Comments by "Orbital_Inclination" (@Orbital_Inclination) on "UK Armed Forces 'absolutely ready' for possible Lebanon evacuation" video.

  1. ​ @Sjsuisbacsp because they're British citizens. To gain a UK passport you must be a citizen.
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  2. British citizens should be offered the chance to evacuate by the government. Many of the Brits living there are aid/charity workers, etc.
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  3.  @Sjsuisbacsp  irrelevant, these are still British citizens. No need to get weirdly xenophobic over a government offering protection to its citizens in Lebanon.
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  4. ​ @mikewinston8709 are you saying all Muslims are terrorists? Should we not allow any Christians into the UK by the same logic, because they might be terrorists? Honestly, the xenophobic bigotry is amazing sometimes.
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  5.  @marknorville4192  you need to learn the difference between illegal immigration and asylum. They are not the same thing. In any case, your blatant xenophobia is a tragic personal failing.
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  6.  @dulls8475  There are many British citizens all around the world, not just in the UK. You need to learn how citizenship works. Anyone who holds a UK passport is a British citizen.
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  7. In this case, they're on standby to protect British citizens, not defend part of the UK
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  8. People travel for work, or have dual citizenship, or have family overseas that they visit, and many other reasons.
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  9.  @nickybluechips7567  that's probably not the case for the vast majority of evacuees, but makes a nice right wing dog whistle I suppose.
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  10. Very few, if any at all
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  11. ​ @madqueefbeef5137 A British citizen is anyone eligible for a British passport
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  12. Why would they have? Internal public safety matters are dealt with by police
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  13. Any relevance?
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  14. ​ @Expatred66 as an ex-pat, what's your current citizenship status?
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  15. Ah, good, the anti-semites have arrived. Just what we need. This kind of rhetoric was popular in 1930s Germany, but has no place in modern society.
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  16. Get a grip
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  17. Which folks might they be?
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  18. Doesn't change the fact they're citizens
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  19.  @marknorville4192  no, it's not easy. To get a UK passport, you need to be a UK citizen, which means you need to pass all the various citizenship criteria (significant financial burden, legal process, an exam, etc and multiple years in the UK). If you naturalised in the US, gaining citizenship and therefore being able to access a US passport, you would legally be a US citizen. The same goes for the UK. Whether they look or sound like you, they're still UK citizens if they hold a UK passport. Therefore, even if you don't like people with different skin colours living in the UK, they are still afforded protection.
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  20. ​ @marknorville4192 what if those individuals of different skin colours are British? How do you square that with your racist prejudices?
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  21. Not everyone has the means or opportunity to evacuate
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  22. ​ @dulls8475 you need to pay attention to the whole Northern Ireland Protestant/Catholic thing, if you think Christians can't also be terrorists.
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  23.  @dulls8475  when was the last bomb threat in the UK? There have been loads this year. Just search for 'Northern Ireland bomb threat' and loads from this year come up. In any case, it's irrelevant, because we don't treat all Irish people as potential terrorists just because some of them are, so why do racist bigots always treat Muslims, or sometimes even just brown people, like that?
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  24.  @dulls8475  tbf, most of the right wing morons out rioting recently want the same things as some fundamentalist Muslims when it comes to homosexuals and women, for the former not to exist, and the latter to be the lesser, subservient gender to men. That does not mean all Brits or Muslims want that. In any case, it's still irrelevant, as Lebanon has a varied mix of religions within it.
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  25. What ethnocide?
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  26. ​​ @wor53lg50 you didn't answer the question. I get it, you don't like people with skin colour different to yours, but that's your problem, not an issue of ethnocide.
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  27. ​@TheProcessofRecoverythere is as much genetic variation between any two unrelated white people as there is between anyone else. The science does not support your bigotry.
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  28. ​ @terenceballands1374 literally not a single bit of evidence to support anything you've said
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  29. ​ @Expatred66 that is not true. There are around 45,000 people on the MI5 watch list, but that comprises everything from Islamist, to Northern Irish, to right wing, etc etc. No one is saying right wing terror is the main threat. Islamist lone wolves are still listed as the top terror threat, but that doesn't make all Muslims terrorists, and also doesn't mean it is okay for right wing morons to spout hate speech and perform acts of public disorder and not expect to get arrested when they break the law.
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  30. ​@TheProcessofRecoveryunless he became a Chinese citizen, then he could call himself British and Chinese, until he revoked either of his citizenships. That's the whole point. Where you are born is just luck and chance, and does not determine your citizenship, besides any automatic rights applied at birth.
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  31. ​@TheProcessofRecoverythe fact you don't know the difference between what happened during the Afghan withdrawal, and this evacuation, undermines any point you try to make on the subject. The only people being evacuated here are British citizens, unlike the Afghan relocation programme that happened with that withdrawal.
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  32.  @dulls8475  no, that's not what I said. I'm guessing English isn't really your first language, given the poor grammar and lack of comprehension. Either that, or a lack of education.
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  33. No, that's what civil agencies are for
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  34. You think all Muslims hate the UK? Do you apply the same generalisations to other groups?
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  35. ​​ @Expatred66 because you're an expat. Do you still have your UK citizenship? Just wondering if you're abusing that dual citizenship too, or gave up your British citizenship when you emigrated.
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  36. ​​ @dulls8475 that's not what citizenship is either, you really need to learn the basics first. I also wasn't asking you, but thanks for offering your thoughts anyway. You're not despised by anyone for being 'indigenous', whatever the hell that means in the UK (and I can almost certainly guarantee you're not, based on the ancestry of virtually everyone on this island). That is, however, a commonly held view by the kinds of smooth-brained, xenophobic morons who go around shouting about 'muh freedoms' or 'native brits' as a poorly veiled way of masking their ignorant prejudices, then complaining when they get arrested for hate speech or public disorder at riots.
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  37. ​@TheProcessofRecoverywrong.
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  38. ​ @tiancai7177 to pass the citizenship test, an immigrant has to prove a greater level of UK historical and cultural knowledge than the average Brit even knows.
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  39.  @dulls8475  no, that's not what I said. Is comprehension hard for you? The way you structure sentences is also weird. Those two things combined would suggest you're not a native English speaker, or poorly educated.
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  40. ​ @59patrickw have you seen who those borders are shared with?
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