

I mean, the BBC definitely can have subtle spin, and I have a lot to say regarding their treatment of the 2019 election, but they can't outright lie in the way GB News does. If they had someone on peddling dangerous conspiracy theories which are based on not even peer reviewed science then there would be a national scandal. As is, no one cares for GB News as we just assume they are full of shit.

And if you do want to say more, say this: https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-heart-disease/ An article that goes through each of his claims in this segment one by one, disproving them and showing the sources he uses as fully unreliable and without basic peer review. Don't trust GB News.

Problem with videos like this is they don't cite sources. Why not just read the actual cited papers rather than what has been reposted by GBNews with 0 back up or correlating evidence? Luckily, I'm not deterred so easily, I looked up the claim specifically and here is it being fact checked - https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines-heart-disease/ no surprise, he's chatting nonsense and the work he cited wasn't even peer reviewed. Say what you want about discounting the source but if it is being peddled by absolute con men like GBNews and no one in the respected media like BBC, and also not in top academic journals like Nature, or by independent charities like the british heart foundation then isn't that at all suspicious to you? As a non-cardiologist, are you not tempted to stick with the overwhelming evidence from all the vastly respected media, scientists, and charities who have built up trust over decades rather than the likes of Paul Joseph Watson and GB News, absolute charlatans who make their money peddling culture war nonsense to the sort of buffoons who are afraid of "cancel culture" and "wokeness"?

I don't know why people keep taking that out of context. Do they genuinely not understand the context or are they deliberately doing so?

This article at no point links the increase in heart conditions with the vaccine. It implies it a bunch, but doesn't give any evidence whatsoever. It also mentions myocarditis without even touching on the fact there is a 1/50,000 of getting even mild myocarditis. A quick flick through this website shows it's not a very good source at all. One article just titled "Jimmy Carr is an idiot" and another fearmongering about microchips. I'd stick to the british heart foundation and nature, the biggest and most cited scientific journal in the world, if I were you. EDIT: Just noticed the writer is Paul Joseph Watson. This guy is a world class buffoon, and basically a professional troll for the alt-right. Google his name, he has had some absolute stinkers. Here is an article on him: https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-jones-protege-paul-joseph-watson-is-about-to-steal-his-crackpot-crown?ref=scroll

He did get a break for the internationals a couple of weeks back don't forget.

With you on this. His pressing was a lot more committed than Broja. In the first half they struggled to get out but less so after Arma went off.

I think all the obvious candidates have already gone. Rafa is basically the last candidate and tbh it would be a poor sacking given his drop in form has coincided with losing his star striker, and also losing Richarlison for a good while. No manager to leave could be a good punt, as could Howe or Ranieri. Of course, depends how trigger happy the everton board are

This is a very important point. One that often gets missed in the discussion about the vaccine. COVID is something like 1000 times more likely to cause heart conditions than the vaccine and that is one of COVIDs less common or dangerous symptoms.

Here is an article by the british heart foundation recommending the jab and describing risk of myocarditis as mild: https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/coronavirus-vaccine-your-questions-answered/covid-19-vaccines-and-myocarditis-should-you-be-worried Here is an article backing up that assertion in nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02740-y Pretty much every other source I read comes to the same conclusion, that the risk is incredibly low. Calling it a 500% increase is an exercise in why we don't use % for small numbers. And to link it to the vaccine is wildly disingenuous when the risk of even mild myocarditis is 1/50,000. It is far more likely due to players who have been exercising their whole lives having to take a long period out and then going straight back to not just full speed but even more with the new fixture congestion. This is why we don't conflate correlation with causality.

Ofcourse.

No disrespect to MLG, but I back myself. I'm a monster.

Thanks for this! I have faith in him, he's young and this is his first proper top flight season. He will get his chance. He has blistering pace and he dribbles very well. His decision making is easily his worst trait imo, keeps shooting when he should pass, or spending too long to pass. Hopefully confidence and time will improve that. I still think he'll be great.

I don't think anyone is universally stupid. People have different strengths and weaknesses when it comes to intelligence. They both clearly have some smarts to become pro footballers. Unfortunately when it comes to basic judgement, science, application of logic, ability to judge source quality, political nous etc. they are both clearly overwhelmingly unintelligent. And that is clearly a problem when their football ability affords them a massive platform.

I wouldn't say he had a mare. He certainly wasn't as effective as KWP on the other side but was mostly solid.

These people don't want healthy scepticism of commonly held views, they want to be needlessly contrarian because people knowing more than them on any given topic, even one the person has been studying for decades, makes them feel inferior. The age of the expert is over, to paraphrase some tory. The age of the guy who reckons things is here. If you ever even conclusively disproved them they'd just pivot some something equally stupid and dangerous like climate scepticism.

I maintain the easiest way to delay a game is repeated pitch invasions.

The club need to distance themselves from him, it's embarrassing. EDIT: Can't find him specifically alluding to this on twitter, is it somewhere else? I could just be missing it amongst the streams and streams of antivaxxer bollocks he posts.