Their reasons are of course their own and they are perfectly entitled to them, and it is also true that this Enrique Nieto received only a plurality of the vote, not a majority. Still I'm mystified as to why any large group of Mexicans would ever trust those fuckin shyster Death Eaters from the PRI ever again. Though their official policy positions are vaguely leftish the PRI are an truth a aideological mafia in political clothing who leeched the southern folk dry for nearly a century. Now here they are again. Duly elected by all reasonible accounts, yet the amount of penance paid for the amount of harm they caused seems shockingly brief to me. Thankfully the human race as a whole seems ever less inclined toward submission and it's unlikely that these jokers will be able to get away with anything near the levels of tyranny and corruption that they have in the past. Maybe.
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I'm curious man... are you a completely bad faith actor or; is there some part of you that, out of natural fear, honestly refuses to accept that some level of innate mortal vulnerability is unavoidable? Have you truly convinced yourself that there is such a thing as perfect control over one's own fate? That it's humanly possible to be eternally vigilant and prepared against any threat? That victimhood can always be staved off through sufficient force of will? Or whenever something shooty happens do you simply go into bullshit autotron when you say 'If only victim X had been armed'?
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The group stage of the UEFA Champions League is often criticized as being hopelessly dull and/or weighted in favor of the big name teams. This is true in no small way. Yet also true that it is we the common fans, acting as a worldwide army of shameless bandwagon frontrunning bastards; who create the financial incentive to favor the aristocracy and are therefore responsible for the competitions' bloated contemporary shape. They shouted out who killed the Kennedys...
Yet in spite of all that there will be some interesting drama in the last jag of group games on Wednesday afternoon, American time, involving my adopted club of Celtic. The Bhoys (We are so intimate enough for me to call them that:) are tied with Portugal's Benfica for the second and last survival spot in Group G on seven points. The Portuguese hold the tie-break on head-to head record, so that a win would put them in the last 16 no matter what the papists do. The catch here is that Benfica are playing their last game at Barcelona, while Celtic will be home with already doomed Spartak Moscow. Overall I'm feeling pretty good about, if you'll excuse me, our chances.
Celtic's best recent performance was probably back in 2007 when they took eventual champions AC Milan to overtime in the second round. They acheived this by intentionally playing for 0-0 and penalties the whole way but fuck it, underdogs gotta do what they gotta right? A wildcat run similar to what those Cypriot guys acheived last year would be very cool. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
PS: In regards to Chelsea's elimination from the CL; I agree as an American with using head-to-head record as the first tie-breaker, but why head-to head away goals ahead of overall goal difference? Using head-to-head as A tiebreaker is not the same thing as treating the teams meetings as a home/away match.
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