Comments by "" (@Iain1962) on "History Debunked" channel.

  1. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered." George Orwell, 1984.
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  2. What happens is the big parties start to espouse the policies of the small parties which effectively destroys their support. They don't need to do it for long, just long enough to erode the small party's support until they run out of money.
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  3. I have noticed that people often reveal themselves by their attitude. That is to say a cheat will assume you are a cheat, and a crook will assume you are a crook etc. Because that's how they think so they presume everyone else thinks as they do. This is true in politics also, one side will accuse the other of doing exactly what they are doing, hence these people who decry hate it's because they are filled with hate themselves.
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  4. Also, they both went to the same school.
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  5. Some of the victims parents will come forward in time. There are bound to be lots of ripples from this. There could be an appeal which is possibly why the names are still being withheld, and they are talking of a retrial for the counts where the jury could not decide. Then there will be the film, the book, all the talk shows talking about the book and the film and the mini series, people will start suing each other...If the parents are to be portrayed in a film they may want compensation or they may sue over privacy or inaccuracies or well the possibilities are endless. It'll be going on for decades.
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  6. As they say, if you are taking Flak you must be over the target.
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  7.  @truth.952  Well he did work for the Ministry of Information during the war, so he just extrapolated it and got it pretty much spot on.
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  8.  @jimjones-bk2is  First of all how can you look clever on youtube? It's very strange that you think that the point of posting the quotation was to "look clever". It's relevant because it is not enough to have new stories or use existing stories that fit the narrative, the old stories must be expunged, rewritten, the past must disappear so that only the present is relevant, and the present is determined by the path of the narrative. Have you not read 1984, I would have thought it was bleedin' obvious.
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  9. They've been at it for years, for example, they will introduce say Douglas Murray as a "far right commentator", but then turn to Ash "literally a communist" Sarkar, and introduce her as a journalist at Novara Media, totally ignoring her self confessed extremism. They do it all the time.
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  10.  bobwilkins204  Not at all mate, mocking those who will be profiting in the aftermath.
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  11.  @celtspeaksgoth7251  Yes and "Julia", a new Feminist version.
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  12.  @davearnett4905  Haha, yes and the video game !
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  13. It's all one way too. It's perfectly fine to advertise an All Black business or a Black owned business, or a woman owned business or a Gay owned etc. Try advertising yourself as a Straight White Male Owned business, you'd be surrounded by blue-haired monsters wanting to beat you up in the name of compassion in an instant.
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  14. Well he has employed staff to help him based on the fact that he was receiving revenue, videographers, editors, researchers. He is still generating the income on youtube, what gives them the right to decide just to keep it? I am not particularly a fan of Mr Brand, but I am most definitely not a fan of what has happened to him, and certainly not a fan of the state encouraging companies to withhold money from him based on allegations that have mysteriously surfaced and seem more designed to shut him up than to provide justice for these women. Yes he is still on youtube, but for how long? I wouldn't be surprised if his channel is removed completely or suspended in the very near future.
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  15. My name used to be one of the most popular in Scotland, last year no baby boys were named Ian or Iain at all.
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  16.  @jalalabdullah5043  How? How can he know who shares his videos, do you want him to spend all his time checking every feed on twitter in case somebody has shared his video? How could he know? And really why would he care? You can't control what people watch or share on social media.
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  17. The Moral Maze let you on? Was Ash Sarkar too busy?
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  18. The SNP is on a quest to marginalise the Straight White Male. Pretty much everybody else has a "protected characteristic" already. Given that our current "First Minister" actually stood up in the Circus of Holyrood before he became the Ringmaster and lambasted all the white people in high ranking jobs it is not a surprise that they want more white males in Prison and will trample on due process to achieve it.
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  19. Winston Smith's job in 1984 was to rewrite articles every day to correspond with the latest version of History as decreed by the Party.
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  20. Just out of curiosity, why do you care who shares a video? And what could Simon do about it if he didn't like it?
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  21. Surely radical Islam is Misogynistic. Women have almost no rights and are treated as second class citizens, forced to wear facial and hair coverings and have to do as they are told by their husband. So has she just declared an entire religion illegal?
