Youtube comments of rob (@rob338).

  1. "Hey Mars bro, wow, your kid is a big lad." "Yep, he's 7ft2." "Not bad for a ten year old." "The doctors hope he'll get to 8ft but that's assuming his leukaemia treatment is successful."
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  2. Remember lads, next time you disappoint your lady tell her about the Japanese dude who disappointed 27000 women at once. Then hide.
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  3.  @DaSquareful  Don't forget 'dolls' being renamed 'action figures' to appeal to boys.
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  4. You could just about land the ISS on top of my local supermarket, and it cost > $100 billion to build and keep running. An O'Neil colony would be thousands of times bigger. Short of the invention of super-robot builders or some such thing the cost of building large space habitats will always be enormous. Much like the cost of private jets or yachts. A lot of the tech bros grew up with Moore's law thinking they can apply that to other systems. Nope.
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  5.  @drumsmoker731  With a colony of a million you'd need some sort of police force. Which means weapons. I'd give it a year before there's all out warfare between various factions.
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  6.  Bagd Biggerd  Find it really strange all his kids are boys and has been reported they were all via IVF. What's the deal there?
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  7. Just think there's probably some 9yr old Disney kid now who'll win an Oscar for playing Musk as a crazy John deLorean type in forty years time.
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  8. "What drug addicts are reading reports about the bank of England and getting upset about it?" Ummm, a good percentage of city bankers? They hoover Latin American nose candy up their hooters like a thirsty elephant guzzling at a Serengeti watering hole.
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  9. It could be the ultimate libertarian experiment. All the Randian geniuses get to their chosen homeworld and pledge a planet of free-market wonder. Then realise there's no one to clean the toilets. Or fix the air filters. And there's no excess energy to support their lifestyles so they all either adopt the same standard of living as everyone else or die; and if they import indentured servants then the servants will outnumber the masters and they're still (to use the technical term) fucked for being anything other than a cog in the colony wheel. Whoops.
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  10. Capitalism mate. We'd sell our mums into slavery if there was cash on the table.
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  11. While there's an obvious comparison with Steve Jobs, tell you who Musk really reminds me of - Richard Branson. Branson was another 'self-made' businessman (with wealthy parents), starting his music company in the early Seventies. He later got into retail, computer games and various other sidelines under his Virgin brand - including ,amusingly, 'Virgin Brides' a wedding dress company. Some of his ideas completely sucked, such as the aforementioned Bridal venture, but he had lots of successes and they were compounded by his talent for self-publicity. If you asked an English person in the 80s or 90s to name a business genius, 90% of the time they'd say Richard Branson - he always seemed to be ahead of the game with visionary ideas while selling himself as an 'anti-establishment' capitalist. Yet Branson was more a master of self-publicity than an actual genius and most of his ideas were things others had done before but he sold them a bit better (example: Virgin airlines was using a similar economic model to Freddie Laker's earlier Skytrain). Add in some daredevil action such as his balloon trips and Branson was as famous to Brits as Musk is today to, well, everybody. Nowadays Branson still has his airline and he's also in the private rocket business and he's also in the Hyperloop business. He has a similar contradictory nature to Musk where he's definitely concerned about climate change, but makes his money from airlines & Cruise ships. Squaring the rockets/airlines/global warming circle is something he's been unable to do. To be fair to Branson his public personality is a lot friendlier than Musk and his publicity stunts aren't reliant on memelord Twitter gags, but those two dudes have a lot in common.
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  12. What's so puzzling is the politicians signing off on this stuff when surely their transportation experts will be telling them is a stupid idea?
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  13. Walk away from Europe? Are you suggesting sticking big engines on Britain so we can power off into the Atlantic?
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  14. Or just fire them all when Liz goes and save some taxpayer's cash.
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  15. The whole point is if the guy who has it hasn't left NZ then it isn't one case - there must be others who it caught it from. So lockdown until full tracing is done otherwise you end up like Australia. Very sensible.
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  16. Did she try to cull the pensioners last year? Nope. Was Boris. Did she promise Brexit then screw it up? Nop. Boris. Did she leave a husband with cancer for a fancy man? No, Boris did that (with a woman, obviously).
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  17. Good grief, is this the level we've stooped to? Pretending a posh boy who looks like a grown up version of the kids from Village of the Damned with a binge-eating disorder is somehow cool. Dear, dear me.
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  18. So food shortages, no Euro citizenship, creaking employment market, half the country hating the other half and a government run by imbeciles is the 'best thing' in your lifetime? Are you in Moscow or something?
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  19. And is something to do with doing cool shit on skateboards.
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  20.  @romeisfallingagain  Imagine in the future British kids reading about 2020-2021... pandemic, Brexit collapse, global warming, idiot politicians, terrorism, revolution and then they find out their grandparents were most obsessed by a Welsh conservative kneeling as a gesture against racism. 'Why didn't you stop fascism and save the planet, grandpa?' 'Well was more worried about some Welsh bloke kneeling because someone on Facebook said he was part of a Marxist plot.' 'I can't believe I'm related to you'. 'You're not. While I was watching GB News your grandma was seeking solace with the milkman'.
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  21. I can do that in my local park. Though exploration probably wouldn't turn up much more than the occasional heroin addict and annoyed fox.
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  22. Yep, wasn't this always the plan with Nasa missions - send up all the equipment you need before humans go near the place? Plus automated mini-factories could start work on harvesting water/oxygen from the soil a few years before humans set off.
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  23. Well if energy prices get uncapped and we go full Texas then perhaps the hordes of freezing people in penury can pop down to Nige's house and he'll invite them in for a cuppa?
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  24. Its going to be funny. We get NZ Lamb and Manuka for cheap and the Kiwis get, I dunno, Adele posters? Then our farmers all go bankrupt and appear sad-faced on TV saying 'This isn't the Brexit we voted for!'
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  25. Because she's a woman? And feminism is all about women? Am I on a news channel or doing a zoom class with special needs gammons?
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  26. Trump was a failed businessman, and a bankrupt and a sexual deviant and twice impeached. Farage sucks up to Trump and has a similar nihilistic destructive agenda. So no, we don't need more of that.
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  27. 'apparently difficult'... imagine Andy Pandy was a black rapper or something. Does anyone think we'd be doing anything other than demanding the FBI stick him on the next plane out?
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  28. Indeed. It would be a good place to study psychological effects as well - people who flipped out, or developed other illnesses could be sent home in a couple of days before they cause problems. Mars colonists gonna be stuck there pretty much forever.
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  29. So GB News is now hating dogs and cats? Good grief.
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  30. Elon: "It's called Elonite. We hope to fly to the moon." Tech press: "Amazing!" HG Wells fans: "FFS!!"
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  31. Then we need to massively reduce property prices. This means lower rents or lower mortgage payments. It also means lower rents for business premises which helps the likes of shops stay in business. But we can't do that as lots of Tory MPs are property tycoons or are paid by property tycoons.
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  32. Then there's the Mars squirrels... uh-oh.
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  33. Make Tory MPs and the rich send their kids to state schools. Then watch them magically improve and be showered with funding almost overnight...
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  34. Coronation Street has always been about making working-class women stronger than ever, even if those women were seen as 'low class' by others in the community. Elsie Tanner for example, or Bet Lynch, or Hilda Ogden. And the original creator of the Street, Tony Warren was very, very gay and quite open about it during the 60s when the rest of society... wasn't so open. As for trans... well do you remember Roy and Hayley from nearly twenty years ago?
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  35. Man, GB are really going overboard on this. Dozens of videos in under 24 hours. Definitely an attempt to keep all the other horrible stories away from their viewers.
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  36. He's basically Charles Manson at this point, only instead of a Helter Skelter race war he wants to spread the Rona and kill off another city's worth of people.
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  37. Tory businesses must profit, that is their way.
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  38. Tory party don't care about the poor. Do you not understand this yet? Poor war veterans are poor, therefore are unworthy and the bottom of the pile. This is modern Britain.
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  39. The Martian Sequel: Matt Damon lands in a starship. "Nice to be back. One day there's going to be potatoes growing for miles." Beep, beep, beep. BOOOMMMM The End A Ridley Scott Short
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  40. This is true. Note no one has asked what happened to all the taped 'goings on' that Epstein recorded.
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  41. Yep, David Bowie seemed to do extremely well with women despite the make-up/heels/femmy fashions...
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  42. Zippy, Bungle and George are British icons. Flying a flag as tribute to them is the least we can do. And Geoffrey. Gone too soon.
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  43. Never mind Isabel, when thousands get sick from it you can go on the telly and say they've got 'underlying issues' and its not really a problem.
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  44. "There are increasing numbers of you"... There's even more of us who are monumentally fucked off at propagandists in the press who've spent a year lying and playing this thing down. We'll never forget.
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  45. Real-world vaporware. Kind of depressing.
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  46.  @commonsenseskeptic  "Did anyone remember to bring any anti-psychotic drugs?", "No", "Uh oh"...
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  47. Ah, we have our Daily Meghan drivel. I'm not a royalist in any way, but honestly Megs and Harry do not irritate me nearly as much as Andy Pandy getting his mum to pay his legal bills.
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  48. We signed a treaty. We are not sticking to that treaty. Do you understand International Law, bro?
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  49. What, crime like when a copper rapes and murders a young woman and women protesting about it get arrested by the police at a vigil? Because that happened a few months ago and we're still not talking about it.
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  50. So it was remoaners that promised massive benefits then signed a half-arsed agreement that they're not even sticking to? Up to now Brexit benefits have been pretty much zero, unless you're a rich scumbag who made a packet off hedge funds.
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  51. I think killing more people than Hitler in the Blitz will do that.
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  52. They are, that's why they've had 25 deaths from this thing and we've had 130,000.
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  53. Yes rich people are hypocritical scumbags.
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  54.  @joejoe7702  'Every expert' doesn't, that's spin the British press is doing to cover up our disastrous approach. You can easily get covid down to levels so low its not a big deal, like we've done with other viruses. I bet you haven't met anyone recently with Polio or Smallpox have you? Viruses will still usually exist somewhere in an animal reservoir, but not bother humans much if we're careful - see bubonic plague that still pops up occasionally in the US (bacteria but same principle). For a modern example of a virus that could have been a monster, read up on Hendra virus in Australia. They got onto it quick and so far there's only been a few cases even though its potentially very, very nasty.
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  55. "Working benefits, tax credits" - Nige, the key is in the words. Read them closely. 'Working benefits, tax credits' means they're doing jobs. Hence working in return for renumeration but as this is Britain many jobs pay little money and require benefit top-ups. Now perhaps you want to kick them out and have the jobs done by, I dunno, Tory MPs? GB News presenters when they all get fired soon?
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  56.  @bronte6364  No, its perfectly logical. They have no idea where this guy got it from so there could be lots of cases. If they leave it a few weeks the cases blow up and then you have an Australia-style situation. Think of when Sars came out and they were checking people on planes etc. They didn't go 'Oh we may as well wait until there's thousands of cases', they went in early... and succeeded.
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  57.  @eggy1962  Yup. The funny thing is TSMC is probably the most state of the art semiconductor fab company around & of course they're Taiwanese. If was breaks out their facilities will be flattened by the end of the first day.
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  58. So the Tories have lost two by-elections in a few weeks. There may be a bit of a message there for Boris, but he won't listen and will just crank up the clickbaity culture war stuff in his media outlets.
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  59. That's what happens when you vote Tory. They don't care, they have Bupa.
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  60. What hysteria? Everything 'project fear' said would happen is happening.
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  61. Gee, do you not think the native people may be a bit angry about all the dead kids they keep digging up?
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  62. Was funny reading that Nasa has to spend a quarter of a million dollars making a radiation-hardened version of an old PowerPC chip to run their mars rover. Are our hypothetical Mars colonists going to get advanced genetic screening to remove those who are likely to develop radiation-induced cancers or other diseases (ocular degeneration for example)? Yep, Musk doesn't think radiation will be a big deal but y'know, its going to be a big deal.
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  63. You want the military to have a coup against the most successful democratic leader in the world? Blimey, what's wrong with everyone?
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  64. Yep, this was pointed out at the time. There's no 'free market' with utilities as they're a strategic essential (like the Army, say) & actual competition doesn't really exist. So they created a fake market where pen pushers resold power and the results were predictable.
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  65. Right, now try telling that to wealthy Tory voters who don't want any frakking/wind turbines/panels/nuclear near their hices for fear of property prices dropping.
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  66. Imagine voting for Boris who has literally messed everything up then sneering at Corbyn. Who if you recall was against the Iraq war when all the Tories were flag waving (ditto the Blairites).
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  67. Very good. Indeed our MPs should be able to do their jobs with no threats of violence. Now can we do the same for doctors, nurses, shop workers and the thousands of women who get raped every year? Can we let them live their lives with some manner of security?
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  68. Praise is definitely due for the police and emergency services who had to handle this nightmare. Much respect.
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  69.  @apepper4047  And Bezos makes tons of cash from his CIA cloud contracts.
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  70. Boris doesn't care about anyone.
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  71. Or a pompous blowhard who knows nothing about the subject he's ranting about?
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  72.  @PatFleck  So how do you ignore the EU and not Europe? Your brain is definitely scrambled mate.
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  73. No we don't. Remember 1939-45? Yeah, no more of that please.
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  74. Hodges should be ashamed of himself with his piece yesterday. All the 'Boo hoo the lefties are being nasty to us' stuff came across as incredibly insincere, manipulative and dishonest. Plus the same Dan wrote a piece a while back 'Labour Must Kill Vampire Jezza' then when pulled up on it claimed he had nothing to do with the headline...
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  75. "Jordan, how do you get your profound insights into women?" "Well I do lots of research." "Like?" "Like what?" "What research do you do?" "Well, I, ummm, listen to Bill Hicks song 'Chicks Dig Jerks' every night." "Right."
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  76. Tax the rich, including all the rich in India, China etc. Spend the money helping the kids. Easy.
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  77. Don't be a muppet. No one was even using the term 'woke' in Britain in 2019. The 'anti-woke' stories appeared just after Boris was elected. They are fodder to keep the populace angry which Boris wrecks everything.
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  78. Is the camera terrible, or has Ryder recently been staring into a nuclear explosion?
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  79. Dunno. How much cash have dark money billionaires slipped to the British media and z-grade celebrity covidiots?
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  80. Are you his mum? He used to lead the Tory party. He was useless. His big achievement was austerity and killing poor people.
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  81. GB News are weirdly milking this tragedy. Several dozen videos posted in a few hours, none of which have much in the way of new information. Is this just clickbaitery or are they trying to bury the other story of the day about the dodgy test company?
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  82. Simple question: If Colin annoyed a person and they slapped him round the head in public, would that be acceptable behaviour? If your answer is no, then its not acceptable to abuse an animal.
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  83.  sphaget   And yet in Britain (and increasingly in America) the white working-classes are doing worse at education - even when they're not in a diverse school environment. Plus diversity has little to do with it anyway as white middle-class kids do well even if they're in schools with a large number of different ethnicities. Effectively the Conservatives here and the US are throwing their own white voters to the dogs to keep the profits flowing. Dumb-down the population, make them angry via social media - then act all surprised Pikachu when things go wrong.
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  84. Change in weather, international travel shifting people around. You know, like when we have a 'flu season' and countries all get the flu at the same time.
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  85. Boris lies constantly. Pretending otherwise is delusional.
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  86. French nuclear tech is very good. Please learn about a subject before you rattle on like a tabloid headline generator.
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  87. Covid is still here and thousands are being infected every day. Grow up. I don't recall this sort of whining over the regular reporting of breast cancer or heart problems, but with covid everyone is suddenly acting like stroppy toddlers.
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  88. You sound exactly like the bot guy above you using the same language. Weird that.
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  89. Yep, has been a thing for many years. My favourite was the Daedalus project, where a group of British scientists/engineers tried to design an actual interstellar probe. Their concept vehicle was super-impressive, but relied on technologies that didn't exist in the 1970s (fusion, proper AI etc.) and sadly still don't exist in a workable manner in 2021, although the designers thought they would. Some details and mock-up pics here - is a glorious piece of retro design madness: https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/Daedalus.html
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  90. They're not intellects, they're tiresome propagandists who say the same thing every time and think they know better than actual medical doctors.
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  91.  @garystevenson1193  But the consequences will be long lasting and destroy the lives of many thousands of people? We should accept economic dislocation?
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  92.  @wendyslittleprogram3984  Brexit has caused most of those problems. Is harder to live & work in Europe. There's a shortage of drivers because so many were from Europe. Erasmus is gone replaced with a naff version with fewer benefits. Plus the gov were known to be idiots before they were voted in. Even Boris's own former Conservative newspaper boss said Boris was useless. Meanwhile Michael Gove was last seen coked-up at a rave in Aberdeen. Jeez. Not really any empty shelves in Europe at the moment, either.
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  93. Plus all this talking about him takes everyone's attention off Andy Pandy and his not-so-legal (alleged) hobbies.
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  94.  @jasonmw1471  Antivaxxers are weird. I mean what possesses you to sit there reading Facebook conspiracy drivel and believing every word of it? You really think governments are going to wipe out their populations with a vaccine when they could have just let the Rona do it instead? If it helps, there's a subreddit called the hermaincainaward - go look at how many unvaccinated types have been nuked by the Rona. They believed conspiracies and... well...
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  95. Tories have been deliberately running it down, there's no question about that.
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  96. You all seem to forget Britain also covered up rapey priests, rapey private school teachers, rapey other teachers, rapey sports coaches, rapey TV presenters, an (alleged) rapey MP and of course a semi-noncey leading randy Royal. Odd you guys focus on the one not-white group and forget all the others. As a leftist I think they should all be in jail for decades. Can't we agree on this one thing? Lock up rapists and nonces so they can't rape again?
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  97.  @girlgirl4548  Mate house prices are rocketing and so are rents. The state has to subsidise the rents of millions of working people. If you pay proper wages then no need for subsidies. Do you understand basic economics or don't they teach that at Libertarian clown school?
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  98. Employers don't just use immigration to keep wages down. They: a) Destroyed unions b) Can hire students working to 'get experience' c) Can hire 'under the table' cash only etc. d) Can farm out work to other countries e) Can get free or cheap staff as 'trainees' then bin them after the gov grants stop f) They also pretend there's more jobs going than there actually are, this plays into the narrative of 'there's loads of jobs, stop scrounging' but in reality if there was a real large-scale labour shortage we'd be seeing wages rise accordingly... which we don't. So either supply and demand doesn't work (It does) or the employers are not being truthful.
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  99. Is Dan really trying to make us feel sorry for Hollywood actors being laid off due to covid? Bet Dan doesn't support the £20 Universal Credit top up, though.
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  100. I think you'll know it if the Chinese invade Dover, mate...
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  101. BTW, the Iea lot are another one of those 'free market think tanks' that push policies for the ultra-rich while pretending to be 'fair and balanced'. Just ask where they get their funding from and you'll draw an instant blank...
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  102. That's because you believe conspiracy drivel off the Internet and think whatever you're told to by Facebook propaganda.
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  103. And in the classic era of cinema we had superstars like Fred Astaire dancing away and manly icon Tony Curtis's biggest role was when he dressed up as a woman to impress Marilyn Monroe.
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  104. All the fans, or just the ones who believe fascist tabloid drivel?
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  105. Imagine me as a child, being obsessed by Battlestar Galactica with roguish womaniser Starbuck and the super-cool black Boomer. Then they rebooted it and changed Starbuck into a pretty blonde girl and Boomer into a gorgeous Asian lass. I was so confused and now run my own drugs cartel and mercenary army. (sarcasm just in case you bot types can't understand it).
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  106. Is that when we all used to die of TB, Cholera, Smallpox, Polio and whooping cough?
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  107. A fake Christian meets a fake patriot while both pretend to fake drink like the working-class people they despise.
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  108. Social media and billionaires funding a culture war.
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  109. Apropos of your username, I was in my local supermarket a few years ago and a dad came in with his kids. The little girl was wearing a Disney Princess-type costume, the boy (I assume was a boy) was dressed up in a full Darth Vader suit. Hilarious seeing a 4ft tall Dark Lord of Sith running round the fruit counter and oddly despite wearing a mask the kid didn't drop dead of oxygen starvation.
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  110. Mate you voted for a Tory government who killed more British people via their covid disaster than the Blitz.
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  111.  @jamesreilly2105  Its about people being idiots and believing right-wing culture war drivel.
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  112. Shapiro really is a malign imp, he can't even buy a piece of wood without looking like an idiot.
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  113. That's actually not true. Plenty of vaccines are not 100% - such as the flu vaccine.
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  114. Your own government's Yellowhammer documents told you what would happen. You were told by the business community things would go like that - and what did Boris allegedly say - 'F*** business'.
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  115. In the future there will be a new swear. Kids will shout at their mates 'Don't Brexit this up, man!' while their parents discuss whether that nights dinner will include some meat. Then the parents will hope the cat doesn't Brexit its chances of catching a rat to provide the meat. Bit different to the world of self-driving cars and robots the Brexit types promised but hey ho, whatever.
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  116. This channel is run by Brexiteers. Do you think they're going to be honest?
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  117. No it doesn't. You get less than half the minimum wage in UC, is impossible to live long term on that. But sure, boot-lick the rich and let the poor rot. Is the Tory way.
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  118. Dan, you really better hope and pray HM hasn't got the Rona. All your pro-covid whining will haunt you forever.
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  119. I know, you have to have a 'passport' to leave the country! And you also have to get a license off the government to drive a car! And a license to sell beer, and a license to drive a big lorry or fly a plane or work as a doctor. When will this tyranny end!!!!
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  120. So you're ignorant if you understand science but not ignorant if you take advice from Farage? Is that right?
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  121. She's done a brilliant job, unlike the blancmange in a suit running the UK.
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  122. Nige is a bit obsessed. Along with Piers Morgan, Wooten and the Daily Mail. It must be painful being so triggered by the delivery girl from Horrible Bosses.
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  123. Yet we keep seeing supposedly well-educated Conservatives utter the most inane, stupid nonsense on TV all the time. If they're an example of the successful private sector then uh-oh...
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  124. We give young kids Rubella shots because they are more likely to endanger pregnant women than themselves. Same principle and we've done that for decades.
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  125. Its not their fault Britain can't stick to treaties it signs.
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  126. What's worrying me is when he starts doing air advertisements. You'll be sitting outside in the garden, look up into the sky and Starlink is flashing 'Buy Nike!' at you. He's already shown a complete lack of concern for astronomers. If someone offers him enough cash the firmament will become a billboard with this thing.
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  127. While quite an amusing moment, being honest that you're a simpleton who has no Internet literacy despite being a journalist for decades is a bit of a fail.
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  128.  @parati1309  Both of which were satirising bigotry and often got quite political.
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  129. Do you mean Eastenders when it was proper good? Eastenders with the gay lads, the gangsters, the rapist landlord and the other landlord who knocked up a 16 year old girl?
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  130. Future students will be studying these videos as a showcase of why the study of acoustics is important.
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  131. They're refugees from a bad situation we made worse. Many helped and looked after our troops. We owe them.
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  132. Meanwhile Boris's idiocy has killed more people than the Blitz and he couldn't be bothered with our people in Afghanistan because he was on holiday (had to be shamed into coming back). Arden is awesome in comparison.
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  133. Whereas in the 1950s you could get stabbed by a Teddy Boy or beat to death by the Krays... who were all white, btw.
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  134. "We don’t need to have endless conversations " - but if that was the case Mercy, what would GB news fill its airtime with? Harry & Meghan?
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  135. Duncan 'kill the poor' Smith? Duncan 'Austerity is great' Smith? Duncan 'Why don't we charge poor people a bedroom tax' Smith? That guy? That fucking guy? You think he's sensible? Are your brains scrambled on meth or something?
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  136. Also study politics or English literature at Oxford then spend you career writing articles about the 'mickey mouse degrees' those nasty working-class people do.
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  137. He killed thousands of Britons with austerity. If we started a war with China with this sociopath running the show we'd be done for in an hour.
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  138.  @gordonpotter8372  If it helps, I think white youngsters aren't having so many kids now because of the price of university & housing & giant amounts of stress & a government that hates them. Funnily enough this is also true of many immigrant families who aren't having as many kids as their parents, either. Get a decent government, stabilise the economy and the population will be replicating like bunnies.
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  139. To be fair Tory voters did sell us out to a bunch of fascists who were working on behalf of billionaires and Russia, so, as they say on the Internet 'own your shit'.
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  140. Local high streets have been falling apart for years - principally thanks to cheap online and giant chain stores. Do we shut down Tesco to help them out, or find another solution?
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  141. Boris bet the farm on Trump being re-elected. Rookie mistake that will cost him massively.
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  142.  @DNAOrion  Its a plane his supporters paid for and he's already going to evacuate his staff. The animals can go in the cargo hold.
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  143. He's attacking the NHS, whining about masks, doesn't like vaccines... he seems to be pro-corona, i.e. wanting to happily kill off British people for freedum.
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  144.  @unhingedbracket121  So why are there less beds then? Why did the Tories promise £350 million a week extra they never gave? How much of that funding is going to Tory pal's companies to provide track n trace or overpriced tests? I'd wager most of that increase is from pandemic spending rather than being spent on primary care.
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  145.  @mlabmb  In the 1980s there was a game show on British TV called 'Trick or Treat'. Was co-presented by Julian Clary, who is a very camp gay comedian who always wore make-up on screen and specialised in smutty double-entendre jokes. His co-presenter was a straight male DJ but Clary used to get the most fan mail off straight women. He'd even get teenage girls sending him letters asking if they could try and 'convert' him to straight. 😆
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  146. Threatening to hang nurses is indeed news and the entire country is disgusted by every last one of you.
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  147. And yet there was none of this when it was mainly elderly Tory voters getting their shot. Now its time for the mainly not Tory voters to get it all of a sudden we have a problem...
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  148.  @andrewoliver8930  Am sure most of these are foreigners posting talking points. They appear to have zero knowledge of Britain.
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  149. Kill thousands and have the King intervene before it got worse?
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  150. ...like a hole in the head.
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  151.  @squidgy6930  The argument is simple, we can have better wages and we can stop looking down on people for being 'low skilled'. Remember the whole truck driver/care worker shortage thing and how people on here said they need to pay more? Well...
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  152. So we've had several stories about this in one night but hang on a sec... " a survey found 'Gen-Z' fear and mistrust those who disagree with them." A survey. Is it like those surveys that tell us everyone wants to be a Reality TV star, or that Greggs is the best shop ever, or that Princess Di was the third greatest person in the history of Britain? Shouldn't journalists be ashamed they're creating clickbait over something so ephemeral?
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  153. Translation: "I am a liar"* *there are people who can't wear masks. That does not include Karen at Waitrose who says they cause her anxiety.
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  154. He was better than the criminal orange antichrist that came before.
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  155. Yes, the bubble head from 'saveourstatues' knows more about covid than a professor of medicine. Give me strength.
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  156. Remember when those leftists spent years explaining the very same point and were laughed at? Remember at how in the past Conservatives thought the same and that's why you had Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt cracking down on giant super-corporations over a century ago?
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  157. Every black movement gets called Marxist, its been a thing for a century. Black people know this. White people who aren't brainwashed by tabloid idiots know this. That's why they'll keep doing it. If they did another gesture it'd be called Marxist, too.
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  158. Quick note to Alex: As your channel has pushed race-baiting endlessly since your inception then don't be surprised to see the commenters here frothing at the thought of providing asylum to terrorised peoples.
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  159. Needs him for what? Clearly not medical advice.
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  160.  @dantuber4738  No it isn't. This is Holocaust denial levels of idiocy now.
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  161. You're playing into their hands. Go look on Google trends - 'woke' was hardly used until Boris won the election in 2019 then all of a sudden the media was all 'woke this, woke that'... was a manufactured culture war to cause outrage.
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  162. Slapping horses is disgusting.
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  163. Mate, absolutely no one cares about this. Its become some weird obsession with a coterie of right-wing addlebrains while the rest of us are more worried about a thousand more pressing stories.
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  164. Why does every commenter on here use the same fawning language to describe a guy who is an absolute dolt?
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  165. The truth is simple - the Tories are going to let the Rona spread and cull a chunk of the population by next year. They don't care and are using celebrity influencers (like Oliver) to make it palatable.
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  166. Or maybe they noticed that Sky News Aus has just been banned for Youtube for misinformation and their lawyers think the same will happen with them. Can't see Neil Oliver's recent video on here, for example?...
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  167. Great, self-hating white people. Bloody hell.
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  168. Are we okay with cancel culture now?
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  169.  @slightlyevil.  Funnily enough in the US every time a civil rights group popped up they were accused of being Marxists or Communists. Is a common thing in the US for extremists to attack anyone who wants a better life by saying they were 'Reds' - even poor old Reverend King was called that. And now in Britain the right-wing press is saying everyone they don't like is a communist. Plus ca change. Be nice if the British 'Patriots' parroting this drivel actually had read some history, but noooo.
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  170. Ummm, what do you think Boris and Raab were up to this week? It wasn't reading intelligence briefings, that's for sure.
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  171.  @TheSkaffen  You can't train thousands of staff in a few months. Especially considering the NHS lost hundreds during the pandemic, many of whom were experienced doctors.
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  172. Meanwhile in Britain Boris has to get the army in to drive lorries and help the overloaded ambulance service because he's nuked the economy with his stupid policies. By comparison NZ is doing rather well. So well in fact that Britain is begging them for a trade deal.
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  173. He clearly hasn't learnt much from history.
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  174. People are idiots doing that. Absolutely no need for the queues at petrol stations today. Just silly behaviour.
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  175. Europe is a gigantic economy that's 20 odd miles away from Britain. Like it or not we're going to be economically entwined with them forever.
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  176. Suicide Island is more apt.
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  177. No it won't. We never paid vast increases in prices when the minimum wage came in.
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  178. Meanwhile you're watching a news channel full of millionaires who live in big houses. Are they also not the 'elite'?
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  179. Weird how Pat isn't very annoyed by Boris and Raab going on holiday. I was whatsapping my mate well over a week ago remarking on the astonishing speed of the Taliban's advance and wondering how it was happening and who was supporting them (as happened with ISIS)... Now, if I as a jolly internet commenter was aware of what's going on, am pretty sure Boris would have had a stack of classified intelligence the size of a telephone book and generals telling him how bad things were... yet apparently he didn't take ANY NOTICE to it.
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  180.  Paddy Ulsterman  It wasn't a trap, it was an agreement the UK signed up to. No sense in moaning afterwards. We have lots of £1000 an hour legal specialists who can read the fine print, so why didn't they?
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  181. Good luck with that. It would take over a decade easily to move all those factories back and train the engineers to run them. Can you go without electronics for a decade?
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  182.  @susysamalex  Double-jabbed dying much less and many fewer in hospital. See also: the US and the number of anti-vax conservatives biting the big one after getting the Rona.
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  183. Or perhaps politicians should choose their words wisely. After 18 months of worldwide horror and a catastrophic death toll in the UK, using the word 'cower' was not appropriate. Imagine Churchill said 'Don't cower from the Germans, run and stick your lights on, is okay if a few of you get bombed, you're probably old anyway...'
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  184. Which in turn caused more homelessness and increased property prices, so overall the only ones who benefited were the rich.
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  185. Oh dear, dear me.
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  186. Why, he's a sociopath?
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  187. @Mark and Eileen And what do you do when the Chinese and Indian middle class keep buying petrol cars and the supply of liquid fuel hits limits so the price of said liquid fuel explodes?
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  188. Well he's clearly a bit confused about history if he thinks his granddad fought in the war so Neil could be a disease spreader and front man on a fascist TV channel.
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  189. Was reported a few weeks ago in Britain that the biggest sufferers from Long Covid are healthcare workers followed by... teachers. While Conservatives are being smug about 'covid doesn't kill that many kids' they completely forget that it spreads to adults the kids are close to. In the past we understood this hence the likes of the Rubella vaccine, but now, not so much.
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  190. We're not melting down, we're groaning at the sub-par 1984 style drivel on here.
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  191. I liked the space Hyperloop when they had it on Space: 1999 in the 1970s. 😆
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  192.  @alpharajan  Vaccines are currently working okay against it. Letting it spread won't work if you get different variants as natural immunity won't hold. I mean how many colds and flu have you had in your life?
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  193.  @joejoe7702  'Embarassing yourself' - then you tell me PCR tests are useless (they're not). No Britain didn't say it would tolerate 750,000 dead before locking down, either. Aus and NZ will vaccinate - hence immunity at better levels than the natural equivalent. Please stop getting your information from Facebook memes and anti-lockdown goblins.
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  194.  @anthonydowling3356  Have fun when you overdose on zinc, mate.... or deplete your copper levels... or get kidney stones from too much Vit D in pill form....
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  195. Yes it must be terrible having freedom and not being sick with the Rona.
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  196.  @colincharlton9339  Yes, like our own fascists.
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  197.  @bongeyedbill9355  The guy who did this was apparently the son of a foreign government official. Pretty sure we don't deport foreign government officials on the off-chance their kids might be psychopaths.
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  198. Oh look, Nige is moaning about immigrants. What a surprising turn of events!
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  199. You think Sky owned by Rupert Murdoch and the BBC who suck up to Boris are somehow in cahoots to conspire against poor Brexiteers?
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  200. Irony time: In the 1980s mainstream comedy was full of Tory-supporting comics and their stuff was seen as horribly dated by the kids. Thus rose Alternative Comedy. At the time the press were railing against 'unfunny lefty comedians' seemingly with no understanding that a) A lot of the alt-comics weren't that lefty (Rowan Atkinson for example) and b) Rik Mayall was considerably funnier than Tarby etc. Now those kids have grown into miserable boomers and are on the Internet pretending proper comedy is all the stuff they loathed as teenagers. The circle of life continues...
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  201. Yep, key workers keep the country running. Remember in the pandemic when your local supermarket workers were doing their jobs while 'Sir' Alan Sugar was sitting in his mansion in Florida? Then when covid dropped in the summer 'Sir' Alan jetted back and demanded everyone go back to the office now? If 'Sir' Alan and his ilk were all zapped by Thanos the rest of the country would shrug and keep doing exactly the same. If the key workers went we'd be in the middle-ages in three months.
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  202.  @graemebarriball303  Don't forget tabloid columnists. The most overpaid job imaginable. They sit round reading the DM or Express, pick out a headline then write 500 words about 'Down with this sort of thing' which is then turned into proper English by a subeditor... and they get a couple of hundred grand for that.
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  203. If Annabel had been around in the 70s would she be arguing employers can't pay men the same as women? Because that was being argued then but I bet Annabel has benefited from those laws and doesn't believe she's worth less than a man.
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  204.  @MetalMinxtress  Its not sucking off the taxpayer, its getting tax back you pay out. Think of it this way, if you paid house insurance and got burgled, would you be a scrounger if you make a claim? No. Why? Because you've paid in, your part of the deal is done, their part is to pay you out.
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  205. Dunno if can post links but here's what the British were up to in the 1930s. Longer than Musks tunnel, went underwater, still working today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxpzRb5-60
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  206.  @justintrollope7544  Masks have been used for decades. I've never read anywhere about doctors all dropping dead from Mask-mange or Intel having to shut down a plant because their mask-wearing engineers snuffed it. Really you people are trying to create your own reality of bullshit. Its incredibly irritating to listen to you drone on with the same nonsense every day.
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  207. Can someone give a list of those laws that need scrapping? Because last time I checked things like safety rules, laws on clean water and laws on working time were all pretty useful.
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  208.  @34bally  Have you considered how many kids will get long covid or inflammatory disorder or organ damage? Your kids may be fine, others... not so much.
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  209. Maybe if conservative white people didn't spend all their time saying racism wasn't real then we wouldn't need this stuff? Maybe the behaviour of conservatives shows why the kneeling gesture is a thing?
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  210. Yeah, like zero Sars was impossible, too... oh, that's right, there hasn't been an outbreak of Sars in years.
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  211. Oh I dunno, a giant pandemic that's wiped out millions is a pretty big warning for us to buck up our ideas.
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  212. You mean Texas that forgot to weather proof their power infrastructure so it shut down in the cold and was recently failing in the heat, too.
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  213. Tony 'Climate change isn't happening, I have no idea where all these droughts and mice plagues are coming from' Abbot?
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  214. And Disney workers. Unless they believe there's real 6ft tall cartoon mice running round Florida?
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  215. @Lachry Matory I think you'd know if one of them happened as well. A small parade of refugees is not an invasion. Again, wait a few years for climate collapse to kick in, then you'll see what an invasion looks like...
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  216. Back in the day people in Britain used to fight and kill each other over being protestant or catholic. Everyone forgets this little bit of our history which only lasted... hundreds of years.
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  217. Yep, much like all those 4chan nazis with 'issues' would be first up against the wall and shot if there was an actual fascist takeover.
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  218. Because we had a giant world war that defeated fascism and we don't want fascism to come back so now we're a bit more tolerant of people from other races & religions?
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  219.  @fishcfc  Do you understand that if people don't earn enough to live then the economy suffers? Can you not get this simple fact into your libertarian-addled brain?
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  220. He won't because while he has a small percentage of gammons worshipping him, the rest of the populace have seen through his grift and know he's a conman.
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  221. Last year we were failing everyone so it evens out in the end.
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  222. Javid is a Ayn Rand fan. He'll do the 'freedom' thing, then the economy will tank, then he'll say its because of socialism and if only we could privatise that nasty NHS thing.... These scumbags are as easy to read as a Ladybird book.
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  223. If we were a proper society we wouldn't have homeless people - everybody would have a place and those with mental health problems would get treatment. Homelessness is a sign of political failure.
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  224. Plus he has almost the entire press behind him in the most sycophantic way. Is all very banana republic.
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  225. Isn't English DNA more a mix of French, Nordic, German, Southern European and a few others?...
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  226. Does that include Donnie who banged a porn star while his wife was pregnant? The same Donnie who rarely paid his bills? The same patriotic Donnie who got down on his knees and fellated Putin (metaphorically) and oversaw a vast rise of far-right violence in his own country?
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  227. Alex forgets that a lot of poor people cannot afford to go abroad and if they have a holiday it'll be a few days at Pontins or something using vouchers. Those who live in a wealthy bubble rarely understand what it's like to be poor.
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  228. Grow up. Almost every person in this country over the age of 40 still has their BCG scar. You know what they don't have? TB. Imagine you muppets were around in the 40s - "Oh no, the BCG is child abuse, we should let healthy kids get consumption, at least they won't be fat then'...
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  229. He was a war hero a few years ago and now we all hate him. Is funny how the Brits loathe those the media tells them to.
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  230. It's not sense if it involves a middle-aged bloke arguing that he should be allowed to spread a pandemic virus. He's also against masks but for some reason has a scarf surgically attached to his neck. What's that about?
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  231.  @stojmonster  So why is he scared of masks then? If he's happy to scarf up why it is an infringement of his liberty to have a face covering during a disease outbreak?
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  232. Is that the same faith where people ignore all his teachings and support hurting others? Whether it be pervy priests or lying politicians causing wars or just plain ol' 'Christians' who are happy to see others die.... religion has a bit of a problem, doesn't it?...
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  233. Which is what the Tories are doing. Have you heard the news today about the dodgy PCR company paid £120 million? Someone in government should be prosecuted for that.
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  234. She's given us far more facts than this channel has. She's pretty decent and knows her stuff.
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  235. You mean all those who voted for him, then later voted for Boris and are now moaning about how rubbish the Tory party is? The rest of us knew.
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  236.  @loopylucy4301  No they didn't. Stop being paranoid.
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  237. Narrator's voice: And Ronnie G with his fine British education did not realise his country was the result of numerous waves of immigration from the Romans, to the Vikings, to the French and more, foreigners who found Britain of the time to be 'primitive' and somewhat violent. Nor did he realise that his glorious language is a hybrid of several other European languages with cultural influences from many others. Ronnie was a bit racist. Don't be like Ronnie.
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  238.  @jdmking888  So apparently the guy complaining about foreign hordes is fine, but I'm what, too 'lefty' for being concerned about fascist fuckery?
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  239. OMG, just reading the news (proper news) and they've cancelled Guto!!! So the 'we hate cancel culture' channel has cancelled its own presenter!
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  240. Has Duncan Smith been reading Dragon Strike recently? Maybe he can read some Charles Dickens and not be such a shit towards his own people?
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  241.  @davidr4114  At the moment, yes. Previously in the year it spent several months as our number one killer.
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  242. Remember chuckling at that Simpsons 'weird nerds defending Elon Musk' meme but reading through space-related forums and the like, holy shit is that joke accurate.
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  243.  @tillbot8  You think taking away millions of people's rights to work in Europe, tanking trade and goods shortages was an achievement that benefits the working-class?
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  244.  @PoldarkGodzilla  He was arguing he should be able to spread covid the other week. He's an absolute dolt.
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  245. Why, Harry has more hair (for now, anyway).
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  246. GravitX
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  247. He's talking nonsense tho. He's been saying the same thing for months despite the mounting death tolls. Is like he cares not for dead British people.
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  248. Pay attention o' bot poster. He was got rid of several days ago. GB News is now going to go more frothing crazy in order to try and boost its tiddly ratings.
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  249.  @TonionDuFromage  And dangerous. Imagine if someone went on telly telling people to eat rotten meat or not pay their taxes or to punch a policeman. They'd be drummed off the air instantly. But ol' Neil comes on and tells people they shouldn't take vaccines, or wear masks or do anything to stop Corona during a once in a century pandemic and apparently that's fine.....
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  250. Having a go at the NHS today, last week it was the RNLI, before that the BBC, before that the footy players. Does GBNews actually like anything that's British?
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  251.  @heatherkitchen1288  Stop being so dramatic. You do know that people like you whined about Smallpox shots or polio vaccinations and fortunately were ignored by the masses?
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  252. Had a casual glance at the muskspam group and came across the Penelope Scott Rat song. She's great, heh.
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  253.  @airzulu2733  And yet gov policy (corona, austerity) kills hundreds a week needlessly and no one seems too bothered. What's that about?
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  254. So tell me why Europe isn't having these issues? If its not Brexit then it must be incompetence and clearly the EU isn't as incompetent as the British.
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  255.  @anaseijas3923  Not nearly as bad as we are. There's obviously covid problems and supply chain disruption around the world but the issues in the UK are a unique result of being run by idiots.
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  256. Nah. More like mass collapse of the food system and immigration 100x greater than now. Can't say you weren't warned though.
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  257. If hypothetically you could build a lunar base and expand it over time then eventually you could manufacture rockets there. Be a lot easier to escape Moon gravity than Earth's so less fuel required for trips.
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  258. In theory yes, in practice you'd have to contend with lots of angry NIMBYs worried about their property prices and such reactors would never be allowed. They also fight against solar and wind power, by the way. Apparently house prices are worth more than a proper energy policy.
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  259. Yes people were told the Tories would do that. Brexit, make our own laws. Well they're not going to make laws for the good of the people are they? Nope, is for their chums with cash.
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  260. Yes, we bow to the man who gave the world Sonia.
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  261.  @davidbarlow350  Why? Its the usual rubbish right-wing conspiracy drivel.
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  262. Apart from those listed on the worldometers site which come from official government figures?
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  263. Doctors tend to in hospitals. Is their job.
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  264. They have the same few angry gammons who are in the media constantly complaining that they have no voice despite working in the media and being rich and making a living from churning out opinionated drivel rather than actual news. Is baffling anyone can fall for this nonsense.
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  265. Was gaming responsible for the world wars? Was Ghenghis Khan secretly a GTA obsessive? Did Napoleon make Josephine Wait while he did some Call of Duty?
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  266. There's also the issue CSS hints at with bringing children into the new world - the colony may want to have X women having Y babies but this is assuming the women are okay with that. Pretty sure you're not going to get many women doing a decade+ worth of training just so they can repeatedly get pregnant and be a medical experiment for their fertile years. Even on the off-chance they can give birth to healthy babies those women won't be able to enjoy many fun 'mom' moments with their families - all their lives will be hard, especially compared to the lifestyle a similarly high-achieving woman could take almost for granted on Earth.. In the vid we see a possible colony structure with lots of women and fewer men. Which appears to be a favourite ambition of Bond Villains and Jeffrey Epstein. In real-life the women are going to have a fair bit of power in the society and may not be fans of being brood mares for a rich sociopath.
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  267. So being in favour of vaccines makes you left wing? Do you people listen to your insane babblings????
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  268. Not listening to Talk radio helps, dude. Trust me, after an hour of these clowns I want to change my name to Eeyore.
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  269. Sadly that is increasingly describing white British culture and politics these days. Rape convictions almost non-existent, police murdering women, little protection for women and girls, sex offenders getting away with it... Would completely agree with stamping down on foreign perverts but don't think for one second this is entirely a foreign problem (Jimmy Savile? Rolf Harris? Fred West?)
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  270. I remember when Conservatives spent all their time whining about binge drinking and alcoholism. Now apparently we're not binge drinking enough...
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  271.  @bluepurgatory2927  He's not speaking the truth. He's a modern version of Oswald Moseley.
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  272. Good grief. This is barrel scraping. If the Lord Jesus was around today he'd take time out of his day to call Widdecombe a waste of space.
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  273. Lex Luthor really is a rubbish health secretary. Can we not have a doctor or someone who knows what they're talking about???
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  274.  @justintrollope7544  Meanwhile Florida has killed off 60 000 of its citizens.
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  275. I wish this bloke would say something funny. He's the most po-faced creature but apparently he's an amazing comedian or something.
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  276. Spoilers: Tons of conservatives are on SSRIs (mental illness is not political). And other drugs. Look at old Michael Gove today coked out of his head at a rave. Seriously, look it up.
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  277. You people get offended by the most stupid shit imaginable. Southgate has been a great manager - our most successful since 1966, but you're suggesting no Knighthood because the players kneeled for racial justice?
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  278. They actually did last year during the pandemic when they had to cancel their celebrations. I don't recall any kick-offs about it.
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  279.  @darrenwoodard1253  Musk has a very specific type, his wives fit in the same slim, pretty blonde mould - he's like the Rod Stewart of nerds. The IVF has been mentioned in various articles, not sure for the reason.
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  280.  @paulnewman9275  Mate, I care about all kids and am not going to write them off because they have health conditions. That's not paranoia, that's being a functional human.
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  281. Less pollution too and people can take time off when they choose rather than being on a clock. Not for everybody, but is clearly beneficial to many. Especially useful for parents who have to look after little kids. Instead of paying tons of cash for childcare and working for nothing, they can have the tot at home and with the cash saved give the kids a holiday or treats or whatever.
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  282. Us leftists have been telling you for years to tax them and this wouldn't have happened. Even Conservatives in the past understood how parasitic and destructive big business gets. But noooo... complain that anyone who wants to tax billionaires is a 'Marxist', then whine about how billionaires get away with murder.
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  283. Is funny how they keep things illegal until big business can make a few bob... Good stuff for the potheads and anyone who uses it for health reasons, but jeez, Britain is a country of massive hypocrites.
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  284. They won't house the homeless because house prices are more important. If we built enough houses and gave the homeless help with medical/mental health problems then a lot of shady landlords wouldn't be able to get away with charging massive rents & actual house prices would drop.
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  285.  @sam-dn9hr  How am I brainwashed when what I say is true? Logically the brainwashees are those getting all their information off sinister social media nonsense channels. Go read some science books for a few months. Talk to a scientist. It's make you feel better.
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  286. Hey Dan, do you remember when millions of healthy, young gay men died horrible deaths over the course of twenty+ years because of a virus? How come their immune system didn't take care of it? Please enlighten your viewers with your medical expertise on this conundrum.
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  287. Neil Oliver doing his Pro-Rona thing. Weird, as a historian you'd think he might know a bit about how disease spreading in the past changed the course of history. Absolute muppet.
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  288. Conservatives are quietly watching America burn, Germany get flooded, the various heatwaves and other disasters and the actual clever ones realise that this is going to basically finish off capitalism* unless they do something. *Insurance companies will collapse, riverfront property will be borderline worthless, mass movements of immigrants that dwarfs what we have now, more deaths from extreme weather and so on. Even the US military (hardly a leftist organisation) did research on this years ago and came to the same conclusion. The rich also know this - which is why they're either moving to New Zealand or buying up vast tracts of farmland.
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  289.  @grrinc  You know as well as I do the only settled science is mathematical proofs. All other science can be amended if new evidence appears or is falsified. But the current science on Covid is extremely good, as is the science on vaccine creation.
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  290. Trust me, his latest speech hasn't gone down well at all with the wider public.
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  291.  @EarthMagicBrno  And yet you're clearly wrong because there was a huge market in PPE for different jobs prior to covid. If it didn't work someone would have noticed.
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  292. Suppose the day after the add all those who died after 28 days. There's thousands of them, for a start.
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  293. People don't care about any of them, they're more worried about other problems. The press is the only one that cares because they provide ample opportunities for clickbait.
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  294. @Ocelot Whocametotea And to support the party of mass-infection and purges of peasants.
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  295. What do people want to hear? The news is supposed to be about things going on, not wish fulfilment.
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  296. Not really, is because they're a bunch of public schoolboys who believe they have the right to reign over us. They're backed up by a supine press who promotes their bad decisions thus leaving the population confused and bewildered. See: Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis for where this all came from.
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  297. While Boris is doing his best to kill or incapacitate anyone who would vote for him...
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  298. Or maybe they're Tory idiots who are trying to mass-infect the populace and many of us are not having any of their nonsense so taking notice to proper doctors?
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  299.  @johnf3885  Spain and France are full of Brits. Do they count as economic migrants, then? After all most of them go over, don't learn the language, live in a cultural bubble and export some nasty politics.
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  300. Tory party have always been the party of the big state - 'law and order', expensive aristocracy, military power... the only 'freedom' they do is for their rich chums.
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  301. AIDS, cancer, hepatitis... for that matter things like kidney disease and diabetes hardly show symptoms until you get really sick. Ditto for heart problems. Did you think you owned the libs with that meme?
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  302.  @MotoFixation  Umm, so you don't spread it to other people? You know, like if you have a STD and think 'Oh well, I'm okay, I'll keep sleeping with loads of women, is their fault if they get sick'...
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  303. The rich have more money to invest. The poor need to buy food and pay their rent.
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  304. It takes some talent to annoy New Zealand, China and France all at the same time for different reasons. Has the UK decided WW3 will be cool because no one will talk about Brexit anymore?
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  305. So can we explain why so many are fat now yet the British population of the 70s had lots of sugary snacks, fried things in large amounts, ate lots of junk and exercise for most people consisted of sitting in front of the telly watching Dad's Army? Not many McDonalds around but everyone went the chippy. Oh, and let's not forget the chain-smoking too. Yet folks of that era looked considerably more healthy that 2021 types, albeit with worse dress sense. Maybe the weight gain isn't entirely due to sloth and gluttony and there's other factors.
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  306. Boris has killed 150,000 individuals through his useless covid policies. Do they count?
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  307. Young people won't watch this. They might if its factual and accurate, but its going to be like TalkRadio with middle-aged weebs going on about Greta and lefties.
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  308. So football players are supposed to be automatons who do nothing but play football because GB News viewers are offended at them campaigning against racism? Do I have that right????
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  309. He's a creepy weirdo.
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  310.  @stubones  It certainly isn't going to solve the problem. Especially as many of those foreign drivers remember what happened last Christmas with the Kent variant and being stuck in car parks with no toilets for days.
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  311. Is quite funny that Zuck is using a term taken from Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash while seemingly not noticing Snow Crash is about a future dystopia and features super-corporations running the world, a gig economy, bitcoin-like money and a worn-down populatio- ooohhh.
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  312.  @monsieurpoisson8163  Yep. My Uncle did national service in the 1950s, wound up in the Korean war but lived to tell the tale. It was abolished by the early 60s. Pretty much no one under the age of 75 (closer to 80 now) did national service in the UK. Of course lots volunteered to join the army but weren't made to by law.
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  313. To be fair we did that in the 80s, too when they were fighting the Russians. Go and Youtube Reagan meeting the Mujahadeen at the Whitehouse. Clarity: Yes I know there's different groups but suffice to say the Mujahadeen were jihadis helped by the ISI & Saudi (as well as the CIA), and so are the Taliban (sans the CIA now).
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  314. Yep, this has long been a thing. Every time unemployment rises the tabloids are full of stories about how British people are all lazy and won't take the jobs. They never ask why - for example if rural areas have high property prices and rents, is it possible to make a decent living doing farm labour and be able to live? Not really. In the past farm labourers could afford to rent a little cottage (or even buy), now those cottages are sold to out of towners for half a million quid. This is also the reason why so many of the young people from rural areas disappear to the big cities as soon as they're able.
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  315. Can we teach about class discrimination then? Like how British society is ruled by a few rich people who use the press to tell us we're in a meritocracy? Or is that extremism as well?
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  316. He's been paid to lie. I bet Dan is no stranger to the ol' Class As.
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  317. Covering stuff up isn't sense.
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  318. Well as the Tories were expecting a large win and have been smug about it for weeks, then is likely he took some.
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  319. We could just drive less and use public transport?
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  320.  @badgoogle9938  NZ have avoided the worst and done incredibly well. Britain hasn't. Arguing NZ should copy Britain or the US makes absolutely no sense. Again, if zero covid is unattainable then what happened to Sars?
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  321. Well not the clown presenting this show, unless you want a fifth columnist as PM.
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  322. Do you usually run away scared from the news?
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  323. Culture war bollocks to keep the 'peasants' angry. We could have a discussion on how trade has been affected but is easier to scream about the forrins screwing us over.
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  324. This is correct, and has been confirmed by many business leaders - who are not exactly known for being left-wingers. Farage is trying his hardest to deflect from the disaster he fomented.
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  325. When was the last time you were on a train? Likes of the underground is packed like sardines. And yes, the pub rules are stupid but £££££.
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  326. Like herpes.
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  327. Tory voters realise now Boris is a con man. Despite people like his own conservative Newspaper editor boss telling them how useless he was years ago. Tory voters = not too sharp.
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  328. Yep, is the same with all reality shows. I used to chuckle at Undercover Boss where no one got suspicious the 'new guy' wearing a bad wig was being followed around by a camera crew. The argument was they told the staff the camera crew were 'filming a documentary about work' but no one ever got suspicious or went into a rant on camera about how the CEO is a coke-addled waste of space...
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  329.  @adamgilbert2238  Not always - many science jobs are low-paid & its been well-known for years.
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  330.  @wimkop9597  Doesn't matter, they're viral diseases that were devastating and we got rid of. Funnily enough we also got rid of the original Sars which is a fast changing respiratory disease. That was nipped in the bud before it killed millions.
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  331.  @jasonmw1471  Yet its killed tons of under 50s, including super-fit body builder types.
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  332.  @CastrolHondaSP2  Why, because I don't believe conspiracy guff off the Internet? Because I'm not brainwashed by anti-lockdown groups funded by rich Tories who want the peasants to die so they can keep the bucks flowing in?
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  333.  @anthonydowling3356  Sweden has more deaths that other Nordic countries and had some restrictions. They've also been vaccinating a lot.
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  334. Farthing has made Boris & Raab look bad. The establishment will have their revenge.
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  335. So tell me why didn't that happen when the minimum wage came in? Or when the Tories increased the minimum wage?
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  336. The people funding the building? The public? The taxpayers who can't be bothered with dross like this and would rather the council sort things out and not flag wave.
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  337. No they don't. Only addle-brained Tories think that.
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  338. With Lady Whiteadder as a guest. Yikes.
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  339. Mrs Thatcher sold off state assets, used up the Scottish people's oil money and still had worse unemployment than when she came in (by far). She literally use other people's money for her own purposes. But apparently that's okay because she's a capitalist? Jeez, where did you lot go to school, the same place they teach Tellytubbies?
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  340. ' those that seek to divide especially for their own political vanity.' - that's the Tory party, mate. And the Tory press.
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  341. You forget about Mary Whitehouse. Know your history, kids.
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  342.  @MrAdrianOldfield  Please no.
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  343. That would be interesting, but we have a country of Nimbys who kick off about solar panels and wind turbines. Pretty sure they'll kick off even worse if someone wants to build a Thorium station a mile away from their country residence.
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  344. Re: Level 5 autonomy... the research with these cars looks impressive on the surface, but the question isn't 'can they drive a car safely across town on its own' but in order to work in the real-world, 'what happens when you get 10,000 level 5 cars on a motorway at 7am in a snowstorm' or similar poor weather? How well would the image-recognition algorithms cope with a California wild-fire red sky, for example? Could they tell the difference between a piece of plastic bag and a chunk of debris flying at you in a tornado? What about treacherous mountain roads covered in mist? It seems that every test we see is in idealised conditions and an actual real level 5 system is likely to need orders of magnitude better AI than we currently have. Even the robotaxi idea seems a bit silly - you'd need to record everything going on inside the car at all times otherwise you'd have horrendous problems with scam artists booking rides with stolen credit cards then doing unmentionable stuff in the car while its driving round. Normal cabbies have a hard enough time with puking drunks or fights or similar - imagine how bad things would get with no driver at all. Tesla robo-taxi inadvertently used as getaway car sort of thing.
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  345. Hate to point this out but smacking small kids is counter productive. Go look at any criminal, gangster or psycho talk about their childhood and they nearly always got smacked constantly. Think of it this way - in your life as an adult you'd expect to be disciplined if you messed something up. But if you made a mistake and your boss slapped you round the head, would you go 'Thank you very much, I shall behave now' or would you be on the phone to the police?
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  346. That would rule out most MPs then and journalists. Listening to their ignorance on science and basic economics they're clearly not bright.
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  347.  @paulbiggs5523  Yes I am aware of the story. I'm also bewildered that a Scottish person who doesn't believe in the right of the Scots people to self-determination does believe in his own right to spread a deadly disease. As for freedoms being eroded, well us leftists have been talking about that for years - and got laughed at. So, y'know...
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  348. Really? This channel is the worst for propaganda I've ever seen on British TV.
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  349.  @JPnielsen  Kill thousands and lie about how many are dead?
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  350. Mate, you can't run over people who are protesting. Its not actually legal and to normalise this behaviour is absolute madness.
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  351. He clearly isn't tho. If he was that angry about protesters he'd be denouncing the anti-lockdown crowd who also blocked roads and generally made a nuisance of themselves while spreading a deadly virus.
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  352. Oh dear, another one. Let's do the maths. If the PCR test gives, say, 1% false positive cases then NZ would have had 25,000 cases (having done 2.5 million tests). They've had 2900. So either NZ can use PCR tests properly and no one else can, or you need to go back to school and lay off the social media drivel.
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  353.  @alexandermcintosh2046  There's just over 5000 currently in hospital and we've averaging 40-100 deaths from it a day. This is beside all the people who end up with long covid. We've lost over 130,000 British people from this thing since last Feb. Its a catastrophe whichever way you look at it. I know you guys are trying your hardest to play this thing down, but all you're doing is looking foolish and irritating everyone.
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  354. None. But covid will.
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  355. Bit confused here. Mercy is from Kenya and seems to have assimilated into Britain very well. So logically we should apply the same principle to other immigrants?
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  356. 'Independent' = characters working for shady right-wing foundations who've been caught numerous times making shit up. I remember those same people telling us we had herd immunity in the UK by last April (lol) or that we wouldn't have a second wave (we did) or that the Rona only kills 1 in 1000 people it infects (is more like 1 in 100). They're con merchants and lying for money & ideology. Reprehensible.
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  357.  @elkpaz560  It wasn't a peaceful protest. It was an insurrection attempt. Simple as that, and that's how its going to be remembered in the history books. Anyone defending the Orange Antichrist will also be remembered in the history books - and not fondly.
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  358.  @jpw6893  Cool, examples. Can def see the issue with some of those. But food labelling is something to Tories have been trying to make worse for ages, so not entirely sure they'll help much there.
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  359.  @jpw6893  Yeah but a lot of that stuff is companies covering themselves law-wise concerning allergens and the like. We've had five years, how long are they going to take?
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  360. Meanwhile we're mass-infecting children and thousands are sick.
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  361. Well it should have been none as they get a free license but uh-oh, the Tories got rid of that, didn't they?....
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  362. Remember hearing a podcast with Kim Stanley Robinson a year or so ago. Robinson was saying that colonising/terraforming Mars was going to be a more complex task than he wrote about in his classic Mars Trilogy novels. Considering his books have miraculous technology to push along the narrative - space elevators, DNA fixing life-extension, nuclear rockets - and his did a huge amount of research prior to writing then the dude is probably correct, and Musk wrong.
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  363. Call it Chanobyl.
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  364. You don't sound like a proper nurse. The one's I've met were more stressed about people dying from covid.
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  365. @Myth Tree No they didn't have natural immunity. It was killing over 10% of those infected. You're not a Mike Yeadon acolyte are you? His 'some coronaviruses are colds therefore if you've ever had a cold you're immune' nonsense was so staggering that even his former colleagues denounced him for being an idiot.
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  366.  @stuartjones2812  Spoilers: Covid is dangerous.
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  367.  @GloryCarrier22  Four million dead. At least. It's not exactly a sore foot is it?
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  368. Not covid, but is chainsmoking. There's some sort of a lesson there?
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  369. Thank you Donald Trump. Now if you'd like to explain to the viewers how one builds a wall hundreds of miles long and blocks off British beaches which actually stops immigrants than we'd like to hear it. Spoilers: There are things called 'planes' which people can fly in on. There's also a thing called a 'coast' which is thousands of miles long and can't all be walled off.
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  370. The longer we delay, the higher the costs will be. Brainlets like Pat get paid money to delay things and sow doubt in the population.
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  371. Better than the UK, tho.
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  372.  @stratfordbaby  'outside of the uk' - yeah, because proxy servers and VPNs aren't a thing in England?
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  373. Imagine arguing countries doing their best to protect their people are somehow bad while our own country that has the worst Covid death rate in Europe is somehow doing the right thing. Now that is shameful.
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  374. Better than Boris, tho.
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  375. Screwed over by white aristocrats. BUT YOU'RE STILL VOTING FOR THEM. Jesus.
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  376. So how much impact do condoms have in the prevention of STDs? What percentage of disease is prevented? I bet you can't give me an exact number but every single doctor ever knows they're useful.
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  377.  @avenginglettuce  This is pretty accurate, except the Tories are covering their arses with all the culture war stuff. Which only goes so far until people get bored with it.
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  378. Because the people watching nearly all voted for his son and are trying to find someone else to blame for their poor voting choices.
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  379.  @RichardPhillips1066  The lifeboats have been doing the same job for 100+ years. Key's in the name 'LIFE'boat.
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  380. Are we still scared of dinghies but okay with 30k covid cases a day and a leader whose incompetence is award-winning?
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  381. So how many old people do you want to kill then? Because having unvaccinated carers is going to kill a whole ton of them over the winter...
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  382. And yet the pro-covid types were the ones telling people to stay at home, now the tables turn they've gone all stroppy...
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  383.  @terryquinn7347  So if we stop testing all those people in hospital with covid will not be sick anymore?
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  384.  @monsieurlewop  You mean the place where all those giant blockbusters are made? The place with vast numbers of tourists normally? New Zealand is an island - like Britain. It's not that remote from its neighbours thanks to planes and things. What they did we could have did. But we chose to grab the cash and cover up the mess.
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  385. No they won't. That'll be the disease-spreading antivaxxers. At which point the other 90+ % of the country will have had enough of them.
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  386. You were told what he was like before you voted for him.
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  387.  @mickeyblueeyes  Last time I checked he was a former marine and has spent a lot of time out there running his shelter. The plane will be filled with people and at least animals are kind of useful, unlike the posh car we had flown back the other day.
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  388.  @Pampskoen  Have massive respect for the Kiwis with this. You guys are doing the right thing and have a lot of support worldwide. Not on this channel as its basically conservative reactionary death cultists, but generally we respect what NZ is doing.
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  389. You're watching Charles Manson tell you he knows better than everyone else. All that's going to do is get more people killed.
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  390. The SpaceX technology is pretty cool, but doesn't seem a great deal different to what they were doing with the Delta Clipper in the 90s. Yep, the DC-X was scrapped after a blow-up, but damn it looked the part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IWIv2MKcyg
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  391. They learnt how to make money from exploiting things.
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  392. He's not. He's awful x infinity.
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  393. So if we stop pregnancy testing then no one will get pregnant?
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  394.  @HaggisMuncher-69-420  Yes, Hunter Biden is a drug-addled tart. We know this. Putin didn't respect Trump. Had you been paying attention the Russians leaked some files about how they'd profiled Trump pre-election and knew he was psychologically unstable and easy to manipulate.
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  395. Why, what happened last week? Did she run out of cocaine?
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  396.  @oswaldmosley4315  If they start with Veganuary, what is to stop them from destroying all our Months? Can we cope with Vegtober, Vegember, and - horrors - Vegapril?
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  397. Is this the same Prince Charles that has been speaking about the same issues (environment, architecture) for a good 30+ years? Why are you all offended now?
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  398. What sort of a galaxy brain do you have to think millionaire footballers are closet Marxists plotting against the country. Good grief.
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  399. No you're wrong. Labour introduced the minimum wage. Before that employers were happy to pay £2 and £3 an hour and got away with it. Yet once the law changed the employers mysteriously were able to pay more and not go bankrupt as they insisted would happen.
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  400.  @bearsagainstevil  4 million+ dead despite 21st century medicine. Pretty bad as pandemics go.
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  401.  @Cocogomez  I also love how the people who complain about the 'work shy' have the cushiest jobs. Perhaps we should send a few journalists down the pits or put them to work in a covid ward and see how they handle it...
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  402. They'll get fusion working before us. Which is going to be quite funny and ironic.
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  403. The Usbourne Book of the future from 1979 is always good to bring up as it features practically all of Musk's ideas (yes, there's a hyperloop in it). Can't find a copy online (used to be on archive.org), but here's a blog where the author mentions the book, scroll down to the graphic 'Rocket Troops of the Future'... yep, this is close to 100% identical to the concept in the video. https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2015/12/Ithacus_and_SUSTAIN.html Note the blog itself is from 2015 and goes into where the original idea came from that inspired the futurist art, and the whole sub-orbital military transporters concept. http://www.astronautix.com/i/ithacus.html Plus rocket troops - very cool. 😁
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  404. You're presently mass infecting children and will disable thousands of them. Do those kids not count?
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  405.  @krugerfuchs  Plus there's evidence of autism in history well before vaccines. What we used to see as 'eccentric' behaviour in the likes of Newton would likely to be classified as being on the spectrum these days.
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  406. No they're not. Stop making shit up.
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  407.  @Blonde_Somnambulist  No they're not. Stop making shit up. I've looked at the yellow card docs and they seem to be filled with unprocessed data - unless you're stupid enough to think the vaccine is causing teething problems in non-vaccinated toddlers or HIV or genetic diseases in adults.
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  408.  @Maharan169  Hmm, tad suspicious about an anti-vaxxer website. They might have a bit of an agenda and could be distorting data...
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  409. They have lots of experience of food queues and destitution, so at least have one advantage over Britain.
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  410. Imagine how confused history students will be about this era. "So there was this rich guy who sold cars and went to space and he convinced millions of people to buy an electronic currency that had a picture of a dog on it and was created as a joke to spoof the other electronic currencies which were all equally worthless?" "Yes, and is pronounced Doge". "The South Sea bubble was far easier to understand, and made more sense."
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  411. Help a guy out, so you have people on here rattling on about sticks n stones & lefty snowflakes and we should 'tell it like it is' so when a lefty person of working-class heritage 'tells it like it is' you're all suddenly deeply offended? Have I got that right?
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  412. Their parents chose Brexit and know nothing about international politics. They voted for Boris thinking he'd protect the NHS. They believe meme covid denialist drivel on Facebook. The kids aren't the problem. Their idiot parents are in many cases.
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  413. 'I see you're pregnant, don't drink' - that's not being nosy, that's being sensible. What a clot he is.
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  414. And you've ended up as a fan of GB News, thus proving the old Google algorithms do fry our brains.
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  415. Javid today used the word cowering to describe covid and said we must live with it. Javid is going to cull a ton of people and the likes of Neil will happily support that.
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  416.  @melmorrison1400  Oh dear. First of all there's been plenty of quarantines and restrictions for diseases going back centuries (i.e. Eyam in the 1600s). Secondly the 'average age' figure you use comes from the early days of the pandemic when it was killing people in care homes. Since then the age has dropped a lot. Or did you not read the story about the 42yr old fitness nut who died of it the other day?
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  417.  @timmo491  Am I drinking hallucinogenic coffee or something? You're arguing that Tory Boomers who voted for Boris weren't the same who voted for Thatcher and Major? You're also arguing Boris is doing a good job? Do you pour Brawndo on your houseplants?
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  418. 'We can't do this forever' - we wouldn't have to if the government weren't morons who have spent 18 months ignoring basic science then instructing their friends in the press to spew out misinformation. We're going to have a bad winter wave of this if they don't get a grip starting now, so don't think you'll be moving on any time soon.
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  419. Because its obvious what happens during a pandemic. Go look at the 2011 film Contagion.
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  420. Corvids are more intelligent and honest than the average GB news presenter.
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  421. This is true and we have to have a debate on how we sort these problems. The idea that the poor should live like serfs while the rich have bunkers in New Zealand and village-sized yachts is absurd and there will be a massive reckoning if we don't fix things.
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  422. No it isn't. Stop talking like a Trumpist.
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  423. Biden better than Trump. Biden hasn't been impeached twice and he's also trying his best to sort the covid situation unlike the orange antichrist who thought it would only kill the libs.
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  424.  @Lc-is8vn  Thus speaks the words of someone who recently got their GCSE in Moron studies.
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  425.  @andymac345  It was number one for months. Do keep up.
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  426.  @MrB1923  Do you get extra money for using all the covidiot buzzwords like 'betwetter'?
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  427. Dear me, do you lot just post the same thing every day? British deaths - 137,000 x 500 (to get your 99.8% figure) is 68 million. Therefore the entire population of the UK must already have had covid. Spoilers: They haven't. Spoilers II: Posting neo-nazi 'pureblood' drivel is not going to get you any sympathy.
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  428.  @petereynon4913  And yet so far its a disaster so you're really living on faith aren't you?
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  429.  @petereynon4913  Nothing fake about me, mate. Unlike those two grifters.
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  430. No you didn't. You're trying to make a joke but its a sub-par Melanie Phillips reference and as such is highly disappointing.
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  431. Donald 'I spend all my spare time playing golf and drinking diet coke' Trump?
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  432. Yes and I remember when the Tory press hated them for it. Seems like not much changes.
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  433. Have conservatives become so brainwashed they automatically attack anyone who shows competence and the ability to do a good job?
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  434. Be all for replacing the house of Lords with an elected chamber. And changing Parliament full stop to PR.
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  435. Yes, they should be looking at how posh the applicants are and whether their dad is a member of the local golf club... Oh hang on, they already do that - which explains the state we're in.
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  436. Yep is amazing - 60 million quid is basically 2-3 Danny Boyle films, compare the production values on them to this gloomy political vomit.
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  437. He's very sensible. His business will still be going when the other clubs collapse after this current wave.
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  438. I'm constantly amused by all the gym bros/fitness model types who'll tell you how healthy they are, then you find out they're also doing steroids. Now cool, that's your choice and no worries if you're an adult and take your own risks, but the staggering hypocrisy of (mainly) men on tons of gear boasting about how hard they work to build muscle is just astonishing - and not very healthy when all those younger lads start doing it and mess their health up. Or to put it another way: If staying healthy was so easy then why are so many famous people on insane diets, steroids, growth hormones & other drugs, and why are so many getting cosmetic surgery?
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  439.  @rickshaw2779  Fair point, but if German atrocities were covered up and denied then everyone found out...
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  440. He may have said 'shagging wives' but we all misheard?
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  441. @Retro Picker78 Because they're paid to spread misinformation. That's why they all talk like robots.
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  442. People have been going out for months. What is this dope talking about!???
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  443. 'Anti-UK' = British people who aren't fascists. 'Leftist propaganda' - currently the right has the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Express, Star, Sun, TalkRadio, GBNews, the BBC, Sky, seemingly ITV as well as Channel 5... The left has... the Guardian, the (lol) Mirror and Byline Times. Occasional hats off to C4 news for reporting news.
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  444. Horrible little shit, Lord Haw Haw for the brainless.
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  445. This is your problem. You don't trust proper scientists, but do trust tabloids and Facebook who are telling you what you want to hear, even if it isn't true. Britain is really going backwards intellectually. Sad.
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  446. Or maybe its because Brexit types lied about how easy it would be and lied about how successful Britain would be. Five years later we hate each other, the economy is gutted, the government is useless and we're still riddled with covid (Mainland Europe isn't). It really is time for those in power to take responsibility and for Brexit types to admit their lies.
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  447. She thinks reality TV would be improved if it was more right-wing. This is like saying rotten veg is improved if you chuck some rotten pork on it.
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  448. They know, mate. They live in a culture that tells them they're fat constantly via the media. Having a go at fat people isn't going to do anything other than depress fat people. Sure, there may be the odd one who responds to abuse and shaming, but most don't and abuse and shaming aren't exactly a good model for human interactions.
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  449. It wasn't exaggerated. The rich pretend it was because they want the peasants back making them money.
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  450.  @nobsjustreason3287  Certainly fewer degrees but that's partly because they got rid of many of the college courses and pushed people towards uni. You're correct that its to contain youth unemployment but it also has the handy side-effect of making the youth pay their own benefits via the loans. In the past there would be technical colleges, apprenticeships and even practical training for many subjects so there wasn't so much of a need for the degrees (Former PM John Major did a correspondence course and ended up working in banking - try doing that today), and those being trained were given money instead of being loaned it at interest. Also in many cases the actual degree doesn't matter much. Is more about social connections. This is why you see more working class students opt for practical get -a-job subjects while the easier degrees tend to be done by posh kids who will get good jobs anyway but just need a bit of paper to get in the door.
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  451. Spoilers: The rights holders for the games are Discovery, an American company. Discovery are a big investor in GB News. If GB News fans successfully encourage people to not watch then Discovery loses a fortune.
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  452. Neither is Wooten. Or anyone on here.
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  453. Jesus was a proper socialist. A good lad. Unlike many of the creepers who claim to be his followers today.
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  454. Also don't they have issues with cognitive performance(too little oxygen - aggression, too much - sleepiness sort of thing) on submarines so have to be very careful the oxygen levels are stable? You should be able to do the same on a Mars mission, but unlike the ISS you can't send up replacement filters/parts if there's a problem.
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  455. I recall plenty of soldiers making dance videos during the war in Afghanistan. They do it for a laugh and to boost morale, its not a profession.
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  456. If it helps, the gays aren't the ones stabbing MPs, mate.
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  457. This whole channel are activists. Good grief.
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  458. Why do the people with the most unchristian values like to pontificate about Christianity? If Jesus popped up nowadays do you think he'd have anything other than contempt for the behaviour of humans, particularly conservative types who claim to be the most religious?
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  459. 'ordinary' - you mean Brexit millionaires and foreign investors?
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  460. Would rather give their kid a horrible disease than take a vaccine because they've been reading drivel on Facebook instead of doing actual research. Sigh.
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  461. I want people like Dan to be exposed for who is paying them to say this drivel and compromise public health in a pandemic. Is a tad disturbing, especially as he's from New Zealand and NZ have done an amazing job in reducing Rona compared to the UK.
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  462. Most parents aren't idiots and will ensure their kids are vaccinated.
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  463.  @littleboots9800  Here's the problem - you're assuming the threat from Corona is zero because the tabloids & various astroturf groups are feeding you misinformation. While the threat of death is fairly low, the threat of sickness & long terms problems is much higher.
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  464. @SelectiveShinku Let's be racist towards patriotic Brits... are you mad?
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  465. Funnily enough is quite likely a lot will be spies. But we made our bed...
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  466. Lee, you're an absolute muppet. I bet you don't shout at doctors who have to wear masks. Or anyone else in a dozen other jobs who do. Nope. You're just a brain-addled Facebook casualty who thinks shouting 'Muzzles! Sheep!' makes you an edgy sort of guy.
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  467.  @Gary-1203  Why do you lot always try to shame people and tell them they're scared? Mate, I'm fine. My concern is with those who won't be fine and those Boris is going to kill off over the next few months. Clearly any sense of camaraderie or empathy with fellow British people escapes you.
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  468. He's an epic scumbag responsible for disastrous austerity policies.
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  469. One major shooting every ten years. If we had America's gun laws we'd have one every ten minutes. Do you seriously think the average British drunkard would be a safe custodian of firearms?
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  470.  @callummilburn8204  Yes it was massively incorrect. As I said in my comments that '1' case was clearly more due to them not knowing who infected the guy. I believe it was ten cases as of yesterday which showed the NZ Gov made the right call.
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  471.  @fifthof1795  Yeah mate thats how elections work in Britain and have done forever. Except the Tories are now 'borrowing' the US panic about 'election fraud' and want us to only allow people with IDs to vote. The same Tories who say passport IDs are bad are fine with voter IDs.
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  472.  @britishempireno1fan851  Oh dear, someone got out of the racist side of the bed this morning, didn't they?
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  473.  @anaseijas3923  Brexit has turned into a failure tho, hasn't it? Its not just me saying it, is much of the business community and lots of very clever academic types looking at the decline in our exports and general economic malaise. Calling me a brat won't make it any better. Perhaps you could direct me stories about the empty shelves in Europe or the petrol queues or the farms full of rotting fruit because there's no pickers? As for incompetence well last time I checked the Tories have let more people die of Covid than anywhere else in Europe then decided to reopen with no mitigations to keep their libertarian chums happy. So we now have higher infection rates than EU countries, hospitals that can't see normal patients in the proper quantities and lots of ill people who need to claim welfare. World-beating incompetence and a deep source of national shame.
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  474. The risk of mass infection is higher than the risk of the odd vaccine reaction. But keep pushing for herd immunity for kids via mass infection. Those kids (well most of them) will grow up and never forgive the idiots who pushed through that stupid policy.
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  475. The vast majority of kids would also eat pizza and cake for breakfast if you let them.
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  476.  @Oceansteve  Yes, but how do farm them all? In the US farming is already horrible and nasty. Increase meat consumption more and things will get worse.
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  477. Question, when Nige meets with Trump, do they whisper 'Hail Hydra' in each other's ears?
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  478. Its a vaccine, the kids have a dozen of them during their childhood. They also have a tetanus shot if they get bit/bad cuts. You don't see many parents saying 'Well I don't want my child to consent to this tetanus vaccination. If he dies of infection then so be it!'
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  479. I'm honestly baffled we're taking advice on public health from a gossip columnist and a Loose Women presenter. Britain has become comedically dumbed-down over the past few years.
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  480. No, it means they'll be massively more healthy than the UK and won't have to spend billions in Rona-related health costs. Quick numbers - currently there's 5000 people in hospital with the Rona in the UK. If it only cost £1000 per person (is more than that for many especially in ICU), that's FIVE MILLION QUID A DAY in health costs, plus future health costs (look up the Long Covid clinics) and that's at a low point in the pandemic. The previous waves cost a fortune in comparison. NZ escaped them.
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  481.  @DeadDave  Perhaps this is part of the plan. Tank the NHS and force people to go private?
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  482. You sound fun, Elizabeth. I bet you love Anne Widdecombe.
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  483. They have lost their audience. They get less viewers than Welsh Paw Patrol.
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  484. Sky News Australia is drivel and full of the usual right-wing reality distortion.
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  485. Google Sir Francis Chichester UFO sighting. He saw something odd in the 1930s. Francis was a bit of an exploration legend so not exactly a crank.
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  486. @tipihedroncollider So what treatment works then? You appear to be talking about Ivermectin which has failed in the trials used to study it and doesn't work very well as an anti-viral drugs. It is good for getting rid of worms in horses, though.
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  487. Nothing stopping the West from treating their own people better and building infrastructure and investing in new technology. Well, nothing except for the greed of the overclass.
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  488. Because we don't want to pay the staggering healthcare bills (via increased insurance or taxes in the UK) of all the morons who didn't get vaxxed then end up disabled or dead.
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  489. Let's see, pre-pandemic who wore a type of face mask for some or all of their work? Surgeons & other medical staff, industrial painters, soldiers in the desert, special forces types throwing flash bangs about, semiconductor fabrication workers, clean room engineers, microbiologists, police forensic officers, asbestos removal guys, fighter pilots, divers, zoologists, some parts of the food preparation industry and so on. So by and large millions of pretty good jobs have always required mask/PPE wearing or else you can't do them full stop. Now in fiction who wears masks? Superheroes, bandits, attendees at aristocratic sex parties, comedic wrestlers, citizens living in a polluted post-apocalyptic big city hellscape... Over the past couple of years mask-wearing was also a big thing is protest movements - wearing a mask makes it harder for the facial recognition spooks to identify you. So where the hell did all this 'masks are for pussies', 'masks are a sign of deference to authority' nonsense come from when only 18 months ago they were a symbol of fighting the oppressive state in places like China? Am thinking the memes were manufactured by the usual crowd building on their Colin Kaepernick attacks. Remember how the guy was kneeling as a simple gesture of solidarity and the right turned it into 'I will not take the knee' rants like they were in Game of Thrones or some shit? Yeah. Is that.
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  490. @man up Comedy is making a joke. Talking about fascist Tv channels run by billionaire psychopaths is more a making commentary sort of thing.
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  491.  @the0nlytrueprophet942  Yes, they can use race-baiting to keep the working class divided. In the old days they'd use religion (Catholic v Protestant, say).
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  492. We did. We elected a sociopath whose idiocy has killed more Brits than the Blitz. It clearly wasn't a good rule for those people's lives.
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  493.  @andrewoliver8930  They covered up for Savile for decades. He was so well-known as a sicko that Irvine Welsh even wrote a story that clearly featured a spoof version of Savile the deviant in the 90s.
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  494. Do you mean revolutionary communist party Claire Fox?
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  495. @Myth Tree The NZers I know don't think that. You must be in a strange little minority.
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  496. Something like London's Docklands Light Railway which has automated trains and has been running well since the late 80s. Bullet trains across the US would be awesome.
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  497. All vaccines were experimental at some point. You're only alive now because people got vaccinated against a plethora of nasty diseases in the past.
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  498. To be fair dude, there wouldn't be an England, either. We'd all be drones in the Nazi empire and the comments section here would probably look the same.
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  499. In the olden days plenty of students did fruit-picking work in the summer holidays and worked at Christmas for the post office. Second one still happens, the first not so much due to the terrible wages and high cost of living in farming areas.
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  500. I'd like to ask Nige why he appeared several times on the Neo-nazi RedIce podcast back in the day? And why Nige got a massive boost by becoming super popular with RT? As an English patriot, didn't he think it was weird his popularity was being boosted by Russian state TV?
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  501.  @dilipshah5882  He isn't the most respect though, is he? What has he achieved? Division? Brexit? Sucking up to Trump? It's not like we can say 'Thank you Nige for the Northern Ireland Peace Process', or 'Thank you Nige for saving us from Hitler'.
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  502. Right, so how come all these stories have appeared elsewhere today? Kind of wrecks your central thesis there, mate.
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  503. In reality is the other way round. The government is lying to play down covid, which it turns out is horrible and has killed enormous numbers of people. BUT... the gov needs to deflect attention so has all their 'friends' in the media push contradictory nonsense to make it look like there's some big conspiracy and poor Boris and the Tories are mere cogs in the machine, not instigators of mass murder.
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  504. Neither is mass infection. As we know you can be reinfected then we'll end up with a yearly 'covid season' that'll pretty much kill thousands every time & long-term destroy the economy. So vaccination and temporary restrictions it is for now until we have a grade A antiviral treatment to sort it.
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  505.  @The.Doctor.Venkman  No they're not. Why not make a new start, dude? Go read some medical books, look at some papers, talk to people who work in medicine? Put down the Facebook memes and conspiracy drivel and try to be normal. Boosters will be fine. No worries there. Seriously all these alleged conservative tough guys terrified on a little needle...
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  506. Dan and dishonesty go together like pizza and Netflix.
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  507. Because so many voters were terrified of more Trump. They saw the way the Supreme court was going, the corruption, the lack of sensible policies, the race-baiting, his barely-literate paranoid ramblings... plus Trump killed off a big chunk of his voting base thanks to the Rona.
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  508. China heavily restricts what films can be shown on their cinemas. They also limit the number of Hollywood blockbusters allowed to be shown there.
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  509. Why is Fromage so pally with Donald? Is it purely a financial relationship or do they have the same bosses?
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  510. Why do you guys talk in weird buzz-phrases? Do you not think that McCoy's previous work with audiences in the millions may be a bit more respected than his current Alan Patridge-like turn?
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  511. Fly over there and help.
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  512. What fear? By being honest about a nasty virus? Is not Whitty's fault if you muppets believe Facebook memes.
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  513.  @MorningtonCrescent  It does. Is like we're proud of it. Just staggering. Imagine Conservatives of the 1950s seeing the ignorance now and finding out their own party was stoking it up for votes. They'd be stunned.
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  514. Here's some Doris Day from 1962. Listen to the conversation... https://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/chaosandcontrol/doris-day-inadvertently-creates-punch-card-chaos-in-that-touch-of-mink
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  515.  @squirepraggerstope3591  Is this the new British patriotism? Calling British people vermin because they're not basing their voting decisions on what the Daily Mail says? What with that and the Queen picture thing today and the kid's song debacle yesterday, Britain is definitely going down the creepy fascism route.
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  516. Gee is almost as if China is the biggest power in Asia or something. What next, wondering what the US is up to in North America?
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  517. Followed by the inevitable lockdowns...
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  518. GB News viewers love the idea of murdering protesters....
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  519. @Neria Wolf Well in the past they knighted both Jimmy Savile and Mussolini, so Southgate is a big improvement on both of them.
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  520. Funny thing - here's Google trends in the UK and 'woke' has been spoken about for ... just over a year. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=GB&q=woke All that's happened is the right-wing nutbags that run the UK decided to recast 'PC Gone Mad' as 'Woke' and watch as a chunk of the populace suddenly get terrified of things that have been around for decades. Is pitiful, really.
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  521. Yes it has. Though its also been about right-wing governments messing up their approach to fixing it, so trying to cover up their genocidal ways through mass media disinformation campaigns.
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  522.  @daveyturner100  You really do live in a weird bubble of delusion if you think UK media are 'lefties'.
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  523. Capitalism does that. The diversity of people is a lot more interesting than the chain stores, endless identical tat and TV shows that litter our decaying culture.
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  524. 'woke agenda' = doing Christian things. Pretty sure you can't be a proper Christian if you're spending your time hating on other people.
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  525. I think they're all run by the same company. You get all those ads all offering similar draws for charity - seems a bit coordinated.
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  526. And Brexit is going to do a job on his voters when they spend Christmas making the choice between food or heating.
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  527. No, the unvaccinated will be the ones who are sicker and will grow up loathing their parents for being idiots.
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  528.  @davidwesternall873  You do know covid is far more likely to give you heart problems and blood clots than the vaccines?
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  529.  @MELLYBOY58  And to think, some people argue GB News isn't a channel watched by racists and nazis!
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  530. 'Peasants' don't matter to the ruling class. Another 148 died today of covid, hardly a mention.
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  531.  @Plane_Tiger  I dearly hope so, but it reminded me of James Whale in the 80s on his show who used to sit there spraying deodorant into the air because he said it would help global warming. The fact Whale got confused with the whole CFC thing was a tad disturbing, but you joke clarification is appreciated.
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  532. You could argue the same about all the top-secret aircraft flying about (many of which may be mistaken for UFOs). Absolutely zero decent photographic evidence yet we know governments spend billions on secret aircraft tech every year. For a funny and British angle on this, look up the Westland Wisp. It was a drone from the 1970s that was built to look like a little egg-shaped UFO. As your average British person of the time didn't even know what a drone was, imagine seeing this egg shaped thing hovering in the forest... eek.
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  533.  @bradster00  I'm not. I'm a British patriotic white person who's all working-class and awesome.
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  534.  @sneakyrodent1853  You're watching a channel run by a bloke who was paid for 20 years by the BBC, mate. Get a grip.
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  535. Can you point me to some places where he's funny? A lot of people are saying he's some super witty type, but am not seeing it?
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  536. Not really. A chunk of the population taking medical advice from Facebook memes is far more dangerous.
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  537. They were always destined to have low viewers because the British people generally aren't frothing neo-nazis.
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  538. Grow up. You're not enslaved because you have to wear a mask in Waitrose and can't go dancing during a raging pandemic. There have been restrictions on public health and even proto lockdowns and quarantines throughout history. Isolation and mask wearing is even mentioned in the bible - Leviticus 13:45-46.
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  539. Bloke who sits in front of a desk reading out rants written for him by Tory think-tanks tells us that doctors are lazy. You really couldn't make this up.
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  540. Hey Colin how about reporting on some f**** news? You know, like all the big stories today which you're not mentioning because you've gone off on one about some nonsense.
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  541. No, they never said it was 100%. Very high reductions in deaths, but never 100% effectiveness.
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  542. I believe is something like £100, of which £80 is going up to be taken. Which puts UC at around half minimum wage in many cases - hardly enough money to live the high life.
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  543. I'd be quite happy to go back to the old rules of British advertising: No drink No funeral adverts No gambling No medical stuff They know how to manipulate though - if you're unfortunate enough to watch daytime TV you see hours of ads about funerals, cancer and weird devices to fix your arthritis... at which point you get depressed, then drunk then in a moment of drunken madness stick £50 on Anne Widdecombe to win Love Island.
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  544. Funny thing is all the bots and antivaxxers going 'I'm done!' and a tiny, tiny minority and the rest of the population is getting extremely angry at them. You might have to get another propaganda job soon...
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  545. Most people don't give a toss. Social media monetises conflicts. They make cash when people argue, so conflict is constantly pushed. The freeze peach warriors never mention this point or go into detail because it would expose the ginormous amount of dodgy money being spent to manipulate the politics of entire continents.
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  546. So you think a New Zealand gossip columnist spreading nonsense is preferable to proper journalists who do research?
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  547. Did you miss the pandemic disinformation? Or the incessant whining about a non-existent culture war? The idea that a 'patriotic' British channel should spend its time trying to stir up hatred in the populace is extremely un-British.
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  548. Not as much whining as the Scots get from the British press...
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  549. I somehow doubt Carole will be struggling this Christmas.
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  550. Rambo even helped them fight the Russians in Rambo III.
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  551.  @davman115  Yes, you are correct, am aware of the Mujahideen. They were seen as the freedom fighters in the 80s because they were fighting the Russians (Sandy Gall gave regular coverage to them on News at Ten). When they started on the Americans they were suddenly bad. Remember Bin Laden was helping them out for years and was helping the Taliban, too later on. Robert Fisk wrote about Bin Laden as the 'Anti-Soviet Warrior' in a 1993 piece. And yep, there were many different groups then, and there's different groups now. Is clearly a complex business and a complicated history.
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  552. Same as the Daily Mail/Express/Telegraph taking money off their readers then lying to them about everything? Actually no, worse. I don't recall June Sarpong ever dishing out bogus pandemic medical advice.
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  553. So this is your fault. Please accept some blame for believing that a priapic gonk who's been fired from numerous jobs would do anything other than wreck the country.
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  554.  @stuartanderson852  No but have friends out there. Plus I'm happy to praise countries that do a good job with things, which they have.
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  555. Yeah we should take advice from a failed gossip columnist who has been wrong about absolutely everything during the pandemic.
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  556.  @bbcfakenews9677  But but Brexit was supposed to give us control? Oh noes, have the Tories been lying again. Quelle Surprise!
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  557.  @davehallett810  I know dude, but my internet conked out and I ended up typing away waiting for it to come back on. 😆
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  558.  @chrismcsherry6041  He means there's a black lady on there and pictures representing diversity in the UK. This greatly offends the commenter.
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  559. So when the evidence stacks up that the vaccine is fine why are you all pretending its not?
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  560. @Lady Curious Yes there are side effects with everything but they've been relatively minor. The risk of blood clots is higher getting on a plane. The 'very low death rate' you mention is 130000+ in the UK alone, four million worldwide (probably twice that) and we still have another year or so left for it to run.
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  561. Can someone tell me an opinion Pete Waterman cannot express? Because he appears to be on TV expressing his opinions.
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  562. Yep. Oh no Europe is bad! Yeah, and you think China or India are going to be any more democratic and tolerant? Good luck with that, Boomers!
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  563. That would be the same western democracy where women couldn't vote (in the UK) until 1918? The same was true for many men over 21. In fact it wasn't until 1969 that all adults over the age of 18 were allowed to vote in the UK.
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  564. Tory government with a supine, boot-licking fascist press.
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  565. You do know that Britain is a giant producer of porn and characters like David Sullivan and Paul Raymond were huge backers of the Tories in the 1980s?...
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  566. By the way, the biggest saucy site around these days, Only Fans is based in... London and the guy who runs it is the son of a retired Barclays investment banker.
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  567.  @espenha  Thank you for putting my mind at rest! Yeah, I recall Patrick Moore (British TV astronomer) ranting about the threat of adverts in space back in the 1990s. Thankfully we're not there yet.
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  568. You'd need to be huffing salt like Al Pacino in Scarface to make the nonsense on here more palatable.
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  569. Do you shag many flags mate?
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  570.  @derekmoore8224  Mooreon.
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  571.  @derekmoore8224  The Rona isn't the flu. It is a different virus. Saying its the flu is like saying Aids is the flu; it's just moronic and does nothing to further your case.
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  572. Is the communication antenna supposed to be on the front of the nose-cone? There seems to be no other dishes, so how do they communicate with Earth? The ISS is only a few hundred miles away, the Muskians will be tens of millions, am guessing they'd want to send some proper hi-res footage back to Earth and not want to be stuck with the bitrates of something like Viking.
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  573. a) That won't happen. b) Hospitals all round the world got filled with Covid patients (See Texas and Florida at the moment) which meant plenty of patients couldn't get treatment.
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  574. Did you get a degree in dipshittery? You understand corona is a different virus to the flu and has different symptoms? If so why are you spreading nonsense.
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  575. Grades fell last year. Do you remember what happened?...
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  576.  @letsplaypokemongo3153  Jimmy Savile?
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  577. Not all British humour in the old days was good or very clever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY26l5SAxJs
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  578.  @Guitargrease1  Yep, is pretty simple to explain. To these people socialism is spending taxpayers money on people you don't like. So... state schools (rich use private) - socialism. State healthcare (rich have BUPA) - socialism Welfare (rich have investments and tax dodges) - socialism Whereas... Money to the Royals and military - not socialism. Subsidies to Tory-voting farmers - not socialism. Tax breaks to billionaires - not socialism.
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  579.  @andyforshaw8489  So you think if they went to become a doctor they'd be 'brainwashed'? Are you a character from Idiocracy?
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  580. The Spectator is a super right-wing rag who didn't have anything to say about the absolute clown that was Trump who literally took the country to the point of civil war just because he lost an election.
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  581.  @justmadeit2  Yep, this is true. But social media (which kicked off around the same time as smartphones) has an even bigger effect.
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  582.  @kjd9634  So why did Steve Bannon say on his podcast the day before there was going to be mayhem at the protests? Ivermectin and the quinine derivative are meme drugs that don't work on covid. If they did why would Florida be riddled with covid cases at the moment. He didn't stand up to Putin. He left Putin an entire military base and had Americans leave overnight so the Russians could get it.
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  583.  @4faxache935  Gee a proper President might have tried to calm things down instead of stirring up more trouble and having his neo-fascist chums the Proud Boys increase the violence in places like Portland. No excuse for smashing stuff up, but pretending it was entirely BLM is nonsense. The first riot video I saw was a white guy who smashed up a store. Much suspicion he was police by the way he behaved (showed training).
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  584. Imagine writing a sci-fi novel where kids are wise due to watching 10 second Internet clips and their parents are all morons due to right-wing brainwashing. Seemingly thats our real-world now. Yikes.
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  585. Is funny how no one had mental health problems over mask wearing until right-wingers started going on about it. I mean I haven't heard many people go 'I flipped out because my surgeon wore a mask' or 'OMG have you seen how microchips are made!??!?" or 'I saw a Police Forensic team out today and they TERRIFIED ME with their masks and white jumpsuits'. And yes, I know there are some kids with disabilities who have problems and we should help them, but the adults who've suddenly got the new mental health problem maskavoidanceitis - hmmm, bit skeptical.
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  586. When I was a kid we we worried about nuclear war and watched things like Threads on the telly. And guess what else was on telly? Constantly warnings about Aids. At the time they didn't know how many it would infect so they aimed their warnings at everyone. So yeah, the kids will be fine. We were.
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  587.  @grief1  Yes there are a lot of factors. Feminism isn't really one of them. Feminism been around for over a century yet feminists managed perfectly well to get married and have kids in those days. Plenty of girl power, masculine fashion who needs men stuff in the 80s, but again, didn't stop the ladies from making babies. Is more economic issues combined with a hostility to being poor. Most young people who have kids tend to be poor for a time, even if they're working. Nowadays you can't really 'get by' due to the cost of everything so a lot just aren't bothering. Plus with more women in careers and the availability of Internet dating, being poor pretty much guarantees no one will date you anyway, especially if male. And there's not enough 'good' jobs to go round.
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  588. Oh look, Nige has come up with a solution - sell off the NHS. Predictable as always, traitorous little imp.
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  589. You live in a borderline one-party state where the Tories run the government, try to stop people voting, the media is all pro-Tory and we're ruled by a Queen and aristocracy. Have you only just noticed British people aren't as free as they like to think???
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  590. Judging by today's figures they're going to end up with a dose of the Rona instead. Going to be a lot of sad-faced parents on the telly in a few months talking about their kids chronic illnesses while tabloid hacks are still arguing 'It doesn't affect kids!'.
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  591. Not very nice calling our Prime Minister a sea gull.
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  592. Plus vegans are easy to have a go at and make for quick clickbait content on failing news channels.
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  593. He used to be a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Are we okay with communists now?
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  594. British media: "We need kinder, more decent politics." Also British media: "Lol, look at this bird trying to run over some hippies!"
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  595.  @l_j_c_5397  It worries me, we're going to end up in that place Carl Sagan wrote about in the Demon-Haunted World. "“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.""
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  596. Yeah great, who'd bury all the people he'd kill because he doesn't believe in public health?
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  597.  @barneyrubble8590  It wasn't the choice at all, was stirred up by the media. You know this but keep pushing the nonsense.
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  598.  @BLane-xr1ic  You're a joker, just like Trump. Think carefully here - if covid was a chinese bioweapon then how come so many Trump supporters and 'conservatives' are telling people vaccines are bad/masks are bad/lockdowns are bad? Why do Conservatives want to spread the Chinese bioweapon? What's the deal with helping the CCP to murder your own people?
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  599. You honestly think Clark Kent ranting about vegans is news? Do you do drugs?
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  600. Boomers who escaped National Service now think its a brilliant idea.
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  601. What, so Boris waving the flag and wearing a footie shirt isn't politics?
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  602. Nope. Pandemic killing lots of their relatives. Boris being incompetent. Tories dragging things out to keep making money. Covid denialist idiots in the press. Most kids handled lockdown fine - zoom classes, computer games, telly, read some books, go the park with mum and dad....
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  603. It is. Plus he's a completely awful excuse for a journalist - a tabloid gossip columnist with zero understanding of complex issues. From Emily's wiki - "She speaks fluent French, Spanish, Italian and studied Mandarin." I bet Dan is insanely jealous of her.
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  604.  @alpharajan  Nope. Nowhere near 130,000 died yearly in road accidents in the UK. We have generally low numbers and its now around 2000 a year. The Blitz was around 70,000. Is funny how British people are all turning into Stalin these days....
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  605. I saw a programme about Bill Gates a while back and Sugar was on it. In case anyone doesn't know, Sugar did really well with computers and found a niche with cheap PC clones in the late 80s. But Sugar admitted himself he didn't really understand the importance of software which allowed the Americans to outcompete him - Amstrad could have been Dell-sized with a bit of foresight. The statement stunned me. Imagine being worth hundreds of millions and you can't be arsed to hire a couple of PHd advisors to educate you on new technology. He never learnt. We had the Amstrad emailer after that. Bloody hell.
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  606. Paradoxically these half-assed policies will probably be the only thing Boris and the Tories have done that is sensible long-term.
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  607. Is almost as if people don't understand what happens when they give voracious capitalists control over everything.
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  608. On what evidence do you base this ridiculous assertion?
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  609. Depends on how well controlled the disease is. Viruses care nothing for politics or human social constructs.
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  610. Oh please. Boris will just say Kier Starmer is planning to ban Coronation Street and everyone here will be rushing out to vote Tory (again).
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  611. So you don't need a passport or a driving license or a CRB check? You don't get a mandatory security check (which involves your whole private life being spied on) if you work for the intelligence services? We don't have mandatory seatbelt rules? Mandatory rules about not drinking and driving?
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  612. Yes she does, and it looks like she was a plant all along designed to con the priapic idiot Boris. It worked.
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  613. The thought of Eggwina banging John Major makes me feel like those medical students at the start of Quincy.
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  614.  @davidbarlow350  Is more of an Orwellian opinion former funded by shady hedge fund creeps and foreign media orgs.
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  615.  @blackniall8509  You mean you get triggered by climate change and black people? Last time I checked every time the media cover a racist incident there's idiots moaning about 'woke'. And also every time scientists write something about environmental destruction. Which is funny, because the word only came into widespread use when Boris got in in late 2019. And even funnier, he was running focus groups to test what things would annoy conservatives in a hypothetical culture war. He gets elected and - bang! - up pops the culture war.
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  616. Ummm, Stalin wasn't exactly known for taking the knee for black football players.
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  617. You've been working from home saving money. How much cash did your employer blag off the government for furlough cash?
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  618.  @speedbird8528  More birds die crashing into glass skyscrapers.
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  619. Mate, tell me where Sars went? Similar to the Rona, similar virus, scared the pants off everyone and now its nowhere to be found? Do you not think early, stern interventions might just be successful in dealing with health threats?
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  620.  @badgoogle9938  But we don't know where the prime infection came from. If its someone who is now on South Island then messing round up North will just ensure a blowup down south.
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  621. He did, by losing the election. As confirmed by the Arizona data the other day and numerous other recounts since.
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  622. It's not apartheid. Vaccine requirements have been a thing for decades in some parts of the world. https://practio.co.uk/travel-health/articles/vaccination-certificate
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  623. They always did abandon those values. Modern conservatism is basically keeping the rich happy and stamping on the poor then telling the middle-class their problems are to do with said poor who need another good kicking. The Tories have never been good on honesty, morality (Remember Parkinson, Milligan, Major And Eggwina?), even business competency (lower growth under Mrs T on average than the 60s). They have been good on enriching themselves and smacking around the proles.
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  624.  @septicsceptic419  Keep believing that while the Tories sell everything we own off to foreigners and laugh at the peasants for voting for them.
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  625. Brexit says hi.
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  626. And yet your glorious Conservatives have done more economic harm to this country and its culture in the past few years than Jezza could ever do. People actively hate each other's guts now in the UK. Was never that bad.
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  627. But yesterday was freedom day?
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  628. 'electoral integrity' - Trump lost, mate. And as the repubs are dying at far greater rates from covid the Repubs are unlikely to win for a while. Note to repubs: Try not to kill your own with anti-vax drivel, please.
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  629.  @gingerbaker4390  They were paid a ton of cash to do it. Not saying is bad, but we need to be honest.
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  630. ' Hired for competency not tick boxes or Tik Tok ability.' - and that's where I switched off. Honestly you people think a few silly videos meant to boost morale during a pandemic are somehow what half the NHS spend their time doing. It's absurd. Were the soldiers slacking off when they made their dance vids in Afghanistan? Or were they just trying to lighten up a bad situation. And I have experience of hospitals in the 80s. They were run down badly by Thatcher.
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  631. We had peace for several decades. What's wrong with that?
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  632. Was that the same 90s full of suicidal drugged-out superstars? The same 90s with numerous religious cult mass-suicides? The decade of Generation X and apathy? The decade of mass drug use in the dance scene? The decade whose iconic films included Fight Club, Leaving Las Vegas, Girl Interrupted and the Virgin Suicides?
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  633. You do know that 'breath of fresh air' was one of the stock phrases bots used to promote GB News when it first came out? You'll find the same phrase repeated on every story.
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  634. Jesus would like a word...
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  635.  @YllibD  No, that's Alistair Stewart. Andrew Neil would flatten a horse if he tried to sit on it. He's currently busy sitting at home in France lamenting his career implosion.
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  636.  @savewaterdrinkwine3802  Yes and do we or do we not have governments (such as Brazil) hacking their rainforests down and using farmland to build houses on?
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  637.  @jjthecat9692  You're pretty far gone when you think Boris is a communist. The Tories own propaganda is going to really bite them on the arse.
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  638. Kids, nice missus, fame... he's doing okay.
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  639. Yeah very clever. Then they can deport us from their countries and keep their own oil and our economies will all collapse overnight. Well done Einstein.
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  640. They're at little risk of dying. They are at risk of long covid and related problems. Britain really doesn't have the money to pay for thousands of semi-disabled/depressed/fatigued young people so is best to give them the shots so they don't get ill.
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  641. Japan has low immigration and a traditional culture and also a rapidly declining population, so...
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  642.  @jasonmw1471  So is a massive pool of infected. Far worse in fact as the vaccine is relatively successful.
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  643. Oh please. For forty years after the war kids were terrified of nuclear annihilation. At least climate change is something we can fix eventually.
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  644. @Neria Wolf Was this the same Mags who got threw out by her own party because the country was having massive protests due to the poll tax and the 'Tory economic miracle' was based on selling anything not nailed down and pinching all the oil money?
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  645. Yes very good, how well do you think your kids will fare with a dose of multisystem inflammatory disorder? Or messed-up long-covid lungs? Or covid neurological issues?
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  646. @Raymond Cyst Oh please, I'm a beloved character round here.
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  647. Stop making excuses for them. You voted for this. From the Conservative Manifesto, 2019: "Reaching Net Zero by 2050 with investment in clean energy solutions and green infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions and pollution." The rest of us have to suffer because you lot don't bother to read what you're voting for. Tho having said that they also promised massively more nurses and police and we haven't got them. Which is another Tory trait - outright lies.
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  648. No one is saying other lives don't matter, much in the same way as being a feminist doesn't mean men don't matter or being a Tory doesn't mean that people who don't vote Tory don't ma- ah, yeah, scrub that last one.
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  649.  @Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR  Sheep dip.
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  650. Masks really trigger people, is weird.
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  651. You don't mind him killing tens of thousands through negligence, but you're offended that he's mentioning climate change in a speech?
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  652. Which is the intention. Look at the videos on this channel - very few cover actual news, its all having a go at some specific group or other.
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  653.  @waynejohnson7058  We don't really have time tho, due to the gov apparently thinking that mass infection of kids is a price worth paying to keep profits up. It would be fine to wait for vaccines IF we were doing everything we could to protect youngsters but we're not. Its a deliberate strategy and very dark.
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  654. Ah, Colin is doing the daily race-baiting thing.
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  655. To stir up Tory voters so Tory voters demand a crackdown on all protests. Then when the economy collapses over the winter anyone protesting will be tossed in jail. There's a method in the Tory madness.
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  656.  @vivo-audio  Damn, knew I shouldn't have taken notice of that 'wash your hair with petrol' life hack...
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  657. Hopefully your kids won't be brainwashed by the absolute drivel on here...
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  658. Wait till you see the pictures of all those kids in hospital and ICU.
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  659. Quite a big one. Here's a spoiler for you. Western countries offloaded their polluting industry to Asia and poor countries. That pollution you blame the Chinese for is created to make goods for Brits, Europeans and the US.
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  660. They are doing something - they're creating a culture war to keep people arguing. The word 'woke' was rarely used in the UK and then as soon as Boris was elected in 2019 EVERY TORY NEWSPAPER started writing several articles a day about woke this and woke that. It was very much a campaign from the start, a form of psychological warfare to divide.
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  661. Tell that to all the UK press who keep trying to cancel Harry, Meghan, 'remoaners', anyone who supports racial justice, leftists etc. <edit - UK press, not US, typo>
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  662. The Dixie Chicks say hi. And Paul McCartney's 'Give Ireland Back to the Irish' was banned from broadcast nearly 50 years ago & not because it was a bit grating.
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  663. Let's see: Tories... screw up pandemic response. Anti-lockdown groups... rile up the populace with lies Anti-maskers Anti-vaxxers Then everyone is acting all surprised Pikachu when things haven't gone right.
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  664. @Misplaced There's plenty who turn up in real-life to intimidate people they think have wronged them. Tommy Robinson does it all the time and that's why he's just been done for stalking.
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  665. No, it was when the Tories started chopping it to bits. Things worked pretty well under the Blair/Brown years for the most part.
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  666.  @rogerwoodhouse7945  16 yr olds can join the army, have sex, work, pay taxes. They are effectively adults within the law outside of a few small restrictions. It makes sense to allow them a vote much like it made sense to give 18 year olds a vote in the 60s (when you had to be over 21 to vote). Arguing 'Oh the kids will vote for silly things' ignores the reality that the Boomers have been voting for whatever the tabloids tell them to for years, much to the chagrin of the rest of the nation.
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  667.  @janeburke147  Bwahaha, perhaps this is because their tedious 'anti-woke' culture war drivel isn't as popular as they thought it would be? The ratings dive confirms this.
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  668. Yeah, like that's going to make things easier. Why not say phuck it and go back to Roman numerals?
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  669.  @elongatedmush7805  English translation: People who aren't dickheads and understand a bit about science.
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  670.  @khattlambert2312  Weird how everything the scientists said has actually come true but people still believe Facebook memes then wonder why society doesn't work anymore.
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  671.  @jamesperrie1393  Dear me. The predictions of large amounts of deaths (true), a second wave (true), than areas with low vaccination would be hit worse (true), that the pandemic would go on for 1-3 years (true). The virus has been isolated many times and gene-sequenced. The data is online and you can easily phone up the Welcome Institute or similar lab and ask them about it. You can even apply to be one of the people doing 'human challenge trials' and get a nice dose of pure covid injected into you. We use computers to analyse genetic data. Is called bioinformatics. Is too complex to do otherwise in a reasonable length of time. That does not mean the genetic data is fake. What happened to science education in this country?
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  672. Don't vote for them then. But you probably will.
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  673. Footie hooligans are not Marxists. Do keep up.
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  674. Was that the same 60s and 70s with the Krays, the Moors Murderers, Peter Sutcliffe, IRA bombings and the like?
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  675. We take tax money to give to the Royals and build armies. I don't see you lot complaining about that.
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  676.  @willydoer8730  And the Welsh bloke can ask him about his kid's German passports. Nige is making sure HIS kids have free movement in Europe. Your kids can p iss right off...
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  677.  @willydoer8730  So is okay his kids get freedom of movement with EU passports but your kids can't?
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  678.  @pjmoseley243  To be fair there's rather a lot of rich Americans that love shooting animals. Plus a fair few rich British who do the same in African game reserves. I'm of the opinion that anyone who shoots an elephant for fun should be taken and dropped into a crowd of angry elephants and let to fend for themselves.
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  679. What's with the tiny video lengths? Is this some weird attempt to game the Youtube algorithm?
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  680.  @girlgirl4548  Not my fault Tories are easily triggered. They're okay with language like 'scroungers' or 'chavs' or 'forrins' but flip out when other people use less polite terms to refer to them.
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  681. My only semi-joking prediction. Food shortages happen. Boris announces we'll all have to live on left-over porridge. Daily Express headline: "Gruel Britannia! Brilliant Boris Aims to Solve Obesity problem!" Daily Mail headline: "Nigella's best rat recipes for Christmas meaty treats" GB News headline: "Are immigrants responsible for our rat shortage?"
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  682.  @goldygirl5227  They're all had their shots. Yes, I agree big events for the rich are disgusting while others are restricted, but that's Tories doing their thing as usual.
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  683. And yet you do see drug use glamourised in the media all the time. The difference being posh/celebrity druggies get treated much better than lower class druggies.
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  684. It tells you that you're not very well read on the basics of epidemiology.
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  685. Blonde mistress #2.
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  686. Gbeebies really does have a list of the same topics they drone on about endlessly. Is kind of creepy when you think about it.
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  687.  @chrisfactoryboi  Yes but that doesn't mean men's brains suddenly stop working and they become blameless for all their screw-ups.
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  688. Or y'know, they're staggered at the incompetence of the UK's government?
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  689. Fred West Jnr and the other two are of military age. Why don't they show us how patriotic they are by joining up and fighting for their country?
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  690. Having been in NHS hospitals late at night, what passes for 'rude' is often violent/mentally ill/drunk/on drugs. People who are so out of it they will hurt or even kill others. There's no problem with the NHS workers being extra cautious with those characters. And I've actually seen that as well - one guy who was having a 'mental health' episode kicked off on a young female doctor and she managed to calm him down before security got there despite him threatening to beat the shit out of her. Massive respect to the doc for de-escalating that situation.
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  691. Boris cares about two things... opinion polls and deporting Poles. (Credit to satirist extraordinaire Tanskii for that quote, please go watch her stuff).
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  692. What about the parents who say yes because they want healthy kids and don't trust anti-vax drivel?
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  693. Yes.
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  694.  @JMB1891  Very true. What's happened today is absolutely repulsive but hate fuel has become the media's favourite way to get clicks. Was reading today about doctors (yes, doctors!) being threatened as well. People get stirred up by thoughtless idiots in the press and their political friends.
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  695. That's been common with many industries, not just due to cheaper labour, but also due to an oversupply of skilled people who bosses can then set against each other, as well as a lack of unions, a worse benefit system and technology allowing everything to be micro-managed to the detriment of normal human interactions. The wage increases have nearly all accrued to those at the top (which is also true in the US).
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  696. Do you mean like the 80s when 16yr old girls posed on Page 3, pop was filled with gay lads 'gender bending', there were race riots in Brixton, race riots in Toxteth, and the Tories were on TV talking about morals while doing stuff like knocking up their secretaries?
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  697. Because prior to Covid the government had everyone pretty much controlled easily. As long as they could go on holiday, moan about house prices and watch the footy the British were willing to put up with anything and kept voting Tory. So why destroy the winning strategy? Have you thought about that? Maybe this is an attempt to keep the control they had at a time when a black swan is trashing capitalism and an even bigger climate black swan is coming to finish it off...
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  698. Isn't that cancel culture?
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  699. Or a series on 'How come conservative comedians are all po-faced, not funny and spend their time complaining on TV about being cancelled when they're clearly not, nor are the people they list as cancelled'? I mean seriously, can this bloke say something funny for a change?
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  700.  @marcusbradley3081  Is that why everyone's stressing about going on holiday? :)
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  701.  @duality5503  Meanwhile the right did the same but worse - hence Hitler et al. And please don't say 'But Hitler was the left' - its pathetic. It isn't the left running things at the moment. It's the right in the UK who are messing everything up then seeking constant scapegoats - the poor, the foreign, the NHS, the 'woke'.
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  702. You think he looks good compared to Arden? SERIOUSLY???? Is everyone on drugs tonight?
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  703.  @Lt.GonvilleBromhead  Not as much as he hurt America. Putin's pet did well.
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  704.  @bobyorke  It won't be one case, will it? If he hasn't been outside the country and it is delta then he must have got it from someone else, which could mean lots of cases that will pop up in the next few days. Hence the caution.
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  705. If you're unemployed then best not vote Tory who love cutting benefits and hate the poor. Also funny how no one talks about inflation in house prices being bad - is that because Tories make money off that?...
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  706. Expenses extra. I believe they can claim up to £25 a day for food, while they're cutting £20 a week off universal credit and telling the poor to suck it up. They also get an allowance for housing as well as other expenses.
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  707. Wooten is an absolute waste of oxygen. He spends all his time either whining about celebrities or pretending to understand science better than scientists. As a journalist he'd make a good doorstop. Utter disgrace and New Zealand is probably glad to be rid of him.
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  708. Funny how none of you cared at all when the gov was stamping on poor people, bringing in Voter ID law, killing thousands with austerity (people with cancer having their benefits cancelled etc.)... Not one word. Now all of a sudden you're scared of fascism cos you have to have a vaccine? So if the policy is dropped you can go back to supporting the Tories and not care one jot at the people they destroy?
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  709.  @itchyballsack6627  Oh dear. Do you think you're going to be a billy bad-ass and take on an armed response unit, mate?
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  710. Think the idea is to not infect much of the population with the mange, therefore ensuring the economy tanks anyway.
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  711. Stop voting in Tories. Is pretty simple. There's at least three opposition parties to choose from.
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  712. His politics are consistent like most libertarians. They want liberty for them, and less liberty for the peasants. Hence social media crackdown on said peasants, but lower taxes for people like him.
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  713. Here's a bit of the Stones for Nige to play on his show... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h15YuPqzLHk
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  714. Does anyone remember when Hitchens spent months whining about vaccines but was first in the queue to get his shot? Then he wrote an article saying he'd been coerced into it because he wants to keep travelling. Lol. Most celebrity anti-vaxxers are the same. Is all theatre to them and they care not for anyone who gets hurt.
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  715. Chickens in velcro boots could be the new 'cat meme' in the 2030s.
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  716. She's supposed to be a good Christian yet apparently hates our Christian cousins in France. Jesus would not approve of her hatred.
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  717. The BBC's problem is they're far too Tory and pander to the worst of the aristocratic sociopaths running this country into the ground.
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  718. GB News is entirely comprised of opinion-spewing blowhards. That's the whole point of it.
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  719. This whole channel is full of right-wing bots funded by... who knows. How can I argue this? Well as about 90% of british adults have had their vaccinations - which includes most Conservative voters... why are the comments on here nearly all anti-vax? Why is the channel pushing anti-vax stuff? Whose agenda is it to kill off a big chunk of British people? Questions need to be asked.
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  720. He's broadly correct. Fox isn't.
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  721. 2016: Everything will be awesome. 2021: Oh, we'll have to make do with less. Not us Tory MPs, because we all have seven jobs, but you lot, the peasants...
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  722. Nope. The hope is that big agro-corps will buy up the small farms and the farmers will put cash above ethics. Then once our farms are owned by Bill Gates and his friends we can all nom nom those nice genetically-engineered food-things and pay more for the privilege.
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  723.  @donaldevanshennings7732  Good stuff. Yeah, this was covered in FatLand, Fast Food Nation and Taubes looked at the same stuff. Is really interesting and well worth reading up on.
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  724.  M R  Fiona was somehow saying a video about dogs is 'woke' and am pretty sure she wasn't offended by the white man who didn't say much.
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  725. Yes. Tho most of the one's I've seen are taken well care of and their owners understand the responsibility.
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  726. For that matter GB News blew through £60 million in startup capital. It clearly wasn't spent on high production values so exactly how much are their presenters earning? You may justify high wages if you get high ratings, but no one actually watches this channel except a few Brexit obsessives.
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  727. It boils your blood for what reason? Have you seen a doctor about this strange symptom?
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  728.  @bongsound  They were pulling that drivel from American culture war narratives. In reality no one cares about it except for a small group who get angry and don't question things - your typical Daily Express/Mail-type audiences. Look at the Churchill furore yesterday - the whole story has fell apart yet no one here is saying sorry for jumping the gun.
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  729. Do the dead kids not count then? Or is that okay?
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  730.  @sirvikalcrusader3668  Everything isn't a Marxist plot mate. Right-wing paranoia is really pushing it these days to Hitler levels. And no, that's not a Godwin; Hitler was obsessed with Marxist plots everywhere along with fake news and 'cultural Bolshevism'. Look what happened there.
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  731. Don't see many Hitler statues in Berlin, mate.
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  732. Its a Tory propaganda channel. Like the government they're playing both sides to see which way the wind blows.
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  733. He's a dark money shit-stirrer that somehow people think is 'one of the lads'. Which shows how successful propaganda can be.
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  734. Why are Conservatives so pro-cancel culture?? I mean BLM wants to defund some parts of the police because the US police is a militarised force that keeps killing black (and white, fuzz be gun crazy) folks. You lot want to defund the council because you're angry about a flag? Absolute toddlers.
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  735. I'm listening and my mind is blown at how this absolute clown can be allowed to puke nonsense out onto the airwaves. He's basically killed his entire career with this stupidity and I bet his own kids hate him and get vaccinated asap.
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  736.  @garytallowin6623  No it isn't. They check for that. Example: https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/latest-news/rapid-test-helps-stop-the-spread-of-flu-3334/
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  737. So you've had a vaccine but want your kids to get infected. Have I got that right?
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  738. You know when you read British history and its full of murder, corruption and sexual deviancy? Do you think that stuff suddenly stopped as soon as we got Daytime TV?
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  739. Sorry but that background really needs to go. It looks like some weird Nazi flag.
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  740. You're clearly not British. In Britain we have the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Express, Sun, Star, Spectator, Talk Radio, GB News on the Tory side as well as various oft-quoted but little-read blogs & other media outlets. Libs get the Guardian and the Daily Mirror & Byline Times. Channel 4 news is okay, but the Tories are trying to destroy that. And no, the BBC isn't left wing in its news coverage as watching them hate Corbyn would easily show.
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  741. They're thinking "Oh it looks like those anti-war marchers were right all along. Just like they were right in the 1960s when we were stuck in Vietnam".
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  742. Yeah good luck paying US style costs for minor healthcare.
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  743. Giving them a virus that will guaranteed disable 1-5% of them is not exactly a reputable alternative, is it? Why do you people hate kids so much that you'd happily destroy the lives of thousands of them to pwn the Libs?
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  744. Which is what Wooten does.
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  745. So if that's the case Western Governments who let it spread are culpable and western journalists who've been pushing antivax/antimask stuff are war criminals.
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  746.  @catherinesyme901  Yippee, a youtube video. You really think mass-infecting kids is going to be anything other than a disaster? How many are you happy to sacrifice?
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  747.  @Alto53  Is part protection. It isn't perfect, but gives some reduction in spread. Much like those campaigns in the 1940s to use a handkerchief when you sneeze weren't bulletproof, but had some effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRmpJ_dORXA I'm all for everyone having access to proper medical masks, but that would require our government to divert some of the cash its wasting to provide them.
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  748. Wait till you find out how much the clowns on this channel are paid... Of course they're not funded by the license - they're funded by foreign dark-money which is much worse when you think about it.
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  749.  @geo_neo9  The virus travels on water droplets you cough/breathe out. The droplets are quite large and a mask will catch most of them. Yes, they're not perfect and some bad stuff may escape but they definitely reduce the amount of bad stuff especially if used properly over your nose. This is about reducing risk, like with seat belts or condoms or washing your hands when you work in a restaurant. Not perfect, but it all helps.
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  750.  @Luton-Mick  The staff are great. The Tories are trying to destroy it.
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  751.  @davidr4114  Yes there is, stop lying.
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  752.  @JonMurray  As a mutant (thank you Astra Zeneca for the superpowers) I would fully agree. This channel is 4chan for Daily Mail types.
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  753. Believe Gates was a student of the ultra-difficult Harvard Math 55 course and certainly has a traditional math/computer science background as well as being the co-writer of MS Basic with Paul Allen. But then again MS bought in Dos from a third-party and whatever coding Gates did he probably stopped by the early 80s when MS really took off.
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  754. Or TV stations who make multiple stories about nothing in particular.
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  755. Go on Chris, tell us how? Does it involve the navy and killing people by any chance?...
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  756. Cool, maybe we can come up with a simple solution then - anyone who refuses vaccination and spreads the Rona gets the same treatment as someone who spreads AIDS - jail.
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  757. And you got your wish. You'll also get food shortages, disease, supply chain issues and more violent crime as a handy bonus.
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  758. They're using kids as an experiment. We'll be back here again in a few months only the Tories will this time need someone else to blame. Probs be the EU or summit.
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  759. I get amused at all the steroid bros online screaming about everyone being a low-t beta then they admit they went on TRT at 38 because of their low testosterone. The same bros are then like 'I'm not taking that vaccine, it might have side-effects!'
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  760. Or they're wondering why the pro-Europe rebel is now a Brexity reactionary who appears to have forgotten most of his own past. He's quite interesting to listen to and I honestly don't dislike the guy, but stop being a comedy boomer, mate.
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  761. And this channel.
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  762. It is also the symbol of British icons Zippy, Bungle, George and Geoffrey.
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  763. This week the big news will be Oxford students taking down a picture of the Queen. And one of them was American! THIS MEANS WAR!!!! <sarcasm to make a point in case Boris is getting any ideas>
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  764. Neil Oliver is a tv presenter with zero expertise in science or medicine. His opinion is utterly worthless in comparison to proper doctors.
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  765. Estimated by who? Colin?
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  766.  @klausswabs...e.u5650  Not this lefty. That's why I help people become safer by warning them about Tories.
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  767. Meanwhile Boris is culling the population and you're not bothered.
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  768.  @Maharan169  Many only had one jab, and there's always some breakthrough cases.
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  769. Here's a simple point that invalidates all this. Close to 90% of adults in the UK have had at least one shot. That applies to Conservative voters as well. So 9/10 adults apparently are not anti-vax. Hence where is all the anti-vax screaming coming from on here? I don't recall the same when elderly Tories were getting their shots. If GB News is a 'conservative' news station then where are all the Tory voters who have had their shots? Seems like the antivaxxers are protected and now willing to sacrifice the kids health for cash.
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  770. 3. He wants to be able to go after anyone who disagrees with him using the law while simultaneously whining about cancel culture. Remember kids, those on here whining about cancel culture are happy to let the libel lawyers loose on critics.
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  771. Lol, he's a muppet. Boris and co are crawling to the footie players now to hope a bit of the good will rubs off on them.
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  772.  @LSD04  Dishing out truth bombs is what am doing. Sorry if the truth hurts.
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  773. Parents are busy learning vaccines are bad on their Facebook feeds. Not really expecting them to study the history of discrimination as well.
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  774. @Clec Torres It's not the cold. It's a different virus. Stop making up drivel.
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  775. Has labour put up national insurance to pay the care bills of elderly Tory voters? Nope.
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  776. Funnily enough in the Netherlands groups of lawyers are getting ready to sue after they had their 'freedom day' and infections blew up. I would bet a lot of clubbers/drinkers won't be happy catching the Rona and many of these pubs will be buried with legal action.
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  777. @Anti Woke It's really not that hard to prove where people got infected, Denmark have already said 37% of cases this week were traced to hospitality businesses. If enough push legal action some cases will succeed. Unless the gov gives immunity which is a whole new minefield because that would also give immunity to dodgy restaurants poisoning the customers and take us back a century.
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  778. This is a very sensible comment. The people on here forget about all the nasty pollution which badly affects the poor and especially poor children. The wealthy Tory types also love to live in the countryside away from the pollution. They're okay with a nice environment - for themselves!
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  779. They're trying to grab the alt-right nerd audience who are offended by everything. Next week they'll be called the Mr Men communist or something.
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  780. Jeez, they're like robots. Urrrgghh, the woke, urrrggghhh.
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  781. Why, are they gonna be heated up by over-cooked gammons?
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  782.  @jnimitzch4738  Yes but listen to the chat here - its going to be aimed at one specific group, isn't it? Which means you miss out on all the other criminals. I mean the Kray twins ran businesses and were 'good lads' and friends with celebrities. Would they be searched under your proposals? No.
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  783.  @AlwaysEngland  No it isn't. Have you seen what happens to babies with hard-drinking mothers?
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  784.  @letitbe7108  The right-wing press have been whining about fat people for ages. They're blaming them for covid whereas last year they could just blame pensioners. I've even seen 'conservatives' online do stuff like post pictures of dead kids (who died of covid) and mock them for being fat.
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  785.  @AlwaysEngland  Yes I know this, but the point is that society has had restrictions on many things brought in to discourage them. If someone else has to pick up the bill (in say drink-related violence or drug treatment) then there will be pressure to restrict that behaviour. But we have a middle-class that blows up when anyone criticises them but happily criticise others. I used to chuckle at daily Mail articles - the 'chavs' would binge-drink and therefore should be in jail/have their benefits cut etc. But whenever they're print an article about middle-class drink drivers or the astounding number of quite well-off people with serious drink problems the readership would insist we need to help those people and not punish them. Same for mental health problems - depression in the middle-class - a bad illness. Depression in the poor - they're just lazy! Cut their benefits! Again, is a one law for us thing.
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  786.  @paulorobertos123  So why weren't WW2 civilian women hugely tubby then? Plenty had sedentary jobs (working in corner shops or offices), public exercise wasn't much of a thing, night-life curtailed in the big cities... but still thinner. Am not trying to be a contrarian here dude or doubt the laws of physics but is pretty obvious something else is going on that we're not understanding. Tim Spector (the Zoe app guy) wrote a book on the microbiome a while back and pointed out something very interesting - in modern Britain those with better less physical jobs tend to be on average slimmer than working-class people in harder jobs. The yummy mummy vs the council estate mum if you will. Or check out nurses in your local hospital compared to doctors. There's no reason why that should be the case - after all the affluent tend to eat out a lot and drive everywhere. So unless you postulate middle-class people are all secretly doing vast amounts of exercise on the sly we have a bit of a conundrum.
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  787.  @rangdangdiggetydangdadang7508  Give culling the population a go?
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  788.  @rangdangdiggetydangdadang7508  So you're okay with the culling? Do tell.
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  789. Are you his mum Shelley? He's a culture war dullard saying exactly the same as everyone else. Even Piers Morgan wrote a book on the same topic and there's been a good dozen other British culture war books in the past year.
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  790. Your definition of common sense is a bit off.
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  791. Andrew Neil earns more than Boris and has only worked a fortnight on this channel before slacking off.
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  792. Its a creation of the right. Both in the historical sense (Remember the Dixie Chicks? Video nasties? The Beatles being bigger than Jesus? Paul McCartney singing about Ireland?) and in the modern form where the right exaggerate a story then spend months rattling on about cancel culture. Very tedious people. They appear to have zero culture of their own & their role is simply whining about other far more talented creators.
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  793.  @berniestephens4506  I have a friend who hasn't fell down the GB News hole yet, but she has turned into a militant paranoid anti-vaxxer based on her education by the Daily Mail and now religiously watches Tucker Carlson on youtube and sends rants to my whatsapp about Ivermectin (and we're both in the UK). So yep, can definitely see how right-wing media addles people's brains!
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  794. It is glamorising violence you absolute melt. We're supposed to be doing better after the MP got murdered last week and yet this channel is promoting a woman who is an absolute idiot.
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  795. Tell me how capitalism works when massive climate damage bankrupts the insurance industry, people are staving, there's gigantic movements of refugees and the property market collapses (fires, floods etc.)? Do you think we can all be financial advisers in that scenario?
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  796.  @johnb7071  So you can be biased if you get paid to be biased? Am I understanding you here?
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  797.  @johnb7071  But hang on, Andrew Neil worked at the BBC for years and no one called him out on his (far more egregious) biases?
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  798. But dooming your countrymen to death and disease because of your actions is selfish.
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  799. Yep, we've got Colin defending horse slappers, anti-vax drivel and New Zealand's worst emigrant gossip columnist vomiting this nonsense onto the airwaves.
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  800. Conspiracy theorists these days churn out right-wing drivel, get nearly everything wrong, don't do any research then all congratulate each other on Facebook for being Nostradamus-esque prophets.
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  801. Or maybe its the pandemic which has killed 130+ thousand Brits?
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  802.  @Andrew-ri5qo  Are we going to do the 'its not that bad, is all exaggerated' thing forever? It's getting extremely tiresome. Do you do the same with other illnesses? "My husband has just died of cancer." "Did he really, tho?" "What?" "Did he die of cancer or with cancer? ""Cancer!" "Oh, I don't know about that. Was getting on a bit, somewhat tubby, arthritis. Is wrong to say cancer killed him when it was clearly his own fault. He should have done more exercise and took his Vitamin D".... P.S. Suicides were relatively flat last year. Its been known for over a century that suicides tend to go down during wars. Well covid was similar to a war (all stick together against a common enemy sort of thing) and the mass-suicides the covid deniers said would happen didn't... P.P.S. Those dead people all have death certificates. If there was mass fraud in those am pretty sure the life insurance (And medical in the US) company lawyers/actuaries would have been on to it like a shot.
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  803. She's probably also thinking of the 'war on poverty'. Helping the poor is bad, kids.
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  804. You mean Trump, father of the Jan 6th insurrection who got voted out by a disgusted US population? That Trump? Trump whose own (first) wife accused him of beating her up and being obsessed with Hitler? Trump with the coke-addled son and the sons who love shooting rare animals?
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  805. Spain was importing Britons who don't integrate and don't speak the Language. Should Spain mass deport all their gammons? How about people like Kate's Uncle Gary who is a drug dealer? Should he be sent back to the UK?
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  806. Is that why right-wingers always talk in the same buzzwords and seem unable to process humour?
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  807. @Neria Wolf He's schooling you on history.
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  808. If it helps, Hitler soon became psychotically right-wing as any decent historian will point out. And if we're honest he wasn't actually left-wing anyway - just somewhat hateful of the established order - like modern Tories whining about 'woke business', Bill Gates etc. You know who also started as a liberal lefty? Reagan.
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  809. @Radical Centrist God True, but in Hitler's case I think we can safely argue he was on the right. As most historians do, including those writing at the time. The 'Hitler is a lefty' thing really was pushed by characters like Pat Buchanan in the 90s and isn't taken seriously by anyone who isn't David Irving. Is not hard - Stalin - extreme left murderer. Hitler - extreme right murderer.
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  810. The EU isn't going anywhere. Lockdowns will come back due to antivax loons and Tory MPs who think the virus listens to stern headlines in the Daily Mail.
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  811. Because he's at least partially correct. Europe hasn't got the same food shortages as us, or the same fuel problems. There's covid-type supply chain issues but your average Euro supermarche looks a lot healthier than its British equivalent at the moment.
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  812. His 'How do you do, fellow kids?' online personality is cringeworthy. He's not remotely funny and doesn't seem to understand that he isn't Ryan Reynolds and can't do jokes on Twitter. Come to think of it, why does he spend so much time on there posting nonsense? Does he really think he's going to inspire a whole generation of teenagers to grow up with no taste in comedy?
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  813. Wait till you find out about how much the British covered up about Windscale...
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  814. Yeah, sitting on the beach with your mates chilling while Britain festers in gloom and hatred.
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  815.  C Bee  Yeah, Brits don't actually like fascism mate. If you want to push it then fine, but as they say on the interwebs f*** around and find out. You won't come out of it well.
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  816.  @jaydentate6080  So destroying one's own country is something to Tories are proud of now?
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  817. I think the mass death did a bit of scaring. Is funny that Boomers were all for restrictions and now they've had their shots they're obsessed with 'freedom'. Hmmm.
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  818. As opposed to tabloid advice which was worse. Remember 'no second wave', 'covid is over', 'PCR tests don't work', 'Boris saves Christmas'...?
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  819. No it isn't. If you believe the world is flat and the BBC says it isn't and lists a dozen reasons why the world is not flat then is the BBC trying to control you, or are you an idiot?
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  820.  @apebass2215  Well go on, tell me what isn't misinformation about all the covid falsehoods that are spread by this channel?
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  821.  @viper_fan  I was reading articles years ago about the need for extra food storage & gas storage in the event of Brexit. Half a decade later and these muppets have so far managed to build a car park in Kent.
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  822. But she's on a channel that got 60 million in funding and can't even get their audio right. Is that an example of private sector efficiency?
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  823. Because 1% of 66 million is still an enormous number of people.
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  824.  @chrishart8548  Poor people are more worried about their universal credit being cut than holidays to Barbados, mate...
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  825. Nah, what's happened is the Tories are borrowing from the Trumpists in America and declaring everything part of the culture war. The vast majority of the people don't care and know the right are the ones stoking the division. The current take a knee gesture is no different to the other anti-racism campaigns in football going back many years. What is different is angry tabloids trying to stir up trouble.
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  826. Pat forgets to mention that the Tory party also supported the war. Labour had more rebels against it than the Tories. Yes Blair is a prime scumbag, but the war was massively popular among the establishment and media of the time. Remember the names the anti-war folks got called? Remember how hated they were? Yet they were 100% correct.
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  827.  @LestWeForget-LestWeForget  Which is weird because several million turned up at the anti-war main protest because ordinary people could see the info mentioned in the press was dodgy. I'd expect MPs to have done as much research as those ordinary people, but apparently not. Even aside from that, you'd have imagined the history of the UK in Afghanistan should have alerted the population to how things went wrong in the past and likely would again.
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  828. Yes, back in the days when he was respected and looked forward to a long career.
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  829. Well yes, that's quite possible if the situation gets worse.
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  830. You will note that when us political moderates pointed out issues with covid that the Tory press said we were all hysterical, we wouldn't have a second wave and that we should all forget about covid. The Tory press & the goblins they got elected have done more damage to this country in 18 months than Hitler managed in the Blitz.
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  831. They're not scared of different opinions. They're scared of stupid opinions who can ruin lives. So if for example doctors say something about covid their opinions are clearly worth more than Doris commenting in the Daily Express. But thanks to social media and right-wing news lunacy the country is full of Doris-type ranters and actual democracy is suffering. We live in a country with Richard Madely and Right Said Fred get more say about the pandemic than actual medical doctors. Terrifying.
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  832. They're going to try!
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  833.  @beautifulspirit7420  But maybe if he was witty his point would come across better. As it stands he's identical to all the other Tories complaining about being cancelled (while having their own TV show/radio show/newspaper column).
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  834. You seem to forget... 1990s - attack on World Trade center McVeigh's attack on Murrah building 2001 - 911 London bombing 2005 Other London bombings since 'War on terror' Abu Ghraib And so on...
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  835. The scientists have been right tho. The gossip columnist Meghan experts have been wrong. Scientists for the win.
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  836. They actually did and every time that happened the right-wing press called them loonie lefties and mounted angry campaigns against them.
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  837.  @lumpyfishgravy  I'm clearly the most intelligent bot around and will be world famous when I pass the Turing Test.
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  838. Fred West Jnr thinks his rants are profound while he's just being pro-covid and encouraging the deaths of his own viewers.
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  839. So you're believing the government now?
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  840. I recall the Met police arresting a bunch of distraught feminists at a ceremony for a girl who was horribly murdered by... a member of the Met police. Not sure that murdering women and arresting feminists counts as woke?
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  841. Wait till the insurance companies start collapsing due to all the money they have to pay out for floods, fires and worldwide disasters.
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  842. But the ones pushing it the most are Tory papers like the Mail, Sun and Express...
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  843. a) It reduces your chance of dying massively b) Reduced viral load means less chance of passing it on & less chance of ending up in hospital c) If everyone gets their shot then the Rona will basically fade into the background due to a and b. Do keep up.
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  844. Greed. The idea is that access to space gives access to unlimited resources. So why struggle getting permits on Earth to mine gold, for example, when you can bring 50,000 ton of the stuff back via robot space miners? In reality is a bit of a stupid idea as a) Oversupply will collapse the price and b) The technology is nowhere near close enough, yet. There's also the space tourism angle which should be lucrative except the sort of people who can afford space tourism are mainly older and relatively few will be able to cope with it physically.
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  845. We actually don't mind other views (My friends include Brexiteers, Muslims, Christians, & several paranoid conspiracy wonks). What we mind is when people get to be arseholes and try to cause trouble saying stupid things. The right-wing grift these days is usually to annoy others, then get shouted down, then whine about cancel culture.
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  846. 'we expected a rough ride on trade.' - yet you never ever mentioned that during the referendum campaign?
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  847. Everyone here keeps saying the jabs are evil and experimental, so if you're okay with giving immigrants them, then you should be fine with giving them to British kids?
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  848.  @alland1241  I'm not mate, I'm lovely. Unlike that cretinous shock jock for morons. I'd rather do a swap with Jacinda and give Wooten back to NZ in return for, well, anything really.
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  849. It wasn't the truth. It was him being an idiot 'haha, I'm okay, anyone who isn't is a coward!' It was pathetic.
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  850. Because the info and facts most of the antivaxxers show is drivel off the Internet paid for by dark money billionaires. I would suggest going to the local library and spending a few months reading through some actual biology textbooks.
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  851. Would that be all fans or just the racist ones? Because am pretty certain most fans are fine with it.
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  852. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors Well as that hasn't happened so far after 30+ million people being vaccinated then I think you're puking out paranoia for the sake of it.
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  853. Imagine you had syphilis and no woman would go near you until you were cured. Would GB News run a story 'Women to blame for not putting out for patriotic British male'? Why blame France for a clear British problem?
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  854.  @martinriggs9116  It means lots of idiots who spread lies to manipulate the population. It's an old idea, see: Machiavelli or the KGB's disinformation campaigns. What effective treatments do you wish to discuss? Ivermectin whose biggest study was withdrawn the other day? Steroids? already being used. Anthromycin? Useless. Vitamin D? Already being used.
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  855. "I'm a practising Christian"...5 seconds later... "illegal-immigrant loving" Hang on a sec, didn't the Lord Jesus love everyone? Wasn't the Lord Jesus born from parents who were poor and travelling to a different country ("No room at the inn")? How can Platell claim to be a Christian when she ignores the actual teaching of the Lord? Is she an Anne Widdecombe Christian?
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  856. Florida had thousands die of the Rona, despite having a lower population density than the UK and a more affable healthy climate.
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  857. You'd expect a news channel to give you news, not the personal perspective of the idiot presenters...
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  858. That's why you fail. You're angry at the scientists and seem to think a pandemic can just vanish at a specific time.
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  859. They work. Aussies don't want the sort of death numbers that happened in the UK. Which before anyone whines 'We locked down!' - we did it late, kept reopening travel corridors and now are completely ignoring restrictions. This is not how you handle a pandemic.
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  860. The rich don't want to pay so they're telling us we will in the hope that we'll fight to stamp on any climate protection laws. Pat is basically a bootlicker for them. The simple solution is to tax the rich more which reflects the amount of energy they waste with their yachts and mansions and play space rockets.
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  861.  @MrRealstreet  But this is as establishment as it gets. Neil is a Murdoch acolyte, its pushing right-wing big business-friendly news and its almost completely ignoring the problems of the country in favour of pushing 'opinion' by idiots. Lord Haw Haw-level stuff.
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  862.  @lumpyfishgravy  Witty cultural critic. I'm both hilarious and far more of a real British patriot than the Bot army on here droning on endlessly about taking the knee.
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  863.  @amberann1229  But Fox is an idiot and knows zero about medicine, so why are you following his advice?
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  864. Well as we've had actual passports for a century, can you explain why a covid pass is bad?
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  865.  @arrangrant6037  I can indeed explain that. The advertising authorities wanted ads to be more diverse and reflect the country as a whole. But ads are short and they use visual shorthand to represent this (rather than having characters spend time going 'I'm a working-class mum from Burnley, and here is my friend who likes Strictly and breeding pugs'). Which is why we get the mixed-race couple, the gay couple etc. A similar thing happened in the 80s when ad companies wanted to appeal to feminist women in corporate jobs so we got a whole slew of ads featuring feisty ladies outdoing their male counterparts (think Paula Hamilton in the VW ad or the one where the office lady cuts the balls off a Newton's Cradle).
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  866.  @stoufer2000  The same people who want a race war in response to terrorists are fine with the government screwing-up and killing over a hundred thousand of their fellow citizens. Is almost as if these characters are pushing a sinister neo-fascist agenda and aren't really that bothered about democracy and stuff.
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  867. Suppose it might have something to do with Biden getting lots of vaccinations done and asking for people to wear masks. If your whole reason for living is based around 'government is bad' then watching government do a pretty good job of controlling the pandemic will make your bow-tie spin.
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  868. Yes mate but in your worldview everything is left-wing extremists so it makes you come across as a bit weird and paranoid.
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  869. Get a mask and a squirty bottle. Fill it with water. Spray water on floor. Note how much water there is. Now spray water on mask. Hardly any drips through on to the floor. Water molecules are smaller than viruses, ergo masks have some efficacy. Do this experiment at your own leisure. Is easy and it works.
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  870.  @bobjames6622  Do the experiment Bob. Is science and you might learn something.
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  871.  @jimmimckenzie8549  So why have doctors been wearing surgical masks in hospitals forever?
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  872. And yet you were all for them when it was protecting boomers. Now its the (non Tory voting) kids we're suddenly anti-vax again.
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  873. Wearing a mask isn't removing human rights. No more than asking people to wear pants is.
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  874. Did the blonde lady hurt the fee fees of the priapic gonk then?
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  875.  @TonionDuFromage  I know, he comes across as a right sociopath. WW2 saw a decade of rationing, years of people having to turn their lights out, constant aerial bombings - and for many it was worse than that. This absolute Hobbit is using his position to sew division and make people frightened of a vaccine that may well save their life. I'm honestly quite worried about how many young people will end up with long covid and what weird illnesses they'll develop. But Neil doesn't care, so long as he can get paid to sit round spewing out complete nonsense.
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  876. But the rights to them are owned by Discovery, who is a chief investor in GB News.
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  877. Greece and Turkey don't think so. https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/seven-days-amid-flames-a-journos-account-of-wildfires-in-turkey/news
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  878. Which will last until about 5 minutes after the first covid breakout. Then shut. Via police. Forever.
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  879. Covid has killed a few kids, killed a lot of pregnant women and has given thousands of kids IN THE UK long-term symptoms. But keep being antivax - after all, who cares about our future workforce when we can point score now.
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  880. You've achieved more than Wooten then.
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  881. P.S. we saw 'added value' during the pandemic. People working in supermarkets, carers and the like keeping the country running while think tank experts and CEOs sat at home and moaned on Zoom. Keep telling those people they don't add value and watch your entire country's economy implode. See: Shortages in Farming, truck driving, care work etc.
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  882. Yep, is perfectly fair to have public owned critical infrastructure. There's even a 'conservative' reason for such a thing, as in such assets are strategically essential. No point in selling off everything to countries who can then turn the screw and trounce our economy. But sadly politics are dominated by free-market idiots.
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  883. Tory government. Was always that way. Lots of smackheads around under Thatcher, plus footie hooligans, plus record levels of muggings.
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  884.  @shanjanusman9974  Are they actually depopulating or is that something you got from a facebook conspiracy site?
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  885.  @shanjanusman9974  Or y'know waste less on cruise ships and useless junk and use better technology to create energy? Stop chopping forests down, stop polluting the oceans? Build giant solar arrays in deserts linked to countries via frozen superconducting cables (engineering of this is hard, but not that hard - it just costs a lot). Yes the UN etc. are fans of stable family sizes which you get with proper healthcare and educating girls. Nothing wrong with that - am sure those girls would be fine with a couple of healthy kids rather than have eight who all die of disease before they're three. Remember folks: One rich person with a rocket ship & private island uses thousands of times more resources than a family in India.
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  886. I bet they used the plague as an excuse in the middle-ages, too. Those darn disease fans.
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  887.  Colin Robinson  He loved Trump and Guns and liked Joe Rogan. Def not a lefty. Was on his Youtube page, that's now been taken down.
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  888.  @breakablehandlewithcare  His Youtube and Facebook pages. Being reported all over the media (proper media, not this thing).
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  889.  Colin Robinson  Left wingers tend to get girlfriends, mate. That's why most of Jordan Peterson's followers are so easy to grift into right-wing causes.
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  890.  @stevenpaddybwoy  Oh dear, you sound like Jake. Please stop it.
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  891.  @S-North  We don't know yet but it seems like the usual fuming hatred that is so common in these characters. Some do it for fame and notoriety, some do it because they want to start a war (seriously, google 'Beta uprising'). The fact that it is quite hard to get your hands on a gun in Britain indicates that he'd be thinking about doing this for some time.
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  892. What has diversity got to do with a white copper kidnapping and murdering a young woman?
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  893.  @ogcpw4746  How is basic disease aetiology 'communist'? Is this the level this channel is operating on?
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  894. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors You've selectively posted papers. No one has said masks work 100% but they are useful and are used not just in the medical field. If masks were that useless then why do semiconductor plants make workers wear them to stop contamination of equipment?
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  895.  @chugnorris7091  Himself and his mum's Facebook meme group.
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  896. He's not. He's a grifter pushing the usual drivel.
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  897. Have heard the term 'performative masculinity', i.e. putting on a show on what 'being a man' is supposedly about and it really does describe so many of these guys who appear to have zero confidence in themselves so need to boast constantly about how tough they are. I remember seeing a Royal Marine unarmed combat display once. You had these dudes who literally are trained killers doing a show in front of a stunned audience where they're attacking each other with baseball bats, knives, waving guns around and doing stuff that looked like what you'd see in an action movie. The most telling thing was the guys all looked completely average and nondescript. Normal blokes who could walk past you in the street but you wouldn't pay attention to or be intimidated by them. I bet those blokes have confidence in their masculinity and don't feel the need to tell everyone about their manly tattoo or how much they like chopping wood while eating bacon.
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  898. No, its full of doctors and scientists and Tory ministers. Do keep up.
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  899. Talk Radio is a propaganda network for rich vermin to spread their drivel.
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  900. That's cancel culture. I know I keep saying the same thing but no one on here understands English, seemingly.
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  901. The Tories (like the Repubs in the US) have kicked off every time there's an attempt to deal with obesity. They like the massive amounts of cash they get from junk food companies and don't really care about the peasants.
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  902. It really isn't. Winters in the UK are much, much milder than they were 40 years ago. Summers are wetter and a bit hotter (aside from the odd scorcher like 76). By the way, acid rain dropped off because it was caused by pollution from burning coal. Less coal=less acid rain.
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  903. No smiler, they've had their pay chopped for years because of 'austerity', so they go through the pandemic, get promised some financial bonus then end up with 1% while the government blew 37 billion on Test and Trace. The NHS staff have far more of a sense of duty than you could ever know.
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  904. Much aid actually is mutually beneficial and done to make money for British corporations. We give them X, they give us a contract worth X+Y (where Y is a very big number). If we ditched the aid those contracts would go to the Chinese or Russians instead. Is all about the cash.
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  905.  @lanes9561  Also about 1/500 Britons as well.
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  906. Yet Dan is in favour of disease-spreading anti-lockdown protests. Hypocrite much?
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  907.  @MayorOfBigDaddysPizza  I wasn't a fan of protests during that summer & did indeed criticise them, but to be fair most of them did wear masks and weren't deliberately trying to spread the mange.
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  908. @UCPU2kanyFVPtRNf4B4_ZLqw Dear me. You absolute monumental brainlet. Millions of people dead and you think it wasn't real. Good grief.
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  909.  @LSD04  You do know Veritas is full of liars and clowns who selectively edit things to make people look bad?
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  910. The election was 2020. Are bots getting stupider?
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  911. Long covid is a thing. It has disabled thousands. President Biden has just admitted as much in a press conference and said Americans disabled by it will be able to get disability help.
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  912. Well we're currently going to do a big experiment where we infect as many of them as possible. State school kids. Private ones have broken up.
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  913. Celebs are getting regular PCR tests. Ordinary people can't afford them. Yes celebs are hypocrites. What else is new?
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  914.  @fifthof1795  Military juntas are no better than democracy and tend to be far worse. Are conservatives pushing for fascism now?
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  915.  Terry Winter  They won't have to, they will have to shovel bodies into mass graves tho when corona does its thing.
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  916.  @dilipshah5882  You'll note from my comments I even respect the lives of gammons and am trying to save them from coronavirus & other self-destructive tabloid-induced idiocy. So yes all lives matter and that's why I don't mind people doing a bit of a thing to fight racism like the kneeling lads.
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  917.  @britishempireno1fan851  A bit like the ideology of the British Empire who you seem to be a fan of?
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  918.  @igotboredbutcouldntthinkof8018  The vaccine doesn't make you susceptible to variants. Mass infecting kids and creating a human petri dish however...
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  919. Gee is almost as if no one listened when scientists said tropical diseases would keep spreading due to development/increased tourism and so on.
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  920.  @clairemcfadyen1036  So you're okay with mass infecting young people all to prove a point? You're okay with startling levels of illness and long covid because you're addled by anti-vax social media drivel and don't believe the Rona is real?
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  921. Care to send a link to this story, as am thinking maybe there's a Scottish law or something allowing you to sack anyone quoting from The Big Bang Theory because it's shit?
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  922. Chuckle at the idea of Mars running on cryptocurrency like he suggested. Imagine a Mars colony wasting megawatts of energy to run a giant stack of servers making magic un-money instead of using the same energy to do something useful like pump water vapour from the regolith or keep life support systems working.
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  923. Yeah, about that. Where does all the meat come from?...
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  924.  @Oceansteve  That's you mate. What about the general population if they eat more meat? Consumption shoots up and is hard to farm that amount in a safe way - think of all the run-off of animal waste polluting water supplies in the US for example. Granted we could have lots of small farms and the like, but the current economic model goes against that due to efficiencies of scale.
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  925. Do you think anyone has told the 'journalists' on this channel about the facial recognition system used to unlock most modern phones? A similar system is now also in place in many high-end laptops. So apparently facial scanning with the info going to big tech is fine... unless the Scots do it??? (and let's not forget the facial recognition built in to Facebook...)
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  926.  @elkpaz560  So why grinch at the girl's accent?
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  927. And I recall most of the Tory party supported it, along with the Tory papers. No apology from them, either...
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  928. He gets beat by antifa every couple of months. Its his grift. Are you people too stupid to research this con man? https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-ngo-right-wing-troll-antifa-877914/
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  929.  The Rockall Times  To be fair Christianity is also a religion of peace and we've nuked countries, dropped chemical weapons on them and, y'know the whole slavery thing...
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  930.  Athos Aramis  The slavery that was practised by Christians for centuries. Yes I know other religions do it but my point in having a go at one particular religion is short-sighted and kind of silly.
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  931. White mate.
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  932. But there's tons of stories about Trump being a deviant. And remember he was pals with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  933. No it isn't. Let's go through this. Say you get in the shower and have a shower curtain. A water molecule is far smaller than a virus. Hence if your contention is correct water molecules would diffuse through the shower curtain and it would be 100% useless and every shower you took would drench the bathroom. In reality water is in droplets which are quite large and viruses are transported on droplets, the mask reduces the number of droplets being released into the air. T0y it. Put a mask on and cough on your arm. Is it wet? No.
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  934. Wait till they find out about the aliens, man...
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  935. Project: Revenge. Honestly the Daily Mail will be saying Farthing is a mean drunk who shouts at puppies by this time next week.
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  936. It clearly doesn't judging by how porky the UK and America are.
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  937. Much like you challenge the English spelling narrative?
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  938. Short answer: Yes, if you want the pandemic to end in the near future.
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  939.  @Andrew-ri5qo  Vaccine clearly does work otherwise we'd be having 6-700 deaths a day instead of 100. Is also noticeable in the US where the less vaccinated areas are currently getting an absolute kicking from covid.
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  940.  @Andrew-ri5qo  Nope, was from a big report that was mentioned in all the papers, on TV AND you could even have a look at it online and check things. I also use the govt stats page for NHS occupancy etc.
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  941. If only they weren't oppressed being forced to wear underwear...
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  942.  @robertgreen5217  Official government figures but has been in all the newspapers.... for example (using link below as no paywall): "The latest figures from NHS England show that there were 5,429 coronavirus patients in hospital in England at 8am on Monday August 16, up 6.5% from the 5,098 on Monday, August 9." https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/covid-patients-england-hospitals-reach-21326430
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  943. You do know most of the private doctors work for the NHS in some manner?
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  944.  edda green  Go and do a search on this channel for how many Meghan stories they've had since launch. Pages and pages of them. Last time I checked Megs hadn't done anything that deserved such vast coverage. But she's click-worthy. That's it.
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  945. Yes, Oliver is one of those propagandists who wants people to die.
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  946. Or the story about Twitter releasing details of the racist tweets aimed at the footy lads. GB News said they were all foreign. Apparently most were from the UK and we now have the data.
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  947. Quick tip for people wondering about this. China is expanding and has a large middle-class. India ditto. Middle-classes like cars and will be happy to pay for them. In ten years time there's suddenly an extra 100 million cars on their roads and fuel extraction will be about the same as it is now. So either: a) We find more fuel by digging up Antarctica or something equally evil. b) We price the masses out of transport. or c) We get electric cars working. We could of course be sensible and build decent mass transit systems and encourage people to walk places instead of driving to Tesco, but at the moment no one wants that (less £££).
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  948. Fake news is not going to do anything other than make them even more loathed.
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  949. That's what voting Tory gets you. Labour were idiots for introducing tuition fees but they kept them relatively low, unlike Dave and his creepy chums.
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  950. This channel, yes. Have lots of people on complaining that they can't speak when they're never off the telly.
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  951.  @suzesinger6762  I never upvote myself. Sorry if you're offended that I'm building a fan base, dude.
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  952.  @annamack5823  Yeah, yeah, we all have to start somewhere.
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  953.  @annamack5823  It isn't gene therapy - there's several different vaccine technologies and none of them are actually altering your DNA. I have a feeling tho this stuff will be the cover story for when covid kills more. The conspiracy wonks who sat by and let it spread won't be able to blame their own stupidity, so it'll be the magic vaccine plot.* *note the word plot - as in dramatic plot - see V for Vendetta or Utopia (or V the remake). They're confusing sci-fi with real life.
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  954. Cavill. Go watch his take in the Man from Uncle film made a few years ago. Does indeed look like a Bond audition...
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  955. Well one idea is that dancing to shit songs is really fun.
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  956. There was a doctor in the 1800s called Ignaz Semmelweis. He theorised that disease was being spread in hospitals by staff not washing their hands. At the time this was a massively controversial take and he was hounded by his peers and ended up dying in a mental hospital. A few years later Pasteur produced his work on germ theory and it became apparent why Semmelweis was completely correct all along. We don't teach two year olds about hospitals in the 1800s, but we do teach them to wash their hands when they go the bathroom & that germs are bad and kids quickly learn to do that with occasional parental intervention. Same deal with masks - is a bit uncomfortable but once they get into a routine they'll be fine. Adult dickheads - not so much.
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  957. Your wife does that, too.
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  958. And please get your shots. Don't listen to this Jester who can't wear a mask but is happy to walk round with a surgically attached scarf on 24/7.
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  959.  @tanseygreen291  Dexamethasone is also cheap and is widely used. So...
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  960. Well if you stick hundreds of people in a church all singing them covid spreads very rapidly. As seen in numerous cases in the US. https://news.yahoo.com/6-members-one-florida-church-013442875.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALiLp-dvl05lrMmGqGcrqzVCeQEm7GPnwdifwv5i3fYU8daXV9h_mLcvAzz2VZi3obX83PlClkc_lSIo5PQTpGuyTJNtbsiWfShSUm9Yd9XE9Xz930YkLQv4sKfmkSsimXlEL0f0O56hdK6EfmnyFODe91XgYi2RFJCc2G6MaMsS Off-licenses (bottle shops) were kept open for the same reason they were kept open elsewhere - there's a fair few alcoholics and with bars shut no availability of alcohol would guarantee many of said alcoholics flipping out and ending up in hospital.
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  961. Let's go through this again - it is not the flu. It is a different virus. Calling covid the flu is like calling a dog a cat because they both have legs and live with people.
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  962.  @MrMellowMan  Because most of those are drivel and usually come from the same dozen anti-vax pushers (the 'disinformation dozen').
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  963.  @ajm1293  He didn't. He worked on it, didn't invent the tech and hasn't published anything in years.
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  964.  @taniayager3361  Were they the 'eminent' doctors pushing hydroxy? Or Ivermectin? Or saying the vaccine was full of nanobots? Or claiming covid is just a cold? Or claiming no one is dying of it? Because the Internet is full of those clowns and they still get regularly promoted on here.
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  965.  @paulg451  In which case covid has far more spike proteins than the vaccine and can reproduce massively in the body, therefore is still better to get the vaccine than covid. Do you lot think this stuff through before you post it, or is it just a bullet point list you spam on every message board?
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  966. If that's the case then am sure you'll be happy earning a few quid and putting yourself up for some medical trials. You can be infected with the variants and doctors can monitor the 'nothing', thus you'll be helping science. But am sure you won't do that because you know full well you're spreading misinformation and don't have the guts to do it.
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  967.  @sparkels1000  You misread my point. If the virus isn't dangerous then all the posters telling us its not dangerous should be able to show us how not dangerous it is by volunteering for infection. The fact they don't and are also scared of the vaccine shows that they're not really anything other than misinformation spreaders. And thalidomide wasn't a vaccine. It was a drug produced containing molecules of the wrong chirality which proved toxic. It should never have been allowed and funnily enough the Americans restricted it after not being happy about the safety data, so science actually worked in their case and saved many kids.
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  968.  @luckyluke1503  Yep, been the case through history. Go have a read about Williamson's Tunnels - built by an eccentric businessman in the Victorian era who hired many destitute soldiers as workers.
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  969.  @FredSpade  Mate, its the right weakening their own countries through incompetence and malice. 'Woke' hasn't killed 130000 Brits in a year - Boris and his incompetence has. See also: Trump, Bolsonaro. Meanwhile New Zealand has a nice lady running it who looks like your kid's favourite school teacher - and she's kept their economy running fine aside from a couple of temporary lockdowns while also managing not to kill thousands of her own people.
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  970. You voted for them. You own this.
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  971. Become a lithium miner, just like on Earth but earn e-scrips to spend at the Tesla shop on food and oxygen.
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  972. It's distraction. Keep people frothing while the overclass pick their pockets.
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  973. Well there's lots of dead anti-vaxxers so far. Is that what you mean?
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  974. @Retro Picker78 How can I be a shill if am telling the truth? Does the truth hurt you?
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  975.  @blue24563  Am sure you're a real man Dave. In my experience on line guys screaming about beta males, soy boys and the like are always... beta male/soy boy-ish (Think Paul Joseph Watson or Ben Shapiro).
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  976.  @nockianlifter661  The Tories massively cut police numbers. Matter of record, squire.
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  977.  @andrewoliver8930  He stuffs up constantly but the media give him an easy time. Seriously, imagine Jezza got elected and after 18 months there's 128000 dead of Corona and he's borrowed £300 billion. Would he get an easy ride? Nope, he'd be dragged into the street in a military coup and people would be cheering at his political demise.
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  978.  @FantasticallyAmazing  When push comes to shove I'm not supporting genocide, which you clearly are. And a casual glance at any of my comments will show how much I loathe the Tory party. Who funnily enough are doing the exact same strategy you're promoting. Hmmm.
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  979. "Everything the state does it gets wrong"... Right, Cathy, so you don't support our troops then? You want to get rid of the police? Sell off the RAF? Sell off the Queen?
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  980.  @letitbe7108  You sound bitter that you failed at university.
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  981.  @letitbe7108  No, that's nonsense from American right-wing sites. Stop spreading drivel.
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  982. Are you an irate hotel maid?
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  983. They were caused by mass production of CFCs. CFCs were banned in the 80s. Problem now solving itself.
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  984. To be fair the BBC is better than this nonsense. Please don't brainwash your kids with right-wing drivel. They'll grow up hating you.
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  985. I know man, all it takes is one ginger bird to go ballistic and call Tories scum and the entire Tory party have a meltdown. Whats that about?
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  986.  @JC-rd7ev  Well is simple. The antivaxxers are also the same people who don't want masks, or lockdowns or ventillation or distancing. When asked what they'd do to save lives they say something like 'herd immunity' or even deny covid is that dangerous. So when thousands are actively fighting to spread a pandemic disease the result is going to be lots of dead people. For example today, we have Marcus Birks. Go google and read his story.
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  987.  @JC-rd7ev  Sorry, but giant organised groups against the vaccine is the very definition of anti-vaxxers. They're not arguing from a position of sincerity. Take last week... "We don't want the vaccine, its not been FDA approved." FDA approves it. "Yeah, still not getting it until there's ten years of safety data". They forever change the goalposts and clearly have a very dark agenda.
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  988. Got to admit, GB News has actually done something amazing. They've managed to disappoint me more than the Return of Skywalker.
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  989. No need. British nightclubs open. Free STI with every night out!
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  990.  @threehead99  Thanks for that, really good info. Am in Europe so not familiar with the organisation of US rail outside of the basics, but what would it take to be able to rewrite the federal laws and create a framework where the rail business could expand like in Japan etc.? Is state subsidy out of the question like in other countries? Is the car lobby too strong and able to stamp on any public transport systems like happened post-war?
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  991.  @stevetarrant3362  Pro Tip: Anti-vax sites are not a reliable source of information. Pro Tip 2: The people on the anti-vax sites telling you how dangerous they are have all had their shots but lie about it. This is why they're terrified of 'vaccine passports' as they'll get found out.
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  992.  @djames6780  No they're not. No one is asking you to bow, is a gesture they do at footie matches & similar, its really no big deal. Is fascinating in a world where the far-right is more ascendant than at any time in fifty years so many people are scared of mythical communists while making excuses for the fascists.
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  993.  @MattyFreedom  What, so the four million (+) dead people and the world medical systems falling apart and the millions who haven't properly recovered from covid is all a figment of my imagination?
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  994.  @psychominded3243  No they won't. Cancer treatment is delayed due to the Rona - which would easily kill many cancer patients - and docs were doing treatments, they just had to be very, very careful. Suicide tends to go down at times of war or national crisis (Durkheim wrote about it over a century ago). Suicide is currently not rising in the UK. Business problems, yep. A big deal we need to fix. New World Order? No, that's drivel from US conspiracy sites. There's not a plot to take over the world by giving people a vaccine, that's just utterly stupid and shows how far gone the conspiracy world is.
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  995.  @scdobserver835  Nigel Farage got fake knighted by a small child on Russian TV and took the knee for that, yet GB News have hired him. They seem a bit hypocritical, no?
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  996. But the funny thing is they understand the necessity of it, as opposed to the gremlins posting comments here who scream communism at everything like angry toddlers.
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  997. Which is funny because he got voted out as soon as the war was over. The people were kind of sick of him - and that included a lot of returning soldiers. Yes, he got back later after a financial crisis but the Churchill mythology is constantly exaggerated by modern media. Instead of being honest that he was a good war leader but very flawed person who made horrid mistakes we've elevated him to almost Godlike status and its all a bit personality cultish.
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  998. 'Inoculation of children is not necessary' - apart from all those inoculations they have anyway. Or do you mean inocculation for C19? Because C19 also makes kids very ill. I suspect you'd freak out to see your kid in the hospital pumped full of steroids because they've got multi system inflammatory disorder.
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  999.  @lulusbackintown1478  Not exact numbers, but the government are opening pediatric long covid clinics, so there's clearly an issue with long-term problems. Lots of coverage about it: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n385 Here's a page from Great Ormond St: https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/conditions-we-treat/paediatric-inflammatory-multisystem-syndrome-pims/
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  1000. No they weren't. We can all share out cultures, which is what we do all the time. There's a few reactionaries on the left and a lot more on the right who want to make a big deal of it though.
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  1001.  @RaferJeffersonIII  Developing better energy technology, public transport, making goods last instead of disposable junk, mass tree planting and so on... Oh yes and tax the billionaires. If you can blow $200 million on a yacht then you can pay for the damage you cause to the environment.
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  1002.  @RaferJeffersonIII  That's why we need more democracy and a media that isn't the propaganda wing of the ruling party.
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  1003. GB News fans are weird. Claim to be English patriots, but threaten everyone including police and doctors.
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  1004. The irony is that many of the 'Mickey Mouse' degrees are incredibly useful for people getting their chosen jobs. Take Alex above - English and journalism. No maths, no science, nothing so complex. And here she is. Even courses like tourism are oversubscribed because the people who do them tend to get good jobs very quickly.
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  1005. I don't recall our pal Ron helping us during the Falklands War? Are you suggesting this relationship disparity is only now when there's evidence of it going back decades? Did Eisenhower help us during Suez?
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  1006. The Chinese government is not going to risk a nuclear war over Taiwan. They play the long game - and can wait.
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  1007. The risk of vaccination is tiny compared to the risk of covid.
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  1008.  @christopherhulse8385  They have low vaccinations at present - hence the caution. Britain better numbers vax-wise but we still have a huge chunk of the population unvaccinated - hence our 30,000 daily cases with 50-100 dying a day here.
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  1009. Most of those drop-outs were going to the best universities and left when they started making money. Some went back years later and finally got their degrees/postgrads - examples include Steven Spielberg and Brian May. Many were also from wealthy families. Is pretty easy to drop out and try to start a business knowing that if you fail you can always go back and do your degree.
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  1010.  @luisbustamante9869  GB News hates everything British - the BBC, football, the RNLI, Prince Harry, the NHS..... just vile right-wing garbage and as unpatriotic as its possible to get.
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  1011. Oh look, its another attack on the NHS by some jumped-up little propagandist cretin. Covid is causing huge problems all over the place. Look at Florida and Texas - no NHS there - the hospitals are filling and normal patients are not getting treatment.
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  1012. @Neria Wolf The 'facts' in this case being 'who cares if old people die'?
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  1013. Is baffling there's people who think the British media are leftist. It's honestly like getting attacked by a herd of elephants then telling your friends they were Giraffes. Your friends would be like 'Did you not see whats going on there?'
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  1014.  @nbandpinportugal  We live in a world with lots of cultures and lots of cultures in Britain. So what's your problem? Which part of multicultural don't you like?
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  1015.  @nbandpinportugal  No it isn't. Mail, Telegraph, Times, Express, TalkRadio etc. NOT THE LEFT.
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  1016.  @nbandpinportugal  That's an astroturf movement run by right-wingers. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/steve-anglesey-defund-the-bbc-campaign-87818
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  1017. By back do you mean 'power given to Tories and aristocrats to create a neo-fascist hovel of a country with no friends'?
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  1018. Do you have a memory longer than a goldfish? Do you remember Jo Cox getting murdered five years ago? What about when Ian Gow was blown up by an IRA car bomb in 1990? Or when Andrew Pennington was killed in 2000 by a sword attack? So we have politicians from all the main parties who have been murdered as well as various others attacked. This is incredibly disturbing.
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  1019.  @JoshuaBurgess  Insanity. We were able to run cables across the Atlantic ocean a century ago and somehow now we can't run fiber to rural America? Even in remote areas you could have 5g hubs with fairly decent Internet speeds.
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  1020. @Neria Wolf If it helps these sort of storms will damage a lot of Tory voter's properties and they'll be talking about it non stop forever. As you will when your insurance goes up, your food gets nastier and the economy tanks.
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  1021. Coronavirus likes this post.
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  1022.  @dragonforks93  The flu hasn't killed 150 thousands Brits in the past year and the flu hasn't filled up hospitals with sick people. But keep pushing the meme nonsense.
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  1023. I think every media hack who pontificates on public health should be forced to study public health and tested on it before they can go on TV. The thought of Wooton reading a book with big words & having a meltdown is positively hilarious.
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  1024. Racial equality is Marxist now. Sigh.
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  1025. Will the next Avengers movie feature Captain America getting a kicking from Captain Afghanistan?
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  1026. Is not a scam you cretin.
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  1027. Oh dear, are the conspiracy wonks going full fash now then? Mask off and all that...
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  1028. Right-wingers find taking the knee offensive because they've been told its offensive by right-wing newspapers. The same right-wingers also round wearing armbands offensive, and black power salutes and speeches about racism at the oscars. There's literally no gesture the footy players can do that won't offend the right-wingers. They were even frothing at the toy car in the Euro final.
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  1029. Your ability to understand English for one.
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  1030. And they'll be left to rot by the Tories, because they do that every time.
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  1031. No, because they don't understand it.
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  1032. Tucker walks into an Asian semiconductor fab, sniffs all over the equipment then gets a kicking from security and a $100,000 dollar bill for damaged silicon wafers.
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  1033.  @KernowFay  So its our fault the Tories with a majority screw up everything they touch? If Boris had gone no deal WTO it would have tanked our economy even worse. And what have vaccines got to do with it? Are you an anti-vax goblin?
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  1034. Climate science is a fundamental and a part of science. We need to teach kids about science so they don't all end up idiots like many of their parents.
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  1035.  @matthewsmith2787  And that will make things worse. Maybe that's the idea - set up raves so the rest of the population blame the young for spreading it and let Boris off the hook?
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  1036.  @slapperdinky  Oh please, you'd be running to the police screaming like a child the moment anyone hassled you.
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  1037.  @angrybrit7331  In what way are they waking up? Quoting conspiracy memes then voting for Boris seems a bit useless if you ask me.
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  1038. That's the most brainless comment I've read here all night. And I've read a lot of brainless comments.
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  1039.  @jasong5696  And the virus. The lack of humanity in these comments really disturbs me.
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  1040.  @liamhervin2254  So will Britain also pay reparations for spreading the Kent variant and causing Europe's post-Christmas wave?
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  1041. Yep. Plus the NZ health authorities won't have to pay for long-covid treatment AND their welfare system won't have to pay for sickness benefit for thousands of newly-disabled Kiwis.
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  1042. England is little different.
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  1043. Be better than the Boomers. Think about it, Boomers grew up with ' peace and love' and ended up reactionary old scumbags who happily threw their own kids under the bus. Today's kids can't be worse than that. In fact they'll probably be a heck of a lot better.
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  1044.  @rogermiller4929  You're reading from the script again and are incorrect. CO2 levels need to be relatively stable, large increases will increase atmospheric temperature which will melt permafrost and release methane - which is a worse greenhouse gas. Then you get a feedback loop, ocean currents go bonkers, rivers dry up and countries get hit with uncontrollable fires - you know, like is starting to happen now. The fact that you're a QAnon bot who believes the nonsense you're fed on conspiracy sites is actually quite disturbing.
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  1045.  @davidwesternall873  Okay, its an anti-parasitic that works by shutting down calcium channels in invertebrates, so is effectively a nerve agent for bugs and worms. This is why we give it to horses, and also why is used in humans. The alleged anti-viral properties of it only appear with very large doses and those doses can cause toxicity and liver damage. In the US people are using horse ivermectin because it comes in paste form and they can get it without a prescription. But dosing yourself as a 200lb person is not the same as dosing a 1200lb horse. Hence much sickness. Was funny how everyone was talking about Ivermectin curing Joe Rogan when in his own video he admitted having monoclonal antibodies, IV drips and steroids as well as other things.
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  1046.  @koelbird4608  Did you un-retire to help out during the pandemic?
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  1047. OMFG. You have to be joking.
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  1048. Many countries have an honest debate about the dark side of their history. Modern Americans know about slavery and the genocide of the natives, Germans know about the Third Reich, Belgians about their nastiness in the Congo. Pretending that somehow British history is being sullied by 'lefties' is actually re-writing history to suit the right-wing.
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  1049. I think this is a good idea. Nige can work as a trucker. Dan Wooten can work in an ICU helping to ventilate covid patients. Neil Oliver can work in a funeral home burying the covid dead. Could make a reality show out of it!
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  1050.  @sovietunionjack1505  Imagine Jack above being in the army. '"I'll do what I want, I'm not a communist', then the sarge laughs and orders him to peel potatoes for a week. Quick one Jack - look at the comments on here. Note all those 'individuals' who are all saying the same things, using the same words? The right are strikingly in lockstep these days to a creepy degree.
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  1051. In the 50s Britain took in thousands of Hungarians. No one complained they might be communist spies or nasty forrins. They were given money and jobs and housing with no problems. In the 70s we took in Ugandan Asians. People were fine with it (aside from the muppet Enoch). We've taken in refugees from many other places and Britain stays Britain and we keep chugging along.
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  1052. Loved the Mars trilogy. Heard an interview with Robinson a while back where he was saying that colonising Mars will be more complex that we (and he) thought. Considering his books are incredibly well-researched then methinks that dude knows what he's talking about.
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  1053.  @walkingcontradiction223  Thanks for the recommends, dude. Heard good things about Reynolds, will be sure to check him out. Only seen first season of the Expanse but did quite like it, sounds like the books are worth a look, too.
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  1054.  @truckerfromreno  I live somewhere with a large non-white population and people get on fine.
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  1055.  @oswaldmosley4315  Like when the French invaded? Or the Danes? Or when all the Eastern European workers came here in the Victorian era?
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  1056. Do you lot honestly want to see mass deaths from covid? Are you all secretly working for the Chinese or something being paid to encourage people to spread this thing?
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  1057. Meanwhile the Tories commit mass murder and this week have voted to dump raw sewage into rivers. Are you okay with that?
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  1058. That's because many are. If you are a hospital with cancer patients and there's a rona outbreak then those patients are massively at risk of dying from it. This is the whole reason some cancer treatments were limited - so Covid didn't kill more.
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  1059.  @cactusjackNV  Spoiler: There was. The posters are quoting the usual conspiracy guff they read on Facebook or similar.
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  1060. Yes, the secret plot hatched by Michael Faraday is working!!!
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  1061. If people are allowed the choice to work from home where possible this 1) Reduces pollution 2) Can help people like single parents (who can't afford childcare) return to work 3) Can help reduce stress - less commuting=more free time and 4) In addition to de-stressing many people with mental health issues may be able to work & thus pay taxes instead of claiming benefits. Is not for everybody and some may want a hybrid office/home work-week, but why not do this and help the economy?
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  1062. Jeez, am I having my comments deleted again? Seriously people, I'm doubling your viewing figures here and you're cancelling me????
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  1063. So the alternative is what? Let the Rona spread and kill off massive amounts of people?
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  1064. Well if natural antibodies worked that well then we wouldn't have needed vaccines in the past - or antibiotics. As we did, and still do, then your point is incorrect.
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  1065. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors No they're not. You know absolutely zero about medicine and it shows.
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  1066. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors So say you got to the doctors with a UTI, does the doctor: a) Say 'you've had one of these before. You should have antibodies. Go away and stop wasting my time' or b) Give you antibiotics
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  1067. Students shouldn't have university fees. It should be paid for via general taxation like it always used to be.
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  1068. Or maybe the anti-maskers, anti-lockdown and anti-vaxxers were wrong and have once again condemned their fellow British people to a rubbish winter?
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  1069. Did anyone vote for Andrew Neil? Did anyone vote for 'Sir Alan' sugar? Is Allison Pearson qualified to speak on medical matters? At least the scientists are following their training and trying to help out, unlike the other dolts who are more interested in their latest Bentley.
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  1070. @Kaligath I'm white and I thought it was mildly funny. Us white people really need to grow up and stop being reactionary plebs.
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  1071. Kids have been getting vaccinated for many, many decades. Stop talking drivel.
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  1072. So you wish to mass deport the West Indians. Is that what you're saying?
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  1073.  @MELLYBOY58  I am a traditional anti-fascist white British person. Not a fan of nazis or idiots. Which one are you?
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  1074. Ah, so he's being racist then. Not surprising.
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  1075.  @rhodriwilliams2599  Is mind-blowing they still don't understand that letting the Rona run rampant will mean economic dislocation, rules or no rules. Is baffling the same right-wingers who are terrified of Isis and Islamic terrorists think killing off thousands of their fellow citizens is a price worth paying so Alan Sugar can keep his rents up.
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  1076.  @sarahbrown5073  Can you explain how to build up one's immune system? And why all those healthy physically hardy people in history died of horrible diseases - they didn't have junk food or Netflix.
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  1077. I bet he's got fewer health problems than you have.
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  1078. No mate, the psychological experiement is people like Neil pushing a 'We should do nothing, let the weak die' narrative that will ensure the pandemic continues.
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  1079.  @MarcoNegrisEye  Donnie has form in shady business going back a good 40 years. Not paying suppliers, dishonesty, shady friends (Roy Cohn - Omg) and generally being useless because he has a severe personality disorder and doesn't know when to tone it down.
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  1080. @Neria Wolf I'm not the one covering up for their mendacity and incompetence, am I?
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  1081. No it isn't. Covid is really bad mojo. It doesn't kill many kids but it causes other problems.
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  1082. You do know that one of the traits of fascism as described by Eco is that the enemy is seen as both strong ('despots') and weak ('snowflakes') at the same time? Congratulations, you're puking out fascist propaganda.
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  1083. You think that other media doesn't have diversity roles and wealthy elitists at the helm? Oh, the truth will shock you...
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  1084. Yeah great, keep wasting power and the power companies will whack bills up even higher.
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  1085. And yet the highest death rates in the US are places with the lowest vaccination and fewest mitigation rules. Repubs are literally killing their own voters and will try and blame Biden. Staggering.
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  1086. A world in which doctors wear masks especially to care for kids with respiratory problems?
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  1087.  @laylamad5731  Very true. But what's interesting is the military keep pushing out fairly rubbish IR UFO footage but never release any of the imagery they would use to identify said UFOs - no high-speed gun camera footage for example.
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  1088. Tories doing the Tory thing and profiting from misfortune.
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  1089.  @chrishart8548  Also the reason why they're nagging everyone to go back to the office. Commercial property is worth a ton and since the pandemic... isn't.
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  1090. "Today I cried as I sit here watching people speak and yet their mouths do not match their words." "This morning the darkness enveloped me. I have tanked my entire career." "I f**** hate Paw Patrol. Little four-legged CGI B*******!!!!" Extract from the Diaries of Andrew Neil, 2020-2021, available at all good bookshops soon.
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  1091. So is the show about how they cancelled their own presenter and forced him to resign? No. Thought not.
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  1092. Why not? Its safer than getting ill with the Rona then ending up with long covid...
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  1093. Tell me something Neil has said that would help deal with covid? He's basically whined about everything and appears to be in the 'let the weak die' camp. That's not integrity - that's being a psycho.
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  1094.  @bobtermc7463  Really, so if you cut your finger and get an infection you sit round and wait to die, or go to a doctor and get a tetanus/antibiotic shot?
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  1095.  @oliverclements5011  You mean the customers who ensure Sports Direct is one of Britains most successful retailers?
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  1096. And you have to buy a telly too AND pay money for electricity. Not fair!!!
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  1097. Yes but Dora might grow up to be an explorer.
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  1098. Poison you. Hence why we can only eat certain plants as others will kill us.
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  1099. To be fair its Britain doing most of the whining here.
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  1100.  @TheEU-TradeEmbargo-On-Britain  Have you read the Daily Express recently? They whine incessantly. As do the Mail. And this channel. And the lying government ('Its not Brexit its... the pingdemic! The economy improving! Not our fault, honestly! Is the foreigners fault!')
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  1101.  @craigb7967  Is the Twitter bloke talking about those people who don't work in offices? No.
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  1102. The sad thing is they did have plans - and completely ignored them! Go and look up 'Exercise Alice', which was a simulation asking what would happen if Britain got hit by a pandemic coronavirus like MERS. I think it was from 2017 and recommended training, testing, contact tracing and building a stockpile of PPE just in case.
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  1103.  @pablocortando1  Well if you paid attention you'd see that 'GB NEWS' is pretending to be a patriotic British company but is foreign-funded and designed to stir up trouble in the UK. So I take their attacks on the NHS with a pinch of salt.
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  1104. Keep wearing them until we get cases right down to under 1000 a day. Simple; and if there's a future flare-up we can wear masks until it's sorted.
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  1105. Meanwhile we have an unelected Queen, an unelected house of Lords and Dougal from the Magic Roundabout as PM elected by a minority of voters. Hardly a shining example of 21st century democracy, is it?
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  1106. Pro-corona march. They do it every time cases come down and we look like being over the Rona - giant protests pop up which are anti-mask, anti-vax, encouraging people to break the rules. If your local restaurant had people outside telling you is fine if the waiters handle food with dirty hands and who cares anyway as most people don't die from Norovirus, you'd be very quickly finding another place to eat.
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  1107. There's mrna in meat as it contains genetic material of its former owner. However we cook meat and have guts full of acid which deals with it.
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  1108. Meanwhile GB News has lower ratings than Paw Patrol in Welsh. How's the 'anti-woke' thing coming along?
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  1109. No they're not. You're believing Facebook meme drivel. There may be a couple of cases (as happens with anything) but the jabs aren't killing thousands. Unlike the Rona, which has killed 3+ million.
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  1110. I don't think anyone is erasing it, more like looking at it with fresh eyes.
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  1111. Spoilers: they work. That's why surgeons, vets, semiconductor workers, clean-room engineers and the like wear them. Be honest, if two years ago you went in for an operation and the surgeon is standing there with no mask on coughing, would you have done anything other than freak out?
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  1112. Dear, dear me. No one was exploding nukes over Antarctica you absolute dolt. The hole was caused by mass use of CFCs. CFCs were phased out starting in the late 80s and every government did their bit - even Mrs Thatcher signed up to get rid of them.
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  1113. So how many years of poverty and shortages do we have to look forward to beforehand?
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  1114. Its about an idiot army paid for by the far-right superrich trying to collapse society by encouraging us all to spread disease and hate each other.
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  1115.  @maccagrabme  If humans chop down wilderness and come into contact with exotic viruses that spread and cause disease then humans should perhaps be careful with how they interact with their environment. And before anyone says 'Hur de hurr, China virus' the actual virus is certainly a natural occurrence, the question is how it got around. And we can ignore covid and look at the many other diseases spread because of human stupidity. Hence caution and respect for the ecosystem is a good thing. Much like respect for your neighbours pet Bear is a similarly wise position to take.
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  1116. Here's what's happening - the right-wing media is waging a propaganda war against restrictions because they like money more than human life. The idea is to get the population fuming so they won't accept restrictions but will instead just sit back and let the bodies pile up over the winter and blame doctors (so the NHS can be flogged off). Neil has always wanted the bodies to pile up. His videos are all about HIS freedom at the expense of other people's lives. Please stop listening to Scottish Charles Manson. Your lives may depend on it.
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  1117. What, as in Bannon-style? Uh-oh.
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  1118. By the way, today an f35 ditched in the sea. The pilot was thankfully fine, but the plane is a goner - £100+ million quid of state of the art VTOL plane dumped in the drink. If we can fund f35s (and nuclear submarines and new aircraft carriers) we can fund the NHS properly.
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  1119.  John Smith  Britain was certainly more peaceful than it is now.
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  1120. Teachers do want to teach and your alternative of mass-infecting the youth is utterly, utterly criminal.
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  1121. Someone tell Stewart Lee...
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  1122. @Neria Wolf Free speech mate, I'm pointing out Wooten is a clown.
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  1123.  @barbaraneville5036  I'd love Wooten to take me to court. Would do my own defence and point out all the times he's bent the truth and puked out misinformation.
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  1124. No they're not. We've acted like arseholes and many countries are ticked off at us.
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  1125. If you have lots of unvaccinated then they can spread it amongst themselves and spread it to people with compromised immunity for whom the vaccines are not successful. Then we all have to pay higher healthcare costs to treat them.
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  1126. Thing about asteroid mining is how it would exist in a market system - once one company mines $50 billion worth of gold, others will do so, as well as various states. Then you have a vast oversupply of whatever is being mined and the value collapses. Suppose they could try a DeBeers monopoly model, but good luck keeping the Chinese/Russians/Indians away from those valuable rocks.
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  1127.  @Jcod_  Yep, in theory asteroid mining would free us from scarcity. Problem being how we manage those resources - thinking of a modern version of the Spanish Price Revolution (inflation due to influx of New World gold) but more extreme. Perhaps we could start on the moon and perfect the technology (plenty of Helium, lithium etc.) then see how the economics pan out?
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  1128. Sigh. It won't be one case. They don't know how the guy got it, so is likely to be more cases. By shutting down for a few days they can be isolated. Otherwise they'll wait and end up with a serious problem like Australia.
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  1129. He's a propagandist, that's why. Note how he has nothing to say about the amazing success of New Zealand in fighting Covid.
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  1130. The average Scottish person probably also likes not dying of a respiratory disease so will be fine with it until this thing is controlled.
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  1131. Will that make the virus go away, Einstein?
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  1132. As opposed to the Tories who want to infect us all with covid, don't believe in climate change, want to convert the gays (Widdecombe is a fan of this) and thinks the only racist in Britain is Jeremy Corbyn?
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  1133.  Snot Gobbler  You prefer righti poison like this drivel?
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  1134. Disease-spreader.
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  1135.  @lesigh1749  Its not adoration, we're talking geopolitics.
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  1136.  @chattonlad9382  The original plan was diesel, the French offered to do nuclear versions and the Aussies considered it but said no. There's certainly been issues with the French contract (hacking, cost overruns) but this all seems a bit off, just adding more turmoil for little benefit.
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  1137.  Bananas Aretops  That's weird, the Triomphant-class subs look just as impressive as other nuclear submarines. They also have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier which puts them one up on us.
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  1138. Must say that Wally the Walrus is a lot better than spying on kids or Brexit showtrials. Is GB News learning its lesson?* (*Answer: no, but never mind)
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  1139. Yet the government has cut benefits, killed people with austerity, had to be shamed into feeding kids during a pandemic and are currently happy to see thousands more die so they can 'get back to normal' and pretend covid has done a runner.
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  1140.  @theredboneking  https://www.deccanherald.com/national/fact-check-whatsapp-hoax-claims-nobel-laureate-said-all-vaccinated-people-will-die-within-2-years-989965.html
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  1141. 'We understand' - who is we?
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  1142. Yep. Is pathetic and disturbing.
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  1143.  @johna3816  And how many deaths did those viruses cause before we used proper medical interventions via vaccination? The plague killed 1/3 of Europe and 1918 flu tens of millions. Hardly a ringing endorsement of this strategy, is it?
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  1144. Explorers did that premise with style. Loved the alien kids and the angry alien dad, hahaha.
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  1145. This isn't news, this is North Korean-style reporting. What next? Fawning over Boris because he made it rain with the power of his mind? A special report on how Boris is hoping to bring dinosaurs back to the Surrey countryside?
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  1146. Keep blaming the Europeans... its not their fault you lot elected an absolute muppet as PM whose only interests are self-promotion and dippy blondes.
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  1147. Pretty hard to 'live our life' if the economy collapses due to so many people being sick.
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  1148. Nah. Won't be locked-down. Will be more death and hardly anything in the shops though, so most people won't be going out anyway.
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  1149.  @susanleitch8649  Do you mean Kate who had the best education money can buy but has never had a proper job (I think she worked for her family for a bit)? Kate who keeps popping out kids like there's no tomorrow despite the country having to pay for them? Granted, she is indeed a very nice looking lady but she's got just as many skeletons in her closet as Megs (Uncle Gary for one).
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  1150.  @Guitargrease1  Yep, welcome to British thought, circa 2021. People have gone weirdly twisted and are quite happy to see kids suffer. I despair for my country.
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  1151. Does anyone else get the feeling that when Simon goes home he puts Sad Kermit sings Hurt on his telly's youtube and sits there lamenting his life choices?
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  1152.  @bondy7564  They were lying about Brexit, saying it would make the economy boom when a casual glance at the numbers showed it wouldn't. The Tories always raise taxes on the poor usually via indirect taxes, then cut them on the rich (VAT, alcohol taxes, airport taxes etc.). As for lockdown, well there was little alternative to that despite what the anti-lockdown weirdos (funded by eugenicist billionaires) prattle on about.
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  1153.  @stuartanderson852  Again, they don't know how he caught it so is likely to be far more than one case. These will show up over the next few days - hence the lockdown.
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  1154. Pretty simple mate - Tory voters are vaccinated. Everyone else get back to work. Tories like money. Tories will also throw the antivaxxers under the bus when the next wave blows up over the summer.
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  1155.  @gbeebiesnews2066  Is an old nazi conspiracy theory - universities and artists disagree with us, therefore is a Marxist conspiracy against us. The likes of the John Birch society in the US did the same thing during the Cold War era - everyone is a secret Marxist! The fact these idiots unironically believe Hitlerite conspiracies is something that I find very disturbing.
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  1156. He's an idiot and I'll bet you a fiver his kids will be running to the GP to get their shots with or without his permission.
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  1157. She's too busy trying to claim Andy Pandy can't be extradited because he's a 'diplomat'. British people really not happy with this.
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  1158.  @WilliamHBonnie1978  Well no, that's your government who want cheap labour. They've shut the Brexit door, so now they'll bring the cheap labour in in other ways then - as a handy bonus - can blame lefties for it. Those strawberries won't pick themselves you know.
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  1159. Anti-vax adults Young adults who've not yet had the jab Adults with weak immune systems (i.e. people who've had organ transplants or cancer treatment) Plus the 5% or so breakthrough from the vaccines which has been listed since the start.
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  1160.  @mr.johnlwayne7230  Yeah we did. Was stuck on the end of a gigantic rocket. We also had supersonic passenger planes in the 70s and wiped out smallpox. Technology is cool.
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  1161. Or maybe he's just whining as usual. One of the most amusing Hammer Horror films from the 70s was about a crazy actor who decides to murder people in Shakespearian ways, including one bloke who is force fed a pie made from his murdered pet poodles. A camp classic that used themes from Shakespeare to create a dark comedy masterpiece. Was that ruining Shakespeare? Methinketh not. Nor is this stuff now - is just reflecting society. Much like 90s kid's Romeo and Juliet was a whizz-bang musical with Leonardo DiCaprio. No one complained about that, either.
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  1162.  @davehallett810  No secret I'm a lefty, mate. Am also not too stressed about changes in culture* yet apparently the bloke who presents this is. He's also supposed to be a comedian but never says anything funny. What's that about? *Cambridge recently released an updated version of their Greek Lexicon which is the first version of their textbook to include all the smutty language with explicit definitions. Much of the classical texts were censored so as not to offend the masses of the time. Similar to how nowadays we make Bible stories but miss out all the sex and weirdness...
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  1163.  @davehallett810  Dude, we all acknowledge that Britain is a more tolerant place than China but we're getting a lot more intolerant and our media is actively fuelling hatred. Few more years of this and we're going to be in deep trouble. Not because the right are just hating on forrins, but also the poor, the gays, young people, environmentalists and anyone who doesn't tow the line.
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  1164. Look up Claire Fox and the Revolutionary Communist Party and her IRA comments.
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  1165.  @JohnSmith-lb6ww  Cultural Marxism is a term that came from the Nazis. Hitler used it to clamp down on education, minorities and artists. Sound familiar?!?!?
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  1166. Funnily enough the new German Chancellor also blamed Brexit and a sizeable number of business people, and that's only this week.
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  1167.  @AJ-hi9fd  Are these the same people who take sheep dip as a covid cure? Or believe vitamin pill pushers that they can cure the Rona with some Vitamin D and Zinc?
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  1168. Neither is Dans. He's okay with some peasants dying so long as his grift money keeps rolling in.
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  1169. Yes, us on the left are worried about idiots once again making sure we have more covid spreading and a future lockdown. If Wooten and his ilk would have shut up for five minutes and listened to actual experts we could have been done with this thing last year.
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  1170. You do know the boss of GB News lives in France and its being funded by various foreigners?
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  1171.  @english3618  Yes, mainly foreign owned. Is like if Huawei hired Matt Hancock as their boss and everyone said Huawei is a patriotic British company.
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  1172.  Paul J  Invasions? Is this today's DM paranoia about the immigrants again?
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  1173.  @pip669  Intelligent commenter, actually. I even list sources.
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  1174.  Paul J  Well if the DM says it's true...
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  1175.  Paul J  Wasn't Brexit supposed to stop such things? Oh no.
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  1176. Because they're pushing some weird libertarian 'let the weak die' agenda. Which paradoxically weakens the economy even more - dead people don't buy stuff. Sick people don't go out and have fun. Long covid sufferers need expensive NHS treatment.
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  1177.  @ArcanePath360  Its not hyper inflation. It's 5% inflation. They can whack interest rates up a bit to deal with it. The Ron Paul types have been screaming about hyper inflation for 20 years and it hasn't happened yet. Mind you they want the US to tank in the hopes of their Gold making them emperors of the new Feudal USA. Absolute dolts.
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  1178. Wooten is on dodgy legal ground here. He is basically agreeing with the scally woman who was breaking the law and saying the protestors deserved it. Reporting this whole video sequence to Ofcom. And probably the police as well. Let's see exactly what the law is, shall we?
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  1179.  @jimmimckenzie8549  Tell me someone who's been cancelled? All the people I hear about being 'cancelled' then go straight on to careers as right-wing grifters.
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  1180.  @jimmimckenzie8549  Well again, can you tell me who has been cancelled and never worked again due to lefty cancel culture? Can give you plenty of examples of it when the right kicked off in the past (Dixie Chicks etc.) but in modern times we hear a lot about cancelling but it doesn't seem to happen. The Internet is riddled with grade-z celebrities spreading covid misinformation and even they don't get cancelled.
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  1181.  @elkpaz560  I love how you're all experts on immune systems now. I bet there's not a single science GCSE between you.
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  1182.  @elkpaz560  Do you mean Ferguson who predicted a 1% death rate (or half a million*) with no lockdown or restrictions, but a death rate of 50,000 with restrictions? And we had just over 40 thousand dead in the first wave, so looks like Neil was not too far out. *similar to what the Chinese predicted and the Germans and the Italians - hence the mass lockdowns. I know there's this giant Tory plot to discredit anyone remotely sciency in favour of whatever libertarian 'live with it peasants' psychopaths they can promote in the press but it would be nice if British people didn't contribute to their own destruction for once.
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  1183. It clearly is, which is the reason why you don't know anyone with smallpox or polio.
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  1184. Everyone who told you he was useless. And that included his former Conservative newspaper editor boss.
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  1185. She's a publicity-seeking idiot whose career in front-line politics was a disaster. remember, this woman gave Jimmy Savile his 'job' at Broadmoor.
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  1186. To be fair people don't pay money to watch a dirgeful rendition of the National Anthem, either. But oddly none of your lot suggest cancelling that?
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  1187. I quite liked his history shows, but after listening to his clueless rambles on here he's made me think he's an idiot. Or a paid libertarian shill. Or both. Or mad as well.
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  1188. Eastenders is their most popular programme and has been for decades.
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  1189. You mean like when the Tories blame poverty on innate failures of the poor but make excuses for those same problems when the rich have them? For instance... 'The poor are terrible with their drug habits. Cut their benefits! Lock them up!' 'Oh no, that banker did do a lot of coke. But he was quite depressed and had been suffering from work-related stress. He needs counselling, not punishment!'
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  1190. Well allowing our country to be ruined by climate change because you're in bed with oil companies isn't so much standing up, more kicking in the face.
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  1191.  @kevinmoore2630  He really wouldn't. Pump money into the NHS, save thousands of lives, quicker economic recovery. Instead we got an over-sexed version of Dougal from the Magic Roundabout who gave billions to his mates...
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  1192.  Lucy Rane  It's not a gene therapy. And the my body my choice argument is great until you start infecting other people. What about their bodies? Are they supposed to get sick because you're a nutter?
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  1193.  @onethingisneedful  Are you aware of the public information films they used to show on telly in the 70s-80s? In those kids were warned about drowning, getting run over, getting electrocuted and getting kidnapped by nonces. They were broadcast constantly which is something you'd never see on kids TV these days.
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  1194.  @giman3752  So you're happy to be brainwashed by this drivel? Seriously???
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  1195. @Bob Syurunkul Brexiters don't think things through. What happens every time Europe falls apart, going back, oh, 1000+ years? War, poverty, ideological hatred etc. If the EU did fall apart (it won't) will be the British sending their sons to die in wars soon after.
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  1196. What is it with gammons wanting to murder people? Are you that angry that Boris lied and ruined your life that you feel the need to blame other people?
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  1197.  @geoffankrett7012  Are you lot all members of ISIS? What the actual f***?!??
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  1198. So if you have mental health issues can your doctor get your driving license stopped? If you have a heart problem and you're a fighter pilot, can the doctor revoke your license to fly? If you're a boxer who fails a medical, well...
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  1199.  @marianrose1259  You lot really are the modern holocaust deniers. Millions dead, worst pandemic since 1918 and you're on here making snarky jokes and acting like its no big deal. Repulsive.
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  1200. Not dying in a hospital with a tube rammed down your throat.
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  1201.  @steptay  Your NI also funds pensions and maternity leave etc. Its not just for the NHS.
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  1202.  @steptay  Can we therefore apply the same principle to peaceniks who don't want to pay for the military? Or leftists who don't want to pay for the Royals? Or criminals who don't want to pay for the police?
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  1203.  @heronsdoor4658  She got money, alongside no morals.
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  1204. It's not a plandemic. Stop being a dipshit and repeating Facebook meme posts as if they're true. You're just making it worse for everyone else.
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  1205. If it helps NZ has had 25 deaths. The UK has had 130,000. As the UK has a population of roughly 13x New Zealand then if we'd been as successful we'd have had 325 deaths. We've had 400X that.
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  1206.  @Codysdab  Yes. Weather (short term), climate (long term). Let me give you an example of short v long term prediction we all rely on. Insurance companies can't predict when you'll die or when you will get burgled, but by massing together lots of data they can predict with a fair degree of accuracy that x people will die this month and y people will get burgled.
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  1207. Yes, Jezza spends money on the NHS, enacts the pandemic response, throws cash at broadband to improve work-from-home... we'd have had far less dead, it would have been awesome.
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  1208. Why not? They're doing it in other countries who - funnily enough - now have much lower rates of covid than we do.
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  1209.  @angrybrit7331  Long covid. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2021/07/long-covid-afflicts-kids-too-heres-what-we-know-so-far
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  1210.  @tomsawyer4321  The vaccines will be fine. A giant disease-spreading experiment using kids won't be. The weird lack of empathy towards youngsters is chilling.
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  1211.  @angrybrit7331  No, if you mass infect the young a lot will get sick. Pretending there's minimal risk is like saying 'lets get rid of seat belts because most people drive safely'.
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  1212. @oh no Yeah, try kidney disease and heart problems from the 'natural' virus.
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  1213.  @TheCrimsonAvenger  A general rule of history is the rich always find money for their stuff and plead poverty for ours even if its us paying for it all. Is how we managed to have a giant coronation and build nuclear bombs in the 50s while the people still had rationing. Or how we had austerity following 2008 yet not one banker was thrown in jail for fraud.
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  1214.  @TheCrimsonAvenger  Yep!
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  1215. Alex is like one of those people who read the Daily Mail and are really excited to share their new knowledge with the world. Simon is the person they're sharing it with and all he can think about is blocking out the pain with gin.
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  1216. I dunno, there's a lot of dirt he could reveal and blow apart the Royals completely.
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  1217. Is also the same right for the rest of the population, so if you start giving them covid do they have any say in the matter?
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  1218. Fun fact: Tory austerity reduced the spending power of the poor. Who is more likely to shop at little shops? Those on low/fixed incomes. Those on low incomes are also less likely to have cars so not going to be going to out-of-town shopping centers nearly as much as middle-class/wealthier citizens. Tory policy gets kicked in the nuts by Mr Reality once again.
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  1219. No, because he's a nutter. Do you want this channel to crash and burn in the first week?
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  1220.  @graduke1  Try ignoring covid when your oxygen levels start collapsing. Boris ended up in the hospital.
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  1221.  @susysamalex  That is worthy of an investigation. Could be a reaction, could be other things. Would definitely pursue and get it looked into.
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  1222. Because it would have been considerably higher otherwise. Around 1% of the UK, or over half a million. And that's assuming people could all get oxygen/treatment. If they couldn't then double that number.
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  1223. Is a make the gammons angry video.
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  1224.  @vivo-audio  Don't forget Bernard Manning & Chubby Brown!
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  1225.  @joannakennedy6005  Dear me. We're happily wrecking all our previous friendships with allies for short-term gain while at the same time seemingly preparing for war.
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  1226.  @spannerintheworks1190  How were the Australians being ripped off? They appeared to be quite happy with the deal recently but suddenly changed their mind. What's going on behind the scenes?
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  1227.  @joannakennedy6005  The alliances we've built up over half a century we appear to be deliberately fracturing for short-term gain. Much like the politicians have set half the country against the other half. This is not the happy cheery Brexit that people were promised. You may be happy about it, but few others are.
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  1228. What if they want to be doctors?
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  1229.  @ralphmillais5237  Siberian heatwaves. Massive US forest fires. Massive US heatwaves. Heatwaves in other countries. 'Once in a century flooding' every year and so on. There's clearly something wrong with the climate and pretending there isn't won't make things any better. The oil billionaires don't care - they'll still own their farms out of the way. But normal people will die.
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  1230. They will if they become law.
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  1231. Imagine being proud to spread disease and prolong a pandemic.
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  1232.  @freedomfighter5335  The pro-covid mob are against vaccines, masks, distancing, ventillation and everything else. They're proud to be disease spreaders for some reason. I'd like them to explain it, but they can't.
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  1233.  @ste2442  So because I point out how many idiots post the same bullet point drivel every day you assume I'm some sort of spy? Definitely some Freudian projection going on here.
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  1234.  @brentmeistergeneral2813  He's not my hero, I think he's a flawed politician like most of them. However, he isn't the Orange antichrist so that's one thing in his favour.
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  1235. Bit weird tho being obsessed with Princess Di who hasn't been around for 20 odd years. How old was Lisa when Di was alive? Early 20s?
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  1236. Back in the 90s when we had GSM phones there was a big push to give them to kids as a safety device. Such phones were expensive & there were lots of articles in the papers about middle-class parents buying little Timmy a mobile so he could call home in case of emergencies. They were sold as a safety device and to a degree that's one job they do well. Social media, shitty gambling-style games and constant notifications mess round with people's heads in odd ways, though.
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  1237.  @michaelcrouch5708  Yep, Tories culling the old and they're starting on the kids now...
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  1238. Boris didn't sort it out when he was Mayor.
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  1239. Oh God, it's started again.
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  1240. Yeah, because who needs doctors or engineers or experts in virology? Pretty sure you don't train those on a YTS.
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  1241. Yes big tech is scummy but we're being very selective here. Rupert Murdoch is big tech and pretty sure he doesn't let just anyone have a say on Fox or his newspapers. If we want a fairness doctrine for big tech then it has to include big media - including the right-wing media. And including this channel.
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  1242.  @gorgeousgeorge2697  Gee, and who did Andrew Neil work for for his entire career... a) Murdoch and b) The BBC.
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  1243. @sdrawkcabUK 'people like me' - as in people who understand a bit of science and care for our fellow man? Is that a bad thing now? Are we really so cretinous in this country that followers of David Icke & Right Said Fred are acting as the moral judge of people's behaviour in a pandemic?
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  1244.  @Brora-hv6bz  Yep, inactivity is a big part. One amusing thing - past ten years we've seen an explosion in cheap fitness trackers (your phone can do it for free) used by hundreds of millions and yet... we're getting even porkier. One explanation dished out for obesity is the number of people in sedentary jobs BUT... in the 60s & 70s we had millions work in similar office jobs (think about those typing rooms with twenty young lasses writing letters all day - gone now due to word processors) and most retail jobs were easier than they are now*, yet we were much healthier. *almost no shops opened on Sunday, many did half-day Wed, no 24 hour opening in those days, either.
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  1245. You've been at the Youtube again. Vaccinated people do far better with the delta variant. This is why Florida and the like are full of sick unvaccinated types.
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  1246.  @gaveller  I wish someone would interview the bloke who runs their local off-license. "GB News is very good. A breath of fresh air. Good business. I just bought a Bentley"...
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  1247.  @Andrew-ri5qo  Colin should probably be aware that the virus is being coughed out in watery droplets which are far bigger than a viral particle.
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  1248.  @autodidact537  He's correct. Lots and lots of dead people due to the fool in Number 10 and his media chums.
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  1249.  @theurg4504  You need some lessons on not sounding like an idiot, dude.
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  1250.  @phillipsmiley5930  Talk Radio is government sponsored nonsense playing the 'bad cop' role and making people think there's actual media criticism of the ruling class in this country. No great reset required. Just billionaires who are happy if some peasants die.
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  1251.  @kippertrace5808  Yes, wait until they find out viruses do their own thing and don't listen to angry from Colchester's complaints in the pub.
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  1252. If it helps, Kelly used to be a big UKIP supporter and liked to complain about the gays. If I recall Kelly was also a UKIP candidate, back when she was Frank.
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  1253. Is that the same country where the media decides anything they don't like is 'woke' and 'marxist' and tries to destroy it - even if the subject of their hate is a rich prince, or a footy player or a kindhearted lifeboat crew?
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  1254. We have a housing crisis because boomers bought them all for investments AND builders restrict supply so they can make more money. Nothing to do with immigrants at all. You can't see a doctor because the Tories ran the NHS into the ground and thousands have left/retired.
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  1255.  Robbie Bobs  They all have, even the anti-vax media types. That's why they don't want vaccine passports because their scam will be rumbled.
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  1256.  @elkpaz560  Fox is a hack paid for by some scary alt-right rich people. If you think he's a viable source of information then there's little hope for you.
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  1257. What, they're going to play Wokewatch videos for the students?
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  1258.  @jimbob8385  You haven't met many rich people have you? A lot of them have issues that make the dolies look like saints (drugs, sex addiction, alcoholism, personality disorders...) - but they have doctors and medical care to sort them out discretely.
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  1259. Yes it has. As well as lying about Brexit and by letting clowns like Mike Yeadon write misinformation pieces last year.
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  1260. Oh dear. So GB News loses Andrew Neil and they decide to go full wingnut to try and grab ratings. Disastrous strategy.
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  1261.  @helensmith2411  This guy has been vaccinated as have all his colleagues. He's talking BS to keep you angry.
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  1262.  @koelbird4608  Ummm, so you're seriously saying that making a stand against racism is bad, but doing other political things (like singing the national anthem or standing silent in tributes) is fine?
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  1263. Well let's see - a media that spends much of its time attacking the young ("Lazy good for nothing snowflakes"), mental health cuts, benefit cuts, a lack of tolerance in the wider society, poor diets, poor wages, unaffordable housing, stress etc. As for old people and mental illness - they had high levels too. But their mentally ill were locked away for problems that we can easily treat now (See: Sylvia Plath for example).
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  1264.  @stephenmatura1086  Good point, but ironically the elderly are the ones now falling for the social media disinformation, more so than the young.
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  1265. It isn't freedom tho if Covid keeps wiping out thousands and make thousands disabled.
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  1266. Yes those Vikings invading us changed everything. Or was it the French? Or the Romans?
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  1267. You mean capitalism, and yes I am aware you have a fascist name.
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  1268. No, he's an imbecile. Anyone who goes on telly saying infecting other people is a price worth paying for 'freedom' should be slapped round the head with a very large Tuna fish.
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  1269.  @frankwilson3265  Yep. There's been plenty of cases where someone has been punished for wilfully spreading disease. I think going on tv and egging people on to do it should also be punishable in the same way as going on TV and telling people to shoot the nearest policeman would be.
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  1270. This channel is both.
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  1271.  @ratusbagus  I love Britain mate. I am a working-class Brit who likes his books, likes his history and can spot nasty foreign propaganda a mile off. So when I look at fascist regimes in history and see the same thing happening now with our 'media' then it worries me deeply. Plus I also care about not killing fellow British people even if they are politically opposed to me.
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  1272. Oh no, the Chinese have thousands of videos of teenagers lip syncing to Taylor Swift. Well that's gonna benefit them in any Pacific War.
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  1273. The workforce would have been considerably smaller if we'd let covid ravage the populace with no restrictions, mate...
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  1274. Yeah great and there's 150 a day dying of this, 50000 being infected and at least several thousand will develop long covid. So how many people is it worth killing in your estimate?
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  1275.  @microaggressionsurvivor2937  They're bots and paid trolls. They all use the same canned phrases and sound suspiciously similar. If you really think Britain is full of people delighted they can watch a badly-produced channel run by rich Tories complain endlessly about 'woke' stuff then you're living in a weird bubble.
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  1276.  @shortbob4491  So the sheer number of people here and on twitter all using the same phraseology and often the exact same words to describe this channel is all completely sincere and not an artificial digital army paid to promote it? If you believe that... I have some Dogecoin to sell you.
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  1277. Why, he doesn't care. He's more bothered about keeping property prices up, just like Boris.
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  1278. Am just reading the article in question that he's frothing over. Is clearly meant to be amusing and not taken seriously. It reminds me of those 'The Smurfs are all Communists' stories from years ago. For that matter Simon Pegg wrote his undergrad thesis in the early 90s on a Marxist analysis of Star Wars & related media.
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  1279. He's a failed actor, failed musican, hired gob paid to promote fascism.
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  1280. Why is it rude? If someone is talking about covid in a public arena then its a fair question to ask. If I went on telly and talked about the evils of Vodka and someone asked me if I drink Vodka then its a fair question.
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  1281. Imagine thinking your problems are due to foreigners while an aristocratic elite strip mine the country and own all the media....
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  1282. Is that the same God who smited Egyptians with horrible plagues then killed all their first-born children?
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  1283.  @klausswabs...e.u5650  "Boris has killed tens of thousands of people and tanked the economy. I'd best continue voting Tory as I'm a bit worried Labour might let that ginger woman speak in public'...
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  1284. That's about as likely to happen as Charlize Theron marrying, well, me.
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  1285. Well if you voted for the Tories that makes you an actual loony who supports actual monsters, so job done I suppose.
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  1286. Doubly confuse them and dress up as a bat and fight crime. They'll then be stuck in a real-life Buridan's Donkey paradox of love or hate and might explode.
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  1287. Some people think gammons are morons. You've just proved our point.
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  1288. Yet the unwoke demonstrate little sense of humour and little understanding of satire.
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  1289. Why, is disabling and killing teenagers cool now?
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  1290.  @jomay78  Well if we don't vaccinate kids but mass-infect them then a lot of kids will get very sick and die. Are you okay with that?
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  1291. Are you a doctor? I recall last year the right-wing were telling us covid was only hitting old people who (they said) don't matter. So now its hitting younger people they don't matter because some of them are a bit tubby? Is this really the way people think?
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  1292.  @justarandomguy9459  The other lad is a bit tubby, he's not morbidly obese. Secondly 'overweight' can also cover a large chunk of athletes, wrestlers, boxers and the like. The super-fit can and do get covid and get messed up by it. Third, do you know the bloke personally? He might be trying to lose weight. He may have a medical issue. He may be depressed. The 'oh but he's fat' thing has become a generic right-wing attack during covid, a favourite of bobble heads like Anthea Turner. Its basically blaming people for their own health problems even if the health problems are caused by a deadly virus.
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  1293. So what are they supposed to do? Wait another five years until the world economy is done because tens of millions have died of the Rona and violent revolutions have broken out everywhere?
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  1294. Simple solution: If you willingly spread covid then you get jailed, just like happens if you spread HIV. No need for passports then,...
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  1295. We need to become properly democratic and vote our Queen in.
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  1296. You might be eating rats soon if this lot stay in power.
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  1297. They do but often their countries are torn apart by wars.
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  1298.  @DNAOrion  You mean the majority in here who are a bit fascist? I made a perfectly fair point about war and immigrants which can apply to immigration going back a long time. For example the Jewish people fleeing Europe in the 1930s, or those fleeing Communism in the 50s. The fact you lot sneer at this really kind of creeps me out.
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  1299. Yeah am sure Jennifer Anniston will go down in the history books right next to Boris killing 130,000 Brits and Ron DeathSentence trying to cull half of Florida.
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  1300. It reduces risk quite a bit. Is better than letting thousands more die.
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  1301. Cool, so can they keep all their salmon and royal palaces and stuff?
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  1302. Risk averse but apparently the hard case viewers on here are all terrified of immigrants and the EU and bad words from stroppy redheads.
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  1303. Encouraging mass murder isn't what I expect from British conservatives. Who am I kidding? Of course I expected it.
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  1304. 'Education should prepare for work' - it does, but as technology changes a lot of work also changes in the process. I'm old enough to remember when drivers were up in arms about the introduction of tachographs - nowadays lorries are far more complex and have a lot more electronic systems along with the 'paperwork' which is also mainly electronic. 'not the constant erosion of our culture and history.' - I see more erosion of our culture from the government and their media chums than schools. Constant rewriting of history to make the Tories look better than they are.
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  1305. Just a quick question - is it okay to drink and drive? I don't think it is because there's a risk of you killing someone. But hypothetically if the chance of you killing someone per trip is statistically low then where are the advocates for the freedom to drink and drive? Am sure this is a cause Kirsty could get behind.
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  1306. People who vote for boot complain about face kicking....
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  1307.  @kevinmcdonagh1063  Nick Robinson of the Young Conservatives fame is not Labour. Kussenberg is a clear Boris acolyte. The new boss of the BBC is a Tory. Please grow up.
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  1308.  @ayoa.o.9966  Yep, if he'd have announced a policy of giving pretty flowers to toddlers Dan would be on here screaming about scrounging two year olds.* *am not entirely joking. I remember when under the last Labour gov they started giving out little books to new mums to read to their babies and the likes of the Daily Mail whined endlessly about said freebies.
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  1309. Tax cuts = more economic power for them. Wage rises = more economic power for the peasants.
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  1310. Government policy AND government handling of covid. Pretending covid has gone away will just prolong this even more and people's patience is wearing thin with the pro-Covid weirdos.
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  1311. Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles did one of the finest Vietnam spoofs (borrowing from the Deer Hunter) and absolutely everybody hated it at the time. So even in 1989 people got offended at comedy.
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  1312. Generic propaganda channel, if we're honest.
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  1313. Yes people fell for that press drivel. Quite amazing really, all they had in common was they were male, had American heritage and used to be journalists, but the press spun Boris as the new Winnie fighting for glorious Brexit.
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  1314. Am baffled at how they messed up Star Wars. Honestly why didn't they sit down and work out the three films story arcs before they were shot? Marvel pretty much does that, why did they think they could get away with it with Star Wars?
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  1315. ​ @nemosays6337  Yep, agree dude. As I said on another comment - in times of war or crisis you place restrictions/taxes on the wealthiest. Time for that now. They can pay extra for a couple of years of ill-gotten gains. Bezos/Musk etc. didn't get richer in 2020 by 'working harder'...
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  1316. Comedy changes over time depending on culture. Much funny modern comedy would easily get banned in the 1950s, say. While 1950s comedy looks weird now (Think Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore sleeping in separate beds sort of thing). Charlie Chaplin was the top comedian in history - yet his stuff hasn't aged that well. Ditto for Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton. Although Laurel and Hardy are still hilarious and comedy legends whose stuff works even now.
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  1317. Explain for us what woke means Dave?
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  1318. If all the presenters are familiar then what do you expect to be new?
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  1319. All the media do is attack her. Is very telling that they never engage with her points, they simply have a go at the girl. Is fascinating to watch the Conservative melt-downs over this kid.
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  1320. Do you mean the people who pointed out Boris gave a peerage to the son of a KGB agent? Those people? They were right. Name me any other KGB children who've been given honours by the British government. I'll wait.
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  1321. If any of the kids own an iPhone then they've been using it for years.
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  1322. 'muscular Christianity' - I don't recall that being a teaching of the Lord Jesus?
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  1323. Do you remember when Orange man let the Taliban out of jail? Which includes Abdul Ghani Baradar? Do you also remember he said the troops would be out of Afghanistan by last December?
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  1324. If non-vaccinated immigrants bring in another variant and it spreads then is that okay?
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  1325. How does the Minister's 'must offer opposing views' thing work then? "Hey kids, today we're going to talk about WW2, but I have to have this neo-nazi in class to tell you his side."
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  1326. @Retro Picker78 Less than 20% of the population have caught it. And its not a poison jab, its a vaccine. But keep using those buzz-words if you think it makes you look clever rather than look like a Russian bot.
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  1327. Schools were partly open even during last year's lockdown. My local school was working to take care of the kids of essential workers.
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  1328.  @astev1384  It clearly isn't ineffective as we have low deaths compared to the same point in the infection cycle pre-vaccine.
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  1329. Yeah, who cares about killing a few kids?
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  1330. 1991 Equinox documentary on spacesuits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcVUXhefYvc Go to 46 minutes and onwards where they talk about a 'modern version of the skin suit' using bio-engineering.
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  1331. He's sitting in front of a Macbook, made in China. You know why so much stuff is made there? Because Western capitalists made more money so moved their industries over to Asia. Now Fred West Jnr wants us to fight China? I bet he doesn't volunteer...
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  1332. Col at least seems to have got rid of the SS style background, so kudos to whichever drunkard is doing the set this week.
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  1333. Then you're clearly very, very snowflakey. I mean, seriously, you're an adult flipping out about this stuff? Blimey, the shame, the shame...
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  1334. Why, because a Cambridge Analytica propagandist is pretending to be a cheery regional telly presenter?
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  1335.  @robburnet4530  I can type fast while am working.
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  1336. No, they're not. You clowns can't even google before typing drivel. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response-membership/list-of-participants-of-sage-and-related-sub-groups
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  1337. Oddly anti-vaxxers over the past few weeks have harassed Dr Hillary, Jeremy Vine, put a noose outside parliament and today were harassing medical workers at a hospital. Not a word of complaint from GB News....
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  1338. 'What other options do we have?' Lib Dems? Green? This sounds awfully like the usual Tory plant of 'We have to vote for Boris to save the country' while tens of thousands are dead because of his mismanagement and idiocy.
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  1339. So tell me, can you walk round the town center naked without getting arrested? Why not? Where's your freedom to parade strideless like a nude crusader for personal choice?
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  1340. Why is it woke? Are you offended that women and gay people can fly fighter jets and bomb peasants just as well as white guys?
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  1341.  @pimpanjoeleo  Ah, the bitcoin spammers of the pandemic industry. I saw a New Zealand farm supplies site a while back where they had to put disclaimers on the sheep dip because they were scared of dopes online buying it as a Corona cure.
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  1342. Do you wear a dickie bow and listen to Charlie Kirk? You'll learn mate.
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  1343.  @main-monkey-22b  I do and that's why Hayek and Friedman are not individuals I or most economists take seriously. Ironically Friedman did actually push for a type of universal basic income in the 60s (negative tax), tho we've all forgotten about that.
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  1344.  @main-monkey-22b  Most economists don't take them seriously because they were two of the most super-ideological economists of all time and the stuff they pushed simply hasn't worked (think Fascist Chile). Is libertarian garbage in the main that is the right-wing version of communism - i.e. great on paper, useless in real-life. Thatcher was a joke as PM. She sold off state assets & blew the money, gobbled up the oil money & blew that too (no sovereign wealth fund for the UK), gave us the poll tax, nuked much of British industry and signed us up to all the European stuff while Brexity types keep claiming she was anti-EU. Her own party threw her under the bus because she was a liability. I lived under Thatcher. It was not fun much of the time. Her modern reputation is basically a media creation in the main.
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  1345.  @welshcelt9406  The Dominionists want to start a nuclear war mate to bring about the second coming. Am pretty sure that will affect Britain in a big way. They're also pouring funding into crazy Christian groups in Africa in the hope of them fighting the muslims. Of course one group of crazy is not going to be any better than another group of crazy so yet again that will affect the UK one way or another.
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  1346. If you child spreads covid and someone else dies of it, then is this okay? What happens if it happens the other way round? Is that okay? Are you fine with mass infection of youngsters to keep Boris and his banker chums happy?
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  1347. Or epidemiology, or climatology, or GCSE science full stop. He also doesn't know anything about economics and only seems to be animated when he whining about Meghan.
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  1348. Go on, define 'Woke'. Bet you can't.
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  1349.  @britishempireno1fan851  USA as well.
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  1350. Good idea.
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  1351.  @fishgreed8098  Funnily enough the Limits to Growth and several other studies thought we'd be screwed round about 2020-2030. Which seems about right!
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  1352. Apart from all the wars, and the financial crisis and the Rona and the climate going bonkers and half the population being sick or overweight or mentally ill. Yep, everything's fine.
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  1353. Because he's a clown who thinks he has a right to spread disease for his personal freedom. Imagine that video was a bisexual bloke saying 'Why can't I give random people HIV? I should have the freedom to sleep with who I want!' You lot would be screaming for the presenter to be locked up.
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  1354. To be fair vehicles tend to be a lot more fuel efficient these days. Plus you're going to see fewer sites as more big companies buy up outlets.
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  1355.  @jbtv5617  I'm not a fan of overpaid bureaucrats but guess what - private sector ones are paid even more.
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  1356.  @chatteyj  Dear me. Will this dipshittery never end. Covid is causing fewer deaths now, but was the biggest killer over the winter. Plenty of younger people died of covid - or do you think all those dead healthcare workers were aged over 82? Young people get long covid and we don't know exactly how bad it'll be, but so far the signs are not good. Exposing them to it and hoping for the best is not a viable strategy. This sort of thing listed below may be a big problem, or it may be nothing, we don't know yet: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-looking-at-covid-19-and-male-reproductive-function/
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  1357. Yet our lives are dictated by a minority of aristocratic Eton types who all know each other, all went to the same schools and all lack the ability to empathise with the working-class. Keep moaning about woke while the country collapses. The anti-woke types will never hold their Tory pals to account.
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  1358. The same as they react with all their other disinformation - they don't care because it produces clicks and money.
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  1359.  @Lisa-ey3gt  But you were all told what would happen if you voted Tory. Own up to your mistakes.
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  1360. Yep, she's a grifter like all the others.
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  1361. Yeah, cool, but if enough people feel that way then we'll have to have more lockdowns for the next few years.
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  1362. Hang on, is this the scally woman who tried to run over the protestors? Is this who you're reduced to interviewing? OMG.
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  1363. He says posting on Youtube... while being part of a right-wing mob...
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  1364. Seatbelts work but we still have people die in car crashes. Condoms work but we still have STDs.
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  1365. Its not a threat, it's a vaccine. I didn't see Boomers being so anti-vax when they were getting their shots a while back...
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  1366. He's been pushing drivel for months.
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  1367.  Matt  That's the only reason the channel exists. Is the Fox news model for the UK. These characters have zero interest in diversity of opinion. If they did perhaps they'd have had on a few doctors, virologists and nurses to talk about covid instead of Carole Malone or Pearson or whatever other pro-disease sociopaths they dragged out.
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  1368. It is far right propaganda, that's the whole reason it exists. They have no interest in news or accuracy.
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  1369. They can't. Is like their constant enemy and they have to pretend everything is failing in Europe. Is like Joe Rogan and Australia... he lives in a borderline fascist state but whines endlessly about how bad Australia is.
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  1370. Nah, will take a few weeks until the French cut the cables....
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  1371. Vaccines work by protecting the group. They don't work by only vaccinating a few who you think are at risk, you need most of the group to get shots in order to ensure herd immunity. Please go study some biology and stop believing the nonsense puked out on this channel.
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  1372. Just over a century ago women couldn't vote in Britain. Nor could young men. The 18-20 yr olds didn't have a vote until the 60s. Homosexuality also wasn't legal in Britain until the 1960s. Those rights were attained by people fighting for them, not by aristocrats being generous. Real history is about the struggle of real people to attain a better life.
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  1373. Well I looked on Twitter and it was full of heinous racist crap directed at the footy lads. Really nasty stuff. I also saw videos of alleged English fans causing mayhem. You had the somewhat weird vids (bloke shoving a flare up his bum, bloke snorting coke in a crowd) and it went all the way to the very criminal (breaking into Wembley, fights, attacking other supporters). Repellent behaviour. So when the Tory MP says something monumentally stupid she should apologise and perhaps look at the morons she and her ilk have been encouraging.
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  1374.  @banjo1434  So its totally unrelated that Tory MPs have been screaming about Marxism and disrespecting our team for months then a group of dim-witted fans act out their violent racist fantasies?
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  1375. The word is 'damn', mate which indicates you didn't pay attention in class.
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  1376.  @coolcat6103  No they don't. But here's the funny thing. If you're British and under 100 years old do you know one thing you did as a kid? Went to a pantomime. Pretty much all pantomimes have the lead 'older female' parts played by drag queens and the 'principle boy' parts played by a girl. And everyone had a laugh and no one was hurt.
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  1377. Have you read about how cool 1960s Britain was?
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  1378. Yep, such as the Tories (with a couple of rebels) supporting the Iraq/Afghan wars. The Tories banning saucy films in the 80s while they somehow allowed 16yr old girls to appear topless in the papers. The Tories whining about how poor GCSEs are - but not mentioning they introduced them. The Tories Ranting about Islamic fundamentalism - but not saying a word about their chums the Saudis. The Tories talking about poor morals - but forgetting the affairs, perjury, and the MP who wound up dead with an orange in his mouth wearing women's underwear. That's just off the top of my head. Loads of others!!
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  1379. You really need to read about the history of conservative governments. They're not fans of freedom - apart from freedom for the aristocracy.
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  1380. Nige would be launching wars on everyone. He's a fascist grifter.
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  1381. Media analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUHpOhnBJbI
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  1382. Money. And learning to live with it is going to be like learning to live with the Blitz. We might do so but the amount of death and injury is not going to make Britain a happy place for the foreseeable future.
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  1383. Is Universal Credit now. The days of signing on have been replaced with Internet-based spying and stress-inducing bureaucrats hassling you.
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  1384. Go back to being a traitor to your own people, Donnie. And take your sack of shit supporters with you.
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  1385. Call me a sceptic, but have a feeling they're sending old Liz into a bit of a temporary lockdown to make sure she doesn't catch the Rona over the next few weeks. Hence all this odd coverage today, especially the vomit-inducing drivel on here. Cos here's the thing, she's 95, is fine if she has plenty of time off. No one is concerned and people wish her well. But the way the media made a big hoo-ha of it today doesn't make sense. Blanket coverage of her cancelling is very, very odd.
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  1386.  @RemixedVoice  While also completely forgetting that women in the lower economic strata have had jobs for centuries. The housewife at home model was pretty much only a thing for a few decades after the war.
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  1387.  @Grimzareaper666  Again, that was done for a bit of morale boosting during a difficult time and it was a few silly little videos. I can send you dozens of videos of soldiers dancing round in Afghanistan - were they all slackers, too?
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  1388. Definitely Kermit. Yoda sounds like the Dalai Lama to me.
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  1389. Is the greatest muppets spoof since that Sad Kermit video where he becomes addicted to heroin while singing a cover of Hurt.
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  1390. Meanwhile Priti Patel is trying to change the official secrets act so journalists can be locked up for embarassing the government and... silence round here.
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  1391. Imagine having such a sad life you're stanning for Nigel Farage. I thought that Alexi Sayle sketch about teens obsessing over Lord Hailsham was absurd, yet here we are...
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  1392.  @gordanjenson5148  No he can't. The BBC is successful and as long as it lasts the likes of Murdoch cannot have full control over the UK media. Hence the push to destroy it.
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  1393.  @robbiethepict2783  Indeed. Create a fake culture war so that people argue about nonsense while their pockets are picked - footy players, Meghan, Dinghys, woke this, woke that... all contrived guff engineered to distract.
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  1394. An apology for being constantly wrong would be nice. In real-life we tend to hate people who lie a lot and never say sorry but apparently its okay in journalism.
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  1395.  @igg3937  That sounds exactly like the right wing who have entire channels like GB News who exist only to annoy and stir up the masses.
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  1396. Lol, he's a con man. Even the Americans hate him.
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  1397. Sadly kids commit suicide every year and its tragic. Pandemic year was better than most on that score.
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  1398. What languge is that?
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  1399.  @discipleofhermes563  Actually they didn't. They said the flag was being co-opted by racists & hooligans (which it was) and the flag was proudly shown many times during the past few decades. Remember the Olympics? Or any big sporting event? Or the Spice Girls?
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  1400.  @discipleofhermes563  You probably heard it in the Daily Mail. They love that sort of thing. But if you can find the story will be more than happy to read.
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  1401. Racists will never stop being racist, will they?
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  1402.  @lozzy2587  Here's the thing dude, I wouldn't have a problem with low vaccination rates for kids IF we tried to reduce spread in other ways. But in the UK we're basically ignoring everything (masks, bubbles, ventilation) to keep a small group happy at the expense of, well, thousands of kids. It really is going to blow up in our faces big time and when it does I don't want to hear a word from the gov/media about how they 'didn't know' or 'didn't think things would be this bad.' Not one word. They know exactly what they're setting us up for.
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  1403. That's actually not true at all. There's certainly some kids who aren't the brightest of the bunch at state schools but we see the same in private school. The difference is the private school ones get lots more help and have an easier time getting jobs later on.
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  1404. Apart from the whole calories thing. You don't see many skinny eskimos, do you? Pretty sure they eat mainly fat and do not consume chocolate milk and Pringles for dinner...
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  1405. They've all been jabbed. They're laughing at the antivaxxers but like keeping them around for clicks and outrage.
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  1406. ". No government has the right to mandate my behaviour when it affects my health" - you've never heard of sectioning then?
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  1407. Everyone warned about a Pandemic, is just that the general populace didn't take much notice. You can find Larry Brilliant talking about it on his Ted talk from about a decade ago, or BBC Horizon doing several shows about pandemics years ago. Or books about flu pandemics and/or emerging superdiseases (The Hot Zone book from the 90s or the 2012 classic Spillover). Or, here's the former Chief medical officer of the UK writing about the possibility of one 15 years ago... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1457749/
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  1408. And yet so many Christians completely ignore every teaching of Christ in order to suck up to fascistic power structures. Plus of course all the molesty priests...
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  1409. Colin, having Andy Pandy evading justice is doing a lot more damage to the monarchy.
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  1410. Amazing how you're bothered about one particular person dying of covid but don't care one jot for the 100+ others dying of it every single day. One might assume Fred West Jnr here has a sinister political agenda...
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  1411. What people? A tiny minority who are clueless about medicine. They won't be tho when their kids get hospitalised.
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  1412. Yes and sure strong words will fend off imminent human extinction...
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  1413.  @joebloggs3551  Not really, I'm here to correct some of the drivel spoken by the presenters and commenters. If you really think being fed misinformation and fake news all day is healthy then you need to step away from the computer more than me.
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  1414.  @MajorT0m  Do myself believe it or not. This is why I've got an eye for the propaganda nonsense. I'd feel just as offended if Britain suddenly filled up with propaganda channels promoting Communism.
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  1415.  @spannerintheworks1190  Have you actually read 1984? Orwell wasn't a fan of fake news or propaganda and much of the right-wing stuff these days is both. I'm 'the left' and I happily question what I see. So do most of my fellow lefties. Is the Tory types who speak in tabloid headlines and believe what they're fed. To a quite disturbing degree.
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  1416.  @grrinc  Not really, I just pop in occasionally to dish out some truth bombs.
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  1417.  @spannerintheworks1190  That was a bit of a leap from Orwell to thinking there's a secret woke plot to erase history. Can you tell me any history they've erased? Because it appears that the gov and their clown friends like on here are desperately trying to spin a very select and dishonest version of history. Even Boris got in on the act with his Churchill bio which included an entirely made up story about a cleaning lady saving the country. Boris was interestingly sacked from the Times for making up stories and went on to do the same at the Telegraph. A lot of the 'Euros want to ban such and such' stories came from his less than mighty pen in the 1990s. Ol' George was an honest journalist. We need more of them. P.S. Am not sure where the 'far left' have hijacked education. Please give examples?
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  1418.  @grrinc  You clearly do not read my glorious comments which are extremely diverse and interesting. Was recommending sceptical books on AI yesterday, how many posters on here do that? Most of them may actually be some sort of AI judging by the way they use identical language and canned phrases.
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  1419. Yes, you're repeating his nonsense. You're promoting a con man. Shame on you.
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  1420. Only for idiots who don't understand basic biology.
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  1421. Yes, the Rona is dangerous, thank you. Spike protein on its own won't do much. You need the viral payload.
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  1422. Or don't get the jab, get covid, take up hospital resources then die or end up using more resources to treat your long covid.
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  1423. Teachers are great. Its not their fault some parents are idiots who believe in weird political conspiracies they read about on Facebook.
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  1424. She's totally right on this.
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  1425.  @DonaldUndercoat  They can sell it to Russia and China. Do keep up.
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  1426. @IrridiumX Blimey, you win the most racist comment of the day award.
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  1427. @IrridiumX " they cant do anything without the west you moron" - apparently they can win wars against us, so there's that. And buy our footie teams. And buy our businesses.
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  1428.  @shanjanusman9974  Right, and we've outsourced our emissions to China. Or do you think that all those manufactured goods we buy are made by magic elves?
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  1429.  @williamshade927  Anyone suggesting workhouses deserves a slap. Grow up. P.S. Far fewer young girls are having babies these days than 30 years ago.
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  1430.  @williamshade927  Still lower than it was years ago. And do irresponsible men not exist in your world?
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  1431. Yep, remember 18 months ago when protesters in Hong Kong, France and South america wore masks and they were a sign of manliness and rebellion?
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  1432. By that logic we should tell women to stop wearing high heels and makeup because they used to be male fashions.
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  1433. Oh please. London was full of stabbings when Boris was running it.
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  1434. Yep, same issue with cars not being completed because the manufacturers can't get their hands on enough chips for the embedded systems.
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  1435. You can when there's a massive transnational distribution infrastructure in place with said fruit being grown in more than one country at a time. Or do you want to go back to ye olde days when everyone was delighted with Canadian Apples and tangerines for Christmas?
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  1436. Ummm, this has gone on forever. Or did you forget the cold war? Or the war on terror?
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  1437. Yeah, then everyone would be asking why London evaporated and what that big mushroom cloud is over the South of England.
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  1438.  @TonionDuFromage  Yep, is simply astonishing they think this is a good idea. One interesting thing about the UK is the current blow up is more in the South East and is hitting affluent areas more at the moment. Which means Conservative voters. So you're bang on that they're literally killing their own.
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  1439. Well you know we did have Jezza and the press decided to destroy him. So we ended up with Borisballsupbrexit Johnson and his merry men.
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  1440.  @josephverdins6921  Is funny though have Boris has successfully managed to screw things up far worse than even the pessimists suggested Jezza would do. Special bonus points for Boris sucking up to the Russians and making one a Lord while Tories rant about Labour being traitors. Haha.
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  1441. She threatened to drive at them. That demonstrates criminal intent.
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  1442.  @Andrew-ri5qo  Ah, you're quoting 90s conspiracy book titles...
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  1443.  @Andrew-ri5qo  I know. I've read it. Am very familiar with the 90s conspiracy scene.
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  1444.  @joebloggs3551  The BBC is not left you muppet. Its like a North Korea propaganda channel for the Tories at the moment and filled with Tory journalists. Are you people so poisoned on conspiracy drivel that you think anything you disagree with is 'left'?
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  1445. One is very much bigger than the other. Did they cover big and small in your schooling?
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  1446.  @leewatts1570  GB News college.
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  1447. But apparently say yes to 95% of the population being held to ransom by 5% nutters who want to spread disease for fun...
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  1448.  @keithrose6931  Yes so maybe we can get the big companies who raked it in to pay an emergency pandemic tax and use it to fund better pay for nurses? Or use it to give tax cuts to lower-paid workers?
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  1449. There's memes and then there's reality... https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a2.htm https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2021/06/22/death-and-religion-excess-deaths-sweep-through-amish-and-mennonite-communities-during-covid-19-pandemic
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  1450. To be fair, so it the whole channel. It currently has a live stream running which has fewer viewers than those live streams of fat blokes playing Minecraft and talking about their action figure collection.
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  1451. Meanwhile in the real world, what's actually happening is the right-wing are attacking one of the few professions left with strong trade unions. Just like they're also attacking the NHS (unions), train drivers (unions) and their cousins in the US are doing it to teachers, public service workers and actors.
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  1452. Only a complete brainlet would think the pro-monarchy, Corbyn-hating, full of Oxbridge Tories, Nigel Farage-loving BBC was Marxist. Is as ridiculous as saying Benjamin Netanyahu is a secret member of Isis. Or Right Said Fred are respected musicians.
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  1453.  @jonmemmott7532  Farage was the politician with the most Question Time appearances. The BBC loved him, and the BBC also helped create the 'character' of Farage and Boris with their constant appearances on HIGNFY. To be fair, Oxbridge also had plenty of Nazi collaborators as well, but am sure you won't mention them.
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  1454.  @jonmemmott7532  No my point is the BBC is the establishment and your contention that they're all secret Marxists is laughable.
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  1455. The 60,000 figure is picked out of thin air. The vast majority will get their shots and you'll just have a few idiots who'll make themselves unemployed to pwn the libs.
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  1456. Ah, we've completely forgotten Boris and his flags, Farage going to Wembley, Priti Patel pretending to be into football and all those journalists who whined about taking a knee being happy to take a ticket away from a decent fan. The right are playing politics far more here and the country is raging about it.
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  1457. Problem is none of you lot take a blind bit of notice to the actual teachings of Christ - you love wars, you despise the poor, you don't care about children (See 'lets infect the kids with covid'), you worship money and false idols (look at the personality cult for Farage/Trump)... If more Christians actually followed the teachings of Christ, they would be much respected.
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  1458. The other 'scientists' are wrong, tho. List half a dozen here and we'll critique.
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  1459. And yet America would grind to a halt without the millions working in low-wage jobs while being looked down upon by idiots who think their stock trading work is somehow essential.
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  1460. So much angry Gammon here. They don't seem to understand how ridiculous it looks. I think they should sit down and try to explain to their kids why they're so angry. Then let the kids take away their phones & close their facebook accounts.
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  1461.  @simonb2109  Go look at the comments on the new Colin Brazier video. Definitely proves your point, mate!
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  1462. Well not really. If that was the case then flu would have died out centuries ago but we see some flu viruses are average, some weak and some really nasty.
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  1463. You want to cancel France?
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  1464.  @firsteerr  Yes am sure transporting food 12000 miles is cheaper & quicker than sending it across the channel....sigh
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  1465. Which they will then sell to to West and the West will tut tut and complain about Communists, then sign the cheques. Pretty much what we've been doing since Nixon.
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  1466. Sometimes you can say dumb things. He said a dumb thing. Stop defending this Doctor Evil Impersonator. He won't shag you.
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  1467. And didn't want to kill the parishioners...
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  1468. Right-wingers seem weirdly triggered by masks? Meghan said 'the default is a skin-showing face', umm, okay, but doesn't that mean we should also default to not wearing pants, which is also the default? I mean if you don't wear pants you can be arrested and taken to court. Why? Why are masks in a pandemic oppression, but not wearing pants is worthy of a jail sentence? Methinks Repubs are a bit ticked off the Rona isn't killing more democrats.
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  1469.  @pauljohnson1664  We won't because the left actually has culture. The right have discarded theirs in favour of moaning about nonsense and lionising untalented hacks who spend their time vomiting propaganda given to them by Murdoch. (Before anyone has a go, yes there are many talented Conservatives, but current Conservatives appear to spend all their time whinging about everything).
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  1470. As mentioned above companies won't pay for them. Think about it, you spend 3-4 years training someone, then have to pay them a decent salary (or they'll go elsewhere). That's a lot of investment in a young person. Far better to pick and choose from uni grads and pay little for training. That's how these businesses think. Yes it is idiotic short-term thinking but that's Britain for you.
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  1471. Today Dan realises that the clowns he supports have been honking their red noses a bit too much and the audience are getting fidgety.
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  1472. Grow up, please. Pitiful whining on here, like toddlers.
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  1473.  @josephverdins6921  I just posted the sage members list off the Governments web site. Is this not a fact? How about the link featuring JhB's most stupid covid statements (things she actually said). All fact. Send list and I'll say hello to the charmers there.
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  1474. Don't forget the pasta and flour shortages last year. Or the cans of Dettol being sold on Ebay for £12 each.
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  1475.  @raspberrytreacle  The same Hitler who hated Marxists, thought there was a Marxist plot against him, threw left-wingers in concentration camps and loved big business? That guy? The same guy who privatised chunks of German industry?
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  1476. Mate the government has killed more people than the Blitz in a year and for some puzzling reason you lot don't even think this is a problem, but you're terrified of skint immigrants.
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  1477. Do you mean the 'Russia hoax' which ended up with quite a few Russians & others being indicted and charged with crimes? Or was it a hoax obvious spies like Marina Butina were hanging round with the NRA? She's in jail, by the way. For being a spy.
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  1478. That's why the UK wants a trade deal. We're the ones with the nuked economy. The kiwis aren't.
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  1479. Rome says hi. China says hi. America says hi. Greece says hi.
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  1480. Am sure GB news with have 15 stories on poor Geronimo over the next day or two.
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  1481.  @harrieth6300  As someone who doesn't do drugs I have to point out that much of the country does, including lots of your middle-class friends. I very much doubt you'd be happy to see your lawyer, accountant or the blokes at the golf club being carted off at gunpoint to druggie island.
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  1482. English keep voting Tory then complaining. This is like when your dog keeps slapping his face with his tail then acts all confused about what is happening.
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  1483. The fishermen were told what would happen with Brexit. They took no notice. Now they want us to go to war over their idiot voting choices???
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  1484. Not really. There have been constant anti-lockdown protests over the past few months and not a dickie bird has been said about them by this lot. Also, I find it funny there's an eco protest from a group we haven't heard of in the same week the government is trying to ban protests. Is almost as if the gov is manipulating the masses or something.
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  1485.  @elizagoodytwoshoes9140  And yet the world's top scientists have shown plenty of evidence it works whereas you're a random gobbler on the Internet who is basing your judgement on drivel you read on Facebook...
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  1486. Well if you were in Britain the 60s had a benefits system, apprenticeships, regular wage rises, the OU and university grants. And family allowance. So yeah, the country was expected to take care of them.
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  1487.  @lightworker5220  Do you wash your hands after you go to the toilet, or is that also interfering in your happiness?
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  1488. What does that even mean? Do you really think a right-wing dork ranting about vegans is something that surprises people? Its the same drivel every single day.
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  1489. Because they're about to get shut down because there's so many misinformation peddlars and they know the semi-sensible story will attract them like flies to camel dung.
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  1490.  @Andrew-ri5qo  In what way? Please provide examples.
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  1491. One good way of protecting them is by not mass-infecting them with a super-dangerous virus that may well cause them life-long illness.
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  1492.  @waynejohnson7058  The US, Canada, China and most European countries are allowing it for the over 12s. Britain is delaying while covid is rapidly spreading among youngsters. We're not taking any basic mitigation methods (masks, air filters, better ventillation), either. Again, it would be fine limiting vaccines if we were trying our hardest to protect the young, but the currently strategy is to let them catch it. The main reason deaths are low with 20+ thousand infections a day in the UK is because its mainly hitting the youth. Tho many of those will end up in hospital, or with long covid. The optics of this look callous, especially as the government know full well what is going to happen: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/06/nhs-sets-up-specialist-young-peoples-services-in-100-million-long-covid-care-expansion/
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  1493.  Alan Braham  I want a statue of Michael Faraday. The modern world literally wouldn't exist without him and he came from poverty to become one of our foremost scientific minds. Isaac Newton too, but to be fair he was a right miserable bastard. And James Clerk Maxwell to keep the Scots happy. Mathematical electromagnetic legend.
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  1494. Why do you always talk in the same way? Is there a bot campaign to boost this particular presenter?
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  1495. Orange Antichrist.
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  1496. This is the baffling part. Why did they just roll over like that? Its not like they haven't been hardened in the past so what's the deal? Did someone pay off all the commanding officers? Sure looks like way when the former leader does a runner with $100+ million in cash.
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  1497. Blimey, he's been here two days and wants to get rid of the NHS, thinks us peasants don't need to go to university and now he's an expert on terrorism. Hey Pat, tell me how many British people Isis have killed compared to Boris over the past year...
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  1498. We did that last year and everyone whined about how hard it was and demanded the schools reopen.
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  1499.  @paulmeredith7651  Yep, Hitler was a fan with the idea of cultural bolshevism. Am sure many of these characters know exactly want they're saying and are pretending to be clueless.
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  1500. Is a propaganda trick. Think of evangelist preachers rattling on endlessly to confuse the masses.
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  1501.  @MJ-qb5ph  Dan used to be a celebrity gossip columnist and spent a lot of time massaging the truth in his columns.
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  1502. Make me. Please also call me a sheep while you're making me take it off.
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  1503.  simon templer  So not such a tough guy then.... big on talk and all that, hey?
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  1504. Does anyone remember 'Heil Honey I'm Home', a sitcom about Hitler living next to a nice Jewish couple? It got cancelled. In 1990. For some reason? Am thinking perhaps because it offended everyone???
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  1505. @Pale Rider You mean the Tory voters who are gleeful that their party is committing mass murder? They sound nice.
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  1506. How is a New Zealand gossip columnist spewing disinformation about a pandemic 'News'?
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  1507. Would you like to share whats happening to make us Remoaners jealous?
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  1508. I thought personality cults were limited to insane dictatorships yet for some reason everyone is rallying round the orange antichrist despite him being the worst president in a century?
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  1509. Remember in the old days when that was the case and Mrs T decided those nasty unions demanding proper wages had to go & the public sector had to be broken up and things done cheaper? And here we are...
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  1510. Brendan who used to be in the Revolutionary Communist Party? That Brendan?
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  1511. And grifters like this channel.
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  1512. It's a vaccine, you muppet. Stop puking out Internet conspiracy paranoia.
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  1513. So you coached your daughter then? Because most kids understand that the vaccinations they had as toddlers were essential and aren't against vaccines.
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  1514. Its been a week, mate. They have a lot of money and these mistakes are amateurish.
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  1515. If only Boris had listened to actual scientists instead of the Great Barrington frauds and the Tory press...
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  1516. The Second Coming of our Lord is more likely.
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  1517. Right, am bored with this nonsense so am currently watching a video on Atomic Force Microscopy. Is quite fun and interesting.
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  1518.  @nedrain9044  Stolen election? Dear, dear me. Can you explain why Trump has such a hold on various people? He was a useless businessman, a useless husband and a useless president yet so many seem to worship him in the most Chariman Mao sort of way. Is downright bizarre.
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  1519. Yet everyone forgets about the right-wing reality shows like the Apprentice, or the number of Tory MPs who pop up on other reality-type shows. We also seen to have forgotten about reality TV right winger Georgia Toffalo who appears all over the place despite have no discernible talent or skills.
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  1520.  @cordyone  Radical liberal would get it right, mate. They've clearly hired some absolute drunkard.
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  1521. No, its that big thing we live on whose systems are starting to fall apart under the strain.
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  1522.  Billy Bunter  Can you explain what is factually wrong about my comment?
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  1523. Food science is quite a lucrative field. Mrs Thatcher worked as one pre-politics. Yes, her science career was devoted to ice-cream and cake research.
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  1524. The UK gov is experimenting on them by mass-infecting them with covid.
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  1525.  @marcusbradley3081  Trump was the guy who had his own Capitol Building attacked. He's not the role model you think he is.
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  1526. I'm a lefty and they censor me on here all the time. And not for !£&!^*^&!^"& language, but for pointing out simple truths and being a source of witty banter.
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  1527.  @marcusbradley3081  Well seeing as all those caught were Trumpists & have admitted their crimes then you'd have to be an idiot to think it was all the lefties fault. I watched it live on telly. We all saw what was going on. Don't defend this.
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  1528.  @Thomas-ok9ot  It's a great clip and Shapiro is a weirdo. William F Buckley would be turning in his grave at what 'Conservative intellectuals' are these days.
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  1529.  Colin Beever  Why, that is what's on every other story? If we agree its not right to be racist towards such a talented bloke then it is also not right to be racist towards all the other law-abiding people out there of a similar background.
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  1530. Then when the NHS shuts the private sector can charge what it wants. You'll be whining even more when you pay 5 grand a month in insurance and it doesn't even provide full coverage.
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  1531.  @rollovaughan  It's drivel. Someone on the Internet said the vaccine was 99% graphene. It's not as a) The vaccine would look like tar and b) Graphene is quite expensive to make (is a form of carbon and costs around $200,000 per ton).
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  1532. 66 million people and apparently the 'best man' for the job is a human version of Dougal from the Magic Roundabout. Tragic.
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  1533. If armies worked why do we have wars? If police worked, why is there crime? If Emma's brain worked, why does she keep posting the same Facebook meme nonsense on here?
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  1534. They won't lose next time. Call it a Brexit disaster bonus, if you want.
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  1535. @Neria Wolf So far he's managed to work two weeks on this channel. Imagine if a normal person started a job then demanded the summer off after a fortnight. They'd be shredded in the papers.
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  1536.  @duality5503  Not really. At the start yes there was some left influences but that very quickly dissipated. Hitler loathed Marxists and would happily see himself as a Conservative.
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  1537. @Neria Wolf Not really, people who actually have knowledge of the conspiracy world know it is a sewer of disinformation funded by shady billionaires who basically create an idiot army to try and ruin democracy. Conspiracy theory has a long history of doing this - from the 'its all the Jews fault' conspiracies of the past thousand years, to the anti-masonic plots, to the John Birchers in the 50s claiming Eisenhower was a communist. But conspiracy believers today don't bother to read any of this and are too stupid to understand they're being played. Sad. As for the pandemic, it was pretty obvious vaccine proof documents would be digital simply because everything else is digital these days, you know, like the biometric chip in your passport.
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  1538. Can Neil please get a haircut? I know he's pretending to be locked down, but seriously visit a barber and stop looking like Charles Manson you absolute weirdo.
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  1539.  @barrykirkby9626  Yes, the public-private lark which was idiotic. However they also gave decent funding to the hospitals and things worked quite well for a while.
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  1540.  @John1873--  Yes he has. The antivaxxers are now running with the idea that the vaccines don't work at all and therefore it was all a huge waste of money. Give them data showing the vaccines working and they'll call you a MSM shill or think you're a crazy lefty.
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  1541. No, it should be lowered. Stop being a fascist.
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  1542.  @rogerwoodhouse7945  I was writing assembly language code at 16 and being a big nerd. Was more clued up on politics than most adults these days. If you're seriously saying they shouldn't be able to vote but their parents generations 'cognitive abilities' which has them voting for tabloid buzzword politics is okay then we really are in a rut. By your reckoning someone like Greta Thunberg (if she were British) would not be wise enough to vote, but Joey Essex would. 90 yr olds with Alzheimers can vote, but 16 yr olds can't.
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  1543. Only studies done by idiots.
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  1544.  @bobjames6622  In the time I've been on here I've been accused of being military intelligence, a labour spy, a BBC plant, a troll, and a paid government agent. By people who are clearly members of some of the above groups. Aside from the BBC. They have better things to do - like boot-lick Boris.
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  1545. As opposed to us growing up in the 80s being told we may well get smoked in a nuclear war? Do you people have any remembrance of past events?
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  1546. Trump has a personality disorder. He also didn't write his books and the guy who did absolutely loathes him with a passion.
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  1547. He's much better than the orange antichrist.
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  1548.  @nbandpinportugal  Umm, people said that about the Jews in the 1930s. How are you any different?
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  1549.  @stephengreen9720  Well if most of the adults in the country have been vaccinated and vaccination was the biggest news story of the past half year AND the person in question is on TV talking about covid being overblown, then yes, I'd ask.
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  1550.  @Gooseplan  Indeed! Of course they also forget the language alleged Conservatives have used for a long time to attack the poor, minorities and like like. They're pretty much attacking everyone now - last week the DM was attacking doctors, today they're having a go at public sector workers for the crime of having a pension.
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  1551.  @beverlyfletcher4458  Its the Daily Mail pretending everyone is nasty but them. They've been an absolute disgrace this past 18 months.
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  1552.  @Tyler_Fuller  For sure. The ironic thing is this stuff is pretty apolitical. You can generate relatively pollution-free electricity to keep the greens happy and a decentralised grid should mean less reliance on foreign power to keep the conservatives happy. But oddly we're just faffing around and not getting things done. Will take law changes and subsidies but we do that for other things (think of how house prices are kept aloft by government 'incentives'). Is amazing how on the ball we were with this stuff decades ago. Look at something like the pumped storage station in Wales - uses reservoirs to store energy later used to make power. Was an example of 1970s engineering - tho wasn't complete till the 80s - and pretty cool. Just checked the name - Dinorwig.
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  1553. This is actually true. There's always rules and laws (libel for example). For most of the history of Britain saying anything against the Royal family would get you severely punished. Even in recent years when they're not tossing people in jail for being anti-royalist, such sentiments will often see those who utter them destroyed in the press.
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  1554. Because the alternative is be like Britain or the US and have tens of thousands of dead Aussies and a tanked economy.
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  1555.  @Dragonblaster1  Fun story. In the 80s there was a medical show on ITV with Miriam Stoppard and Rob Buckman. They did a whole episode on whether men could have babies and went into quite some detail. Is weird eating your tea after primary school and here's a doctor explaining about artificial ectopic pregnancies and pumping men full of hormones while surgically altering their pelvis. Ewww.
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  1556. If you lot didn't kick off about every single attempt to mitigate the pandemic then perhaps the rest of the country wouldn't hold you in such contempt.
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  1557. Dude, they got enormous amounts of funding. The least they could have done is sort the audio and video out.
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  1558. You have terrible taste in heroes. I hope you never get a job with Marvel or we'll be watching Lawrence Fox as an X-Man with the power of boring people to death.
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  1559. Did you read about the 42 yr old fitness fan who died of covid the other day? Good job, jacked, liked climbing mountains... thought he was too healthy for a vaccine.
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  1560. She clearly isn't talking sense, she's another 'lets downplay the pandemic' goblin and a disgrace to Christianity.
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  1561. They always have the same plot about orphans. I think is just something they think works so they've made it a part of every film. Plus it helps explain why kids can go on adventures if there's no parents about to stop them.
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  1562. You do understand the jabs have had phase 1,2 and 3 clinical trials involving thousands of people in many different countries?
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  1563. Lots of people don't want the Rona. That's the difference.
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  1564.  @markadams3423  Nope, not legal to threaten to run over people then try to do it.
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  1565.  @freddyspizzaboy6754  Doesn't matter. Still not legal.
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  1566.  @benoitgermanier8815  They built another Mersey tunnel that opened in the early 70s & I think there was originally an earlier rail tunnel in the same area. Yep, just checked, the rail tunnel fell out of use due to pollution from steam trains but was reopened and is part of the railway system now.
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  1567. Lockdown, mask-wearing and a lack of international travel reduced flu right down. In humans. In birds (who don't do mask-wearing or travel restrictions) there was an outbreak of serious bird flu at the end of last year which spread to Europe over Christmas.
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  1568. He's a psychopath. Has he made a single suggestion on how to deal with the pandemic that isn't 'let them die'? No.
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  1569. Nick Clegg did okay, though - million quid a year as chief propagandist for Facebook.
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  1570.  @1984IsHere  Yes, is that why Florida and Texas are riddled with it and have hundreds dying a day and clogged up hospitals?
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  1571.  @davidbarlow350  So let me get this straight, all those films from Florida and the Florida doctors and the dying Floridians speaking in American accents are all secretly Italians and its all a giant fake? Get the fuck out of here.
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  1572.  @xyo1337  Nah, am bored and feel the need to share my wit with a global audience.
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  1573. Worst home secretary in living memory. Which says something as she's had serious competition. Gov had to pay compensation to her staff she was bullying.
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  1574. @Myth Tree Right, so we managed to get rid of smallpox. Or do you think we should have that back?
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  1575. Either they've spelt his name wrong, or he's not listed on the GMC's GP register. Some clarification is needed here.
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  1576. Putin couldn't believe his luck with Brexit and is now helping things to fall apart even more. Tho also to be fair to the Scots - the Tories have been so wretched that you can't blame them for wanting independence.
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  1577.  @thegameschanged1248  You didn't read what I said, did you? He pushed for Brexit and now is pushing for other independence movements. Is no coincidence that dozens of well-funded ultra-nationalist groups are popping up all over Europe and most of them appear to be fans of Putin.
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  1578. But he didn't tho, did he?
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  1579.  @foxon172  Yes, coronavirus is a big thing, as is the vaccines. Do keep up.
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  1580. Apart from his lack of concern about the 130+000 dead people and him being okay with not vaccinating people?
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  1581. Why are you all so obsessed with that? Do you understand that the 'dancing for a laugh to boost morale' is a common thing and you can even find videos of troops in Afghanistan doing it years ago.
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  1582. Moore is a mad genius. He also had a transgender character in his 2000AD Halo Jones series who changes sex so many times they effectively become invisible. For the kids reading - this was vintage 80s Moore.
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  1583.  @TheGingerJonny  I would be fine with an actual news channel doing actual news and annoying all the right people. GB News isn't going to be that, but maybe in the future we'll get something...
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  1584. Bet you weren't saying that when the Lorry drivers shut down the country during the Blair years. I recall the Tories happily supported that.
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  1585. Meanwhile the Tories have killed 150,000 Brits with their Corona screw-up but apparently that's not as bad as some weirdos protesting in the road. Priorities, you muppets.
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  1586. It exists because of foreign money trying to turn British media into hate-fuel like Fox in the US.
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  1587.  @pyromagic7113  So you're okay with foreign money being used to influence British people? Am sure you're fine then with Murdoch or Lebvedev. Sky, the BBC and Channel 4 do tend to try and cover news, where GB tends to do opinion & usually rubbish opinion.
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  1588.  @MsJackcool69  This channel alone has posted about a hundred videos whining about Harry and Meghan. Is that common sense or clickbait nonsense? They've had a go at the NHS, at lifeboatmen, at schools, at doctors, at footballers... This is basically Fox News-style poison dedicated to brainwashing a chunk of the audience.
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  1589. What's a govered immune system? Is that where you get injected with essence of Michael Gove?
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  1590. Do you like slapping horses?
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  1591.  @grahamokeeffe1075  Upvote for Borat-themed sarcasm. Very good.
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  1592. Not really, plenty of young people do those jobs providing they get paid for it. The likes of fruit picking is seasonal and not very well paid, so not many can afford to work those positions.
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  1593. 48.8C yesterday in Sicily. Pretty much the highest temperature recorded in Europe for a long time. If temps go like that again (which they will) then you can look forward to things like wheat crops failing and food prices exploding.
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  1594.  @Catsmeow90  Because lots of people aren't vaccinated? Including all those pro-Corona protesters who boast about not wearing masks and are happily spreading it?
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  1595. That comment deserves a high rating, but I can only give you a C++.
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  1596. Bit like when Britain went round the planet taking everywhere over.
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  1597. No they're not. You might have a point if anti-vaxxers were all being shoved in concentration camps and the celebrity ones had a 'visit' at night and got shot in the head. But they don't. Stop being an idiot with the loopy WW2 analogies.
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  1598. Dan Wooten is making me feel a bit queasy. Should I fill in a yellow card report?
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  1599.  @xenomorph6-_gaming  Masks can make digital face recognition harder - but not impossible. If you get filmed you can wear a mask and they can still tell its you. They can even analyse how you walk ("Gait analysis").
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  1600.  @xenomorph6-_gaming  No they're not. There's a weird thing with the right-wingers and covid. They take a left-wing talking point and pretend its got worse due to covid. Let's look at some... 1. Mental health... no increase in spending, tho. Nope, back to work plebs will cure depression. 2. Women's rights... again, not many right-wingers cared before. 3. Masks and C02... the people who think 80 billion ton of CO2 a year pumped into the air is fine argue that masks cause Hypercapnia, . 4. Environment... they don't believe in climate change but are really worried about mask littering. 5. Young people... Tories hate young people, but apparently want to help the young during covid (by getting them infected). And so on.
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  1601. Plenty of countries have required vaccine certificates for decades. https://practio.co.uk/travel-health/articles/vaccination-certificate If it helps the vaccine is fine and the main side effects will be feeling tired, headache and a sore arm. But discuss with your doctor first!
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  1602.  @riffraff9506  True.
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  1603. So are all those dead people false positives, too? You absolute dolt.
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  1604. @Julia Prinsloo I have and I've heard this absolute nonsense now for a year from people who clearly have an agenda to play down the pandemic. Most of the 'other causes' on death certificates are related to covid - heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, lung damage. So if someone gets covid, then ends up dying of their lungs failing because their lungs tissue has turned solid that means the covid killed them, even though they may have technically died from, I dunno, not being able to breathe. If people were really dying of other causes and it was being covered up there's a gigantic insurance industry who would be suing governments around the world for hundreds of billions (especially in the US with medical insurance). The fact they're not clearly shows the death minimisers are mistaken. Or do you think life insurance companies are happy to pay out 100+ thousand dodgy claims in the UK alone? THINK
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  1605.  @TJ-vl1ff  I have this joke going with friends that as so many NIMBYS complain about wind turbines and solar panels that if nuclear fusion was perfected they'd all be our protesting that the Tokamak's magnetic containment system was causing cancer...
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  1606. Funny how so many Boomers spent last year isolating and getting their kids to do everything and as soon as they get their shots suddenly everyone else is a snowflake and should suck it up. Vintage boomer logic.
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  1607.  @mamat7101  It has been tested for well over a year. Do you actually pay attention or do you just sit there glass-eyed believing everything Facebook tells you?
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  1608. To be fair so has the government, Catholic priests, cigar-chomping TV presenters, big business and so on.
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  1609. Nothing says 'I am a scumbag' like making digs at the people who risked their lives and saved so many during the pandemic. What next, mocking firemen? Joking about Lolipop ladies being woke?
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  1610.  @ipunchedu8884  But the problem is they keep insisting that even when presented with evidence to the contrary - no one is saying Britain is the worst country for discrimination, we're saying we do have a racist side and we should address it. Is like their stance on climate change, thinking its all a big exaggeration. Which is ironic as many early climate change scientists were actually conservatives, but big business started a PR campaign against it and now conservatives all deny/downplay climate change even as the planet is visibly changing in a bad way.
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  1611. Same reason you call your MP The Rt Honourable, even if they're lying embodiments of dishonour?
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  1612. Funnily enough Bin Laden was chilling in Pakistan when they got him.
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  1613. You were told that believing tabloid drivel and Facebook memes was not how adults should gather evidence to make a decision, but nooo... Your fault. Own it.
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  1614.  @philipprice171  No, but I spent much of last year in and out of hospitals due to caring for an elderly parent and got to know a fair few medical staff as well as ones I know in day to day life.
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  1615. Is this the same Sue Cook who (quoting a headline of the time) "Former Crimewatch presenter slams Operation Yewtree for 'hounding old men out of their houses'"? Hmmm.
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  1616.  @peterpan1435  Mate in the days of the black plague everyone thought it was because God was angry with the world...
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  1617.  @jeremysmith8035  The Trump cult fascinates me. Never seen such brainwashed people outside of a 1970s religious compound. I read them on Twitter ranting about masks and vaccines and how Biden is terrible because he's hurting poor innocent landlords & how amazing and respected America was under Trump... ... which is funny because I don't recall Trump being seen as anything other than a joker by his allies - who he kept trying to screw over.
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  1618. Thank you for that Chairman Mao.
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  1619. @End The Woke No one around me is Australian. Literally no Australians around. This must mean Australia is a hoax.
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  1620.  @djbogz1921  I actually agree to some degree - simply whacking up prices won't do much. We need to carefully study what's going on, it isn't as simple as 'everyone eats too much and is lazy' - we eat about the same number of calories as we did in the 70s. Funnily enough in WW2 they did a big 'hunger study' on conscientious objectors in the US to see how people handle starvation - Minnesota Starvation Study. The normal food given was just over 3000 calories and they cut it to 1500. Some of the participants ended up developing mental health problems and eating disorders and yet these days 1500 calories would be seen as an 'easy' diet and many adult women don't even eat that much normally.
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  1621. Nazi alert.
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  1622. But you lot said they're all dead due to vaccine reactions, so surely there must be thousands of grieving vax relatives GB News could put on to prove your point?...
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  1623. Yet you lot didn't care one jot when austerity was killing cancer patients or when the Tories bring in Voter ID laws....
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  1624. "Free speech nation is the best show on TV" - do you watch much TV?
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  1625. Oh please, guess what's going to happen here in September? Clue: will involve lots and lots of death and Boris going 'I had no idea this would happen'...
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  1626. Spoiler: We didn't get a trade deal, so like a stroppy youngster Tom isn't interested in trade deals now.
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  1627. He's probably one of those libertarians with zero sense of empathy and a fixation on young lasses.
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  1628.  @MrVibeless  Yes and then the fun starts. Am sure there will be tons of absolute drunk/coked-up rsoles picking on people trying to do their shopping because they have a mask on.
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  1629.  @patrickinator789  Yes the politicians are hypocrites and scumbags. I know this. The problem is the antimaskers are also mainly the antivaxxers, then antilockdowners and the antisocial-distancers*. In short they've been pro-virus since the start of this thing and have come up with zero alternatives to control it. *Neil Oliver being a fine example.
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  1630. What does he do? Does he have a job presently? Apart from money-laundering for the Brexit crowd he appears to pop up all over the place as a 'pundit' but yet he does nothing apart from rant on Twitter all day. Just checked, he's a Turning Point goblin as well. For those not in the know, Turning Point is a fake 'youth conservative' movement funded by American billionaires designed to push right-wing politics in school. Its founder, Charlie Kirk has a very small face and is actually the US version of Grimes - an absolute waste of space who the right-wing channels love. Ironically the co-founder of US Turning Point, the 'youth movement' was 80 and died of the Rona: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077
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  1631.  @martynhulland6252  Indeed. Tho we must make sure free speech is not perverted by big money backers with sinister motives. And yes, I'll call out the left doing that as well but is the right that is currently going bonkers with the billionaire cash and trying to make the US culture war a thing.
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  1632.  @alanh1169  It does seem to be a natural talent with them. The Alan Partridge approach to unintentional humour.
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  1633.  @tomround8271  Would you like to give us the evidence? Lockdowns worked fine in New Zealand. Masks have worked fine for decades in numerous industries*. Or is your 'evidence' social media fuckwittery that you post but do not actually understand? *Here's how you dress in a chip fab plant: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/global-manufacturing.html Here's what you wear in a high-tech cleanroom building satellites: https://blog.gotopac.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cleanroom-nasa-aerospace-garments-devices.jpg Here's how police forensic units dress: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/botched-closing-forensic-science-service-5012840
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  1634.  @jasondevon481  There's your problem. You think other politicians are worse based on tabloid drivel. Anyone with the slightly remembrance of political history know the Tories talk about freedom and wealth a lot, but its freedom and wealth for them and their chums.
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  1635. One dose, yes. Two, not so much. You need both, although you'll still get some breakthrough with both in a small percentage of cases due to the virulence of the Delta variant.
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  1636. Why is the sound recording on this worse than the mic on my cell phone? Have they blown all their cash on ridiculous celebrity salaries and forgot to pay for some working microphones?
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  1637. Can you explain why your mum wearing a mask was being harassed by a 'beta male covid zealot'? Was he hassling her because she was wearing a mask?
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  1638.  @ivanahumpalot7346  New Zealand that did great with covid, so they're not all bad.
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  1639.  @shaunluckham1418  Fair dos.
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  1640. Cats can recognise bad 'uns.
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  1641. They were told all this would happen. Is even in the government's own Yellowhammer reports. But people wanted to believe the lies and the likes of Anne were happy to share in the delusion. I may have had a bit of respect for Brexit types if they were honest that we'd get half a decade (at least) of chaos before things settled down. But they weren't honest. At all.
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  1642. Haven't seen any Marxists allowed to speak on GB News? Or any proper scientists? It looks like they're censoring people to push their own agenda.
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  1643. No it wasn't. It was a Tory MP being an idiot as usual. And here's the funny thing - when England were being berated by the ruling class and called Marxists etc. - they WON EVERYTHING. As soon as the Tories start flag-waving and pretending to be into footy... we lost. There may not be a connection there, but there's even less of a connection with anti-racism. So she's wrong.
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  1644. Bit fascist mate. You want to overthrow whats left of our democracy.
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  1645.  @randlemcmurphy4983  Yes a chunk of it is imported from the US. Much like the Teddy boy gangs in the 50s.
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  1646.  Athos Aramis  Or maybe you could educate yourself and realise its all a con pushed by the Tory party to stoke division - Trump-style?
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  1647.  @MASTERSTUDIOS889  Jeez, we have to argue everything don't we? Masks work and have some efficacy. Yes people have to actually wear them properly, but they're still better than nothing. Simple exercise: Wear mask, run up to large angry gentleman and sneeze into mask. Now take off mask and sneeze on him. In which instance does large angry gentleman get covered in snot and smack you round the head?
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  1648. Yep!
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  1649. Yeah cool, then bye bye nato. Good luck fighting the Russians then, mate.
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  1650.  @markdavis9990  Am hoping this is quirky gallows humour and that you're not really Nadine Dorries-style moronic.
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  1651. So GB News gets an economics nerd to tell us its all over. Has he any expertise in viral genetics or medicine? Nah, didn't think so. Be nice to point out he's an economics PHd and not a medical doctor as well if you were honest.
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  1652. Dear me. Do you people really just sit around believing every single word the right-wing propaganda mill spews out? The only cultural revolution happening here is the Tories trying their hardest to destroy education because they think its run by a cabal of Marxists. Same drivel as in the US, and both copying Hitler with his hatred of 'cultural bolshevism'...
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  1653.  @Marvin-dg8vj  I see plenty of Tories who kick off about art they don't like. All they do is scream its 'woke' and let their attack dogs in the press have a go at it.
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  1654.  @hattmancock6396  The kids haven't been vaccinated yet and are suffering. Do we hate kids now in Britain? This stuff is just psychotic.
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  1655.  @hattmancock6396  What do you mean 'suddenly affected'? Do you mean the kids who were sent into unprotected schools during a surge of the delta variant? That's not a surprise, is it? It is happening all over the world.
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  1656.  @lesleyriseam1282  India and Pakistan came very close to nuclear war in the 1990s.
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  1657. ​ @paulmuaddib3470  Nope, because they were kids and the figures were for the first year when there was no vaccine.
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  1658. Yet we're ruled by a family who's been ruling us for centuries. Hmmm.
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  1659. To be fair we reduced our emissions by getting China to make all our stuff.
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  1660. It clearly hasn't with 30,000 cases a day. Which is far more than other European countries who didn't have clowns running their pandemic policies.
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  1661. Considerably less genocidal that the overly-sexed sociopath in number ten, tho.
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  1662. He's a cretin. I've watched him rant for months now and yet he proposes absolutely no alternative solutions to covid (other than let people die). We have over 130 000 dead from this thing, how many does Neil think is okay?
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  1663. Did you not get suspicious when your smartphone ten years ago had the same software functionality that could lock onto your face? As well as containing easy menus to helpfully upload your pic to Facebook which then run facial recognition on it?
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  1664.  @Lc-is8vn  The facial recognition will look at the triangular shape between your nose and corners of the mouth. If you wear a face mask the computers find it much harder to lock on.
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  1665. Are we going to get patriotic blue Brexit ration books? One gallon of petrol, 1/4 tea, two packets of biscuits and a pound of mince guaranteed!
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  1666.  @adrianmeyer2157  Yes and the culture war stuff is being created by the Tory government copying the Republicans in the US. Go look on Google trends at the use of the word 'woke' in Britain. Relatively low until the end of 2019 - then it blew up. What happened then? Boris got elected. And Boris had research done on things that trigger conservative voters (apparently one such topic of anger is fishing - note all the Brexit fish articles). So after this he gets his mates in the press to rant about a different thing 'cancelled' every day while simultaneously trying to actually cancel everything they don't like. As for it being a conversation that needs to be had - this is all conservatives talk about but NEVER mention their role in stirring it up.
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  1667. Am sure it'll be super-popular when people are queuing for their weekly rations...
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  1668.  @howardramsey7243  Even politically Boris looks like a failure in every way (other than in impregnating women, which I concur he's very good at).
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  1669. Tories cut funding. Tories trying to destroy it. Simple as.
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  1670. And yet the weather is quite clearly far more bonkers every year. This is not normal and saying 'oh well its always happened' is idiotic. Yes, the climate has been far hotter and colder in the past few billion years but the current weirdness directly correlates with the amount of pollution we're spewing into the atmosphere.
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  1671. Imagine wanting a revolution because you have to wear a mask in Tesco.
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  1672. In my day when we weren't all whining toddlers we got our shots at school, then went home and played out. None of this incessant grinching because our parents knew the alternative (Death and/or disability) was worse than a few needles.
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  1673.  @ashsqx3246  You've just made yourself look like a prize prat. Well done. 1. The vaccines are better tested with better technology that most older vaccines. 2. The 'sniffles' have killed four+ million people and 120+ thousand in the UK.
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  1674. They probably spent their time there drinking and partying while telling you they were always tired from working so hard on politically-correct essay writing.
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  1675. Am waiting until someone on here suggests honouring mothers with a medal. Maybe calling it the Mother's cross of honour?....
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  1676. 'controlled opposition' is all those 'conservative' internet channels you look at that are funded by billionaires. Much like the anti-vax/mask movement and many other groups that mysteriously pop up from nowhere with tons of funding. But sadly people these days have lost all ability to assess the validity of information so they fall for the grifts again and again.
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  1677. To be fair am sure most of the heavy weaponry will be rendered useless by remote control if the Americans so desire. You're not going to get very far with drones or helicopter gunships if their computers are fried and its impossible to get parts without buying them off the US.
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  1678. None, but most of the presenters are ex-BBC (who now claim to hate the BBC). GB's investment comes from shady foreign billionaires and a couple of Tory hedge-fund types.
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  1679.  @stefrequency  Dear me. Remember Don and the post office guy trying to stop people from postal voting? Or the gerrymandering in Republican districts? Or him claiming the vote was rigged in 2016 until he won then he said it wasn't? Please stop worshipping the orange shitgoblin. It really is depressing to see.
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  1680.  @stefrequency  I'm just helping you out mate. Worshipping the guy who couldn't even make money running a casino is just a bit sad. Leave personality cults to North Korea, please.
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  1681. Trump was an epic disaster and an epic con man. Pretending otherwise is massively dishonest.
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  1682. Yes, why have your kids learn about racism when they can take practicals on being molested.
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  1683.  @tinastrongbow3292  Dude, please tell me you're joking about Umberto Eco? Please?
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  1684.  @stevenbootes1979  Wooten is a gossip columnist pontificating on public health matters. The very fact no one thinks this is a bit disturbing makes me cringe.
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  1685. We weren't. A few idiots stressed about knee-taking because their right-wing paymasters told them to push the issue on social media. Rest of the country didn't care. We even found the gay car holding the football quite amusing.
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  1686.  @grrinc  Well we def do with Jimmy Saville.
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  1687.  @retrowrath9374  They're locking down for a few days while they do it. If they trace all cases they can open up. If there's a reservoir of hidden illness that pops up then they can deal with that as well. Sensible approach. Harsh, but ultimately wise.
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  1688. Funny how the pro-covid stuff is suspiciously fascist as well. I bet Bannon is funding lots of this and laughing.
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  1689. Nige is playing the Trump game - attack Biden so he loses midterms next year. This is also why the Repubs in the US are letting covid spread because they hope Biden gets the blame.
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  1690. Starving poor people is a guaranteed way of giving the rest of us an even more rubbish life when the inevitable homelessness, mental problems, drug use and petty crime increases.
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  1691. @Dale Benton They're all solvable problems. It just needs the political will but sadly politics is decided by huge amounts of money pumped in to propaganda campaigns which cons the people into voting for self-destructive policies. History will look back at this era in astonishment - countries rotting from within while the rich could afford their own spacecraft and private armies; the hard-won gains of the previous century being wiped out to keep stock prices high.
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  1692. You completely forget that in the 90s there was a huge attempt to cancel rap - Tipper Gore, Parental stickers, Ice-T and Cop Killer...
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  1693.  @J5X7  You have forgotten your history. In the 1950s American rock and roll music was seen as a bad influence on Britain and we had regular gang fights with white 'Teddy boys'.
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  1694.  @byebyebadman2313  And yet your freedoms have been curtailed for decades and none of you lot had a word to say about it. Hmmm.
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  1695. They won't. Boris wants to let this rip and kill off some plebs.
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  1696. So tell me, can you travel, drive a car, work as a nightclub bouncer or doctor or nurse or teacher or lawyer without the correct paperwork/documents?
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  1697.  @helenaville5939  Yep, that's the drivel they're pushing now, magical super-immunity. Kind of sad really.
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  1698. Plus we're forgetting the messiness of relationships - colonists are going to have dramas with who is sleeping with whom and that will cause a lot of stress on the ship.
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  1699. Or y'know as the lady in the report says there's a ton of people with serious health problems - and they're unlikely to be fans of the Boris 'kill the weak' plan.
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  1700. So you're blaming remain for Tory boomer landlords pricing you out of property and Tory boomer bosses knocking down wages?
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  1701.  @desbrittain9952  Millions dead, so you're wrong.
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  1702.  @testudohorsfieldii7052  Is like how when foreigners go to live in England they're immigrants and a bit dodgy, but when British people live abroad they're expats and totally cool.
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  1703. Yeadon got everything wrong last year. Why listen to him?
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  1704. Don't be an idiot. This is the same shit you lot were saying last year and you were catastrophically wrong then.
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  1705. They can't. Over 130000 are dead in the UK of covid.
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  1706.  @chuckb624  Or maybe in the 21st century we can actually get along and not spend our whole lives being dicks to people of a different skin colour??
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  1707.  @accountformelyknownasarsen3072  Is this one of those 'My missus ran off with a black lad. The white race is in peril!' type nonsense posts? If so please go back to 4chan.
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  1708. So he's like those drunk blokes in the pub you can see every night?
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  1709. Stay at home until the Rona goes away. Simple. Same thing you told us to do a few months ago.
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  1710.  @moiraoneill8031  Its a vaccine, not the vet putting down a horse. Stop being a snowflake.
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  1711. This is 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me' level creepy. They need to knock that right off.
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  1712. Britain is an Island, mate. It's about the same size as New Zealand (bit smaller, actually).
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  1713. Good luck getting sued to oblivion.
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  1714. The one that is currently burning Greece and Turkey and parts of the US and recently caused heatwaves in Siberia, the US and Canada. Do keep up. (typo edited, US not UK)
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  1715. That makes no sense. You're happy you were lied to and the country gets thrown off a cliff because at least its not as bad as Hitler???
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  1716.  @swojnowski453  Funny thing is they don't remember because most of them get their history from watching TV shows. Kind of disturbing, really.
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  1717. I always imagined that a clinical psychologist would learn things like 'Getting off benzos is really hard and don't go cold turkey because that shit will FUCK you up'. But apparently not.
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  1718.  @4faxache935  Yes Hunter Biden is a bit of a druggie weirdo. So is Don Jnr. Trump has a long history of dubious behaviour, but keep pretending he's whiter than white while he laughs at you.
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  1719.  @Chris-the-Saxon  It needs more money and better management. And no medical people aren't working full-time from home outside of a few niche office-type jobs. All medical systems have people who don't directly work in care on high wages. Is fine to bin excess management but a lot of those well-paid jobs are in complex areas we can't do without (psychologists, engineers, scientists, IT).
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  1720. May I ask why?
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  1721.  @eva-imogenewharehoka2299  She's pushing qanon stuff. She's probably a stooge of the usual far-right crowd and was sent to bang boris to compromise him. You know, like agent Pammy and Julian Assange.
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  1722. Not at all. Tories stand for one thing - themselves. Always have done.
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  1723. So you think billionaires being given free money by governments to build crap that rarely works (Hyperloop, lol) 'give to society' while the millions of people who do the work that makes the billionaires rich don't? The boot-licking is strong with this one.
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  1724.  @6steveo9  'less government' in your case means more power for giant corporations. Is the typical libertarian argument - let's get rid of democracy and give all the power to supercorps. No. Just no.
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  1725. Pfizer is getting full authorisation next month, so sorted.
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  1726.  sphaget   Months ago dude.
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  1727.  sphaget   Wow, you're a cheery soul, aren't you? So you think 80% of the country is going to drop dead by Christmas? Can you tell me where you got this delusion from and how much solvent you've been huffing?
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  1728. That is cool. Don't forget Asimo from years ago as well.
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  1729. They had mass vaccinations. They also did a lot worse than New Zealand which is oddly never mentioned on here? Is almost as if there's an agenda to push failed right-wing solutions and not solutions that actually worked.
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  1730.  @Whatever-ow4bg  Without getting the Rona under control properly you destroy the economy anyway.
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  1731.  @iangraham9050  50% is too low for a herd immunity threshold, though.
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  1732. Ginger goddess, if we're honest.
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  1733.  @andyforshaw8489  They have massive financial backing so its not very impressive.
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  1734. No, we celebrate him failing. Did they not teach that in history class?
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  1735. Oh this vid is bringing the anti-vaxxers out...
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  1736.  @guleiro  Yep, I'd like to see them try to get a job at Nasa or Lockheed and not be familiar with metric/SI units.
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  1737. We like actual history, not the fake gibberish the right-wing churns out.
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  1738. The country doesn't need more demented right-wing propaganda. We already have the Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Star, Express, Channel 5, most of the presenters on Daytime TV, Talk Radio and a whole sludge of other rightist outlets.
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  1739. @Neria Wolf Are all the Russian oligarchs in London vetted when they come here to stash their bent money?
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  1740. Even US politics post-war. Imagine if Biden wanted to spend $500 billion on transport - the Repubs would lose their shit yet that's pretty much what Eisenhower did in the 50s with the highway system (inflation adjusted) and Conservatives were fine with it.
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  1741. I love how brave and freedom-loving you all are when it comes to you being personally offended, but you care zero about other people or the rest of the population.
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  1742. Mate he wants to let a pandemic disease lets rip and kill millions more just so he can have his 'freedom' to sit in a dingy studio wearing a neck scarf while complaining about face masks.
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  1743. Or maybe it was a very poor choice of language?
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  1744. They don't. Stop being paranoid.
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  1745.  @zedddddful  She's a cretin funded by shady dark money. Think about it - Hopkins has been thrown out of her jobs, got bankrupted in a libel trial yet still somehow is travelling all over the world stirring things up (she was in the US during the election last year). Who's funding her?
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  1746. Isn't that cancelling, aka cancel culture?
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  1747. Not quite as simple. In the 1970s average Brits ate similar calorie levels to now (no diet drinks, only a few who used saccarin instead of sugar, lots of spuds and gravy and bread & butter...) but were a whole lot thinner. Nor is this because average 70s folks exercised more (they didn't). There's some suspicion it might have been to do with chain-smoking, but that seems unlikely. Similarly WW2 rations were about 2400-3000 calories a day. Many people at home had fairly easy jobs just like today but they didn't get fat. We appear to have started blowing up in the 1990s, so maybe let's look at factors going on then to give us some ideas? Or we can just keep whining about fat people until everyone is fat?
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  1748.  @ianjack5914  True, but the middle-class of the 70s had cars but weren't big, either. Is an interesting puzzle and one which isn't actually political. Was thinking about it from the American point of view the other day. They had more cars and in the 50s lots of labour-saving devices, ate out more than the British, no rationing but again had a low obesity rate. The life of an average American in the 30s compared to the 50s was physically much harder but the Americans didn't start blowing up during the Eisenhower years.
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  1749. At least you won't be spreading any English Rona up there, so every cloud has a silver lining.
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  1750. Would you smack your wife if she annoyed you? If the answer is no then accord your children the same courtesy.
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  1751.  @bbcfakenews9677  At a basic level this is true. Fair point.
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  1752. All vaccines were experimental at some point.
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  1753. It is important and you're pretty brainless if you think otherwise.
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  1754. Is the man most voted for on here. They were told he was clueless and a liar but they chose him anyway. Most won't admit their horrible mistake, so they'll double down and demand someone even more psychotic like Farage or Patel as PM. Britain meanwhile will collapse faster than Michael Gove after a night of raving when the Gak wears off.
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  1755. Wait till you find out about WW2 rationing, or WW2 evacuees or government restrictions on how often you could turn the lights on in your house. We really are whiny toddlers compared to our grandparents generation.
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  1756. Or y'know we could have controlled covid in the first place like NZ but the press, half the government and a coterie of pro-covid 'Muh freedoms!' idiots have made sure everything is worse.
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  1757. But everyone voted for Boris and said his indiscretions didn't matter?
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  1758. Am pretty certain the Scots will be off in a year or two. The repulsive behaviour of the British establishment has pretty much sealed the deal. Gonna be funny when Scottish people can whiz off to Europe and spend a year or so in college/working/having fun while their English neighbours are screaming about the unfairness of it all.
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  1759.  @markgadsby5568  The Sun isn't. The Star isn't. Nor the Express or the Mail or the Telegraph. Sky is a Murdoch venture, too. The BBC is full of posh Tories who suck up to Boris. Then there's Fox and related Murdoch things. And the whole 'alt-media' funded by right-wing foreign billionaires. Plus weirdos like Spiked who are also funded by the Kochs. Do we live on the same planet here, or are you an American pretending to be British? You know the term 'The Tory Press' is there for a reason, yeah?
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  1760. In the old days (i.e. the 1980s and 90s) a new TV show with Delia Smith would often result in panic buying of whatever ingredients she mentioned. Mass psychology is complex.
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  1761. Died protecting Boris and the billionaires. Get it right.
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  1762. Stewart appears to be ageing like an anti-Benjamin Button. Is he stressed about something?
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  1763. "Dying at 35 and eating moss" - gee, isn't this channel pushing anti-vax nonsense and pushing a pro-covid agenda? Wonder how many will die because of it?
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  1764. Funnily enough there was a swathe of books and media from the US in the early 2000s denigrating boys and saying they were falling behind because of computer game addiction, watching smutty movies and laziness. This ended up feeding into the right-wing (think nofap and the like being pushed by the Proud Boys etc.) who believed said findings rather than actually thinking critically about them (girls spend just as much time on computers, albeit doing more social media for example). Eventually it has evolved into a weird social media world where 'conservative men' hate on women all the time while 'online feminists' say stupid meme nonsense about men... thus making everything worse especially as both sexes are apparently getting information on what a 'real man' or 'real woman' is from said social media & is why so many people you see appear to be comedy stereotypes rather than real individuals. Online dating and trash TV hasn't helped much, either. If you think who is getting much of their information on identity from social media - well is going to be the ones who are still forming their identity... the teenagers.
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  1765. Is that what you say before the mistress ties you up?
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  1766. How does he defend the Union when his papers like the Telegraph, Mail and Express spend all their spare time hating on Scotland? The Scots aren't going to think 'Wow, we're better off with the English who hate our guts.' now, are they?
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  1767. Yes, you'd expect treatment to be better in 2021 than 1918 but the basic point still stands.
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  1768.  @_6079SMITH  Spillover is a recent(ish) book from 2012 about emerging diseases and is also a really good read. Huge thing, very well sourced and with a slightly terrifying premise.
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  1769.  @brianrushworth1404  I've done some research and its a vaccine, so you're wrong - where do you do your research? Betting it isn't textbooks or by talking to experts.
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  1770.  @bartislartfast2604  Where did I say scientists are always right? My point is that generally speaking scientists are more correct than imbecilic tabloid journalists.
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  1771.  @seanpidduck  Nothing wrong with questioning, but it has to be from a position of actually understanding the question in the first place. Reading Facebook memes & Daily Mail articles then going 'Down with so-called scientists' is ridiculous and a guaranteed way to knock society back centuries in a few decades.
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  1772.  @bartislartfast2604  I'm not the schlemiel getting my scientific information from Carol Decker and Right Said Fred, am I?
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  1773.  @JME3699  I know, but I'm helping spread media and scientific literacy on a channel whose presenters are morons. Is a public service.
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  1774. Well the report the other day said of half a million kids with corona that 690 had inflammatory disorder, 25 died and nearly 6000 were in hospital. If we infect, say, two million kids over the summer then we'll have another 2000 inflammatory disorder cases, 100 dead kids and 20,000 in hospital. That's before you count long covid. So yes, is likely that the 'infect all the kids, lol' strategy will be a disaster and result in more restrictions.
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  1775. So they're both evil Marxists and snowflakes? You're familiar with the Umberto Eco piece on Ur-Fascism - the enemy is both strong and weak?...
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  1776. So tell me, how come (with the exception of 2010/2011) winters in Britain have got much, much warmer than winters in the 20th century? Where's the big chunky snowdrifts we used to get in the UK? Where are the several months of icy conditions? Our recent winters have been a bit of snow for a couple of days and some late frost. Go google 1947 British winter. Don't see that anymore.
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  1777. So the government can screw up and kill a small city's worth of people through incompetence and malice, they can rip off billions to give to their chums, they can sit by while police assault and murder women & do nothing but... ... you want mass civil unrest over this? Hmmm.
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  1778. Biden is wise enough to know a war with Iran will finish off the world economy for years. Unless you think $200 dollar oil will be helpful?
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  1779. Meanwhile 20 yr olds still get sick and still get long covid with things like organ damage and neurological problems. Just because you're not dead doesn't mean an illness doesn't affect you.
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  1780. There's a philosophy paradox called Buridan's Donkey. In which the donkey is placed between a pile of hay and a pail of water, doesn't know which one he should consume first and ends up starving to death. GB News's coverage is a bit like that. They hate everything but sometimes not everything they hate is hateworthy so they get slightly bewildered.
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  1781. You're not going to get it on a Fox News clone.
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  1782. I haven't heard any apologies from him - or any of the other MPs (Including almost all the Tory party) who voted for the war.
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  1783. @Retro Picker78 I'm probably the only one here who isn't paid by the government. Is funny how you lot all talk the same, post the same points, never own up to your mistakes and use exactly the same weird language quirks. As I said yesterday I'd be happy for youtube to dish all the data on these comments to journos to investigate. They'd find me, a cheeky English person and they'd find... all the others... linked to some very odd groups.
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  1784. I'm not sure feminism has much to do with the Tories running down school funding and providing less help for the working-class.
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  1785. What, you might get a headache and feel tired for the day?
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  1786.  @extraspicywasabi  Or you can tell me what heavy metals you're talking about.
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  1787.  @Andrew-ri5qo  And those same politicians acting not at all bothered with approaching 150,000 dead of covid and thousands dead due to austerity policies.
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  1788. They weren't though - many were also anti-maskers and anti-lockdown protesters stirring up hatred of people trying to follow basic health rules.
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  1789. While if you'd have actually read proper science last year instead of Daily Mail headlines you'd have realised the pandemic would last at least 1-3 years.
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  1790. The product in question is an anti-parasitic drug that kills worms, but not really viruses. As such it is pretty much useless but is hawked by right-wingers eager to make a quick buck with claims of miracle cures. They've done this for a long time - I would suggest reading up on Laetrile in the 70s, which the same right-wing types pushed as a miracle cure for cancer (Spoilers: it wasn't).
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  1791. Then that's also the modern right-wing, who insist they are the superior white culture while all other cultures are deviant in some way.
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  1792. Imagine not going shopping for a year because you won't wear a mask for five minutes. Sigh.
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  1793.  @catherinesyme901  The clowns who post this stuff have the same script they constantly use (PCR inaccurate, Florida good! Just the flu, bro! Take your vitamins! SCAMDEMIC!!!) and have done zero research on how countries are actually handling this. Many are just idiots brain-addled from Facebook propaganda, others are more sinister paid posters designed to sow discord in the population and make people doubt any viable solutions.
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  1794.  @jamescollins3647  Well then would you like to expose it for the whole world to see? Everyone makes allegations but seemingly can't prove anything.
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  1795.  @owenjohn1192  PCR or different rapid tests. PCR better.
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  1796.  @Petal4822  Oliver has spent the past year arguing against every public health measure to minimise deaths and even gone as far as to say he has a right to infect people with covid. He's a sub-par Charles Manson with a similar personality disorder, but minus the musical skill.
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  1797.  @Petal4822  George Best during his chronic alcoholism stage? I'm critical of a guy with a public position who is trying to argue that we should have mass death with a pandemic virus so his personal freedoms aren't touched. Repulsive character.
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  1798. ​ @georgeengland1699  What is a 'woker'? Can you explain what 'woke' actually means?
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  1799.  @landonmiller6943  Hasn't fixed the power grid though. Is hard to take someone seriously who can't even sort basic infrastructure.
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  1800. Yep, there is something of the Idiocracy about this situation.
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  1801. Is almost as if there's a pandemic going on.
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  1802. No they don't.
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  1803. People who care more about statues than their fellow citizens are creepy af.
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  1804. And yet they tend to be correct, whereas tabloid TV presenters keep getting basic facts wrong. Funny, that.
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  1805. I think Neil is streaming from France. He appears to be broadcasting from a cupboard with black curtains.
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  1806. Very much depends on how many of their own supporters they kill over this winter. Heating costs, flu, covid, supply issues, NHS overwhelmed...
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  1807. Funnily enough pre-vaccines, back in 1918 the flu first hit the elderly then it hammered the young. So it does happen.
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  1808. They'd have to put themselves in jail if they did that.
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  1809. Why, she's very pretty and seems like a good match for Harry?
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  1810. This is the bloke that did a runner to Florida when covid kicked off, said it wasn't so bad, then lost two relatives to it and is still ranting about people going back to the office. He's more clueless than a 1990s Alicia Silverstone cosplay party.
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  1811. Our modern sitcoms would have been cancelled in 1970. Cultures change.
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  1812.  @alexbell8687  Is actually the other way round. If people get covid and die after 28 days then the government doesn't list it as covid. Hence if someone like Derek Draper was to pass on, he wouldn't be listed as a Rona victim despite his medical problems being entirely due to Rona damage.
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  1813. Social media isn't helping. Also add in the right-wing media machine that has been BSing the masses since the 80s. 'The Brainwashing of my Dad' is a great documentary on this topic, from a few years ago.
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  1814. No, the reason is simple. GBNews have in the space of two days been pushing anti-lockdown nonsense, playing down the pandemic, trying their hardest to start a culture war and their fans online have been screaming about how communist the 'evil BBC' is. Then a BBC journo gets attacked by frothing anti-lockdowners. If I was a company I'd be steering all my cash away from this train-wreck.
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  1815. What does woke mean, mate? Explain it to me, as I really need to know why everyone is so offended and scared of it. Please describe for me and others.
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  1816. So if you had surgery and got a 'masks don't work' surgeon then caught an infection from him, would you be okay with that and respect the surgeon's right to ignore basic hygiene rules?
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  1817. But the problem is if a group of people constantly violate the informal rules then very quickly we get new laws to force the issue. Think seatbelts, drink-driving etc.
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  1818.  @badgoogle9938  Vitamin D is useful, but the gov appears to have closed their vitamin D service for vulnerable people: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/people-at-higher-risk/free-vitamin-d-supplements-for-people-at-high-risk/
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  1819. Less people watch this channel than your average Tik Tok cat video.
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  1820. 'Mummy, can I pretend the bad thing isn't there and will that make it go away?'
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  1821.  @ben31uk  Why? I don't have to live with the plague or polio or small pox?
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  1822. Yes, Lee thinks we should all spread disease, which is apparently the patriotic thing to do now.
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  1823. Yes, let's have a failed comedian balance out the scientific community.
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  1824. Is weird how these discussions always end up nominating some politician or aristocrat. How about Britons who've actually changed the world in massive ways for the better? Newton - thank him for modern science. Faraday - thank him for the whole electrical science thing. Shakespeare - thank him for modern English and drama. Maxwell - worked out the maths governing electrical stuff. Dickens - the best popular writer of all time. Darwin - beard king and natural selection dude. Tyndale - first full English translation of the Bible, executed by dastardly forrins. Holst - wrote the original sci-fi soundtrack that everyone still rips off today. Probs hundreds of others ... suggestions welcome!
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  1825. To be fair the French probably tell the same joke only it ends with them coming across the channel and conquering England, le 1066 et tout ca.
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  1826. They're throwing this stuff about so they can promote the idea of privatising it to make things more efficient. Which of course is nonsense. Is your gas bill going any cheaper? Water? Nope.
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  1827.  @steptay  'not reforming' - you mean I don't want to sell it? Guilty. Reform - well we could fund it properly. Train more nurses now the Euro ones are leaving. Ensure the gov doesn't sicken thousands with austerity or rona (thereby making the populace less healthy in general). Make food better quality. Help people with stress/Mental health. Encourage more walking and less driving. And so on. Simple reforms that would work and don't involve selling it to American billionaires.
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  1828. The bloke who invented PCR died before Covid came out, so you're clearly misinformed.
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  1829. @Josh V Mullis was an odd-bod. Here's the thing, he thought AIDS wasn't caused by HIV, but by, well, the gays doing too many poppers. So when PCR was used to sequence HIV Mullis started on the contrarian bandwagon. Clever guy, but very contradictory and the tech he pioneered had long since moved on. I'm pretty sure the quote about not being able to differentiate was also distorted as it was reported all over the 'alt media' and is impossible to find a primary source.
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  1830. Oh please, the video was their most-watched youtube vid of the day.
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  1831. The Auckus deal that the Aussies secretly signed after promising the French the contract?
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  1832. She's massively better than Boris by any yardstick. Are Tories feeling a bit guilty now they voted in a useless article so are randomly attacking other more successful countries?
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  1833. Shocking to think Charles McKay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds came out in 1841 and we're still falling for the same nonsense.
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  1834.  @ziggurat-builder8755  He's mocking people on benefits. Therefore is fine to point out he's being a dick.
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  1835. It actually isn't. Just under 1% hospitalisation, decent risk of multisystem inflammatory disorder, risk of long covid. Low risk of dying, but measurable risk of life-changing illness.
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  1836. Yes, they used to be nicknamed 'liar loans' because of how many were shady.
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  1837.  @marneyman  Long covid is very much a thing in young people. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2021/07/long-covid-afflicts-kids-too-heres-what-we-know-so-far https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-06/children-need-covid-protection-vaccines-experts-say/100269228 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01511-z
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  1838. It will be when all the foreign tourists fly in.
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  1839. Just having a look. It looks like a 144p Youtube clip and Andrew Neil is actually orange-coloured. There's teenagers streaming video games who do a better job. Wow.
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  1840. If you get blamed for everything then you probably need to sit down and have a talk to your missus.
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  1841. They're not going anywhere, mate.
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  1842. No they're not. If that was the case then why are cases also blowing up in Florida?
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  1843.  @Rid3thetig3r  Oh dear. My point is that the BCG massively reduced TB in many Western countries. Yes its efficacy is lower in India but is still part of a strategy to eliminate. So tell me - when was the last time you met a British person with TB who didn't a) Spend time in Asia and b) Isn't immuno compromised? TB is almost non existent in the UK. Poor countries need vaccines and drugs and they can eliminate it too if we help them.
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  1844.  @Markdmarque  But hundreds get inflammatory syndrome from covid and thousands long covid symptoms. Plus no one knows how long immunity to last. Has only been 18 months and the current reinfection rate is around 1%.
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  1845. It is a vaccine you absolute nano-brain.
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  1846.  @helensharp6999  Who have 'researched'? Idiots on Facebook? David Icke? Stop looking at garbage and go learn some science.
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  1847. Well said and much respect to the Kiwis for doing the job well. One of my uni friends lives out there and she definitely isn't being oppressed or having her freedoms denied. And her kids aren't being infected with covid either, which is happening quite a lot now in the UK (Am British).
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  1848. We're protecting them from a novel virus. Are you also sad children are forced to wear uniforms? Ask your kid if they'd rather wear a shirt and tie or go to school dressed how they want. Yet you impose these rules on the kids for their own good.
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  1849.  @doriangray5750  Why is everyone so triggered by 'gammon'? Is really snowflakey.
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  1850.  @thewatchman6074  The previous opposition wanted to spend extra money on the NHS, but voters decided to trust Tubby Custard instead and are now complaining he's wrecked the NHS when they were told he was going to do that anyway.
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  1851.  @yourdutynowistoresist7198  Am genuinely confused at how Tories seem suddenly convinced racism is bad when they're smearing Corbyn but spend the rest of the time saying racism isn't a thing in Britain? Note you talk about anti-Semitism then go on about CRT, which strongly implies you think some racism is better than other racism.
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  1852.  @preppercoops741  You mean now climate change is becoming obvious the rich people who denied climate change are claiming is all a communist conspiracy?
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  1853.  @artrandy  We could just pension them off and save the taxpayers some money?
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  1854. It didn't sacrifice everything. Stop talking drivel. We had restrictions to stop covid being even worse.
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  1855. Oh look, its another misinformation spreader. Ask former anti-vax/pro Vit D Conservative Radio Host Phil Valentine what he thinks of your contention. Well you can't at the moment because he's on a ventillator with Covid 19. Whoops.
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  1856. What if enemy troops/terrorists have someone fire a stinger-type missile at it? Sure that can happen to a plane or chopper as well, but rockets will cause a much bigger bang.
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  1857.  @andrewwright.  Take the billionaires then who've made bank doing absolutely nothing during the pandemic.
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  1858. @C You do know that 'cultural Marxism' is a variant of 'cultural Bolshevism' which was a conspiracy theory used by Hitler in the 1930s?
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  1859. There's plenty of science and masks are used in a wide variety of industries and have been for decades - from surgical to forensic techs to semiconductor engineers.
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  1860. Good idea, but far too late. They're deliberately infecting the younger ones which means lots of MIS disorders and other problems before they get their shots.
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  1861. remind me again what happened in the US when the Beatles joked about being 'Bigger than Jesus'?
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  1862.  @michaelstubbs4234  This is historical truth. But the establishment went after anyone who criticised them - even PauL McCartney got his Irish song banned. The conditions of the English working class were shit for a long time (Marx and Engels wrote about them) but it seems that any halting progress is being stamped upon by the current shower in power who want to go back to that.
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  1863. The scientists know that letting the Rona run free will cripple this country and result in everyone else shutting down air travel to here for months. Bye bye holiday industry, hello food shortages.
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  1864. It is a pandemic, smiler.
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  1865.  Billy Bunter  What did I say that was wrong? Not seeing much humour in the comments, everyone "Breath of fresh air!" talks "Booo lefty BBC!" like "Too woke!" robots.
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  1866. "So desperate to scare us"... I think those 150,000 dead people are proof the experts were right, and the brain-free gossip columnists were wrong.
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  1867. And yet in the past 60 years we lived with far less deadly viruses thanks to vaccination and proper medical treatment. Or would you rather go back to the days of having seven kids because you knew three of them would die before they reached school age?
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  1868.  @soviet700  This is a new podcast series - first one on Smallpox is really good: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFqDcPnFCImeS6cbFlQxgg/videos
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  1869. So we're cancelling journalists now? On the channel that complains about cancel culture?
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  1870. Lol, GB News hoping for a fascist takeover... super-patriotic, dudes!
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  1871. Indeed. At least Megs hasn't got a long history of involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, like Andy Pandy.
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  1872.  @luisbustamante9869  Wind turbines do look kind of futuristic and cool. I bet the brainlets on here would whine even more if they built a coal power station in their locale and they spent the mornings looking at black smoke and coughing pigeons.
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  1873. Funny how most armies vaccinate their troops. Maybe the world's militarises know a bit more about infectious disease than a bitter bearded self-hating 'sleb.
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  1874. Only to a degree. We've had to import a large percentage of our food for a very long time (think WW2 Atlantic convoys). Ironically Britain produced the most home-grown food when Euro subsidies were plentiful. We've gone from the high 70s% of food grown in the UK in the 80s (time of Butter mountains, if you recall) to about 64% now. Ditto for manufacturing. We can certainly build more here but is going to require massive investments which companies simply won't pay for. A single modern chip fab plant wouldn't leave change from £10 billion and you'd need half a dozen other factories built to supply it with raw materials and specialist hardware.
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  1875. I know. They're even trying to pick fights now with the RNLI. Staggering.
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  1876.  @Thorium_2600  Don't forget the cool maglev bullet train, either.
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  1877. Do you mean the current proper president, or the orange fascist who was compromised by Russia?
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  1878.  @alsalthree  But the Russians knew Trump was mental - they said so in their own report. Biden is at least relatively stable and Kamala can always take over if he gets too sick.
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  1879. Imagine being more angry at young people who tear down statues of slave traders than at politicians who kill 120+ thousand of their own people in a year through negligence.
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  1880. Toughen up mate, your grandparents generation had half a decade of war and a decade of rationing. They got through it. This is much easier to handle.
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  1881. But Fox is a failed actor, what does he know about medicine?
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  1882. You clearly didn't read their 2019 manifesto before you voted for them.
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  1883. And yet no one ever says this about the posh kids who do PPE or history then end up running giant corporations and/or the government and getting everything wrong.
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  1884.  @PaulRoneClarke  They get mild media criticism but no one actually stops them from messing up. I don't see big companies going 'Well I could hire Dido Harding who likes horses and has a PPE degree or I could hire this working class bloke with the Masters in Pure Maths, hmmm, best opt for the most qualified candiate and sack off Dido'
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  1885.  @johnbrereton5229  Is not a dictatorship though, is it? That's like saying Britain is a dictatorship because aristocrats still control half of the government and the same party has been in power for 60+ of the past 100 year- oh.
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  1886. No, that was the Tories selling them off to property developers. Schools still do sport. 'Guidelines of scientists' - how is it the scientists fault when they tell people to eat healthy and exercise and the government goes 'Nahhh, eat out to help out, bros'?
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  1887. Rich people are also buying up large farms in the middle of nowhere. Brazil and New Zealand are favourite spots. When the sea level rises they can just go live on their farms.
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  1888. Yep, masks do work and there's many people who have similarly had no colds, or less severe hayfever or fewer respiratory illnesses. This isn't spoken about much in the media as it interferes with the pro-covid agenda of the gov and their media pals.
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  1889. Progressives will win. I assume you're using traditionalists in the creepy Bannon sense - those characters will push too far and try to create mass-fascism then see an unbelievable backlash.
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  1890.  simon templer  This is true. And the bots and paid posters will insist its the worst thing ever because they have an incentive to play down the pandemic.
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  1891. I know its not the right place but mention, but now Liz is rocking with BLM, will GB News be calling her a Marxist?
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  1892.  @candyman5912  Bungle definitely did. Seemed like a nice bear.
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  1893. Spoilers: Sikora runs his own private cancer care company. Hmmm.
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  1894. So we're cancelling Harry? This channel really doesn't understand irony, does it?
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  1895. Like Andrew Neil's soul.
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  1896. Wait till he tells you he wants US gun laws. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/24/nigel-farage-uk-gun-control-laws-relaxed Imagine all those stabby teenagers tooled up with proper hardware...
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  1897. Fred West Jnr is at it again. Pat, let's spell it out - let covid get out of control again and tens of thousands won't have freedom, because they'll be dead. And millions will be disabled with long covid.
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  1898. Every bot says that. Use another phrase, you've been rumbled.
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  1899. Oh please. This is just anti-vaxxer paranoia. Are you all worried about being outed? Am betting nearly all media anti-vaxxers have had their shots but are keeping the grift going.
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  1900. I'm old enough to remember when the monarchy was falling apart and the British people SCATHING at them. And that was only the 1990s kids. Windsor castle, Squidgeygate, mistreatment of Di etc.
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  1901. Lego have been doing this since the 1970s. Don't get stressed.
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  1902. Absolute dipshittery. How is it undiagnosable? There's tests, there's MRI imaging data, there's blood test information, there's obvious signs like the drop in oxygen - a fairly unique collection of symptoms that doctors can spot. I despair of humans sometimes. They're fucking stupidity will end us.
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  1903. Funny how it changes at exactly the same time as we chuck billions of tons of rubbish into the atmosphere and the scientists studying it are pretty certain said rubbish is increasing the temperatures...
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  1904.  @emmettoliver  It really isn't. Billions and billions of tons a year.
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  1905. He's talking about how we can avoid lots of people dying who don't need to. Do keep up.
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  1906. But GB News is basically an entire channel devoted to whining about things it doesn't like. Perhaps our culture war wouldn't be a culture war if media parasites didn't stir things up constantly. Remember kids, there's over a billion people on the Internet - you can always find someone with an idiotic view.
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  1907. What, you mean like have him bumped off?
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  1908. Almost all of our manufactured goods are made in China. Congratulations, you've just made life far harder for everyone.
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  1909. It created a lot of skilled people, many of whom did extremely well in the likes of the tech industry and science. Education was a policy Blair got partly correct but the Tories whined about it constantly as they don't believe the peasants should have a chance.
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  1910. Lights go out due to Tory corruption, a lack of investment, Brexit and general idiocy.
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  1911. He should prove his Alphaness by wrestling a Moose.
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  1912. Am waiting for them to blame the London flooding on crisp packets stuck in the drains or something. It can't be climate change! We just coincidentally had giant floods in China, Germany and Britain. Happens all the time - sort of copium.
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  1913.  David Ward  The high age was partly due to the mass culling in old people's homes last year. A lot of much younger people have died of it since then, including 25 kids listed in a recent study (which was in all the papers).
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  1914.  @trevaudio  I still miss Eurotrash. I wish it'd come back with Antoine dressed as Boris with an adult actress dressed as Liz Truss sitting on his knee while Jean-Paul runs round wearing a Michael Gove costume screaming "Où est mon coca ? Mon nez a besoin de poudre heureuse".
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  1915. White like him, and wealthy.
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  1916.  @timconway2810  Is being inferred strongly. Lots of Muslims who were born here and pretty sure the GB News crowd don't want them having big families.
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  1917. Labour have their problems but are considerably better than the Tories.
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  1918.  @marcusbradley3081  I haven't got today's memo, is that good or bad?
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  1919. Yes, and we also have plenty of diseases that kill us even with one. That's why we also have antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines.
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  1920. Helllooo, Met Police, we have a threat here, my loves...
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  1921. Nah, is more the culture war that does the trick. Same nonsense this channel is obsessed with.
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  1922. Its an anti-parasitic drug that doesn't work on covid. Please stop spreading misinformation.
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  1923. No, you absolute plank. We have these problems because the government is doing no mitigation and letting a deadly virus run free. It is mind-blowingly stupid, criminal and downright evil. Right-wing media might think they're convincing the masses to immolate themselves for the glory of Kim Jong Johnson, but when the deaths start rising (particularly in middle-class areas - check out the SE this week) people will snap out of their torpor and be very, very angry that a bunch of moronic talking heads have contributed to the deaths of friends and family.
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  1924. I'm going to make a prediction... it appears that the anti lockdown/anti-vax protesters aren't some random group of people who hate government overreach, but are actually linked in some dark money way to the government. For example look at the background of the HART group or UsForThem. So what's my prediction? Well, we've seen the antivax types hassle Dr Hillary, loiter around schools, pester innocent people, fight the police, threaten doctors and turn up in large numbers regularly. Turning up at the Tory party conference would be a massive publicity win and give them worldwide attention. But I bet you all that there won't be a peep out of them until the conference is finished. No David Icke denouncing Rees Mogg as a Lizard, no Piers being a weirdo, not a word from that crazy botox former nurse. It'll be silence. While the hate is directed at the motorway protesters. You just watch.
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  1925. You sound incredibly creepy.
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  1926. Ah, is a coordinated 'attack the NHS' week courtesy of the Tory press. Sigh.
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  1927. Dear me.
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  1928. Someone failed in school.
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  1929. It looks like the Conservative world-wide plan to spread the Rona, tank Biden's presidency and force the collapse of the public sector is coming along swimmingly. Well done to the pro-covid types. You've played a blinder with your incessant lies and billionaire-funded drivel. History will judge you ... harshly.
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  1930. Why are you lot so obsessed with farts and incontinence ('Hur de hurr bedwetters!!")? There's some weird Freudian issues here.
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  1931. Agreed.
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  1932.  @LSD04  I'm fighting a battle against stupidity. In a few years all the dolts on here pushing meme conspiracy nonsense will be pretending they never said such things. But we'll never forget.
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  1933. @Skelley-Priest Clearly you're not from here. Shortages, money down the drain, tax increases, rights of our citizens taken away. Absolute disaster only supported by boomers who read the Daily Express.
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  1934. Do you mean the tech giants owned by billionaire libertarian capitalists who gave tons of cash to Donald Trump and the Republicans? Those guys? You do know they're only 'woke lefty' because it makes sense from a marketing point of view? Is a 2021 version of 'This washing powder washes whiter than ever before!'
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  1935. Protecting kids is a plan. England is currently mass-infecting our kids, which is staggeringly evil.
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  1936. Like that 42 yr old bloke in all the papers who was super-healthy then got the Rona and died?...
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  1937. Gee its almost as if unfettered capitalism has done what unfettered capitalism has always done and created vast wealth for the rich while the poor live in penury. This is why in the pre-rocket days the rich had Stately Homes, Palaces and vast tracts of land. They were sucking up societies wealth, and it usually didn't end well.
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  1938. Most of us would rather pay for the NHS than sell our house because we had a fortnight stay in hospital (See: US).
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  1939. 36000 cases today, 50 dead, hospitalisations going up. Perhaps, just perhaps Toby Young is an idiot who has been wrong for the past year, is still wrong, and is not a credible person to discuss public health?
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  1940. Yep, the right-wing kicked off about masks and turned them into a political issue and its now backfiring badly in places like Florida. GB News has been pro-Covid since its inception and the only realistic conclusion you can come to is they want to see mass infection and death for some peculiar reason. Am guessing is a libertarian thing - vaccines and government action scare libertarians so is better for them (in their eyes) to have mass die offs instead of admitting their ideology is reckless and wrong.
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  1941. Many degrees have strong practical elements. Ironically they are often looked-down upon by the elite types with their Oxbridge 2-2 in History.
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  1942. Ice cores. Bubble of air in the ice cores which can be analysed.
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  1943. Yes, to slow down the spread.
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  1944. Doesn't the same principle apply to anti-vax/lockdown protesters who apparently have the full support of this channel?
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  1945. Dave why don't you get a job dealing with sick people in a hospital then? If you're such a toughie then go help with some car crash victims or pregnant women with corona or grandpas having heart attacks.
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  1946.  @davidgifford8112  I am interested and indeed you are correct with the 'lets run everything like a business'. I'd much rather we ran the public sector properly.
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  1947. Well a big report came out a few weeks ago which looked at half a million UK kids with covid. Kids clearly spread it to other kids. Hence the need for masks and proper air filtration.
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  1948. Interesting factoid, Rupert Murdoch had his Corona shot in Britain last year. Despite being Australian/American somehow he was registered in the UK with an NHS clinic and was given his shot before pretty much everybody, including the Queen and Prime Minister.
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  1949. Now imagine being a surgeon and having to do that for 30 years. Do you see how snowflakey you look in comparison? Am trying to imagine you lot in WW2 - we'd have given up after a week. Boo hoo, I don't want to turn me lights out or queue for food!!
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  1950. Meanwhile in the real world kids are getting very sick from covid. Of course antivaxxers don't give a toss about that. Got to break a few eggs to make an omelette sort of worldview from them...
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  1951. The government is happy to infect them with covid. Do you not see an issue there!????
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  1952. Well most major drug users are white-collar professionals. Can we start busting some lawyers, MPs, celebrities and chucking them in jail?
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  1953.  @gilly9666  Do you remember what led Blair to relax rules on weed? Lots of teens from 'posh' schools were getting caught and for many of them a criminal record would mean no legal career, no army career etc. So the gov relaxed the rules, but pretended it was for everyone when in actual fact it was to help out the rich kids. This is the same.
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  1954. But you're scared of scientists. That's weird.
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  1955.  @MichaelJones-zl9ok  'I've had my shot. You can all sod off now'... Bit of a galaxy brained take, mate. I totally agree about vaccines helping to get rid of this thing, but we have to do it properly, which at the moment we're not.
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  1956. Depression? Untreated illnesses? Job insecurity? Less activity due to lockdowns?
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  1957.  @paulorobertos123  So tell me why there's so much obesity when in (for example) the 70s people ate as many calories and had just as many 'sedentary' jobs as they do now? How come the generation who lived on sugary tea, biscuits, tinned food and other 'stuff' was less fat than now? There's something more going on that 'Hur de hur, burger munchers'... In WW2 for example the ration allocation per adult was something like 2400-2600 calories. Ask any old person about rationing and they'll tell you how terrible they found it. Today 2400-2600 calories is seen as excessive by many (certainly for women) - yet we're still getting porkier. Good Minnesota Starvation Experiment for some fascinating data during the war....
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  1958.  @paulorobertos123  The point is that calories don't appear to explain everything. They should but don't. Are we measuring the caloric input of low-priced foods incorrectly? Are our microbiomes making it easier to absorb calories from, say, processed food? Is it something else? I have no idea but find it fascinating that so many celebrity fitness types are taking hormones to stay in physical shape (i.e. Joe Rogan) when logically they could just eat less and move more? We're not seeing the whole picture.
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  1959. Do all the professors do that then?
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  1960.  @rhodritaylor7254  Lol. You must have led a very isolated life then. Been round any Brexiteers recently?
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  1961. Show me where the bad man scientist touched you, Dan...
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  1962. To be fair the ancient enemies of Britons were more Italian and Swedish, who are quite chilled these days.
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  1963. Translation: "I had my vaccine, am fine if some kids die!"
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  1964.  @TheOracle1315  Sadly I am not getting paid to spread my wit and wisdom to the conspiracy-addled Gammonati on here. I'm just someone who is a bit stunned at how moronic 'conservatives' are these days and wish to help them become better members of society. Is hard work, tho. They're F**** idiots.
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  1965. That was a virus.
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  1966. Are we still ignoring long covid, then?
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  1967. Are we also ignoring time spent in hospital and time people spend off sick?
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  1968.  @masterbates7322  Simple, most of the country can see cases rising and know what that portends. So instead of listening to 'conservative activists' they're listening to doctors and medical people. Which is good because it'll reduce the death rate.
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  1969.  @dirkvanschalkwyk1919  No it isn't. I keep seeing people who aren't cancelled complain about cancel culture. If the 'woke left' were that powerful then we wouldn't have to put up with a plethora of whining Conservative pundits. Yes granted there is a crazy left as well as a crazy right, but the crazy left is tiny and has no real media power. As opposed to the right who own a giant chunk of said media and use it to warp people's realities.
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  1970.  @patrickparsons2378  Not really. There is some nonsense in academia but this stuff is exaggerated to a massive degree. Show me a comedian who has been successfully cancelled for instance. They all seem to get a career boost. Ditto for actors.
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  1971. Let's take one of the darkest episodes in human history and pretend Karens being asked to get a shot is the same thing. Sigh.
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  1972.  @tinotreloar8251  You're all terrified of a vaccine but happy to see 120000 of your fellow citizens die horrible deaths. This is weird.
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  1973.  @tinotreloar8251  No many 80 year olds here: https://www.itv.com/news/2021-02-02/covid-at-least-230-nhs-workers-have-died-during-the-pandemic-here-is-a-list-of-all-of-them
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  1974.  @amojak  Because they don't do news, they do opinion and every opinion just happens to be the most right-wing tabloidy one possible.
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  1975.  @ancietman  Well mate I think doing endless stories whining about Meghan seems a tad racist. Or endless stories about dinghys where they criticised the lifeboatmen. Also the constant rants about footy players taking the knee was a bit suspect. And of course the comments on their youtube page where left wing stuff is often deleted but demented 'shoot all the forrins' type nonsense is left alone.
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  1976.  @amojak  But I'm right tho. This channel is funded partly by US Discovery network. That's a fact. Its not British.
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  1977.  @berniestephens4506  Very true. The rants are always of tabloid simplicity, never nuanced and never deviate from the 'lets be as right-wing as we can legally get away with' narrative. Is like the sort of channel you'd see in 1970s Brazil.
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  1978. Actually Brexit is more to blame. We had articles in the paper months ago saying we were going to get shortages in summer. Or has everyone forgotten that?
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  1979. @Neria Wolf So all those articles months ago talking about the Brexit-related trade problems were wrong?
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  1980.  @bikerbisht110  Mate papers like the Financial Times were pointing this stuff out. But keep living in the bubble of delusion if it helps.
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  1981.  @timredd  Umm, that's because there's lots of infections. When there were lots of infections last time we were locked down. We're not locked down now so people are minging and spreading it further. How hard is that to understand?
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  1982.  @timredd  From June: https://london.eater.com/22545094/food-shortages-uk-supermarkets-brexit-covid-19 https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/warning-of-food-shortages-as-bad-as-the-first-lockdown https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/21/food-shortages-inevitable-as-major-recruitment-crisis-takes-its-toll-14803957/ Fewer drivers as the European ones have gone home.
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  1983.  @bikerbisht110  I'm a patriotic Brit. Staying here to fight for justice.
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  1984.  @timredd  And that was the same months ago. The difference now is a higher rate of outside interactions as well as school infections.
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  1985. Oh please. Do you want 24/7 right wing ranting?
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  1986. Brexit was a huge con funded by dark money, hedge-funds and Russia to try and collapse the EU. It worked a treat - for the Russians.
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  1987.  @bondy7564  Are you sure? We seem to be getting record forest fires every year now and I'm pretty sure Siberia didn't have regular heatwaves when I was a kid.
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  1988.  @bondy7564  Giant meteor hit the Gulf of Mexico which pretty much did the job. We'd be dead to if a rock the size of London smacked into the Atlantic ocean. Are you sure there's arsonists just popping up now and running round torching Siberia? Are they the same blokes torching Turkey and Greece and the US?
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  1989.  @MeYou-ut4kr  I read somewhere that Ofcom had received hundreds of complaints due to the anti-lockdown stuff on GB News and said they were all within the scope of debate (they weren't). Meanwhile someone complained about an obscure cable channel that showed a pop video featuring scenes of war before the watershed. That complain was upheld. Ofcom definitely not doing their job.
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  1990. Are you sure? There is such a thing as VPNs and proxies.
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  1991. They do. You've been believing the Daily Mail again. Please stop it.
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  1992.  @jimmyp7928  Here's the thing dude, most of the anti-lockdown/vaxx types are actually paid by various places to sow discord and mistrust. This will come out sooner rather that later and the population will find out that the debate has been manipulated by a few billionaires and their scumbag friends in the media. I'm proud to be a normal pleb and not one of them.
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  1993. "he's doing well on the economy," - as in half the shops have empty shelves and gas prices are exploding well?
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  1994.  @Lc-is8vn  Vaccine proof documents have been a thing for decades. Yes, covid is slightly different in the way it spreads but the same principles have been around forever.
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  1995.  @elkpaz560  Wouldn't worry. The Tories are currently mass-infecting the kids as a control group. The anti-vaxxers will be fine, the kids won't.
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  1996.  @yourdutynowistoresist7198  The mass death, the collapse of functioning society? Social distancing? A quickly developed vaccine? A conspiracy personality spreading false rumours about a miracle cure?
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  1997.  @elkpaz560  They're in power. So yes.
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  1998.  @elkpaz560  There always is, but we could have avoided all this by behaving properly, masking up, getting our shots and limiting travel until Covid was dealt with. Instead we decided to fight against every idea for limiting the virus spread and now are in a not very good position & the gov is starting to panic behind the scenes. So blame your billionaire-funded anti-vaxxer, GBD pro-covid chums for this.
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  1999.  @elkpaz560  Ummm, the control group is currently kids. They've got no vaccinations and no protection, either.
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  2000. Without schools, the police, road repair, a legal system, an army and hospitals there would be no economic growth. This is why the only 'free market ' countries without a mixed economy* are/were basket cases that are/were in borderline anarchy. *the US is 'free market' but state spending is still well over 30% GDP.
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  2001.  @S-North  Is a bit terrifying that people are basing their entire reality from a plot line in the 2009 remake of V.
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  2002.  @garystorey  Still killed millions of people in just over a year.
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  2003. They actually do. You can spot them - they're the ones who have more than one joke, are funny and who don't suck up to the establishment.
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  2004. Funnily enough Joe Biden has stammering problems and the Tory press keep saying he's mental. Tories love to bully.
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  2005. Its drivel. There's going to be a few (probably funded by shady right-wing groups) who quit their jobs, most won't.
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  2006. A lot of companies refuse to pay for it these days. Their line of thinking is if they train people then they'll have to pay decent wages or the trainees will push off elsewhere. Yes there are some apprenticeships but the amounts are tiny compared to 50 years ago. Why? Because companies want to offload their training costs onto the taxpayer and the employee.
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  2007. But vaccination can protect them, too? Or do you think those thousands of kids hospitalised are a price worth paying?
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  2008. You must be fun on Halloween.
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  2009. Little point to raise about antivaxxers and why this stuff is basically astroturf being pushed by a small group with big money. In Britain around 90% of adults have had one shot. This means probably 90% (or close to it) of Conservative voters have had one shot or more. Now have a look at any covid story in the Mail and read the comments. Read the comments here. The comments are 95% anti-vax. So who are all these anti-vaxxers and why are they dominating every online discussion? Its clearly not the vast majority of Conservative voters and not really voters from any of the other big parties. Therefore we either assume nearly all Conservative voters never comment on covid or (more likely) the Tory press are deliberately messing about and promoting the worst comments on each article via poor or malicious moderation.
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  2010. Because nurses who are not jabbed spread the rona and kill patients. Remember all those care home people dying by the thousand last year? Or the number who were infected in hospital?
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  2011. There's plenty of really good TV around, is just that its almost never spoken about by the media who prefer froth like Love Island. Go have a look at something like the documentary The Eagle Huntress from a few years ago. Sadly modern TV doesn't really invest in factual kid's shows as much these days which is a bit disappointing but there is good stuff out there.
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  2012. Don't seem to be many comedians in conservative circles, either. Well lots who say they're comedians, but sadly are without the actual ability to make people laugh.
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  2013. Yes, is fine. Schools should also look at long-term options such as air filtration, copper bathroom fittings etc. That way we can make the kids healthier (for example C02 build-up in confined spaces can cause minor cognitive problems - air filtration can reduce that) in general even after the Rona has gone. Win, win.
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  2014.  @michaelgriffin2741  Do you even know what a lobotomy is? Are you suggesting wearing a face mask is the same as someone ramming a metal implement up your nose and chopping out parts of your brain?
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  2015.  @garrylovesey6810  What about the parents who want masks?
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  2016.  @stephan5673  Can you tell me what I said that was wrong? Am happy to correct myself...
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  2017. English person here. Yep, totally get it. What makes it worse is the British press spend all their time treating Sturgeon like she's a cross between Jimmy Krankie and Hitler & their propaganda is pretty easy to read across the border.
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  2018. You're not dosing month after month. You're getting a booster like many vaccinations and this has been spoken about since the beginning, but sadly no one here pays the slightest bit of attention to actual proper news & instead get all their info off Facebook memes.
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  2019.  @piglex1  Mate, again, the rich have 'gap years', the poor don't. The rich have had gap years for centuries. Go and read up on 'The Grand Tour' (not the TV show). From the wiki: "The Grand Tour was the 17th- and 18th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a chaperone, such as a family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old). "
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  2020.  @elsiegreer826  It's the same joke they use here every day. How can you not know this!??!?
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  2021. They had less extremism in the 60s then it went to hell. Look at some of the pics here and the first thing you notice is the girls are dressed like any other young women you'd see in the 1960s... https://www.boredpanda.com/afghanistan-1960-bill-podlich-photography/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
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  2022. "Florida and Texas kept their schools open" - and now their ICUs are full of sick kids. Absolute brainlet take on things. The ironic thing is kids haven't been stuck staring at screens for a year and a half because a) They've been in school for months and b) During restrictions a lot of parents made sure their kids were out regularly doing healthy things like going the park.
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  2023. In what way are we cowards? Do enlighten us.
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  2024.  @danielshagman  I'm not staying at home. And the virus has killed 120+ thousand Brits which is more than Hitler killed in the Blitz. But keep playing it down so you can help out Boris while pretending to be 'libertarian and anti-government'.
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  2025. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors You keep changing your name. Do you keep getting banned?
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  2026.  @danielshagman  Still denying, hey. The virus has killed over four million worldwide and to pretend otherwise is to postulate that doctors in 100+ different countries all suddenly forgot how medicine works and the only people who know the truth are idiot conspiracy wonks on the Internet.
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  2027. Or maybe the Tories are trying to destroy it? Like they did to many public sector industries before they sold them off?
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  2028. Hang on, so I can't leave the country legally without a government document but if the government document mentions vaccination it suddenly becomes illegal? Eh????
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  2029. This very channel was all in favour of stop and search when it comes to black lads but apparently thinks anything affecting middle-class white people is North Korea. Hmmm.
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  2030. Southgate is a credit to this country who cares about people. Neil is a bit of a Jock Stalin who thinks masses of dead people aren't worth being bothered over.
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  2031. Listen to yourself. You're like a weird robot prattling on using the same canned buzz-phrases constantly.
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  2032.  @scottwebb4722  Can you point out the comments where I said I wanted to get rid of individuality, or are you too busy making shit up?
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  2033. If it helps, Sweden (you all love Sweden, don't you) is bringing in passports for concerts/events with over 100 people.
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  2034. Spreading the Rona to pwn the libs is a strategy currently failing in the US, mate. I suggest you learn from their mistakes.
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  2035. I want this to be the official audio alert on the NHS app. No more pingdemic! Let's rap out way out of this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugtN6HCqatc
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  2036. You can find all the information showing them and growth online. I'd link it here but imps keep chopping my comments.
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  2037. This is cretinous, cryptocurrency is this decade's Tulipmania and anyone who thinks otherwise clearly hasn't studied any economics. Honestly, billionaires are laughing at the free cash being thrown at them by gormless investors.
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  2038. Andrew Neil lives in France and the investors are pretty much all foreign.
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  2039.  @hmq9052  Yep, Hence them being called 'Variants of Concern' as opposed to the others which are not as dangerous.
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  2040.  @owenjohn1192  I can give you the links to their genetic details if you wish? Or are you another Facebook meme goblin spreading misinformation?
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  2041. Probably best to keep the kids away from this channel, then.
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  2042.  @shirleysmith3881  In the time I've been watching they've wanted to get rid of the NHS, had a go at lifeboat men, had a go at footballers, grinched at environmentalists and today they're all over Twitter for pushing dodgy meme drugs as a miracle cure for covid. Of course they won't put that video on Youtube as it'll get them banned but they're still pushing nonsense on other social media. They're very, very extreme for a media organisation. A real-life Two Minute Hate channel.
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  2043.  @shirleysmith3881  I understand that and thank you for the polite reply. Thing is GB News is pushing Fox-style politics and all it does is set people at each other's throats. They use culture war stuff to keep people away from finding out what's actually going on.
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  2044.  @shirleysmith3881  To decide for yourself you have to have some understanding of the material. At the very least this requires more than watching news - reading textbooks, papers, talking to medical people and the like. There's a ton of misinformation deliberately pushed online and all that is doing is killing people. I don't want some dolt's 'opinion' on TV which isn't even his opinion - its given to him as a script to read out. Truth with science requires looking at evidence. This may be difficult to do for the layperson but is a lot better than Facebook memes and similar drivel that is making things worse.
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  2045.  @shirleysmith3881  'This Podcast will kill you' is a pretty good listen that covers the science of disease in an interesting and funny way.
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  2046. I think interviewing American con-men isn't a good start.
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  2047.  @Infinity-gy5ie  Lying. A lot. Also being pals with actual violent right-wing thugs which is always played down here.
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  2048.  @flumpaustin1994  So you're saying all the death certificates are fake and that all those doctors lied AND not one legal person or actuary or even coroner has got involved? Bit of a stretch.
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  2049.  @yvonnelygo681  Reinfection is a thing. Admittedly a lower risk, but still athing.
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  2050.  @yvonnelygo681  I bet you don't even know what DNA is.
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  2051.  @Michellemutts7848  And yet deaths dropped massively when vaccines were introduced for all these diseases (including as we can see - Covid).
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  2052.  @andymac345  But we can't take the chance it'll just burn out. We're seeing a resurgence in the US now and worldwide cases are still at half a million a day. Best to stamp on this thing rather than have arguments about who is healthy or not. Especially as there's plenty of healthy type who've got sick with it.
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  2053. Lol, all the media places are full of Oxbridge educated middle-class types and not one of them (even this channel) would go near a working class person. So the rich people sit round going 'Oh no, them lefties are discriminating against working-class people'.
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  2054. Technically Neil only lives in France (am not sure if he's got a French passport), but the money does come from various other foreigners so your point stands.
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  2055.  @properjob2311  The businesses that don't will eventually be sued for allowing the spread of the Rona. Much like the businesses who allow the spread of Norovirus get sued or sanctioned by the health inspectors.
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  2056.  @badgoogle9938  People go after restaurants all the time. Don't think they won't with covid. https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/i-got-food-poisoning-while-eating-out-can-i-get-my-money-back-ahcZG6R2rVtt
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  2057. With 18000 cases today and a large chunk of the population being militant anti-vaxxers then that isn't actually true now, is it? The UK currently has more cases than the USA, which is staggering.
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  2058. Was Jeremy for the Afghan war then? Oh that's right, he wasn't...
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  2059.  @Longshanks1690  Mate the US government supported the Taliban in the 80s (with the full agreement of Britain and Mrs T). We called them the Mujahadeen and they were on News at Ten every night hailed as heroes for fighting the Russians. So, y'know, history, read, learn & think before typing...
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  2060.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  I've said in numerous other comments there's multiple groups there and the history is complex. But the Mujahadeen were being helped by the ISI from the early days. Afghanistan had schools and was relatively peaceful until the cold war powers went in starting with the Soviets.
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  2061.  @marcusbradley3081  Lol, guess where most of the dark money is laundered? London. We don't care how psychotic you are here so long as you have the bucks...
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  2062. Are you sure about that? https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1410431806462177280
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  2063.  @liammcnulty1987  So you're happy to infect your own child for ideology? That's sick.
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  2064.  C Bee  No, it has mass protests of creepy types wanting to hang medical staff. That's fascism.
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  2065. So you'd rather we just mess up the atmosphere and condemn your children to a hard and hellish life?
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  2066. But he's a con man.
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  2067. Good grief, is covid-denying Queen Kenney. She's spent the past two years getting everything wrong on covid, so now GB News think she's a good person to talk to?
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  2068.  @AthelstanEngland  Brexit and Boris were both given to us via the same fraudulent dark-money foreign funded psychological operations. Cummings for some puzzling reason spent half the 1990s living in Russia. What was he up to there? Umm, business or something, no one knows.
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  2069. That's committing medical fraud, so well done.
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  2070. So why do people kneel for the queen then? We don't live in 1762 any more.
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  2071. 1% of kids who get it end up in hospital. Is that okay?
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  2072.  @alanbrown7155  Yes, a transvestite who doesn't believe in vaccines and gets confused by basic science is going to really scare the New York Times, man.
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  2073. Not really. They know they'll have to fight. They see boomers and boot lickers saying there's no problem but then they also see the giant fires, giant floods, diseases spreading and everything the 'alarmists' said would happen, happen.
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  2074.  @straightenyourcrowntarot7598  Is funny how antivaxxers were quiet while Tory voting boomers got their shots and now they're suddenly worried about vaccines when it comes to younger (non tory voting) people getting theirs. Also strange the same anti-vaxxers have no problem in mass-infecting kids with covid. Or seeing pregnant women in the ICU with it.
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  2075. Fight to get infected by the Rona and thus help Boris. The stupidity burns. How long before there's a protest to support Dwayne Camacho for President?
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  2076.  @annamack5823  It is used as a humorous signifier to quietly mock the pro-corona types on here who think public health is a conspiracy and mass infection is a great idea.
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  2077. Go on, tell us why?
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  2078. You're not questioning the elite either, you're bootlicking them by defending the Tories herd immunity policies.
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  2079.  @vinweasel6169  Well please stop bootlicking.
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  2080.  @vinweasel6169  You appear to be the usual pro-covid type who whines about masks/vaccines etc. They're pretty much all helping out the government while pretending otherwise.
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  2081. Well not trusting this shower for a start, and read actual proper doctors and medical people instead of tabloid hacks.
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  2082.  @jimmyp7928  They are if they can prove their point. But I've watched a fair few of them and even as a semi-educated nerd I can see they're full of nonsense. Go look at how Mike Yeadon went from normal pro-vaccine scientist to anti-lockdown crusader to paranoid anti-vax weirdo in the space of two years. Even his former colleagues wonder what happened to his brain.
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  2083.  @martyconroy3786  Brexit has still made our situation worse. Hence the pig culling, crops rotting, government bailing out the CO2 industry etc.
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  2084. In what way?
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  2085.  @skipmole612  You have to prove covid was intentional. But you also have to ask why the Chinese locked down and gave out lots of data to foreign governments while our governments delayed lockdowns and have since demonstrated an indifference to human life which makes the Chinese look almost normal. By the way, there's been several incidences of the Chinese mass-culling birds to stop bird flu outbreaks leaping to humans. If they were trying to kill off us white people they could easily have let such flus rip decades ago.
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  2086. A pandemic with 120+000 British dead and half a million with long covid.
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  2087. And yet, she's 100% correct about what's going on. She's also correct about the leaders being clueless. History won't be kind to the politicians and the media, but ironically Greta and co. will be seen as prophets.
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  2088. It has been used for diagnostics for decades. Stop trying to pretend Kary Mullis was always in the right - he was a very eccentric dude.
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  2089. Is that the same Jon Gaunt who works for the Russians? Just checked - yep, presenter on Radio Sputnik !
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  2090.  @MsJackcool69  But GB News is doing that themselves. Anyone not right-wing enough is constantly attacked here, even if it means bringing on far right American figures to give you a heavily skewed version of US politics. GB News is basically Rwanda radio of the early 90s.
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  2091. Am chuckling at how he did two weeks work then vanished and today this channel is running a story on 'Are the British workshy'?...
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  2092. A fan of Ulysses 31 and the Space Sentinels, I trust? 😆
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  2093. Vaccines work by being given to healthy people before they get sick.
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  2094. Well if a nightclub chooses not to let the unvaccinated in, then surely that's the same as a nightclub choosing to not let in people with grubby clothes or the right haircut?
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  2095.  Thedevil Lovesme3  I don't recall Europe being flattened recently or Europeans slaughtering millions of people? I also don't recall any nuclear attacks since 1945. WW2 was the biggest war in history.
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  2096.  @davidbarlow350  Imagine going through life thinking every injustice is a result of Marxists who are secretly freemasons who are ruled by Tony Blair (also in secret), rather than learning something about the political system of their own country and understanding how its dominated by a small group of aristocratic toffs pretending to be 'men of the people'.
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  2097. Antivax parents clearly think that long-term sickness is better for some reason.
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  2098. Nige is a shill for Trump. Nige would happily see America at war if it pleased Donald.
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  2099. Because the right love the division and want to keep it going forever. This is why anything the left does these days is criticised, even if it is completely benign. It is also why all the right-wing channels constantly scream about 'cancel culture' while their very existence shows that cancel culture isn't actually that much of a thing.
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  2100.  Billy Bunter  So tell me why all these right-wingers haven't been cancelled and are still on the telly spouting the same drivel week after week?
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  2101.  Billy Bunter  It isn't fair or balanced, though, is it? Is like Fox in the US. And I'd feel exactly the same if GB News was run by the blokes from Chapo Trap house and insisted it was balanced while talking about executing Tories.
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  2102.  Billy Bunter  This reminds me totally of Lord Haw Haw. If some are idiotic enough to allow propaganda to poison them, then we have a right to call it out; I'm not cancelling anyone, merely applying appropriate criticism where necessary.
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  2103. Or maybe you believe tabloid drivel? I don't see the footy players demanding the workers own the means of production or asking for the working class to rise up and remove their oppressors? So far we've got: Don't be racist, lads. and... Hey Boris, can you try and feed kids during a pandemic?
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  2104. And your medical qualifications are?
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  2105. @Marianne Dashwood But they appear to work well, so what's the problem? I don't recall this outrage when Boris was vaccinating all the elderly Tory voters? Perhaps we should mention he's almost run out of Pfizer and this may explain why his social media bots are pushing the idea young people don't need the vaccine.
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  2106.  @franminky7763  Am sure comments like this come from incels or closet cases. They're just baffling.
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  2107. Lots of 'healthy' kids have asthma and other problems. Do you not think they may be affected somewhat badly by a respiratory virus?
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  2108. So instead we're going to just mass-infect kids and ruin thousands of them? Yeah, well done antivaxxers.
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  2109.  @strawberryfieldsforever3308  Am I wrong that mass-infecting kids is bad? Go on mate, enlighten us on why its a good thing.
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  2110. I have a job, this is just me typing on the side for fun. If I was getting paid for this I'd want danger money and a free hug off Dua Lipa.
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  2111. You think you get truth, honesty and integrity on here? You have a weird view of the world, man.
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  2112. Why not? Schools need to teach science. Why do you people always want to make education worse? It seems like a specific agenda to keep the populace dumb.
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  2113. And what is fuelling China's carbon emissions? Them making stuff for Europe and the US. If we moved the industry back here then we too would have manky dark skies and co2 output like the Chinese.
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  2114. Or maybe we can lock up all the disease spreading antivaxxers? Stick em on cruise ships for a few months until it goes away? Oh look, I said something idiotic, just like you.
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  2115.  @DanDman14a  Are you a funny right-winger? Have you got more than two jokes? If so put in for a job on GB News. Their Conservative comedians are so miserable they'll have to hire me soon to do all the jokes. Maybe you can get in first?
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  2116. Why is a mask an infringement on freedom? Are pants (also a legal requirement)?
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  2117. But am listening to Geoff, and he's not funny. He's like Joe Rogan with an English accent. Is this what right-wingers find hilarious? Help me out here.
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  2118. I'm find with camp. I'm not fine with lies and being a truly repulsive person, which Wooten is.
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  2119. Ummm, the population of Germany is higher than here. Ditto France. WTF?
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  2120. No we wanted sensible policies, not these idiots ruining everything.
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  2121. Which is a fake conspiracy like all the others the conspiracy wonks have been rattling on about for 20+ years - the New World Order, Jade Helm, Obama stopping the election, Trump fighting the 'deep state' - all drivel designed to stoke up right-wing lunatics.
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  2122.  @zakdingle4628  Please stop spamming the Trumpist webpage. You're not impressing anyone.
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  2123. GB News stories every day: Critical race theory Migrants on boats! Lefties bad Scientists bad Meghan very, very bad Muslims bad Comedy ain't funny, because of lefties Every single day they spam the same drivel and spend their time ignoring actual news. Is like some sort of mind-control for boomers.
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  2124.  @keithlevoir608  And the farmers. And pretty much anybody who can get a gun license. You clearly are an American bot who knows zero about England.
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  2125.  @gilbert7794  Not easy, no. But certainly possible to do it legally with a bit of effort.
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  2126. This is actually true, comment above explains what happened historically.
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  2127. @Edward Colston Tho some of Benny's jokes haven't aged that well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmbFdenAb7o
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  2128. If only the government thought of this, they'd probably stick a big tax on all purchase- oh.
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  2129. I hope Master Yoda does a Force smackdown on you.
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  2130. Is a very old quote he's pinched from Paul Begala.
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  2131. Imagine these two had been round in WW2... "Down with rationing! Why can't I put my lights on? All this the Germans will kill us stuff is just hysterics!"
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  2132.  @bellowsmain6762  Conspiracy wonks always use the 'its not about a virus' argument but can't tell us what it is about. So far as I can gather they think a bunch of billionaire capitalists are secretly communists who are going to kill capitalism so they can bring about a communist take-over even if that means they're no longer billionaires and everyone wants to kill them. Have I got that right?
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  2133.  @bellowsmain6762  Ummm, okay. So why was no one complaining about this years ago when the left said it was a bad thing? Why were 'conservatives' spending their time ripping into journalists exposing the information war (Facebook manipulation etc.)? Fair enough protesting against evil capital, but they're not actually doing that. I've just watched the protests from London and saw a Trump flag, several Maga hats, an Anarchy flag and someone rattling on about Dr Fauci. Oh, and dudes throwing bottles at the police.
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  2134. Seems about right, actually. Masks are a bit annoying but better than the alternative of even more onerous restrictions.
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  2135.  @nevillemccarter242  It's actually a feedback system - public grows private. Or do you think the country would do great if we all had to pay for private health, roads, police, fire, schools...?
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  2136. @wOkeKing Never mind, the Tories are now going to give you disease and economic mismanagement. And infect your kids.
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  2137. Yeah those 6900 people in hospital with the Rona and 100+ dying a day aren't as happy, though. Glad you can feel happier among all the death and despair.
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  2138.  @thereal8ball975  Well we shall see when the weather gets colder.
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  2139.  @thereal8ball975  Not fear, reality.
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  2140. How is stopping them getting sick from covid genocide? Do you understand the gov's whole policy was to sacrifice 'the weak' which is far more textbook genocide than the NHS giving you a vaccine.
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  2141. Quick tip for GB News to get better ratings - is probably not wise to be calling potential viewers 'workshy' when they're actually working, albeit at home for the time being. Mind you, is also not wise to encourage people to get infected with the Rona, but you've done that as well...
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  2142. Yes and killing/disabling thousands is just an unfortunate bonus, apparently. Psychopaths.
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  2143.  @brynleytalbot778  No, the virus. Do keep up. And I was speaking about the UK where killing thousands is apparently a price worth paying to keep the billionaires happy.
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  2144.  @briancox9357  Yeah, great, so tell me why we aren't all dying of the viruses which killed us throughout history (smallpox for example or measles) - could it be... vaccination? Public health measures? Proper doctors?
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  2145. There's no 50/50 with the vaccine argument - the best doctors vs daytime TV presenters who read Facebook memes is not balanced, is it?
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  2146. Infecting others isn't freedom. Even actual libertarians are supposed to believe in the do not harm principle.
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  2147. Their company, their rules. Same as if I'm told to wear a suit for work and I say I can't wear a suit because it stresses me out & the shoes make my feet sore and how dare they tell me how to dress. Then its new job time.
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  2148. Yep, he's sitting at home in France like a slightly gammony Baron Von Greenback wondering what happened to his career.
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  2149. Weird how he's never sued Noel Castler. Noel has a lot of interesting stories about the Donald... many hilarious, some disgusting, some downright deviant. Never been sued.
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  2150. Right, so how do the kids picking the fruit afford to pay the huge rents that are now common in Rural areas? Or do you expect them to work for minimum wage all day in the hot sun and live in a shed until they're 40?
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  2151.  @golfbulldog  Right, and does the cheeky farmer charge them rent for the caravan? How does the job work with taxes? Or universal credit (if they're working for a few months in summer). Not opposed to the idea, is just that the economics of rural England have changed a lot in 50 years.
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  2152.  @golfbulldog  Yes brilliant, so we've known Brexit was coming for half a decade and no one has actually done this which implies they don't want to...
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  2153.  @golfbulldog  Or in the real world (c) whine to the Tory party and get subsidies, then bring over cheap labour like they did last year with Romanians during the previous harvest. Or (d) Have the government force unemployed youth and/or offenders to form a medieval peasant worker army to keep costs down. Free-market economics have always been dubious mate - because those with the money control the parameters of the market, which is why it fails so much.
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  2154.  @glendakirby5579  No. Pretty sure that has zero to do with any vaccine.
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  2155. Climate change is real and won't vanish because the Daily Mail is brainwashing you to think its fake. Look at New York getting flooded the other day. Or the summer European floods. Or the fact we're in Britain and its been 28c this past week in September.
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  2156. He's a wise man. The next few weeks will see tons of clubs have outbreaks. This dude can sit it out for a while and let the others fall to bits when punters stop going.
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  2157. Less risk. This is like saying no one should wear a seatbelt because some people still die in car crashes if they're wearing one.
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  2158. Ben Shapiro, brought to you by Supermarionation (TM).
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  2159. Within a day or so they've got that New Zealand muppet playing down Covid and spreading misinformation. Not a good start.
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  2160. Former President and disgrace to the United States Trump. Funded by Russia Trump. Scared to wear a mask in case it ruined his makeup so fomented anti-mask groups Trump. Adderall-huffing mentally imbalanced Trump.
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  2161. We've had austerity for over a decade and its resulted in large rises in drug addiction, mental health problems, homelessness and general ill-health. Yet not a word from the Tories who presided over it all. They just blame the poor instead.
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  2162. It's not the flu. Stop saying nonsense. Flaunting ignorance is not a good look.
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  2163. Meanwhile the Tories lied about Brexit, killed more people than the Blitz with their botched pandemic response and are currently overseeing what appears to be a collapse of a functioning economy.,
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  2164. We're mainly infecting kids. As the Rona is passed to adults deaths will start to shoot up.
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  2165. @Retro Picker78 How is it nonsense you misinforming goblin?
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  2166.  @ashmell9641  'a virus that deadly you have to be tested to know you have it' - you've heard of HIV and Aids, I trust?
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  2167. @Retro Picker78 I'm not. I'm speaking the truth to power, not sticking my head in the sand and hoping as long as Boris just kills some peasants it'll all be okay.
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  2168.  @ashmell9641  If you take your meds then yes, HIV has a high survival rate.
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  2169.  @gavinwoodward2813  I'm not the one being paid by shady right-wing groups to spread disinformation, mate.
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  2170.  @latchdoorlatch996  Is because your friend sees that most restrictions are gone and life is pretty similar to normal. Some problems remaining with mass-attendance type industries and we can sort that and help those employees until things are safe and stable.
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  2171. Am sure Jesus wouldn't be too happy watching his supposed followers going 'Yeah well only a few kids die of it anyway...'
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  2172.  @ireneteare2365  You're clearly not a sincere follower of our Lord if you are happy with children being destroyed by preventable disease.
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  2173. I've seen empty shelves this year plenty of times. In fact supermarkets are trying to cover empty shelves by moving stock about far more than usual. Is extremely noticeable but we'll pretend its not happening until there's actual panic buying.
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  2174. Yep, the information is also used to alter what you see online, both in the way of advertising and suggested media. So a person with mental health issues can very easily find themselves in a reality tunnel of depressing content.
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  2175. How has Brexit gone superbly when everyone hates us and our international trade is right down? Fair point about the Scots, tho.
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  2176.  @MarkChapeau  Hahaha, got it now. Is hard to tell on here who's joking or not. Much respect to the Scots for trying to disentangle themselves from our current Tory hellscape.
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  2177. The shortage is worse in the UK. Did you notice that Boris wants to import drivers from abroad. Which clearly shows that 'abroad' has less of a shortage than Britain.
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  2178.  @thegeneralmitch  French supermarkets aren't having the food shortages we're having. Neither is most of the EU.
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  2179.  @nightwingtrp7399  Or in the real world, covid has killed hundreds of healthcare workers. Vaccinating healthcare workers means hundreds more won't die. On top of that there's thousands with long covid who will require months or years of benefits and treatment. Vaccinating staff also reduces the risk of long covid.
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  2180. So GB News has to hire Canadians to feed us their right-wing drivel now? Is almost as if the channel isn't patriotic at all...
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  2181. The anti vaxxers are friends of the government you absolute muppet. Let's see - how many anti-vax journalists are conservatives working for the mainstream media? Almost all of them (Pearson, Young, Brewer, Hitchens...) Now have you ever heard any government minister criticise these people? There was one backbench Tory MP who did a good job calling out misinformation but the cabinet won't go there. Then there's all the giant anti-vax protests who never get treated as badly as other protesters. Who is paying for them to hire big TVs and get the permits to take over Trafalgar square? Why is Priti Patel not saying a word about them when she was happy to arrest women at a vigil for a murdered young woman? And if we go right back to the start who had the 'herd immunity' strategy that every other country thought was insane? All UK government. They're actively working with the antivax/conspiracy types and helping them out. The truth will emerge - and it won't be pretty.
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  2182. So this channel hates healthcare workers and teachers? You honestly think society should sacrifice key workers because your knowledge of covid is based on drivel you've looked at in Facebook memes?
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  2183. The moment you said 'trials' you gave yourself away.
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  2184. You know the 90% of parents who aren't anti-vax dickheads may object to you lot trying to control the debate?
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  2185. @Ramzan Children's health isn't a lol matter.
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  2186. It's not bullshit. You're being a muppet believing conspiracy drivel.
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  2187. What is the cost of a chair compared to treating someone for two weeks in ICU for covid?
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  2188. What about the freedom of people who don't want to catch the mange off you?
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  2189.  @mollyashdon6158  I read a lot of papers, I watch a lot of news. I'm more informed than most people who puke out memes and nonsense they read on Facebook and who also fall for right-wing grifts constantly.
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  2190.  @lawrencestone8488  You mean like they who whine on about remoaner lefty snowflakes?
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  2191.  @mollyashdon6158  Yes, by reading media of different social/political persuasions we can learn and go check things up in books, scientific papers and the like. This is better than watching right-wing grifters make stuff up then believing it like a small child being told about the tooth fairy.
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  2192.  @mollyashdon6158  Are you still triggered by Rayner? What happened to Tories being all 'sticks and stones...'? Common sense by the way does not go very far in a complex world. Give me an example of something you think is 'common sense' which the scientists have got wrong.
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  2193. An eminently sensible post. Thank you. The trolls on here don't seem to know that doctors have been wearing masks in hospitals for decades.
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  2194.  @bobjames6622  Are you the same as the yellow imp who constantly posts mask papers from the 1970s? Is like you're the same person.
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  2195. Well no, nursing is considerably more complicated than fifty years ago and requires more formal learning. Same as in the past ambulance drivers were basically drivers who knew a bit of first aid, and now they're qualified paramedics. The world has changed. Do keep up.
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  2196.  @timrowe9583  No, commenters were attacking degreed staff as some sort of left-wing plot. I was pointing out that the profession is more complex than in the past. What's wrong with that? On the job training is fine as well, but we appear to not want to fund that anymore for the majority. See also: engineering, law, finance.
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  2197. Do you have a big poster of Enoch Powell in your bedroom, mate?
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  2198. Not Marxists playing down the pandemic, is it? Is the right-wing all over the planet despite vast amounts of evidence they're completely wrong.
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  2199.  @ben31uk  Actually you're wrong on both counts. But you know that because you're on here spouting misinformation.
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  2200. @Raymond Cyst Well if flu killed 120+000 Brits last year and gave half a million 'long flu' then I think we'd have locked down for that as well. Hence all those government studies on what to do in a flu pandemic (which they ignored) and the reason Dr Van Tamm was hired as he wrote a giant textbook on the subject.
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  2201.  @S-North  no mate, the establishment are the Tory morons who are going to get people killed. AGAIN.
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  2202.  @ben31uk  Show me the NHS site that says the average age of covid death is 86/87 as this person states.
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  2203. And replace it with not funny crap like this?
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  2204. Yes, and take your mate Mike Hunt with you!
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  2205. Evidence being whatever Facebook memes you found last Tuesday?
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  2206.  @deniseisherwood6361  If that was true then we'd have been seeing lots of sick doctors, nurses, engineers, microbiologists and the like over the past 30 years. We don't. As for saying the kids are uniquely at risk, that doesn't seem to be the case either if those kids I see every Halloween with their faces covered up in costumes are anything to go by.
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  2207.  @NA-bm7ep  Lol. Why do you lot think anyone normal is a military intelligence agent? Is it because you're scared of being rumbled by intelligence agents for being an orchestrated disinformation campaign?
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  2208. Okay, tell me how proteins work then. What is a protein made of, how is it shaped, and how many are there in the human body? So many experts these days, am sure you can enlighten us all.
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  2209.  @eleveneleven572  So then we find out why so many are ill and fix it rather than screaming at them. And if you tax fat people specifically then logically you have to tax others who live shorter lives/have more health problems - very tall men, ex-wrestlers/boxers etc. The big and beautiful thing is really companies trying to market to the overweight. They pay bloggers to push this stuff. It's not really a big outside of clickbait journalism tho it does seem to trigger right-wingers.
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  2210.  @popizitha2727  And the British media are going to have to live with that... lol.
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  2211.  @sirrathersplendid4825  I did and its pathetic. Everything you disagree with is 'woke' and it gets tiring especially as these issues have zero relevance to the outside world, they're just fodder for culture warriors to whine.
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  2212. a) We're not vaccinating kids here b) Lots of antivaxxers c) Tories have messed up orders and appear to have nearly run out of Pfizer
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  2213. Torys hate Britain by killing thousands of us, then acting completely not bothered about it.
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  2214. They've got less viewers than Paw Patrol in Welsh, mate. Been like that for weeks.
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  2215.  @Mark-cu4lz  I imagine this conversation going on every night in North Korea. "Haha, look at those so-called democratic people doubting our Great Leader! Why I've just seen on the TV that he bravely saved 15 babies in an orphanage that was being attacked by imperialist pig's helicopter gunships. What a man!!!"
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  2216. Maybe the population should harden up a bit and not be such snowflakes?
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  2217.  glyn hodges  So how do you treat other diseases when your ICUs are full of people with Covid? Or do you think that cancer patients, transplant patients and the like will be fine if they get a dose of the Rona?
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  2218.  glyn hodges  I don't think it is good at all. The hospitals didn't have the staff - volunteers are all well and good but how many of them could do long-term commitments and how many were trained in the latest techniques? If you've been retired from medicine for 20 years is a bit of a shock to be thrown in to care for people during a pandemic. At the start of Corona they were using 1st year med students to do some duties so it def looks like they exhausted all easy options. The problem with the NHS is it has been run down and there's no slack in the system. Tories don't care - they have private medical insurance. We need to spend more money on the NHS as it will save us money elsewhere in the long run.
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  2219. Sharks can't read and don't really know what they're doing. They see an Australian, they think dinner. Ascribing human desires to them is silly.
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  2220.  @annepaul2609  You're scared of a needle and keep saying is 'experimental' but bet you wouldn't turn down (experimental) antibody treatment or (experimental) antivirals. Many vaccines have boosters, that's a common thing. No vaccine is 100%, but the vaxxed are much better than those without. I would ask you to have a look at the herman cain awards on reddit and look at how many non-vaxxed 'I have an immune system' types end up non-alive thanks to the Rona.
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  2221.  @richardschofield2201  Am pretty sure he would have concentrated on covid first, man. Saying 'Oh well under Jezza it would have been worse' is a strange way of defending the current shower.
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  2222. Nothing. They'll make profits and whack prices up so people will pay more for the same treatment. Insulin course in the UK - costs NHS around £30. In the US - $500-1000. Same insulin, made by the same companies!!
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  2223. The vast majority of the population have had a vaccine, so this makes sense. Now the question is how many non-vaxxed are dying compared to vaxxed... and the answer seems to be lots. Hence the need for shots.
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  2224.  @LokiuniusGaming  Few thousand a year in the UK recently. The high numbers given are including pneumonia, so he's kind of right with this one - at least until a big flu pandemic pops up.
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  2225.  @petersmith2522  As opposed to covid which fries your brain, wrecks your kidneys, can make you impotent, can increase the risk of psychosis AND massively increases your risk of blood clots.
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  2226. Not enough staff. Takes years to train them. Previously we could use foreign staff but a certain Brexit thing meant many of those packed their bags and went home.
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  2227.  @leetshots  And was there or was there not a pandemic that restricted international travel which meant it was more difficult to ship in extra staff? Do keep up.
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  2228.  @mb8219  The first part of the pandemic was so bad they had medical students doing nursing duties on the wards to keep things running. Even if they were training a whole chunk of other staff is still going to take three (nurses) to five+ (doctors) years to get them to a position where they can do the job properly. https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/covid-19/returning-to-the-nhs-or-starting-a-new-role/covid-19-medical-students-requested-to-work-in-the-nhs https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/lecture-over-medical-education-in-the-time-of-covid-19
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  2229.  @leetshots  How is it a self-own? Brexit=less European staff, Rona = less foreign staff in general.
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  2230. "Its now watered down " - historical note, university subjects change over time and many of our 'easy' degrees contain modules that would have boggled the brains of students from a century ago (imagine a film studies student trying to explain digital imaging to a Victorian student, or a modern nursing student trying to enlighten a Victorian doctor on viruses). Similarly students of a century ago had an easier time of it than students from centuries before when fluency in Latin, Greek etc. was a prerequisite before you even got in the door. Tho of course they also had their 'modern' subjects that would have been similarly baffling to a clerk from 1657. Although there were actual easier degrees in the old days that tended to be given to aristocrats dosser kids. Much like now.
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  2231. Millions of them all round the world. They've quite rightly decided that doctors know more than Facebook obsessives and have opted for the jab.
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  2232.  @plumleytube  Not many advertisers want to be associated with covid denialists and fascists, mate.
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  2233.  @arrangrant6037  Many companies are selling to world-wide audiences (think of all those perfume ads with film stars). There's even adverts on British TV that are American but they put in British voice-overs.
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  2234. Don't forget 'Its not Brexit!' and claims of leftists cancelling right wingers who are never off the telly/Internet (despite said right-wing pundits being tedious, annoying and saying the same thing since 1993).
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  2235. Your mean Brendan of the Revolutionary Communist Party? The Living Marxism guy?
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  2236. @Helmut Schmacker It does exist. Just like it exists with lots of other diseases (As a historian he should be aware of Polio, for example).
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  2237. Dear me Vanessa. Who are you going to take out with your 'weapons'?
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  2238. How about we compromise? Let it be like the law with HIV. You don't need to get a jab, but if you get covid and infect anyone then you go to jail. That's pretty fair. No need for vaccine passports then.
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  2239. If a good chunk of the general population can't cope with relatively lenient pandemic lockdowns and think basic facemasks are a heinous assault on their freedoms, exactly what percentage of the general populace will be able to cope with six months of rocket travel followed by spending the rest of their days in extreme physical austerity? Glad CSS is covering all these issues, despite the inherent darkness of the subject. One question though - do the executed murderers get cremated and turned into fertiliser or buried and eaten away by perchlorate soils? For that matter, what about anyone else who dies on Mars? Is the ultimate destiny of any Mars citizens to end up as phosphorous-rich dust sprinkled on the space potato crops?
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  2240. Would that be from the covid, which is pretty common?
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  2241.  @mitchconner4057  I bet if a bunch of pissed blokes grabbed your missus and forced her to take pictures with them that you'd be on the phone to the Fuzz screaming for arrests.
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  2242. You made that up. How can I tell? Because its not funny. Oh hang on, are you Mark Dolan posting under an alt?
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  2243. So I was bored and avoided this channel for a bit. Came back to have a look at if they were covering some cutting edge news... Vaccine whines, trans, wokeists, lefties... same old drivel. How on Earth did you lot blow SIXTY MILLION QUID on this absolute car-crash of Joycean (William not James) verbal vomit?
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  2244. Phil Valentine says hi.
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  2245. Anyone who uses a yellow star to pretend being an anti-vaxx numbskull is anything like the Holocaust deserves to be kicked in the face by an angry elephant.
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  2246.  Jim Knight  Yes and the whole point is the virus is likely to be carried on water droplets and a mask will stop a substantial portion of them. If masks were that dangerous then we'd see mass death among doctors, semiconductor fab workers, clean-room techs, forensic people etc. We don't. So stop making stuff up.
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  2247.  Jim Knight  Or maybe masks are quite useful and the people arguing against them have a weird agenda? Especially as they're also arguing against distancing/vaccines etc.
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  2248.  Jim Knight  I'm not the one spinning the Pro-Corona line, am I mate?
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  2249.  @bluesans1787  No, there's plenty of viruses in hospitals.
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  2250. I envy your exciting life.
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  2251. Ummm, you know people can travel don't you? I was talking to an American lad the other day. He's in Britain working for a few months. Done his quarantine thing and now he's out and about.
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  2252.  @oscarwoodburn6360  No worries, that does indeed suck. As I've said on here before they should have made the tests free and supported people who had to quarantine & really should take in account family circumstances where appropriate. Hope you can see your missus soon, dude.
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  2253. Yes, they're available in many places online. But the anti-vax sites disort things, so don't use them.
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  2254.  @prochoice9670  Oh look, it's fake me. Hysterical. You must live rent free in my head.
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  2255. It's not even unique. She's talking absolute nonsense.
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  2256.  @Perun944  Almost every country debates the bad and good side of their history critically. Pretending Britain is the only country to do this is absolutely idiotic.
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  2257.  @prochoice9670  You again. Please stop stalking me. You're not funny and you're making the posters on this channel look like psychopaths.
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  2258. I think is pretty amusing that the British press have spent years convincing right-wing voters that green policies are crazy communist conspiracies but we now have a situation where our next King is a big environmentalist & so is the King after that. So all those hacks will either have to do a u-turn or turn right-wing voters against the Royals. I look forward to the pathetic u-turn as soon as Liz departs.
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  2259. While you lot forget Jesus loved everybody, didn't have any time for wealth and gave his time and abilities for free to the poor.
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  2260.  @hannannah1uk  My point stands. And expanding on your point then why do 'Christians' today worship preachers or aristocrats or rich people? Christians aren't supposed to do that. Or worship a Pope for that, matter.
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  2261. The ones that don't are bought off by the usual libertarian dark money crowd. This is why the same faces always pop up to deny climate change, deny covid is bad and constantly defend any psychopathic billionaire scumbags who wants to exploit the masses.
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  2262. Bwahaha. Even the Tory party realise they've blown it with the race-baiting: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/13/leading-tory-mp-says-party-must-change-attitude-on-taking-the-knee
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  2263. And yet most kids I see are pretty cool and well-behaved, so you must be hanging round some wrong 'uns.
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  2264. @anonymous one "no one under 35 without a medical condition really needs it.' - even if that were true (it isn't), have you thought about the enormous amounts of kids recovering from cancer, with heart problems, with asthma, with Downs Syndrome? Or do they not count???
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  2265. Without vaccines you'll end up with sick workers and sick customers thereby leading to less work.
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  2266.  @ViralKiller  They clearly do work and the Rona variants have been around for a while - an early one was from last summer in Spain which British tourists helpfully brought back to the UK.
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  2267.  @ViralKiller  We're already pretty much open.
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  2268.  Nigel --  Because a) The government are idiots b) Only half the population has been vaccinated c) Social distancing and masks are an easy way of protecting people.
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  2269.  @frankbutcher2601  37000 dead and currently the highest number of infections in the US. Plus comically California appears to have come out of things in a better financial position than Florida.
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  2270.  Nigel --  Well no, flights from India were idiotic, but Boris needed his trade deal, so...
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  2271.  @frankbutcher2601  What part is lies? Florida had huge Rona problems and their economy isn't the best.
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  2272.  sphaget   Well look at covid, they're arguing for infecting people so they personally can go on holiday. Add in anti-vax types. Also add in conservatives who whine about immigration and worship the rich. Pretty sure Jesus wasn't like that.
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  2273.  RED SKULL  I'm only going by the Lord himself who appeared to harbour no racial animosity and was technically a refugee. So modern conservatives would hate him.
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  2274.  @beautifulspirit7420  Am sure you do know many Christians who do that. But they're different to the hard-right political types who use the language of Christianity to make money/hurt other people. Would suggest watching the Netflix docco about the Dominionists (think is called 'The Family') in the US, for example. Plenty of those types of extremists in the UK, too - such as Rees Mogg.
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  2275. @Jimmy Still seems a bit racist, dude. Especially if you support the Tories who've done everything in their power to make the lives of actual white working-class people harder.
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  2276.  @beautifulspirit7420  There's a lot of extremists who are very powerful alongside the deviants you mention ('sins'). This puts more people off religion than any other reason.
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  2277. @Jimmy That's actually a take on things I can respect.
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  2278. Bit like the British press, then.
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  2279. What, they might work hard and have kids who become doctors?
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  2280.  @johndonson1603  I'm a lefty and am genuinely stunned that at a time of crisis people on here think that some bloke kneeling is the worst thing ever. Is like they exist in a parallel universe of stupidity.
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  2281. You do know China's emissions are so high because we moved most of our manufacturing over there? If we move it back then we'll be just as polluted, so maybe we should do that.
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  2282. Your government sucks. Half a million dead. Why are you not dragging that clown President to the nearest town square and having a public trial?
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  2283. Killing vast numbers of their population? How is that right?
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  2284.  @garybrown353  Florida has thousands of cases a day and a hospital system choked with Covid patients.
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  2285.  Bob Mule  So the younger people currently in ICU with covid... do they count?
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  2286. Am sure the Spanish and French can say the same with the number of retired Brits living over there, using their resources.
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  2287. No, its because Tory MPs can go on holiday. They don't have to go back to work until October.
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  2288. Trump never gave us any evidence though. This is despite him being the US President with access to the world's biggest Intelligence apparatus. In fact most of the China covid conspiracy material is coming from dodgy figures linked to Steve Bannon.
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  2289. Theatre has always adapted and changed works around to reflect the times.
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  2290. Well smiler, as we can see from Brazil 'herd immunity' through natural infection appears not to work very well. So you can kill a few more thousand now, then next year, then the year after... or you can use actual public health measures to get rid of this thing now.
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  2291. Boris looks at polls. The polls tell him that Tory voters are happy if some 'other' people die, so he'll do what he wants. However, as covid accelerates over winter in unvaccinated populations (kids, middle-class antivaxxer types) then more Tory voters will die. Word will get around. Tory voters are okay with 'other' people dying, but not them. At which point panic sets in and we get restrictions, the press will suddenly start supporting said restrictions as 'there is no alternative! Boris tried his best!' and then when the number of Tory voters dying drops we'll go back to square one. Look at this year for example - the Conservative press all became pro-vaccine & supported restrictions, then as soon as most Tory voters were jabbed the press flipped around and became anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown.
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  2292. So does the right. That's why they always quote 1984 yet seem to have not actually read it.
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  2293.  @shortbob4491  Seemingly most of them.
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  2294. Is a good idea. Care staff aren't there to kill their customers.
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  2295. They love the Rona on GBNews.
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  2296. If it helps mate, with the current climate collapse ongoing we either get a more equitable society or the capitalists are going to be stuck in a post-apocalyptic hellhole. Lots of rich people do actually realise that and are quietly in a panic.
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  2297. They have, you simply haven't read them. Books, thousands of scientific papers, gigantic reports. Its all there, it just requires time and an education to understand them.
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  2298.  @colingillett6447  There's a gigantic amount of evidence, you're simply ignoring it due to political blinkers. Am pretty sure Siberia didn't have 90degree heatwaves when I was a kid. Am also pretty sure 'once in a century' flooding didn't happen every year or so. This is very 1984 - ignore the scientific evidence and the evidence of your own eyes.
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  2299.  @jrobs1133  Tell me where the climate change science is wrong. The basics have been known since the late 1800s.
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  2300.  @colingillett6447  Please tell me if climate change is leftwing why Edward Teller, the ultra-conservative physicist gave a speech on it in 1959 ? And weather now is weirder than it was when I was a kid - we hardly have winters in Britain for one thing. Go look at footage of 1947 or similar for examples of ye olde British winters. Now we get an inch of snow and freak out.
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  2301.  @colingillett6447  You didn't read the comment. If a conservative scientist FROM HUNGARY LIVING IN AMERICA said climate change was a thing in 1959 and that same scientist knew a thing or two about atmospheric physics due to designing hydrogen bombs for a living then your whole argument about climate change being a recent lefty plot is clearly nonsense.
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  2302.  @colingillett6447  You clearly don't know who Teller is. Astonishing. Please go read up on him, you're making youself look like an idiot.
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  2303. Jordan Peterson the psychologist who got addicted to drugs, sent to Russia and nearly died because he thought he could have cold-turkey-coma treatment? Then he was the guy who caught covid due to his daughter ignoring basic rules? The guy who is clearly an extreme depressive but who lectures young men on sorting their lives out? That dude?
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  2304. Your Youtube name is that of a famous fascist. The fascists of WW2 were actually quite friendly with the Islamists of the time & even had Muslim soldiers fighting the British & Russians. Soooo, care to explain?
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  2305. Very true. Covid has been around for 18 + months and people are still saying the same nonsense they read on Facebook last year. I have friends who've gone down this route and it wrecks my head that people I thought I knew well are absolute morons. The ironic thing is other people I know who you'd imagine would either be idiots (lads with 'substance' issues shall we say) or opposed to everything (religious people who you'd expect to be antivax) have been complete stars and done their best, got their shots & tried to help others. This includes immigrant care workers who had no problem getting vaccinated because they wanted to be safe around their elderly clients.
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  2306. Did you think Brexit was for the people? It was for the rich to get richer and it doesn't matter who they kill off. They got away with it with covid, so will continue...
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  2307.  @DeadlyDan  Yeah but we won't get cool stuff will we? We'll get rubbish-tier fruit that takes eight years to rot or wheat pumped full of synthetic growth hormones.
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  2308. You also pick up the tab for noncey Royals trying to escape from the FBI. Should we get rid of Royals?
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  2309. Because they're not fans of genocide?
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  2310.  @angelaregan475  Yes rich people don't like the poor much. That's a good reason for proper taxes and proper laws to limit their powers. But ironically the rich are dependent on large amounts of 'customers' for their goods so can't actually get rid of us without getting rid of their own businesses.
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  2311. Do you see the problem here? You're talking about freedom to have a social life while at the same time as whining about masks. Masks are a minor thing they helps public health at the moment. If you ditch them infections will rise and less people will go out - the service economy will not recover. Most of the population are gigantically annoyed at a few snowflakes who get endlessly triggered by masks. Mask hate is not a sincere position of theirs, is political ideology and paid contrarianism.
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  2312.  @speakeasy3333  I saw a vid of Oakenshott arguing with a doctor and telling him there's no evidence masks work. You know, doctors who've been wearing masks when exposed to infectious diseases for the best part of a century... just staggering these clowns pretend to be journalists.
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  2313. Meanwhile the government is mass-infecting kids during a pandemic and everyone is more focussed on culture war drivel.
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  2314.  @bmotion7648  I don't think he was American. He had a very English accent and reports are that he just put himself down as coming from Arizona on his Facebook page. Never seen an American who talked like one of the Wurzels.
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  2315. Wait till you find out about 'The law' and 'The police' and 'The security services' and 'Health and safety'.
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  2316. Ironically there's a few former female athletes who got so messed up on the steroids they transitioned later into males. See the Andreas Kreiger story for example. Of course there's also America's champion 70s Decathlete who went the other way - Bruce (now Kaitlyn) Jenner.
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  2317. Actually there's been a massive campaign (which Wooten is part of) using right-wing hacks to make light of the pandemic. Is all over the Internet. These clowns have been rumbled.
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  2318.  @billsticker  There's debates about levels of restrictions. But the pro-covid anti lockdown stuff is almost all right-wing journalists pretending to be impartial... Wooten, Hartley-Brewer, Pearson, Toby Young. Then they interview the same few dubious characters (Ivor Cummings, UsforThem etc.) to push the agenda of spreading the disease. And of course there's also the business types and Grade-Z celebrities helping out. Very coordinated and very sinister. Lots of evidence about how it was organised coming out now. If the British press try to gloss over this, the foreign media won't.
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  2319. Then when you get sick and spread the Rona to others, what happens?...
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  2320.  @ogcpw4746  Wow, amazing. You should go tell the papers about your amazing success. You'll be famous!
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  2321.  @ogcpw4746  Public health doesn't work like that. See Typhoid Mary.
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  2322. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors Yes very good, you can use the Internet.
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  2323. That's been going on for decades.
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  2324. Why? Lefty journalists actually do their jobs and don't just sit there ranting like an annoying aunt who's drunk too much gin and wants to tell you why she hates (Insert subject of choice here).
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  2325. I don't suppose you could not be a moron for thirty seconds and go check? His names Dan Fox.
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  2326. Do you mean 20 years ago when one of the top selling political books was 'The End of History' which argued that now democracy is widespread that history is basically done as society had attained its pinnacle?
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  2327. We're now in the 21st century. There's a lot of added expense that needs to be paid for. Don't think they had helicopter ambulances or ECMO machines in the 1930s.
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  2328. So do tabloid hacks like Dolan. Tell me how Dolan is qualified to speak on medical matters?
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  2329. @Charles Vane We do. There's a whole tabloid industry that obsesses over the health of celebs.
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  2330. You voted Tory and got exactly what you voted for - an incompetent idiot who messes everything up he touches. You own this. Don't blame invisible communists or greens, blame your own bad decision-making.
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  2331. Because we're in a pandemic and vaccination is a massively important tool in the fight against it.
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  2332. Mate the Hyacinths are the main voting base for the Tories. The Tories aren't getting the youth vote, the middle-class are veering away from them, the working-class have realised how Brexit was a massive mistake....
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  2333. Alternative opinions are fine but when they're a) Nonsense and b) Endangering the health of the public then they become something more sinister.
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  2334.  @devorah935  Mate, go read up on how outraged the right was about Supersize me, or Mrs Obama wanting kids to eat more veg. Go read up on the kickoffs in Britain over food labelling or pasty taxes. The right wing always kicks off about this stuff.
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  2335. Yep, you'll find that a lot with the right - love 'free speech' but rigidly control the dialogue and censor the bejezus out of dissenting voices. Even the lefty Guardian has more articles by right-wingers than you'd ever see left-wingers on the 'Conservative' channels.
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  2336. What, communism is protecting people in a global pandemic? Sounds quite good if you put it that way.
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  2337.  @margsomerville21  No love, history and facts is on my side.
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  2338. That's the funny thing, what we call 'low skilled' jobs are incredibly difficult to automate. What could be automated has already been. But current AI finds it easy to analyse an X-Ray or a blood test or whizz through stock-market transactions but try building a robot to clean a hotel room or look after toddlers; try building a level 5 self-driving car. Pretty much impossible with any existing technology tho the cars may come in a few decades.
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  2339. Yep, the Tory plan.
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  2340. If that was the case then healthy sunny countries like Spain, Greece & Italy would not have been hit so hard as they were.
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  2341.  @TheRetroManRandySavage  Which is worse: a) Being annoying hippies or b) Spreading a deadly virus during a worldwide pandemic?
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  2342.  @hermannhoth6518  Annoying hippies don't fill up hospitals with thousands of sick people, do they? Are you a toddler? Boo hoo, me no like hippies! Me love plague rats!
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  2343.  @borleyboo5613  No, they actually spread disease and have fought many times with the police. They've also tried to sneak into hospitals and intimidated school kids.
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  2344.  @MayorOfBigDaddysPizza  Can you tell that to doctors, vets, police forensics and semiconductor workers? They've been using masks for decades and seem fine.
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  2345.  @LSD04  Yep, well over 100,000 British people dead. Are you laughing at the death of British people? Are you a foreign bot here to sow discord?
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  2346.  @hermannhoth6518  I'm not resorting to abuse, merely pointing out the gigantic levels of idiocy on here.
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  2347. No we're not. Please stop being a comedy racist and grow up.
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  2348. Sad that people think common sense is listening to a stuffed shirt telling them to infect their friends with a deadly pathogen.
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  2349.  @traceywilkins5798  There's no audit evidence, that's just OANN and co rattling on. The only way Trump is getting back is via a coup and as he spent much of last year annoying them military then he's not going to have the support.
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  2350.  @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima  And yet Biden is still a more sensible leader than Boris.
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  2351.  @supermarble123  Are you dim enough to think the US is going to pay welfare to people with long covid if it doesn't exist? Please take off your tinfoil hat and eat it.
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  2352. Grow up. In ww2 the Russians had teams of female snipers. Am sure you'd think they'd be too dainty to be a danger. Or go google 'Freddie Oversteegan' and get back to me.
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  2353. Or a news show of Brexit types that are terrified people will realise they've been Brexited right up the tradesmans so they're trying their hardest to deflect. Yes people can be hysterical and fall for media panics but there's very real problems behind the scenes.
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  2354. ' a successful homogeneous nation' - You mean where we spent centuries fighting over whether Catholics or Protestants were the best? You know when we hated our fellow whites because they were the wrong religion?
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  2355. Is Boris a Communist? Is Chris Witty? Dido Harding? Grow up.
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  2356. You're so triggered, it's hilarious. Seriously, you'll be going on about this in the year 2035, thus completely proving the footy player's point and guaranteeing lots more kneeling for the foreseeable future.
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  2357. ' some people simply aren't particularly intelligent' - many of them work in the media.
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  2358.  @Roman_Eagle  Guns can cause a lot more damage a lot quicker. A guy flipping out with a knife isn't going to be able to kill six people in a few minutes. A guy with a gun... is.
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  2359.  @Roman_Eagle  And in a crowd people run away. Yes there are multiple stabbing cases but they have a much lower death toll than mass shootings. Or do you really think you can stab 61 people to death in five minutes - the Las Vegas shooter shot that many.
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  2360. Its not the Youtube algorithms mate. Is because its a video featuring a ranting bloke with a very punchable face - Youtube is full of them and they've been dwindling in popularity for ages. Is all repair channels and asmr hotties now that get the views...
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  2361. No it doesn't. Why do you lot spout off without doing the slightest bit of research? https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response-membership/list-of-participants-of-sage-and-related-sub-groups
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  2362. So how does that work for rotund adults? Such as our tubby Prime Minister?
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  2363. What do you want them to call it? A blow-up? A viral ejaculation? A Rona volcano?
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  2364. As opposed to the, what, right-wing ones that elevate coke-added numbnuts to the heights of the British establishment?
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  2365. Imagine being this station and the only videos you can get ratings for are the ravings of anti-vaxxers and covid contrarians. So you're sitting there thinking is ok, money and all that then realise the historical record now exists showing your channel fuelling paranoia and giving succour to multitudes of somewhat imbalanced people and political extremists. If the Rona goes away in a few weeks, cool. If it doesn't then there's going to be a lot of anger, and probably law-suits flying around. Plus there's going to be a public enquiry about the pandemic and the press coverage will be a big part of it.
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  2366. Then you won't be leaving the country then as it's going to be a requirement for travel everywhere soon.
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  2367.  @angrybrit7331  Yeah, good luck with that. People's patience is wearing thin with the idiot crowd.
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  2368.  EXPOSING THE ELITE   Yes well done, you are one of the few that is doing well. Hopefully you can show your JCB to the other now bankrupt farmers as they leave the industry and/or shoot themselves (I believe suicide is very common in such communities).
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  2369.  @nowun6043  I'm not. No one cares. Right-wingers frothing are just making themselves look more and more silly. Here's the thing - whatever anti-racism gesture is performed, you lot will whine about it. Its about attacking the anti-racism rather than any strange obsession with kneeling.
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  2370.  @dilipshah5882  Not really. That's the interpretation pushed on you by the culture war tabloids.
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  2371.  @dilipshah5882  Papers loved it when Sol Campbell came out for Brexit...
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  2372.  Exlord Lucan  Yeah that's why Parliament did a report in 2012 on Racism in Football with the premise that yes, we're thankfully not as racist as the 70s or 80s but we've still got idiots causing trouble. Have a read:https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmcumeds/89/89.pdf
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  2373. The reason the app is pinging so much is because so many people have Corona. It really is simple as that. Now you can force them all into work, which will give us another even bigger wave just in time for the pensioner's vaccine immunity to be waning (and am pretty sure the Tories will take their time doing boosters). So Michelle, stop whining about the app and ask why your government is ignoring every basic principle of preventing infectious disease.
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  2374. 'Cocktail of chemical' - wait until you find out how we preserve food, or keep water clean, or make sure you don't smell funny at work...
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  2375. Yes, because am sure heatlhcare workers can really pretend enmasse to be sick for months and they totally won't get found out by their colleagues or bosses who include actual doctors that can diagnose stuff.
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  2376. You voted Tory. This is your fault.
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  2377. Yes that might be good if we weren't talking about a disease that spreads via close contact and crowds. As it does then the vulnerable (which includes kids and pregnant women) are supposed to do what? Lock themselves away forever so Karen can go clubbing?
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  2378.  @thereal8ball975  Well according to the report last week of half a million infected nearly 6000 were hospitalised, 25 dead and 690 had multisystem inflammatory disorder. That's quite a lot of sick kids, or have we stopped caring about kids now?
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  2379. The other two times they did it they were 100% correct. Their prediction rate is pretty good. Maybe we should listen to them and not to Sun gossip columnists ranting on TV? If you think the science is 'garbage' then please link the papers you have critiqued and/or perhaps submit corrections/critiques for them to the relevant publishers.
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  2380.  @androidoficeandfire9667  But deaths blew up over Christmas and the New Year so clearly there was a problem? At one point we were losing over a thousand a day to it. I don't think anyones saying cases at 0 forever, but cases at a low level where they're not spreading is better than regular waves of death and destruction. Again, New Zealand, compare to UK. They're fine with normal lives (just slightly constrained international travel and some testing). While the UK lost a lot more people, had a bigger economic hit and still isn't out of the woods, yet.
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  2381.  @androidoficeandfire9667  Ferguson predicted 500,000 dead assuming no mitigation ("Herd immunity") and roughly a 1% death rate (50 million catching it) which was consistent with other countries. We did end up with mitigation which included isolating a large number of pensioners for months & that limited the spread and deaths. If you recall Germany also ran the numbers and I believe Merkel (who is a scientist) locked down after seeing a predicted 80% getting infected in 18 months & the number of estimated deaths in Germany. Hopefully the Rona will fade into the background sooner rather than later but I'm for caution at present until we get on top of things. Yes this also gives us problems with mass-event jobs so would be good if we could get those working perhaps by using better tests or similar. Am definitely not in favour of letting it rip because we won't cope well with another wave of this thing.
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  2382. Is almost as if viruses don't own little Casio watches to tell them what date it is?
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  2383. Do you work for China? What is the deal with supposed 'Patriotic British' posters wanting to spread disease and ruin their own economy's ability to function?
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  2384.  glyn hodges  Do you also recall the reaction of millions of people panic buying food/toilet paper/sanitizer? Do you think that maybe restrictions were brought in not just to cut the Rona, but to ensure the economy wouldn't outright collapse? Pepperidge farm remembers those halcyon days of semi-rationing and giant queues.
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  2385. Used to be a pagan country as well, full of people who devoted their lives to building big stone circles.
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  2386.  @chrisredfield3240  The economy isn't destroyed though, is it? Is a bit knocked about and that's been made worse by Brexit but the advantage of modern technology is that many people could still work during the pandemic.
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  2387. Is France riddled with quality Indian rona, then?
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  2388. Probably all of them would still be made. You may not have noticed but many of today's comedies are derivative of their older cousins - for example Little Britain is just a modern Dick Emery show. Al Murray is a similar character to Alf Garnett and so on.
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  2389.  @boofuu3145  You clearly haven't seen any episodes of Citizen Khan then.
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  2390. Is pretty simple, they know that climate change is going to mess up the planet and make life much, much worse in the 2030s. Sadly as they're Tories they also want to make a quick buck, hence the reason the policies are all over the place.
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  2391. Hey, if so many people are being zapped by the vaccine, why don't you tell your story to the media? Is it because its not true?
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  2392. And yet it created people like you, so clearly didn't work, did it?
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  2393. Carl Cox is a big lad. They'll be having a go at him as well in a minute.
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  2394. @Down With Woke AND THE SAME COMMENT AGAIN.
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  2395. Or the lives of the kids you infect or the people who are immuno-compromised. Or do you not care about those people?
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  2396. In 1959 ultra-Conservative mad science guy Edward Teller gave a speech warning of the dangers of human-activity-created carbon dioxide causing climate change effects. He gave it to a conference organised by the oil industry. Remember that when Fox News watchers rattle on about climate change being a liberal hoax created by Al Gore or some such drivel.
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  2397. Yes blame the left for the ecosystems collapsing and a destabilising atmosphere. Sigh.
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  2398. Funny how no one was angry at the anti-lockdown protesters who were actually spreading a deadly disease during a pandemic. But all of a sudden they're angry at a few enviornment protesters... almost as if there's a sinister right-wing agenda at play here.
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  2399.  @martyevans1  Does flatten the curve mean 'get rid of the pandemic'? No, it means slow down the rate of increase.
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  2400.  @martyevans1  No but other people mean it that way. They're deliberately muddying the waters.
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  2401. Every channel does Fathers day. You're not paying attention.
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  2402. How is it erasing Britishness to have Bond played by a black man, but not erasing it having Bond played by an Australian (Lazenby) or an Irish bloke (Brosnan)?
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  2403. If Mary was around today she's be getting deported while GB News commenters would fume about 'that foreign woman who got pregnant to one fella, then brought another fella masquerading as her husband over to England so she could have her kid and we're paying for it!'
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  2404. Labour MPs not wanting to kill any more working-class people. Tories wanting bonuses to buy more Bentleys and don't care if working-class people die.
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  2405. Well Wooten has done his best to keep covid spreading and his take on energy policy is similarly moronic. I would therefore respectfully suggest not listening to idiots like him with a dark agenda, and also not voting for Tories.
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  2406. Was the Taliban shooting Texans then or blowing up American oil pipelines?
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  2407.  @georgemorgan8056  You're talking about that Patrick bloke who is the usual libertarian will say anything for money type.
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  2408. Will that stop 50,000 people a day from catching covid?
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  2409.  @ryan.1990  So you can't be gay and far-right? Someone tell Ernst Rohm. Via a seance, umm.
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  2410.  @tenthousanddays2103  What's wrong with feminists? Can you point out where she's wrong? I am happy to stand corrected if you point out the errors.
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  2411.  @yvonnesanders4308  So did Leni Riefenstal, but am pretty sure her works had a certain amount of bias...
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  2412. Millions of people have done so for decades, and no one said a word. Let's see: Surgeons, semiconductor engineers, some food prep people, microbiologists, police forensics, clean-room assembly experts.... Plus, air force pilots, the sas, professional painters, asbestos removal workers. Never got a mention. But now apparently we're all worried about how hard it is to wear a mask.
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  2413.  @thundercity311  Yes I understand that masks come in different varieties but the point is that basic masks will work somewhat despite not being perfect and help to slow the spread. Now if the gov wants to give everyone more expensive masks then that's great. But they don't, so we're stuck with the basics, sadly.
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  2414. Is this bloke still a working GP? He doesn't show up in a GMC search and appears to have no Internet presence. Am assuming someone has spelt his name wrong above?
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  2415. @Expo Scotland So they did spell his name wrong - is Gerlis. Cool, thank you for the correction.
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  2416. Does he mention the Trumpist paramilitary groups? Or the Trumpist terror attacks? Cos y'know, important stuff there.
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  2417. 130+000 dead in the UK of the Rona. Pretty sure the vaccine is much, much, much safer than those numbers.
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  2418. Well in theory there 'could be' but it looks unlikely. Meanwhile the Rona so far has caused heart problems, kidney problems, lung issues, neurological damage, impotence, possible male infertility, psychosis and other mental health problems. So y'know, think the shot is better.
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  2419. You understand wrong. It has been isolated and photographed and genetically-sequenced. Hence the mRNA vaccines which reproduce the mRNA sequence for the spike protein.
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  2420. "ignore them" - you mean by filling your entire channel full of endless dubious culture war stories? This is similar to how the right-wing are 'ignoring' Megs and Harry.
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  2421. GB News behind the scenes: https://twitter.com/jeffsprogress/status/1416010318405328900
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  2422.  The Rockall Times  Old Testament God was very warlike.
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  2423. You'd be even more fed up if you wound up on a ventilator because you got covid during a routine operation.
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  2424.  @antjeynes2489  So you walked round with a broke wrist for seven weeks? You could have gone to A&E.
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  2425. Why do I get the feeling you're a boomer who hasn't been within a mile of an army camp?
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  2426. It has actually, but it's hit the over 50s far worse. Never in recent history have we had a Britain where the over 50s regularly vote to screw over the young people then spent all their spare time complaining young people are terrible. And when questioned on why they feel this way, 99% certainty is nonsense they're gobbling up on social media. There's a whole documentary about this from years ago called 'The Brainwashing of my Dad'.
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  2427.  @greengrass9572  Again, what have I said that's factually wrong? The over 50s do vote Tory more and find it harder to explain why*. Propaganda is aimed at them. Fox did the same years ago in the US and there is indeed a much-respected documentary on the topic. P.S. Are you actually threatening me? Aren't we supposed to allow free speech? *remember kids, if they were that arsed about leaving the EU they'd have voted for Michael Foot in the 80s or the Referendum Party in the 90s. But they voted for Pro-single market Thatcher.
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  2428.  Billy Bunter  Tell me what is factually wrong with what I said? Is really simple.
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  2429.  @greengrass9572  Actually many were complaining that it was. Do you not remember all the 'Up Yours Delors' stuff? Or Yes Minister endlessly spoofing 'Common Market' bureaucrats? Is funny the Brexit movement coincided exactly with a schism in the Tory party and all these 'pro-business' conservatives voted to eviscerate their own economy just to keep themselves in power.
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  2430. Trust me, you don't want a dose of Delta, mate.
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  2431. The Trump worshippers are weird and downright creepy. And so many of them say they're Christians yet have clearly never read the Bible. Baffling.
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  2432. Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's dome chopped off & if I recall also had Catherine Howard seen off, too. He was also riddled with disease, massively fat and a bit of a psycho. But we love him because he was really funny in that Carry on Film and may have wrote Greensleeves but probably didn't. Oh yeah, and the Church of England thing as well.
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  2433. It has lower ratings than Welsh Paw Patrol.
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  2434. So if you don't put your car in for an MOT it magically fixes itself?
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  2435.  @robertmckinnon6564  You're calling me stupid when the OP is telling people not to get tested for a deadly virus because he thinks that'll make everything better??!?!?
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  2436. So does that mean we can get rid of antivaxxers then? Please explain your contorted logic.
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  2437.  @samwiseganja4071  Well the quote usually comes from right-wingers in the US who want to shoot politicians they don't like. So if we're arguing that's okay, then logically is fine to toss all the antivaxxers in clink or similar. And no, am not saying that, am using their logic against them.
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  2438.  @samwiseganja4071  Well no, its a quote from one of Jefferson's letters and has found recent popularity with the far-right crowd, your Ben Garrison types. I'm not being partisan in this case, is those guys using a quote out of context to further their sneaky agendas.
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  2439. No there won't. Masks have been quite handy, both in reducing the Rona and in reducing other milder respiratory illnesses. Lockdowns were botched because the government are idiots. We could have had quicker ones but Boris likes his money, so we ended up with the worst of both worlds. Having said that, losing 120+ thousand Brits with a similar number disabled by said virus is going to be a massive financial drain on society. If only we hadn't been greedy morons a year ago and listened to proper scientists and not gossip columnists or Telegraph scribblers.
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  2440.  @strawberryfieldsforever3308  Yes very good. Now does the mask reduce the amount of liquid that your cough out when you wear it? If it does then it works as protection.
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  2441.  @strawberryfieldsforever3308  If it reduces the spread of air-based droplets it will give some protection. Think of it this way - water molecules are tiny - smaller than a virus. So why doesn't water diffuse right through a shower curtain? Because water clumps together in droplets which are big enough to catch. Same with the virus. Its not full protection (there's medical grade PPE for that) but it provides some cheaply. And some is better than none.
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  2442.  @baldurthewhite6941  You think the virus will go 'Oh, some people are bored with me now, I'd best go away'?
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  2443.  @baldurthewhite6941  Thing is the 'others' who claim to be not worried were first in line to get their shots. Like Mr Murdoch who managed to get vaccinated on the NHS despite being a billionaire resident in the USA. He then had his minions on Fox rant about how bad the vaccine was... The vast majority of celebrity antivaxxers have had their vaccines but are keeping the grift going.
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  2444. @Neria Wolf I'm not the one pushing antivax drivel, am I?
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  2445.  @Andrew-ri5qo  Is a new strain. Plus we don't have any restrictions now. Not a surprise its spreading more, is it?
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  2446.  @Andrew-ri5qo  Ah, so that's what happened to Anne Widdecombe.
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  2447. Well am pretty sure the world isn't flat, so flat earth is clearly not viable information. Do you wish to argue I'm wrong?
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  2448.  @apebass2215  So you think the world is flat then?
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  2449. Albert was a socialist and a very wise man.
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  2450. Because its more entertaining that the presenters?
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  2451.  @adrianbarton4917  You're missing the point. She's talking about maternity stuff on the main video - this involves babies. Babies tend to be a bit noisy. If you're offended that you can't hear the conversation then pray tell how offended you were when this channel spent its first six weeks with student-film-project-level audio.
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  2452. Not sure Stalin was well-known for protecting the environment?
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  2453. Yet your comment name is taken from science fictions most famous ecology-themed story??
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  2454.  @myrescuecats3028  Healthy and happier than us, mate.
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  2455. Right, you do understand that if you have a reservoir of infection and do nothing to limit it then you are likely to get mutations due to the amount of virus percolating in the population? You do understand this happens with many different diseases and is the reason for things like antibiotic resistance?
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  2456.  @Arizmi  Hang on a sec, don't you lot insist covid isn't dangerous? Now you're worried about people dying from it? So is covid bad, or just a cold?
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  2457. @Sundar Pichai You're doing as you're told by billionaires funding giant propaganda campaigns.
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  2458. China actually are very worried about it behind the scenes. This is why they're throwing gigantic amounts of money into nuclear fusion research. They have a pretty advanced Tokamak already running and its right up there with the best the US and UK are doing.
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  2459. Why is it that right-wingers all suddenly started using the term 'virtue signalling' a year ago (check on Google trends if you don't believe me)... is like they're all reading from the same bullet point list or something.
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  2460.  @asteve4914  The fact you had low deaths was due to Arden's policies working. If she'd have done a Boris your whole country would in trauma right now.
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  2461. So you'll keep voting for the old Etonians and they'll keep messing things up and ruining people's lives. Sigh.
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  2462.  @marcusbradley3081  Did labour cull 130,000 people in the pandemic? Did labour lie about Brexit and pretend it wouldn't hit the economy? Did labour spend £37 billion on track and trace? The boot-licking on here is disturbing. You lot must be being paid to post this nonsense.
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  2463. @gavin Culling the British population and starving the poor isn't very liberal.
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  2464. Prince Harry isn't suspected of being a sexual deviant and chum of Jeffrey, is he?
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  2465. You need customers. Do you think people will be happy going to, say, a restaurant who wilfully flaunts health rules?
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  2466.  @Codysdab  That was for a short time in the 70s when there was massive political and economic troubles. The 'free market' system for power has massively failed - and is currently collapsing before our very eyes.
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  2467.  @Codysdab  Its a market one as well. Energy requires giant inputs of capital. If there was a totally unregulated market then companies who invested said capital would be able to knock off smaller companies and crank up prices as much as they like. This happened in Texas with surge pricing during their freeze. You may think that's fine, but the masses won't and people freezing to death can get quite angry. Tho I would agree that we overly subsidise the fossil fuel market then use that to attack green energy for being 'too expensive'.
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  2468. ​ @hachwarwickshire292  Nothing to do with 'left media activists', everything to do with them hiring incompetents to run things. How many vids do they upload a day on Youtube? Four? Five? Maybe half a dozen short videos. Why can hundreds of channels with low budgets do that correctly but this shower messes everything up? If they hired 'left media activists' their bloody Youtube videos would work.
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  2469. Oh no, princess can't cope with a face mask! Even though millions of other men and women have been wearing them at their workplace for decades (medical, semiconductor engineers, clean-room assembly techs, forensic staff, microbiologists, some food factories - and many wearing heavier masks such as fighter pilots, asbestos removal people, industrial painters). Princess is a snowflake and an idiot and is trying to create a mask culture war on behalf of her Tory minions.
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  2470. George probably quite likes having a fan base and doesn't want those fans to be spending their final days with a tube rammed down their throat as they become more winners of the Herman Cain award.
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  2471. Is mandatory to wear a seatbelt. Or have a passport when you leave the country. Or a government license to drive.
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  2472. By mainstream media does he mean his own former boss? Baron Von Greenback?
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  2473. Funny how the Brexit crowd have tried to eradicate all the lies and shady business around the referendum?
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  2474.  @Lungdog  I don't see Germany and France collapsing with empty shelves in their supermarkets.
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  2475. Wasn't it Larry Niven who wrote a story about what would happen to Lois Lane if Superman really had sex with her? Ah, yep, just checked. Was written in 1969 and called 'Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex'.
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  2476.  @AthelstanEngland  Right, so what if they get infected and maybe infect a fellow young person who is vulnerable, like a pregnant lady or a teen with asthma? Is it okay to kill them?
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  2477.  @janie4537  'experimental vaccine' - all vaccines were experimental at one time. People still took them. They still worked. This current group are some of the most well-tested vaccines in history.
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  2478. So remember everyone - in a few months when the Rona is blowing out of control again and you don't want your relatives to be killed off by the Tories.... just tell the papers your family are Alpacas. We clearly care more about them than humans, so...
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  2479. What about the majority of white collar crime?.... or illegal weapons sales?
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  2480. Orange man was indeed bad. His minions attacked their own government in a failed coup. Never in the history of the US has a sitting president screwed up so badly.
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  2481. Spreading covid to pwn the libs. Conservatism 2021.
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  2482. Dan is an absolute brainlet as usual. The CIA has been fighting culture wars since its inception - and this includes manipulating culture in their own country. Go read who funded the 1954 film version of Animal Farm for example (Spoilers: It was the CIA). The CIA was also until recently (and may still be) the biggest publisher in the world. British intelligence does exactly the same. The first British magazine aimed at a specific black audience was called Flamingo, and was published in the first half of the 1960s. MI6 used the magazine to push an anti-communist agenda and to attack the more militant black left of the time.
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  2483. Hence the right-wing media endlessly attacking it.
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  2484. Well we should have been like New Zealand then and we could have had a shorter lockdown, no clogged hospitals, far less deaths and an economy that still works.
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  2485.  @blumie006  Was it in lockdown for as long as the UK? No. The current lockdowns are being eased with relatively little economic fallout. By any measure they have done much, much better than the UK.
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  2486. Farage hates anything good about Britain.
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  2487. 50 dead today, 36000 cases. Cases, deaths and hospitalisations going up. Let's not be a sociopath, hey?
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  2488.  @martinmcdonald4207  Very true.
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  2489. So if you have the Rona and spread it, that's okay even if it removes the freedom from other people by killing or disabling them?
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  2490. Farage has been race-baiting for years.
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  2491.  @cavendish009  Meanwhile the US has been having the weirdest heatwaves in a century. Pat's a bit wrong.
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  2492. Half a million people in France. Gee, why did no one warn them that there's a global pandemic and now may not be the best time to book a foreign holiday? Is not like exactly the same thing didn't happen last summer, is it?
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  2493. No, the children of Britain are currently the lab rats/control group as Boris happily infects them instead of giving them their shots.
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  2494. Who would have thought the government encouraging people to be absolute dickheads (see: anti-mask news stories or the endless tabloid whining about low-paid workers claiming benefits) would mean absolute dickheads would be running round abusing shop workers? Is like they can't admit blame for anything? Is this something they get off Boris? Has he spent so long saying 'Thats not my kid' that they've all copied the truth-avoiding ways of the mop-haired Flump?
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  2495. Well perhaps we shouldn't elect idiots who make cuts to our health service and ignore pandemic preparation plans then?
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  2496. Didn't see anyone complaining about the Tories and their Photo ID to vote law...
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  2497. Define patriotism? It it patriotic to be unhappy about the government killing thousands due to a failed pandemic policy? Is it patriotic to be against Nazis? Is it patriotic to want to keep our environment clean and non-polluted?
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  2498.  @joebloggs3551  So you love your country, but not anyone who disagrees with you politically? Have I got that right?
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  2499. Then you have more rona and more people voluntarily social distancing which means just as many bankrupt pubs and businesses.
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  2500. Because he's not an orange sociopath in hock to Putin? Because he appears to have some sympathy with his fellow humans unlike a certain other ex-president/failed Reality TV host.
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  2501.  @lumpyfishgravy  I'm not the one defending the worst US president, like some overly-fond lapdog, am I?
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  2502. I bet Andrew hasn't heard of 'Operation Legacy'. From the wiki: Operation Legacy was a British Colonial Office (later Foreign Office) programme to destroy or hide files, to prevent them being inherited by its ex-colonies.[1][2] It ran from the 1950s until the 1970s, when the decolonisation of the British Empire was at its height.[3] MI5 or Special Branch agents vetted all secret documents in the colonial administrations to find those that could embarrass the British government—for instance by showing racial or religious bias. They identified 8,800 files to conceal from at least 23 countries and territories in the 1950s and 1960s, and destroyed them or sent them to the United Kingdom.[4] Precise instructions were given for methods to be used for destruction, including burning and dumping at sea.[4] Some of the files detailed torture methods used against opponents of the colonial administrations, such as during the Mau Mau Uprising.[5] When the ruling class is telling you not to look at the past, that's because they're hiding lots of very bad things...
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  2503.  @lizeggar2421  Mate people are eating horse paste and winding up dead of Corona. Any effect of Ivermectin is going to be minimal to non-existent. Five part series here written by a doctor: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=ivermectin
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  2504. A quick point about why Digby is a muppet and an embodiment of everything wrong with British business. In the 70s Bill Gates was a squeaky-voiced Dork who was badly dressed. You wouldn't hire him to work in Walmart, but his skills and acumen shone through his ridiculous appearance and we know how he ended up. Also in the 70s Steve Jobs was a hippy when reportedly smelled so bad they had to give him his own office out the way of other workers. His fellow Apple Genius Woz was a big hairy jolly dude obsessed with pranks and electronics. Again, those guys would be laughed at by the modern snooty British CEO types and wouldn't even get a student placement. But those guys did better than every one of the stuffed shirts who rattle on about accents and clothing and haircuts (Yes, Jones has form here).
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  2505. Well if the antivaxxers had actually not whined about every single method of reducing corona then maybe, just maybe we'd have less corona and wouldn't need to have this conversation?
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  2506.  @soldierroach1805  Meanwhile you're taking medical advice off Facebook memes, a banned nurse whose own son thinks is an idiot, David Icke and Gillian McKeith. Who's the fool here? Ain't me, man.
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  2507. Is weird how you can have constant anti-lockdown protests, spread a deadly virus, harass hospital staff, threaten doctors with death and the government is totally not bothered. But a few hippies block a motorway and its Armageddon? Now, think back to the protests in 2000. Did the Tories come out against the truckers/farmers blocking roads? Nope, they 100% supported it, as did the right-wing media of the time. Ergo Tories should shut up, they're not and never have been sincere.
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  2508. Why, because they're not brainwashed by right-wing media? The students here seem eminently sensible, if somewhat drunk. Which is what students have been like for centuries.
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  2509. Tories currently infecting kids en-masse and their punishment will be nothing as usual. Dead/disabled kids are fine to them - so long as they're dead/disabled working-class kids.
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  2510.  @jankahraskova2206  Ummm, threatening doctors is a really galaxy-brained thing for the anti-vax morons to be doing.
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  2511.  @glendakirby5579  You threatening people Glenda?
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  2512.  @andrewwilliamson9086  You know what wrecks my head tho - they keep saying the vaccine companies are big pharma (true) but then take their information off people making massive amounts of cash hawking dodgy vitamins and supplements. Joe Mercola is the anti-vax king - he's also worth over $100 million from selling dodgy 'products'. Joe Rogan (who admits to being on TRT and HGH) has a share in a supplements company called Onnit. Onnit was recently sold to Unilver for some undisclosed (but big) sum. So Rogan is pretending we just need to exercise and take our vitamins and lucky for us he has a share in a vitamin company!
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  2513.  @ajm1293  Please don't tell me about Ivermectin - it doesn't work. Vitamins also have limited efficacy. Conservative Radio host Phil Valentine was a big pusher of Vitamin D and related stuff. Then got covid. He's currently in ICU with blown kidneys, a wrecked heart and destroyed lungs. Not fat, either. Still got the Rona.
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  2514.  @MrMellowMan  The ex-CEO is Mike Yeadon., He spent most of last year writing articles in the UK press that were massively wrong. Like saying there wasn't going to be a second wave (there was), that we'd reached herd immunity (we didn't), that Covid only kills 1 in 1000 infected (is 10x that). As he's never apologised for any of this drivel then I respectfully suggest he's not worth listening to.
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  2515.  @MrMellowMan  Geez, it's like talking to a brick wall. There was a huge second wave in Britain. We went from 40,000 dead to 120,000 dead in a few months. You're believing Internet drivel as usual, Cahil is especially unreliable with her claim that covid has the same death rate as flu (something pushed by the Great Barrington crowd). Again check your facts, Yeadon is not the ex-CEO of Pfizer. He is lying because someone is paying him to lie. Like all those z-grade celebrities and influencers who suddenly spend all day posting covid denial drivel on social media yet never think to read a book or a textbook or talk to an actual doctor about the subject.
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  2516.  @paulg451  Show me where it works? The studies for it are all failures (one has been withdrawn) and absolutely nobody is recommending it as a treatment outside of a few Trumpist grifters.
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  2517.  @paulg451  Is funny how all the people who whine about big pharma concerning the vaccines also push supplements and Ivermectin-type solutions made by... big pharma.
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  2518. @bob simmonds 'Shown to be toxic and unsafe' - by your Facebook meme friends. We also know the long-term effects of the Rona are pretty darn bad.
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  2519. @bob simmonds Let me point something out, dude. MRna is a natural system - Malone didn't invent it. That's like saying Francis Crick invented DNA. Second, nor did he invent the technology behind MRna vaccines - he did so some work in the 80s but so did lots of others. He now spends his time on Twitter whining and getting his numbers wrong to promote an anti-vax agenda. Third, most vaccine side effects pop up after a month or two. Being worried that the vaccine might be dangerous years in the future is a bit silly when we know how dangerous Covid is now; and covid definitely has long-term effects.
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  2520. @bob simmonds Malone popped up online this year, claimed to have invented the technology, got called out by the scientific community and tried to BS them on his webpage. It is not dishonest to argue that a vaccine designed to last for a few weeks is unlikely to cause problems years in the future. It may happen but the odds are very, very low. Unlike the long-term effects of covid which are rather common. Everyone on Youtube loves me, I'm an icon of cheeriness and throw out facts like the Tories throw out contracts to their mates.
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  2521. @bob simmonds Did I claim to have it? Pretty sure I didn't. You're creating a straw man. You're opposed to the vaccine because you think it might be bad at some point in the future but have no evidence to explain why or point out a mechanism that can cause problems years down the line.
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  2522. Is this the new thing now, British gammons pretending to be all tough and thinking any government policy is totalitarian? Honestly I think we need a good war or something to knock some sense into our population.
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  2523.  Bob Mule  I wasn't. I just find it funny that the gammons wanted lockdowns then as soon as they got their vaccines they decided lockdowns don't work. Meanwhile they're talking like Stalin when they mention the death rate of this thing. Privileged people being clueless. A good war would shake them up a bit.
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  2524. So if your children spread covid to someone elses & end up killing one of their relatives can those parents pay you a visit for some payback?
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  2525.  @grrinc  It really does slow down the spread so is useful. You're betting the future of your child on Internet conspiracy drivel pushed by paid-for weirdos who fancy killing off the peasantry.
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  2526. They don't want to. Much of the wealth in Britain is from inflated property prices. Build more houses for the lads and prices will start to drop. We can't have falling property prices, so...
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  2527. And when they come to get a job?....
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  2528. Did all the petrol stations vanish in the past week Colin? Or is there perhaps other reasons for the current problems?
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  2529. It can grab your phone number off your mobile.
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  2530.  @seesidesummerhouse6112  Nah, the Tories keep getting in because of a North Korean-style press. Problem for them long term is newspaper sales are collapsing and people can't be bothered with right-wing 'news' on TV. Once the left understand the social media war and fightback there the Tories are going to be in a ton of trouble.
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  2531. Who are the 'Commis' Ron? Do you mean the Labour party? Are you saying Starmer is a secret Communist alongside all the other people you think are secret Marxists?
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  2532. Does your life so lack excitement that this is something you're looking forward to? Why not make new friends, talk to a passing dog, write poems about an angry goose?...
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  2533.  @mrsthatcher9815  It costs a fortune to pay for HIV drugs and the 80s were a disaster because vast numbers of people died and required expensive treatment.
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  2534.  @mrsthatcher9815  Dear me. 1) We charge a massive tax premium on smokers AND have laws against doing it in public places. 2) We also tax drinkers & have strict laws on things like drinking and driving. 3) Fat people don't spread the disease of tubbiness to those they share an office with. 4) Druggies also have legal sanctions against them.
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  2535.  @hardworker645  If it clarifies, you don't and I promise you I'm not working for MI6 (well not this week).
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  2536. While I would agree the Chinese government is wretched, they haven't exactly been invading any other countries recently.
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  2537. Bet you never said a word about the Tories voter ID law though...
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  2538.  @BraveCounsel  But no one was protesting about the Voter ID laws and many supported it. You can't support denying votes to people unless they have an ID card then whine about vaccine IDs.
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  2539. The whole point is they don't do it to everyone. If they did you'd have a lot of posh people banged up for drugs and other related crimes. Which won't happen, so instead they go after the 'yoof'.
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  2540.  @stevenaustin8274  I'm white and have never been searched by the police. I did get hassled by them as a teen but as an adult no one has ever searched me from the police or asked to. Which is weird, because I could be a villain or something...
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  2541.  @stevenaustin8274  That's usually the argument on here - 'I've never had corona, is all overblown', 'I've never been racially abused, racism is overblown'. I'm mocking the muppets on here with their 'it isn't real unless it affects me' world-view.
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  2542. 'Flooding the zone with shit' as Bannon said.
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  2543. Weird how the Tories were fully behind the lorry drivers and farmers shutting the country down during Blair's first term? And the Tories also support the anti-lockdown types spreading corona everywhere.
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  2544. By the right funnily enough.
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  2545.  Billy Bunter  Is it a coincidence British culture becomes moribund and stale at exactly the same time we get a Tory government who incessantly attacks young people? A Tory government that regards artists as 'loony lefties'? A Tory government that tries to destroy everything it dislikes like some weird Capitalist pig version of Pol Pot? I think not, matey.
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  2546.  @thanksbob638  Dad's Army reference. Very good.
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  2547. Are the immigrants responsible for putting the price of rural housing up? You know the rural housing owned mainly by wealthy white people who price out the local people which ends up with rural areas having no workforce for the farms etc.?
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  2548. Too much and you end up poisoning mammals. Like us.
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  2549.  Militant Yid  Well as the amount in the atmosphere increases then so do temperatures. This has been known for over a century and wasn't even controversial to people like the ultra-conservative physics genius Edward Teller. It only because controversial when big business decided to fight against the ecologist movement in the 60s and 70s. Farmers may use co2-enriched atmospheres to grow things, but farmers are not the planet and destabilising our atmosphere isn't going to be fun.
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  2550. He's simply an incompetent Tory. Posh school, posh education, never had to work a hard day in his life. Then is lionised by the media who are mainly his old uni friends and their wealthy backers.
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  2551. Spoilers: Transgenderism in middle-age is quite common.
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  2552. You act like the Tory party didn't give us the clean air act of the 1950s and Mrs Thatcher didn't sign up to get rid of CFCs. When threatened with death and destruction the Tories will actually support green policies to save their own skins.
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  2553. At least they're honest. Most companies hire Oxbridge white posh types then pretend they're 'diverse' in their hiring practices so they don't get sued.
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  2554. Colin and Andrew, can I ask a question? Has it come to this, that your careers are based around trying to create outrage over a silly story that no one cares about? Is the pinnacle of journalism in your eyes rattling on about culture wars and hoping to make enough gammons froth to cause ructions in society? Because there's a metric shitton of news you could be covering, but clearly can't be bothered. Haven't read the comments yet but am sure it'll be everyone's favourite book ever and they'll all be super-angry about its non cancellation.
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  2555. So if man can't manipulate the climate, then what would happen if we detonated the 5000+ nuclear weapons in the world?
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  2556. Well there was a study reported in all the papers the other week. Around half a million kids got infected, 25 died, 4000+ were hospitalised and 690 ended up with inflammatory syndrome.
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  2557.  David Ward  Yikes, so even worse. The inflammatory syndrome is now so widespread Great Ormond St hospital have a page up for kids explaining the treatment. Thing that stuns me is the memes people are spouting off about this 'Oh, covid doesn't affect kids'. I can't think of a single disease that won't infect kids if it gets the chance. Sure kids may have different symptoms (Chicken pox V Shingles for example) but pretty much every disease can in theory hit the young due to their developing immune systems. Yet idiots in the media pretend that covid is the first disease (outside of Star Trek - TOS episode Miri) that kills adults but totally doesn't harm youngsters.
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  2558. Has anyone seen Andrew Neil recently? Has he been abducted by aliens? Is he spending his time watching Paw Patrol? Is he secretly on here pretending to be 'Itotallyhatewoke993' ? We need to know, GB News please inform us of what's going on. He's your boss, phone him up and ask what the deal is.
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  2559. What, like white policemen who murder them? That's what we're talking about today.
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  2560. Investors buying up houses and government policy rigging the market to keep prices rising forever. Pretty simple really.
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  2561.  @joleneannturner7785  Imagine simping for a 300 year old ghoul like Murdoch who had his minions on Fox post anti-vax stuff while he was secretly getting his vax done by the NHS in England.
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  2562. No, they don't want Trump back. Only a small percentage of weirdos and psychopaths - including cults like the Moonies, Falun Going, fascist traditionalists and JZ Knight.
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  2563. Protest against what, masks? Really????
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  2564.  @m3ount973  Kids will be fine getting a vaccine. The anti-vaxxers are unhinged. Note your comment 'healthy child' - there's a lot of kids with health issues - you're okay with them getting sick? Dying? You've ticked off all the bingo squares here - anti-vax, claims is harmless to kids, claims its also a hoax, claims its never been isolated (you can get the genome online, so it has). Is like holocaust denial of the 2020s. Just terrifying.
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  2565. Be honest, until Wed none of you even knew what a Koppaberg was. Now they've got millions in free publicity from irate gammons.
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  2566.  @lulusbackintown1478  They're protecting the ruling classes, that's why. This is the reason why, say, ginger feminists get busted and 'anti lockdown' psychos wanting to hang nurses don't. One group (feminists against male violence) do not benefit the ruling class, the other (lets force everyone back to work and ignore the Rona) do.
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  2567.  @nockianlifter661  And yet all this has happened under a Tory government, soo....
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  2568. The voting for a right-wingers then being disappointed he's not fascist enough is hardly a ringing endorsement of your political acumen, man.
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  2569. Yes, very good, you've used the liebour joke. That was quite funny when Tony Blair was in, but is time to get a new joke now.
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  2570.  @harryrambler  Used by Daily Mail obsessed weirdos with no mind of their own, sadly.
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  2571. The hate is also manufactured through social media and manipulation of users. Billions of pounds are spent on doing this around the world.
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  2572. Not really. Here's the thing, as climate gets weirder there will be knock-on economic effects that will hit people who seemingly aren't affected. For example the flooding and typhoons in China have caused supply-chain problems and shortages of certain products. The flooding in Germany has caused economic issues. The fires in Greece and Turkey will affect their tourist businesses. Eventually these problems will mount up and destroy the standard of living of billions. Which means social collapse. Which means more migration. Which means more wars. You can pretend its not a thing, but reality has a way of slapping the deluded around the head.
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  2573. Mate Harry's dad cheated on his gorgeous supermodel mum with a talking horse. His Uncle Andy has the FBI after him. None of his family have been able to stay married (aside from Edward). So y'know, kid from dysfunctional family is a bit dysfunctional.
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  2574. Yes you will. The problem for the Tories is climate change in the UK will result in lots more flooding, and the areas most likely to be damaged will be those nice, conservative rural areas with expensive properties (the likes of Sandbanks in Dorset for example). So the tories will either have to spend a vast amount of cash to save those areas or let those properties become worthless.
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  2575.  @thepatriarchy9161  Fun fact: The Taliban are being helped by the ISI. Pakistan have quite a few nukes. Any nuclear attack (I hope you were joking, but maybe not) would most likely result in nuclear retaliation in some fashion (attack on a port city for instance).
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  2576.  @nonoyorbusness  Why, because I trust scientists more than Internet conspiracy wonks? Lol.
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  2577.  @DavidGetling  Well a degree in PPE got Dido Harding the job of running a large telecoms company. And look how well she did (yikes).
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  2578. most religions are a bit backwards, mate. Sooner have hard-working Muslims than, say, con-men American evangelists for example.
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  2579.  @George-sc4yh  Yeah, that's not a ringing endorsement for Christianity, either mate.
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  2580. What about when men take hormones so they can be stronger than other men?
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  2581. Mate, no one is watching it because its drivel. That's why it won't last long.
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  2582.  @Nada-wc2yt  I do, sadly. Plus I'm here to helpfully fight against disinformation and idiocy.
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  2583.  @Nada-wc2yt  Public spirited patriot. If I was working for military intelligence I'd be doing something cool like hacking Chinese supercomputers and not responding to Daily Mail-addled boomers on here.
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  2584.  @Nada-wc2yt  I stand out a mile because I don't talk like the paid posters on here who post the same Tory Party HQ talking points every day? They're actually people whose job it is to post propaganda but you seem to not notice?
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  2585. Well because a large chunk of the country are antimaskers and seem to enjoy ignoring basic medical advice. So therefore you either have some enforcement or watch lots of people die because a few morons want their way. The vaccine passports are going to be a right old paid, and probably won't even be used much (aside from travel), but enforcement is about the only way to limit spread at the moment.
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  2586.  @JuiKuen  They've clearly stopped a lot of spread otherwise we wouldn't have had a relatively Rona free summer last year.
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  2587.  @odinseyepatch9637  Yes but the morons are loud and the press is full of them. This gives them a disproportionate influence.
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  2588. Yes I remember when they stamped on them quickly and they stopped the spread. Wheras with covid everyone was more worried about going on holiday - then it was too late.
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  2589.  @markiangooley  Yep, squares of 1,2 and 3 as mentioned in the 2010 movie.
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  2590. No it wouldn't. Kids will get their shot and go about their business. With long covid they're doomed to years of misery.
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  2591. Actually that guy admitted to sneaking into Wembley without buying a ticket, doing drugs, binge drinking, the flare incident and... the Sun offered him thousands of pounds for his 'funny' story and the police left him alone. White privilege personified.
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  2592.  @willydoer8730  They didn't. You've been reading misinformation on par with flat Earth drivel.
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  2593. Why not be honest here? Sikora runs a private cancer care company. If the NHS is sold off he's going to be worth an absolute fortune.
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  2594.  @PeacockRhino  It doesn't need selling to Sikora or the likes of Peter Thiel. And last time I checked the 'internal NHS market' was something brought in by Mrs Thatcher (1990 NHS & Community Care act), which made things a lot worse.
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  2595. It is the right's culture war, though. The word 'woke' was hardly used in Britain until Boris was elected in 2019 then suddenly all the papers featured 'anti woke' stories every single day. The Tories are copying the Republicans. Keep you frothing about so and so being (not) cancelled while your pockets are picked.
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  2596.  @MrHammoreds  It actually isn't. Boris and his team ran lots of focus groups and picked up on key terms that annoyed conservative voters. Oddly one of them was fishing rights - and did you notice the hundreds of stories about Euros stealing our fish last year? Did you also notice how those stories vanished the moment the Tories nuked much of the fishing industry? The CRT stuff comes from misinterpreting some college courses from America. There's a whole industry of conservative pundits who whine about it for cash. Probably more than leftists who teach CRT.
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  2597. It has massively reduced deaths but by itself isn't much good if the government strategy is to spread the virus to all the kids for a laugh.
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  2598. @Neria Wolf I can type fast while am doing something else. Not my fault you get offended by rational thought.
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  2599. @Alex McAuliff Well GBN for example barks opinions out and is far more dishonest than the BBC. The BBC can and should be criticised especially for their boot-licking worship of the Tories but the counterpoint to that isn't tedious whining right-wingers - its ACTUAL WELL-RESEARCHED JOURNALISM.
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  2600.  @spannerintheworks1190  Can we hate the Royals as well? They were mates with Jimbo and gave him a Knighthood.
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  2601. Because there's currently 6900 people taking up hospital beds with covid and its going to get worse. Many of these are ICU beds that would otherwise be used for waiting list operation recovery.
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  2602. 1. Is difficult but yes Trump should be in jail for getting DeJoy to remove postal machines and try to suppress votes, alongside his many other crimes. Good job Biden won! 2. The climate is to use a technical term most on here can understand 'a bit fucked'. Pretending it isn't won't change things, nor will moaning about Greta or getting whatever Libertarian parasite on who is willing to lie for cash.
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  2603. Well we could have had masks and self-isolation but oooo no, you lot don't want that, and you also whine about vaccines. So we're basically left with shoving things up your kids nose every day. Good look with any criminal case when the whole world is getting hammered by the same virus.
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  2604. No it doesn't.
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  2605.  @bw9729  What are the medical negligence costs in the US? Spoilers: A shitton more.
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  2606. Can you define woke please?
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  2607. Long covid. Young people won't die but they can (and do) get a whole raft of other health problems with the rona.
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  2608. Maybe just maybe if a big chunk of the population hadn't whined about masks, distancing and lockdowns last year and that same chunk of the population didn't insist we wouldn't have a second wave... well maybe if they'd shut up and let the scientists do their job then Corona would have been consigned to history. But noooo.... and now they're even whining about vaccines. Is like they're pro-Covid and want people to be sickened.
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  2609. Plague island. They're still not too happy about us causing their post Christmas covid wave thanks to our 'kent variant'.
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  2610.  @danad4269  Because a gossip columnist is acting like he knows anything about pandemics. Is a joke and dangerous.
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  2611. Window tax was also around in England and Wales!
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  2612. Wait until there's a covid outbreak in parliament...
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  2613. They're vaccinating kids. That helps. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/by-age/years-11-12.html
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  2614. His original prediction of half a million dead was with no mitigations, I believe it was 50000 with lockdowns. We ended up in the first wave at 40,000+ due to lockdowns which is relatively accurate. But keep telling yourself he's making false predictions while every single prediction of the conservative media has been off & often maliciously so.
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  2615.  @toppyclashofclans8397  They also don't seem to understand that other countries did similar and came up with similar scenarios - hence the worldwide lockdowns last year. If I recall Germany thought 80% of the country would get it in two years if unrestricted and so on.
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  2616. John, there's loads of anti-BBC stuff on xvideos. Just search for BBC there and you'll get hours of entertainment.
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  2617. This is an important question - Boris must have had a ton of intelligence (troop movements, spy satellite pics, drone films, audio recordings of comms etc.) over the past month and access to information before any of the media. Why did he completely ignore it? We need to find out what the generals told him and we need to find out now.
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  2618. Blimey... is like you lot want to kill as many people as possible. You're all suffering from absolute brain-rot and don't see the irony of what you're doing.
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  2619.  @thewizardssleeve119  You're assuming it won't benefit them in any way. It will due to a) Kids get sick with covid b) Kids spread it to adults and c) Kids get long covid. Vaccines will reduce that. Tho we're currently opting for a policy of just infecting them instead.
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  2620.  @NA-gf1zy  Libertarian death cult. The US is currently losing close to 2000 people a day from covid. The vast majority are unvaccinated and mainly Republican conservatives. Killing off your voters indicates a dark agenda, like I said. Secondly, the anti-vax whinging is pathetic now. Every single one of you is spewing out bullet points from creepy right-wing sites and endangering the health of millions and prolonging the pandemic. Please stop it.
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  2621. Do you mean like the British soldiers in Afghanistan who did the same in the past to boost morale? Were the soldiers all lazy slackers then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GktdwlWma0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I-AcSioLXU https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/afghanistan-conflict/call-me-maybe-by-royal-engineers/1859101855001
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  2622. Nige has form. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/24/nigel-farage-uk-gun-control-laws-relaxed
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  2623.  @roseanne9986  Corbyn told you the Tories were going to sell the NHS off. Corbyn had his problems, but he's always been pretty honest - and the Tories haven't. Yes, they're going to destroy the NHS by arguing it fell apart under covid, or the doctors were lazy and need 'private sector discipline'. Fight them. Don't let this happen.
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  2624. To stop it from getting worse?
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  2625.  @DropdudeJohn  Are you sure that you can't stop the transmission of a virus by wearing masks? Would you like to ask those blokes who work in Porton Down if you're correct?
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  2626. Doesn't work. The main study it turns out was a fraud. Oh well.
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  2627. A failed comedian rattling on isn't exactly enlightenment is it?
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  2628. Indeed. Imagine pretending to be a 'patriot' while you've done more to damage the UK than almost anyone in modern history.
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  2629. You mean after their long covid? Like the truckers stuck in Kent at Christmas who spread the 'kent variant' across Europe? Which happened before the vaccinations were deployed to the under 80s.
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  2630.  @ANYTHING-AND-EVERYTHING.  When you have a lot of people and most are okay that still leaves a lot who aren't. Why is there such a need for Conservatives to pretend covid isn't that bad? Is like they're in some sort of a death cult.
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  2631. No you haven't. You're just making that up because of race-baiting fed to you by the tabloids.
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  2632. Anti vaxxers aren't helping.
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  2633.  @liamsmith9654  Because having spoke to several in person they also hate other vaccines, think vaccines cause autism and come up with the same canned lines about 'experimental' vaccines. As if the vaccines of the past weren't experimental, too at one time. The vaccine has been through three phases of testing. It's fine. There may be some side-effects but the odds of them damaging you are low. Your odds of getting a blood clot from the vaccine is less than you getting a blood clot from flying to Australia. Your odds of getting a blood clot from Covid is much, much higher.
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  2634. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors I'm not spreading misinformation in a pandemic am I?
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  2635.  @strawberryfieldsforever3308  Yes they can do testing faster when a) There's unlimited money and b) When there's a raging pandemic so lots of potentially infected people around to test the efficacy of the vaccine. And go look at how many vaccines were developed quickly in the past. With huge success.
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  2636. What about long covid and organ damage? Is it okay to disable thousands of young people so Boris can feel smug?
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  2637.  simon templer  Or the 'herd immunity' groups saying the best way to deal with a pandemic is to let it swirl through the population even if it kills a few million here and there.
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  2638.  @sadwingsraging3044  And how does one save one's business if one's customers are dying because dickheads decided to let a deadly virus spread?
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  2639.  @brother1ray  Its not the flu tho, is it?
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  2640. Well they will be at some point unless you want Britain to become a dictatorship??
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  2641. @Anti Woke You still can't point out anything I've said that was wrong. Did make a mistake before and apologised for it, will happily do so if you can show me anything I need to correct. Gonna have a long wait...
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  2642. We're currently mass-infecting kids which am pretty sure is worse.
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  2643.  @welshwoody217  Can you not read - fake knighted on a Russian TV show. You don't find it odd Russia has been pushing Farage for years?
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  2644. Because he's shit and we've moved on from 1984-esque propaganda.
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  2645.  @simoncolombo6640  Very true and absolutely none of these characters took a blind bit of notice. Is stunning how many were ignorant of what was going to happen.
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  2646. Weird how he wants them locked up for longer but is fine with Boris and Co. killing tens of thousands of his own people?
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  2647. Nothing in any religion against vaccines. This is just clowns making stuff up to pretend they have an exemption.
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  2648. You're trying really hard to deflect blame from your chums in the Brexit Titanic.
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  2649. Not us that's done more damage to the country than the Luftwaffe, mate. 130+ thousand dead. Still riddled with the Rona. Brexit shortages. Tanking economy. Billions give to bent mates of the Tories.
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  2650. I bet he gets it anyway as his parents are clearly idiots.
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  2651.  @dilipshah5882  I can't, I don't cast a reflection.
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  2652. So you're never going to travel again because you might have to have a test for a deadly virus?
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  2653. Based on what evidence? 4000+ were in hospital with 1st generation covid, 690 had inflammatory disorder, 25 died. Delta is worse. Yet we're mass-infecting kids. Nasty.
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  2654.  @smeghead7698  Governments all round the world are setting up long covid clinics and there's a specific set of symptoms so you're clearly wrong.
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  2655.  @smeghead7698  Yes very funny. Lots of people develop severe mental health issues, breathing problems, other neurological dysfunction and there's good evidence it can cause diabetes and strokes.
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  2656.  @Looshfarmer  You seem to have forgotten about Polio which had a similar vaccine effort and was seen as a worldwide horror. Yes, they didn't have 2021-style lockdowns as the technology wasn't there, but people did distance and send their kids away during outbreaks. They even had radio school in some parts of the US when normal schools were closed in an outbreak.
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  2657. That's funny because a lot went home after Brexit and the pandemic but property prices are continuing to shoot up. Is almost as if government policy is to blame and working-class foreigners are the scapegoat.
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  2658.  @ruthbashford3176  Logically most of them will already be living here, and my point stands - its not the working-class immigrants putting up house prices. Its government policy and shady investors. Our population dropped last year but property prices shot up by record amounts - that's government policy in action and nothing to do with a shortage of housing.
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  2659. Is a few refugees mate, calm down.
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  2660. GN News viewers are scared of a few immigrants but think covid and climate change aren't a big deal. The stupid burnss....
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  2661.  @RaferJeffersonIII  Calling me a scaredy cat won't make the problem go away, mate.
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  2662.  @RaferJeffersonIII  Maybe the far left have noticed the climate destabilising? They don't seem to be very good at grabbing power generally so perhaps they're worried about the big issues of the day?
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  2663. Soft fascism is their important thing. They have a problem of Brexit issues, a tanking economy, Scottish nationalism etc. So they're setting everyone against each other to have us all arguing while they get on with their proper job of picking our pockets.
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  2664.  @whatsinaname7740  It looks that way. He'll be emailing her asking for feet pics soon.
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  2665. Meanwhile Boris let the dead pile up and no one here is bothered.
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  2666. He's also very confused as there's a lot of gay dudes around who are gym rats and have high-powered jobs. Do they count as 'alpha' in his pantheon of manliness?
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  2667. Why are you lot so triggered by Lattes ?
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  2668. She's better than Boris. 28 dead as compared to 150,000 in the UK.
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  2669.  @Daniel-vi8ox  You're not free, you're a slave to global capitalism.
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  2670.  @rogermelly1710  If the unvaxxed didn't spread so much nonsense and lies then perhaps people wouldn't be so annoyed by them. But as they spend their time spreading BS and trying to scare other people then they can't really complain when they get criticised.
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  2671. Many small shops stayed open and did decent trade during lockdown, as the bigger stores were either restricted (lots of queues) or closed as 'non-essential'. This isn't a remotely controversial or even political point.
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  2672.  @imedi  Yes, was a bit of a cock-up to be fair Eisenhower made the right call.
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  2673. Let's wait until the end of the year and see how it goes. One months figures don't give a full picture.
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  2674.  @rattusnorvegicus4380  https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid19-vaers-idUSL1N2PB2H3
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  2675. Right, can we have Stewart Lee on discussing these issues, then? No. Thought not.
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  2676. It would have except we have a government that half-arsed it, a press that keeps giving out misinformation and a giant anti-lockdown movement funded by rich ghouls who keep arranging maskless protests in the middle of cities, none of which helps.
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  2677. Ah, so he's cancelling them for pointing out gossip columnists who know zero about sciences are not to be trusted on matters of public health.
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  2678.  @hebber1961  Neither is the Catholic church mistreating, molesting and murdering kids. Can you not get it into your tiny brains that people are more angry about that than statues?
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  2679. Well let's see. Was his conduct and behaviour terrible? Yes. Then criticise. If Idi has been from Kettering or Slovakia he's still worth criticising. So stop with the stupid examples, please.
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  2680.  @willydoer8730  Stop stressing about BLM dude, they're fine and they're not going to steal your missus or do whatever other delusions you're being fed by social media.
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  2681. "I've had it. Sod the kids"
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  2682. If you taxed all the 'communist' journalists you'd have enough money to buy a Starbucks. Right-wing hacks, however... loadsa dosh.
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  2683. Lead balls? oUch.
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  2684. Nothing to do with Disney being greedy and rushing things as opposed to when Marvel did it and planned everything out over the course of a decade?
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  2685. Snoopy is the man. Er, dog.
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  2686. Blaming the BBC for the reporting of the Tory newspapers? Someone's been snorting Lynx again, haven't they mate?
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  2687. 'Chlorinated chicken nonsense'... tell me again what the US rates of food poisoning are compared to the UK... Even adjusted for population you are far more likely to catch summit nasty in the US than here. Trump worshippers are creepy. Definitely an antichrist vibe going on with them.
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  2688. Have you checked the 'face unlock' on your phone lately. What do you think that does?
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  2689. The anti-woke crowd don't do themselves any favours by not being remotely funny.
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  2690. Because he clearly is anti-vax. If the BBC labeled him 'Scottish' that would be fine as he is Scottish. Ditto for the anti-vax thing.
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  2691. They're Tories. Is what they do.
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  2692.  @jondrizzle4554  Hmmm, well methinks throwing money at the NHS, free baseline broadband for everyone and encouraging investment in companies would have got us through last year a lot better than £37 billion on test & trace and cretinous culture wars.
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  2693. Help a guy out here - we subsidise fossil fuels to the tune of trillions - from actual funding and tax breaks to going to war over oil. These subsidies for billionaires are apparently fine and totally not socialism. Then when we get the chance to develop a more decentralised power system with lots of different energy technologies (for all you forrin haters out there - it'll mean less reliance on dark-skinned Middle Easterners) somehow this is socialism and evil. Do you perhaps think that oil companies own these hacks who spout such rubbish?
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  2694. But why is 'non-woke' comedy not funny. I mean Andrew Doyle is meant to be a comedian be he never says anything funny.
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  2695.  @garytallowin6623  But it's just a take-off of earlier 'woke' characters - like Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons novel or, ohhh, how about Citizen Smith from the 1980s.
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  2696. @Dea Harri Or seeing as I'm pointing out that he was standing on the shoulders of comedy giants then maybe you should learn something about the history of satire?
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  2697. The problem is if all those kids decide to do trade jobs then we'll have an oversupply of trade workers and not enough jobs. So brickies, plumbers and the like will see their wages collapse right down.
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  2698. The Lord Jesus was a leftist who would have loathed modern right-wing 'Christians' with a passion.
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  2699. Dan doesn't live in the real world either. This is why he writes endless articles about Harry & Megs and similar nonsense.
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  2700. Let us compare the Nasty under the current two main parties... 1. Labour. Starmer made a joke about Boris. Ang ranted about Tory scum. 2. Conservatives. 130+000 dead of covid, no current policies in place to deal with the disease. Cuts to benefits. Taxes up for the poor. No viable policies for Brexit. Furlough ends tomorrow so unemployment expected to skyrocket. Spends more police time protecting statues than protecting women. Even have police arrest women at a vigil for a dead woman slaughtered by a serving police officer. I think the Tories win here.
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  2701. Dear, dear me.
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  2702. Colin studied English at Cardiff University. Colin is making money off his English degree and not driving HGV trucks like he wants us plebs to do.
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  2703. Is there only one party then? Have I missed something?
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  2704. Well mate, if people hadn't spent most of the year booing and being horrible then the footballers wouldn't have needed to do their thing. The fact that British 'patriots' get so triggered at a simple gesture is reason enough for them to continue doing it.
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  2705. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/13/leading-tory-mp-says-party-must-change-attitude-on-taking-the-knee Lol, the Tories have realised they've messed this up. Haven't you got the memo yet?
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  2706.  @gitaryddcymraeg8816  Odd how politics in sport is fine when its Tory-supporting, though? https://www.newsweek.com/sol-campbell-brexit-arsenal-443595 By the way, Claire Fox was a communist, defended the IRA, joined the Brexit party and Boris gave her a seat in the Lords. So y'know, based on your argument we should ban the House of Lords and the Tory party? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Fox
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  2707. You clearly weren't around in the 80s. Nuclear war fear, AIDS fear, being mugged fear, being murdered by serial killers fear...
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  2708. See: Florida. We do.
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  2709. Because they're not. Just like you're not He Man.
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  2710.  @sw1000xg  Was that the entire Labour party then? No, it was a few idiots. All parties have them.
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  2711. Is the Brexity types destroying the country. Do keep up.
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  2712. You can't count, that's what's going on.
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  2713.  @scottanderson3967  I see humour in the most unexpected places, to be fair.
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  2714. @Neria Wolf You're actually completely wrong. Extract from Dan Hannan's 2016 piece "What Britain looks like after Brexit Daniel Hannan June 21, 2016 "... "It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn’t just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours. The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country. Older industries, too, have revived as energy prices have fallen back to global levels: steel, cement, paper, plastics and ceramics producers have become competitive again."
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  2715.  Dave Doherty  I am suitably endowed, mate. This is why I do not stress about foreigners stealing all our women like most of the posters on here.
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  2716.  @LSD04  Very good. I'll be fine, am more worried about all the people the Tories are going to kill this winter.
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  2717.  @MayorOfBigDaddysPizza  You're going to tell me next that North Korea is an actual Democratic People's Republic. Adolf was a right-winger, mate. Very right-wing. The history books tell you this. Ol' Adolf used to love throwing lefties into Concentration camps and he was very pro-Big Business (even doing a round of privatisations).
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  2718. It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming... Covid's coming home.
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  2719. In the past four years Britain has managed to alienate itself from Europe, alienate itself from the US and has become an international Billy No Mates. Was looking in the paper yesterday and we're supposed to be doing a trade deal with NZ and here's the DM commenters tearing into NZ's covid policies and screaming about it being a communist state. So we're even trying to alienate the few people we haven't annoyed yet. Absolute madness.
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  2720.  @johnnyreggae969  My god, what happened to people in this country? Screaming the EU is anti-democratic is laughable compared to the nonsense Britain is doing at the moment. Have we made any attempt to be more democratic in the past four years? Nope. Trump lost. He is a loser because a) Young people voted against him b) A lot of working-class people voted against him because he delayed covid payments and c) He killed off thousands and thousands of his own voters via covid inaction. British Trumpists are weird. Is like a cult.
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  2721. Yes, they'd sit round while thousands die. Oh hang on, that's what they did.
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  2722. Ivermectin doesn't work. The main study was withdrawn the other day. Did you not get the memo?
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  2723. @Retro Picker78 Google 'Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns'. Lots of mistakes in the study which seems really amateurish.
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  2724. Yes by Tories who got the plebs to vote for Brexit so they could asset-strip the country without anyone being able to stop them.
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  2725.  @heronsdoor4658  He's talking about carers allowance, which I have experience of in the past n- benefit paid to someone looking after a seriously ill relative. Not much money for a lot of work.
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  2726. Can't you get an income support top-up? Please get some advice from a welfare rights place. I was in a similar position a while back, and holy shit it's hard work.
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  2727. You mean the march where they wanted to hang nurses? That march?
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  2728. And you base this on?.... Seems like most countries in the world are vaccinating kids.
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  2729. They didn't. Have you been watching the X-Files again?
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  2730.  @imwithstupid00011  If it helps Nokia's are just as easy to track and SMS messages are all stored unencrypted on servers which makes them less secure than whatsapp.
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  2731.  @angrybrit7331  Mate I'm not the one working for the Tufton street types. Look at the mindless comments that litter these articles, most of which appear to be cut and pasted from lists of 'talking points' and feature zero independent thought. Let's put it this way; if youtube gave all their GBNews comment data to the media for anlysis I'd bet you a brand new Macbook that most of the comments come from a few IP addresses via paid posters.
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  2732. So the antivaxxers/maskers/lockdowners should all be jailed for helping the Chinese bioweapon to spread. Simple as that.
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  2733. No they're not. Stop being racist.
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  2734.  @phillipgreer4875  No it wasn't. I distinctly remember my Mother getting appointment letters in the 80s asking if she wanted to pay to get a private room. The rot has been ongoing for a long time.
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  2735. No one. Its because we don't have enough places this year so the Tory press is trying to put working class kids off going. Do you seriously think Annabel and Portia from Surrey are going to ditch their Oxbridge PPE course to become hairdressers or drive a bus?
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  2736.  @oswaldmosley4315  And right-wingers get very triggered and angry and often scream racism. Is quite funny, really. Lighten up, dudes!
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  2737. Then you're a hypocrite.
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  2738. What about kids who want to get it then? A lot of teenagers want their shots because they've seen the potential horrors of covid. Are you saying we should ignore their wishes?
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  2739. Temporary set. Clearly not finished, as we can see with all the video/audio issues.
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  2740. Not really. We require accurate information. If a doctor says 'vaccination helps' and Dave from the pub says 'Vaccination is full of nanobots, I read it on Facebook' then the doctor's educated opinion is worth more than Daves.
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  2741. While you had an amazing career as a paid youtube comment poster?
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  2742. 'Natural immunity is a good thing.' - unless you die of covid, or get lung damage or get inflammatory syndrome or get neurological problems...
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  2743.  sphaget   Is disturbing what gets classed as comedy these days. I'm funnier than him and I'm not even that funny.
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  2744.  sphaget   Ooo, will he be complaining about political correctness and feminists? Just like he does every week!
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  2745.  @dirkvanschalkwyk1919  Am not behaving like a troll, am merely dishing out some facts and helping to diversify the discussion. Aside from crap jokes you'd be hard pressed to find anything troll-like I've said. If I've made any factual mistakes then feel free to correct.
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  2746. In what way?
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  2747.  @Enl1thened1  CO2 as atmospheric heating factor has been known since 1896. https://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf
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  2748.  @Enl1thened1  You may have heard of Edward Teller. Very Conservative cold war mad genius who designed the first hydrogen bomb. In 1959 he gave a talk to the American Petroleum institute explaining that fossil fuels would heat up the Earth. Teller knew a fair bit about atmospheric physics and explained in his talk why CO2 has a disproportionate effect on heating. Yes there are other greenhouse gases but we're not pumping 80 billion ton of them into the air every year.
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  2749.  @Enl1thened1  No, is 10 tonnes per person. Volcanoes emit a few billion a year. If a volcano puked out 80 billion ton (a Thera/Tambora-sized eruption) we'd be sitting round in the dark watching our crops fail. There's been work done on measuring volcanic sulphur dioxide. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2018.00214/full
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  2750. Imagine voting for Boris then thinking is Labour causing all your problems...
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  2751. How many children lost their nans or dads or aunts from the Rona? Do you not understand kids are already involved and we need to protect them?
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  2752.  @nickdeth24  No, the right-wing media memes say is a signifier of compliance. Is basically the same attack they did on Colin Kaepernik a while back. Most normal people think they're a useful way to reduce illness.
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  2753.  @andrewcheadle948  I only hide behind sofas when Dr Who has a particularly scary alien on.
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  2754.  @angelahayes24  You're really determined to spread this virus, aren't you?
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  2755.  @olafbloodaxe5931  For sure he will be. Absolute brainlets on here tonight.
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  2756.  @jamesperrie1393  Not really. They need customers. Well, some of their customers are dead of the Rona, others sick, others unemployed and others not taking the risk so not going to these places. Add in Brexit trade disruptions and these places are gonna need help or most will be bankrupt, even with no restrictions.
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  2757.  @davman115  Nuclear is ultimately a better solution but my point stands. If you think nimbys living in £800 grand houses are going to be happy with a new Sizewell up the street then you don't know Nimbys.
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  2758.  @THOMASCOLTON1  Diverse energy sources are eminently sensible.
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  2759. No it isn't. Is culture war drivel pushed by the right wing who have decided anything they don't like is 'woke'. For example they've whined about the new Bond film (which we haven't even seen yet) for being 'woke' because there's a black female agent in it. I don't recall anyone whining that a View to a Kill was 'woke' for featuring a black female villain.
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  2760. A nothing burger which killed more people than the Blitz and disabled tends of thousands and is still killing more than breast cancer does.
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  2761.  @khattlambert2312  Wait until you find out how much cocaine the English get through...
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  2762. This is why we need to tax the rich. They use a disproportionate amount of resources and get away with more pollution. So tax them properly. But of course that's not going to happen, this is spin along the lines of 'Leftie greens want all these mad things and YOU'RE PAYING FOR THEM'.
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  2763.  @gdfggggg  Is Conservative comedy. They have one joke. Well, two if you include the one about identifying as an attack helicopter.
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  2764.  @zedddddful  Yes thats why we have vaccinations. I bet none of your friends or family have suffered from smallpox, or the plague or TB...
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  2765. Tories always say that, and then they destroy the industry they're talking about leaving consumers to pick up higher prices and worse service. See: Water, gas, telecom, council services, school dinners, the post etc.
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  2766. Coronavirus likes this!!
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  2767. Hello puddings, a little thread here on why suddenly everyone started getting into a panic about 'woke' just over a year ago... https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1402267828024221707 So y'know the next time the Express or GBNews or the Mail has a hate target of the week, please remember you're being played and taken for idiots by a groups of rich people who hate Britain.
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  2768. Well GB News, your repulsive daily attacks on those poor people have now borne fruit. Multiple deaths which you will no doubt exploit for clickbait videos where you pretend to be concerned. Every single one of you on this channel should be deeply ashamed and resign from the media forever. Bonus covid denial as well - another crime you should all be prosecuted for. Absolute shower of sociopaths.
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  2769. This channel is an example of the 'two minute hate'...
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  2770. Umm, they did the same last year with the 4th July. Remember those nerdy medical types saying that encouraging everyone to pack out restaurants then go on holiday was probably not wise? And remember them getting laughed at by the Tories? Then remember what happened next...
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  2771. He's not actually a Sir, he's a Cee u Next Tuesday.
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  2772. Conspiracy drivel. Right-wing meme programming funded by shady types.
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  2773.  @phillipsmiley5930  Well if we'd have not screwed up constantly we wouldn't have had to panic for 400 days. See: New Zealand.
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  2774. That's why the name GBeebies is more apt.
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  2775. No, many are living under despair as they see society collapse into idiocy around them. They're hoping for a better way before humanity is done & I totally respect that.
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  2776. Voting Tory does that to people.
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  2777. Because you might spread it to a child, or spread it to an adult who can't have the vaccine due to, say, being immunocompromised. You may also catch it and are far more likely to die than a vaccinated covid sufferer.
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  2778. Brexit not helping there, mate. People were told, but noooooo, is all a lefty plot.
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  2779. Mectin kills worms, not covid. Vit D is useful but clearly not a covid destroyer else the likes of Brazil, Italy and Spain would not have had many infections.
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  2780. Too many boomers on Facebook who want to lecture kids on the science they learnt from memes & right-wing politics. The kids are bored with all that nonsense.
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  2781. A lot, lot, lot fewer than died of Corona.
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  2782. Dunno, but when you have a norovirus breakout at your local restaurant they tend to shut it down and make sure everything is super clean before it reopens. So y'know...
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  2783. No they won't. That's just stupid. That's like saying you need a new driver's license every week.
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  2784.  @ChB7124  I don't remember many mass celebrations in the UK. There were also restrictions even in Saudi as they limited who could attend the Haaj.
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  2785. Yes they'll be coming in Britain due to us mass infecting the kids in September, then it'll spread to the anti-vaxxers and people who are medically vulnerable (like pregnant women). Boris will insist no lockdowns, the papers will support him, then we'll have one anyway once things really fall apart. See: Last Christmas.
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  2786. No they don't. A recent report had the number at around 25 dying per half million infected (pre-Delta). There were also 4800 in hospital and 690 with inflammatory disorder. The anti-vaxxers are literally betting a deadly virus mass-infecting kids is a good thing. They're very, very wrong. And it will haunt us for decades.
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  2787. It's not news. Is filler.
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  2788. They don't. The Tories do and have spend months calling our footy heroes Marxists. Tories like whoever gives them money even if it means culling the population.
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  2789. Who is right about pretty much everything.
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  2790.  @actonman7291  Is not her fault you'd rather ignore science and pretend everything is great.
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  2791. There's not going to be a gammon revolution, mate. The anti-lockdown anti-vax types are in a tiny minority.
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  2792. She's the best they can do. Could you see a proper American celebrity coming on GB NotNews?
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  2793. You do know in the 1950s we had to bring in laws in the UK because we churned out so much muck from industry that it was killing people and changing the local climate? All those gloomy smogs and horrid winters made far worse by the stuff we were belching out into the air.
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  2794. She's a journalist, that's their job. Has anyone mentioned how Wooten was horrid towards Caroline Flack before she died? How he exploited their friendship?
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  2795.  @joycegibbs5267  To report the news, unlike the shower on this channel who pretend opinion and propaganda is true.
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  2796. There's currently hundreds of British kids in hospital with covid. Sure, they stand a low chance of dying, but its still not a nice thing to put them through, is it?
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  2797.  @oswaldmosley4315  So you don't want black people? Are Australians okay? Or Jews? Or Indians? What multi-racialism are you opposed to?
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  2798. "Wasn’t it so that they could go on holiday and not have to quarantine on return" - no mate, it was so they could reduce the chances of DYING from covid, and limit the chance of them spreading it to their relatives. It was also because the vaccinated get less sick less often so they can actually do work instead of going off sick with it. If you really think the vaccine was so Karen can go on holiday then you're further gone than I thought.
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  2799. Is your definition of hero 'someone who doesn't believe in vaccines during a global pandemic'?
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  2800. Is summer, they have parks to run round in.
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  2801. Thing is I remember when the first vaccine tests were being done it was pretty well known that there would be a booster shot sometime. This isn't some secret conspiracy, it was known from the beginning.
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  2802. Ask the hospitals in Florida. Or India. Or Indonesia. Or for that matter the NHS where close to 5000 people are currently in hospital with it.
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  2803.  @georginasheldon7529  Yes, everyone is inventing a giant conspiracy and you're the only one who can see through it... hmm...
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  2804. You all talk the same. This has to be paid promotion? Are you all sitting in a Chinese click-farm writing this nonsense?
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  2805. Mate the Tories keep insisting being called a Gammon is the worst racial slur ever. Tories are the absolute kings of whining, self-absorbed, victim culture.
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  2806. Yep, the ironic thing is that in the past meat was a luxury and the likes of Mark's grandparents would have only had it maybe once or twice a week. Their diet would have been mainly plant-based (potatoes, bread, biscuits, veg, fruit) with some dairy.
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  2807. The antivaxxers were pretending to be vegans last week. Are they all going to pretend to have a needle phobia now?
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  2808. You've never been to a club, have you? Because you've clearly never seen the staff ask for ID or turn people away for wearing the wrong clothes or search customers going in for drugs or weapons...
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  2809. Test less to cover-up Boris' shocking record of screw-ups. Really getting the feeling we're going to be back at square one in a few months because idiots in power believed idiots in the tabloids feeding them gibberish. And for anyone grinching - you do lots of tests to determine how the thing is spreading and to see how you can reduce outbreaks. It doesn't matter if most people are okay, knowing how many are infected can help you nip kick-offs in the bud. If you don't test and only count deaths then what happens if there's a large outbreak? "Lots of people are dead. Sorry about that." "How come it blew up without us knowing? Why did you let it spread?" "Well, whoops, we didn't do any tests. Lol. Hehe."
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  2810. Ummm, you were told in 2020 it was 5x more dangerous (even Trump admitted it to Bob Woodward) than the flu, caused long-term problems and that's why everyone and his dog locked down. It isn't my fault you paid attention to tabloid headlines instead of actual news.
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  2811.  @toffee20  As opposed to the millions of dead people from the virus?
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  2812.  @irishandscottish1829  No, I think it's very simple. Tanking the NHS to privatise it is criminal and there's zero chance of cancer patients getting 'the most successful treatment' when they do that. See@ America. Risking them in a corona-infested hospital is also criminal. Doctors know this and doctors and doing their best to ensure it doesn't happen.
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  2813.  @jamesh5752  No, but I'm familiar with people who had cancer treatment in the past year.
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  2814. @Down With Woke Is more shit-tier propaganda I'm railing against. The echo-chamber here is creepily Fox News like and will end up having the same effect if left to fester.
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  2815. Yes it does, but mass-infecting people over the summer will ensure it doesn't.
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  2816. Yeah, but keep posting those selfies! Am sure they'll be totally safe and not used to train AI facial recognition systems. What? You love dressing up and posting selfies in costumes and makeup? System can't analyse you because you always look different... hmmm... I know, why not post 'make-up free' selfies as a gesture of girl power! Thank you. Oh, you wear a mask and think that stops the cameras from locking onto you? Well it does, but guess what? We're anti-mask now! Masks are oppression! Take them off - and smile!
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  2817. Yes! Everyone needs to know this. If these people get away with it they'll make sure every election is rigged forever.
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  2818. What, Blair got Mind Your Language cancelled in the 80s, did he?
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  2819. @SelectiveShinku Did I say anything wrong?
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  2820.  @seanpidduck  Thats the Barrington thing and you know it wouldn't work. Mass-infection instead of vaccines means lots of death and lots of long covid. It would be a pyrrhic victory. We beat the plague and smallpox with vaccinations (as well as things like quarantine & modern medical treatment). That's where the term 'herd immunity' comes from - mass vaccination. Not mass infection.
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  2821.  @sn00pgreen  US Conservative radio host Phil Valentine thought that, right down to the vit d stuff and vaccine denial. He's currently in hospital on oxygen with covid. Phil's promised to get his vaccination soon....
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  2822.  @adammforrester-smith2518  Why? Do I operate at too high a level for your teeny tiny brain to cope with?
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  2823.  bob gees  How can I be dumbo when a) I am not an elephant. b) I cannot fly. and c) I read books and don't get my news from memes - unlike most on here.
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  2824. Not really an open discussion if a news Channel is pushing antivax nonsense for clicks.
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  2825. Cool, but a lot of the world isn't the same - think Siberia's heatwaves, the incessant flooding in Europe and the record heat waves in the US.
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  2826. Spoilers: The wealthy have had - or will have soon - their kids vaxxed to protect them. Your kids however can take their chances with the Rona.
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  2827.  @DropdudeJohn  Then you would imagine wrong. https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1411419835465093125
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  2828. And can you also control what policies other countries enact concerning travel?
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  2829. Why not buy a TV license? Or is tax-dodging somehow cool with Conservatives?
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  2830.  @richardschofield2201  If you own a TV then you need a license. Bit rich to talk about scrounging when you've admitted you do exactly that?
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  2831. Quick bit of info: We vaccinate kids against Rubella despite it being a relatively low risk for them. Rubella is very dangerous to certain groups, particularly pregnant women and statistically children are likely to be interacting with pregnant woman quite often. So we give 'the jab' to protect adults from a disease which is little more than an annoyance to most kids. Hence we can do the same with covid (more dangerous than Rubella) and protect both adults and youngsters. Of course anti-vaxxers can hope that mass infection will work out well, but it won't. And the parents exposed by the anti-vaxxers idiocy will not be happy. The likes of Oliver will be getting sued for sure.
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  2832.  @AJ-xr5tj  And doesn't catch the Rona & kill any pensioners in the meantime.
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  2833. I had a Hungarian Taxi driver a couple of years ago. Great lad, spoke excellent English and he asked me what I liked about Hungary. Was going to say porn stars, but ended up with 'all those great scientists' instead.
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  2834. Not me. I fully favour it if and only if its applied to everyone. Michael Gove - let's search him and see if we can find any drugs. Prince Andrew - let's search him in case he's arranging some dodgy sex thing. GB News presenters - let's search them and check they're not drinking driving. Apply it to everyone and fair enough. Apply to just the groups you don't like and then, well nothing will change.
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  2835.  @tobias9859  Dear me. a) It's not the flu. b) Long covid is very much a thing. c) We have no idea how long natural immunity lasts, especially as the British government said around 1% of cases are reinfections.
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  2836. Do you mean the people who understand science and not the muppets quoting the same half-dozen bullet points they've been quoting for over a year? i.e. the people who were right vs the ones who got absolutely everything wrong?
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  2837. No it isn't. The Tories whole voting base is small business owners. The Tories may be psychopaths but they generally don't kill their own financially.
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  2838.  @alexander92179  Is hard to know who is joking on here. So many types who'd have been waving the flag for old Adolf if they were around in the thirties.
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  2839.  @jamiebrooks3864  I'm not shutting anybody down, merely pointing out nonsense when I see it. If I was around in the 30s would have been the same cheery socialist I am now which would have made me especially worried about fascists (see: Orwell and Spanish civil war).
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  2840.  @jamiebrooks3864  I've been on here for a while and read commenters wanting to shoot immigrants, run over protesters, deport everyone, sink ships with fleeing children... I've also come across commenters defending the murderer of Jo Cox and who constantly suck up to nasty fascists. If it quacks like a duck, mate...
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  2841. Cool, then you'll also have to live with the economic devastation you'll get, because the Rona makes people sick and that will affect businesses. They don't even have to die, just have enough of them needing weeks off & hospital treatment and companies will start to fall apart. Additionally customers will stay away once word gets round. Why is this so hard to understand?
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  2842. Didn't the right try to cancel 'The life of Brian' (Spoilers: Yes)
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  2843. @Down With Woke Mary Whitehouse and the Tories were, shall we say, intimate at the time.
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  2844. Cold winters so lots of heating going on and large vehicles clearing snow. Plus bigger houses.
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  2845. 3+ million dead from the Rona. Do be quiet.
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  2846. Yes her job is to create outrage in the audience with her amazing hot takes. She's got previous form - used to work for a firm associated with Cambridge Analytica. She's a very skilled political propagandist who knows how to manipulate the masses.
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  2847. If he's 16 he can get it himself.
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  2848. Is this an anti-vaxxer violence thing?
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  2849. The propaganda machine is the Tory party playing both sides. This is why so many 'anti-lockdown' types appear to be Tory journalist close to Boris - Pearson, Hartley-Brewer, Young - and also why the government keeps pushing policies that are baffling the rest of the world but are in lockstep with what creepy libertarian think-tanks want.
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  2850.  @mcirelandosharma7411  Medicine disagrees with you. There's millions of people in this country contributing who in earlier times would never have made it out of childhood. Stop being fascist, please.
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  2851.  @mcirelandosharma7411  'These things have been in place nearly 2 years now and have made not a hint of difference to elderly death stats for covid,' - let's see - cases per day in the UK high, lockdown, cases fall precipitously. Restrictions end, cases high, no masks and cases... stay just as high for months. The only reason there's not corpses piled up in every hospital is because of the vaccines doing their job. So clearly distancing and masks do have an effect.
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  2852.  @mcirelandosharma7411  Restrictions & masks helped massively. Plus the summer with more people outside despite few large sporting/music events. Would totally agree about corruption with people's digital data, but so long as you have militant antivaxxers spreading misinformation then there's going to be pressure to verify who's vaccinated. And sadly in our modern society that's usually done through digital means.
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  2853.  @joebloggs3551  Blimey, I have awakened a sleeping Tory. Austerity, partly, many benefits were massively cut and that caused a whole load of problems. Or did you forget about those stories featuring dying cancer patients being listed as fit for work? Covid - definitely. They screwed up the PPE, locked down too late (we could have had a few shorter lockdowns instead of two long ones), gave massive bungs to their mates and now have dropped restrictions while cases blow up again. Absolutely no reason for it to be that bad and anyone excusing them is a psychopath. Also note: Is hard to get cancer patients treated if the hospitals are riddled with covid. It is also hard to do operations if your limited supply of ICU beds are clogged up with people with the Rona. Also note: If you care about people losing their jobs then perhaps don't support Tory benefit cuts? Ditto also for mental health.
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  2854. Dose you absolute muppet. Too much and a) Human's can't breathe properly and b) Plants will start to die off.
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  2855.  @mga59xbd38  Your statement is contradictory. If greenhouse gases don't cause climate change then what was causing the climate to change in the past? Perhaps you should read up on the history of climate change and understand that Arrhenius worked out the CO2/atmospheric heating thing in the late 1800s (Eunice Foote did similar research earlier). To simplify for the brainlets here - look at the moon. It is roughly the same distance from the sun as the Earth. But its surface temperature veers from around - 120C to +120C during the day - the moon is both hotter and colder than anywhere on planet Earth. The reason the moon is like this is because it has no atmosphere. Earth has an atmosphere so heat is absorbed and moved around (via winds and the oceans) which ensures a more even distribution of heat and the ability for life to exist. But the level of heat absorbed is dependent partially on carbon dioxide levels. Push them up and more heat is held and you get problems like we're having now.
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  2856. Not as much of a money pit as the US healthcare system.
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  2857.  @paulnewman9275  Your numbers are idiotic. Recent British report - half a million kids with covid... 25 died. 4800 were in hospital ill. 690 with multisystem inflammatory disorder. The report did not even cover long covid. Yes the odds are kids dying of it are low (thankfully) BUT they still get sick and we have no idea how serious the long covid issues will be and (Spoilers) neurological issues appear to be common.
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  2858. No do those numbers for last January. Covid was over 1000 a day. The whole point is so we don't get hit with covid again and can therefore devote hospital capacity to everyone else.
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  2859.  @jesperthorsson3586  Have you met anyone recently with Smallpox? Why not? Could it be that we eliminated the virus? 'other' - covid isn't flu. We could suppress it to the point where it fades out, as happened with Sars. Tho we might have gone past the point of no return, there.
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  2860.  @MickeyMouse-ul2zs  Well as Umberto Eco was one of the most famous novelists of the 20th Century then methinks you're wrong. 'By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.'
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  2861. Blimey, this is getting ridiculous. You lot have to have 'Tik tok nurses' on your bullet points to post tonight. There were a few nurses dancing for a laugh to boost morale during the pandemic. They were not in ICU or dealing with covid. You can look on youtube and find soldiers dancing in Afghanistan and Iraq to boost morale. Yet I don't hear anyone demanding the military is sold off?
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  2862.  @ianwood423  They really were. Sad that some supposedly British people are so bereft of humanity they think healthcare workers are con merchants - while those same 'British' people worship a marshmallow-headed liar and his coterie of psychopathic aristocrats.
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  2863. They hate e-scooters almost as much as they hate immigrants.
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  2864. Every time black people have some sort of civil rights improvement the establishment insists that the black people are secretly Communists and its all a plot against white people. Perhaps Inaya could read some of her own history and look at what they said about the Reverend King, for example?
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  2865. True. But that's why it'll never happen - if you start busting middle-class types for drugs/concealed weapons etc. they'll be on the phone to their lawyers and the law will be changed.
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  2866. Funny how they dredge this up while not asking why white working-class kids do much worse than white middle-class kids, despite middle-class kids having large numbers of non-white youngsters in their classes. It couldn't be a Tory spin to cover up their hatred of the 'underclass' could it? Why, I think it could!
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  2867. Gov fiddling figures as usual.
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  2868.  @hmq9052  Kids not vaccinated so that won't happen unless you infect another 3-4 million kids.
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  2869. Gee and look whats happened to the Rona. From 2000 cases a day to 40,000.
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  2870. Do you think if the NHS vanished the companies would keep prices the same? Or jack them up to US levels? Because I'm pretty sure it'd be the latter.
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  2871.  @chrisquail4313  I am indeed, spreading joy and facts to GB News's odd little fanbase.
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  2872. Because it's not freedom while thousands are getting infected every day. It isn't freedom for sick people, or for clinically vulnerable people, or for unvaccinated teens, or for struggling healthcare workers or for anyone with half a brain who can see Lockdown 4 heading for us like a charging bull.
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  2873. @Arthur Daley Yes, sit back and mock while your own people die. Ladies and gentlemen: Conservatism 2021.
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  2874. @Arthur Daley Isis only kill a few dozen Brits every year or two. Should we therefore shut down the anti-terrorist units to save a few bob? I mean people die all the time, so who cares? <sarcasm for anyone asking>
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  2875. Us lefties hated Blair for the war and we had mass protests. But.... he had massive support including from most of the Tory party.
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  2876. "realise Brits must be able to make our own decisions this winter" - Dan, you're not actually a Brit, are you? Why not comment on the success of your homeland which has had hardly any deaths and kept their economy running better than the imbeciles who you support in the UK.
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  2877. Nah, no one cares about him. He's trying to stir things up to get some publicity.
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  2878.  Champagne SOYcialist Keeps Getting Barred  I am not a user of the ganja, but assuming taxing it was the entire point. Give out safe product and the taxpayer gets the cash, not your local drug dealer??
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  2879. 'your country' - so what country are you from?
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  2880. Who Dan wholeheartedly supports.
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  2881. Britain had one case on Jan 23rd 2020....
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  2882.  @johnlewis9158  What do you think Youtube is, mate? Pick an answer: a. A social media site with lots of two-way interaction and communities. b. A special pipe that female sheep like to hide in. c. A giant website devoted to Hugh Laurie.
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  2883. And yet the right provides no alternative culture - they just sit round and whine about PC gone mad. Is almost as if the right aren't sincere and just wish to cause a culture war.
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  2884.  @richardshortall5987  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legion_of_Decency
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  2885. I have a good idea! Remember a few years ago when that nice Emma Willis did a show where she worked in a hospital delivering babies? Well... how about all the 'covid sceptic' TV presenters get sent to a covid ward and (with permission, obviously) have to spend three months working there? Then they can tell us how watching people have tubes rammed down their throat or have their lungs fall apart or die of heart failure due to covid affected them. Bonus: They don't have to wear masks!
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  2886. Wait until you find out how much your phone already knows about you...
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  2887. Empty for now. Cases have gone from 2000 a day to 8000 and still increasing. We went through the same last summer. Press: "Cases have dropped, end restrictions now!" Gov: "Ok, we'll end most restrictions". Few weeks later... Gov: "Oh, cases are shooting up. We might need restrictions or people will die." Press:"Lol, load of nonsense. Won't happen". Few weeks later... Gov: "Lockdown, bitches." Press: "Oh. All those dead people. What happened there, then?"
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  2888. Let me explain the mask thing. People wouldn't bother but Corona is currently blowing up. People don't want to spread corona. Meanwhile anti-maskers are gleefully going on about not wearing masks and how covid is overblown and we know what's going to happen.... ... massive covid infections and a country grinding to a halt again. So Neil, for once in your life please grow up and have some common sense.
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  2889. @Mickey Mouse And yet none of these 'friends' ever give their stories to the newspapers or sue the government thus making themselves tons of cash. Hmmm.
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  2890.  @suttonelms1  Really, so all these 'independent' media everyone quotes on here couldn't put a story together? Or foreign media? You could make a fortune if half of your friends are being euthanised by AstraZeneca.
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  2891. @Mickey Mouse So why don't they? Are you telling me thousands of dying of said vaccines and somehow the only people who know this are social media conspiracy types? Doesn't quite make sense, does it?
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  2892. @Mickey Mouse I had a look at some of the yellow card pdfs and they appear to be filled with generic medical categories unrelated to vaccines (like drug overdoses, broken bones, teething in children). It looks like unprocessed data to me. Am sure there are some issues with a few people but its not remotely as dangerous as the Rona.
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  2893. There are thousands with long covid, many of whom are disabled. Are you okay with disabled kids so long as they don't die? Do you understand how much money its going to take to care for thousands of extra disabled kids for years?
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  2894. Can we change England's name to Grand Fenwick?
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  2895. Angry older woman rants about angry young woman. Tho young woman is angry because she sees the adults ruin the world her fellow youngsters are growing up in. While older woman is angry because she's paid to be.
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  2896. Because antivaxxers are idiots who keep pretending to be oppressed?
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  2897.  @rhyfelwrDuw  I had an argument recently with antivax associate who was screaming at me about how terrible the corona vaccine was. So I asked if she was antivax. No, she insisted she's pro-vaccine, but just doesn't like the Corona one. Cool. Asked her if she'd had her flu shot. Got told to "F*** off" and had the phone slammed down on me.
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  2898. No one is saying they are. But when ordinary people parrot bigoted stuff fed to them by the right-wing press then is fair to call it out.
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  2899. Mass death, mass disability.
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  2900.  @andrewdrummond8576  Married with children's main character Peggy was revealed to have the maiden name Wanker. They had whole episodes about the Wankers from Wanker county. In America it was just a funny word. In Britain it was seen as a bit offensive, oh no, best put that on late so the kids don't see it (Even though Bill Oddie had a cameo in a memorable story about the Bundy's coming to England). Americans also have 'fanny' to mean bottom, so the likes of Allo Allo (with Madame Fanny)'s humour would fly right over their heads, though more Conservative Americans would probably be horribly offended by Are You Being Served and all the Pussy jokes. Moral: Language can and does change and sometimes performance venues may take that into account. That's why no one these days would called Wooten a Poofter whereas it would have been perfectly normal in, say, 1975 to do so.
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  2901.  @AncientYouth64  Mate in the 80s they made the same argument about HIV - 'oh it only affects homosexuals, sex workers and drug addicts, so why worry about those people'...
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  2902. Hey Dan, do you also remember there was a huge movement who argued that HIV wasn't real/wasn't really a problem/could be dealt with naturally via healthy living? Those same people argued that nasty big pharma treatment was a scam, as well - just like the pro-covid crowd which you are a member of. Ask Andrew Neil about this. He got shredded by Nature magazine for pushing HIV denialist stuff in the 90s.
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  2903.  @benamos2878  Yes, that's my point. Is a very dangerous disease which people played down in the 80s because it was hitting those they thought 'deserved it'. There was also a movement to pretend HIV wasn't even a real threat and they thought the victims of AIDS were dying because they were all drug addicts or deviants.
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  2904.  @jmlaw8888  But why doesn't their immune system fight off HIV in the first place before it can be damaged? Clearly the immune system isn't as powerful as the antivaxxers argue.
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  2905. Where did the Queens yacht money come from? Or the MPs expense money?
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  2906. Churchill was actually a liberal MP for years and his wife was a Liberal all her adult life and was hostile to the Tory party's values.
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  2907. Wait till you find out about smartphones.... Or the NSA Or what GCHQ have been up to since, well, the war.
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  2908. Someone else has just said exactly the same. It was nonsense then and is nonsense now.
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  2909. Yep, Wooten is an absolute clown who has a hate topic of the day he rants about.
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  2910. I know man, I was writing to the Queen the other day and called her 'me old mate Liz' and apparently that was incredibly offensive and I should have only used the correct term 'Your Majesty' ! What's that about!?!??
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  2911. You'll get a jolly surprise when you realise what we've got in Porton Down. If any of that shit leaked half of Britain would be dead in three months.
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  2912. Still killed less of their own than Boris, tho.
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  2913. Mate, stop quoting Hitler. This channel has a shitty enough reputation already, the last thing they need is actual nazi fanboys.
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  2914. So you're happy to be destroyed by the Tories because you believe the same Tories propaganda about the Labour party?
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  2915. Did it change its name to Grand Fenwick?
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  2916.  @craigb7967  Yes am sure blokes who spend all their time in the pub are horribly opposed to working from home and not spending two hours a day in traffic.
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  2917. Please list the data without reference to Facebook memes or right-wing blogs.
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  2918. You know we have thousands with long covid which is going to cost us a fortune to treat in the long-term?
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  2919. Why? Both of those you mentioned are a disgrace to journalism.
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  2920. Well seeing as its pretty unlikely the EU is going anywhere thank you for helping the British economy by being on permanent staycation.
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  2921.  @Reverend-Rodger  And yet Britain is in far worse trouble. Hmmm.
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  2922. Yep, GB News funded by US Discovery corp... with a founder who lives in France - and who lasted two weeks before doing a runner.
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  2923. Yep, and none of these imbeciles care. Is baffling.
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  2924. Why are you lot obsessed with farts and incontinence? No one is saying masks stop all covid, they're saying they help reduce the spread. Like seatbelts reduce the number of people dying in car crashes.
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  2925. He's more on the ball than our government. Uncle Joe is doing the Roosevelt thing at the moment, which is very cool.
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  2926.  @bengale9977  This is John Birch-style paranoid nonsense.
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  2927.  @bengale9977  No, about your Bircheresque paranoia that everyone is a secret leftist.
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  2928.  @bengale9977  No but you inferred that the military is somehow all super woke and therefore their research into climate change is not to be trusted.
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  2929. The funny thing is when teenagers are good at sport or music, the media think they're awesome. When they're making points about science, the media suddenly think they're stroppy children.
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  2930. Lol, the Tories have killed more people than Hitler did in the Blitz and you lot are worried about getting a vaccine. Priorities, people.
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  2931. Imagine such behaviour applied to adults and your boss could throw things at you or smack you round with a cane. Would adults think this is a price work paying and put up with it? Noooo. Please don't mistreat kids. Like mistreated dogs they'll bite back and ruin someone's life.
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  2932. Yes, they're not brainwashed by right-wing drivel, that's why. They were also good enough to try and stop the spread last year and thus protect all the Tory boomers who are now whining about lockdowns.
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  2933. Foreign bots still whining about that. Blimey. Okay for the people in Russia or Beijing running this op, let me explain: 1. We love our footy stars. Great bunch of lads in the England squad. 2. We don't mind them standing against racism. 3. Manufactured culture war is something we don't care about, whether its from you or the Tories. 4. GB News hasn't cottoned on to this yet but as their ratings have collapsed, they soon will.
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  2934.  @summerrr1  You mean the mentally ill people and the people with cancer he killed off?
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  2935. To be fair BHS had the shady Phillip Green running them, so, y'know...
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  2936. I read Wooten's article in the Daily Mail today. It was wretched. How on Earth idiots like this get plum media jobs I don't know, is baffling.
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  2937. Sigh. Methane is a greenhouse gas. If you have millions of cows bred for burgers then they produce a lot of methane. Eventually the methane will break down, partly into CO2 which is still a problem.
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  2938. Fire starts, manage to jump out. No space at sides of tunnel to exit, so end up running through tunnel choking in a cloud of battery smoke and then get hit by another Tesla whose driver is hypnotised by the Gaming PC-coloured walls. On the good side at 30mph you'll probably not die and may even be able to walk again after a few operations.
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  2939.  @CastrolHondaSP2  Similar number of suicides to normal years. Check the government figures. Vaccine problems also low.
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  2940. @Patriotic Duty Suicide has been increasing for a while in the UK - yet oddly no one cared at all. During the pandemic year its been a bit less than normal - and now you're all bothered. Sigh.
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  2941.  @CastrolHondaSP2  Where do you live? That forest in Japan?
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  2942.  @CastrolHondaSP2  Why are you guys so paranoid you think that anyone with a sensible view is a government spy? Mate the whole anti-lockdown movement has been kept afloat by the Tories, they're behind most of your so-called 'independent research' along with their dark money pals in the US and Russia. Laurence Fox, Allison Pearson, Toby Young, Hartley Brewer.... all massive right-wingers and all whining endlessly about covid restrictions.
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  2943. Clubs ask for IDs all the time. What's so different about a vaccine passport?
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  2944.  @Lc-is8vn  Its a vaccine shot. Stop being a snowflake. Jeez, I remember getting my BCG as a teenager and none of us gave a monkeys. We got it, cool, protected from TB, back to class. When did we turn into such whiners?
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  2945. Wonder if Elon watched Space: 1999 as a kid? Remember the travel tube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGw3Pq6N4ks Ironically a vacuum would be much easier to sustain on the moon. Mile-long tunnels, not so much.
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  2946.  @George-sc4yh  One or two cases of statues being moved is hardly erasing history. In fact it actually promotes history because people read about the characters represented by said statues. We're not the Taliban, we're not blowing them up.
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  2947. Natural immunity sucked against Smallpox, or TB.... you're proposing genocide because you're an anti-vax nitwit.
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  2948.  @2trichoptera  Who do you teach epidemiology to?
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  2949. So your math brain hasn't worked out that being in your 60s and being exposed to hundreds of students might give you a dose of the Rona and the vaccine will help reduce the severity?
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  2950.  @cassie48  David Bellamy was clearly ignoring tons of evidence. Currently Turkey is on fire, Greece is on fire, there's been a heatwave in Siberia, giant floods in Germany... ignoring this won't make it go away and the climate doesn't care about your politics.* *Even super-Conservative hydrogen bomb designer Edward Teller gave a speech in the 1950s talking about how CO2 excess from fossil fuels will change the atmosphere.
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  2951.  @cassie48  So the natural cycles just happen to be having exactly the same effects as the scientists said we'd have from climate change? Hmmm, considering the age of the Earth this seems an extraordinary coincidence....
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  2952.  @guzford  A giant meteor hitting the Gulf of Mexico.
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  2953.  RED SKULL  You're named after a nazi villain in Captain America. You don't sound very Christian.
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  2954. The comments section is weird. I've got my own psychotic stalker impersonator who keeps posting weird stuff trying to make me look like a creeper.
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  2955. You actually can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_Vaccination_or_Prophylaxis https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/laws-regs/vaccination-immigration/revised-vaccination-immigration-faq.html
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  2956. This time last year you didn't even know who Klaus Schwab was. Then Facebook told you he was the big bad and you totally believed it.
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  2957.  @captainbuggernut9565  Yep. And this is one reason people who work at Porton Down haven't wiped out Wiltshire with a plague.
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  2958.  @2risquejunior538  Right type, yes of course. Fresh air usually fine when outside, problem appears to be airflow in buildings and closed environments.
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  2959.  @gordonlinton3555  Do you understand the basics of disease spread? My point holds.
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  2960. You'll have to stay in the UK then as almost every country will want proof of vaccination.
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  2961. Apart from all the kids with long covid and the small percentage of kids who end up in hospital with it. But yeah, who cares about them, hey?
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  2962.  @MariA-bu2jv  So is fine to kill off/injure kids because they have other illnesses? Are you listening to yourself? Do you see how much of a psychopath you sound?
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  2963.  @alpharajan  Are there thousands of kids with swimming-pool related depression, brain fog and heart issues?
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  2964.  Fur Q  Or I clearly read the medical literature which indicates a lot of kids are having a hard time with Corona. They're not dead, but their quality of life has been severely limited by illness and no one is too sure how long it'll last.
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  2965.  Fur Q  Some official government bumph: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/962830/s1079-ons-update-on-long-covid-prevalence-estimate.pdf Then there's also this: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n385
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  2966.  Fur Q  We don't know exactly how many but is likely to be in the thousands due to the number of infections.
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  2967.  Fur Q  It's not speculation if it's happening. You're arguing that we should mass-infect kids and hope for the best. That's not going to end well now, is it?
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  2968.  Fur Q  Well it could be, but it isn't as there's been plenty of stories in the press and the government is opening clinics for long covid including ones that'll treat kids & there's even an organisation for parents of children with long covid. Am sure we'll brush it under the carpet and just pretend those kids are 'scroungers' like we did to our mentally ill people post 2010 to justify austerity.
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  2969. We're too busy trying to stop Boris from selling Channel 4 to the yanks and setting up a musical hitler youth.
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  2970. What you mean all those young Eastern European lasses being enslaved by Russian gangsters? Nige should ask his mate Putin about that.
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  2971.  @dennis9387  No it didn't. First flu vaccine wasn't developed until the 30s. Spanish flu was 1918.
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  2972. No it doesn't. The first variant came from Spain last summer. The 'Kent variant' from Britain popped up before any vaccinations were done. Delta popped up in India before mass vaccination.
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  2973. So no lockdown and no vaccine, you'd just rather kill a city's worth of fellow British people, have I got that right?
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  2974.  @strawberryfieldsforever3308  Well smiler, if 120000 died with lockdowns and less than 15% of the population infected, infecting the rest would probably kill around half a million. Which is a city's worth, and numbers confirmed by pretty much everyone which is the reason so many countries locked down, irrespective of political systems.
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  2975.  @triodehexode  Plus the virus apparently only kills 'sheep' who have the vaccine and take notice to government rules but it leaves 'free thinkers' totally unaffected. So the secret government is apparently going to kill off all the compliant workers and replace them with Karens who blow up if asked to wear a face mask. I don't think they've thought this conspiracy though very well.
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  2976. Its a vaccine you pillock.
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  2977. Oh no, let's cancel him then!!!!
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  2978.  @andrewoliver8930  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response-membership/list-of-participants-of-sage-and-related-sub-groups
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  2979.  @andrewoliver8930  I think there's one woman who is a Communist and she's been quite open about it. All of the members can be googled & have varied and esteemed careers. And yes, calling anyone you disagree with a Communist is the right-wing meme of the month. Especially as that they can't call England communists for the time being cos they're doing great at footy.
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  2980. Lemme get this straight - footy fans rebelled against the billionaire owners causing the super-league to fall apart. They actually mounted a successful proletarian revolution against the Bourgeoisie - textbook Karl Marx. Now two weeks later footy fans are whining about black lads taking the knee because its 'Marxist'? Am I understanding this right????
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  2981. Mate, if Jesus Christ was around today you lot would be denouncing him for being a woke lefty socialist foreigner.
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  2982.  @theredboneking  Oh god, you're a nazi. Good grief.
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  2983. 'Pander to the left' What on Earth are you talking about? Nigel Farage was on the BBC more than any other politician. Sky is owned by Murdoch. The press are disgusting and full of liars. Where is the pandering?!??
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  2984. Am imagining 'Soviet Union Jack' searching round for a new brand of moisturiser for himself while he angrily types about 'soy boys' on his Facebook page.
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  2985. @SelectiveShinku I'm British you nit. From the UK. A cheery English person with a witty disposition and an unfortunate coffee addiction.
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  2986. I'd have been much happier if it was just a big video conference but politicians love big gestures and spending the peasants money.
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  2987. Go on, show us the evidence...
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  2988. Like Andrew Neil.
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  2989.  @chewie8  Andrew Neil lives in France. He's there right now. If immigrants are bad then by that logic so is Neil.
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  2990.  @chewie8  Neil was editor of the Times when it spent much of the 90s doing AIDS denial. His misinformation contributed to more deaths than a boatload of immigrants. Plus his whole climate change denial thing. Definitely one shady dude.
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  2991. What like dinghy invasions, Meghan being evil and antivaxxer drivel?
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  2992. No, the 'public' was a bunch of thuggish gammons swigging ale and in a mood. Or is it okay to be a chavvy drunkard now so long as you parrot the Tory party line of 'BBC BAD'?
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  2993. Well as the story was about Pornhub not taking down videos of women shared without their permission, then probably not.
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  2994.  @simontuffs4106  Angry at mass murder by the government, yes.
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  2995. 40 odd thousand cases a day and 96 dead today, so looks like you're wrong.
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  2996. Is that the same media full of white middle aged men? Where the bosses are white middle-aged men?
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  2997. @Grinning Idiot British media is owned by Murdoch (Aus), Lebvedev (Russian), Barclay Brothers (Jersey), Lord whassisname of the Mail (Aristocrat) and a couple of other companies all run by white men.
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  2998. Same reason the navy can intercept drug smugglers but you can still buy heroin from Biggsy down at the pub?
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  2999. Suicide rates were going up for years in Britain yet no one gave a shit, but apparently we're all worried about them now? Hmmm.
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  3000.  @alexanderthegreat7213  Opposing views are fine, but not if they're stupid. You wouldn't have (for example) a WW2 historian on to talk about the Holocaust then 'for balance' bring on a weirdo from the Aryan nation to argue it was all a bit overblown. Nor would you have on a tax lawyer discussing tax laws and a sovereign citizen type telling everyone they don't need to pay taxes. GBeebies keeps sticking on the same dozen or so ignorant right-wing pundits to hate on everything in this country - and they have the audacity to use the flag and claim to be patriots.
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  3001. Umm, because gases have different properties depending on their state? You know like water is great for warming your house when its hot and pumped around radiators. Water is not so great for warming you up when you're sitting in Antarctica in your underepants. Same compound, different state.
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  3002. ​ @rogermiller4929  First full paper on the topic was 'On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground ' by Arrhenius in 1896. Although Eunice Newton Foote worked out the basics years before but her research was somewhat obscure. The basic physics still holds. The climate deniers make stuff up or distort science because they're paid a fortune by oil companies and Koch suckers to sow distrust.
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  3003. And firing their own staff member for having a dissenting opinion. A staff member who used to work for Boris but is now getting called a 'Marxist' by hordes of online trolls claiming to be patriotic British people.
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  3004. They're smug Tories voted for by a working-class who believe the sort of drivel GBNews and the Mail/Express/Telegraph spew out.
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  3005.  @walterbishop1697  Low is not 'almost zero'. You have a low chance of dying in a car crash, but it would be wise not to rip your seat belts and airbags out.
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  3006. Yes, 1965 called and wants its joke back.
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  3007. Britain's heritage is very diverse, they're celebrating that. Simple.
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  3008. It actually wasn't. The computer industry spent years fixing everything before 2000 (The bug was described in Bob Cringeley's Accidental Empires book from 1992, for example), that's why we had no problems. Similarly we can fix our climate issues, but apparently we're going to just commit suicide or something.
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  3009.  @DavidBaillie1986  They are mate. The gov is just spinning things to pretend that rubbish trade deals with far-off lands are amazing and everyone loves us.
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  3010.  @andyb7963  With searing wit like that you should do panto, mate.
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  3011. Tories apparently don't want to cure it, they want it to run free and kill off some peasants. This is why most of the celebrity antivax/lockdown crowd are closely linked to the government. They did however want to stop it killing off elderly Tory voters. Hence the reason why the media was 'pro-vax' for a couple of months while they go their shots.
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  3012.  @kieron201100  You can spot the antimasker/vaxxer as they always go 'You want this to go on forever!'. No, fairly simply interventions can control things and ultimately will be better for the economy. Those long-covid people are going to cost us a LOT of money in the long run as will sticking to the govs 'ah, never mind, its not a problem if we only let 30-40,000 die of it a year' strategy. The peasants were generally the poor in the first wave, with a lot of minorities thrown in as well as disabled people. The government indeed didn't care much about the elderly but you'll notice as soon as the vax became available the right-wing press went pro-vax for a few months. Then when it was time to vaccinate the non-Tory voting younger people they suddenly flipped again to preaching the dangers of vaccines. 137000 people dead mate. And that's a low estimate. Absolutely shocking episode in the history of this country.
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  3013.  @kieron201100  'the biggest reccession it's had in 300 years' - made worse by Brexit and incompetence from the government. You'll notice that once lockdowns finished the economy bounced back quite well - until the Brexity problems put the breaks on things. "do you demand we lockdown for them other illnesses?" - how many of those illnesses spread through the air, are highly contagious and have killed 130000 Brits in just over a year? Covid is the biggest infectious disease killer in the UK for a century. But yes, if another air-spreading super virus pops up and kills people then will be wise to lockdown for that. The gov even ran a simulation in 2016 on what to do if a Coronavirus ripped into the country and appear to have completely ignored their own report. This is why we have the worst death rate in Europe. Stunning levels of incompetence.
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  3014. Funny how this channel is having another go at the police when we saw the police have to deal with a horrendous mass-shooting the other week. I'd like to see Pat handle something like that.
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  3015. Giant salaries to clownish celebrity presenters? Paying for massive amounts of social media promotion from all those bots announcing 'Its like a breath of fresh air!'?
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  3016. Say hi to your antivaxxer friends and blame them.
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  3017. Working-class woman becomes successful, rises to political office, knobs on GB News are like 'Don't like that, she's a bit gingery. I prefer to be shafted by aristocrats'.
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  3018. They'll be shut by friday. The first infectees will be blowing up the test numbers like in Europe.
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  3019. Or more likely Boris is trying to cause enough trouble to get Macron replaced with that National Front harridan.
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  3020. 26 deaths a day instead of 700. That's the point.
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  3021.  @paulgoldbergdawson  I totally get people not wanting more government spying and related nonsense. I also totally get people not wanting to miss out on socialising. Problem is HM Gov are making a number of assumptions about the virus which appear dubious*. So yes, vaccines should keep deaths down but we're going to end up with a lot more problems if we just let it run round infecting everyone. *'if we infect everyone we'll get herd immunity' - clearly not when you look at Brazil. Or Russia. 'itll get weaker over time' - HIV hasn't. Flu still is a killer. Covid may well get weaker but it could take many years. 'we'll have three waves and be done, like with flu' - again, look at Iran or Russia or for that matter the UK, constant levels of infection with little evidence of specific wave behaviour. There are peaks but covid doesn't appear to drop off without specific interventions. 'covid doesn't affect kids' - some have died and hundreds have had multisystem inflammatory syndrome. That is pretty traumatic and costly to treat.
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  3022. Am sure you'll be a super tough guy in real life when the coppers are fining you...
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  3023. As opposed to dying of coronavirus?
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  3024.  @dabow692  You're clearly a brainlet. Not everyone with corona is old or has obesity. Pretending otherwise is all a bit sinister. By the way, you know who gains weight the fastest in Britain? Pregnant women. Are we okay with them dying of corona because they've gone a bit chubby?
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  3025. @James Fletcher Can you give me evidence of him hating Jewish people? Did he appear on neo-nazi podcasts like Farage (RedIce)? Did he try to bring in anti-Jewish laws? Did he have a racist meltdown? Yes you can rightly argue he was a bit of an idiot sorting things out in the Labour party but when you've got blokes like Noam chomsky and John Bercow saying he's not anti-semitic, well proofs on his accusers, isn't it?...
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  3026. Just watched his speech. What an absolute catastrophe. Three theories for his nonsense, none of which are good. 1. An alcohol or sniffy sniffy nose powder problem. If he's like that then he should be fired as he's clearly incompetent. 2. Overly tired from baby duties. Nope. He's wealthy and has staff, Boris isn't sitting up every night changing nappies, there's always a nanny to help. 3. Brain fried with long covid. Am thinking this is a real possibility. The man can't think straight and appears to take orders from the Daily Telegraph. Yikes.
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  3027. You do know that globalism has been a thing for centuries? East India company, British Empire, transatlantic telegraphy and so on. We can go back further than that, even - the Romans used to trade with the Chinese.
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  3028. To be fair all those young blokes doing steroids doesn't help much, either...
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  3029. What do you expect them to say 'Oh that bloke who shot all those people looks like a nice lad' ????
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  3030. Wheras covid isn't????!??
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  3031. Were you bothered when the right-wing cancelled the Dixie Chicks? Or banned a Paul McCartney song? Or burnt Beatles records in protest?
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  3032. Was Stalin and Mao running Britain then? That's like saying Adolf Hitler is a reason to not vote Tory.
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  3033. @Zockblatt Shickleblender What like the student rooms Boris was in where they worshipped right-wing psychos?
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  3034. Boris wasn't much better with stabbings in London.
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  3035. This appears to be Incel-type extremism. Jordan Peterson acolytes.
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  3036. Doesn't that made you a moisturising beta, John? Isn't that how this works?
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  3037. The scary thing is decisions in this country have basically been made by tabloid journalists fed talking points by shady dark money groups & idiot politicians listen to them. We all end up suffering because of it.
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  3038. You were told he'd do that years ago, but still voted for him, so y'know...
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  3039. Only by people who don't understand economics. The private sector works so well because the state protects it via the army, police and legal system (the whole 'ltd' company thing for example). The state also educates 90% of workers, builds the roads and ensures standards are kept to. If the private sector had to pay for all these we'd have a feudal economy similar to the middle-ages with a tiny middle-class and Lords lording it up in castles.
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  3040. Probably. Seems a bit odd a home appliance company is doing a survey about fruit. Especially suspicious considering my local supermarket (at least until the Rona hit) used to have boxes of fruit hanging around and parents were encouraged to let their kids take some. Am also sure kids get the odd bit of fruit in school so this report seems very suss.
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  3041. Herd-immunity by mass infection is about as sensible as 'winning' WW2 by letting Hitler carpet bomb Britain then giving up.
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  3042.  @johnneville403  Florida currently 20% of US covid cases and previously 37000 dead. So no, hasn't really worked. Deaths fewer per head because they weren't hit badly by first wave which hammered New York. But they made up for it later.
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  3043.  @adamsmith307  No, I'm just worried about a libertarian think tank pushing their nonsense while claiming to be an apolitical group of scientists. Much like if the 'British Sugar Association' released a report saying their scientists say Sugar cures cancer then I'd be suspicious of that as well.
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  3044.  @sheilasydneynotyerbizniz2933  The Barrington declaration was widely derided. No proper scientists buy it and everyone promoting the document is linked to various shady libertarian groups.
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  3045.  @seanpidduck  No, am talking about middle-aged people who seem to have forgotten their actual past and are now living in a media-created world of bigotry. You know the types who grew up doing the drugs, drinking, sleeping around who now are suddenly all moral and blame everyone else for the problems caused by the party they voted for. This isn't about people who are socially conservative. And the left have had decades of abuse from the same media so are really just returning the favour.
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  3046. They are working. They're not 100%. No one ever said they were.
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  3047. Please keep your kids away from other kids if they're infected with the Rona. Have some common sense.
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  3048. Why, because she confirms your own opinions?
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  3049. Pretty sure Nick Cordero wasn't fat or unhealthy, but the Rona still killed him at the age of 41.
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  3050. You don't know how viruses work, do you?
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  3051. Yes, welcome to GB News. Note how little news they have, almost every video is someone's idiot opinion.
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  3052. That's a subtle engineering joke, isn't it? 'Non-bias' is a subtle reference to audio recording technology and a witty sly dig at the channels inability to utilise it.
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  3053.  @MRAROCKERDUDE  And Alex from the Brexit party/Cambridge Analytica?
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  3054. Mate they used to have you shot for having PTSD in the army. If you think vaccines are the worst thing ever wait until you read about the history of Britain.
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  3055. What if you find pants stressful? I mean as a bloke, the old swimmers are much healthier if your underbits stay cool, so shouldn't we allow men to walk round buck naked and help boost fertility?
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  3056. One Chinese submarine can sit in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and launch a dozen ballistic missiles. If Britain tried to nuke China, the Chinese would incinerate most of the UK before Boris had his final morning romp with Carrie.
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  3057.  @mallenkennelsuk5854  You do understand that a dozen Chinese missiles would reduce the UK back to the Middle ages while our missiles were merely mess them up somewhat for a few years? China is very big. Lots of people live out the way and are used to hardship. British people panic if their plane to the Algarve is an hour late.
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  3058. Ooh they changed the heading from 'fat' to 'obese'. Did someone actually realise the bullying tone and change it?
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  3059. So other people will have to take care of you if you catch covid because you're too dim to get a vaccine? Or have you got yours and think the kids should go without?
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  3060. They're failing so are trying to get clicks.
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  3061.  @kevinbillington9773  You keep making wrong and moronic accusations. the other day everyone was accusing me of being a government spy working for military intelligence. The stupid truly has come out to play on here, and its doing a merry jig in an orange tutu.
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  3062. Because we as a society try to treat people equally, which includes those of a different race or those who may not share our sexuality. That's the mark of a civilised society. Complaining about it is the mark of, well, not a civilised society.
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  3063. But any academic courses have a practical side - or do you think Physics nerds spend all their time reading instead of playing with fancy machinery? What about engineering students?
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  3064.  @catwoman7462  I wonder how many STEM degrees the presenters on this channel have? Or for that matter the rest of the Tory press?
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  3065.  @catwoman7462  Well no, my point is the people complaining about a lack of STEM subjects very rarely have STEM educations. Dan Wooten is pretending to be an expert on climate change and infectious diseases and his degree is in media studies.
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  3066. EVERYONE I DON'T LIKE IS A MARXIST!!!!!!!
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  3067. Why? They're not robots. Let them be interested in whatever they want to be interested in.
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  3068. Bet you weren't sick of it when farmers and Tories tried to shut down the country in 2000, though...
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  3069. Weird how Tories virtue-signal each other by boasting about not paying for public services.
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  3070.  @lobbyskids2  Funny how Lineker was for years the nicest guy in football and somehow the Tories manage to even turn him into a hate figure.
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  3071. Mics were horrible, picture bandwidth constrained, Neil looked like he was recording at home (in France), just generally very amateurish and not what you'd expect £60 million would buy you.
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  3072. EU subsidies, mate. Which are ending, so now the British government will be paying them instead.
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  3073. Teaching unions wisely don't want to see their charges ill and don't want their colleagues ill either.
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  3074.  @GIBBO4182  You've never heard of the Dixie Chicks then, I take it?
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  3075.  @GIBBO4182  Someone was asleep during their American history class.
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  3076.  @GIBBO4182  Right-wing cancel culture has been a thing forever, mate. You must remember Mary Whitehouse? Or the number of songs banned from radio play because they offended the government/Royals?
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  3077. Grow up. The language Rayner used is par for the course with the Tory press who every single day attack whole groups of society. This week its been GPs, then there's the poor, immigrants - a never ending list of hate spewing from a media who accepts no responsibility for the poison.
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  3078.  Israel Hands  This very channel has a different group they attack each day. Recall a few months ago they were even having a go at lifeboatmen.
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  3079.  @markbanner6473  No, they're not different. You're deliberately trying to play this thing down. Many people died of heart attacks because covid can cause them, the same with Kidney failure or lung disease. There might be some incorrect diagnoses but not many and certainly nowhere near the numbers the pro-Rona crowd are quoting. If there was we'd have seen a gigantic legal effort fronted by insurance companies to verify causes of death, coroners would be involved all over the country. As nothing like this has happened (and insurance companies have deep pockets) then is pretty clear the death figures are broadly accurate.
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  3080.  @angrybrit7331  Reported numbers probably lower than reality. 28 day cut off thing. Denialists pretend the numbers are much lower so they can say was just the flu and we don't need any restrictions. Their nonsense is very transparent.
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  3081.  @angrybrit7331  I'm not the one spewing conspiracy drivel on here now, am I?
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  3082.  @angrybrit7331  Pretty much most of the comments on here. Grow up.
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  3083.  @markbanner6473  But 28 days cut off doesn't mean they don't die of the Rona afterwards. Is just a statistical trick and a pretty sinister one. Is like a doctor giving someone six months to live with cancer and they die after seven months so their death isn't counted as cancer.
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  3084.  @lilyrbtv4740  Probably because there's not many people dropping dead 0-2 days after having the vaccine. There's been a couple of cases that may or may not be linked, not thousands as with the Rona.
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  3085.  @lilyrbtv4740  Yeadon is a fraud. I was reading his stuff last year and he got everything wrong. He's clearly a grifter. And yes I'm fully away of the shady side of big business, but at the moment we either use the vaccines or cull a chunk of the population. Vaccines best hope.
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  3086.  @lilyrbtv4740  And yet all his articles had predictions that were completely wrong. He's a spewer of misinformation and a disgusting character.
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  3087. Biology is a bitch. If only those viruses would listen to reason.
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  3088. You have a weird definition of common sense.
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  3089. Rich people are breaking the rules because they can afford constant testing and the best medical care. Whereas your mate who works in the Asda can't. Don't sacrifice him because the rich are scumbags. And yes, they caused the first wave last year with their stupidity.
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  3090. You're an Ivermectin bot.
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  3091. This is a common story from so many people. Masks may be annoying but they appear to have all manner of beneficial side-effects at times.
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  3092. The Tory party also supported it. In the later Iraq war vote there were 84 Labour rebels - and 2 Tory ones. 17 Tory abstentions and 69 Labour abstentions.
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  3093.  @fredo1070  It was the war of everyone who voted for it and supported it. Blair is to blame, but so are the other politicians helping him out. Do you remember when Ed Milliband managed to stop Dave from declaring war on Syria by making him lose the vote? Do you remember how much the press hated Milliband afterwards? It appears there's no popularity in Britain for being pro-peace.
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  3094. Why, go on, tell us...
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  3095.  @Booster85  We all need you to explain mate. Am betting your explanation with either be a) A bit racist or b) Pushing a pretending Marxist conspiracy theory you read on Facebook.
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  3096.  @Booster85  Well you can explain your point then, surely?
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  3097. To be fair there have been actual shortages all year due to worldwide covid issues. Is still hard to get a new Playstation and a lot of building supplies have become rarer.
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  3098. No. Just no.
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  3099. Go look at him praising Florida for their covid response, but he never says a word about New Zealand. Hahahaaha, what a muppet.
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  3100. So GB News hate teachers and lecturers now? They also hate lifeboatmen, NHS workers, footy players, Meghan and immigrants. You do know that media-created (on behalf of the ruling class) hatred was a big theme in 1984?
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  3101. Like the alt-right drivel on this channel? Trump is gone. The alt-right are falling apart. So GBNews (lol) decides to have cretins like Ngo on.
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  3102.  @barneyrubble8590  No they're not. Stop making up nonsense. The current boss is a white bloke who was a Conservative councillor and boss of his conservative association.
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  3103.  @davehallett810  You literally had an alt-right shill on here this morning (Ngo). If it walks like a duck...
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  3104. The bots are strong tonight. Are they trying to create an online personality cult like they did with Trump?
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  3105. China is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. One of their submarines could vaporise our top 10 cities while sitting 1000 miles away in the Atlantic. Fighting the nation that gave us the Art of War requires far more brains than a muppet like Dunc can muster.
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  3106.  @rewdwarf123  Who told you they're not at risk? According to the most recent study out of half a million kids infected in the UK 25 died, 4800 ended up in hospital and 690 had inflammatory syndrome. Which is quite a risk when you think about it.
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  3107. Doing that in Israel to cut the spread. Problem here now is delta variant plus outbreaks of the likes of RSV. Not a good combination even though individually they won't kill kids, but together we could have serious problems.
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  3108.  @flyfisher4449  Uncle M is the usual disinformation peddler. He probably doesn't live here tho will no doubt claim he's a proper cockney or some such guff.
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  3109.  @unclem7816  You should admire my tenacity and courage for attacking idiocy head-on. Plus am also hilarious on occasion.
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  3110.  @unclem7816  At least half a dozen posters have mentioned this 1k figure on the same day. I mean what are the odds that random posters all decide on the same day to check their youtube app to see how much I, a mere peasant, am posting? Is like you're all working together and this is your new attack strategy? Help a guy out - are you all minimum wage teens with a bullet point list to post, sitting there with 7 mobiles each containing your multiple identities?
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  3111. Tory backbenchers in the likes of the 1922 group.
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  3112.  @aardvarkrevolution5764  You're yet again spreading the same drivel that the pro-covid crowd spread. Let's see, the inventor was Kary Mullis, he knew full well PCR was used for diagnostics as that was mentioned on his original patents. Mullis was also a bit eccentric, believed in astrology, did loads of drugs and once had an interaction with a talking magical Raccoon he thought may have been an alien. If you think I'm joking go read his bio, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field. Secondly, the virus has been isolated many times and you can even get samples of it yourself (if you work in a lab), slap it under a Cryo-sem and have a look.
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  3113. Tory central office got you on contract? Here's the thing, you know what you're going to say because you've got a bullet point list they gave you this morning. So no need to watch the speech, go and watch some cat videos or something, post your bullet points in the ten different accounts ("As a Northern woman", "I am a working-class person who will never vote LIEburr") you have set up and collect your wages.
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  3114.  @veryhappychappy12  Please don't recommend sheep dip for covid.
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  3115. Didn't work that way with Smallpox, did it? Or Hiv?
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  3116.  @withnailsghost9999  Apart from Smallpox and the flu and Polio...
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  3117.  @spikem6039  The HIV rumours were actually from Operation Infektion, a KGB disinformation campaign from the 80s.
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  3118.  @withnailsghost9999  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION
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  3119. Rule of conservatism - men who are most angry in the media about soyboys... tend to look like soyboys. Also known as the Paul Joseph Watson rule.
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  3120. Do you understand basic science? Clearly not.
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  3121. Didn't work with smallpox, TB or Polio did it?
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  3122.  @colinmclean5075  They were all experimental once and modern vax technology is a heck of a lot better than they had 70 years ago.
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  3123.  @colinmclean5075  Nope. The fatality rate is around 1% and the study that claimed a half a million to one chance of kids dying from covid was based on the entire childhood population, not just those infected. If you stuck to the infected it was 25 out of 500,000 which is low but that was a) Before Delta and b) DIdn't take into account the kids with inflammatory syndrome and/or long covid.
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  3124. Clearly 'Ruth' you're a bit brainless, but let me point out something - if masks didn't work then why have they worn them in hospitals for decades? Why do forensic technicians wear them? Or people who work in semiconductor fabs? Or clean room engineers? Am pretty sure if you went in for an operation and the surgeon was maskless you'd be freaking out. Please tell us the evidence of masks not working Ruth because the likes of Intel, AMD and every biotech company & operating room would really like to know so they don't have to spend hundreds of million a year on PPE...
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  3125. Pfizer has been officially authorised by the FDA in the US so its no longer in emergency measures.
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  3126.  @dr69dav  I know that, but most of the antivaxxers on here are weird American agenda-pushers. That's why they use terms like 'face diaper'.
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  3127. Only if you don't understand English.
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  3128. To stop loads of antivaxers spreading the mange around Europe?
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  3129. Wait till you find out about the white coats and plastic hats and face masks that doctors have been wearing for decades...
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  3130. Was that the same Rudi who got rid of the Italian Mafia, then let the Russian Mafia in to take over? That guy????
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  3131. Spoilers: The Olympics has been riddled with drugs and political shenanigans for decades. Brainlets online are unaware of this as they live in a social media bubble.
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  3132.  @mrh8539  Well if you're telling me 'open your eyes' means 'I am offended at a blonde lass in sexy glasses' then you probably need a pair of sexy glasses. Just calling out some of the more egregious weirdos on here.
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  3133. Brendan O'Neil is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. He's quite open about it.
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  3134. How many sick people did this psychopath kill with his 'austerity' policies? Vile, vile excuse for a human.
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  3135. Good luck with that. It's going to get worse because the government are morons who listen to libertarian psychopaths.
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  3136. This channel bends the truth constantly. That's their thing.
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  3137. All over the world hard decisions were made. It was either lockdowns or far more death. Painful but true. Hopefully this lad will get all the help he needs, things have been tough.
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  3138.  @badgoogle9938  a) Limited lockdowns - compare, say, Feb this year to how utterly empty the country was last April. Full lockdown was basically a few months last year and a few months this year. b) Yes we have. That's why the disease is bad mojo and we need to do better.
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  3139.  Paul J  Where are they all going then?
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  3140.  @sirtinley-knot2944  To summarise: There are anti-vaxxers of all political hues, but the current wave is being pushed by the right - especially via the Republican party in the US and the right-wing media in the UK.
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  3141.  @davidr4114  Malone's claims about being the inventor of mRNA tech are dubious. Yeadon is not the CEO of Pfizer and never was. If spike proteins are that dangerous then Covid itself is far more dangerous than we thought due to the virus being covered with... spike proteins.
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  3142.  @freedomfighter5335  Lol... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/herd-immunity-letter-signed-fake-experts-dr-johnny-bananas-covid
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  3143. You sound like an incompetent grandparent and a psychopath.
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  3144.  @eyeonantiwhiteism3761  "So what's wrong with Fascism" - see: World War 2 and grow up.
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  3145. It's a hospital. They've been wearing masks forever. Or are we doubting basic hygiene now?
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  3146. Is weird. We're complaining saying black kids are using 'excuses' to get out of essays, but when the government uses 'excuses' to cover up the needless killing of thousands of its own citizens, we're okay with that, cor blimey, vote Boris.
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  3147. The Sun and most other papers supported it. Along with most of the Conservative party.
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  3148.  @fredo1070  Briefly yes, but the other papers weren't and they supported it. As did most of the Tory party.
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  3149. Are you sure its not the gin and paracetamol you took?
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  3150.  @QANews  Buck Rogers got there first with dr theopolis and the computer council!
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  3151. In reality there will be a few hundred antivaxxers who quit. The others will have their shots, as we've seen in the US and Europe.
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  3152. If it helps Javid has been diagnosed with the Rona, so he'll be spending 'freedom day' in self-isolation.
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  3153.  @moneypenny1267  Umm, this is the same drivel as the far-right have been spouting in the US since the days of Timothy McVeigh. Who exactly is funding you to say this?
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  3154.  @Daylight7.7.7  Well as most of them won't have jobs they may just riot. And they outnumber anti-vax idiots by ten to one, so....
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  3155. In actual news today we have 52,000 cases of covid, China at it with more hypersonic missile tests, UK bosses admitting the supply chain shortage is getting worse and a pig kidney transplant experiment was performed. But yeah, let's have a chatty mc chat with some duffer Tory MP instead of doing some reporting.
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  3156. In the US they had a 1970s all-black sitcom called 'Good Times' which was excellent and featured a teenage nerd into black radical politics. Something like that would get screamed about today as right-wingers would flip over the 'militant midget'.
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  3157. @Down With Woke Blimey, US sitcoms offend you now?
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  3158. No it isn't. Cargo cults came from when the US used to land planes on isolated islands and leave free food for people, so when the US left the people thought they were gods and created their own cults so the 'cargo' would come back out of the sky.
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  3159.  @lumpyfishgravy  Well spotted. Generic definition, not comp sci definition. Mea culpa.
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  3160. He's a lazy useless excuse for a PM. He's had several holidays in under a year while the country is in crisis. Jim Callaghan was destroyed by the press for going to a summit and coming back with a suntan. Boris does less work than a hungover teenager on Sunday mornings and yet the boot-lickers are still out defending him
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  3161. GBeebies.
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  3162. Am waiting for the nerdy Mark to start calling people Soyboys...
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  3163. @Neria Wolf You know he will, haha.
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  3164. Spoilers: As the earth heats the amount of water in the air increases. As the permafrost melts the amount of methane in the air increases. This is when the feedback loops kick in. This is when whole societies collapse.
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  3165. You people are creepy.
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  3166.  bob gees  I can't. Is embarrassing telling strangers I'm named Willie B Hardagin, they keep making Prince Wills jokes.
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  3167.  @rosielee938  Well Lee if they were all sick in an identical way then you could go to, I dunno GB News or the Daily Mail and make a ton of money from the story AND expose the secret vaccine plot. But you won't, because you're making stuff up.
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  3168.  sphaget   Yes, and if the unwoke crowd got their way (as we see from their comments here) then all those feminists/persons of colour/gay people complaining about 'woke' would be ostracised from society.
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  3169. They have since the start, along with many other risk factors.
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  3170. Maybe the church burners in Canada are angry about the genocide committed against their people? Doesn't make it right or legal, but it is understandable.
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  3171.  @leightonsullivan8314  'Wealth accumulated at the top is a natural system" - no it isn't. Accumulated wealth wasn't a thing until agriculture & cities and that's when slavery and female oppression also became a big thing. So you can trace it to maybe 10,000 years or less as opposed to the much longer time humans have been around. As for historical oppression, well, that's true. No point in pretending otherwise.
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  3172. Dan forgot how many of his viewers are cokeheads, lol.
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  3173. Lol. So let me get this straight - is okay to spend taxpayers money on nuclear bombs, the queen, armies, Boris and his pals, Lords & aristocrats and subsidies for the rich. But the moment you spend it on helping your own working class, then that's suddenly bad? Am I understanding you right?
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  3174.  @observantgeezer3292  That describes most capitalist countries as well. And I'm pretty sure moderate socialist countries with strong democracies did well.
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  3175.  @observantgeezer3292  Yes, like the Nordic countries, or Britain in the 60s or a number of others. Who all had middle-classes. Okay, you may argue they were mixed-economy, and yes but it still is the sort of socialism you lot are whining about here.
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  3176.  @observantgeezer3292  And yet modern capitalism was built on massive amounts of state subsidy. Think of how all that wartime spending boosted the economy or how most of our technologies now (computers, satellites, jet planes, rockets...) came from state-funded research. Even modern tech is heavily state-supported - CIA cloud contracts, schools bulk purchasing computers, supercomputers for the Met Office etc. Is almost as if the economy is a bit of a feedback system, like the Moniac system showed back in the day.
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  3177. Oh man, Fred West Jnr is angry. Am sure Megs is terrified of his poorly-worded rants.
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  3178. Its been dead for weeks, the ratings tanked because it was rubbish from the start.
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  3179.  @Letsberealnow82  I know, am doing work on the comp and get bored easily so am adding some balance and witty repartee. Should probably be doing something more productive like cutting my toe nails, but hey...
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  3180. If you think shaming works then tell me why homosexuality continued to exist in the pre-legalisation days when shaming of gay people was common along with tossing them in jail or sending them off to mental hospitals. Vast, vast amounts of shame, but the gays didn't go away. Maybe shame doesn't work? And before anyone says 'Homosexuality is innate, obesity isn't', well last time I checked our drive to eat was even stronger than our sex drive, so y'know...
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  3181. This isn't a cold, and children tend not to get carted off to hospital with colds. Nor do they end up being pumped full of immuno-supressive drugs and steroids due to them getting inflammatory disorder because of a cold. Do you people really hate kids that much you're happy to see them get sick and die??
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  3182.  @barleyafloat  Your kid died of a cold?
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  3183.  @barleyafloat  That is tragic. Am sorry to hear that. But this is why we should all work together to make sure fewer kids die in future. Letting the Rona spread will kill or damage a lot more (there's evidence it can make diabetes worse and may even cause it in some people).
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  3184. Yet all the presenters on this station went to university, therefore by your criteria none of them are worth listening to.
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  3185. Sadly government listens to right-wing think tanks and idiot tabloid journalists. As such they're sacrificing a lot of people. But they don't care.
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  3186. It is mentioned all the time. We're dumping an excess of co2 into the atmosphere so the plant life (& algae in the sea) simply can't absorb it all. Now fine, you can spend a few trillion and un-desertify tracts of the world and fill them with forests, but good luck getting anyone to pay for that.
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  3187.  Militant Yid  The oceans absorb a lot of it, but as they warm they'll absorb less. Hence is a problem of our own making.
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  3188. Hi Bot bosses. Stop your goblins from using the same phrase again and again. It undermines your attempts to pretend to be English viewers.
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  3189.  @crazycjk  Gotcha, ta. Is the way they all use the same stock phrases. Is very weird and not the way British people talk.
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  3190. No it isn't. No more than wearing shoes is or wearing a school uniform. Is a bit tricky for some, but kids are cool and try their best.
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  3191. The Irish low-carb conman? 'No second wave' Ivor?
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  3192. The funny thing about that is machines won't be able to do the 'low skilled' work like caring, nursery school, hairdressing, cleaning hotel rooms etc. Machines will be able to do disease diagnosis, share dealing, financial analysis and the like. So if AI does become a thing watch all your middle-class friends lose their jobs overnight.
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  3193. @David Rosenberg Brexit poisoned the political discourse in this country even further. Anyone denying that is being wilfully obtuse.
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  3194. Colin Britain didn't have any laws against racial discrimination until 1965. You're once again pretending racism isn't really a thing. As for 'forrin' criminals, yes they should all be treated equally and punished equally. BUT... and its a big one... the law should also be blind to privilege and money. Apparently it isn't though because rich people get away with crimes all the time and its very rarely commented on. In fact we might argue the race thing is a deflection to protect said rich. If readers don't believe me ask yourself a simple question - how many bankers wound up in jail for the 2008 crisis? How many government ministers have been punished for covid failings (no, resigning because you were banging some bird doesn't count)? Did Tony Blair get in any trouble over Iraq? Did Jimmy Savile get in any trouble while he was alive?
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  3195. He's certainly predictable, I'll give him that.
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  3196. Yep, Fred West Jnr here will get his food delivered by Waitrose. He's not going to be standing in the Tesco watching their fridges drip and people flip out over a shortage of veg.
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  3197. Yes, like this channel who were pretending in the summer that our supply chain problems were due to a 'pingdemic' and are now pretending its due to totally not Brexit.
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  3198. Well if you bothered to check, the Americans didn't like the test results so it wasn't authorised there. Thalidomide itself wasn't a vaccine, either but a drug and drug testing was very primitive in those days compared to now.
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  3199. Whats a newd, dude?
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  3200. The anti-lockdown protesters clearly aren't locked up either if they can be in London every few weeks. And if you say 'Oh they're skint, their businesses are destroyed' then where are they getting the money from for the London trips?
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  3201. @Knickertwist Copperby Mate I've been ranting about the bad side of big tech for, ohhh, a couple of decades. Am fully aware of what can happen but am also aware of the easy way social media is used to spread misinformation. If you think a Chinese social credit system is some apocalyptic scenario then you're gonna be a bit shocked about your UK credit rating, or what info the government has on you, or y'know the data gathered by that portable supercomputer with a GPS you use to text your friends...
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  3202.  @Vokcas01  Yes his brother is a muppet. He's long been that way. Was doing climate change denial decades ago.
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  3203.  @commonsense9176  I think we can see the real Boris in action this week, him and Raab more worried about their holidays while Afghanistan falls to bits. Funnily enough such traits have been well known for a long time - google 'Elite Panic' and read about how the rich often fall apart and let people die while the poor pitch in to help - even if at great risk.
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  3204.  @smithr74  It's a vaccine. Stop trying to be a smart alec.
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  3205.  @MickeyCool30  Your parents gave you the shot to protect you and others.
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  3206.  @smithr74  It is a vaccine, stop being mental. Is designed to illicit an immune reaction to reduce the severity of an attack from a novel virus. Please don't get your medical knowledge from Facebook memes. It's embarrassing.
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  3207.  @chrisvdd000  The covid vaccine is not full of graphene. If it was it would look like black tar. You're taking drivel off the Internet seriously. Please don't.
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  3208.  Lucy Rane  Why are you so scared of little needles?
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  3209.  @angela-karinalavandiersant1242  Doesn't matter. The early vaccine makers didn't have the benefit of 21st century technology to speed things up (plus infinite money). However, if it helps, the vaccines currently being used were based on technology they've been researching since Sars, so they didn't come out of thin air.
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  3210.  @angela-karinalavandiersant1242  They were developing the basic tech them. But sars burnt out so there was little pressure to get a vaccine out quick. Rona means pressure and they've done well with the vaccine. If it helps Pfizer will be FDA authorised properly in a few weeks.
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  3211.  @angela-karinalavandiersant1242  Not many are dying from the vaccines, people appear to be pushing false information, certainly in the UK. Natural immunity isn't as good as you think it is. That's why we have vaccines in the first place. Plus long covid is very much a thing.
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  3212.  @angela-karinalavandiersant1242  "when we know the risk is very low." - well in the UK we had a report the other week. Of half a million kids with covid, 25 died, 4800 were in hospital and 690 had multisystem inflammatory disorder. This is pre-Delta so may be even worse now. A smaller risk than adults, but not a 'very low' risk.
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  3213.  Julius Therkelsen  So tell me why so many anti-vaxxers also argue against other methods of protection - masks, lockdowns, distancing, ventilation? Is almost as if they do indeed want to hurt other people. Go look at Dan Wooten's twitter rant today about the NZ government. Absolutely astonishing that he's attacking his own country with 25 covid deaths and comparing it unfavourably to the UK with 130000+.
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  3214.  @jimmytwotimes2275  Clever girl. She'll go far.
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  3215. Is this channel being paid by the Tory party to spew out propaganda? This is getting ridiculous now.
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  3216. Why don't we hide the murder figures as well? Or the GDP figures?
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  3217.  @resistantgeordie2636  I'm not the one wanting to cover stuff up to protect the Tory party, am I?
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  3218. Gee, is almost as if the Tory party are trying to run it down so they can sell it off. And by the way, winter crisis are also common in the US with no NHS. And their current covid problems are worse than here.
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  3219. We understand that people shouldn't believe everything they read on the Internet. We also understand that the Chinese called Trump and told him about how bad the virus looked (Was in Bob Woodwards book) and Trump then pivoted and completely ignored it. That makes Trump a traitor by whichever yardstick you use.
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  3220. By getting sick and having their lives ruined. Genius.
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  3221.  @rhyfelwrDuw  No, I'm happy to read scientific papers and textbooks & work out what the course of action is from there. I'm not happy to hear a supposed news channel puke out deliberate distortions of fact when this will lead to their own viewership losing their lives.
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  3222. He's shallow as a one mm puddle. But he's also dangerous and is part of a network of hacks pushing the pro-corona stuff in the media. Nasty little Kiwi gremlin is going to get hauled in front of the C-19 public enquiry soon for all the misinformation he's been pushing. (P.S. I love the kiwis - great bunch of lads and lasses - but not this particular one.)
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  3223.  @MH-cv5ye  They have no news, is right-wing propaganda with this stuff as filler.
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  3224. Didn't mind his character being a possible murderer, a definite heroin addict, a scumbag who steals from old ladies, a weirdo who hangs with odd extremist groups... but making him a gay is a step too far!
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  3225. Why not remove all titles and just shut the Monarchy down and save a few bob?
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  3226.  @jamesblackwell2067  Richard II. Shakespeare. Though he's paraphrasing a bit.
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  3227.  @zakdingle4628  Lol a propaganda page from a bunch of Trumpists.
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  3228. Is funny how every right-winger writes a book about cancel culture but the right-wingers are never cancelled and seem to have a lucrative career going on telly telling us about how intolerant the left are. Almost as if they're all in on a big con or something.
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  3229. He's uneducated on everything. The whole report is basically whining at the BBC inferring Blue Peter are a secret commie cabal trying to mess up the kids. Blue Peter. FFS.
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  3230.  @maltontiger3144  Watch his report. He's claiming Blue Peter is some sort of lefty plot because they promote helping the environment. You know, Blue Peter the show with its own garden that was telling kids about protecting the environment in the 1960s.
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  3231.  @spannerintheworks1190  Yeah, and all that stuff was covered up by the media, including lots of very famous conservative types. Jimmy Savile died a Sir and had pallbearers from the Royal Marines (despite not being in the military), he was chums with the Royals and despite every kid ever thinking he was a weirdo for some reason the entire British establishment loved him.
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  3232. The government mandates you don't walk round naked. You can be jailed for doing so. So how is that any different?
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  3233.  @deanguiri3058  What are you so scared of? I talk to people about this and they all say the same bullet points yet don't come up with any evidence. They're terrified of a little shot and its baffling. They believe any Internet conspiracy drivel but will reject actual science. What's going on? When did we turn into a bunch of whining toddlers?
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  3234.  @deanguiri3058  But I hear that with loads of Bro types as well. They all boast how healthy they are and they don't need a shot yet live on shady supplements and do god knows what in 'enhancement' medication. Joe Rogan is a great example of this, or other brainlets like fitness guy Alan Roberts. I just don't understand the fear. Is always the dudes who scream about 'beta males' who are most reticent. Baffling. Are they scared of needles?
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  3235. To be honest they can just go after the big money funding the anti-lockdowners and arrest them. The general population will be very angry to find the 'men of the people' promoting covid denial are actually astroturf minions of billionaires.
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  3236. Yep... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
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  3237. Let me guess at your other four: 1. Peppa Pig 2. Mussolini 3. Katie Hopkins 4. Yourself.
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  3238. Dido Harding has zero Stem qualifications but ended up running a telecoms company and being in charge of the track and track disaster. The most common degree for British CEOs is history. We're not like China or the US where many CEOs have advanced technical backgrounds.
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  3239. Tory party do that all the time, or have you forgot about the £37 billion for track and trace?
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  3240.  @stevekellett6934  But capitalism is no better. If you believe socialism leads to authoritarianism, then so does capitalism. Now realistically you need a counterbalancing force or two - democracy, a legal system to reign in excess - which kind of ends up with some manner of mixed economy.
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  3241. Don't tell me, he doesn't like vaccines?
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  3242. They're not petrified, they're just aghast at how many morons there are in Britain.
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  3243. It actually is when you throw in the racism misogyny and thuggish violence which often accompanies such movements.
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  3244.  @lukebrown997  Not many lefties forming their own paramilitary groups and threatening to kill people. Is the right that's doing that and is very similar to what they were like in the 30s.
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  3245. @EXPOSING THE ELITE History says you're wrong. Your grandparents would be disgusted you've grown into a fascist worshipper.
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  3246.  @badgoogle9938  You're not locked up inside your house. Stop making up drivel.
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  3247. Mate the Tories have been pushing most of the anti-vax, anti-lockdown stuff since the start. Remember their 'herd immunity' strategy? Or do you notice how lots of Tory journos like Hartley-Brewer and Toby Young have been promoting the 'let the weak die' strategy since the beginning? If the Tories were against this stuff they'd just phone up the Daily Telegraph or Mail and tell them to stop it. They haven't, because they support it.
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  3248. The MPs want you to stand up and let covid rip through the country. Will save them loads of money killing off a ton of pensioners and disabled people, keep commercial rents up and cripple the NHS as a handy bonus.
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  3249. Imagine its the year 2021 and people like the above actually exist. Is like Idiocracy but without the cool president.
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  3250. I thought you lot like shagging flags?
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  3251. Yeah that policy will last until 5 minutes after the first Tory MP is searched and caught with something dodgy...
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  3252. You're assuming its man-made, which it isn't. If we could cobble together entirely new super-viruses from scratch we'd be curing cancer and stuff instead of messing around in China. Even the conspiracy types don't think it was man-made, but enhanced in the lab (which we can do), but their evidence is not that good.
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  3253.  @douglasnakamura6753  What, to build dozens of semiconductor plants, and the chemical factories to feed them and fix up the road network and train hundreds of thousands of engineers? There's a good bit in Walter Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs about this issue. Recommended reading.
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  3254.  @greengrass9572  Yes well when one thing is causing many of our problems is it wise to blame the one thing in the hope that officials will change course and fix the problem.
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  3255. Am a bit confused. Are we suggesting that wearing a medical mask means you can't see somebody? Granted if your stalker is wearing an SAS mask then you may have a point, but otherwise nooo...
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  3256. and what happens when no one complies, the rona spreads, panic breaks out, the shops are cleared of stock (See: Last year), and angry people start rioting? Then the government brings in actual hardcore control and the idiots complaining about masks currently will be silenced by police/military violence. Everyone's a big brave boy until some soldier is beating them round the head.
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  3257.  @richardmacdonald8637  Yeah go on mate. Don't blame me when you're getting shot at to restore order.
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  3258. How do they cope with the inevitable lawsuits when they have an outbreak?
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  3259. Liam, say the B word, mate. You know the B word is a big reason for all this. Go on, say it.
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  3260.  @papapiers1588  You have anxiety about something no one in the UK media was talking about before 2019? Something that didn't really exist until it was turned into a bete-noire by Tory papers struggling to cover-up their covid catastrophe?
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  3261. Cool, so do you do that all the time? Do you refuse antibiotics? Do you tell your surgeon to not wear a mask? Do you mind being served food by grubby waiters who don't wash their hands after going the toilet? What about water? Do you drinking sewage filled water and hope your immune system deals with it?
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  3262. But I bet you'd gobble sheep dip because the Internet told you to.
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  3263. You're wrong on both counts and this may be due to you being brainwashed by conspiracy wonkery. Stop believing drivel.
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  3264. Nothing. Right-wing cancelling is fine and dandy.
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  3265. This is a very good idea. Do the same with schools and watch education improve.
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  3266.  @steptay  A) NI doesn't all go to the NHS - UK health spending is about 3 grand per person. B) A 'working couple' would spend a heck of a lot more going private. C) If you got rid of the NHS private would be even more expensive as the private system here relies on moonlighting NHS consultants and the NHS's size to bargain down drug costs.
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  3267.  @mballer  So why was covid high in India, Brazil, Italy, Spain etc. where people have decent vitamin D levels? Or California? You also know that many people with low vitamin D have it due to other serious health issues (like kidney disease) and its not just a matter of taking a few pills (tho that can help some)?
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  3268.  @mballer  Right, so according to you everywhere has low vitamin D even hot countries with an outside lifestyle? Countries that also like seafood? Granted there will be some lower vit D levels due to various social/other reasons (dress, skin colour, age) but their average level is certainly going to be higher than Britain. By the way, did you know the government had a programme to give free vitamin D to clinically vulnerable people? They shut it down a few weeks ago.
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  3269. You're that offended by a baby? Think you've proved Stella's point.
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  3270. Yes, the Tories did make massive cuts to education & price the working-class out of university. You are correct.
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  3271. Another bunch of morons who'll spread the Rona then complain about lockdowns designed to not spread the Rona. Awe-inspiring levels of idiocy.
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  3272.  @chatteyj  I've had my shots so am fine. Its not a weak virus considering how many its killed and pretending otherwise is moronic. Yes some colds are caused by coronaviruses. Most aren't (adeno and rhino viruses are the majority).
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  3273. After the wretched behaviour of some England fans yesterday it really is time for right-wingers to shut up about culture war nonsense and say sorry for stirring up these morons.
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  3274. Yes. Fox News UK.
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  3275. Same Candace who sued her college for racism? Same Candace who was a liberal activist before discovering the right-wing grift?
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  3276. Good vid on Sweden and Covid.... relatively neutral & very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v341VNPgL50
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  3277. Does it begin with a B and rhyme with Frexit?
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  3278. To be fair the bloke most famous for playing Widow Twankey is hardly an icon of stiff upper lip English manliness.
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  3279. Not really, especially as turbulence and atmospheric physics have always been incredibly hard to study without massive computing power.
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  3280.  @emilysweet9082  Which predictions were wrong?
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  3281.  @Codysdab  You mean like when the scientists said we'd have worse hurricanes (yep), heatwaves (yep), more flooding (yep), climate issues destabilising governments leading to conflict (yep) and the ever cheerful spread of novel diseases (oh yes)? Those predictions?
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  3282.  @Codysdab  Dear me. Yes, I know full well about epidemics of the past, the point is climate change will cause other diseases to spill over into the population as more people/animals etc. move around and interact in different ways. If you paid attention you'll notice a lot of very obscure diseases are popping up with more frequency - aside from covid, we've had sars, mers, Zika, Ebola...
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  3283.  @emilysweet9082  You mean when Ferguson said half a million without mitigations or 50,000 with restrictions? And we had restrictions and ended up with 40odd thousand dead? Kind of accurate. Those sorts of predictions? The ones where the tabloids reported the worst case scenarios and tabloid readers never looked deeper than the first paragraph of the articles?
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  3284. ​ @Codysdab  "hurricanes are down, flooding is normal, fires are much much less, war is much less nowadays than ever in human history you're just repeating cherry picked data, as you see everywhere." Are you having a laugh? The fires in the US were horrendous this year, the flooding in Europe was insane. Wars may be less than in 1850, but they're increasing in frequency again after a post cold-war drop.
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  3285. Well if like GB News you hire a bunch of millionaires pretending to represent the ordinary man against the 'elitists' then people would get offended. Plus the shit joke name. Not really funny, but good try.
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  3286. Mass murder is illegal in Britain, mate.
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  3287. We don't stigmatise them you muppet. Talking of which did Patrick go to university? Did he study a bad-ass STEM subject?
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  3288.  @damo010  But Trump did handle it badly. Was his agreement.
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  3289.  @angrybrit7331  You're making assumptions to downplay this. It seems to be a theme that the gov and their media minions have decided to let the vulnerable burn.
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  3290.  @angrybrit7331  So we're just giving up then? Its only endemic because we've allowed it to get that way. I don't recall Sars being endemic, or MERS - both of which were just as easily spread as covid. The defeatist attitude in this country stuns me. Oh no, we can't stop the virus, lets just spread it anyway because we can't be arsed to wear a mask in a pandemic.
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  3291.  @angrybrit7331  We didn't get rid of Sars through herd immunity. We isolated it and restricted its growth. Vaccination is great, but we probably need to vaccinate kids to stop this thing. Good to see you concerned about mental health - can you tell me why not one single Tory wants to spend more money on mental health and they're just announced a £20 cut to Universal Credit which will impact the poor badly and wreck their mental health? Is almost as if they're not bothered about mental health, is just a buzz phrase they trot out... Also, how is opening up fully going to help the economy if tons of people get the Rona and have to go off work sick? And do you think people will be happy to go out when the infection risk is so high?
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  3292. Plus you need to lock up police that murder women. That's what we're talking about today, keep focussed on the issue.
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  3293. Is simple. They're culture warriors. But they've also realised the freedom they talk about means more Rona, so are trying to backtrack because when this next wave is over the British people will be incandescent with rage and their ire will be focussed on the lying media as well as the government for making them part of a medical catastrophe.
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  3294. It must be weird getting so excited over Britain effectively kicking itself in the balls then going 'My balls hurt, I blame the Metropolitan liberal elites'.
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  3295. You won't be missed mate. England are winning now so plenty of others will be after tickets.
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  3296.  @rogermiller4929  Stop being a cretin. Its not the flu and it isn't cured with sheep dip.
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  3297.  @stoicsceptic8420  To vaccinate people you absolute nano-brain.
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  3298.  @NPC-st7zv  Well because if there's no restrictions on the vaccinated then the anti-vax groups will spend all their time whining and they have the ear of government. The antivaxxers are very loud compared to their size and they're also likely to be a vector for infection (especially considering how many are also anti-mask). This is the current situation in Florida where Gov DeathSentance wants cruises to allow unvaccinated passengers, but cruise ships like money and don't want to be sued into oblivion the moment there's another outbreak on one of their ships.
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  3299. 37 billion spent on test and trace. Everyone seems to have forgot about that...
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  3300. Dunno man, where does the 8% pension rise money come from? Or the £37 billion for track and trace? Or the money for the Queen?
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  3301. Yeah cool, let a few million more die do Andrew can feel smug.
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  3302. You mean Boomers who get all their news from tabloids?
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  3303. I've been online a long time and can't say I've ever had a woman threaten to kill me. Blokes tho... oh dear.
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  3304.  @rescyn1190  The definition of trolling is not 'person who shares scientific information with idiots in the hopes of keeping those idiots alive and healthy', so I therefore cannot be a troll.
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  3305. Apparently not. https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/features/covid-19-remembering-nursing-staff-who-have-lost-their-lives-160011
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  3306. Who do you think Nige works for? He was a top mate of Trump and gets a lot of his funding from there.
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  3307. No.
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  3308. Oh I dunno, history? Culture? Beautiful art? Beautiful women? The Alps? The cote d'azur which is nicer than Blackpool? Are you the type of Brit who only goes on holiday to get drunk and baked by the sun?
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  3309.  Bob Mule  No Bob, you've been brainwashed by reading some much guff on social media. Younger and younger people are dying of covid and the prime age for death now is around the age of 50.
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  3310.  @susysamalex  If you have four mates falling ill from the vaccine in ten days then I'd suggest reporting this to the Mail/GB News/Telegraph who am sure would love to feature your story.
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  3311.  @susysamalex  Is this dude now sick? Again, if you suspect is a vaccine problem there's tons of media that will run your story.
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  3312.  @susysamalex  Sorry, checked just giving link. Stroke. That's grim.
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  3313. Yeah, you're going to disable thousands of kids because Charles Manson told you vaccines are child abuse. Seriously, use your brains for a change.
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  3314. Neil's almost certainly had the vaccine and is BSing about it - he's another Rupert Murdoch.
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  3315.  @zantas-handle  Yeah, well there's a ton of celebs pushing anti-vax stuff and we know they've had the vax. Neil may be an outlier, but considering his job am pretty sure he's had vaccinations before (for travel etc.) and had no problems with them.
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  3316. Or maybe you voted in a Tory government who are useless and now the country is suffering you're trying to blame others. Own your shit.
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  3317.  @kym1160  Its his fault he created a train-wreck of a channel. Bit rich to complain about conspiracy extremists and fake news when he was pushing that here from the start.
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  3318.  @kym1160  But the whole 'non-woke' thing is basically importing the US culture war for British audiences - and its not going down well. As for unbiased, well every video I watch on here is super-biased and often incredibly ignorant and has no place on an actual 'news' channel. Seeing Neil Oliver (for example) sit there and Manson-like ramble about how he'd be happy to spread covid is the sort of thing that has no place on any sensible media. Its just encouraging British people to hurt themselves and is massively irresponsible. Or for that matter if the channel was unbiased, why does New Zealander Dan Wooten have nothing good to say about New Zealand's covid response which has been by far the most successful in the entire world?
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  3319. Boris is also tubby, unhealthy and could easily be sickened with a dose of Delta. It wouldn't kill him, but could knock him out the game for a week.
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  3320. They used to vaccinate soldiers in the war (many of whom were teenagers) and if you said no you'd be court-martialled. Especially as one big fear of WW2 (thankfully which didn't come to pass) was an attack on the UK with bioweapons.
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  3321. Paw Patrol in Welsh gets better ratings than GB News, so I totally agree is a cool little show.
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  3322. Tucker: "Blah blah 1984." "Hey dude, did you read the bit about the two-minute hate?" "Eh, what? As I was saying Fauci is the enemy! AOC hates America! Lets spend some time hating Greta..."
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  3323.  @joekingman208  What is he correct about?
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  3324. I have an undergrad physics textbook from the early 90s which has a whole section on the physics of climate change.
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  3325.  @burgesspark685  No it isn't. See Venus which I believe has an atmosphere of around 95% co2 & this is a core reason why it has a surface temperature hotter than a pizza oven.
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  3326. Which is why we're all immune to the flu and Aids and cancer and... oh. We're not are we?...
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  3327. And he's not actually British. I mean if we have to import New Zealanders to go on the telly, how about Xena Warrior Princess or that Jermaine Clement fella, instead of this piano-faced propagandist?
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  3328. You'd rather have a priapic gonk who kills more British people than the Blitz in power?
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  3329. Wasn't the kids who voted for Brexit, was it? They also didn't vote for Evil Honeymonster to be PM. The kids also spent a good year helping out during the pandemic while their elders sneered at them. The kids are okay. Their elders... not so much.
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  3330.  @stantheman9072  Freedom isn't scary to the young at all. Young people tend to think they're indestructible.
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  3331. Is interesting how most of our advances have been based around what we can do with semiconductors and the rate of advance in other things has been much less. There was a post on Reddit the other day making the point that the time it took from the Wright Brothers to the Moon landing was 66 years. In that time we also developed everything from affordable cars to satellites to nuclear power, computers, colour movies with sound, TV, semiconductor electronics, antibiotics, organ transplants, cosmetic surgery, helicopters & jet planes, microwave ovens, electron microscopes and so on. In the 50+ years since the original moon landing the rate of advance has been relatively small outside of computing and related tech. We are still making advances in other fields but are definitely not undergoing the epochal leaps we saw in, say, the WW2 and after time frame. Thin TV sets & HD streaming are cool, though.
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  3332. No they won't. Raves will very quickly find themselves be shut if covid spreads and no one is going to tolerate a mass-spreader in their midst.
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  3333. Funnily enough I have a stalker on here who copies my name and avatar and posts nonsense. No mask, but apparently stalking is okay on GB News!
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  3334. The media always whine about degrees. The Tories don't like peasants getting an education so try to convince them to do something else. Plus an educated nation would be less prone to political propaganda so have to keep the oiks down.
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  3335. Lol, how about 1960s Britain, or Norway, or Sweden for much of the past 50 years?
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  3336.  @andyforshaw8489  You do know that many of the politics courses are quite right-wing? They gave us characters like Boris and David Cameron.
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  3337. Climate change is going to cause lots of issues in the near future. A population who are vaguely aware we got conquered by the Normans in 1066 is going to be a bit useless at coping with said environment problems.
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  3338.  @shaunluckham1418 Ignoring it won't make it go away. There's already massive problems caused by climate issues around the world.
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  3339.  @shaunluckham1418  Natural occurrences made worse by us. I don't recall heatwaves in Siberia when I was a kid, for instance. Nor do I recall British winters with about half a dozen cold days and a small flurry of snow. Winters were much, much colder in the immediate past.
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  3340.  @MRCAGR1  And yet the changes are exactly what was predicted by climate scientists decades ago. The interaction between sun and planet is dependent on a whole host of factors, a principle one of which is atmospheric composition. The moon is the same distance from the sun as Earth (give or take a few hundred thousand miles), yet the moon is both hotter and colder - depending on the area you visit - than anywhere on planet Earth due to its lack of atmosphere. Similarly Venus has a thick atmosphere and is a literal hell. Ironically in the past it was thought that Venus was some sort of tropical paradise because all you could see from Earth telescopes were bluey-green clouds & Venus is roughly the same size as Earth. Turns out they're clouds of toxic chemical and Venus suffered from a runaway greenhouse effect in ancient history. Can't remember the exact figure, but the threshold for photosynthesis is around 150ppm. Our natural levels are around 350ppm. Current levels 415.
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  3341.  @shaunluckham1418  Yes, very good. But those extreme events are happening more and more due to us destabilising the atmosphere. It isn't 'hysteria', is observable fact.
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  3342.  @MRCAGR1  Yes, I am aware of all those things about Venus. But the reason it isn't a tropical planet and instead a hellhole is due to a runaway greenhouse effect, albeit caused by natural processes in prehistory such as the dispersion of surface water as you mention. Earths past co2 levels were higher but nowhere near the levels on Venus. Similarly, 'oh we had a warming period centuries ago' is not a riposte to all that is going on now.
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  3343. What do you think immigration will be like when large-scale ecosystems collapse? I don't think millions of starving Indians/Chinese/Egyptians etc. will sit round and say 'Oh, I'd best starve to death. No point in trying to flee to a country with food and clement weather'...
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  3344. No you voted for fascism and are complaining now you're getting fascism.
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  3345. What, kill thousands, tank the economy then look wistfully at the success of New Zealand?
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  3346.  @Bennett2142  I'm sorry, did he or did he not have his minions attack the Capitol? Did he or did he not want his generals to attack civilians during the summer protests? Did he or did he not slack off on covid prevention because he thought it would kill mainly city Democrats? Why is civil war a big talking point on the right and why are they obsessed with stockpiling weapons? Why are there so many right-wing paramilitary groups popping up and causing trouble? You can pretend I'm wrong, but historians will report the truth.
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  3347.  sphaget   I'm sorry but Trumpy boy and his pals at Fox were endlessly stoking up those tensions. Are we pretending historians are all liars now?
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  3348.  @jrobs1133  I actually don't. Defending the worst American president in over a century is not cool, man.
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  3349. That depends. If said monarchy is trying to cover up the wrong doings of one of its wayward sons, then the populace might be a tiny bit angry about that.
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  3350. I know, they should do like the Indians and fly in with the corona and Boris will be made up and offer them a trade deal.
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  3351. Umm, no Boris did that as well for months. Admittedly he was lazy and got his lackeys to do it, but still...
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  3352. You have grandkids but didn't notice that Britain has been vaccinating people for decades?
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  3353. In the past fairy stories were often quite dark and violent. That wouldn't play well with modern audiences so they sanitize them. Modern fairies are cute and adorable in contrast to their historical cousins who kidnap women, steal kids and replace them with evil doppelgängers & do assorted other nasty things in their spare time. The same goes for Bible stories. Pretty sure if you made a TV show that literally interprets the Bible featuring Lot being raped by his daughters there would be a TON of complaints.
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  3354. Clearly it doesn't or we wouldn't have needed vaccines to get rid of Smallpox. Unless you're talking about vaccine-mediated herd immunity, which am sure you're not.
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  3355. Dogs get vaccinations all the time.
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  3356. Apparently Tories just lost their safest seat because their voters hate the Boris-fueled culture war drivel and think is basically there to propagandise grubby Northerners. As a grubby Northerner, this is probably close to the truth.
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  3357. Cool, ban the Taliban. Also ban professional liars spreading disinformation - which includes half the British media.
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  3358. Tories do that all the time.
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  3359.  Don Trump  Hello Don, named after America's worst excuse for a president.
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  3360.  thomas robert  That's a bit of a contorted plot. Capitalism communism and dead Chinese?
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  3361. The very fact you think anyone who isn't Tory is communist shows the lack of thinking in this country. You could have voted Lib Dem or Green and we could have had a coalition govt. with Jezza doing his bit to keep the NHS running and keep covid deaths down. But no. Reds under the bed paranoia has oozed into your brain.
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  3362. I'd swap one of the New Zealand sheep for Johnson. Especially if Arden chucked in a free Kakapo. They're awesome.
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  3363. Was Jimmy Savile black?
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  3364. Then sack them for expressing a different opinion.
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  3365.  @mike.coondog7155  No, he's using Randian language because he's clueless and is catering to the pro-covid crowd who somehow think they're big brave types by not wearing a mask.
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  3366.  @Tommo77ful  If cars started randomly killing 1000 people a day and causing injury to 10,000 then am pretty sure there would be a massive crackdown on cars & drivers by the fuzz.
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  3367. Its a baby FFS, why are all these blokes offended?
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  3368. Funnily enough in ye olden days we used a lot more salt because fridges didn't exist so much of the food was preserved in salt. The result was actually very high rates of stomach cancers which mysteriously dropped when salt use diminished as refrigeration became a thing.
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  3369.  @davidwesternall873  Vermont - mainly vaxxed. Population 623000, covid deaths - 281. South Dakota - lots of antivaxxers. Population 884000. Covid deaths - 2072. Vermont seems to be doing well.
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  3370.  sphaget   Just checked the ratings. There's not many must watching...
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  3371. What does that even mean? And yes I know what NLP is, I just can't understand your poor English.
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  3372.  @Okay_thankyou_bye  And this affects leftists uniquely?
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  3373. Beautifully written piece: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/gb-news-week-1-it-takes-until-tuesday-to-go-full-wingnut-1.4596133
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  3374. Are you talking about Wooten? Wooten the infectious disease expert and climate expert and Meghan expert?
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  3375. Did the left issue an edict ordering Conservatives to not be funny then?
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  3376.  @leofriel4556  And definitely not a comedian. I ask every week if someone can point me to him being funny and they just deflect and go 'Well acshully he did a fine parody on Twitter'....
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  3377. What other side? The side of nonsense? Is this where British people are now? 'Oh, I don't like bad news, I want a runt from another country to lecture me about patriotism and make stuff up. That'll make me feel better'. We've really crashed a long way down since WW2.
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  3378. You can kill more Brits than the Blitz, blow £37 billion quid on shady track and track deals for your mates, nuke the NHS, rip off pensioners, pour effluent in the water but apparently no one thinks that's a problem. But act like a dickhead for one speech and all of a sudden....
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  3379. Dear me, trying to appeal to Trumpists is a truly tragic strategy for a news channel.
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  3380.  david woods  You win the best AI-generated bot post of the day. Well done.
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  3381. Things GB News wants to cancel: Their own presenter - done that. Transgender athletes. Prince Harry. Vaccine passports. The England footy team. Anyone who thinks racism is bad. Public health measures. The BBC. Anyone who criticises Brexit. Anyone who criticises the Tories. Anyone who points out the 'news' station is full of odd Brexit-related types with no media background. The NHS. Anyone who thinks climate change is real. Comedy that's funny if its not right-wing enough. Anyone who mentions Andrew Neil has done a runner and lives in France. Those who mention the station's dodgy foreign funding. Am sure there's others.
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  3382. @Dea Harri You're missing the point of wanting to cancel everything then screaming every day about cancel culture is just a bit odd.
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  3383. Its not your full health status, its simply whether you've had a vaccine. Funny how millions of Brits walk round with an Apple Watch or a Fitbit that records your heart rate, everywhere you go, when you sleep - and then uploads it to the Internet.
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  3384.  @theurg4504  So write in proper English, and its cervices (plural). I'm a bloke and know that.
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  3385. Bwahaha. What logic and facts? You spend all your time lying and creating conspiracies to back up your lies. To the Conservatives of the 1950s modern right-wingers would be seen as backward and borderline fascist. They'd be mortified at your so-called merit politics.
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  3386.  @sneakyrodent1853  I'd look more normal than you lot, tho.
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  3387. And yet we never complain about all the nepotism and classism infecting the British media. The talentless children of celebs being propelled into the limelight while the only way to get a decent media job is to be Oxbridge and have rich parents. But no, let's get distracted by the slightly quirky black lass instead...
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  3388. Which reminds me, what is the background of Gerrish? From what I've read he was in the Navy then flipped to running his channel which popped up from nowhere and was screaming about communist plots in 2006. Does he have a spooky background? Anyone like to give details? And how is he funded now? Adverts and subs don't really cut it for the organisation he's running. Does he have chums from abroad providing cash?
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  3389.  @phillipsmiley5930  No mate, that's weird conspiracy stuff from the bowels of the internet. It makes people think there's a secret lefty plot to ruin everything rather than blaming the overclass who control almost all resources.
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  3390. The gammons and Trumpists are currently protesting in London. It's not going well. They appear to be throwing bottles at the police. The general view of those watching so far can be Internet summarised as 'OMG, what a bunch of clowns'.
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  3391.  @garyschollmeier616  Hardly a brown shirt if I'm opposed to fascism, mate.
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  3392. @Edward Colston What is the obsession with right-wingers and incontinence? Is weird. Are you all projecting or something?
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  3393. Why do you think they're after an Indian trade deal? There's your future cheap workers. Even Farage was oddly down with the Hindu Nationalists and favoured letting them in to the UK.
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  3394. A good, sensible comment. Thank you.
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  3395. All the media are reporting the drops.
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  3396. Yep. They're pushing a very weird, almost Bannon-esque agenda which is enormously anti-British. Funnily enough their main funding comes from the US.
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  3397. As a lefty tosser I think it's hilarious all these clowns are trying to make excuses for their massive, massive failures on everything. Is quite a sight to behold, like when the coppers nick a heroin addict and said addict makes all sorts of excuses for why they're carrying needles and shoplifted ciggies.
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  3398.  @rioangel8397  So you stopped complying in 2019 when there was no coronavirus or any restrictions? Are you Dr Who?
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  3399.  @shanjanusman9974  Blaming the cautious for the stupidity of government policies is a bit of galaxy brain take. I remember how much the Tories cared for the mentally ill previously (Spoilers: they didn't) or the NHS (funding cuts) or the kids (education cuts and austerity). Remember how much the Tories cared for people losing their jobs? Jeremy Kyle, Benefit Street, daily articles about 'scroungers'.... So spare me the buck passing. The clowns in charge need to pay for their stupidity.
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  3400. Reinfection is a thing.
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  3401.  @MrAmbrosse  Yes people are stupid for understanding science as opposed to random brainlets who cough up Facebook memes as evidence. Remember all those kids who got chicken pox and were immune? But it turns out the virus stays in the body and can often emerge in the form of shingles decades later? By your logic that can't happen - yet it does.
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  3402. You're sick of truth?
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  3403.  @rob5944  Not quite. As a country that prints its own money budgets aren't really the same as a credit card. For one think you can borrow at incredibly low rates and pay back over the course of a lifetime. You can also print money (which may be inflationary but can be done). If the gov really were concerned about the deficit they'd do like they do in wartime and have a tax on the rich to tide us over the pandemic. Say for two - five years. Excess profits taxes on the rich during disasters or wars aren't socialist - they've been a thing for several centuries at least. Nope. Instead they'll make cuts and have been for over a decade & yet none of these cuts have actually helped the ordinary people. That's why we have fewer libraries and youth clubs but far more food banks now.
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  3404. Everything is open. 'Freedom Day' is a tabloid buzz-phrase much like 'Boris saves Christmas' - and we know what happened there...
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  3405.  @hamwhacker  They've had tons of testing. Plenty of people are dying under 65 of covid. Stop pushing deliberate lies.
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  3406.  @Rasle500  If that's your hero then you've lost the plot. A failed actor paid by shady right-wings to spew out propaganda while pretending to be an ordinary person.
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  3407. So let's see, a quick look at the comments on these videos and most are hating on Muslims and screaming about a war with Islam. Hmmm. And this channel itself has hated on everyone from footie players to doctors over its short, ignominious existence. Hmmm. Perhaps the right should look at themselves in the mirror (I assume they do have a reflection?) and ask whether their behaviour of making everything a culture war has caused a decline in political discourse.
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  3408. Yet if we had no lockdown and distancing there would be far fewer people married anyway - because they'd be dead.
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  3409. @Alfie Many younger people died and last time I checked plenty of people in their 40s and 50s get married, ergo would have been in the group who had high death rates in an uncontrolled pandemic.
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  3410.  @jimbob8385  Welfare is a safety net, the money people get is very low (benefit caps and all that). And please tell me the difference between those single mothers you complain about and the 'yummy mummies' who also don't work but live off their husband/divorce money instead? Or is it okay to not work so long as you sponge off a wealthy spouse?
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  3411.  @jimbob8385  This is confusing me. So is okay to sponge, but not to sponge off taxpayers. Therefore that must surely make the Royals just as immoral as the dolies? Or the MPs blagging expenses off the taxpayers?
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  3412.  @williams4434  Do you remember what happened? Every country banned the CFCs that were causing it and the ozone hole stopped getting bigger and has now shrunk considerably.
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  3413. Then you have long covid problems, inflammatory syndrome, fertility issues, brain issues... covid isn't fun, even with a mild case.
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  3414. What, over vegans?
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  3415. Imagine applying that principal to HIV or any other STD. No one gets tested until their bits are dropping off, then suddenly doctors are stunned by how many people are sick because the diseases were allowed to spread unchecked.
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  3416.  @koelbird4608  Right, so we should forget about racism then? Am genuinely curious if you saw some of the stuff going on yesterday and think that's okay?
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  3417. I bet he's not too anxious for a sausage.
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  3418. You're not locked-down. You're being asked to wear a mask and not be a disease-spreading imbecile.
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  3419. Express as well, Talk Radio.. . the list goes on!
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  3420. What if the Bible is actually an intelligence test? Hear me out... what if (not religious, just throwing a hypothetical out there) God gives us instructions in a book with a dark ending and the hope is that humans improve their lot to prevent the dark ending and therefore make God proud that humanity has stood on its own two feet? Unfortunately humans misunderstand the book, pervert its contents and decide the apocalyptic ending is kind of cool and work as hard as they can to utterly wreck the planet in the hope that God will come back and save them? Ergo, we are failing the test. So kind of like that old Star Trek episode with the gangsters, then...
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  3421.  @clivemortimore8203  Yep, these brainlets have zero grasp of public health or helping other people. I bet they're the same types who tell everyone they go to church and are all moral.
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  3422. Social media is a control system. It enables your everyday conversations to be archived and used against you. At the moment mainly for advertising, but as we've seen with the CA scandal it can also be used to warp politics and get the population believing anything.
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  3423. 'workshy BBC staff' - is someone jealous the BBC didn't hire them? Can't say I've seen Fiona Bruce on telly in her underwear. And I've looked.
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  3424. Kids are probably more discerning with social media these days. The real problem is with adults who believe any drivel they see on Facebook and rebroadcast it to all their friends. This is why you see teens who are like 'Yeah, think I'll get me vaccine to help lower my risk of covid and protect others'... ... while their parents generation are like 'OMG NANOBOT POISON WITH GRAPHENE IN IT!!!!!!'
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  3425. All the anti-lockdown groups are pro-covid and basically push the bullet points given to them by various big business types who want no lockdown so they can make lots of money. They care not one jot if the peasants die.
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  3426. That background flag needs to go, it looks like something from an SS parade.
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  3427. By four star hotels you mean a former Travelodge that was going bankrupt in the lockdown?
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  3428. He's also not really a fan of Jews. Many of his conspiracies (the 'cultural marxism' thing for example) are re-writes of old Nazi conspiracies. Plus he's appeared on shows like RedIce which is a straight neo-nazi operation. He's actually been condemned by the main Jewish groups in Britain, but of course no one wants to mention that.
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  3429.  @Locke350  So tell me, is anyone actually watching the channel? If its so popular why are so many of the comments here clearly bots (the 'I LOVE GB NEWS!!!!' posters)? Why did its own creator do a runner after two weeks?
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  3430. Have lots of animals that need to be fed. They produce a lot of waste, which spreads disease. Hence in a country of limited size is hard to see how you can expand animal farming unless people want to live knee-deep in animal slurry.
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  3431.  @JAZPER53  Since when did protecting the environment count as fascism? Do you people listen to yourselves?
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  3432. Like the Royals? Like GB News with their investors cash?
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  3433. Don't forget Patty Boulaye, mate!
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  3434. To be fair Britain, the US and Russia teamed up to defeat the Nazis, so your knowledge of history is a bit shaky. Secondly, the gesture comes from Colin Kalpernik who actually was advised to do it by a US veteran, as a nice, simply gesture. No Marxism involved.
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  3435.  @ratusbagus  You mentioned communism and fighting it. I was helpfully pointing out we were allied with the Communists during the war. Secondly the knee gesture is neutral and as I've said came from a US footballer on the advice of a military veteran friend. It isn't communism, but the reaction to it demonstrates why the gesture is needed.
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  3436. These guys aren't patriotic though. You have Neil living in France, GB News funded by foreign money from the US and other places, presenters who spend endless time attacking our footballers, our lifeboatmen, our doctors, our working-class, our attempts to deal with a deadly pandemic.... that's not patriotism, that's neo-fascism on their behalf.
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  3437. @Neria Wolf I'm sorry, since when was posting facts and critiquing stupidity 'trolling'? I've been trolled on here by you lot tho - the fake account I had to report, the insults, the selective deletion of my posts...
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  3438. That would be pro-European Kenneth Williams. Who himself was common as muck but put on the posh accent.
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  3439.  @terryreknaw6152  Thank you Tory party for sending so many of your promoters out today. Hope they're all getting overtime!
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  3440. Spoilers: The David Beckham studies was a meme from years ago when the Daily Mail tried to convince working-class people that uni is useless and they'll learn nothing. I believe it was based on one media course that looked at celebrity culture or something. Meanwhile posh kids spend three years doing English or politics then end up running the nation. Look at Dido Harding - ran a telecoms corp, head of track & trace, was on the shortlist to run the NHS... does she have a fancy engineering Phd like someone such as Lisa Su? Nope. Did PPE and was a classmate of David Cameron.
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  3441. Tinfoil hat man is working for the same libertarian groups who got us into this mess in the first place.
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  3442.  @BradLad56  Mate globalism first started in the Victorian era when international telegraphy became a thing.
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  3443. If you are breathing out carbon monoxide then you need medical attention or should stop chainsmoking asap.
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  3444. If it helps, Boris' dad wrote a thriller novel about a viral pandemic - in 1982. He recently republished it to cash in. But y'know when Boris pretended to be clueless about pandemics... yeah, clearly not.
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  3445. Why not both?
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  3446. Is a bit of a jump from online shopping to Muslim race paranoia. But if it helps, perhaps if we stopped blowing up property prices & increasing student loans, then more white kids could afford to start a family? Seriously, chat to some young people about why they don't have kids. Will they answer: "Because a house is 300 grand and I work for Deliveroo" or "Is the forrins fault for outbreeding us, innit" ?
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  3447. Do you like that Dan completely forgot New Zealand existed or that it has done well containing covid?
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  3448. You know the best way to do that? Not have the country riddled with covid. Blame the absolute morons in government who thought we could 'learn to live with' a virus they've stopped trying to mitigate. And it isn't an NHS thing - see also Florida, Texas, South Carolina...
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  3449. I like how Boomers who avoided national service think national service is now a great idea.
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  3450.  @Surv1ve_Thrive  There's plenty of voluntary projects like that - Duke of Edinburgh scheme has been a thing for decades.
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  3451. No, creepy fascist parties funded by foreign dark money isn't what we want at all.
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  3452. The questions were sensible. We have now crashed out of Europe, everybody hates us, there's shortages, Ireland is a mess... project fear pretty accurate overall.
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  3453. Yeadon is a fraud. He got everything wrong last year.
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  3454. Does not having the app make corona go away?
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  3455.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  When we had no lockdown last year, or app, we saw mass panic around the world with people buying up stuff in supermarkets which ultimately ended up in temporary rationing. If you think pretending the Rona will go away and anyone concerned about it is hysterical then wait until the food shortages kick in and watch the panic then.
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  3456. Yes mate, that's modern capitalism. Houses for the wealthy, rent your phone, rent your Uber, pay for Prime, rent your computer games...
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  3457.  @o00nemesis00o  So Capitalism isn't getting most of its money from rents these days? The rentier class aren't a - cough, Alan Sugar - thing?
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  3458.  @juliantheapostate8295  To a degree yes, and Adam Smith was not a fan of it. But modern capitalism is based heavily on rents and price speculation in land and real estate.
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  3459. Don't suppose they've covered the Daniel Morgan report yet? Giant, giant story. Any UK-news-centric channel should be on it like a small, hungry dog on a pile of sausages.
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  3460. In other news, the French have admitted 300,000+ kids were molested by Priests since the 1950s.
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  3461. It was an Empire mate, full of nastiness. Plus there's been plenty of pro-empire stuff on in the past - look at all those TV dramas with glamorous people in far-off places who are all posh and nice. Back in the day the BBC even did a massively expensive drama series about Cecil Rhodes, starring Martin Shaw.
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  3462. Yep, the hbomberguy video on vaccines is excellent and goes to some dark places & shows the support Wakefield and his shady business got across the political spectrum in the British media. Hack journalists really need to stay in their lane.
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  3463. Mate, there was no lockdown or even restrictions last March and people cleared out the supermarkets all over the world of toilet paper, pasta, alcohol wipes, sanitizer and flour.
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  3464. And yet we've been throwing deliberate aids spreaders in jail for years. Didn't see anyone complain about that.
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  3465. That sounds disgusting. Thanks for warning me, because I might accidentally visit there one day and don't want to be shocked at all the immorality. (How much is a pint in the clubs?)
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  3466. This channel is media, they're nudging people to get infected with the full blessing of the government.
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  3467. Police: Let's have uniforms all our staff are comfortable in. GB News: Hur de hurr, comfortable uniforms are a sign of weakness! Hur de hurr, rainbow cars and gays! Pitiful clickbaitery.
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  3468. OMG ANOTHER WHINING SEGMENT.
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  3469. You clearly weren't around in the days where peasants could be executed for saying the wrong thing.
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  3470. Yes, the sun will expand and fry us in ten or so billion years. However, cooking our atmosphere may fry us in a few decades.
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  3471.  @GARdotETH  That is not the reason the temperature is increasing. We can calculate orbital dynamics very accurately and our orbit is stable over the short-term so therefore not causing the anomalous heating.
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  3472. Judging by the coronavirus comments on here I don't think Tories actually do maths?
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  3473. @Helen Wilson Have you been watching the news recently? Germany flooded, giant fires across Turkey and Greece & the US, a heatwave in Siberia... events that used to happen every decade or so are now happening several times a year (several times in a week during the recent US heatwave).
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  3474. You clearly don't remember Public information films of the 70s which warned kids about perverts, getting run over, getting electrocuted, drugs and various other dangers (such as drowning).
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  3475.  @cjcj6198  Why do middle-aged men hate this kid so much? Is it because she's quite intelligent and has studied a subject they know nothing about?
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  3476. @tipihedroncollider And you think Wooten and co aren't reading from a script? You think the climate denial groups aren't being massively funded by the oil industry?
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  3477. @tipihedroncollider Yes let's mock the teenager talking sense while we take our science advice from a gossip columnist.
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  3478.  @cjcj6198  And the presenters on this show are a mouthpiece for dark money libertarian shysters. Which we already have evidence for. Attacking Greta constantly is a strange hill to die on.
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  3479. All the news coverage during lockdown about mental illness was simply not sincere. It was a way of demanding an end to lockdown. Now its done (for the moment) the gov and press can forget all about mental illness, drug abuse and suicide. They never cared.
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  3480. Florida is also having a resurgence of the Rona at the moment. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/florida-republican-james-ring-covid_n_60e77808e4b0b9a790b70f84?ri18n=true
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  3481. Yeah God trashed the entire planet with a flood and God later promises to destroy us all in fire. Which sounds about right when you think about it.
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  3482. No. 😄
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  3483.  @jomay78  Well we are now using kids as a control group and lots of them will suffer. My 'nonsense' as you call it is currently being played out in Florida and Texas. Will be here soon. I imagine any sympathy for antivaxxers will vanish very quickly after that.
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  3484. Did Jeremy encourage football hooligans to boo the players, then? No, that was the Tories. Did Jeremy import a culture war from the US right-wing? Nope.
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  3485. Ice-core drilling. Look it up Einstein.
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  3486.  @justarandomguy9459  You forgot about let the bodies pile high Boris. Or the number of posters on here who are like 'Well actually the average covid death age is 84 so...'
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  3487.  @justarandomguy9459  https://www.scmp.com/sport/martial-arts/mixed-martial-arts/article/3132744/one-championship-sage-northcutt-details For example.
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  3488.  @MickeyCool30  No one is saying it kills everyone, but it is fairly random in who it hits. Yes, your risk is higher if you're elderly, sick or very overweight but even so plenty of people with those issues recovered fine while others who are younger and healthier ended up floored with long covid. This is why we should do lots of research into what is going on.* * for example it also hit people with Downs syndrome badly (possibly due to heart issues) and certain racial groups. We're not 100% sure why.
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  3489.  @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima  I'm not. I'm an amiable leftie.
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  3490. Its only a miracle cure in Internet meme land, mate.
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  3491. Ha, just said the same before reading your eminent comment!
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  3492. Is also to allow the workforce to buy things. A broke workforce working for peanuts isn't buying houses or going to stadium concerts.
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  3493.  @martinus4873  UK Column is a shitty conspiracy site that constantly spews out bad evidence. Why would I believe them when I can read actual medical papers written by proper doctors? You're seriously arguing we should all be watching fake news and ignore our problems.
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  3494.  @martinus4873  Yeadon is a con man. He constantly gets his facts wrong and is clearly pushing some weird ideological agenda. Stop pushing these clowns - remember at some point there's going to be a public enquiry into this thing and the press's fondness for cranks and liars will be a big part of it.
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  3495.  @journeyintococo6996  Well here's an experiment - go sit in a closed room and fill it with C02. Even with enough oxygen by the time the CO2 hits 2000 ppm your brain will start acting up and by 10000 you won't be able to think straight. By 50,000 you'll be calling for help. All perfectly natural. Like arsenic and Belladonna.
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  3496. You have a rose-tinted view of university in the past. There's always been easier courses and many of them were put in place to allow the children of the wealthy to get a degree. There's a reason the term 'Gentleman's Third' used to be common.
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  3497. Did better than Boris.
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  3498.  Sean Mulcahy  What, like Barack Obama's dad? Barack turned out fine.
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  3499. Volcanos emit much less co2 than industrial activity. Or do you really think 7 billion people, a billion cars, hundreds of giant cruise ships and thousands of planes don't emit much pollution?
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  3500.  @Nada-wc2yt  Because again the chance of you spreading it is reduced even if you do catch it. Of course if everyone had their shots there would be no need for any vax passports & little spread but we have a nation full of anti-vaxxer wibbleheads who have done their darndest to stop kids getting their shots thus creating a giant pool of infectable subjects.
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  3501.  @Andrew-ri5qo  It clearly does work because if it didn't our 43+k cases a day would see at least 500-1000 people dying a day as we saw in January. Possibly more as Delta is nastier (see what it did to India).
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  3502. So masks are a plot to sell vaccines? So what information did you look at to come to this conclusion? Facebook memes?
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  3503. So you don't think letting this thing spread is a bad idea? https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210407/erectile-dysfunction-risk-6-times-higher-in-men-with-covid
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  3504. Well over the next 15-20 years fusion might help: https://www.iter.org/ Or giant solar arrays. Or more wind. Or sucking heat energy out the ground with geothermal. Engineers are clever and can solve problems.
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  3505. Spoilers: No. AI research is interesting and there's some cool stuff, but the claims made are basically drivel & almost a religious thing as pushed by devotees like Kurzweil. Would respectfully suggest a read of Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind to start and go from there.
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  3506. Zig and Zag were legends.
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  3507. Well the British protest had a woman wanting to hang doctors and nurses (to cheers from the crowd) and a 'conspiracy theorist' guy who was jailed in the 90s for shooting a girl in the face. Which was all reported. The reason it isn't being reported on here is that they're trying to pretend the protests are about freedom instead of the fascist trouble-causing they actually are.
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  3508.  @DnB93  That's about the 15th time that joke has been used here. Why do right-wingers use the same joke again and again then act like it's witty and original? No wonder you suck at comedy.
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  3509.  @DnB93  Yes but its not very well thought out, is it? I mean you're probably sitting there guffawing at your own hilariousness while everyone else around you is wondering why a middle-aged alcoholic spends so much time posting on the Internet.
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  3510. Climate change denial is massively funded by rich scumbags.
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  3511. Boris committed genocide, with help from his media chums acting as disinformation pushers.
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  3512. The Barrington Declaration was garbage pushed by a libertarian business group. No sensible scientist supports it. Gupta is a St Pauls Cathedral-sized idiot who said we had herd immunity to Covid in summer 2020. https://reaction.life/we-may-already-have-herd-immunity-an-interview-with-professor-sunetra-gupta/
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  3513. I bet you don't mind MPs and CEO parasites getting big rises, though.
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  3514. Oh go on, tell me about our history? Was it a labour government that killed 120,000+ Brits by letting a deadly virus rip through the population? Noooo. Was you lot. We'll NEVER FORGET.
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  3515. Because its libertarian horseshit. When it was being pushed last year I remember the same libertarians ranting about how in 1969 100,000 Americans died of flu and they didn't lock down then (no, they had vaccines, dickheads). At the time around 100,000 Americans died of covid. Then 200 300 400 500 Now 600,000. Is there any herd immunity? Nope. Vaccines will help but variants can apparently reinfect people. So their whole premise was garbage and funnily enough the entire thing was funded by various shady business groups.
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  3516. Do the lefties live in your head rent-free? Are you worried that the ghost of Citizen Smith is going to haunt you?
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  3517.  @zedddddful  Florida is currently riddled with covid and their hospital system is collapsing. Please look at actual news, not Facebook memes.
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  3518.  @zedddddful  P.S. Britain can't be at 94% herd immunity as kids aren't vaccinated. So unless almost all kids have already had covid your figure is incorrect.
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  3519. That's why so many get their health information from Facebook memes instead of y'know, reading actual books or scientific papers.
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  3520.  @bigmull  Spoilers: going to war with France because Boris is a moron would be perhaps the most stupid reason for a British war since Jenkins Ear.
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  3521. They will.
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  3522. I thought you were against cancel culture?
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  3523. Well they did get through to the final, the team have been good lads all the way through and previous Knighthood recipients include Jimmy Savile and Mussolini so the England players are a giant amount better than those two.
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  3524. Al Jazeera has a nice blonde lady on interviewing some Brazillian politician. Proper quality sound as well.
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  3525. @UCvS9HcuI4RnxXiGBM91s-RQ They care not one jot about freedom of speech. Is about agenda-pushing for the government.
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  3526. Well the reason they watch it is its better than the alternative. More people in the UK get covid per day than watch GB News for instance. If you were such a good alternative then you'd expect to see huge ratings, but no. GBeebies can't even get decent viewing figures on youtube with all their bot chums.
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  3527.  @rattywilliams1297  Indeed.
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  3528. @1978ajax If the BBC went ad-only you'd see the following: a) No need to crawl to the Tories as their audience would be younger people. b) Save money on covering royal stuff & tory stuff & religion & farming. c) Would hoover up a big chunk of the ad money from other channels and the likes of GB News would collapse. d) Would still make diverse programmes as they are what sells in the world market.
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  3529. Winston Churchills missus was a life-long liberal, and Churchill himself was in the party for a time.
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  3530. The Internet has been around since the early 90s (for ordinary people, academia much earlier) and most British families had some sort of Internet connection by the early 2000s. We've had TWENTY YEARS to learn a bit about this stuff. Ignorance is no excuse.
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  3531. A large amount.
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  3532. @Grinning Idiot Russia owns the Independent and Evening Standard. Pay attention.
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  3533. Do I believe the giant-brained doctor who is pretty well respected, or do I believe random dolts on the Internet pushing a sinister political agenda? Hmmm.
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  3534. Does that mean socialism will save capitalism yet again?
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  3535. Yep, keep them away from people online who want to harm them. Such as Neil who thinks its fine to let them die of the Rona!
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  3536. No one is hiding.
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  3537. No it isn't.
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  3538.  @Stirlingsays  The 82 figure was the first wave of the pandemic when it blitzed the old people's homes. Certainly come down a bit since then.
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  3539. They're not locking down everyone. We're talking about a few minor restrictions through the summer until more are vaccinated.
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  3540.  @ratusbagus  So with lockdowns 100,000 dead, without it would have been 3-4 times as many. Are you really suggesting committing genocide is an appropriate government strategy? How many shops do you think would have done lucrative trade with that level of health collapse in the society?
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  3541.  @ratusbagus  Wearing a face mask is minor. A bit of social distancing is minor. Other things, yes, much more difficult but was a hard choice and Britain has faced hard choices before to battle a foe. Do you think people in 1939 knew they were going to have over a decade of rationing? They did and they done a sterling job in keeping the country together. They didn't whine, or demand the BBC broadcasts the Nazi's views because they were 'the other side'. They got on with it.
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  3542.  @ratusbagus  Jeez. My point is in the war we didn't demand to know the enemies opinions or demand the war be over because it inconvenienced the population. We got on with it. Whereas now you have a pro-covid faction who keep screwing up our approach and every time things get worse. I have never in my entire life known of an epidemic disease outbreak where governments opted for a 'oh well, never mind, herd immunity, hey' strategy. To find it pushed now by the anti-lockdown types is chilling.
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  3543.  @theancientsancients1769  And countries abroad also get idiots abusing their medical staff like you're doing.
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  3544. GB News land... Not problems: Racism Brexit Covid Boris Jumbo jets full of Indians with Delta covid 120+000 dead Britons Voter ID laws Wanting to lock up journalists under the Official secrets act Athletes on elephant-sized amounts of steroids Smoking Drinking Problems: Pronouns Cancel culture Immigrants in boats, who may perhaps possibly have covid Transgender sportspersons Fatties The wokes Vaccines
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  3545. In other news today... Boris wants us to bring back the simpler imperial system of measurement where a 12 inch foot is multiplied by three then multiplied by 1760 to make up the easy to remember mile. Much simpler than the 100cm x 1000 kilometre. Andrew Neil was on Question Time to try and get his old job back and denounced the Damian Thorne Channel he birthed. British computing legend Sir Clive Sinclair has died. Andy Pandy is still trying to escape justice. Wales is bringing in vaccine passports for events.
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  3546. Were they running away from you at the time?
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  3547. Written by an Anarcho-Socialist wizard who hates the Tories with a passion and the original book was a riff on the talk of locking up people with Aids in the early 80s.
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  3548.  @TheB1nary  Funnily enough Blair managed to get a lot more men to go into teaching, partly by promoting it as a 'cool' job (hence shows like Teachers in the early 00s). Then the Tories went back to whining about teachers being lazy oiks, overpaid and useless & we apparently now have difficulty attracting more men to the profession. Hmmmm. (I know is more complicated than that, but still interesting)
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  3549.  @nezzam100  No she isn't. Are you a parent with that lack of basic empathy?!?
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  3550.  Casca  But catching a horrible disease because you're unprotected isn't?
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  3551.  @graemebarriball303  They reduce the amount of gunk you sneeze or cough out which protects other people from contagious droplets.
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  3552. Apparently 23ye old white bloke from the area.
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  3553. 1. Don't vote for Tories who triple course fees then complain about how expensive uni is. 2. This channel has spent the entire day whining about university. Is that the subject of today's five-minute Hate? 3. Phillips is another one who studied English literature and is now rattling on about uni not being hard enough despite her degrees netting her a lucrative career as a Brexit imp, a Cambridge Analytica propagandist and now her own TV show. There's thousands of working-class kids studying science who are lucky to make 25 grand a year. 4. She also studied journalism but appears to believe journalism is 'I'm going to tell you my hot take' thus proving she spent her time on the course asleep or eating pizza.
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  3554.  @adamgilbert2238  That's the problem - they think all students are mad lefties so endlessly attack them (See: pre-War Germany and the attacks on their universities for being too 'liberal'). Plus they want to keep the higher education for themselves and not let those grubby working-class people have a go. You'll never see an MP say 'My kid isn't that bright. She could have gone to Oxford but we've decided she can work in the local chippy and get experience instead'.
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  3555. Here's the thing, most working-class people don't. The middle-classes do as they have a lot more money. But we don't talk about that, we tend to spend more time having a go at working class kids and writing off their inquisitiveness and self-reliance as poor behaviour. Think of someone like Richard Branson who set up a business as a teen then got done for not paying the correct tax. Problem soon got sorted despite him owing a staggering sum of money (mummy and daddy helped pay the fine). But an inner-city kid selling a bit of weed will get tossed right in the clink.
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  3556. Imagine everyone was like you in the 1940s and just let those diseases rip & refused vaccines. You probably wouldn't even exist now.
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  3557.  @dazkaz15  Mass vaccination was a thing, to reduce or get rid of diseases. This is why we don't get TB now or Polio or a whole heap of other diseases. Please stop being a cretin and spreading absolute bollocks. It's not a good look.
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  3558. Did East Anglia university cause the giant forest fires, floods and droughts in the US, then?
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  3559.  @Chaggy1978  Yes when you shut down travel from Asia and socially distance and people are cautious to report any illnesses then you'll find flu cases will drop right down. You know who don't socially distance and don't care about borders? Birds. Guess what - there was a major bird flu outbreak last year/earlier this year.
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  3560. Reduce spread. Let me say again 'Reduce' and 'spread'. Like condoms reduce the spread of STDs but aren't 100% effective. Seatbelts reduce the risk of your skull being smashed to bits in a car crash.
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  3561. I bet you say that to women when they ask you to wear a condom.
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  3562. The destabilisation is the Tories, mate. They've been doing it a long time. Or do you really believe the UK spontaneously started fretting over 'woke' a few days after Boris was elected?
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  3563. No, because they don't work, whatever the conspiracy sites say. Simple way to prove it - get a hospital full of Trumpist doctors in, say, Texas, then cure everyone's Rona. Then offer to cure other people's Rona for cheap. Hospital cures thousands of the Rona with no deaths. Medical establishment goes 'Holy moley, we better follow what these guys are doing'. But that won't happen because both drugs are meme cures.
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  3564.  @angrybrit7331  No, the reason they're not used is because they're not very good. The steroid dexamethasone is dirt cheap and they've been using that for ages. The AZ vaccine is cheap compared to Pfizer and we've been using that for ages, too.
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  3565. You should also be against infecting them with covid, but apparently you lot aren't.
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  3566. The press are worse.
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  3567. The document I saw also lists lots of things that clearly have nothing to do with the vaccine and was a list of general medical complaints.
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  3568. Because they can spread it to children. Because they can spread it to other unvaccinated people? Because they stand a much higher chance of dying of covid? Three good reasons.
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  3569.  @memoment431  If you are unvaccinated and you get the rona you can easily spread it to kids. Do keep up.
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  3570. Yeah its not like there's not cameras in every shop or public building that can track you linked to facial recognition software...
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  3571. Say no to washing your hands after the toilet! Say no to showers! Say yes to kissing when you have glandular fever!
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  3572. All part of the kick the NHS and ignore the pandemic phase of the Tory government.
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  3573. Why do you lot always use the same very few words in every comment? And why are so many of your comments referencing incontinence?
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  3574. While Britain wants ID cards to do the same. Or is that okay?
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  3575.  @karensmithson318  Or maybe a job in fashion, which last time I checked can be pretty lucrative?
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  3576. Actually no. Tories here have given up on containment measures and can't be bothered to vax kids. Result: Highest level of infection on the planet at present. That's going to smack the British economy right around the head just as we're going into Christmas. Hopefully the US won't be as moronic.
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  3577. He said lockdown was the worst mistake in history which leads us to the following conclusions: 1. He hasn't read much history - clearly he has. 2. He's being hyperbolic to try and appeal to the crazy right-wingers - bingo.
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  3578. From my understanding its very much a thing in the gutters of the Internet - the chan sites, parts of reddit etc. You have small groups of weird blokes telling other weird blokes they should kill themselves because the blokes aren't good looking 'chads'. So if you're a bit mental/austistic and are being told by your 'internet friends' that you're horrible and will die alone because of dastardly feminists, well is easy to see how the lunacy can escalate.
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  3579.  @ge2719  No but their insane worldview is being reinforced and not challenged due to the social media bubbles they live in. Is pretty widespread the lunacy now. Actually if you have seen the Amazon show The Boys, there's an episode in the second season with a guy who looks very similar to the Plymouth dude (but fatter) doing a shooting.
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  3580.  @ge2719  You're missing the point. There's been so many Incel-type shootings that its so much a part of the popular culture they can stick that sort of a character in a popular TV show and no one bats an eyelid. This week the British press have been acting like Incel mass shooters are a new thing and its baffling.
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  3581. Better than the alternative. Simple really.
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  3582. Pat doesn't seem to understand the whole capitalism thing, either. The first home computers cost a fortune. Then they got cheaper and better. The first mobiles cost a fortune. Then they got smaller, cheaper and better. Ditto for many other things - radio, flights to Europe, flat screen TVs. If green energy tech is widely adopted the prices will come right down over time. Now electric cars have huge problems - the battery tech isn't quite there & we need nuclear or summit to generate the extra power - but once adopted they too will get cheaper and affordable with better range. Think about it - if you told a computer engineer in the year 2000 that you have a computer with a 8 core processor, a graphics processor and the ability to communicate via wireless networking and the whole thing runs on battery which lasts nearly a full day - oh, and its six inches long... well he'd tell you that's pretty much impossible. It was then - but its not now.
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  3583. G7 news is kind of important, mate.
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  3584. Because at 30k cases a day if there's another jump when the kids go back then there may well be a lockdown. Tho I think Boris will avoid it and rather let some peasants die instead. He's the type.
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  3585. Do you remember when Wooten was arguing Florida and Texas were an example of successful covid management and he couldn't even bring himself to mention New Zealand? We remember, Dan!!
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  3586. No. Grow up.
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  3587.  @ARolls-dd2zd  It's not gene therapy. It does not alter your DNA. Stop parroting drivel you read on Facebook.
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  3588. Kids will be okay, aside from feeling sad their parents are often idiots who ignore science in favour from advice off TV chefs and failed comedians.
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  3589.  @MM-ev1fg  The alternative of letting the Rona run free is going to cause more issues. I would guess that the children of many of the 120+000 dead will be pretty traumatised too. Hopefully the kids you mention will get some help because that really doesn't sound right. Why would someone's kid want to cut their fingers off? What weird stuff is going on in his life? The kids I see seem perfectly normal and haven't heard of any similar issues round here, and I live in a not-so-salubrious part of the land. There's clearly going to be some problems but by and large kids are a hardy bunch and at least they're not being deported to the countryside or bombed like their grandparents generation during the war.
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  3590.  @nemosays6337  Read my comments. I'm fine with cheap or free tests. I'm not the one rattling on about the wonders of private enterprise. If you believe in capitalism and the capitalists adjust their prices to gain the most profit then is hard to complain afterwards, isn't it?
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  3591.  @nemosays6337  But therefore shouldn't loads of companies be competing to offer the cheapest best tests? Yet they're not?... Would agree tho - is all balance and reasonable regulation. People tend to forget these days that what passed for normal cross-party policies in the 40s-90s would be seen today as insane socialism because the Overton window has shifted so much.
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  3592. Oh gee, not wanting care staff to infect old people and kill thousands is somehow a bad thing now???
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  3593. This is going to be another po-faced chat about how lefties don't understand comedy, isn't it? Sigh.
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  3594. I think that's his admission Brexit has kind of failed, lol.
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  3595. Thing about technological advance is funny - the past 30 years we've seen a massive boom in computer tech which has been a fairly big change, especially the communication systems. But... Is pretty easy to argue that technological and social change was much more rapid for whole chunks of the 20th Century. Imagine someone born in 1900 - by the time they were in their late twenties we went from no planes to planes that could fly hundreds of miles, radio and telephones becoming widespread, cars a common sight, advances in medicine, cinema becoming mass entertainment, warfare discoveries and massive social changes as the old order collapsed after the war. Someone born in the 40s saw even bigger changes - from Spitfires to moon shots, computers with ICs, antibiotics, birth control pills, organ transplants, satellites, helicopters, psychedelic drugs, TV, hi-fi systems, washing machines, jetting across the world and so on. The social climate of 1969 was massively different to 1940. Meanwhile for us stuff is pretty much the same outside of faster chip tech. There's great work being done in the sciences (thumbs up for the vaccine docs) but we're not really seeing large-scale change in our day to day life. We're not richer or able to work less, can't regrow organs, aren't making that much progress curing cancer, no moon bases and culturally things seem to have ground to a halt a decade ago. Mass control via social media and endless super hero films isn't really what I expected in the future even if the phones are cool.
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  3596.  @WreckedRectum  Heh, agreed. But realistically the Internet of sorts has been around for about fifty years though admittedly only accessible to the masses since the 90s.
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  3597. also known as the 'lets us give each other Corona' demo.
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  3598. As opposed to those who get their information off Facebook?
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  3599.  Billy Bunter  What is deranged about what I said? Was talking about Charlie Chaplin for Elmo from Seasame Street's sake. Do you disagree that Laurel and Hardy were geniuses?
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  3600.  @hetrodoxly1203  Isn't this the point - many of the bluer comedians back in the day had to radically tone down their acts to get on TV. You have different standards throughout time. There were probably people complaining in the 1960s about 'Julian and Sandy' on Round the Horne... down with this sort of thing etc.
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  3601.  @machinainc5812  I think voracious capitalism run by super-corps strip-mining the wealth of the planet are more responsible.
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  3602. Clearly not.
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  3603.  @supercriceto  Well mate, the whole 'free market' thing is falling apart all over the planet and economists keep writing books about 'post scarcity economics' which looks spookily like a form of socialism to me. So who knows?
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  3604. Am just waiting for a bit of news from them, not gossip columnists screaming nonsense.
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  3605.  @JesusSaves4everyone  Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
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  3606. I bet Col doesn't mention that the first ever Neighbourhood Watch scheme in Britain was introduced in 1982, during Thatcher's time...
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  3607. How come everyone on here today is threatening people? Seriously, stop this nonsense.
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  3608. They're not. Watch cases rise as the fans go home. The same nonsense happened last year with the footy and Cheltenham festival.
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  3609. I like how the brainlet in the video above is from New Zealand but has nothing to say about New Zealand defeating the coronavirus. Is almost as if he's paid to spin for rich people or something.
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  3610.  @lumpyfishgravy  Posh people wanted their holidays, mate and didn't want to quarantine like they do in NZ. Add in general incompetence, a rubbish track and trace, and a government that listens to tabloid hacks more than proper scientists and that's why we had our Christmas lockdown. The Times funnily enough has done some really good articles about how Boris got persuaded by various anti-lockdown muppets and we ended up with the worst of both worlds.
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  3611. Please sort that flag out. It looks like a creepy nazi thing, which am guessing is the intention.
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  3612. Then the French can charge us for infecting them with Kent strain corona last year. The bill will be considerably bigger - especially when the rest of Europe sue as well.
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  3613. Why? Are we to condemn kids to long covid because of a few whiny antivaxxers?
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  3614.  @ireneteare2365  Jesus would be fine with vaccines (God created scientists, too, dude). He wouldn't be fine with governments using kids as a shield because they want to infect the populace.
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  3615. Anti-lockdown jock historians are not going to give you the truth. They're going to tell you whatever nonsense their right-wing chums want to spew out that week.
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  3616. Yep, and of course Jihadists were heroes then as they were fighting the Russians.
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  3617.  @sdr4701  I have read the Bible and that's my whole point. Christians are supposed to worship Christ who is quite chilled (aside from getting stroppy at money-grabbers in the church). But the actual old Testament is indeed quite violent, tho the teachings of Christ are meant to have superceded the old Testament.
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  3618.  @tomowens1571  Fair point. Mind you, the book of Leviticus has a whole list of instructions on how to treat people spreading disease. Social distancing and masks were (kind of) a thing then!
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  3619.  @marianlynch4829  Who had 'Conservatives proud to spread deadly diseases and boast about it' on their 2021 Bingo card?
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  3620. @gone away To find out if they have covid. Do keep up.
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  3621. " The state limiting your social contact with others is an infringement of human rights and the making of a totalitarian state " - ever hear of Asbos? Were you protesting against them? Or SPOs?
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  3622. Brexit has been a disaster and a joke. It wasn't the BBC that was opposed (look at how much free publicity they gave Farage), it was pretty much every business chief with a functioning brain. You've doomed us to a crap economy for decades.
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  3623. What other views? The views of the right-wing think tanks? I'd be fine with that so long as its pointed out right-wing think tanks are pushing the agendas of the oil companies and billionaire fuel barons.
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  3624. Can I explain something about how unis work? The courses like medicine are very expensive to run and the tuition fees rarely cover the full amount. Meanwhile the courses like English or humanities tend to be a lot cheaper. The result is that popular arts courses generate surplus cash that can help fund other things - like mass spectrometers or tunnelling microscopes or lasers for the physics nerds. Yes funding is more complex than that, but the basics are correct. So if you 'closed down' most of the unis and just had them open for science then course fees would absolutely blow up.
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  3625. Wait till you find out about Covid locking on to the ACE-2 receptors in the testicles...
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  3626.  @nickstevens9172  No, the inference is the vaccine's effects are much less than Covids. Marr was somewhat unlucky but most vaxxed people won't catch it.
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  3627.  @brencostigan  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-020-00604-5 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377719/ https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-preprint-on-testes-and-the-covid-19-virus-sars-cov-2/ No big studies so far, but there's a chance this thing will cause problems 'downstairs' in a percentage of men.
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  3628.  @brencostigan  Any papers on this? It sounds iffy - why would the nano particles move from your arm and congregate especially in the ovaries?
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  3629. You're not thinking this through. First of all degrees are widely accepted in other countries, so that will continue. Secondly 'woke indoctrination' is an idiot term. Radical politics have been a thing in universities for, well, centuries and the unis of the 1960s were a lot more 'woke' and left wing than they are now. Third, skills require a lot of investment. The Tories won't pay for it and companies won't either, so...
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  3630.  @PeacockRhino  ' Why don’t we let kids take out loans to pay for bricklaying, welding, roofing, plumbing, gas fitting, steel work qualifications? ' Ummm, do you not remember career development loans?
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  3631.  @PeacockRhino  This would mean less profit for the wealthy so they won't. Similar to how in the old days companies would take on 500 apprentices and spend 3 years training them and paying wages on top. Now companies take on half a dozen apprentices and offload the cost of training onto the taxpayer.
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  3632. @Grinning Idiot Well that's what the government seems to be arguing for?
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  3633. You actually did. It was in their manifesto. Did you read it?
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  3634. Kids don't get it. Antivaxxers haven't had it. We're still too slow doing the over 18s-30s. Some people have immune dysfunction and it won't work on them. So basically around half the country is as protected as they can be, ergo not herd immunity by vaccination and 'natural' herd immunity will kill thousands more.
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  3635.  @rogerwilson6367  Nige is the most biased political operative around. So therefore you can't support him?
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  3636. What do you think this channel is doing? I've never seen such utter lies and manipulation in any British TV channel ever.
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  3637. 'China has rogue government that doesn’t obey the rules' - yeah mate, so does the UK. We keep ignoring rules, annoying our allies, your government's idiocy has killed tens of thousands of our people and today we're apparently declaring le petit war on France.
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  3638.  @tonygorilla8928  Let's not forget the common sense footy fans last week who were snorting cocaine and shoving flares up their assets.
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  3639. Us left-wingers have told you forever to reign in the super-rich, but you lot called us names and let them take over the show. Conservatives in the past understood the super-wealthy & corporate power needed control but now they ignore a century of economics and act all surprised Pikachu when things go wrong. And then they create wacky conspiracy theories about great resets (it used to be the 'NWO', lol) so they can shift the blame.
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  3640. Jeez, you lot were told voting Tory was a bad idea, but noooo....
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  3641. Wales will come out of this better than England. Englands economy will collapse by the end of August due to this stupidity.
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  3642. And yet vaccine status has been a requirement for lots of countries for decades. You even have to have them if you wish to move to the US.
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  3643. @Neria Wolf TB has had antibiotics for decades. We haven't got any similar drugs that work against covid.
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  3644.  @alexcarpenter2636  Nightclubs ask for ID all the time. Supermarkets ask for ID when you buy alcohol. I'm not saying is an ideal situation but pretending a vaccine ID is communism is just silly. Especially as the Tory party are bringing in ID cards for voting and no one is moaning about that.
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  3645. @Burkus You forget about the smallpox one that was a thing until the 70s. It was removed when Smallpox was eradicated. You also forget about how many places wanted vaccination before kids went to school. Technically they weren't mandatory but few turned them down.
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  3646. @Neria Wolf Has anyone said that is a thing other than conspiracy idiots on the Internet?
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  3647. @Neria WolfYou clearly aren't from Britain and don't understand how our voting works.
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  3648.  @robertcasey966  But the chance of doing so is reduced. Like your chance of getting mangled in a car crash is lowered if you have a seat belt on.
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  3649.  @gillmay9309  PCR is accurate. If it wasn't then you'd have to let all the murderers and rapists out of jail as - surprise! - PCR is the basis behind DNA fingerprinting in forensics.
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  3650.  @gillmay9309  Meanwhile the Tories happily do that to the poor year on year - and no one cares. So is authoritarianism only bad when it hits the middle-class?
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  3651. No, they were warning you about the North Koreanesque covid denial, sucking up to the Tories, importing a US culture war and shit microphones.
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  3652.  @walterbishop1697  Suicides have been going up for years, but no one cared one jot. Don't blame the lockdowns for problems that have been festering for a long time.
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  3653. Let's see, some British news today... Boris not isolating Environment dept blagging 612 'essential' domestic flights UK gov spends £163 000 on flags Deadly cat food being sold Boris not apologised for coal mine 'joke' Covid cases up Utility bills shooting up That's just a few. But we best not cover those stories because they make the government look bad, so lets do doggies instead.
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  3654.  @sadwingsraging3044  No, its you lot thinking every murderer is a forrin to make yourselves feel better about being racist.
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  3655. Cool, so we'll just let it pick us off every year forever because a few muppets didn't like wearing masks or being tested on holiday. Baldrick would be proud of this cunning plan.
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  3656.  @TJ-kw8ct  When you hold yourselves to account, boomers who have strip mined the planet and been the most horrible, selfish generation in a century.
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  3657.  @astromags584  This channel is brainwashing.
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  3658.  @ericbrown5589  Teachers read lots of books. That's why they know the Tories are grifters. Britain has had socialist governments - and no gulags. Or firing squads. In fact the most loved era of British was probably the 1960s when we had a fairly left-wing government for most of it. Ask your grandpa if life was more fun then than now. Whereas the right-wing actually invented the concentration camp (Kitchener). And Churchill was happy to use the army to attack his own people (Tonypandy riots).
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  3659.  @themarmite95  I wonder how many British pensioners would be Tory if we took their socialist pension off them? Or their socialist NHS care?
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  3660. Here's what the Tories plan is looking like to me... Mass-infect people over winter with the official reason 'if they get covid before the flu they'll be fine'. End up with tens of thousands still recovering from covid, many with heart/blood issues and weakened immunity due to weight loss/fatigue etc. Flu comes along and kills tens of thousands due to many being already weakened with a certain recent respiratory illness. Tories go "See, flu is worse than covid!" Tories rejoice because the NHS collapses and they can sell it to the Yanks.
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  3661. Am sure they'd rather lie in her bed than the UK's disease riddled one.
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  3662.  @alanjeffs-ep8lq  I'm in Britain you twit. You know, Britain that's riddled with the Rona, with a collapsing transport infrastructure and Brexit shenanigans?
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  3663. To be fair reading reports is actually her job and I'm glad someone does.
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  3664. So you know better than scientists? Based on what, Facebook meme study?
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  3665. Decentralised nuclear is an interesting idea, actually. But a) How do you secure them all and b) How do you convince Tory voters that its okay to live next to a nuclear reactor?
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  3666. Do you know they don't work because you read it on Facebook? Can you explain why masks have been used for decades in surgery, semiconductor plants, clean rooms, microbiology labs etc.?
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  3667. That's Yeardon. He's a BS artist who is taking cash to downplay the Rona.
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  3668. Which they were doing in the earlier film with Moneypenny being an agent who helps Bond on a mission.
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  3669.  @rogermiller4929  Probably because they're impressed at how masks have reduced the number of colds they get and they haven't seen any flu for a couple of years.
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  3670. The incompetence of Boris has killed 130000 people, he's punished key workers by whacking their taxes up and cutting benefits, his government are raving incompetents and you're sitting there ranting about Jimmy Krankie in Scotland?
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  3671.  @freakbrothers2012  So all that research showing how social mobility is declined and wealth has been moved to an oligarchy is wrong then? Do lottery winners have much power compared to Rupert Murdoch or Alan Sugar or the Barclay Brothers?
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  3672. Was almost none earlier in the year. I know a fair few carers and they all had their shots early on. No whining. And many of these were conservative Muslim women as well. No problem with Western science.
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  3673. So you'd block SIR Paul McCartney? Or Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Twiggy? (Waiting for the inevitable post about them being honorifics and not pronouns from posters with a humour bypass...)
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  3674. Under governments of old (especially Tory ones) gay people would have been sent off for 'treatment' at a psychiatric hospital (See: Turing, Alan)
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  3675. No mate, house prices have shot up because greedy Boomers are all landlords and want to rent them out and rip off the kids. There's enough houses for everyone but sadly that means the Tories (many of whom are greedy boomer landlords) want to restrict supply to keep prices up. Consider - Brexit meant loads of Europeans going back to Europe. Covid meant far few immigrants coming to Britain, as well as fewer students. Covid also killed off 130+ 000 Brits. So there's quite a lot less people here than two years ago but house prices have shot up. Ergo supply and demand appears to have failed and the reason its failed is government policy.
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  3676. This whole channel needs 3 or 4 Harry and Megs stories a day. They're absolutely obsessed.
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  3677. No reason why we can't have them other than leaders not giving a toss. Add in room-temp superconductors as well and Bob's your Mother's brother.
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  3678.  @JonVoid37  That was quite a saucy show. Mia Kirshner is a goddess. Unless that's an I, so the poster probably means immigrants and is a bit racist. Take that back tho if he's into sapphic yanks.
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  3679. If only the anti-masker/vaxxer/lockdown dipshits hadn't spent a year undermining public health then we would have been in a much better position.
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  3680. @Anti Woke No you wouldn't. I bet you don't eat raw meat or drink rainwater from puddles to 'improve' your immune system.
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  3681. Then you can use the same argument with nurses, doctors, council bosses, local leisure center managers, university lecturers etc.
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  3682. You can say exactly the same for Christianity. Look at all those Dominionists in the US with their obsession with nuclear war.
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  3683.  @audreyblack8629  Yes I get that. So why are so many Christians into war then? Why do so many happily hurt people? Is a common problem and the churches are oddly silent about it...
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  3684.  @robk2167  Good grief. Those that have been bombing the middle-east in our most recent wars. The ones behind Abu Ghraib. The ones who go to Church (like Bush and the other presidents) but have no compunction about killing 'others'. Do you think if Jesus come back he'd have anything other than contempt for these people?
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  3685.  @robk2167  Obama isn't a Muslim so your argument falls apart at the start. Trump certainly isn't a Christian but is worshipped by evangelicals, for some puzzling reason. Their voting power gave him his victory.
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  3686. @Down With Woke No, he's asking a simple question. Conservatives can try to be funny and produce their own comedy if they think they're being done over by lefties. So where is it?
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  3687. Would you have said the same if it was Tories protesting, like with had with the fuel protests in 2000 where they practically shut down the country?
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  3688. That's weird reasoning. Is like saying cars will never be safe because Chinese peasants can't afford airbags therefore why make British cars safe?
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  3689.  @memzforever3263  Well what if the adult has serious health issues and either can't take a vaccine or it doesn't work too well for them? You know like all the pregnant women who are currently in ICUs in the US, or people undergoing cancer treatment or those on immuno-supressive medications due to having an organ transplant?
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  3690. 'indeed it is highly questionable that there ever was for the vast majority of the UK public' - why do you characters always feel the need to play down this thing which killed 120 thousand Brits, disabled thousands and made several million sick? Do you get paid to spread denialist bullshit? Ooo, let's be successful and ignore lockdown rules and we can be just like... Brazil. FFS.
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  3691. Can you show us the manipulated data, or are you parroting conspiracy garbage?
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  3692. Let's see: Siberia heat wave (Yes, SIBERIA) German flooding US Fires Uk heat wave & flooding All in a few weeks. This isn't normal. But keep pretending its not a big deal.
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  3693.  @fluffyanne1177  Is like the stupid here is award-winning. Are we pretending the weirdest weather we're having is somehow not real? Am I understanding you right?
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  3694. Actually not many in the UK. Less than in any other Western country. Oddly we have the highest rate of covid out of all the Western countries. Methinks the lack of vaccinations and the increase in Rona is linked.
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  3695. 'Universities turn out so few students with STEM skills ' - plenty of them about, you're not paying attention. Often more working class kids do Stem subjects as they think it makes them more employable. They do, but they certainly don't get paid the same money as the post kids whose daddy gets them a job at Goldman Sachs when they're 22.
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  3696.  @jesusjohnny8286  Again, radical politics have been a thing in universities forever. In 1964 the Oxford union had a debate featuring Malcolm X who argued that ' “extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”'. Imagine that happening today. The Daily Mail's head would spin.
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  3697.  @jesusjohnny8286  Don't recall the Miller case having anything to do with university?
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  3698. Or it proves kids can read and understand how badly they're being hammered by the Tories. I somehow doubt the Boomers would be screaming for the end of socialism if the government decided to cut their pensions by 50% to give a tax cut to their mates.
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  3699.  @blackniall8509  No, but no one is doing that outside of a couple of nutbags. A few idiots pushing word changes (much like the Tories with their 'woke') so they get publicity and 'trigger' the media. It all looks like a culture war being made up to set people at each other's throats, which is exactly what it is. Don't fall for it.
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  3700.  @johnathanpearson3203  ANYONE I DISAGREE WITH IS A COMMUNIST!!!!!! This is what you sound like. Get a grip. It's not 1956 anymore.
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  3701.  @stuartjones2812  And yet this channel is doing exactly the same - us 'proper' British who are into the Tory party and Brexit and think the corona is overblown VS the lefty traitors at the BBC (who were such lefties they paid Andrew Neil millions over the course of several decades). All the right-wing media is doing this, often to the point of absolute treachery (See: Trumpists blaming the insurrection on antifa or the - lol - FBI).
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  3702.  @blackniall8509  Is funny but the trans movement started to go a bit crazy at exactly the same time as various rich Conservative people poured money into it and Conservative media started obsessing over it (remember Kelly Maloney - from anti-gay right-winger to lovely lady who appeared on all the daytime shows). Go google Jennifer Pritzker or Martine Rothblatt and get back to me. I think the trans people are another group being manipulated into extremism by big money types who are using transgenderism as a way of stamping on feminists. The ordinary trans person has nothing to do with this, much like the ordinary British people brainwashed by right-wing drivel aren't guilty of anything other than cluelessness.
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  3703.  @blackniall8509  True, but prior to Kelly she had 'issues': http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3666155.stm And no, there's clearly big money being pushed in to the more extreme gender politics. The left are a small part of it but get all the blame.
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  3704. Yep, everyone forgets more people are cooking now, both because they have the time & also to try and keep healthy.
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  3705. You get an ingredient sheet listing what's in the AZ vaccine. Pretty easy to check up on.
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  3706.  @USIGNLOOFID  Well dude, why not club together with some antivaxxers then get some samples analysed in a lab? Is the 21st century and we have all manner of clever spectrometers and the like that can pick up tiny, tiny amounts of a chemical in a sample.
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  3707.  @USIGNLOOFID  The antivaxxers who post on this channel, or who mass-troll the comments section in the Mail/Express/Telegraph. Those people.
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  3708.  @USIGNLOOFID  You're being disingenuous. You know full well theres a large group of people who have constantly argued against the covid vaccines and used misinformation and lies to do so via social media and the tabloid press. The same groups also argue against masks, lockdowns, ventillation, school bubbles etc. This isn't a matter of disagreement, this is a matter of propaganda that is hurting my fellow British citizens.
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  3709. You mean the same Conservative party who signed the clean air act? The same one who signed the Montreal Protocol to get rid of CFCs? Seemingly the Conservative party used to be fine with policies protecting the environment but all of a sudden their supporters (and many MPs) have turned into a death cult who know the price of everything but the value of nothing. What's that about?
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  3710. No one cares mate.
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  3711. You've got to be a dope to assume there's a cabal of arsonists running round the world torching forests on different continents at exactly the same time as those places are having heatwaves...
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  3712. How do you know you've had zero? Did you remember when you were six months old? Or do you come from one of those eccentric antivax families?
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  3713.  @andrewoliver8930  Yep, Angela Merkel has a doctorate in Quantum Chemistry. I bet she facepalms every time Boris tries to be clever at a summit.
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  3714. Most of the billionaires did go to university, but some dropped out when they started making money. Bill Gates went to Harvard, Zuckerberg Harvard, Steve Jobs Reed College and so on.
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  3715. Yes saving British people is bad now. Thank you Paul.
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  3716.  @terryreknaw6152  Do the bills vanish if you're not in the house? Yes, your leccy consumption will go up a bit but last time I checked a Macbook and making the odd coffee is not a gigantic drain on the National Grid.
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  3717. @End The Woke He's not even listed in the GMC register. Where is he a doctor? Have GBNews misspelt his name or is there something odd going on? Edit: muppets posting the story spelt his name wrong. Hereby correct this post.
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  3718.  @arnesaknussemm2427  He clearly has been compromised if he's taking a pro-CCP line of letting their disease spread no matter how many civilians it kills.
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  3719. @Amanda Hughes She didn't call the voters scum, she called the Tories like Boris scum. Pay attention.
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  3720. @Amanda Hughes No, she was talking about Boris and his chums.
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  3721. @Amanda Hughes Oh no, boo hoo, working-class people are offended by the ginger but apparently not offended by being culled by a psychotic government?
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  3722. @Amanda Hughes So is killing thousands of your own like Boris done. I'm more offended at that Benny Hill tribute act than I am at the stroppy redhead.
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  3723.  @beepboopkendo4206  So your definition of woke is now someone talking about public health measures?
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  3724.  @beepboopkendo4206  It's not blindly following authority to recommend vaccination for a deadly disease. Much like with polio or TB or numerous other illnesses. And why are you lot so strung out about taking the knee?
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  3725.  @beepboopkendo4206  Oh dear, someone's been watching right-wing American conspiracy drivel, haven't they?
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  3726.  @beepboopkendo4206  You're using the American argument they used to attack Colin Kaepernick. He did the gesture based on the advice of a military friend as it was seen as neutral (no Black Power salutes etc.) So the right-wing said it was a gesture of submission and a Marxist thing and their media ran with it.
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  3727. I hope Nige supports the refugees escaping from the Taliban and agrees that we should help them?
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  3728. They're snowflakes.
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  3729. The Daily Express were saying that years ago. But it keeps getting hotter every year. Funnily enough the solar minimum new ice age stuff came mainly from a shady Russian professor working in the UK and she's very friendly to Putin. But of course 'British patriots' once again show they have absolutely no ability to tell truth from lies.
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  3730.  @tonycoxall7370  Most of them are top doctors and academics. They'll be fine. They're not doing this for the publicity, they're doing it to help the country.
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  3731. Yes, it says he's trying to be a good mayor.
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  3732.  @davidbarlow350  I remember reading Al Gore's Earth in the Balance way back in the 90s. An interesting book but he was arguing that the 'free market' can fix these problems with the odd change here and there. Nope, Al. That just encourages the rich to pay the poor to take their pollution and fixes nothing.
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  3733. Am jolly amused that this channel thinks 'Taking the knee' is a massive controversy when all its done is made millions of kids ashamed of their racist parents. And before anyone goes 'Muh Marxism', grow up. Racists have been saying every black civil rights movement was communist/Marxist for a century. This is the same old slur.
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  3734.  @rescyn1190  Oh no, you've found someone who's sort of a Marxist. Clearly you've proven that all black people are secret Marxists, and this apparently includes all those millionaire footballers. This really is sub-par McCarthyist nonsense now.
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  3735. From someone who clearly never read 1984.
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  3736. It is if they want to avoid long covid.
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  3737.  @graham7176  And Russian subversion. See: Dugin.
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  3738. One has dyed blonde hair. The other has dyed yellow hair. Both faker than Meg Ryan's self-pleasure scene in When Harry Met Sally.
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  3739. Whats the boomer's excuse then? (Lead poisoning, am guessing)
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  3740. If you give HIV to someone deliberately you can end up in jail. Perhaps we should ditch the vaccine passport and just chuck deliberate covid spreaders in jail?
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  3741. Hard to change what is empty.
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  3742.  @jbtv5617  Because you come across as empty brained. Tell me how the NHS is a cult compared to, say, the RAF or the Navy or the Army - you know other respected British institutions who aren't threatened by the Tories every week with priviatisation.
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  3743.  @justblairthompson  Important point. Suicides tend to drop in times of war. The Rona isn't a war but it has similar psychological factors - we must all pull together, there's sacrifices to be made, there's an enemy that can kill us etc. - so you'd expect suicides to be the same or a bit less. Which the figures show.
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  3744.  @jt8083  Is actually 415 according to the Keeling curve scientists. And last time CO2 was 600ppm there was no humanity, and is unlikely there will be many left with a similarly high level in our atmosphere.
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  3745.  @jt8083  But making ourselves extinct via stupidity is not a very good epitaph for humanity.
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  3746. It did happen under Trump. He left the Russians an entire base (in the town of Manbij) when he did a runner from Syria.
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  3747. Mark is in the pockets of big meat by the sound of it. Like when the fitness industry got taken over by low-carbers who then all turned into carnivore diet pushers (and oddly also into covid denialists).
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  3748. I'm angry about Boris's idiotic policies over covid killing more people than the Blitz. I'm angry they had five years to prepare for Brexit - and didn't. I'm angry they're putting taxes up for poor people while the rich get off scot-free again. I'm angry we're throwing everything at keeping property prices high so our kids can't live.
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  3749.  @New-ei8qp  What actually were people voting for? I recall we were apparently going to have a relationship with the single market (we don't), that we wouldn't have tariffs (we do) and that the NHS would be given a ton of money (nope). So the democratic vote was for something that most people didn't want. And now they're going to whine constantly about the aftermath.
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  3750.  @New-ei8qp  So tell me, if they all have a terrible shortage why does Boris think he can import thousands of drivers from Europe? Do you not think that maybe the Tories are having you on? Go read their own Yellowhammer documents - they knew this would happen. By the way - there were several vaccines made in different countries. Good show to the AZ team, but we must also thank the Germans, the Americans and thousands of scientists from around the world who played a blinder.
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  3751. Then you haven't been looking.
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  3752. Yes, makeup and cosmetic surgery works wonders. https://radaronline.com/photos/megyn-kelly-secrets-and-scandals/
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  3753. All vaccines were experimental once.
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  3754. What does proper Conservative mean? You've had three in the past ten years, were they not proper enough?
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  3755. This is the calm before the storm. Let's see: Sep - supply chain issues, thanks to Brexit. Oct - changes in EU rules mean massive supply issues on top. Oct-Dec - winter Rona surge. And flu surge. Sep-Dec - supply chain issues due to other international causes like price of crates in china. Overall we're going to get a kicking over the next few months. But am sure the Daily Express will blame remoaners and the antivaxxers will blame vaccinated people. As per usual.
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  3756. The collapse of the climate will cost more, mate.
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  3757. If someone grabbed your wife and tried to force them to take a selfie with them you'd probably be a bit ticked off. Witty is a really good doctor who's devoted his life to helping treat people. Anyone harassing him is a fucking disgrace.
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  3758.  @MsJackcool69  That's why we improve public transport. Look at how many extra stations & lines we had pre-Beeching. Yes I fully agree is not the solution for everything but if a large chunk of average journeys can be done more efficiently then that helps a lot.
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  3759. No, they also have antivaxxer idiots on as well and never call them out on their nonsense.
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  3760. Kill some poor is all in a days work for Dunc and his pals. The ironic thing is if he's trying to tell us China is bad because they're not democratic and their leadership are rubbish then it might be better if he didn't emulate the things they're doing over here, albeit in a more fashy manner.
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  3761. Guess what, when the Rona spreads over the summer the hospitals will be treating even fewer people because of the risk of infection.
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  3762. Am kind of bored with the 'Boo hoo, nanny state' people who care not one jot for voter ID laws, endless snooping on people on welfare, oppressive policing of certain communities, government spying on the plebs, goverment selling our data to creepyasf companies like Palantir... Nope. Don't care about that. Worried about someone dissing them for not wearing a mask during a pandemic. Give me strength.
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  3763. Sheep dip obsessives are creeping me out.
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  3764. They all have. As I said above - around 90% of adults in the UK have had their shots. These clowns are all major hypocrites who want to sacrifice others to pwn the libs.
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  3765.  @mixedracebajan6119  How does getting a vaccine make you a slave? You clearly do follow rules from public servants otherwise you'd have been in jail long ago for breaking the law.
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  3766.  @mixedracebajan6119  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own 'Repeat offenders receiving fines on public transport or in an indoor setting will have their fines doubled at each offence. After the first offence there will be no discount. For example, receiving a second fine will amount to £400 and a third fine will be £800, up to a maximum value of £6,400.' Sounds like a law to me.
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  3767. Funny you use the language of the left when it suits you.
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  3768. The Tories don't give a shit about struggling families. They had to be shamed into feeding kids by a footie player and have whined endlessly about a £20 rise in Universal credit. They're repellent psychopaths but oddly no one on here seems to notice or case.
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  3769. 'long over' - 30,000 cases a day. You have a weird definition of 'long over'.
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  3770. @Anti Woke You're being your usual cretinous self. How is 30,000 cases a day 'long over'? Answer the question please.
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  3771. That's gone on for a long time. There were certainly decent courses back then ( I knew a fair few people at university who'd got on access courses after being unemployed), but a lot of scam artists as well. This has continued. There's lots of money to be made in exploiting the desperate.
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  3772. Guess what, cases mean a lot as many end up with long covid and a percentage are disabled chronically. This means every time you read about 50,000 cases there will be a good 1-2000 who will be claiming sickness benefits for the foreseeable future and require expensive treatment (British gov setting up 40 long covid clinics). There's also a side-effect in that when sickness spread gets high many people will themselves distance from public facing businesses voluntarily. Those businesses will have no government help and less customers so will end up bankrupt.
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  3773.  @magnacarta9364  They're attacking the conspiracy wonkery, outright lies and creepy culture war stirring. Much in the same way as we attack the propaganda of RT or Fox or North Korean news programmes.
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  3774.  @danielrayner7681  The right cancel stuff all the time, are you not paying attention?
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  3775. Well if the Sun can get CCTV from inside a government building, then am sure the KGB and Chinese intelligence also can. So who's collating and leaking such videos?
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  3776.  @DS9TREK  Sounds about right. Won't they have an enquiry and find who leaked it?
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  3777.  @maccagrabme  Probably because it's Lord Haw Haw quality and equally disreputable.
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  3778.  @eyeonantiwhiteism3761  No mate, that's because you vote in a Tory government who screws over the white working class and then you turn round and blame foreigners.
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  3779. 'almost'... we're apparently fine killing some, tho...
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  3780.  @Ixaglet  Did you miss the part about thousands in hospital and hundreds with inflammatory syndrome? Or aren't you bothered about sick kids?
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  3781. They actually won't. Dewberry is another propagandist who'll say anything to stir up hate.
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  3782. Wasn't the third world who killed Jo Cox, was it? Wasn't the third world who killed Ian Gow or Airey Neve. Wasn't the third world who screwed up our covid response and killed the best part of 150,000 Britons without a single resignation or prosecution.
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  3783. Do we need yet more blonde propagandists who have spent their career manipulating democracies while pretending to be all giggly and fun?
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  3784. Sleep masks have been a thing for decades...
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  3785. She's talking drivel. I grew up in the 80s. The news was full of serial killers, AIDS, war, threat of nuclear war, riots and other mayhem. Meanwhile we had cheery telly like Threads and When the Wind Blows to watch.
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  3786.  @shaunnormancroft  China has one of the world's largest Tokamak reactors and are at the forefront of the fusion race.
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  3787. There is no invasion you dolt. Its a few crossed the channel and the gammon press is exaggerating it to make idiots get all angry.
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  3788.  @steptay  To be fair killing off poor people like Boris is doing is also costing us a fortune but you're clearly not bothered about that.
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  3789. Octopi far brighter than your typical tabloid journalist, so yes.
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  3790.  @fanfeck2844  Someone has to.
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  3791.  @johnjjl  No one will even mention the lady's name, it's weird. And of course I meant the modern Sir Oswald, Nige.
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  3792. Is the right going to give us free and open debate on climate change? How about their corona screw-ups? How about free and open debate on economics? Nope. This free speech lark is basically those in power whining at those who criticise their power. Is pathetic Steve Bannon-esque culture war nonsense that absolutely no one cares about.
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  3793. Imagine in 2021 being such a boot-licker than you're a British Trumpist. Wow.
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  3794. Property prices drop. Win win?
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  3795. Its culture war nonsense pushed by the right to make gammons angry. There's a reason 90% of this stuff is linked to the Republicans in the US. Because we're following the same idiot policies.
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  3796. " Raising important issues that are not raised by the mainstream. " - are you drunk? The British press have articles every single day whining about immigrants?
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  3797. Years. Huge library of content, production capabilities, foreign sales and so on. They'd have to cut back on shows no one watches - which funnily enough include a lot of shows that appeal to conservatives - farming, Songs of Praise, Royal events etc. But they could still churn out Dr Who and Cop dramas and have their news watched by many more than watch GB news... A license-free BBC would have no need to be nice to the Tories any more - or their voters. But the brainlets in the Tory party are too special to see that.
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  3798.  @kevinbillington9773  I'm not one of the paid posters here, mate. You lot are always easy to spot - same phrases, same stupid points, can't write more than one paragraph, no understanding of any issues, zero sense of humour, almost as if writing things down off a list. As I've said before on here, I'm totally happy if youtube give all the stats for this channel to be analysed and they'll find out... I'm one of the few normal people on here. The rest are doing it for the cash.
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  3799.  @arcadeuk  I type fast and work from home (for now). In front of a big computer with big screens, so can do my work and spread some accuracy among conservative types. Sorry if that offends, but again its not me endlessly spewing out misinformation and stuff likely to harm my fellow British people. Funny how you've all accused me of being a paid poster yet not one word of criticism about the numerous Covid/climate change disinformation paid posting scandals that keep getting exposed. Hmmm.
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  3800.  @soldiers303  Yes thank you for that over-literal interpretation and witty references to me having an Univac III on my desk.
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  3801. If it helps, it looks like Sainsburys have pulled their ads as well. Soon the only money keeping GB News afloat will be from the shady forrin funders.
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  3802. I know! Seeing them fume is so patently ridiculous it makes them come across as angry toddlers. Tho toddlers do learn and grow up. These fools don't.
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  3803. Keeps the viewers distracted from GB News former's bosses interview in the DM today.
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  3804. What do you mean clearly? Are you reading reports and textbooks, or are you in fact reading Facebook memes and getting your information off Fox News?
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  3805. You do know that people who are on medical steroids have to carry a card around with them detailing this?
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  3806.  @odinseyepatch9637  It's to help with medical treatment and is a pretty good idea to carry it.
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  3807.  @odinseyepatch9637  But you do have to have a drivers license and a passport and various other licenses. And vaccination status is a big thing when travelling to certain countries.
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  3808. And yet you need a 'passport' from the government in order to travel. And many countries require vaccine certificates for certain diseases.
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  3809.  Francesco Il Coglione  Yes am sure raves will be super popular when the teenagers start suffering from long covid and can barely walk up the stairs.
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  3810.  @glamladwales7056  What about driving? You need a government license for that - which can be taken away at any time depending on your health status.
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  3811. You mean the same nightclubs that check ID and often search people for weapons or contraband?
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  3812. Why, are you happy to pay their welfare bills when they get long covid and can't work?
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  3813. Why are you all obsessed by statues? It's weird, a bit creepy even, considering all the dark things going on in this country.
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  3814. Pro-covid bot alert.
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  3815. In what way is it great? Please enlighten us.
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  3816. Can your headache spread to other people when you're sitting in the office? Can you kill elderly relatives by spreading your migraines? No. So please stop being a dick.
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  3817.  @slashingbison2503  I'm genuinely stunned they can look at something happening right in front of their eyes and go 'Nope, its not real'. Some serious brain-washing going on there.
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  3818. That's what happens when we all socially distance, wear masks and shut down most air travel from Asia. In other news, if you don't have unprotected sex with 15 different people every weekend then you'll have no trace of STIs.
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  3819. Less dead people, mate. Plus they slow the spread, whatever the antivaxxers say.
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  3820. Ah, so this explains why none of the ducks at my local park wear sailor suits or talk funny.
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  3821. Other countries developed vaccines quickly. Or do you think America and Germany spent last year sitting round watching Tiger King instead?
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  3822.  @MattyFreedom  Its not tyranny asking people to get a shot. You might have a point if the antivaxxers weren't also protesting against masks, against lockdowns, against distancing. They're doing everything they can to spread this thing and it hasn't gone unnoticed. The reason people are getting stroppy with them is precisely this - if you wilfully encourage the spread of a disease then don't whine and pretend you're being oppressed when people call you out on it.
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  3823.  @PoldarkGodzilla  The Muslims brought architecture and science, so y'know...
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  3824. Jordan has clearly not spoken to any incels recently. Big Trump supporters.
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  3825. Right, so Dan is saying that the lockdowns successfully managed to stop diseases like flu from spreading and this has weakened our immune systems. BUT... Dan also says lockdowns don't work. Yet he's just admitted they work because if they didn't we'd have been exposed to just as many flu bugs last year. I realise Dan probably doesn't understand the words he's speaking and his knowledge of science is somewhat limited, but he'd just done a gigantic self-own here.
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  3826.  @wereham  No, he's admitted lockdowns reduced our exposure to common diseases, therefore lockdowns worked.
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  3827. You must be fun at airports and police check-points.
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  3828. No they're not. The government is through the race-baiting drivel they churn out. And you muppets will fall for it. Sheesh.
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  3829. They did the other year when Trump left them a base in Syria. Do keep up.
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  3830. Last time I checked Trump signed the agreement and Trump also let all the Taliban out of jail. Biden's choice would have been this (a disaster) or launching another war there (even worse disaster). I also note Boris has been busy getting his picture taken with olympic athletes and not doing his job at all.
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  3831. Probably killed him like the yanks did?
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  3832.  @custombuild847  Tell me what I said was wrong?
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  3833. Maybe you could make a start by saying sorry for Brexit and the Tory party.
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  3834. Why, we don't have to live with Polio and Smallpox?
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  3835. Well you could also add to the conspiracy anti-lockdowners who complained and lobbied against every mitigation strategy even benign ones like masks. Maybe the anti-lockdowners are part of the plot?
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  3836.  @pass-the-juice  Don't be racist paul.
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  3837.  @testudohorsfieldii7052  "Today kids we're going to be reading volume three of Das Kapital!" "Oh miss, I thought we were going to be reading some David Walliams instead?"
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  3838. Yes, when it is over. This means when infections are right down, not 20-30,000 cases a day.
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  3839.  @bronte6364  Am not unwell, just cheery and helping to de-radicalize my fellow British chums.
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  3840. Yeah cool, and have the adults done that? Seeing as this channel and those they bootlick appears to hate masks, lockdowns, distancing and everything else one could do to reduce the Rona, we're left with vaccinations and hoping for the best.
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  3841.  @sneakyrodent1853  It was indeed a National Front symbol. That's one reason why the flag went out of fashion - the association with rancid football hooligan types.
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  3842.  @sneakyrodent1853  But the fascist groups are coming back and being funded by dark money from abroad. The threat is small but rising rapidly. Be nice to reclaim the flag as a general flag thingy, but so long as its used by creepy groups it'll be tinged by their association.
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  3843.  @sneakyrodent1853  Am not, but sometimes you have to be careful flying the flag doesn't turn into something a bit fascistic. See: History.
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  3844. That's quite the politically diverse group...
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  3845.  @timmarsh8902  And yet Boris gave a Lordship to the son of an actual KGB agent. So your whole point falls apart.
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  3846. Well if she was in power we might have to wear masks a bit. If you were in power there'd be piles of bodies on every street.
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  3847.  CacheerioAsh  You do but you'll keep voting for Boris even when the country has collapsed.
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  3848. Facebook mums probably.
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  3849. I thought the unmentioned use for Starlink was going to be slightly quicker financial transactions, HFT stuff. The latency issue would be relevant there, though packet loss would be a huge problem.
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  3850.  @marcusbradley3081  You don't think Nige being chums with all sorts of strange Eastern Euro fascist types as well as chums with Hindu nationalists in India and a Trump acolyte is just a tiny bit indicative that he's a wrong un?
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  3851.  @bernardedwards8461  Its not true. Is a variation on the 'Nurses are all too busy making Tik Tok videos' meme pushed by the same crowd last year. Repulsive little shits.
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  3852. Weird, you've turned off comments on the ice cream story. Are you worried about all the anti-vax nutbags you've given succour to spraying out their crazy?
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  3853. 37 billion on test and trace. Your taxes went to the friends and associates of Boris.
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  3854. Blaming Brexit for the problems predicted to be caused by Brexit half a decade ago. What cads those lefties are!
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  3855. Good day. England is going to try and kill as many as possible over the winter. At least the Scots are attempting to slow down the spread of the Rona.
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  3856.  @TheSanctioningBoxer  I'll be fine. We need to slow the spread or else we'll have this every single year until it burns out. Which could be another year. Or two. Or two hundred. Nobody knows.
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  3857. @sdrawkcabUK I'm not the one in charge who ignored all public health measures and instead listened to a creepy right-wing American group (AIER Barrington morons) and then ended up with the worst death rate in Europe. We can slow the spread fairly easily, but pro-covid idiots seem to want it to spread more for... reasons?
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  3858. @sdrawkcabUK Right, so Texas and Florida with tens of thousands of dead, hospitals glutted with patients and so many antivaxxers dying there's even a subreddit about it (hermancainawards) is 'working very well'?? Are you Stalin????
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  3859.  simon templer  Yes, that's capitalism mate. Transitioning into techno-feudalism.
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  3860.  @user-jv7td1ku3x  Neither do the twits who think the Tory party are communists. Jeez.
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  3861.  @cashkitty3472  That's the theory. Not really true. Most of them end up as creepy incels flipping out on social media. Or do you think the rise of crazy nerds and incels with far-right politics is a coincidence?
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  3862. Weird, you sound like all those other fake old people on social media who are mysteriously against vaccines. Spoilers: Most old people were heavily vaccinated in the 50s/60s and before & aren't anti-vax. Try again, Internet paid poster division!
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  3863. Number dying reduced thanks to vaccines. Cases mean a lot because a) People are often sick enough to be stuck in hospital and b) Long covid. If we infect too many then we're going to end up having to pay gigantic medical and social support bills for those who are damaged by covid.
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  3864. Yeah, its fair the hate the guy whose idiocy killed 120+000 British people and is now pushing forward our 'lick all the doorknobs' freedom day during a raging covid surge.
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  3865. Or because we have thousands of covid cases a day and people are trying to keep the spread down.
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  3866.  @ukar69  Plenty of evidence from pro-covid anti-mask sites on the Internet.
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  3867.  @James-gf9jl  So because something isn't 100% we pretend it doesn't work at all?
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  3868.  @rewdwarf123  This is true, but I remember it well and supermarkets had massive restrictions in place. My large local store only allowed in 50 people at a time. Not really a need for masks if there's hardly anyone around. originally they didn't push masks because there was a limited supply and the Tories were busy making loads of cash off the PPE chaos. Soon as the supply got up masks were promoted.
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  3869. Well if the Tories didn't suck then Rashford wouldn't need to kick up a fuss about kids not being fed. If England's fandom wasn't seething with thuggish, racist sacks of shit then we wouldn't need to hammer home the anti-racism message every match.
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  3870. He's more qualified than the ferrets who present on this channel. Not a science GCSE between them.
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  3871.  @spm36  Meanwhile the guy on last night, Wooten is a gossip columnist presenting himself as an expert on pandemics.
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  3872.  @spm36  No, my point is the presenters on this channel are pontificating about things they have absolutely zero understanding of. The person interviewed may be a bureaucrat and indeed (granted) not a doctor, but he's still ahead of the ignorance I see spouted by the presenters regularly.
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  3873. Mate in what way do the French treat us badly? All I see on here are commenters making snarky racist jokes against them.
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  3874.  @philipbrailsford3764  Was Boris and his Brexit deal that tanked the fishing industry. Or have we forgotten that?
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  3875. Indeed!
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  3876. Imagine being such a toddler you're scared of a needle and have to pretend its a giant Hitlerite conspiracy against you. At least toddlers are funny and grow up.
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  3877.  @d3v1lbud  Am pretty sure the housing shortage here is caused by Boomers buying everything up because 'Is me pension' and big builders limiting supply so they can charge more. But blame the foreigners if it makes you feel happy.
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  3878.  @gingerbaker4390  It really is. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/04/government-letter-to-nissan-reveals-brexit-promise-to-carmarkers
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  3879.  @gradualdecay1040  Is also in the Times and Financial Times but their links are paywalled. What's your point?
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  3880.  @streaky81  Nissan have had hundreds of millions in 'incentives' since they came to Britain in the 80s. Pretending otherwise is massively dishonest.
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  3881. He's a grifter. He's after a job.
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  3882. All of the celebs, including the anti-vax ones have had their vaccines. They just say they haven't so idiots on the Internet believe them. This is also why the celebs are terrified of 'vaccine passports' because they'll soon get outed.
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  3883. GB News's audience finds a new thing to hate...
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  3884.  @jasperswarp  Only of those who hurt others, mate. Which a baby clearly isn't doing.
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  3885.  @jasperswarp  I didn't say hurt, I said hate. GB News hates a new someone or something every single day. Its not news, its weird neo-fash-type propaganda which would be familiar to anyone living in 1930s Spain, Italy or Germany.
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  3886. @AManHas NoName Lockdown was introduced also to stop Covid spreading to everyone and wiping out a gigantic chunk of the older population. Or do you lot forget that?
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  3887.  @Stormcrow_1  Now tell me how many got sick to the point of hospitalisation and how many survivors ended up with long-term issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfE-TuZk67Y
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  3888. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfE-TuZk67Y
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  3889.  thomas robert  That was actually a disgusting and stupid policy and heads should roll for it. Yes, they probably thought it would save a few quid. Psychopaths. And again, no its not the flu. Stop saying stupid shit, please - you're not helping your case.
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  3890. He can, the scruffiness is part of his manufactured 'man of the people' PR image. Boris and more importantly his owners know how to manipulate the masses. Cor, that Boris, bit of a character, innee! He's harmless, will vote for him cos he's funny! Sort of thing.
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  3891. Well I'd rather trust them than an idiot gossip columnist who knows less about medicine than my mate's dog. How have we let absolute brainlets take over in this country? Good grief, the Chinese or Russians don't need to invade us, just pay off enough morons in the media and we'll destroy ourselves.
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  3892. Brighter than you, clearly.
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  3893. He's a complete fraud and you lot keep falling for his nonsense. This shows the abysmal lack of education in Britain these days.
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  3894.  @garytallowin6623  No, that's not whats happening at all. That's what you're being told by right-wing media stoking its culture war. The West is failing because politicians prioritise the wealthy instead of the masses. Even China sees this as a problem and probably won't fall into the same trap. P.S. Is fine to debate the good and bad side of Christianity. We can perhaps also talk about how many Christians completely ignore the lessons of the Bible while berating others.
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  3895. He's argued against every method to limit covid. He's literally promoting covid for some weird, deviant reason. Maybe he wants to kill off more pensioners or something?
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  3896. Covid infection is a good reason to vaccinate. Plus do you know how vaccines work? We give them to healthy kids to reduce their chances of getting sick. That's why you see lots and lots of happy toddlers these days. A century ago most of them would not have made it to primary school age.
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  3897.  @Brez6645  A small amount yet. But vaccinations were common post WW2 and Europe was in ruins. Sanitation and diet were not good for millions of kids who grew up in those times.
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  3898.  @nooa69  There's going to be an epidemic of heart disease in young men anyway for two reasons. 1. Covid is bad and causes heart problems. and 2. Many young men abuse steroids and other PEDs to be 'jacked' and that will mess them up.
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  3899.  @matthewb9621  Yep, remember that on Grange Hill! Or remember Mark Fowler on Eastenders who was into drugs & racism and then wound up with HIV. Plus he turned into Tucker Jenkins which was a bit of an unnerving Grange Hill flashback.
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  3900. They have the Internet dude. You can sit round watching MIT Open Courseware on Youtube when you're bored and read textbooks on an iPad. Or listen to great educational podcasts like the fantastic 'This Podcast Will Kill You'...
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  3901. And by the way, games consoles have been around since the 1970s. In my day we were criticised for being Space Invader/Pac Man obsessed...
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  3902. No, Rayner was commenting on nasty things Tories have said and done. She said she'd apologise if Boris apologised for saying those nasty things. But he won't. Tory voters are weirdly triggered by this woman. She's terrifying them, which is good.
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  3903.  @christopherroberts7306  Boris has spent much of his career lying. He was fired from newspaper jobs for lying. His former employer said he's a liar. He's also got a long history of writing nasty race-baiting articles. You can even find a tape recording with him and Darius Guppy discussing beating up a journalist. If you don't think that's worth apologising for then perhaps you think he should apologise for the 130+ thousand dead due to his negligence?
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  3904. She was pretty good as Edmund's Aunt, Lady Whiteadder.
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  3905. Good to see as our supply chains fail and the Rona still spreads that we can always count on GB News to cover important Meghan news. I'm honestly waiting for GBNews to start whining about the Afghan refugees in a few days as well...
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  3906.  @eugenedevere7687  So is this. They are vaccines, you're just quoting internet conspiracy drivel like the usual paid poster crowd.
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  3907. Like time I checked there was a pandemic going on and we've lost hundreds of heatlcare workers to it.
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  3908. Right, because there weren't race riots in 1958 were there? Did we imagine those racist Teddy Boys?
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  3909. GB News has the most absurd take on everything. Is like they're an active fifth column designed to destroy British faith in the media.
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  3910.  @daza3620  Yes but its not used in every paragraph like on here.
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  3911. So you want to spread the Rona instead and kill thousands more.
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  3912. Go Google the story of April Ashley and get back to me.
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  3913. Go read the Yellowhammer government documents. Most of this was predicted. The whole point was it could have been avoided as we've had five years to find workarounds.
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  3914. Simple, have it like claiming Universal Credit. MPs get their pay & essential expenses but if they work in a 'second job' then it gets deducted from their MPs salary. If they work 'on the sly' and don't declare it, then take them to court and throw them in jail.
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  3915. Albert Einstein was a socialist. I bet he had a better job than you. And cooler hair.
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  3916.  @igg3937  No, the right-wing are worse. They constantly pop up on TV/in the media whining about being cancelled but they're never cancelled. Take today, Talk Radio's Mike Graham had a go at a 13 yr old who made a video about covid. The kid was attacked online by Grahams minions. Pretty despicable behaviour but the norm now for the Tory press.
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  3917. https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1410052502792384514
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  3918.  @golem4892  He's not a respected figure in the US. This channel is just stirring up crap and it'll blow up in their orange faces.
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  3919.  @nowun6043  It's not soaring mate, the ratings are rubbish. You'll find that shouting 'woke' at everyone is not the ratings winner they assume.
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  3920.  @domloz3130  It has 127k subscribers on Youtube, which isn't very many. As the channel has been super-hyped and had government ministers on, this number isn't that impressive.
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  3921.  @ancietman  After the initial interest ratings have dropped off a cliff. They might go up, but not if they're going to run daily 'OMG WOKE THINGS R BAD!!!' propaganda.
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  3922. Trump? You mean twice-impeached can't even run a casino Trump? That guy? That guy who is no longer president? With the coke-head sons?
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  3923. Rasta Mouse was awesome! Considerably more refined than Pob (the actual Pob, not Gove).
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  3924. Gov forcing voter ID... silence. Gov flogging the NHS... silence. Gov starving poor people abroad and letting the Chinese influence said countries... silence. Gov wants carers working in medical environments to have a vaccine... AAARRGGHHHH ANNNGEEERRRRR
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  3925. I think it was in some Rik Mayall book in the 80s where he did a section on the life of the fruit fly. On a single page it said: Born. Eat. Shag. Die.
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  3926. You mean Texas with thousands of deaths from covid and a government so incompetent their power grid collapsed in a minor snowstorm and this week is teetering because its too hot. Yeah, not the best model to follow.
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  3927. We're now attacking flags? Is that honestly how you envisaged your life being spent?
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  3928.  @ivo9328  I earnestly hope so. The Deus Vult weirdo probably isn't joking tho?
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  3929. It's not.
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  3930. Someone who is marginally better and not an insane orange hate-goblin.
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  3931. Get sun, no rickets.
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  3932. Many children are vulnerable. Asthma, heart problems, Downs Syndrome, childhood Cancers...
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  3933.  @lozzy2587  1% of kids with covid end up in hospital. We may not entirely be sure what the 'healthy' criteria is.
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  3934.  @60toodles  Umm, we do the same for the troops. Is a common thing to salute those who risk their lives for us.
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  3935. GB News really loved coke-addled types, don't they?
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  3936. ​ @Honest_and_Brutal  There's at least three vaccines that work in slightly different ways. A gene therapy will alter genetic code inside the cell, in theory to stop an illness or similar. The vaccine code doesn't alter the DNA code in the cell nucleus, so it isn't a gene therapy.
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  3937.  @beepositiveforever971  No more than the weather forecast is a sinister plot. Global travel, deforestation, collapsing healthcare systems, climate change - all contributes to novel disease outbreaks.
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  3938. What, did you not notice 3+ million people dying around the world of a new virus that didn't exist 18 months before? Or were you asleep at the time?
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  3939. Bloody hell, did you spend hours thinking that one up?
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  3940. The BBC are small C conservative establishment. Its one of the most successful ways of projecting British culture around the world. If the Tories kill it then no other channels will devote time to parliamentary debates, Royal events (Imagine a commercial channel dropping everything to do three hours of Trooping the Colour, lol), making niche shows for farmers or churchgoers or for that matter spending tons of money on British history programmes sold around the globe. I can't see GB News dropping a few million quid to film the next Royal wedding for instance...
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  3941.  @slashingbison2503  Wooten is a New Zealander that can't bring himself to mention the success of New Zealand in fighting covid. You can find loads of vids of him on here praising Florida instead - and look at how Florida is doing now - whoops.
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  3942. The right impose their own belief systems just as bad (if not worse) than the left. By the political standards of today, someone like Pres Eisenhower would be classed as a mad leftist. In the 50s you had the ultra-conservative Edward Teller give a speech on the mechanics of climate change. Nowadays the right pushes the meme that climate change is a lefty conspiracy & Teller would be classed as a Marxist shill by most of the modern Tory party.
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  3943. That's because its kind of due to Brexit. Not the entire cause but certainly a big one. The Tory tabloids have been pretending otherwise for months (remember the 'we don't have shortages, its the pingdemic'?) and now their lies are catching up with them.
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  3944.  @amandalee215  It's called trying to appeal to women. You know, 50% of the population.
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  3945. Someone's a bit jealous....
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  3946. Why don't you wear a mask? I bet you're anti-vaxx too. Future historians reading these comments: This is why the pandemic took years to end.
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  3947. There is a degree of selfishness in going on holiday during a pandemic then whining about it when a) You have to get tested or b) You get covid.
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  3948. Whereas the long term effects of covid include a wrecked heart, inability to smell, possible severe cognitive issues, vascular problems, strokes, mental illness and possible increased risk of miscarriage. You know, all those things the antivaxxers are blaming on the vaccine - turns out they're actually the result of covid.
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  3949.  @user-zu6qn9ux9n  " but an experimental treatment " - like the Polio vaccine in the 50s when everyone took it? Or the HPV vaccine ten years ago which has now been shown to reduce many cancers? Or the original cowpox vaccine from Jenner several centuries ago? Screaming 'experimental treatment' is just a buzzword to set off idiots. Its meaningless.
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  3950. To be fair mate, they've been pushing right-wing crackpottery for the few weeks they've been on.
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  3951. He really is a poster boy for the Dunning-Krueger effect.
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  3952. It's not a miracle cure and may have only a minor or no effect.
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  3953. If there were zero restrictions pubs and restaurants would still struggle. A large chunk of the population really don't want to risk a dose of the Rona so won't be going out, restrictions or no. Only when infections are right down will people have the confidence to go back to their usual fun activities. We sort of thought that was happening last summer (<2000 cases a day), but now we're getting back into a dark place case-wise.
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  3954. Is quite amusing seeing conservative types suddenly discover that paying better wages encourages more people to work in jobs. They've been arguing the exact opposite for thirty years - except when the jobs are for the wealthy (then they deserve every penny, apparently). Hopefully they'll also nationalise the power companies. If scared to use the 'S word' then call it 'Patriotic strategic control' or something.
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  3955. Yep. If people knew how much of the crazy right is actually propped up and protected by the tech giants there'd be uproar. Malign imps like Ben Shapiro are in every Facebook feed not because he's interesting, but because he's being promoted and paid for by billionaires.
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  3956. Thalidomide was a drug, the vaccine isn't a drug. The two are very different. As for the 'experimental' part, well, guess what? As covid has only been around for 18 months pretty much all the treatments for it are experimental, too. They may be older drugs, or cheap and useful (like dexamethasone) but their use is a work in progress. So by your reckoning we should just not treat covid patients and let them die because they might have a bad reaction to steroids or monoclonal antibodies or similar.
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  3957.  @Gilberto90  But it was experimental with covid. It worked, but for a time no one knew, they took an educated guess.
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  3958. And ruthless middle-aged clickbait journalists spend all their time ranting about her and making money off the kid.
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  3959. He's promoting Boris, as told to by Tory Party HQ.
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  3960. I'm British. Stop being racist.
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  3961.  @rosealiemarie10289  That's the stupidest conspiracy ever, straight from Utopia. You know what they'd do if they wanted to cull the population? Let covid rip and kill them that way. No vaccines needed, no vaccine passports, just wait a few months for the doom. Which funnily enough is eerily similar to the actual Tory governments response to this, but antivaxxers are too slow to notice.
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  3962.  @rumples2698  You have a phone. They track you using that. If they really had working nanobots that could suck energy out of your body and use it to power radio transmissions to the cell grid you know what they'd also have? A cure for cancer & heart disease - the nanobots could zap cancer cells using infra-red (instead of radio for the 5g) or slosh round your bloodstream zapping arterial plaques. At which point Gates would be worth trillions as everyone would be queuing up for a shot.
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  3963.  @wavell14  Worked well in China to be fair. And in many non communist countries, so your point is moot.
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  3964.  @SmeggyMcgee  Worked great in New Zealand, mate.
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  3965. Your kid might marry a nice Asian doctor, what's the problem?
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  3966. Wait till you find out what happened to Tawny Kitaen.
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  3967. Is it just me or does the banner behind the presenter look like a Nazi flag up close?
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  3968. Not die of the Rona so easily. Go on holiday much easier. Hug people without creeping them out.
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  3969. Yes, is a pretty good analysis.
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  3970. The kids are fine with masks. Is the idiot parents causing all the trouble.
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  3971. I know, is almost as if this channel has an agenda or something....
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  3972.  @britishmgtow7251  Hating the NHs just because women won't sleep with you is a weird take, mate.
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  3973.  @roseanne9986  Yep, massive problems in the US with even youngish people dying from not being able to afford treatment. They have some state coverage for pensioners and military but everything else is for $$$$$.
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  3974. The vaccines massively reduce the risk of death. If most people took them we wouldn't have to bother but we have a large chunk of antivaxxers and a government who has been talked into not vaccinating kids but letting them be mass-infected instead. This makes things a bit of a nightmare and is likely most countries will have some heavy restrictions (particularly with travel) for the next few years.
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  3975. Until the hospitals fill up and people start dying. Seriously, stop being an idiot.
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  3976.  @Lisa-ey3gt  No, am talking what's going to happen. Or are you one of those foreign bots here to seed disinformation?
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  3977.  @yesmate78  I'm not the one telling people to not get tested during a pandemic, am I?
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  3978. Right, so with all the restrictions and the best in 21st century medical technology its still been the worst one for a century (yes, its killed far more than the 1968 pandemic which killed around 100,000 in the US as compared to 600,000 for covid).
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  3979.  @macraghnaill3553  So covid is still worse than the 1968/9 pandemic by whichever measurement you use. Especially as the age of death for covid patients has been coming down for a while - note those NHS staff who died were hardly 80 year olds.
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  3980.  @macraghnaill3553  They haven't been downgraded to 90k. Where did you read that? And the British population in 1969 was 55 million. We've gone up just over ten million in FIFTY YEARS.
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  3981. Right because we can't build nuclear power stations or giant solar arrays in the desert....
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  3982.  @sadwingsraging3044  He did, for several simple reasons... 1. A lot of moderates didn't want more Trump so voted Biden. 2. The young were far more motivated to vote this time. 3. Trump managed to kill off hundreds of thousands of mainly older Americans who likely would vote Republican. Those Americans also had families that thought twice about voting for someone lacking basic empathy even for his own voters.
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  3983.  @sadwingsraging3044  Apparently there's hearings going on today all about your boys little insurrection. Most Americans agree with me that the Orange antichrist is a traitor and fascist hobgoblin.
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  3984. Because he's torture to listen to...?
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  3985.  @sunshinestar2244  You're talking nonsense as usual. The test they're talking about is a dual test to pick up covid and/or the flu. It needs tweaking a bit.
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  3986.  @adamgilbert2238  Depends on the type of industry they go into. There's been debate about it for years - a very noticeable gap between finance/business jobs and actual science pay.
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  3987. Terrorists kill less people in a year in Britain than Rona kills in a few hours. So does that mean terrorism isn't something we should be bothered with? Should we shut down the security services and just learn to live with the odd Isis bombing?
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  3988. Why are all these 'UK patriots' obsessed with Sky News Australia? Is almost as if they're not really British but advertising goblins pushing a narrative. P.S. Gerrish is a conspiracy loon and fraud. Relying on him for medical advice is like relying on Boris for hairdressing tips.
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  3989.  @MrTaxiRob  There';s some good vids on Youtube where they talk about what happened to the second season. Ratings-chasing nonsense & budget cuts from the higher-ups, sadly.
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  3990. As the breakthrough cases are minimal, then no.
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  3991. Probably blood consumption like Countess Bathory.
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  3992. 'not at risk' - they are at risk. A smaller risk, but still a risk. Plus they can spread it to older more at risk people.
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  3993. No it wasn't. Stop lying you absolute dolt.
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  3994.  @nowun6043  We've been through this. I am full aware of Kary Mullis having read his book almost 20 years ago. He was an odd dude and a HIV denialist. Very bright, but unhinged.
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  3995. But most of these guys would do better if they were funny. Dolan is an example of how the word comedian is often misapplied.
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  3996. Oh dear me. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/cbeebies-fathers-day https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48646702 https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/fathers-day-ideas/zbb3f82
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  3997. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57440445 Even a pidgin article aimed at the colonies: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-57543531
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  3998. You're taking notice to a gossip columnist telling you about diseases, climate change and economics. This worries me. Do you think this guy actually knows what he's talking about? Are you willing to bet your life on the words of a bloke whose previous 'contributions' to society included harassing a mentally ill TV presenter?
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  3999. Which doesn't last forever as we've found out by the number of reinfections in the likes of Brazil, Russia and the US (and the UK, tho the British government deliberately doesn't include reinfections in their figures).
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  4000.  @ChristineFisher123  It actually does because lots of 'natural immunity' types are getting shot up with monoclonal antibodies, steroids and various other expensive drugs.
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  4001. Rab C Nesbitt once had an episode featuring David Tenant as a transgender barmaid. That was over twenty years ago - and it was hysterical.
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  4002. You mean Bellamy who fully believed in climate change at the end of the 80s, then decided it was 'poppycock' later on?
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  4003. Humans who don't want to kill their kids. You know, nice ones.
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  4004.  @bobjames6622  I'm not the one wanting to kill kids, am I? I suppose you'd complain at the kids in the hospital who wear oxygen masks?
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  4005. Yes you absolute muppet. Stop spreading lies.
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  4006. Am actually on the little fascists side with this one. He's making more sense than the failed actor/failed musician/bereft of brains guest.
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  4007. @Neria Wolf And that means every body saying black lives matter is a Marxist?
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  4008.  @bluepurgatory2927  We're calling people being racist racists. The whole 'I'm not racist, but these blacks are a bit out of order saying black lives matter' is actually quite racist, no matter how you cloak it in 'anti-woke' terminology.
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  4009. Not really. This is GB News going for the neo-nazi vote. There's plenty of 'failed states' that sorted themselves out eventually and we took in immigrants from when they were ravaged by war (or similar). Remember also the US took in immigrants from Europe and England fleeing from poverty and discrimination over the past few centuries.
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  4010. The Chinese can always switch to nuclear. They're even doing well with fusion research... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Advanced_Superconducting_Tokamak
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  4011.  @JustFamilyPlaytime  I know this but they're going to be forced to speed the transition up. Necessity is the mother of invention and when your air is choking and your workforce ill then throwing money at new energy tech is a better alternative.
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  4012. "There's no science behind this". Ummm, apart from the science that's been known for over a century. Absolute brainlet. How do clowns like this get elected?
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  4013.  @SH-fz9dy  Mate, stop this Hitler shit. You're not going to mass expel a minority because you happen to not like them.
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  4014. Vaccinating kids is not child abuse. Deliberately infecting kids with a novel coronavirus is. Anti-vax dipshits take note.
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  4015. He is being useful. Nasty trolls are a blight on the entire Internet.
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  4016.  @paulmcnicholas3846  Nah, there's plenty of solutions such as exposing the big money behind many of the troll operations. Lots of Chinese and Russian cash and of course right-wing cash from various places. When said trolls have no income they won't bother and we'll be back to the old Internet where you had a tiny amount of trolls that no one ever listened to.
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  4017.  @gerardk51  No they didn't say anything about lockdowns. Stop making nonsense up.
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  4018. You're comparing 21st century medicine to 1960? Especially as Thalidomide was seen as dodgy from the start and the Americans wouldn't authorise it (Google 'Frances Oldham Kelsey').
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  4019. Well that's the problem then, isn't it? If we have a country with low wages then you either support families (as we used to with family allowance/credit) or watch your birth rate go up in smoke.
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  4020. You were told Brexit would be a disaster. The government even had Yellowhammer documents setting out how it would be a disaster. Pleading ignorance now is no excuse.
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  4021.  @andyforshaw8489  Pretty sure London is still full of manly police waving guns about mate. Could I make a simple suggestion? If much of the crime is fuelled by gangs then perhaps go after the drug market properly and either legalise it or start slapping rich people in jail at the same rate as the poor. Once the drugs market collapses then there's little economic incentive for most of the gangs.
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  4022. And yes I get that the case here is different with the guy being stabbed but it sounds like the scumbags who did it were gang types.
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  4023. We all live a life of being safe in exchange for freedoms. I don't see the average Brit doing their own police work or making their own laws or fighting terrorists by themselves. The British middle-class are some of the safest people in all of human history.
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  4024.  @elkpaz560  No they're not. Tho the kids are worried about the government wanting to infect them enmasse so Karen can go clubbing next week.
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  4025.  @elkpaz560  Its not safety for the old per-se, is also safety for the kids. Inflammatory disease, hospital stays, long covid... is a lot to put them through to keep a few scumbag politicians happy.
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  4026.  @elkpaz560  Karen and Gammon are being used mockingly because right-wingers seem to understand and constantly use samey language - hence how they all call us snowflakes etc. They talk in meme phrases. Am using words they understand, especially as many of the posters on here are actually foreign bots and agents sowing dissent. No British person talks like them or acts like them, they're fakes designed to stir up trouble.
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  4027.  @YouTubeCensorsMe  I know, was mocking, hence the comedy spelling.
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  4028. Its not short-sighted, its funny. The Germans even have a word for it - schadenfreude.
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  4029. As an older dude, comparing the kids to their 50 something relatives is pretty clear the kids are fine and its the older adults who fall for propaganda more than almost anyone in any society ever. Look at the comments on here. Mind-blowing brain-addlement.
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  4030. Well no, because the youth knows that socialist governments in the UK created the NHS, the welfare state, enabled them to vote if they were 18 rather than 21, created the Open University and various other long-lasting policies we still admire today. Kids are better educated than you idiots. By far.
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  4031.  @sticks5614  1. The 70s problems were common all over the world thanks to the oil shock & various other issues. Americans queuing for gas was a common sight, as was industrial trouble all over Europe. Thatcher gave us 3+ million unemployed and riots, so she was no better and only saved by oil money and a financial bubble. 2. The unregulated market in 2008 was inspired by the US and the Tories have done ZERO to fix that. In fact they're accelerated housing prices even worse so the crash will be bigger next time. 3. Guess how much debt Boris has got us into for Covid? Spoilers: Much, much worse than Brown.
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  4032. What's happened to Neil Oliver? Has he taken some time off to have a haircut?
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  4033.  @jammydodger1449  Grow up. You were educated by other people's taxes, use the roads other people's taxes built, were given medical treatment from other people's taxes and probably work in a company that gets other people's taxes via public spending contracts.
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  4034. Gotta be honest here, during the first few months of the pandemic I thought 'Well, maybe this time the Tories will behave. We've got to get through this together so it make sense." That lasted a few weeks and the Tories were back to cuts, grinching at the NHS, lying, grifting contracts and generally being all-round horrible. They truly are a sociopathic blight on this land, and now they're going to sacrifice the health of goodness knows how many young people so Alan Sugar can keep his rents high. Repulsive.
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  4035.  @jacquistephens605  David Icke also went on TV to say he was the son of god (Google it), stole his conspiracy from the TV show V and 'borrowed' much of his other stuff from other conspiracy theorists. I would suggest reading John Ronson's book Them from twenty years ago which looked at Icke.
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  4036. Is the woman speaking wearing contacts or has she been snorting all the white fun powder? She's got eyes like a scared Disney Princess.
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  4037. Its a bloke ranting. How is that honest journalism?
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  4038. Most of us didn't think the government would give up and not actually control the virus meaning thousands are taking up hospital beds with covid infections, therefore leaving less resources for other procedures.
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  4039. What are they then, smiler? Enlighten us with your virological wisdom.
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  4040. Only if you don't actually watch TV and are a bot on the Internet...
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  4041. So anyone who lives in London is a Metropolitan elite? Am I getting this right?
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  4042. Funnily enough masks are being re-introduced in some schools to reduce the spread of Delta variant Rona. So apparently they do work and the mask-phobic types are wrong (again).
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  4043.  @dannyclough2245  Pro-covid types really are the holocaust deniers of the 2020s, aren't they?...
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  4044. Yes Alex doesn't seem to understand the whole capitalism thing which she's worshipping. If the gov can have price caps for tests so people can go on holiday, then why not price cap other things, too? (as a lefty I'd be fine with free or capped tests. But the presenters here are meant to be all free market types)
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  4045. Another incontinence metaphor. Man, this is so strange. Reminds me of closeted blokes talking about how many women they've had and convincing nobody.
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  4046. That's because now big capitalism rules the roost. In the old days these companies operated on smaller amounts of money and had to improvise - hence lots of innovation.
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  4047. Because 18 months ago if you told people that British conservatives would be happy to kill off 130000 people in a pandemic, then blame the victims for being old & fat then those same conservatives would decide that kids shouldn't be vaccinated and we'll just have to mass-infect them instead because a right-wing group in the US made a fake scientific report that said its the only way.... ... well, you'd have been seen as utterly bonkers. And that's before we even get to the antivaxxers being funded by shady billionaires and Russian oddbods.
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  4048.  @bobsponge3747  Scenario 1: This is Britain. So no. Scenario 2: Denying the pandemic shows you're a dick and that's one of the reasons we're going to get vaccine passports.
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  4049. They should ask them who's paying for it. The protestors always avoid answering that question.
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  4050. The Tories have long been the party of high taxes - for the working-class. They're only the low-tax party for rich people. Think back to previous Tory governments... reduced income tax, but whacked up VAT. Added in lots of indirect taxes that principally hit the workers. Then gave lots of cuts and help to the rich. I was stunned at how they got away with it when Dave got in. The Labour gov put VAT up to 17.5% during the financial crisis with the intention to reduce it back down eventually. Cameron slapped it up to 20%. Not a peep from the press. Why? Because normal people are hit harder by indirect taxes. See also: tax on drink, cigarettes, fuel, air travel...
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  4051. So you'd rather mass infect them with the Rona?
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  4052. A crypto fascist Trump worshipper who is about as popular as the coronavirus? No.
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  4053.  @jdg9999  And yet its growth was still below the 60s, unemployment stayed high through most of the 80s and her strategy of selling everything gave us utilities that love to rip off the public. And that's just the start.
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  4054.  @keywee849  The Tories are already doing that. Infections, inflammatory syndrome, long covid. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210716112443.htm
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  4055.  @islayreptilianhybrids8947  Respected Youtube commenter, mate.
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  4056. That isn't even true, tho. Plenty of people waste their own money on gambling or buying rubbish they can't afford. If you're against government spending then you should be campaigning for the military to be sold off. But you're not, which indicates an ideological attack on a British institution.
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  4057.  @gerrymacmanus  And works better as well. No paying $1200 a month for insulin. Plus we can get am ambulance here without fear of paying a giant bill for the privilege of being carted off to hospital.
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  4058.  @IMadeOfClay  Am pretty sure ambulances are not free, this is why so many people would rather shove their deathly ill relative in a car instead of calling one out.
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  4059.  @IMadeOfClay  So if we gave people large tax cuts and most blew it on cocaine & holidays instead of health insurance how would that be more efficient than taxpayer funding of healthcare?
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  4060. Neither has the Tory press who've been getting it wrong on this for over a year.
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  4061. You mean little Ben who was born into a rich family and has spent his adult life as a billionaire-funded midget propagandist? Ben who failed at being a Hollywood screenwriter? Ben whose own cousin thinks is a bit of a twit?
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  4062.  @marielaveau8761  Just pointing out that malign imps funded by rich scumbags are not conducive to democracy.
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  4063.  @pragueexpat5106  So why is this channel full of people denying basic scientific facts? Surely if they are fans of the diminutive disinformer then they should accept actual science instead of spouting drivel about the 5gs and graphene vaccine plots?
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  4064. You're going to get that anyway - Britain is one of the few Western countries to not be vaccinating 12+ yr olds. So chances are we'll end up with metric shittonnes of health problems in our children from the Rona and other countries won't.
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  4065.  @leemacgregor1  Lots of kids have been killed by the virus. Stop making shit up. https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1410052502792384514 https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1411419833145737216
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  4066. He's tanked his career to become a propandist for right-wing goblins. I mean he's sitting here whining about Jeremy Vine, but has nothing to say about how much he's paid or for that matter how many of his colleagues in the (non-BBC) press still earn telephone number salaries for writing drivel - Wooten, Piers Morgan etc.
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  4067.  @joebloggs3551  He's inferring the BBC people are overpaid when the sort of pay media people get is fairly consistent across the industry. If you think the BBC is theft, how much do you think Murdoch will charge when its gone?
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  4068.  @joebloggs3551  When Murdoch owns more of the press then your choice will be paying him or not having any TV.
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  4069.  @joebloggs3551  Murdoch still owns a large chunk of the UK press and a chunk of Sky and Fox News and Harper Collins and most of Australian media and various other things. This isn't a 'lefty obsession', this is about one man using his power to manipulate governments around the world.
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  4070. You can argue because he's a monumental idiot who seems to think we should just sit round and die so he can feel smug.
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  4071. Ummm, was China doing that in the 1950s? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6YyvdYPrhY
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  4072. Why do antivaxxers always claim to know loads of people who got horribly sick or died from the vaccine while most of us know lots of people who went 'Had a bit of a headache, am fine now'?
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  4073. Suicides have been going up for a while but were relatively flat during the pandemic year.
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  4074. In what way? He sounds very eugenic in the way he talks about covid with no concern for the vast numbers of British people who have lost loved ones.
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  4075. He might be ashamed of working for a rubbish channel but this is a reasonably balanced position.
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  4076. Think of your grandma in WW2. Getting bombed, losing boyfriends, living on rations, constant chance of poison gas attacks, then the ballistic missiles start hitting London... Compared to now where we're all losing it over having to wear masks in the shop.
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  4077.  @jonnydoeson5562  Actually I can, but businesses aren't going to do well if the Rona is still mass-infecting people. There's such a thing as psychology. Calling people sheep and bedwetters isn't going to make them patronise your establishment. I want everything to work well, for us to have the footy, plays, ballet, gigantic fucking raves and everything else. But that will only happen when the populace has the confidence to feel safe.
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  4078. Am all for a pay rise for them. Are you willing to pay more for your supermarket/food deliveries tho?
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  4079.  @jejmoss11  Is a media critique thing. If someone is spreading misinformation and stirring up the worst impulses of the political goblins then is fair to critique it. I mean watching this for weeks and apparently covid isn't bad, racism is overblown, taking the knee is the worst thing ever and Britain is being invaded by forrins. Is a weird paranoid worldview that needs to be analysed. I'd feel exactly the same way if the Channel was endlessly promoting China or the presenters were waving round Communist flags.
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  4080. That's what happens with a pandemic. Could have been over last year but muppets like Neil were all 'Muh freedums' which meant allowing it to spread even more. Now we're at over 30,000 cases a day and 100+ a day dying. Which is much less than pre-vaccine but means the NHS will be clogged for the foreseeable future. Neil doesn't care. He can go private.
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  4081. Why? He's got to be a pretty safe guy to use.
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  4082. They've all had it. All the celeb 'anti-vaxxers' have had it. They just pretend they haven't to keep the anti-vax bucks rolling in.
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  4083. Is that a character name in a racist comedy?
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  4084.  @suburbiapheonix7960  Lot, it was always a push to sell off the majority of shares. Please stop re-writing history.
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  4085.  @DarrenHarrison7160  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.ON_UK "Sixty per cent of Powergen was sold to private investors in 1991, followed by the remaining 40% in March 1995.[9]" Tory policy, pre-Blair.
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  4086.  @johngregson9827  So by that reckoning we should just have a dictatorship then. More logically if you vote for other parties then that forces the existing Cons to understand their policies are not workable and to try something different.
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  4087. Shakespeare was massively political for his time - and very controversial in parts.
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  4088. Boris is in power, mate. I recall Starmer wasn't a fan of the vaccine passport idea.
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  4089. Putins mate. Trump's mate. Traitor.
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  4090. Why do British people keep plugging Sky Australia? Is this some bullet point on their 'I get paid to promote this nonsense' to-do list?
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  4091. You don't have the personal freedom to leave the country without a government document (or 'passport'). You cannot drive without a government license. You cannot be a doctor without a license. There's no difference.
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  4092. So why do you wear dirty germ catching pants? Why don't you walk round naked enjoying the summer sun?
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  4093. Glad they didn't vote for Hitler. At least that's something. Not a surprise to see Farage there. He's a proper Pied Piper to the gammons.
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  4094. No, he's being an absolute dolt and is a living example of why the Tory party are evil. Note this bloke isn't arsed about voter ID laws, or letting kids be mass-infected with the Rona. Nope, he's bothered about footy players trying not to be racist.
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  4095.  @medler2110  Again, same last summer then cases blew up, followed by deaths. It is wise to be cautious and get cases right down before the weather is colder and more people are stuck indoors breathing each other's manky air.
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  4096.  @medler2110  Both partly, but the variant is a bit nasty and is resulting in more cases at the moment.
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  4097.  @martincassels7995  But accelerating. Is funny because Sky News Aus is slap bang in the middle of the country that will be one of the worst hit by climate change. Pretty sure 'Hur de hurr its not real' won't go down too well when Aussies are queuing up for water rations.
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  4098. What for? To burn away your bitterness?
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  4099. Is better for police to be awake and paying attention. Sleeping police help no one!
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  4100. To be fair mate history will remember the antivax loons the same way as they remembered the antivax loons throughout history - Badly.
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  4101. Britain, 1960s? Norway in recent years? Sweden in the 90s?
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  4102. GB News is dying for a good war. They could easily double their ratings and finally beat Welsh Paw Patrol every week.
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  4103. Well there was a group of Catholics that succeeded at blowing up politicians (unlike old Guy) recently. Unfortunately they were the IRA and last time I checked not too popular.
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  4104. You're also not a real person. Boasting about having minging hands is so hilariously stupid you can't be real.
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  4105.  @ND1966p  Isn't the masks, dude. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-mask-pneumonia-1918-idUSKBN277200 https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/7/11/ofaa518/5975147
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  4106.  @ND1966p  Had it a while back dude. His emails had no smoking gun, more provisional information at a time of great uncertainty.
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  4107.  @j7ech402  Why dude, is it triggering?
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  4108.  @joebloggs3551  Boomers who believed tabloid drivel caused that (partly). If you look at the 2017 result labour were effectively neck and neck with the Tories. But two years of 'Anyone who votes labour is an anti-semite who hates white people and they're all communists who are going to kill us' addled enough brains to guarantee the blond idiot his spot in infamy. History will remember it was the Tories who killed so many of their own people in the pandemic by listening to libertarian grifters and causing a culture war to cover things up. History will always remember, Boris voters will be pretending they totally didn't vote for him soon.
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  4109.  @duality5503  Ah, you mean like when the Labour party was led by a Jewish bloke and the press said they were antisemitic while showing mocking pictures of said Jewish bloke eating a bacon sandwich?
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  4110.  R A  Terrorism? Do you mean like when Mrs T supported the Mujahadeen who later evolved into the Taliban? Or when she supported General Pinochet? And BTW you know Brendan O'Neil and Claire Fox who are often guests on here? Used to be members of the pro-IRA Revolutionary Communist Party. Labour people hated them (Monbiot wrote about it years ago). I'm not a millennial, either. But thanks for assuming.
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  4111. So if the carers bring covid in and kill the clients, is that okay so long as the carers have 'muh freedoms'?
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  4112.  @DizGuys  It slows transmission. If we slow transmission that helps a lot by dropping the R number.
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  4113.  @tri7th  Not as much. That's the key. If we reduce spread so we're well under 1 for the R rate then the disease will dwindle away quicker.
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  4114.  @tri7th  Your information is dubious. Natural immunity isn't working very well as people get reinfected with covid. The vaccines do work - Britain currently has around 30k cases a day with 100-150 deaths. Compare to last year when similar cases were 500-1000 deaths. The vaccines are not perfect, but no medical treatment is. The vaccine won't kill your immune system. This is absurd and am assuming is some nonsense you read on Facebook. People with nuked immune systems get very sick, very fast and last time I checked there's not million of Britons at death's door due to immune system collapse.
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  4115. Oh god, its another dolt waffling on about cancel culture. Remember kids, if cancel culture was real then every one of these losers would have been cancelled years ago.
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  4116. Nope. If that was the case people in Southern Europe (lots of sun, lovely fruit and seafood) would have been fine. They weren't.
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  4117.  @stephen393  No, they weren't. Lots of death and infections. Or did you sleep through the several months of hell Italy had last year?
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  4118. Blimey, England pulls off a cracking win and these miserable bastards are still droning on about taking the knee. Look, if England are secretly Marxists then they're Marxists who've done better at football than any other England team in decades. That makes them very cool.
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  4119. Caps lock is a thing, mate.
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  4120. Apart from the young people who get sick, and those who end up with long covid. And those the young people infect.
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  4121.  @MegaSpideyman  What do you count as a small minority? Half a millon? A million? Two million? Please enlighten us.
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  4122.  @MegaSpideyman  Yes that is indeed the same for most illnesses, its also the reason for many vaccinations. We vaccinate kids for Rubella. Most of the time German measles isn't anything more than an annoyance for youngsters (I had it as a kid, two weeks of scratching and feeling rough). BUT... Rubella very dangerous for pregnant women. As kids are statistically more likely to be around women of childbearing age we vaccinate the kids to stop them infecting adults. We also give teens HPV vaccines before they are sexually active. There's good evidence HPV protection can reduce a lot of cancers, but is a bit late dishing it out when someone's 30 and done most of their dating. As for the Rona, yes the young will have less severe illnesses but there appears to be a lot of follow-on problems under the rubric of 'Long Covid'. Even if that only affects, say, 5% (and is probably higher) that's a lot of young people whose lives will be difficult for months - or maybe forever.
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  4123. And if everyone gets a trade then you have an oversupply of tradesmen and wages drop right down.
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  4124.  @linedwell  I met an American lad last week who just got out of quarantine. He didn't swim to Britain or get the bus.
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  4125.  @johnbarrett6889  Only 4chan weirdos use terms like 'normies'. Stop it.
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  4126.  @slightlyevil.  Yeah because normal people don't use 'normies', especially British people. Unless they're 12. Or a chan troll.
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  4127.  @johnbarrett6889  Ask your mum.
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  4128. So we should what, do nothing and have the Rona slowly wipe out the entire human race?* *yes you can get reinfected. No the virus has not got any weaker.
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  4129.  @martinbirks  Yes and if you let the Rona run free they won't be getting treatment because the hospitals will be clogged with sick, infectious people. The same problem is happening in every country with large numbers of covid cases. Hence reduce the covid, then open up and pour money into the NHS to sort the backlog.
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  4130. Retune your telly.
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  4131. That meant she was doing her job.
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  4132. They should do a spin-off featuring gay women, it can be called LBGT. I'm here all day and available for bookings and/or the Royal Variety Performance.
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  4133. Funnily enough the Rona may well have a negative effect on male fertility which the vaccines almost certainly don't.
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  4134.  @josephverdins6921  How is posting links to government sites and relevant media while correcting mistakes trolling?
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  4135.  @josephverdins6921  What are you calling out? Me posting facts? How is that a bad thing?
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  4136. It's shit.
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  4137.  @Colin623  My comments are also funny and sourced, mate.
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  4138. It's not a flu virus. Let me explain. A flu virus is a virus. Covid is a virus of a different type (tho they look superficially similar). Covid is more dangerous than the flu. A lot more (at least with recent flu viruses due to vaccination success). A house cat is a mammal. A tiger is a mammal. They have many core genetic similarities, but which one is more dangerous?
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  4139. Your forefathers would be stunned at how modern 'conservative' policies are more fascist than 1930s Europe.
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  4140.  @daz3350  Gee, sorry I'm not worshipping Hitler like you lot.
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  4141. Broke boomers more. At least the kids are voting for relatively normal politics while their parents and grandparents are going full fash.
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  4142.  @jimallen9442  It was a general point, you literalist gremlin. Would suggest watching the rather good docco 'The Brainwashing of my Dad' from 2014, all about Boomers being brain-addled by right wing news. Very well-known phenomenon.
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  4143. I'm a HG Wells fan. That dude fucked*, in between co-inventing modern sci-fi, writing bestselling conventional novels and being a cheeky socialist. *very popular with early feminist ladies. Somehow these high-society women decided to forego the Rugby captain and instead get rogered by a little nerdy bloke with a moustache and a plummy voice.
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  4144. Most non psychopaths will stay away from anyone vulnerable when they have the flu and its been that way forever.
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  4145. Media-created culture war. Why is this channel obsessed over it? Isn't there any actual news they can report on in Britain?
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  4146. So tell me, what's the perfect temperature then? Explain your science and we can examine it.
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  4147. They know more than you who gets his political education from Youtube videos.
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  4148. Sars was dealt with, Mers is gone, the other human coronaviruses are cold viruses and not a threat. Covid has killed 5 million + around the world and is very much a threat.
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  4149.  @paulnutter1713  Has seasonal flu killed 150,000 Brits in the past year? Has seasonal flu given us half a million with some sort of disability in the past year?
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  4150.  @paulnutter1713  Yes it has. You're clearly one of those 'of/with' Nutters who gets paid to spew out disinformation. Do you get paid per death?
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  4151. Funnily enough Britain also did the same, see: Kent Variant.
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  4152. Someone's been munching their moron bars this morning. 600,000 Americans dead of this thing. They were clearly not false positives, were they? Why do you people hate America? Are you a CCP bot? Or Russian?
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  4153.  Marc Fudge  The quality has greatly declined over the years. Used to be cod, now its mashed up pollock. (Yes you can still get cod ones, but they're dearer).
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  4154. If Pen said he was leaving the cats and bringing some Afghan kids over here to apply for asylum, old Col would be ranting about that as well.
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  4155. I thought you were against cancel culture?
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  4156. Kids will be fine and dandy with that. Kids more sensible that social media-addled adults.
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  4157.  @michaelstansfield3085  Yet apparently you didn't learn much in the 50s/60s, such as how to spot fascist propaganda. Is also funny that you're whining about the younger generation now whereas your generation was whined at in the 60s - and with good reason, because they've grown up to be the most selfish generation in a century. "know nothing of the horrors of war." - if you're a 50s/60s kid then you escaped the war. A 20 something now was a kid with 911, then we had Iraq, Afghanistan , Isis, the 2008 collapse, Covid and now the climate tanking. Today's 20 somethings have been hit by more dark things than the typical 1960s British kid so your point is moot.
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  4158.  @ChimpRiot  What you think those other countries don't feature in the civilisation game?
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  4159. Mate kids spend most of their GCSEs doing 20th Century history.
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  4160. "This covid malarky" - you mean the biggest heatlh crisis in a century? One that's killed at least 5 million people? Personally I'm sick of Harry and Meghan stories but you lot post them every sodding day.
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  4161. Ah do you remember when a report came out about how many people died several years ago due to austerity and Esther completely denied it? She didn't care one jot about poor people dying but now she's worried about people like her might be under threat. Terrorists are scumbags, but alas so are politicians who are happy to sacrifice their own people on the alters of ideology.
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  4162. Racists will racist.
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  4163.  @marcusbradley3081  If you're sitting there thinking we're being invaded by forrins you are by definition racist. That's not a label. Is a statement of fact.
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  4164. Maybe the vaccinated don't want you giving the Rona to their kids?
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  4165.  @terryquinn7347  Boris is doing that already by infecting all the kids.
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  4166. Lots of kids did have depression. Many ended up packed off to mental hospitals and it wasn't spoken about.
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  4167.  @yoloswaggins7121  Very true. The idiots on here thinking the EU is a dictatorship really need to live under a proper one. Which sadly we may get with the current set of clowns...
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  4168.  @cobrasvenom1954  If the people who didn't want the vaccine were not the same people who whined about masks/distancing/lockdowns & said the Corona was a fake - then maybe you'd have a point. As it stands now the tiny minority is keeping covid going and the rest of the country is not happy with them.
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  4169. 'because of being pinged' or maybe, just maybe they're getting pinged because with 50 000 cases of Covid every DAY that means a lot of infected people who need to distance themselves for a few weeks? I don't recall any 'pingdemic' when we had <2000 cases a day just over a month ago.
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  4170. See your local citizens advice or council welfare advisor. Unless you have a gigantic amount of cash in the bank you will be able to get some benefit help.
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  4171. What about kids with disabilities and diseases? Downs Syndrome kids get killed with covid partly due to their heart issues. Should we just let them die?
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  4172. So vote for a party that taxes the billionaires properly, and a party that doesn't sell essential utilities to foreign private companies.
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  4173.  @traitorsgate9516  Well basically. But more importantly the fishermen thought they'd be able to catch more fish and make more money seemingly without taking into account issues with existing fish stocks & the fact that most of their product is sold to Europe. It was very clear they'd get hammered in any Brexit deal but temporary greed trumped economic rationalism.
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  4174. You don't know what gain of function is, stop trying to be clever. And if it was a bioweapon then you're all helping the CCP spread it and should be treated as CCP fifth columnists.
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  4175.  @BLane-xr1ic  Umm, no, there's a very specific meaning behind gain of function research - be nice if someone could talk about biotech instead of meme nonsense they get off social media. And my point still stands, if it is artificial then covidiot deniers are all traitors and fifth columnists who encouraged the spread.
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  4176. Dude, don't you know that the government will be spying on you through the phone? They'll know everything from where you are to the fact you like adult videos featuring Asian grannies.
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  4177.  @NoName-ke6gq  Then your sister in law is welcome to write a paper putting forth her case. But she won't, because she has no evidence like the rest of them.
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  4178. The Scottish Charles Manson look is wigging me out.
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  4179. That's why you have power storage. And Texas failed because its leadership were incompetent and didn't spend the money weather-hardening their wind turbines.
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  4180. It's not suppressed. It simply doesn't work. Is an antiparasitic drug and its antiviral properties are low unless giant doses are used that humans can't absorb. Its this year's fake meme cure. Even the Indian government isn't using it now... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/govt-ditches-most-popular-drugs-in-new-treatment-plan/articleshow/83323822.cms
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  4181.  @evolassunglasses4673  True, but they're not a miracle cure. Think of it this way - Italy and Spain are full of people who love their seafood (zinc) and they love chilling in the Sun (Vit D) - and Italy still got hammered by the Rona. Those people are also a fair bit healthier than the average Brit as well, but ultimately it didn't make much difference.
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  4182.  @Madonnalitta1  Vitamin D doesn't just drop out of your body. It takes a while for levels to decline and Italy/Spain weren't locked down for that long. Yes, there were different circumstances for some oaps but as we've seen similar case blowups in many hot countries (Brazil etc.) then vit D probably isn't a panacea. There are indeed reports correlating low Vit D to corona severity but again we don't know how many of those had low D due to existing health issues that are hard to resolve (people with kidney disease can't absorb vitamin D and tend to use an analogue like alfacalcidol for instance).
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  4183. No, what's disgusting is the Tories and their henchmen pushing the 'herd immunity via infection' strategy for the 'peasants' and not being in jail for killing 150,000 British people.
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  4184. Or actual testosterone. Just compare modern athletes to their 1950s equivalents. Do you think modern dudes look like that due to vitamins and a healthy diet?
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  4185.  @ebonyeyes1986  Flu did disappear due to massive reductions in international travel, masks, distancing and early flu shots. But hey, it'll be back this year alongside covid so that's more death and despair you can watch on the telly and pretend isn't real.
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  4186. The ironic thing is the Rona was originally spread by those very same elites and even now they kick off and whine if they can't have their fifteen yearly holidays. This includes the anti-lockdown media types who express superficial concern for the masses but is just a smokescreen for them complaining. Congratulations, we've established rich people, like their historical cousins, don't give a shit about the masses. Now perhaps Neil could give us some way of dealing with the Rona without killing another few million people. Vaccines will get us out of this, but a few restrictions will still need to be in place for a short while yet.
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  4187. Try telling that to a mortgage or life insurance company when they want you to have a physical. Try keeping medical conditions secret when you get a driving license. Or fly a plane. Try keeping medical conditions secret when you join the army, or the fire brigade, or become a professional sports person. In short, no. You're believing drivel off Internet conspiracy sites once again. Please stop.
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  4188. Same goes for an actual passport, mate.
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  4189.  @freakbrothers2012  Well the people whining about vaccine passports have been happy to use actual passports for decades (often requiring vaccinations depending on the country).
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  4190.  @teddyboy9116  It wasn't. It was a white bloke who has a Youtube page talking about weight lifting, guns and why women are really bad...
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  4191. Last time I checked this isn't Afghanistan and women are allowed to wear skirts in public.
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  4192.  @Andrew-ri5qo  'Alleged pandemic' - you're certainly into misinformation yourself, dude.
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  4193. Once upon a time the yellow fever jab was in testing, too. They didn't leave it for half a decade before using.
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  4194. Weird, and yet aren't we supposed to bow to the Queen? Isn't that politics?
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  4195.  @marcusbradley3081  Dan doesn't tell the truth though, does he?
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  4196. We the actual people who aren't Internet bots or paid trolls would much rather have a decent government like New Zealand who could deal with Covid properly. Sacrificing oneself for Boris Johnson is not freedom, mate.
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  4197. Electronic devices have been around for 40 + years. Portable ones for 30+ years. In 1989 kids had Atari Lynxes instead of Switches for example...
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  4198. Meme cures, mate.
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  4199.  @bobbuilder7542  They had 60 million in funding. Danny Boyle's most recent film Yesterday had a budget of just over half that and the sound was spanking.
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  4200.  @anthonygriff668  No, I mean Javid's new policy of seemingly infecting the kids with Covid so he can open up quicker and end restrictions. 4 million have died of covid, 120+000 in the UK. Many have other health issues which is the same as with other diseases but you don't see people saying 'Well only a few hundred people die of heart attacks in Britain, most others have co-morbidities'. We're getting into eugenics territory now. Pretending covid isn't that bad will come back to haunt us in a massive way.
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  4201. Is cool too because your face is on their security cameras so when there's an outbreak they'll know exactly whose door to knock on.
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  4202. What, all the thousands of dead bodies every day in India diagnosed with Covid 19 are what? CGI mock-ups designed by Bollywood nerds on furlough?
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  4203.  @sadwingsraging3044  Ah, patriotic disease-spreading.
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  4204. Yippee, let's commit genocide to pwn the libs.
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  4205.  @mrkimble2618  The climate is a bit fucked mate. Try asking the people of Portland about whether climate change is a thing.
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  4206.  @johnjones6878  Which is weird because right-wingers on Youtube are either chubby bearded weirdos, gym bros who do all the steroids or sexually confused looking types like Paul Joseph Watson. All of them have issues with masculinity and is quite funny to watch them pretend they're super manly studs, lol.
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  4207.  @tazuk01  Well the poster was arguing get rid of scientific advisors and end all restrictions, which would likely result in a massive surge and lots of people dying. Wilfully killing your own people is what genocide is all about, mate.
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  4208.  Robbie Bobs  Yes, they all have, and that includes most of the celebrity anti-vaxxers (think Trump secretly getting his shot or Rupert Murdoch getting his on the NHS while Fox News in the US was spewing out anti-vaxx stuff).
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  4209. No, think carefully. If he said 'Oh I had cancer and now I'm better. Don't cower to cancer, its no big deal' sort of thing we'd note thousands of people who are fighting their hardest and still endure a horrible death. His tweet in that case would have been even worse.
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  4210.  @margaretthomas497  Right, you do understand how sick people without immune systems get? You do know that if the vaccine nuked your immune system that millions of British people would be deathly ill and getting blasted with cocktails of drugs to keep alive? The fact that they aren't doing this and we've been giving the Rona shot for 7 months disproves your very dumb point.
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  4211.  @margaretthomas497  Ummm, corona has only been around for a couple of years. What particular spike proteins are you talking about?
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  4212. You going to join up, Dan? Or sit on your arse posting bot comments all day?
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  4213. She doesn't though, she's awful and in the axis of misinformation with Hartley Brewer, Young etc.
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  4214.  @stipple4453  She's spent the past year lying about the pandemic and distorting evidence. She'll go down in history as a female Lord Haw Haw. Trust me on this. The media misinformation will never be forgotten.
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  4215. Probably some Tory think-tank in Tufton Street.
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  4216. They threatened to hang doctors and nurses. Any sympathy the British people had with them is now deader than David Ickes football career.
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  4217. It was snowing there the other day. Google 'brazil snow' and be amazed.
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  4218. Compared to what??!?!?
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  4219. He doesn't want to say he's from New Zealand as people might ask why he's silent about NZ's covid success.
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  4220. Oh, is this the new bot talking point - let's have a go at the NHS? Quick tip: You're not convincing anyone, you're just irritating most of the country.
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  4221.  @Iain1962  It is there for us, but there's a pandemic going on which kind of limits things. The same has happened in the US which doesn't have an NHS. Countries without too many healthcare system problems have one thing in common - getting infections down.
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  4222.  @Iain1962  Sigh. The point is that the Rona stresses healthcare systems. Hence you reduce infection to not stress the healthcare system. This is basic, basic stuff and means with less infections no need for lockdowns.
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  4223.  @devorah935  Yes they are using the Rona to destroy the NHS. Very true.
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  4224. Much like the rest of the content on here if we're honest.
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  4225.  @alcock225  I'd actually be quite happy for them to cover news the other channels don't. But sadly they push the tedious culture war stuff instead of looking at all the stories which escape the normal media outlets.
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  4226.  @alcock225  But much of the culture war narrative is just winding people up. You're not going to get tyranny because someone sticks gay lads on the telly. Is just fuelling paranoia and is very reminiscent of Orwells Two minute hate. Think about it dude, in the past five years everyone in Britain is hating everyone else's guts. There's a real dark edge to the country that didn't exist before - and its been promoted heavily by the press & social media. Look at Brexit. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to create a moderate deal where we still were able to trade in the single market (Brexiteers get Brexit, remoaners get a functioning economy, everybody wins), but that was presented as extremism by the press. Yet even many conservative business types thought that was the way forward. But no... and now here we are.
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  4227. Ah, another pro-covid promoter. The vaccine is fine, smiler. Is just that you lot have got everything wrong so are now spinning even more furiously to cover up your previous misinformation.
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  4228. This is some weird brain-twisting nonsense. This guy is arguing the Tories lost because of lockdown, but if so then why would the Lib Dems have done so well? Nope. Tories lost because: 1) HS2 2) Incompetence 3) The eternal culture war that's alienating voters* 4) Their screwing up of Corona *Imagine being a Tory doctor and people are telling you Corona is a fraud. Imagine being a Tory businessman and Tories are calling you a 'remoaner traitor'. Imagine being a Tory footy player but fellow Tories are saying you're a Marxist because you don't like racism. Imagine being a Tory who's lost a parent or a friend or a partner to Corona and the Daily Mail/Telegraph/Express are saying 'Is just the flu bro' and accusing you of lying. THAT IS WHY
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  4229. We did last year, and it was glorious. First lockdown, almost no car deaths, crime down to 1950s levels, no noisy planes in the sky, no drunken pub fights... just amazing. This is why the anti-lockdowners fight so much. We got a glimpse of a better world for a few weeks. They don't want that to ever happen again.
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  4230. @Down With Woke Did I say anything that's wrong? Or do you just endlessly post this nonsense because you have zero comeback?
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  4231.  @nationalismistheonlycure.3005  Not really. I note that GB News runs daily whines about Dinghy's and its a carbon copy of the US whines about immigrant invasions. Very nasty race-baiting.
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  4232.  @EVALLOYD  Well GB News runs stories every day making out that the few refugees coming in are actually some sort of invasion. People on here then get angry and start screaming for blood.
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  4233.  @nationalismistheonlycure.3005  Ah, are you one of them blokes on TRT who spends his time whining about Low-T betas while you actually look like someone smacked Brian Blessed with a frying pan?
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  4234.  @nationalismistheonlycure.3005  You sound very tough, like all those other blokes on the Internet who boast about their manliness while pushing fascism. Alas I fear the only leftist males you meet in real life are the ones who say hi on Grindr. Here's the thing mate - fascism lost, nationalism lost, we had a giant world war over it. If you support that sort of thing you are by extension a loser and a traitor to the millions who died to protect all our freedoms.
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  4235.  @EVALLOYD  Dunno Lin, what do you consider is the right number of British people being killed by Boris? Because so far he's done 130+000 and increasing and you lot seem far more irate about the forrins than losing your own people.
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  4236.  @MassimoAngotzi  Not at all. I'm consistently amused by the number of right-wingers who rant about soy boys while seemingly worshipping right-wingers who look like soy boys (PJ Watson, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro etc.) It seems a bit... sexual.
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  4237. So now everyone's left does that mean Europe and the US will get flooded with tons of super high quality smack at bargain prices? Or will the Mullahs clamp down on it?
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  4238. I've met lots of nice and friendly ones.
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  4239. Tory party destroys things. Its what they do. Tory voters sadly do not understand this simple point.
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  4240. Why, did you take too many sleeping pills? Please don't do that.
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  4241. Yeah, those pandemics regularly wiping out big chunks of humanity must have been a figment of my imagination.
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  4242. Sacking Boris then putting him on trial for all the people he's killed through his rubbish pandemic policies would be a good start.
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  4243. @C21H30O2 God you're still trying to stalk me. What an absolute waste of space you are.
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  4244.  @andyforshaw8489  Keep playing into the Tories hands. All protests will be banned soon.
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  4245. Funnily enough I was looking on Twitter yesterday and the antivaxxers were screaming about how jabs are evil... ... but they were being shouted down by thousands of teenagers, which was one of the most hilarious things I've seen in ages. The teenagers are getting their info from biology books and medical videos while the adults are getting theirs from the Daily Mail and Facebook memes.
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  4246.  @bbcfakenews9677  Which is funny as some of the most famous transgender types are right-wing (Jenner, Maloney, Blaire White, Martine Rothblatt). Transgenderism appears to be common among hyper-masculine males for some reason - look at how many soldiers, pilots and the like are changing. A few months ago there was a wrestler who was a Trump supporting anti-masker. He's now a lady.
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  4247.  @CorporalFriendlyShark  Most kids do learn those things. The transgender stuff is somewhat unusual and tends to be rare anyway. You just read about it a lot in the media because they like frothing. Seriously - how many transgender kids have you met? I've met zero and my friends who work in teaching don't know any, either. Tiny, tiny minority.
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  4248.  @MrsTabby1963  Cool, can it also teach climate change is real and the basics of how vaccines work?
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  4249. Trump was a monumental idiot who took America to the point of civil war. He deserves to be mocked. Biden gets mocked all the time by the right and they haven't been cancelled.
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  4250.  @ancietman  Wasn't Antifa attacking the Capitol tho, was it? If the Repubs were honest they'd vote for an investigation but instead they blame antifa or - yikes - the FBI when their own supporters are on video committing treason.
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  4251. Do you like backdoors, mate? Perhaps you could talk to Laurence Fox? He was demanding hard men today on Twitter...
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  4252. He's not a saint, he's a psychopath who thinks people deserve to die and infecting others with covid is fine.
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  4253.  @scottmackenzie8071  So tell me one occasion where he's talked about how to deal with covid sensibly?
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  4254.  @AICabal  I'm not the one being all 'Ooo, I could grab yer mask' now, am I?
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  4255.  @AICabal  Enjoy your Rona mate. And the contempt of all around you.
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  4256.  @stuartjones2812  So Twitter makes you the elite, but being press royalty and a multimillionaire Rupert Murdoch minion doesn't?
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  4257. Did Ken trip over a dog, or was he duffed up?
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  4258. Which would have saved thousands of lives.
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  4259. I would shred this character in a debate. His sub-GCSE understanding of science is embarrassing. For a TV news channel to think this is okay is astonishing.
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  4260. Nope. There was a report the other week - widely discussed in the press, and it had a death rate of around 25 per half a million. Plus 4000 in hospital and 690 with multisystem inflammatory disorder. So yes the odds of kids dying of covid is currently low. The odds of them getting very sick is much higher.
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  4261.  @jfm4490  Was a report from a few weeks ago.
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  4262.  @phlhoran12396  Can you explain my mistake?
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  4263.  @jamesbennett1202  No, the report included all children and that's where the '1 in 500000 will die' number came from. But 25 x 500000=12 million=all children. Was actually around half a million infected and 25 of those died.
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  4264.  @pollyparrot8759  You can find it on Youtube. Not exactly a classic.
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  4265. @Down With Woke Am being educational by posting interesting stuff. I mean this morning did you know there was a British sitcom about Hitler that lasted one episode? See. You've learnt something.
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  4266. Oh please, the lockdowns were hard, but we got through them better than the post-lockdown. Apparently now we have 'freedom' and crime has shot up, people are going bonkers fighting over petrol and the government are happy to kill off thousands more of their own citizens for 'freedom'.
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  4267. Ummm, that's been the case for ever.
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  4268.  @djbogz1921  Well then as they're seeking asylum we can check their stories and turn them into immigrants. Problem solved.
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  4269. Ohhh, me scared of masks!! Me offended and triggered by a piece of cloth!! Please let the Rona spread and kill more because I personally do not wish to be inconvenienced!!!
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  4270.  @DNAOrion  Ummm, all those Jewish scientists or Ugandan Asian business people or EU medical workers or Middle Eastern Doctors? Think they've contributed more than the plebs who sit on here moaning about forrins.
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  4271. I'm endlessly amused that they're wearing masks (lol) and getting support from right-wingers. They're also wearing the mask of V, from V for Vendetta, a comic series written by Alan Moore, who is both a wizard and a lefty anarchist who supported Jezza at the last election. Of course most don't realise that because they're actually copying the 2006 Hollywood film, based on the V story with a screenplay written by the (now) transgender Wachowskis. This is almost as amusing as those blokes who worship the movie Fight Club as an iconic piece about manliness while totally not realising it was a satire on toxic masculinity written by a gay dude.
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  4272. So say the perp is, I dunno, a white TV presenter who had his own kid's show, said 'Now then, now then' a lot and somehow was the friend of every politician and Knighted by the Queen and died a completely free man who was given a military honour funeral despite being the most repellent sex offender imaginable... would that perp be worth mentioning?
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  4273.  @Sid-Cannon  You don't think anyone knew about Savile? Of course they did, but it was covered up. I remember reading an Irvine Welsh short story in the 90s where the main character is a very thinly-disguised Savile. It was well-known that he was a wrong un, but he was protected for many years. Which is kind of what you're arguing about the grooming gangs.
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  4274. The problem is there is no normal unless we get a grip on this thing. You can ignore it but people will get sick, workers will be off & business disruption will happen. Plus the psychological effect of vulnerable people too worried to behave as normal so isolating themselves anyway. However you are right about the media and it appears that the gov is taking notice to the right-wing press rather than scientists - similar to Trump last year with Fox news and Oann.
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  4275.  @rafa17martinriggs  The anti-lockdowners can't help but be arseholes, can they? Mate you're not going to convince anyone of anything other than 'We need to stamp on the heads of the anti-lockdown/vaxxers' when the next wave kicks in.
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  4276.  @astromags584  Oh, its another anti-vaxer video. The pro-Corona types really love spreading their disease, don't they?
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  4277. @mgibson161 Narrator's voice: He missed the joke.
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  4278. @mgibson161 I still can't believe evil Dale Winton presents himself as an expert on coronavirus, the NHS, and Meghan & most of the commenters are like 'He's totally right, much better than them MSM lefties with their Phds and medical licenses'.
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  4279. Professors who can spell.
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  4280.  @durhamfox5271  Why not just use correct language instead of profane utterances?
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  4281. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors I am indeed hilarious and awesome. Best poster on here. I bet Andrew Kneel reads all my stuff every morning.
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  4282. So a pandemic disease that's still in the top ten of killers isn't a problem? We're okay with killing hundreds of people a week?
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  4283. GB News is in a death spiral. Trying to cater to neo-nazis and mentally ill conspiracy fetishists has tanked their ratings. Absolutely no one with any functioning brain watches this drivel for any other reason than mockery. And most of the comments on Youtube vids are paid bot types (this is why there are fewer comments now - they're running out of money to pay for them all).
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  4284.  @danielrayner7681  Would agree we need to fix things. Yep, Blair did push cheap labour but this also happened with other governments (i.e. importing Irish builders or overseas NHS workers). Problem is we tend to be very selective about our history and it means that when problems do hit us we act all bewildered and can't cope.
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  4285. And yet many countries require vaccination certificates to enter and have done for decades. Hmmm.
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  4286.  @sidsnot6952  I'm old enough to remember when nutters said barcodes were the Mark of the Beast.
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  4287. Wots 'woke bs' ? Can you list some examples from the speech? I hate Boris but will happily provide context.
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  4288. There's one undertaker in Britain, is there?
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  4289.  @klausswabs...e.u5650  Except you name yourself after America's worst president which indicates you're not exactly making rational choices in your political analysis.
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  4290. Schools closed all over the world during the pandemic you absolute dimwit.
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  4291. I suggest you read the Tories immigration policies after 2010, which was basically allow in even more than Labour because they knew it would be a quick way to boost economic growth.
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  4292.  @dannylatchford5088  No, I'm just not a moron who bases health decisions on Internet garbage.
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  4293. You mean like morons believing Facebook memes and pretending there wasn't a pandemic? Then those same morons looking at the telephone number-sized death rate and going 'Nah, is all a hoax'?
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  4294. They do release flu statistics. You can find them here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-national-flu-reports-2019-to-2020-season
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  4295.  @jamescaley9942  We do.
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  4296.  @ericbown1551  They do test for such things if a person is noticeably sick.
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  4297.  @user-qq2mo1ek2r  A lockdown, restriction in travel and masks did the job. Plus early flu-shots. But keep reading your Facebook memes and quoting them on social media.
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  4298. Amount of patients seen is not a good metric. Does a GP seeing 30 people a day therefore get paid more than a neurologist seeing two people with horrible brain injuries?
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  4299. Dunno mate, the Jewish refugees in Britain did pretty well. And the Ugandan Asians. And the West Indians. And the actual Indians with their kids becoming doctors etc.
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  4300. Why? Would you be fine with killing so many people your economy collapses?
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  4301. Yes, why would you take notice to a Kiwi gossip columnist on matters of public health?
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  4302. We have no idea of who the suspect was. It could be a terrorist, or a crazy person or some other political motivation. Am pretty sure Amess was one of the few Tories who fought against fox hunting. Some of those hunt supporter types are pretty crazy (See: Chris Packham's attack this week).
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  4303.  @FredSpade  Or because its fair to critique society? And in a country where more and more of the top are from fewer and fewer schools/wealthy family then we need to discuss that?
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  4304. @Anti Woke OMG, you're an anti-vaxxer. That explains it.
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  4305. Dear me. https://practio.co.uk/travel-health/articles/vaccination-certificate
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  4306.  @nedrain9044  a) His policies massively blew up the national debt for no good reason. b) He lost the election because his covid policies killed off thousands of his own voters, the young were pissed they didn't get their stimulus cheques and many middle-aged people were left with the wreckage of dead/sick relatives and a president who didn't give a shit. On top of that a ton of young women made sure they voted this time for fear of what would happen to their rights long term (see: Texas).
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  4307.  @pippip8744  No they're not. Did freedom end when Polio got a vaccine? Or TB? Did freedom end when the first Smallpox vaccinations were used THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO!???
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  4308. No, they mean people who do shit like stab Jo Cox, or who are in Nazi groups or who plan to kill other MPs. There's quite a few doing that but is often ignored by the media.
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  4309.  @GodsDogICXC  They do that a lot.
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  4310. I know, man. They're running regular attacks on the NHS on this channel pretending to be 'just asking questions'.
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  4311. Right, so before covid we didn't have laws, police, passports, licenses or CCTV cameras?
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  4312.  @polla2256  Well no, that's why we have all those rules & laws in the first place. The government is quite happy to nuke the freedom of certain groups and it gets a big clap but the moment they inconvenience the middle-classes all hell breaks loose. Which makes me think is not about freedom per se, but freedom for their pals.
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  4313. Spoilers: We have been for decades. I remember seeing a news segment with kids in France aged about 8 or 9 and they were reading Jules Verne and speaking English. Ordinary kids, not in fancy private school. See also: Finland and numerous other countries.
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  4314.  @pollyparrot8759  The Year of the Sex Olympics is a bang-on dystopia from the 1960s. Written by Nigel 'Quatermass Kneale' it postulated a future where people are entertained by mind-numbing reality TV shows and ubiquitous smut. The clothes are a bit bonkers, but the story very interesting.
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  4315.  @pollyparrot8759  Yep! The play is on Youtube somewhere. Very 60s. Good cast, like Leonard Rossiter and a young Brian Cox (actor not astronomer).
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  4316. Livestock emits methane. Methane is a bigger greenhouse gas, albeit one which decays into CO2 after a decade or so. Vast amounts of industrial farming = worse environmental problems.
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  4317. Very true.
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  4318. Why did they take the live stream down? Did everyone stop watching and put Paw Patrol on instead?
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  4319. @Down With Woke You've posted the same comment several times, like a bot. Wheras I write my own drivel and share it for free.
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  4320. @Down With Woke They're not the same comments, though. Am responding to different videos making points that are accurate and (if asked) sourced. Yes I have called a few brainlets but if someone wants to be an idiot posting anti-science conspiracy gibberish online then expect to be called out for it.
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  4321.  @whitesapphire5865  Does that include all the stuff we have made in China? Or the co2 produced from all the dead animals we import as food?
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  4322. No it isn't. Martial Law involves soldiers controlling the masses & the military running everything. I see no troops running round shooting GBNews watchers.
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  4323.  @ArcanePath360  I don't think schools do gender studies, mate. They might mention it for one or two lessons in media class, but that's about it.
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  4324. They're wise enough to start vaccinating kids. That helps.
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  4325.  @marcusbradley3081  I have used racist when its appropriate... See my comment above about cancel culture and GB news.
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  4326. So GB News still pushing covid misinformation, telling its audience misinformation isn't a thing, and has also tried to start a war with the RNLI. Truly the most horrendous media organisation in Britain. Vile, vile people. Hopefully when it collapses absolutely no one will employ any of these clowns.
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  4327. Matt Ridley is the nephew of former Tory Minister Nicholas Ridley (correction added, mistakenly said son). He's perhaps more famous for being the chairman of Northern Rock when it became the first UK bank to have a bank run and collapse in over a century. He also has ties to the coal industry and - surprise! - doesn't believe in climate change. Have read a couple of his genetics books. Not too bad. But not a reliable science commentator at all as he's too ideological.
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  4328. Funny thing about education - our media class are some of the most clueless, scientifically illiterate people around. Most have their PPE/history degree from Oxbridge then make a career out of writing drivel and keeping the populace as clueless as themselves. This is why we mock scientists while listening to the likes of Hartley Brewer on matters concerning the pandemic. Is why we ignore climatologists in favour of whatever big-oil-funded drivel the Daily Mail is spewing out daily. Is why we (and politicians) also fall for the techno-grifts of billionaires who know their audience are, well, idiots.* Amusingly Britain is also terrible at languages and is downright hilarious to see our elites can manage a bit of French while foreign politicians are often genuinely multilingual. So yeah, improve education by having fewer idiots in the press and a better quality politicians. That'll do for starters. *was reading a piece about Brexit written in 2018 talking about how we can get round the HGV driver shortage by using self-driving trucks. Three years later do you see any self-driving trucks on the roads?...
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  4329. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-w-pdqwiBw
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  4330.  @divinusking5127  Are you sure he's the inventor of mrna? Seeing as mrna is a part of our genetics and has been about for hundreds of millions of years. If you mean mrna technology, then how come the guy in question doesn't pop up in actual discussions of it? It looks like he may have done some research but isn't what he claims to be.
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  4331.  @rescyn1190  But you know I'm right. Seriously, go scan the Mail in 2016 or 2017 and find out how many 'woke' stories there were. Then compare to 2020. Do it.
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  4332. And replace them with who? Or do you think you can hire Phd lecturers at the jobcenter and pay them minimum wage?
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  4333. I find it hard to describe Andrew Doyle. He's officially a comedian, but is the most po-faced miserable looking person who looks like someone whose highest achievement in life was shooting his boss in the balls at the works Paintball outing.
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  4334. Oh no, those dastardly lefties concerned about not infecting youngsters, what utter snowflakes they are. What's a few sick or dead kids compared to the profits of the FTSE 100?...
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  4335. Just seen a bunch of angry gammons threatening a BBC journalist at the anti-lockdown protests. Good grief. This country is spiralling into fascism while the Lord Haw Haws on this channel stir things up. Meanwhile the fuzz did nothing, which is odd because they came down like a ton of bricks on the young lady protesting against the copper who slaughtered (he pled guilty) the young woman last year.
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  4336. I'm reading the comments while listening and I can't tell which is which. Good work sir.
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  4337. Do you equally condemn the papers who call the poor scum every day? Or who say mentally ill people are spongers? Or who are now attacking doctors and nurses?
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  4338. Taxi drivers do quite well. Most of the companies I know reduced the settle amount right down during the pandemic so the drivers would be incentivised to work.
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  4339. Yep! Chilling in France.
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  4340. I don't know any Eskimos.* Your point is? *though I do know several who had the Rona.
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  4341.  @alandockrill4924  Well I several know people who've had it and one's dead and one's still not right since Christmas. I didn't read that in the liberal remoaner press.
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  4342. Exclusive clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvGmOZ5T6_Y
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  4343. Actually in the report released the other week it was 25 died out of half a million infected. Which is actually a 50 in a million chance. Low but not that low considering all the other problems it causes.
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  4344. Remember these points everyone: Trump signed the treaty to withdraw Trump freed the Taliban leaders (see the pics with Pompeo) Biden had the choice of the current disaster - or another war. Neither of which would have been a good choice.
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  4345.  RED SKULL  I do, and that's the point. What should Biden have done? I don't think another war would be popular.
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  4346.  @spinynormanbest6410  So letting the Taliban out of the clink was okay? The whole situation is a mess but its worth blaming everyone at fault and not pretending Donnie was a master negotiator.
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  4347. James Bond isn't real, mate. He's a talented middle-aged actor surrounded by stuntmen and special effects people.
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  4348. Will that stop you getting covid, then?
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  4349. Do you mean President Biden who made a good speech that got applause? Whereas our PM tried to joke about Kermit the frog and it went down about as well as someone shouting 'I have covid!' in an operating theatre.
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  4350.  @ballshippin3809  Yes I understand full well there's real conspiracies. I am talking about weaponised conspiracy theory courtesy of Internet scumbags pushing agendas as well as historical conspiracy theories pushed to create chaos and set one group against another.
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  4351.  Rain Dog  History mate. It's not my fault the weirdos on here started reading conspiracy sites a couple of years ago and have zero understanding of how this stuff is used to undermine democracy.
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  4352.  @cityiot  What, to the bloke who thinks public health measures are bad and he should be able to spread as much disease as he wants?
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  4353.  @cityiot  Using a public position to spew out misinformation is pretty dark.
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  4354.  @James-gf9jl  I'm not. I have fine hair. I just don't look like someone who wants Helter Skelter.
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  4355. Future generations will look back at our mask politicisation with the same bafflement as we look at the doctors who criticised Semmelweis for asking fellow medics to wash their hands.
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  4356. The teachers and unions care a lot more about kids than the government or the clowns on here. It seems to be the thing now from Conservatives to demand kids are mass-infected with covid for...reasons. Literally no normal country in the world would countenance such a moronic policy but we're doing it.
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  4357.  @maccagrabme  Yikes. Do you goose step around the house as well?
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  4358.  @maccagrabme  I'm critical of anyone who bends the truth, and that includes the BBC acting like a Tory party front.
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  4359.  @stoicsceptic8420  No they don't. That's more drivel from Yeadon who is a clown and a disinformation specialist. Someone studied his theory a while back and you know what they found out? The protein he was saying would lock onto the ovaries is almost identical to collagen. So if the vaccine produced an immune reaction to a pregnancy it would also produce a massive immune reaction to .... your own flesh. We'd have seen thousands of people dying in agony like something from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which didn't happen. However.... the Covid virus almost certainly has some effect on male fertility and possibly female too. We're not sure how bad it is, but note how the Chinese are now allowing people to have three kids.... what do you think is going on there?...
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  4360.  @stoicsceptic8420  Sorry, but he is a clown who keeps getting his facts wrong. For example this piece from last year: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8899053/DR-MIKE-YEADON-Three-facts-No-10s-experts-got-wrong.html The muppet also argued that you'd be immune to covid if you got a cold. Oh dear, dear me.
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  4361.  Jim Knight  Research didn't show that. Fauci wrote a paper saying that many of the deaths were due to pneumonia. Anti-maskers claimed the pneumonia was caused by masks. Problem: Many of the worst-hit areas in 1918 USA had strong anti-mask leagues with few wearing them.
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  4362. Can you tell me where I can buy a British-made smartphone? Or computer? Or TV set? Last time I checked tea and coffee doesn't come from Britain, either.
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  4363. @Nobody, somebody Oh dear, a British Trumpist. Very, very sad.
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  4364.  @ConsulYeti  Well no, how are you pro-America if you're hating on the Democrats who compose half of the voting base? The Dems may have their problems, but they're not actively trying to murder their own voters like Ron DeathSantis and Abbott.
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  4365.  @ConsulYeti  Trump signed the deal, Trump let most of the Taliban out. Biden had a choice of another war, or leaving. He's left. Not ideal but am pretty sure another war out there would be even less popular.
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  4366.  @ConsulYeti  Not at all. Biden def deserves much of the blame but what exactly was the alternative? More war?
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  4367. Does the red meat come in white powdered form?
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  4368. Why, what have you been doing? Drug-dealing? Flogging guns? Molesting farm animals?
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  4369. Using public transport while eating food on that public transport is a tad different to owning private jets, yachts the size of a cathedral and your own personal space fleet.
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  4370. Why? It will save your life in the upcoming Ronageddon.
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  4371.  @andyrides9666  Many were too busy dying to do that. Many were too busy taking care of the dying. And serving ungrateful whining fucks food while they got screamed at about masks. And risking their lives while brainlets on twitter go 'Hur de hur, sheep! Bedwetters!'
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  4372.  @georgerj2419  Personally no. It's just lazy and dishonest.
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  4373.  Billy Bunter  None at all. Am pretty healthy. Why, are Trump supporters all on pills?
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  4374. Weird how MPs got a rise, tho.
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  4375.  @Saddamuel  America has private, Americans are not healthier than anywhere else. Capitalism won't improve healthcare - just make it more expensive.
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  4376. First major variant last year came from Spain - before vaccination. That was the one spread by holidaymakers in Sep. Then there was the Kent variant - again, before vaccination (well a few hundred had been done). Kent variant pretty much caused another wave in Europe.
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  4377.  @marcusashwell8314  Yes, she did. This is because they have indeed acted like scum in many ways over the past year and none have been made to resign (aside from Hancock, who resigned for sex reasons). So y'know if you think the muppets who gave us the worst covid death total in Europe, gave billions to their mates, are trying to kill democracy and are in bed financially with the Russians are not worth of a few angry words, then sadly they are.
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  4378.  @prvvideoonline7993  You're being an absolute dolt. The doctors who worked hard through the pandemic and also did most of the mass vaccination campaign do not deserve constant abuse. Public sector workers get pensions, they've got pensions for decades, they do not deserve constant abuse. Do you work for the Tory party?
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  4379. Most people are getting treated. There's some problems and waiting lists, but if only we had a government that would fund the NHS properly...
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  4380. This is Britain, most of the population live in cities. Try going off-grid in a terraced house in Swansea - is not doable. What you're arguing is the rich can go off-grid and the rest of us can just put up with it.
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  4381.  @Tyler_Fuller  Yeah but you need to other kit to go with it - inverters or heating systems for starters. Am not disagreeing that preparing in this way is a good idea (it actually is - decentralise power generation), just that it isn't an option for most of the population of the UK at present. Remember a good 30% rent and good luck getting your landlord to install solar or giving permission to stick a turbine in the garden.
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  4382.  @Tyler_Fuller  Honestly with some decent government policies it would be quite widespread. Do you remember when they did the solar tariff and panels were appearing all over the place? Maybe people can come together in groups and sort out some community power generation (as with allotments etc.) Even something like a 1m2 panel in each garden could take a lot of the strain off the grid and could be used for charging electronics & similar. But as always cost, laws and other impediments exist.
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  4383.  @pollyparrot8759  Well over the decades we've also had John Wayne as Ghenghis Khan, Rex Harrison as Saladin and Sean Connery playing Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni (among others). In fictional stories there's literally dozens and dozens of weird race castings - Olivier as Othello, Mickey Rooney as a Japanese bloke, Fisher Stevens playing an Indian, and all the white guys who played Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan.
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  4384. I don't recall GB News having one word to say about Mr Gove in Scotland the other week. You know, when he was off his box at the rave? So are drugs okay when gov ministers do them? Or celebrities?
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  4385. They don't care. Brexit is a bit of a disaster so they're distracting from the mess.
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  4386. Yep, definitely foreign bots trying to encourage British people to harm themselves. Madness.
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  4387. a) Is the Mail telling the truth or distorting facts - i.e. there may be one or two high-paid jobs but not enough to go round. b) How much is rent in those areas? Can a young person work on the farms and make enough money to have a decent life?
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  4388.  @djnefario4566  120+ thousand dead. I live here. I know how much the Tories screwed up. History will never forget.
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  4389.  @joybailey6186  I know dude,am in the UK and I've seen people do the most extraordinary things to help others. Is just a shame the government are idiots and being helped by a psychotic media that's trying to downplay this whole disaster.
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  4390.  @1990-t1j  Scientists far better record than the weirdos on social media. Sorry if that offends, but its the truth.
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  4391. 120+000 Brits dead. As many disabled. Millions dead around the world....
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  4392.  @jenniferjonson0212  So a retired policeman is speaking out at a police station? That doesn't make sense. Did they let him in for fun to film a video?
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  4393. Why, because you're offended by them? Can we ban footie shirts too and pineapple on pizza?
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  4394.  @ahcmit  The sheep are the ones believing the right-wing drivel mate. Like all those dead Trump supporters who thought covid was 'just a cold'.
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  4395. They clearly don't care and are happy to mass-infect kids. They - are their cretinous supporters - are all sociopaths who are clearly trying to destroy democracy and the population's health.
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  4396. a) Some do b) A lot more do c) Because sick children aren't a political football and we're not all Stalin.
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  4397.  @skulptor  Deaths are relatively low, inflammatory disorder is more common. I believe in a recent report they had 25 deaths out of half a million child cases, along with 690 MIS cases and about 4000 were in hospital. This was pre-Delta and the numbers have shot up since then. In comparison around 250 under 14s die of cancer each year and we regard that as a great tragedy, but oddly we seem to care not one jot about covid in young people.
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  4398.  @Arizmi  Well its going to be less than the cognitive destruction you get from a good dose of the Rona, that's for sure.
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  4399.  @Arizmi  Reactions like 'had a bit of a headache'? Because that's the vast majority of the reactions.
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  4400. No mate, that's 'rich teenagers'. Normal ones are stuck in rubbish jobs or struggling to pay for uni. There's a reason its nicknamed 'Gap Yah'.
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  4401. You think the childishness of the idiots who caused this isn't an issue? Or the muppets who voted for it so they could boast down the pub about their 'Sovrintee'?
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  4402.  @kym1160  Not at all, the problem is no one has explained what 'leave' means. Did it mean a no deal exit? Did it mean no access to the Euro market? Did it mean something else? Nor did the leave campaign behave honestly - people were told we'd have trade deals in a few months when every trade round of recent times tends to be very long and drawn out & involve paying lots of lawyers & bureaucrats a fortune. We also didn't get the money promised for the NHS or see the business boom that was going to appear as if by magic. There should have been a proper follow-up referndum because after half a decade people still apparently don't know what sort of leave they voted for. And you will note Britain is not thriving. It would have been nice if we'd invested the resources needed to help us make Brexit work, but we didn't. Thus the mess we're in now.
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  4403. What gene therapy? There's several different vaccine types with different methods of action. There is no type that alters your DNA, ergo no gene therapy.
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  4404.  @RickMcCargar  They reduce transmission. No vaccine is ever 100% successful and you'll find that they said this from the start. If natural immunity was really 20x better then we wouldn't be getting reinfections, would we? There's been a fair few of thos of late.
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  4405.  @augustuscaesar5997  Probably because sensible nurses realise how many people caught covid in hospital and how many healthcare workers died. Vaccination will massively reduce the chances of that happening again.
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  4406.  @augustuscaesar5997  You're also pretending that medical people know less about medicine than your Internet conspiracy sites. They don't. This stuff is an organised campaign to cause chaos. Please don't fall for it.
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  4407.  @augustuscaesar5997  But the ones who disagree don't provide proper evidence and their claims tend to fall apart. Remember all the 'no second wave' types, or those saying it was just the flu, or the ones saying it wasn't as bad as the 1969 flu - until it was worse. There's a book called Merchants of Doubt about how big business hires professionals to inject contrarian notions into debates to stop progress being made in certain ways. We've seen that with smoking, pollution, seatbelts, climate change, healthy eating and now covid. Same narrative, often the same people.
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  4408.  @agentsmith666  Ah, the traditional antivaxxer threaten death post. You guys really are incredibly tedious these days. Is this what you're told to write when you're losing the debate?
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  4409.  @elkpaz560  Because as we've seen in America, that immunity tends to fail and they end up in hospital taking resources away from other sick people. Is basically the equivalent of arguing the same about seat belts then ignoring the costs of sorting out all those mangled non-seatbelted drivers.
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  4410.  @Dragonblaster1  SJW Snowflakes probably know what a seahorse is (males give birth sort of), and know they also dislike nasty animal experiments.
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  4411.  @edenbreckhouse  The posters on here who tend to speak with one tabloidy outrage voice.
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  4412. He knows a lot more about medicine than you do Dale.
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  4413. Because videos of dying people will make tabloid telly watchers stress over their evening cuppa and they don't want to see that so instead pretend there's no problem.
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  4414.  @rebeccaconlon9743  If we go that route then you'll be a second-tier citizen as you would have been throughout much of human history.
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  4415. Yes why buy stuff from the dastardly French when you can buy it from the other side of the world? Apparently capitalism encourages efficiency, so am guessing this is an example of that?
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  4416.  @billynomate3699  So we're going to let a pandemic rip through the population because its god's will? Am I reading you right?
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  4417.  @billynomate3699  I have watched him. He's one of the low-carb people who suddenly pivoted to covid skepticism. He's also been wrong an awful lot.
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  4418. If by light you mean Typhoid Mary, then yes he is.
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  4419.  Tim Foster  Now we're getting to awe-inspiring levels of idiocy. You people cannot be real?
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  4420.  @awalk5177  You're clearly not in the UK. Its been baking for ages. London had a tropical storm the other day.
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  4421. Not a myth no matter what right-wing think tanks tell you to post.
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  4422.  @whiteworkingclass7678  No, I'm just wondering why Conservatives love to wallow in ignorance? Let me tell you a story, Edward Teller gave a speech in the 1950s about how CO2 from fossil fuels would eventually heat the atmosphere and destabilise the climate. Teller was a super conservative Cold Warrior type who designed hydrogen bombs and understood a lot about atmospheric physics. Yet today we have brainlets doing the 'Hur de Hurr, is all a hoax' nonsense despite the work of one of the most eminent conservative scientists of all time proving that they were wrong. When your ideology is so poor you have to deny your own people then, well, you have a problem.
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  4423. They are aware. Aware enough not to get their information from Facebook memes and hack Tory journalists who bend the truth for money.
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  4424. So you think mass-infecting kids with covid is okay? You'd rather thousands end up in hospital with numerous deaths and disabilities?
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  4425.  @davidsummer8631  Black and blue reflects how us peasants have been treated by the government so at least that fits.
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  4426. True, but if I recall the US were very annoyed when they found out about Klaus Fuchs, prior to that they were sharing information with the British (as indeed many of the scientists involved were from here).
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  4427. I love how this guy says lockdowns weren't a thing when you can find semi-lockdowns and quarantines THROUGH MOST OF RECORDED HISTORY. Yes, they weren't modern-style lockdowns as they didn't have our technologies, but the basics of 'stop a disease from spreading' was common, and known, even before Pasteur. Dan clearly has no idea of English history, either - Eyam plague lockdown in 1666 for example.
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  4428.  @Arizmi  I'm quite real and awesome and tend to mainly comment on GB News posts.
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  4429. Or perhaps antivaxxers acting like petulant children while the rest of us took the risks has made the rest of us get very, very tired of your shit.
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  4430. White. Had a youtube channel - fan of guns, and loopy American politics. Bit miffed about women as well.
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  4431. Pat is being his usual sneaky self. Imagine if the police went all hard-man and decided to, oh, I dunno bust Michael Gove for being coked-up at a rave? Then old Govey gets thrown in the clink for being in possession. Would Pat support that or would he be on here whining about 'mental health' and how we must be more tolerant of drug-addled Tory chancers?
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  4432. Well there's no 100% vaccinated country in the world, so who are you on about?
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  4433. I bet you hire graduates, though. I also bet if someone applied for a job at your company who left school at 16 they wouldn't even get to an interview.
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  4434. ' i was not voting for a green government.' - were you voting for a racist government or a serial killer government? Because you got both.
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  4435.  @julesdingle  Wait until you find out about the Smurfs...
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  4436. She's on national TV complaining about the NHS while saying you can't complain about the NHS. Absolute Orwellian idiocy.
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  4437. 'My boomer mates have their vaccines. We don't care if a few youngsters get sick, we want to go the pub'.
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  4438. Name the actual virologists and medical experts without resorting to 'Mike Yeadon' or some Trumpist shill hawking quinine derivatives. Difficult because actual virologists and medical experts pretty much agree this thing is bad.
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  4439. Clothes. Women wear them so as to not feel cold and also so they don't get arrested for indecent exposure.
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  4440.  @duality5503  Yes, that's right-wing media for you. Or do you really think 100% of commenters on there all think the same and use the same language.
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  4441.  @audreymaclelland3995  I have. It's not very left-wing.
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  4442. Are we hating the lottery this week? Yes I get that gambling is bad but is generally the online gamblers ruining their lives, not so much the lotto buyers. (I don't do the lotto, btw).
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  4443.  @Whatever-ow4bg  Well I don't think you can argue Florida or Texas did better on mental health than us - OMG. But they also had tens of thousands of dead, despite size and relatively sparse distribution of people compared to, say, London or NY city.
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  4444.  @spinofthewheel5345  I'm not the person worshipping an idiot, am I?
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  4445.  des hewitt  The bit about the law where you can't hit someone with a car deliberately.
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  4446. 1. They've all had shots and everyone there is tested. 2. People have been able to interact outdoors in the UK for a couple of months.
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  4447.  Champagne SOYcialist Keeps Getting Barred  Fancy defending Darren Grimes. OMG, you win the loser of the week rosette.
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  4448.  @clouddog2393  Ah, the patriotic disease-spreaders again. Yikes.
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  4449.  @ianbennett1491  There's been a fair few treatments that have been deployed quickly under emergency usage rules. Nothing to worry about with the vaccines as they did have lots of testing. June 21st won't happen because we stuffed up (again) and are having Rona increases (again).
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  4450. And do you drive round the house 50 times to use the same amount of fuel you'd use travelling to work?
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  4451.  @goth_dude6874  There's plenty of office manager type jobs higher than that, and I bet bureaucrats don't have to sit in on operations each day or watch people die of horrible diseases.
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  4452.  @goth_dude6874  That is a reflection of the private sector knocking down wages and giving the surplus to their bosses.There's a reason CEOs are paid 3+ times what they were paid in the 80s (even adjusted for inflation) and it isn't because their job is harder.
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  4453. Tory policies are spreading the mange far and wide. So yes.
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  4454. Less chance. Is like wearing a bulletproof vest. You can still die if someone hits you with enough bullets but generally you'll just end up with minor injuries and not actually be dead.
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  4455.  @krzysztofdaszkiewicz5088  Nope, sorry. Everywhere is similar - mainly unvaccinated who get it worse. Some vaccinated get it which seeing as vaccines are not 100% is right. Pretending the vaccines are worse than the Rona is yet more disinformation spreading.
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  4456. 120000+ people you're clearly not bothered about. Psycho.
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  4457.  @SamsungS-tf4jd  Would totally agree with all those problems and we need to throw vast amounts of cash into healthcare. But the economies themselves won't go back to normal like magic - damage needs to be fixed. But having no lockdowns would have meant exactly the same problems and quite possibly worse. How many people would have gone on cruises or out partying with the Rona raging? New Zealand adopted the best approach and their economy is quite stable at the moment despite their initial lockdowns. So no, I'm not narrow-minded at all. I just can't cope with the bullet point disinformation types on here. P.S. In the UK we've been cutting mental health help for years and HM Gov also spent years persecuting people with mental health problems to lower the welfare bill (Remember all the tabloid stories of 'scroungers with so-called depression'). Interestingly none of the anti-lockdown people seem to be pushing for increased mental health spending which indicates their concern is not really with the health of the peasantry, but the health of the rich pal's bank accounts. They also don't seem remotely concerned with the health of people in developing countries, either.
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  4458. He says while typing on his phone made in China then going on his laptop made in china, then calling his psychiatrist on 5G while connecting via a Huawei-owned gateway.
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  4459. Everything is made in China.
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  4460. Pre-pandemic: Haha, look at those Millennial loser snowflakes. Muh depression! Haha! Get a job!!! Pandemic (same people): Gosh, we're really concerned about the mental health of young people. Honest.
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  4461.  @sneakyrodent1853  Youtube has a global audience, so any videos on here will be seen by people all around the world. Do you read, bro?
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  4462.  @tomearnshaw8532  Dear me, Tory voters really can't be helped, can they?
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  4463.  @tomearnshaw8532  Yes well done, now we don't give aid, watch all those countries get it from China or Russia. AND GIVE THEM THEIR BUSINESS. British business will be down a lot more than £4 billion a year.
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  4464. @Myth Tree Ummm, they've been vaccinating for smallpox for 200+ years. No one is said its an either/or situation. We're pointing out that opting for a strategy of 'lets infect the kids' is not something any sane government should do.
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  4465. You know who else thought Marxism was everywhere, in everything and thus destroying the glorious nation? Hitler. Funny how the spods here ranting about 1984 don't notice how modern politicians are copying the exact propaganda playbook the fascists used. Discredit experts - check. Complain about universities - check. Clamp down on the 'lying press' - yep. Conspiracies about elites who happen to be a bit Jewish - George Soros says hi. promising to restore our great nation - Si, senor. Claiming the culture is secretly run by Marxists - aye. Having absolute wimps promoting hyper masculinity while at the same time being secretly obsessed with gay stuff - Well, yep. Claiming that our problems are the result of sneaky foreigners and Marxist traitors within - of course.
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  4466. This bloke is the most hysterical weirdo on GB News. Constantly rants and is even more obsessed with Harry and Megs than Piers Morgan. Without you losers giving them endless publicity most of the population would barely speak about H&M.
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  4467. Its not discrimination, its public health. Stop being a dolt.
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  4468. Grow up and stop being an absolute brainlet.
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  4469. @Scyborne They can't. They're a disinformation poster.
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  4470. Thats because mate a lot of the base are far-right who have entire channels devoted to attacking any media they see as 'left wing'. As for sci-fi and nerd culture, it has always been diverse, full of politics (including lefty politics) and a bit feminist. In the past absolutely no one was bothered until these clowns turned it into a new culture war. There was even an episode of Deep Space 9 in the 90s where Rom goes on strike and quotes the Communist Manifesto at Quark. Imagine a show like Buck Rogers came out now - the best pilot in the world is a gorgeous woman, our hero once ended up getting kidnapped into sex slavery and bought by female slavers and there's a robot in the show with a head like a dong. It would be absolutely destroyed by weirdos like Nerdrotic today but when it came out we loved it for being crazy fun.
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  4471.  @jasperswarp  Not at all. I've been around nerd culture for a long time and its gone downright horrible of late. Yes there's the bonkers SJW types who are annoying but the whole cavalcade of right-wing whining channels takes the biscuit. Especially as most of these guys have no understanding of film culture or sci-fi pre the mid 1980s so they spend half their time arguing that Rambo II is the height of cinema.
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  4472. Apart from all those wars they've been involved in over the past century. Sigh.
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  4473.  @dabro2080  If it helps it may be to do with the British press being almost entirely right-wing, owned by a few billionaire tax-exile scumbags and pushing nonsense instead of facts. Lefty people call this out, as is their right.
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  4474.  @TheGingerJonny  What's wrong with fact-checking? If Andrew Neil came on TV to say that the entire population of Kettering is going to be culled on Tuesday, should we check just in case he's got his facts wrong?
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  4475.  @TheGingerJonny  No it isn't. Do you not remember how the entire press spent years denouncing Jeremy Corbyn? If they were secret leftists we'd have had PM Jezza by now. Do you see many left-wing economists on TV shows in comparison to right-wing corporate types?
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  4476.  @TheGingerJonny  No he didn't. The media hated him and said so constantly. Even the Daily Mirror were calling for him to resign just before he nearly beat Teresa May. Left-wing economists, yes. Thomas Piketty, Steve Keen, Yanis Varoufakis, even old dudes like Gar Alperovitz. As for the 'for free' barb, you do realise that things like universal basic income were also pushed by the right in the 1970s and onward? And the right talk about 'post scarcity economics' which is remarkably similar to the lefts FALC?
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  4477. @Sound Design & Production Halfway there. The media does like to promote its diversity as a way of covering up exactly how elitist the whole business is AND they like the market to widespread demographics. GBNews is a shining example of that. They whine about woke but consist of a bunch of elitists who are actually telling you what they think 'woke' is. That's propaganda and drivel.
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  4478. ​@Sound Design & Production Couple of points. 1) I'm very much working-class 2) I talk to other working-class people all the time. Here's what's actually happened. The rich establishment in this country is weaponising fear with a dash of patriotism to scare the population. The people I talk to tell me various terrible things the 'lefties' are doing and almost always they're stories they've read in the Mail/Express/Sun with little substance. It is no coincidence that the over 50s are the demographic who still buy newspapers and the demographic that votes for the clowns currently in power (in the hope they'll protect them from the forrins etc.) It is also no coincidence that the right has pulled the same trick all over the world with the same culture war talking points, sped up by social media manipulation (Cambridge Analytica is but one of the groups doing that). The problem is eventually there's a backlash as people realise they've been punked by billionaires & tradition doesn't pay the rent. This is why Trumpism has basically led to Biden doing the FDR thing while the Republican party is kept afloat on conspiracy crackpottery. Is why the most progressive countries are doing best against the Coronavirus. And its why the Tories here are cranking up the culture war drivel in the hope of setting the populace against each other to keep them in power. GBNews is a dictionary definition of a group of elitists telling people what to think, and will be regarded as such. The fear and irrational contradictory media is a pure example of the ruling class using the F-Scale personality test to see who they can push towards extremism, damn the consequences. One final amusing note, back in the 1960s an obscure film was released starring supermodel Jean Shrimpton and singer Paul Jones. Privilege was about a future authoritarian British establishment using the top pop star to manipulate the peasantry through mass media. Only everything goes wrong. Check it out. Shades of now, except is the over 50s who are falling for it, not the kids like in the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dZEky0KAw
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  4479. You mean the bots hired to plug this GoeBbelsNEWS?
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  4480.  @lynncw9202  It doesn't matter. We have tons of evidence that masks are okay and a handy way to reduce the spread of bugs. Yes, in an ideal world we wouldn't need them but at the moment we do. The mental health argument makes no sense because wearing a mask is a lot less stressful than seeing adults dying of covid and their friends getting ill. In the US there's something like 140,000 kids orphaned due to covid. Imagine what their mental health is like...
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  4481.  @alexbell8687  Why do you lot still think after 18 months you've somehow constructed the best insult of all time? Mate, history will show the people who wore masks were the patriotic ones who cared about their countrymen. The anti-mask/vaccine weirdos fell for malicious foreign propaganda and doomed thousands of their own to death.
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  4482.  @deadreckoning6288  So you're forgetting all those people who wear masks in dozens of industries and have done for decades? Or people who live in desert climates and wear a face covering to protect themselves from sand and dust? Face coverings for disease are even mentioned in the Bible - Leviticus 13:45.
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  4483. Well no, pretty much everything the actual leave campaign said has come true - fishing has been trashed, jobs are going, prices have risen, a lot of small businesses that trade with Europe are in trouble, there's been an increase in xenophobia and the British people overall are even more miserable than they were a decade ago. Pretending otherwise requires giant amounts of rose-tint on one's sunglasses.
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  4484.  @JASON-rq5gl  So how come there's noticeable shortages in British supermarkets and online stores that doesn't appear to be the case in mainland Europe? I've seen it proposed that there's a shortage of UK HGV drivers yet no one appears to be increasing wages to attract some.
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  4485.  @seanmoran6510  I remember protesting those wars. I also remember almost the entire Tory party supporting them. If Blair hadn't been in power then PM Howard would have done exactly the same.
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  4486.  @TheEducator89  'Non woke' - Imagine being a British person who spends all their time worrying about a fake culture war imported from America. Sad.
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  4487.  @TheEducator89  Or maybe US billionaires are funding all this stuff to divide and conquer and Boris has got in on the act? Have you noticed how the 'unwoke' on here exhibit all the traits you complain about? They're conformist, suck up to the establishment, lack critical thinking skills and spend their time hating on a different group each day. Mirrors are to be looked at, sometimes the truth is looking back.
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  4488. Am sure the French navy will return the favour. Or have you forgotten they have one?
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  4489. Can you detail ignorant things she's said? Because pretty much everything she says is mainstream science and backed up by shedloads of evidence. While the 'opposite view' is backed up by libertarian think tanks and Koch money.
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  4490. And you think we should what? Have a war with China?
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  4491. But the problem is how to take them off the kids, keep them secure and give them back at the end of the day. There's going to be plenty of parents who'll try it on - 'Oh, my Jethro's new iPhone 12 has a broke screen cos one of you teachers smacked it. I demand compensation!!!'
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  4492. You do realise if enough of you 'do not comply' and this thing gets worse you'll end up being forced to comply at the barrel of a gun? If its a choice between the fee fees of antivaxxers or the rest of the country then guess who's going to get a kicking?
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  4493. "Britain is totally not racist". Footy comes on... "And now we'll kneel against racism" Fans: "BOOOOOOOO" Thus proving Britain is indeed somewhat racist.
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  4494.  @user-qf6yt3id3w  And as the paying public are overwhelmingly liberal then you'll still be complaining. Or do you really think 70yr old Brexit voters will be queuing up for pay for it? Nope, will be younger hipper cool people with disposable income.
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  4495. Which movies are they? Marvel is still raking in the cash. DC movies are terrible but still make money. