Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "PoliticsJOE" channel.

  1. AI is a tool. And sometimes you want fast food instead of a banquet. It's still creative because the lyrics kind of reflect the reality of these two characters. Dr Evil in the Austin Powers movies was funny, but these guys are serious. As many artists have to do, ignore the critics, and keep going. 👍
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  2. You have it. It's known as the Welfare State. There's no ongoing legacy from that which compares to the 12 million slaves transported in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15% which were murdered on route for insurance, or quelling onboard uprisings. Then the cruelty - psychological, material, physical, familial and sexual abuse inherent in the trade and ownership of slaves has resulted in an intergenerational and economic legacy that still exists in the fact that the descendants largely cannot pull up their bootstraps today, because many of the states and the families are enjoying that wealth created by the suffering caused by slavery. And through their economic power that has lasted to this day, are still standing on the bootstraps of the descendants of the slaves they once owned. Poorhouses in contrast only used to control destitution, and if those people escaped destitution and debt, they could freely leave those places. Not so slaves. Even though a lucky few managed to were allowed to raise money to buy their freedom, that was only possible if their owner agreed to it. If they didnt, they and their children remained chattels of their owners. Poorhouse inhabitants weren't slaves. They were a social problem that the British state, with the agreement of its citizens, chose to solve by confinement in the poorhouses in each parish. There was no democratic mandate from slaves.
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  3. "These unhappy times call for the building of plans that ... build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  4.  @philipburgin3109  Gotcha. Bottery at it's most obvious.
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  5. Please taking Veep Vance seriously. It's like listening to Dracula speaking about blood transfusions, with a trickle of blood running from his mouth.
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  6. No;
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  7. And thus, the English poor were the wealthiest poor people in Europe. And your ancestors helped to repay the loan taken out to compensate the slave owners. So did you, if you were working before 2015.
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  8. But it's not struggling to send money, people, and armanents to Ukraine is it?
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  9. ​ @sonofsomerset1695 At least they didn't vote for Putin
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  10. You forget to give the President-elect his full title of oligarch Donald Trump.
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  11. Geez, you're firing on all cylinders with this one. Just absolutely on point. Let's hope it's true that the Tories and Reform have been deep sixed. The tories won't disappear, but they need a good session in the Naughty Corner. I hope the electorate give Kier Starmer the time to untangle the mess the Tories have left behind,and move the country in a better direction. 5 years won't be enough.
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  12. Lol. Try harder to understand how the economy works. Then you'll understand how it can be found. Nobody said it couldn't be found for Ukraine, did they?
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  13. He's a Professor of Accounting in his current role, but he is also a political Economist. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant, ran a practice in the East of England for a couple of decades before moving into economics. So he's doubly qualified.
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  14. I don't think you are a Brummie, or you would know how she earned that privilege. Snobbery is an affliction, but reverse snobbery is worse. Roses have thorns, and the pollen of Lillies can stain your cliyhes, but both are seen as beautiful flowers. And the humble Wild Poppy, a weed that seeded on the ground of war, is the symbol of Remembrance of the War Dead in Red and Peace in White. Beauty is everywhere, but not everyone can see it. If you had known the fathers of postwar Britain, you would have had working class MP's in the Labour Party of the day bring positive change to this country. But, you don't know that. How British are you?
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  15. Sorry, but... No. She doesn't know you. And you don't know why she was laughing either. Until you do, you are assuming. And that makes an ASS out of U and ME. Depression isn't a good thing to have, because it can distort and mislead. If you want to know why she laughed, write to her, and ask her why she laughed. And I bet she will give you an answer. That's if you want an answer, that is. Sometimes it's easy to curse the darkness instead of lighting a candle. Depression can do that to you.
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  16. When did you say sorry? When did the British government ever say sorry? They haven't even expressed regret.
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  17. You do know that black people were taken to the Caribbean and the Americas as slaves don't you? They are not indigenous to the region. Why? The colonisers killed the indigenous Taino people by the means of slavery and disease. And appealed to London to let them participate in then quite small trade in Africa. London agreed because there was money to be made from Sugar to sweeten the bitter Coffee and Chocolate being imported to cofeehouses there. The first place they set up was in Nevis in the Leeward Islands, a British colony.
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  18. Sorry, but what are you trying to say? Are you trying to say that you cannot keep tabs on what is happening areas other than your own in the age of the Internet? A belief is not fact. So, what you believe is not the most reliable thing to rely on when negotiating reality. Hold them lightly, because they can be wrong.
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  19. Pure bottery
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  20. Don't confuse a massively talented singer songwriter, whose classic "Fast Car is almost played on any English A & R radio station across the world almost every week, with a political entrepreneur like Badenoch. You need to expand your vocabulary of talented black women. Might be difficult though if all you can point to is an innocent Tracy Chapman. And one more thing, Tracy Chapman doesn't wear plaits.
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  21. What have you got to offer more than this?
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  22. Ask the Conservative who cut their budget by 49%?
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  23. Neither could Badenoch. She was slipping up too. So if it's a shame for Rayner, what more it must be a shame for an experienced former minister to trip over her words? Confirmation Bias again?
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  24. And Farage is a MP... In Westminster... Doesn't that tell you something?
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  25. So are you.
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  26. Justice is complicated, because it's a man made thing. It doesn't exist in nature, and relies in people who have blindspots in their thinking to attempt to get it. For instance, do you remember that female lawyer who was found guilty of murdering her two baby sons? She was found guilty because the expert the prosecution chose to use misled the jury, and the public in order to support his belief that most cot deaths were infanticides. Moreover, the police, and the Home Office pathologist were of the same opinion. If the accused had not had money and a loving husband, we would have not discovered that the expert was biased, and that the pathologist had tailored his report to fit his prejudice too. It took years of fighting to release her, but she was exonerated. Unfortunately, the experience broke her. She died several years later of alcoholism. And you say justice is easy? What about the guy found guilty of rape, without any forensic trace evidence to link him to the crime? Spent years in prision, until they tested her underwear and found trace evidence of another man. He still hasn't received compensation. And you say justice is easy? Grenfell Tower? Steven Lawrence? Hugh Grant? "Justice is easy" is absolute nonsense. Human beings get things wrong, especially when they think with the back of the brain, with emotion, instead of the front, where the intellect is. People who think like you are why we have the rights we do to try to stop injustice. Thank goodness they exist, because that's protecting us from people who think like this.
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  27. Yeah, voted him out for another oligarch? That's not a good take, son.
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  28. But you are not being asked are you? Does anyone ask you to fix the pothole in the road? No, because it's not about you. It's about what is the right thing to do.
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  29. We don't want you to believe. We want to to think, analyse, and reflect. What you believe is not knowledge of fact. It's a belief. It does have to be true to exist.
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  30. What are you talking about?
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  31. And you are mining outrage.
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  32. If they're descendants are alive why not? But most importantly one should note that the states that carried out European slavery still exist, and the wealth that came from it, also exists too. Much of that money was reinvested in mechanising the labour done by slaves where possible, but the British state built their empire on it, to the extent the Royal Family were investors. If a similar state of affairs exists elsewhere, why not? Whataboutism doesn't change a thing.
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  33. ​ @mw01908 I think I would rather listen to a Chartered Accountant, who is also a trained economist, than some bot. Sorry, mate.
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  34. The Church of Latter Day Saints because of their beliefs have created a global database that collates birth, marriage and death records, from government and church records going back in history. The government can start there.
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  35. Free movement didn't depress wages in the rest of the EU, when we were in it. And it still hasn't depressed wages in the EU since we left.They still pay more than the UK. It's time you bit the bullet that British employers screwed British workers because they could. British workers work the longest hours than countries in the EU. But asset wealthy Brits don't want to invest in Britain. I wonder why? A lot of them don't want to live in Britain either, but still want to control the minds of British workers that they think are lazy than other foreign workers. They put that in writing in books that were published years ago. And you still voted for the and their political parties. They don't think you're worth more. And you kowtow to them, and they still pay you less than Europe, simply because they can. When will you accept that they don't like you? That they don't respect you as you vote for NF and BJ, grifters one and all? No Wonder you're not getting anything. You have to change, to get their respect, and whining about migrants taking jobs you don't want to do does you no favours. Just a thought.
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  36. I have to agree. We don't want something like the schools debacle to happen do we? Cheap and nasty and short life span is not the standard of building we want. And as we have a whole industry created to get housebuilders to fix their mistakes in new build homes, we also need adequate and reliable quality control. We wasted millions in our social housing stock built in the 30 years or so after the war, with too many bad examples of poor quality homes built for social housing. That wasn't the case in Europe, where some countries provided well planned and well executed mass housing schemes. We don't want the same mistakes made again.
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  37. "Justice should be... " is just plain absurd without reference to the real world. You want to know what justice is? Go and sit in the public gallery of your local magistrates' court and listen to the cases. You can do so in your own time. Get off the keyboard, and do something useful. Learn about the Justice system, and ask questions about it. Then talk of justice. Even better, download the transcripts of the Post Office Inquiry. Then you can give informed opinions, instead of kneejerk responses.
