Comments by "J Drake1994" (@JDrakeify) on "Owen Jones meets Michael Moore | 'Trump is like the sound of dying dinosaurs'" video.

  1. But if Farage wanders over to the America or other countries in the EU and propagates his view, then that it is okay..
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  2. What about the war on Isis? He is certainly pro airstrikes, and he has also suggested that the US put boots on the ground and take the oil in those countries. Sound like someone we know? Besides, Trump did not say he was against Iraq until after the invasion had taken place. And even if some massive liberal when it comes to foreign policy, that ignores that in every other area he is a moron. He has bigoted policies on immigration, he just wants to continue with tax cuts for the rich, and he believes that the Chinese are involved in a global conspiracy to fabricate evidence for climate change for some reason. Those things are more than enough to make him a total disaster for the US regardless of his views of foreign affairs.
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  3. CJTaylor 87 I'm not disputing that he goes to North America on a regular basis, I dont even have a problem with that. But since Brexiteers have issues with foreigners commenting on our politics, they should abide by the same rules themselves, otherwise they are hypocrites, bringing up a non sequitur about Eddie Izzard on QT doesnt change that.
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  4. Versus older right wing people in areas that vote UKIP in spite of the fact they only have small immigrant populations
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  5. CJTaylor 87 'Bigly' isnt even a word. And even if you are discounting the likes of Trump, Farage has campaigned for a rejection of the Ukraine treaty in the Netherlands, and Marine Le Pen of the Front National has expressed a desire to do a similar thing in the EU referendum over here. As with any experts who express an opinion on the impact of Brexit, they are not entitled to a voice unless they agree with them in the minds of the Brexiteers.
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  6. CJTaylor 87 I always thought he was saying 'big league'. And I find it interesting how a Ukranian displaced person is a refugee, but a Middle eastern or African person in a similar situation is an economic migrant.
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  7. ***** Tell me, what role do the Illuminati play in this state conspiracy to create gun violence?
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  8. Missing his point totally, what he is saying is that in the old days, Americans were taught to equate socialism with those regimes, and so democratic socialism of the kind existed in other NATO countries was wrongly tarred with the same brush. Nowadays, Americans have finally learnt to make the distinction, resulting in a growth in support for the likes of Bernie Sanders.
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  9. ***** And I am not denying that communism is a form of socialism, I am just saying that one form is good and another is bad, very much like what you say about capitalism. And whilst it is true that they often have shared roots, democratic socialism did not spring from communism, both of them sprung from marxism, which is not totally the same as either. Social Democracy originated as a democratic route to Marxism (which the man himself supported) but in time it moved toward becoming its own ideology advocating a mixed economy. The Labour Party, for instance, has never been a Marxist party.In fact, it was the likes of Attlee who helped to set up NATO and our nuclear deterrent, in alliance with the US. Nye Bevan advocated sending tanks to Berlin during Stalin's blockade there. So whilst both ideologies are socialist, there is a very, very, clear dividing line between the two.
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  10. ***** It would make more sense, as then they could claim to have experienced the problems of immigration first hand. If they live in a place like Clacton, UKIP's only seat, which has a foreign born population that is well below the average, they are not experiencing migration nearly to the same extent as places in London, therefore how can they say it is a bad thing if they arent living in a place where it exists to any significant degree?
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  11. taxation and regulation are antidotes to the power of business and capital, what he is talking about is using the state to allow big business to grow even larger
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  12. PraxeoLiberty Fascism is an ideology where governments send there own citizens into camps for disagreeing with them, or even for just being ethnically different. Don't cheapen it by reducing it to mean government regulation of business. It baffles me that people can somehow fail to see that a less regulated market generally leads to more powerful big business and worse conditions for the average worker. We have had two eras of capitalism which were less regulated, the victorian era and the neoliberal era from about 1980 onwards, and in both cases we have big business become more powerful and workers rights and pay go down at the same time in comparison to the post war era where there was greater regulation, less inequality, and also less financial crises. That is because the more free the market is, the more it is a survival of the fittest, which is a situation that favours the strongest and most powerful. Not only that, but if big businesses wanted greater regulation, they clearly wouldnt move countries to get away from them, as part of the race to the bottom perpetuated by the free market. And they would be overwhelmingly backing the likes of Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders, who want the most of it. Instead they spend millions to fund there opponents and warn of apocalyptic outcomes if they win power. It is laughable to suggest that they would somehow stand to gain more than anyone else from left wing leadership, they seem to have a pretty good idea themselves that it is right wing economics that can do the most for them.
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  13. CJTaylor 87 Oh I saw it, but it has nothing to do with my point. And I fail to see why someone's profile should make a difference. Certainly Donald Trump is one of the best known political figures in the world at that moment, and yet the Brexiteers do not complain when he says he is for Leave.
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  14. ***** In an odd conspiracy to disenfranchise the US population like other countries with gun control, like the UK, or Australia, where no sinister authoritarian conspiracies have been enacted after gun control was put in place
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  15. ***** Your comment did not respond to my point in the slightest. I can only assume you are trolling.
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