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  22. SBS, land men on the boats and steer them back to France accompanied by the Navy to make sure there is no funny business. Just make sure the men have their passports with them, because have you ever tried getting into France without a passport as Brit? No chance !
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  23.  bobwilkins204  As if on cue... Story on the BBC right now : 'Harold Shipman killed my gran - so I played him on stage' Edwin Flay is taking on the challenge of portraying the mass murderer in a play he wrote.
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  24.  @jimjones-bk2is  You may have read the books but you obviously didn't understand them.
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  25. Spotty and Fatty caused problems also. Presumably Fatty because these days he wouldn't be considered fat at all.
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  26. There are no numbered Swiss bank accounts any more, they stopped all that.
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  27. Having changed the meaning of many words they have changed the meaning of "Democracy". Old democracy, that antiquated notion of the people voting for their representatives and then holding them to account has been replaced by new democracy. New democracy is a collective of wise socialists and a collection of "institutions", the courts, the NGO's the ECHR, the UN, the WEF all of course run by radical lefties. Voting for your leaders by majority is now called populism, and evil, whereas kowtowing to left wing ideology is democracy. Easy really. That's why Biden talks about Trump being a "threat to democracy", and von der Leyen talks about EU democratic values, despite no-one being able to vote for any of the legislators in the EU. That really is the new democracy in action, (it may also be called "the rules based international order").
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  28. I presume this was before they discovered blue rinse.
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  29. Humza and his pals are irrelevant now, the Party is falling apart, loads of them are jumping ship and support is plummeting. They sure caused chaos though in their brief Reich.
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  30. Stop giving these fools oxygen, this is exactly what they want, just ignore them.
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  31. In the sixties we start having some "evidence". Alf Garnet, Love Thy Neighbour, Rising Damp etc. However they fail to realise that even then the Black characters almost always came out on top and the white characters are buffoons. Britain was never a racist country, at least I never saw it until the media started telling me I was a racist, who knew as I walked down the road glancing about I was in fact spreading toxic masculinity and micro-aggressions, I was just going to buy a pint of milk.
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  32. He's a backstabbing scheming weasel. Not the sort of qualities you want in a PM, or maybe you do, but I don't.
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  33. The hatred is still there, but it's more subdued these days. Saved for special occasions. It used to be you could be stabbed or slashed was the preference just for wearing a Celtic or Rangers scarf. But these days folk walk around wearing replica shirts and there are few problems. Only perhaps on old firm match days or on Orange Walk Days would you be more cautious, and even then you would need to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. However drug use is on the up and that is fuelling gang violence once again, which often hides behind sectarian issues, but if you don't cause any trouble you don't face any problems really. You are very unlikely to be randomly attacked, although obviously it does happen from time to time. Scotland is a very friendly place on the whole.
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  34.  @Anonymous-qw  Yes well FPTP has its flaws just like any system, but we definitely don't want PR. Because the flaws in that system are even bigger. The politicians choose themselves and there is no way to boot them out. At least with FPTP each MP has to actually win their seat, with PR the top of the list is guaranteed a seat by virtue of being top of the list. I took great pleasure in voting SNP to boot out Jo Swinson, she not only lost her seat but left politics altogether. A massive win !!!. I hate the SNP, but Swinson had to go. With PR as leader of the party she would have been top of the list and guaranteed a seat and still in the HoC today.
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  35.  @jimjones-bk2is  Best if you stop typing now rather than reveal even more ignorance.
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  36.  @jimjones-bk2is  I advised you it was best to stop typing but you wouldn't listen.
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  37. A Theory is just something for which we do not have empirical irrefutable evidence. Conspiracies are everywhere, a business is a bunch of people conspiring to make money, a political party is a bunch of people conspiring to impose their belief system, a football team is conspiring to win the game etc.
