Comments by "JBird" (@jbird4478) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1. They walk to the place and sit down. It's not rocket science.
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  2.  @sharonreichter2537  And the earth is flat. There's no point in discussion based on a fantasy of yours.
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  3.  @jamespeacock8665  Back then it was part of the Sanjak of Jerusalem; part of the Ottoman empire. Obviously the region has always existed, but there has never been a state. It has gone from the Byzantine empire to various caliphates (with lots of back and forths with crusaders and various sultanates) to the Ottoman empire to a British mandate to the current Israel, Gaza and West Bank. Where the name Palestine for the region comes from is not entirely clear; either from the Romans or the ancient Greek.
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  4. ​ @sharonreichter2537  Palestinian and Hamas flags are different things. Hamas has a green flags with Arab text (a proclamation of Islamic faith).
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  5. Those are completely different things. Bisexuality is a sexual orientation. Non-binary is a made up "gender identity".
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  6. No she hasn't. First of all, she never even called it a pogrom. She has not apologized, but she said she regrets using that word because is used for propaganda.
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  7.  @DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist  Indeed he isn't opposed to immigration itself. He is himself child of an immigrant. He wants to severely restrict it, in particular from Islamic countries. In his opinion immigrants must adapt to our culture. He is deeply opposed to Islam, that's probably why people call him far right. He views Islam not as a religion but as an ideology, and one that's fundamentally incompatible with western values. And he is anything but subtle, which I'm sure contributes to the image of far right. He keeps referring to Islamic headscarfs, and sometimes the women that wear them, as something akin to "skull rags" for example, even at one point proposing a tax for wearing them.
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  8.  @trkstatrksta8410  Same thing. The atmosphere is the air.
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  9. Not really sure. He is in a lot of ways not even right wing. His economic views are pretty left leaning; he wants to increase minimum wage, make healthcare more affordable for low incomes, and supports our existing... there's no word for this in English, essentially we get paid to go to college instead of paying for it... well, that he supports. He's in favor of gay marriage, women's rights, and he even wants to put animal rights in the constitution. How's that for right wing? Regardless, I'm pretty sure that calling someone far right is not libel or defamation, at least not in the legal sense.
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  10. Source: trust me bro
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  11.  @gg_rider  They hadn't created a state out of nothing. The modern day state of Israel was largely created under British rule of the area in the first half of the 20th century.
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  12. True. We have certain "natural" areas where vegetation grows that fairs well with less nitrogen in the soil, because otherwise it would be overgrown by other plants that favor more rich soil. This whole thing to reduce nitrogen is meant to preserve those "natural" areas. I put "natural" between quotation marks because in reality every inch of land in the Netherlands has been cultivated at some point and there's really nothing natural about those areas. They've picked some arbitrary point in time and decided that's how "nature" should stay. They call these areas Natura 2000 areas. That's what this plan officially is about. It has nothing to do with climate change as they say here on Sky News.
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  13.  @Queenofthatank  That's because she isn't covering news and is just talking about internet gossip.
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  14.  @MG53v8  That depends on the type of vegetation. With more nitrogen you'll typically get more grass and weeds, and that can be a problem for other plants, not the nitrogen itself. The limits that have been set also vary per area for that reason. We have lots of areas with heath for example and the limits there are very strict because that would otherwise quickly be outgrown. The situation is a bit upside down. Nitrogen is a nutrient for plants and makes the soil more fertile, but they are trying to protect the natural landscape of less fertile soil. Our prime minister even went so far to say the plantlife would otherwise become "lazy".
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  15.  @laylaali3849  That is a ridiculous situation apart from this. Education should be accessible for everyone, and when it isn't at least scholarships should be based on academic performance.
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  16. Me, as a non-Australian: What even is Myer? Googling... Oh, it's a department store. Ehm... can someone make it make sense?
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  17. Yeah... restricting free speech, great news. This is just the same as those pronoun laws in Canada but reversed.
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  18.  ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻  No. I'm just in favor of free speech.
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  19. @Elijah Clayton Free speech means allowing others to say things you don't want to hear. There is no such thing as selective free speech. There's free speech or not.
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  20. I thought you were in favor of free speech. Gender neutral language is ridiculous, but this is just the same thing as the Canadian pronoun law, except the other way around.
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  21. But this one is saying you can call her any pronoun. I can live with that.
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  22. You can't have a phonetic spelling of names in English, because English itself is far from phonetically consistent. So my best guess is the person was given IPA spelling but can't actually read IPA.
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  23.  @nettles6055 You consider some unknown girl having a minor rant about some mundane traffic issue "news"? Was that before or after she talked about the situation in Ukraine or Yemen?
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  24. I know nothing about this, other than this video, but what I see here is the restaurant owner attacking the protesters. It may be obnoxious, but they are allowed to stand outside with their signs.
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  25. They don't speak the truth actually. They claim this is because of climate change and net zero emissions, but it has nothing to with that, and neither the proponents nor the opponents claim it has anything to do with climate change.
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  26. She's 18 so legally adult.
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  27.  @Thomas-xd4cx  No it's not, and yes I'm Dutch
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  28. This is a green agenda already, but it has nothing to do with climate change. It has to do with the preservation of "natural" landscape.
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  29. Of course Peter Daszak did not ask for that, because he is personally listed as the project leader for the NIH sponsorship of the gain of function research at Wuhan.
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  30. Nobody will. At the end of the day, China simply will not accept that, and enforcing accountability would mean war. And that's not worth it.
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  31. 3:23 That's not German police. It's Dutch police.
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  32. The world isn't so dumb to think that a bunch of hooligan thugs is in any way an excuse to go on a "jew hunt". Apparently you are, but fortunately the Dutch government is not.
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  33.  @remondmsa  The problem with that view is that between the lines, he implies that all jews are somehow responsible for the behavior of a bunch of hooligans. Yes, there were many hooligans behaving abhorrently, but innocent people shouldn't be the victim of retribution for that. Yet that is what happened. People were, as they said so themselves, "on a jew hunt". It is as if you were to say "people don't hate Muslims because they're Muslim but because of 9/11".
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  34. The nitrogen cuts have nothing to do with net zero emissions or with climate change. This report is very misleading. The nitrogen cuts are to protect what the governments considers nature. Though nitrogen isn't harmful to nature, certain types of vegetation grow better with less nitrogen and the government decided which type of vegetation should be protected per area. It is worth noting that the Netherlands does not have any truly wild nature, so basically they planned the landscape out as if it were one giant garden.
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  35. Bullshit. Youtube can remove your comments or ban you, but they never tell you the reason other than "violated community guidelines".
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  36. I think this is actually a fairly reasonable response. She thinks differently about trans issues obviously, but this isn't some delusional answer that denies reality.
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  37.  @toydigger  That's a great argument in kindergarten, but not in the real world. And even if you were to accept that argument, that's not an excuse to attack random people who happen to have the same ethnicity.
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  38.  @VoornaamAchternaam-kr4vk  ME = riot police, for non-Dutch people ;)
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  39. Don't forget the Macarena.
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  40.  @dilmaarora5316  I understand your hope. The problem is that laws don't always work the way you want them. These women have to wear this because the extremely conservative community they belong to makes them do it. First their parents tell them to, and later their husbands. They do this because they believe a woman is not allowed to show her beauty to others. So if you make it illegal to go outside dressed like that, there is a real risk many of these women won't be allowed to go outside at all. And that would only make it worse for them.
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  41. @Joederbo Oh, sorry. I apparently misunderstood your comment.
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  42. Save the planet by protecting black transwomen. You can't make this shit up.
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  43.  @monikakrupczewska5151  No, because the cops can't be everywhere at the same time. With one big group, the cops can just enclose them in a street with two lines of cops. This is like a cat and mouse game. Out of nowhere a small group of people start creating havoc somewhere, and when the police arrives often the group has already disbanded and moved in different directions. So the police can catch some of them, but they can't contain the situation.
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  44.  @monikakrupczewska5151  Yes, but this isn't one group. This is just a part of the population; mostly youth that live in the banlieus - ghettos, essentially. These aren't organized protests. They are just groups of angry people that randomly pop up all over the cities.
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  45.  @harnessriscallous7466  It was a dictatorship, but much better than the one that replaced it
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  46.  @SueBrown-c5d  Damn, this is annoying. Go look up footage of parades of Hamas. They're not carrying Palestinian flags. They carry their own flags. The Palestinian flag is older than Hamas. Like I said, there is no point in discussion with people who refuse to accept universally accepted facts that can be verified by reading a goddamn article or two.
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  47. I haven't seen one Hamas flag. Hamas flags are illegal here in the Netherlands. They are interpreted by the government as inciting violence, which is a criminal offense. That doesn't mean they don't pop up from time to time, but I haven't seen one in relation to these events.
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  48. "They're not wearing MAGA-hats. These are his voters." Yeah... it's a two party system. It is honestly ridiculous to put him in the same "camp" as these protesters. Politics is not a football match between two teams.
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  49. This whole left/right thing has become so bloody stupid. "Oh no! He belongs to the other side. And the other side is always wrong." It's just primitive tribalism, no more no less.
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  50. The state dep. has taken the fact sheet offline. It is (for now) still on the internet archive's wayback machine.
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