Unpopular opinions thread

Spurs are no better, most likely worse than arsenal 3 years ago (when planes were being flown with Wenger out banners)

There's no way I'd take Mane over Salah

Henry was better than Aguero, imo.. Scored as many and provided assists as well as scoring all types of goals.

As for Gerrard vs Scholes. I love Scholsey but Gerrard was frikin awesome in at times just decent teams. His all round play was better. You always hear ex mates of Scholes saying he never lost the ball in training, but I've seen him lose it plenty of times in games.

comment by Freedom FC 🇺🇸 (U7214)
posted 10 hours, 18 minutes ago
Lower taxes is good.

AOC is bang material.
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Alex Oxlade Chamberlain? Definitely an unpopular opinion I'll give you that

AOC one of those players who it seems to be the same people that moan all English players are overrated/overhyped who rate him as an elite player with near world class potential. Barkley has/had a similar phenomena. Can fall off for months but a good 2/3 games and he’s being talked about finally fulfilling his potential or that he *needs* to start for England.

Decent enough player, that’s about it

comment by renoog (U4449)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Freedom FC 🇺🇸 (U7214)
posted 10 hours, 18 minutes ago
Lower taxes is good.

AOC is bang material.
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Alex Oxlade Chamberlain? Definitely an unpopular opinion I'll give you that
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Are worse services better than good ones?

comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 12 hours, 43 minutes ago
comment by Giröulski Alt-153 and Alt-160 forever (U14971)
posted 8 hours, 24 minutes ago
That democracy, in its more direct forms, is utter nonsense and Brexit just proves it as such. I've met people who voted for brexit because all the Pakistanis clogging up the NHS meant their grandma had to wait for surgery. How can such a moron's opinion be given the same weight as someone with a doctorate in economics, or a professor in politics.

We have a representative democracy. The public's just is largely to vote on whether or not politicians seem to be doing a good enough job, and actual policy decisions should be kept a million miles away from the easily influenced, massively uninformed electorate.

Even then, it's a clumsy tool, at best. Going back to the EU, the European Commission is one of the best policy making institutions in the world, as they invite competent people to make decisions whilst still being accountable to those in democratically elected positions. It's one of the few institutions where doctors make decisions on health policy, where engineers make decisions on infrastructure and where educators make decisions on education. Structurally, it's fantastic simply because nobody is worried about pretending that a "war on drugs" is sensible just because it plays well to audiences.
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Great comment, worth a copy and paste to the politics thread
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Where is that, then?

Thanks D Jeezus for spoiling my comment with your grammatical policing!

comment by Giröulski Alt-153 and Alt-160 forever (U14971)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 12 hours, 43 minutes ago
comment by Giröulski Alt-153 and Alt-160 forever (U14971)
posted 8 hours, 24 minutes ago
That democracy, in its more direct forms, is utter nonsense and Brexit just proves it as such. I've met people who voted for brexit because all the Pakistanis clogging up the NHS meant their grandma had to wait for surgery. How can such a moron's opinion be given the same weight as someone with a doctorate in economics, or a professor in politics.

We have a representative democracy. The public's just is largely to vote on whether or not politicians seem to be doing a good enough job, and actual policy decisions should be kept a million miles away from the easily influenced, massively uninformed electorate.

Even then, it's a clumsy tool, at best. Going back to the EU, the European Commission is one of the best policy making institutions in the world, as they invite competent people to make decisions whilst still being accountable to those in democratically elected positions. It's one of the few institutions where doctors make decisions on health policy, where engineers make decisions on infrastructure and where educators make decisions on education. Structurally, it's fantastic simply because nobody is worried about pretending that a "war on drugs" is sensible just because it plays well to audiences.
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Great comment, worth a copy and paste to the politics thread
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Where is that, then?
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http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/310416

It can be excellent but is also often completely ruined by pages and pages of nonsense.

comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Giröulski Alt-153 and Alt-160 forever (U14971)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 12 hours, 43 minutes ago
comment by Giröulski Alt-153 and Alt-160 forever (U14971)
posted 8 hours, 24 minutes ago
That democracy, in its more direct forms, is utter nonsense and Brexit just proves it as such. I've met people who voted for brexit because all the Pakistanis clogging up the NHS meant their grandma had to wait for surgery. How can such a moron's opinion be given the same weight as someone with a doctorate in economics, or a professor in politics.

We have a representative democracy. The public's just is largely to vote on whether or not politicians seem to be doing a good enough job, and actual policy decisions should be kept a million miles away from the easily influenced, massively uninformed electorate.

Even then, it's a clumsy tool, at best. Going back to the EU, the European Commission is one of the best policy making institutions in the world, as they invite competent people to make decisions whilst still being accountable to those in democratically elected positions. It's one of the few institutions where doctors make decisions on health policy, where engineers make decisions on infrastructure and where educators make decisions on education. Structurally, it's fantastic simply because nobody is worried about pretending that a "war on drugs" is sensible just because it plays well to audiences.
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Great comment, worth a copy and paste to the politics thread
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Where is that, then?
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http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/310416

It can be excellent but is also often completely ruined by pages and pages of nonsense.
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Oof. Well, discussing politics on a football forum seems like it'd be a mixed bag anyway. I'll still serve up some copypasta though.

comment by renoog (U4449)
posted 4 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Freedom FC 🇺🇸 (U7214)
posted 10 hours, 18 minutes ago
Lower taxes is good.

AOC is bang material.
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Alex Oxlade Chamberlain? Definitely an unpopular opinion I'll give you that
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I forgot that there’s an AOC on the other side of the pond. I’m referring to the freshman congresswoman that looks like she will be responsible for Trump’s re-election