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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (27 children)

I generally agree with you but just playing devil's advocate, I think Rashford used his voice and position well to make good effective change.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (13 children)

    There's definitely positive examples yes. But by golly are they rare and mostly something we can only judge on the surface. Geniunely appreciate Rashys work a lot but I'm saddened he even has to do that level of advocating for such a no brainer

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (12 children)

    Yeah you'd think starving children = bad is a fairly easy position for all of us to get behind.

    But Tories gonna Tory.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    Tories: "We have to leave the EU to take care of our own."

    Starving British kids: "So does that mean we'll finally have food?"

    Tories: "Eww, no, fuck off."

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Mom can I have Brexit?

    To provide food for starving children?

    Yeeeees

    Actually dismantles NHS like a boss

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)
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    Entire leave campaign should be in prison for treason. It wasn't up for debate whether the country would be worse off economically, it was a fact, one which every credible economist confirmed.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    The greatest victory of the populist right wing over the last 20 years has beento equate being told things about certain topics by someone with experience and knowledge in the field with being called a racist/idiot

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Depends if you think it's the government's job to feed kids or their parents. 13 years of Labour government seemed to think it was the latter. As did Labour and SNP administrations in Wales and Scotland until they saw opportunities to look good.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I generally agree with you but just playing devil's advocate, I think Rashford used his voice and position well to make good effective change.

    I mean... until pretty recently we'd have said the same about Jordan Henderson....

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Rashford has also said absolutely nothing about Mason Greenwood coming back and it would have totally happened were it not for fans and staff revolting. So he's not some paragon of virtue either

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    I don’t even mean it as banter, but Marcus Rashford excels at Philanthropy as much as he does Football. No devil’s advocate about it.

    I’d listen to Peter Cech’s opinion on hockey and drumming. You can be knowledgeable in more than one field.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can be knowledgeable in more than one field

    You can, but you need to prove it by showing your know knowledge in said field. In that case, you listen to someone talking about hockey that happens to be a successful footballer, not because he's a successful footballer

    I don't know Cech outside of football, but I'm assuming the reason you and others (in particular, hockey people and drummers) listen to him on those topics and found it to make sense. Yes, without him being a successful footballer you'd never heard about him, but he still needed to prove himself on that

    Then you also have the obvious that having certain issues in some issues raises your commercial value to a degree that hockey and drumming don't

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Rashford is different because he put his money where his mouth is and helped a lot of people in the process. What the fuck did Henderson ever actually do for the LGBTQ+ community?

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