Free mandate is about what they can do, virtual representation is about what they are expected to do. In a functioning democracy, you should expect a representative who fails to represent local issues to lose the next election unless most constituents agree with the virtual representation idea
I suppose there’s the Olympic team? Although that doesn’t include the republic of Ireland, and Northern Irish people can choose which one to compete for
I think part of the issue is that there’s far less parity between the countries in football compared to rugby. All four teams are always at or near the top level in rugby, whereas only England is typically good at football, so a Lions equivalent would basically just be the England team again
Ahh yeah, sorry about that
Edit: ignore this comment, I didn’t realise OP crossposted it
No, it was that post, it’s just that you’re not seeing 80+% of the comments on it on your instance
That post has 13 comments on your intance and 89 on mine. lemmy.world doesn’t federate with a few large instances like hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, and there are some very enthusiastic users on those ones that will take sides with anyone that’s anti-USA
Busby should probably not be considered a reliable source
That’s not to defend Israel’s actions in Gaza. They still killed all those people and destroyed their homes, regardless of the weapon they used to do it
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/21/christopher-busby-radiation-pills-fukushima
Busby has form for spreading conspiracy theories about nuclear stuff and trying to profit off of it
I honestly can’t think of a way to rephrase “we invented international football” to fit the “no skins” original, so this acknowledgement of the reference will have to do instead
They are. The post could swap one of them out for Re or Rø instead and it would work, though
Rankine isn’t pointing a gun at Kelvin because of this, but Kelvin is pointing one at Rankine because Rankine is an abomination that should not be
The UK doesn’t compete in international football, the constituent countries of it do. Although of them, only England is even occasionally able to challenge Germany
Even the actual literal Nazis got things right once. They armed Ethiopia against Italy’s invasion. They did it for shitty reasons, but I’m still in favour of sending guns away from Nazis and to the people fighting against being colonised. If Hitler himself can end up on the right side of history on the odd occasion, so can Cheney.
Exercise Formosa
Well this certainly wasn’t the “Chinese troops in Taiwan” headline that I worried I might read. Apparently there’s a Formosa in Brazil and it’s not just the old name for Taiwan
Is it a worse look than what Tyson did to any of his real opponents because of the history of male violence against women, or is there something else you’re getting at? And is whether or not it looks good what should be the driving force being decision making in sports?
Combat sports already have weight classes, it’s not like you’d be putting a man up against a woman he has 30 cm and 50 kg over. If you’ve got people of similar size and ability, it doesn’t seem to me like their sex or gender matters. They all went in there expecting to both hit and get hit.
It’s useless, yes, but your body didn’t evolve to account for pouring a bunch of heated water over yourself
could be a very odd addition to something like a racing sim.
Maybe not as odd as you think, since the methanol fuel used in many motorsports series actually does burn invisibly
They’ve added to the post that slack tide is “something else entirely”. If they mean the point when the height of the tide is halfway between low and high tides, which is how I understood it, that should be one of the fastest-moving moments. As opposed to slack tide, which is when it’s not moving at all.
He must be close to resurrecting himself through sheer rage