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  38. Nonsense Simon, I lived in France for many years, I had a few racist encounters and a bit of resentment but not many, for the most part the French were very grateful that we helped them. They feel that the bombings of Brest and St Nazaire were justified. We also helped them a lot too like Operation Jericho where Mosquitoes precision bombed a Prison in Amiens, demolishing the outer wall to allow resistance fighters to escape. De Gaulle and Winston didn't see eye to eye to put it politely, indeed Churchill rearranged his funeral so that his coffin would leave from Waterloo Station because he knew De Gaulle would be there, having lived in London for most of the war De Gaulle knew how the British State worked and knew we weren't compatible with Europe and wouldn't fit in. Britain has always been amenable to creating alliances to keep the tyrants down, we sided with the Germans against Napoleon and the French against the Kaiser and Hitler. We have been allies and enemies of almost every country on the continent at one time or another haha.
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  39. She is guilty. absolutely no doubt in my mind.
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  40. I had a look at their "abuse"... Not really anything exceptional. They should try not being a woke lefty on Facebook and see the horrible abuse you face. I treat it as a badge of honour, if lefties are upset enough by common sense to hurl abuse that's a victory !!
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  41. Much of what you say is true however you seem to be missing the point. Hitler is called a fascist, but he was a socialist a National Socialist, he was obsessed with getting revenge for WWI, for that he needed the people to fight for him, to do that he needed to bring them along with him. Hence the socialism all the benefits and handouts that Germans had never had before, the social organisations, the paid holidays, Strength Through Joy. For Germans only of course, only they would be fighting for him, everyone else was disposable, and of course in time even the Germans were disposable. It was all financed by financial trickery. Did you never wonder how they went from being broke in the Weimar Republic to being an industrial powerhouse by WWII? All of it was financed through a secondary economy with Bonds that were used to pay for all the industry. These bonds had to become Reichsmarks real money by 1939 and he didn't have enough Reichmarks, so he had to plunder. The debt was created to fund the war, and the bills were paid by looting the conquered countries. There was no way for Hitler to carry on peacefully, his trickery would have come to light and it would have been all over. Once he started on the path there was only one possible destiny...War.
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  42.  @AB-kc3yc  yes I was merely giving examples. Anybody on the right has their credentials dissected, they will point out one Joe Smith from Michigan called them a Nazi in 2011 on Twitter, as if this is an important affirmation. Meanwhile the left commentators are presented as just your average person with no agenda or bias at all , speaking for what the general reasonable British public thinks. They prime the viewers by telling them who's the good guy and who's the baddie.
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  43. When you are getting lots of flak, it's because you are over the target.
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  44. Because Humza Yousaf says so, even in your own home. Welcome to Scotland.
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  45. If only Tesla had been able to complete the Wardenclyffe Tower project maybe all this would be unnecessary and we would have free power, imagine that, unlimited free electricity for everyone.
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  46. It's clear they are out to shut him up. It doesn't matter if the allegations are true or false, although why would you wait 15-20 years to suddenly make accusations, and then suddenly 4 "victims" appear at the same time. The process is the punishment, if he has to go to court, it will tie him up in the legal system for two or three years at least and discredit the uncomfortable truths he has been revealing, that would be job done for the Plaintifs, they don't care if they lose and have to pay the fees, they will have achieved their goal anyway. Meanwhile everybody can make slurs about him with practical impunity. I expect the BBC will attack him relentlessly. I think on this occassion though it is going to backfire...watch this space.
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  47. Lenny was funny back in the day, he was very funny on TISWAS, different times though, we could still have a laugh at people in those days. Could he be Algernon Razzamatazz or David Bellamy these days on kids TV? My God they would have a fit.
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  48. The fundamental problem is how it is financed. The money comes from the top down, this is the opposite of how it should be. The NHS starts with a budget let's say for hip replacements, as each operation is carried out the money is used up, when all the money is close to being used up doctors have to pick who gets treatment and who has to wait for the next budget allocation. So they have to start rationing. Now if the money went the other way, the more operations you did the more money came in, the budget would always be there for the next patient. So this would require a complete overhaul of the system so the money goes where the demand is, rather than some guy with a spreadsheet deciding how much we are going to need for hip operations in three years time. It should all be privatised, we also have the ludicrous situations when things go wrong. Let's say a Hospital employs a bad doctor, so the taxpayer pays his salary, then the taxpayer compensates his patients for his mistakes, then the hospital is fined ( so the state fines a state run hospital- literally fining itself) and then the Hospital runs out of money and needs bailed out, so the state fines itself, and then bails itself out. And all paid for by the taxpayer, the guilty parties are promoted or transferred, and nobody is actually held accountable. What happened in the wake of the Lucy Letby situation for example? Anybody fired? Anybody held accountable for allowing it to go on? The people who get sacked are most often the whistleblowers. What kind of message does that send? It's useless, I stay away unless I have no alternative.
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  49. Will they play Heil dir im Siegerkranz?
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  50. There was another major war in 1870 when the Prussians invaded France and ended up with Alsace Lorraine en prime.
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  51. The 1924 Labour government didn't last long, we had National coalition governments from 1929 to 1945. Then Attlee destroyed our industry by nationalising everything and the Labour/Tory ping pong managed our decline until Thatcher grabbed the bull by the horns and turned the country around, since then we have seen the advent of globalism and Politicians are now working not for the people but for the Globalist bosses. People though are fed up. We don't want the WEF, the UN, the ECHR, and the Corporations and NGOs to be in charge, we want the people we elect to work for us...not these global masters. Switching from one major party to the other isn't going to change that which is why people are voting for the "upstart parties". Le Pen in France, Wilders in the Netherlands, Meloni in Italy, AfD in Germany...and Reform in the UK. In the UK came to this realisation a bit late, we thought we could trust the Tories to get Brexit sorted, instead they deliberately fudged it and then they started behaving like Socialists. Nobody wants Labour and the MSM have been on a concerted campaign to undermine Reform with all their dirty tricks. Maybe not this time, but next time Reform are going to be a force to be reckoned with, and the MSM is dead after this.
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  52. I have to disagree with you here Simon. I lived in France for a long time, I never heard anybody criticise the Brits and Americans for bombing France during the war, I didn't feel any resentment at all due to that. In fact they were grateful, and knew very well that Britain was targeting the Nazis not the French, indeed often the French Resistance would help guide in the bombers so they could hit their targets. Not even a cheep about Mers-el-Kébir. The French don't dislike us they are jealous, they could never beat us, we always ended up beating them, the may have won a battle or two but never the war, that's what annoys them. They have monuments to Napoleon and he is still celebrated, even though if you think about it he was not dissimilar to Hitler, and yet the Germans celebrating Hitler would be unthinkable, yet the French love their Tyrant Emperor, well it was the only time they had a few victories, so you take what you can get I suppose.
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  53. I spotted that as well. Typical BBC, I wonder if being a blue haired activist is a requirement to join their social media team.
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  54. I disagree, there are some similarities, but then don't most wars begin along these lines, a territorial dispute, a linguistic or religious or ideological affiliation. However Hitler was out for revenge, he had a plan from the moment he came to power, he started building a war machine immediately and everything he did was about building a massive military, from building roads and buildings, Cruise ships that could be converted to troop ships in a moment, tanks and guns and planes were designed and manufactured in secret, all Political moves were designed to advance the cause. War was the goal, Lebensraum the objective, but really it was all about avenging the defeat of 1918. I don't see this with Putin at all. It seems to me he was reticent to go to war, and he has been restrained, he has moved very slowly, indeed it seems to be WWI style trench warfare (with drones and satellites and sophisticated weaponry) rather than fast moving Panzer groups encircling and advancing at tremendous speed. IN WWII the lines in Russia would move hundreds of miles in a month, in Ukraine they have been fighting over a couple of km's for years. I am no fan of Putin, but I am also no fan of Zelensky, he's a bit of a dictator himself, and let's face it he's a puppet, he is entirely dependent on continued support from the West and to ensure that he has to do as he is told.Putin should not have invaded but there is more to all this than we know...that's for sure. It didn't start as a Proxy war, but it has turned into one, and of course it's the young men in both countries and the civilians on the front line who bear the brunt of it all.
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  55. The idea that the BBC can fact check anything is quite frankly hilarious. They are fake news champions, just read anything about Trump for example. We do not know what happened at the last US election but clearly there were let's say some shennaginas that occurred, and yet they will say "trump has claimed without evidence", or "Trump's unfounded claims the 2020 vote was stolen from him." etc. And that's just an example, others include branding Liverpudlians far right (the notion is absurd) because they protested against too many migrants being housed near them and harassing their daughters. The list is long. I find BBC Verify hilarious, which is good as the BBC have swapped comedy for Left wing propaganda, so it's nice to have some light entertainment.
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  56. Oh Labour will be worse, but there is no hope for the Tories, so we just have to Keep Buggering On and look after ourselves for the next five years.
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  57. i have great fun on the internet asking people to define Fascist. Most of them start off by trying Nationalists and Authoritarians. So I say "what like the SNP?" Ooops! So they have to try again or usually what happens is they hurl a few more insults and disappear. The thing is Mussolini was a Fascist and only got involved in the war because he kind of had to follow Hitler, but Hitler was a Socialist, his version of Socialism was that it be only for Germans and that everybody else should pay for it, but it was still Socialism. People seem to think the Nazis were Fascists, but they weren't. Hitler never called himself a Fascist nor his regime. It was always National Socialism.
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  58.  @jimjones-bk2is  Of course the past is being expunged, for example in 2002 WInston Churchill was voted Greatest Briton by the public, do you think that would happen today? In twenty years he has become a racist genocidal maniac, even being called a Fascist, which is somewhat ironic, how did that happen? They are also targeting statues and renaming roads, rewriting our history (have you seen Horrible Histories?), inserting coloured people into everything to try and retell history and pretend that Britain has always been "multicultural" which is just not true. They haven't got to the dates yet, but that will come.
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  59.  @jimjones-bk2is  OK.
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  60.  @jimjones-bk2is  Make your mind up.
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  61. There is also a possible war in Africa over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia now can control the flow of water in the Nile which is upsetting Egypt and Sudan especially. The Chinese are heavily involved in the region in many projects so if war broke out they would most likely intervene in some way so it could be a big mess there too.
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  62. Hallowe'en is an ancient act to scare away evil spirits. The first of November is All Hallows Day, or All Saints day if you prefer. In order to make sure that the Saints were not disturbed by evil spirits on their day, people would try and scare them away by dressing up in costumes on the Hallow's eve, hence Hallowe'en. We all used to do it when I was young, and we would knock on all doors not just people we knew. But you didn't just stand at the door and get a handout, you had to go in the front room and perform something, a poem, or sing a verse of a song, or recite something or other, otherwise no sweeties !! There were other traditions, dooking for Apples, which involved leaning over the back of a chair, holding a fork in your teeth with which you tried to let go and stab apples floating in a bucket or a tin bath. Now they just do this trick or treat thing, which came from the USA, nothing to do with our traditions. All the effort has been removed as usual in the modern world, just gimme the sweets !!
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  63. Of course he had to object and speak up. If he didn't like playing the songs he could just have said no thanks I don't want to play. Or he could have been more discreet and said he had another engagement already booked. No, instead he obviously wants to carry on with the gig but have it all changed to suit him, well bugger off mate.
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  64. Nonsense, racism is everywhere. Black Lives Matter is virtuous, but saying White Lives Matter, or All Lives Matter is Racism. How can that be? Then you have diversity and inclusion which prioritises everybody who is not white... Just a couple of examples, I'm afraid racism has not disappeared it is alive and well.
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  65. It's right we helped Ukrainian refugees, but I hope they will be going home as soon as the war is over. There's a lot of rebuilding to be done, they will be needed.
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  66. I think Suella Braverman will do a great job, I actually thought she was the best candidate from the starting field to replace Boris. Kemi Badenoch is also excellent and I like Kwasi Kwateng also. I don't think any of them are there for "diversity".
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  67. Beg to differ about 100 years since looting. There was a lot of looting during the war, 400 or so cases reported during the Blitz alone.
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  68. The right believe in freedom of the individual, the left believe in Collectivism, so logically, speaking far right would be extreme freedom, hardly any government or perhaps even no government, Anarchy even. The far left on the other hand believe on extreme collectivism, centralisation of power, lots of regulations and taxes, no free enterprise (you might get rich, and we can't have that, that would mean inequality). If I had to choose, I certainly wouldn't choose communism. Far right in media speak basically means you don't want to be assimilated into the collective and go along with their phoney narrative, which makes you a bad boy/girl/They-them.
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