Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "a response to comments about consistency, Farage and RT" video.

  1. Indeed, but this time around we invited Russian oligarchs and their bank accounts in, and created Londongrad. So Not same old at all,, because this time we invited the vampire in.
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  2. I think you are in thin ice. You are certainly no cognitive psychologist. It's been known for decades that most people don't use probabilities when deciding if something is true. Why? The evolution of the human brain. The intellectual centres are the youngest parts of the brain. The oldest parts are the defense mechanisms in the rear brain, and the midbrai. Is the second oldest, and deals with memory and desire. Both easily override the intellect in minds that are not trained to notice when they are triggered. That's why the responsible thing to have done in Southport would have not to have dispensed any information that wasn't verified, or to speculate. Why? Fear and desire override the intellect in those minds not trained to notice. and whether for money, power, or attention, there are those who will take advantage of that. That's the friendly and responsible thing not to do. When you see your friend is in trouble, you do not say or do things that make things worse for him. If you do, you are no friend. Is that not the case? So the Professor is right to be angry at those who grift in the back of their nation's difficulties. That is hypocrisy.
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  3. Life is a paradox. And whilst being endeavoring to be right, you can be dead wrong. Life is a negotiation witthings that one often doesn't control. It when we try to pretend that it isn't a negotiation is when we end up in trouble.
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  4. You started well, but you fell off when you removed your argument from fact. and onto speculation. The people of Southport prove you to be wrong when you opine about British people being ethnic minorities in their own country.
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  5. Reposibility is a two-way street. Robinson needs to take responsibility for his actions, and so must his audience. Two wrongs don't make a right, do they?
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  6. Margaret Thatcher didn't break the BNP. They grew up became mainstream.
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  7. Is this comment helping? Not really? It's really missing the issue that Vlad Vexker and other academics have noticed, which is that the economic and social experimentation the UK has been subjected to over the last few decades has unforeseen consequences. Britain is not alone in that. Any country subscribing to neoliberal economics and politics have gone through the same issues. And it is rooted in a struggle to cope with the failures, that have impacted the world. In developed countries like are own, we subscribed to beliefs that facilitated those experiments, but provided no safety margins. And the consequences have been a massive transfer of asset wealth away from both the masses and the state to corporations, banks and plutocrats. And they don't want to pay their fair share of the clean up costs. Indeed, they are so wealthy that they can capture governments, but funding politicians. Because they are now influenced by wealthy plutocrats, they have stopped listening to the people. That's why authors like Mark Blyth describes the rise of populism as basically being Angrynomics. The masses have been the losers, and the winners don't want to give up their games. What the problem really is that neither the populists nor the plutocrats have any real plan what to do about it. The decisions taken decades ago, cannot be fixed quickly, but neither can the populist avoid being bought by the plutocrats. Hence the lurch into outrage politics, and the influx of political entrepreneurs who wish to take advantage of the crisis to get the opportunity to sell out their followers to the plutocrats in return for getting very wealthy after they leave politics. The traditional parties are being neutered as opposition to the plutocrats, and the plutocrats are spending money to distract us from turning against them. Hence social media toxic influence. The masses honestly don't know the depth and extent of the mess they are in, and frustrated and resentful they are falling for the wrong solutions. They want the clock turned back, but you can't step into the same river twice. What to do? 1) Hold your hands up and admit to the the problems, 2) and then address the wealth gap between workers and capital; 3) decentralise political power by increased devolution. 4) modernise the practices in democracy. 5) Nationalise politics to remove private money from the process, including regulating media. 6) Ensure government at all levels is more responsive to the public. 7) Train our leaders differently. But make no mistake, it will take as long as it did to create the problems to repair them. We need to return to mixed economies, we need to tackle corruption and we need to be honest about how we make our wealth. You see, imperial colonisation was replaced with economic colonisation after World War II. And that is not healthy. Exploitation of the poorer countries and peoples of the world can't be the foundation of our prosperity anymore. That dirty little secret has to confronted. It's not about destroying capitalism l, but making it work to fairly distribute it's gains in a sustainable and effective way. If we don't, we will suffer for fudging the realities we face.
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  8. Here's one from Aesop: The Ass and His Driver   AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. While he was in the act of throwing himself over, his owner seized him by the tail, endeavoring to pull him back. When the Ass persisted in his effort, the man let him go and said, "Conquer, but conquer to your cost." I miss Jackanory.
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  9. Freedom of religion is a British value? Yes? Or No? Freedom of Belief? Yes or No? Freedom to go about one's business? Yes Or No? Freedom does not exist unless it is shared. That means that you share, and you cannot share with a closed hand or mind. If your mind is closed, you are not free. And there is a lock on your mind. You say 'integration'. Unlock you mind and describe what you mean by integration. When you understand what you mean by integration, then you are on your journey to freedom.
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  10. "If it looks, like a duck..." To be right wing or left wing are only labels. It's the consequences of one's actions that matter. Indeed, even if you have issues, it is your responsibility to pursue resolution of those issues responsibly and constructively. And as for the unwashed masses shtick, that's not the issue. What the issue is that nobody is listening to each other.
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