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  38. The Gold Standard is too inflexible to work in a global financial system, and believe or not, no-one fancies being in hoc to the US. That's why Churchill overvalued Stirling when he wanted to go on back the Gold Standard. The US took all of England's gold in payment of war debt after World War I. If Churchill had listened to JM Keynes, the following years of economic pain wouldn't have happened. The UK had to crash back out again in 1931.
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  39. Try find a brain.
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  40. Perhaps criminal records might be a barrier to entry? Under Patel, they dropped the level of scrutiny for recruits to the police force. After certain police officers were caught in criminal behaviour, they reviewed the post-change new entrants security checks. And a few nasty pieces of work were on the books. So... I don't want such people in positions of power of any kind, thank you. They can help their communities and country by being decent people.
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  41. Then ask the right people for it. Hell, before he got ill he was paid for his work. And they didn't rape his wife, or sell his children. And he was hit over the head. Bad. But not as bad as as being bound and tied up in a tree to die of starvation. He wasn't hung. Or whipped every day to work harder. Nobody's saying life was a picnic for the workers, but at least you knew who your father was. You don't have to go and find his name in the slave ledgers. You can construct your family tree, because he wasn't just killed and disposed of like a farm animal.
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  42. You may disagree, but unless you can name a better one, your disagreement is just venting.
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  43. Is this a brain fart?
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  44. I think you have failed, because you don't even know how that could be done, how much that would cost, and how it would be funded, and even if we have the workforce needed to do it. And then there's the unintended Consequences. The last time a spurt in building was done, it was for schools, and look what happened there. I want realistic plans and quality homes that will last, and be fit for use. Not some cheap, quick, poorly built boxes that will not last 40 years. We had plenty 9f those in social housing during the 1960's and 1970s and most have had to be torn down. And there's a whole new industry in the UK that helps newbuild owners get their house builders to fix poor workmanship in their homes. We don't want another repetition of that episode in British History thank you.
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  45. When you say you don't want immigration. You are saying No NHS No Social Care Less Tax revenue And less support for the needy. Where do you think the money comes from for all that? From people working mostly. With less workers, and an ageing workforce who didn't produce enough children, immigration is the only option to keep the above things. But, you also need to avoid voting for idiots who can't manage a pissup in a brewery, and sell you stuff you already paid for.
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  46. But you trust NF right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  47. That's your right, but you should be able to name a better one
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  48. If you have to ask then you're it.
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  49. Touché! "A hit, a hit! A very hit!" It's true. Nobody knows enough about democracy to tell.
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  50. No; activism is not about agreeing. It about participation in the democratic process. It's about actually committing time, enetgy, and cost to participating in democracy. I mean, how much time have you spent observing how your local council debates or cases within the magistrates and Crown courts? How much time have you spent communicating with your MP? How much reading or research into how Parliament actually works? How many local activist groups regarding local issues do you join? It's not just about joining a political party. It's about local knowledge and effort to improve things locally. So when Jess Phillips emphasises that the real question should be "What are we going to do about it?" That is what she meant. We need people to engage more with the democratic process, and we need MP who are willing to engage with us. I mean, my MP has always written to me, if I have contact them, but that isn't always the case. Just reading more books about British politics and Parliament specifically would make us better informed voters. The newspapers have lost that educational focus. So we are actually in the age of the Internet in danger of being worse informed. If anything, have a varied input of sources that aren't just peddling outrage or angst. Now, here's a pointer. Jihn Bercow the former Speaker wrote a book called "Unspeakable" about his time in Parliament, and there's Chapter 10 entitled "What Makes a Good MP". Start there. Love him loathe him, Bercow can write in detail about what makes an MP or a minister good at there job. Now it may be an insider POV, but it will inform about what MP do more than just the newspapers say. You don't have to love it or loathe it. You may approve, or you may be disappointed, but at least you'll know more of how that part works. It will help you decide what you want, and how you might get it by engaging with Parliament. Pull aside the curtain, and look. It's a world we are still not largely familiar with. You can watch channels like BritMonkey who did a 5-part series on the British Constitution, which was great at explaining how it works. So any MP writing about politics. Reading Private Eye and Byline News. There is so much more you can do to be one better informed and more empowered to make democracy work better. There is a bit of truth in the saying that "each nation gets the government it deserves" because the state of democratic government government reflects our willingness to engage with democracy. The more we know about it, the better we can work to make it work better for us.
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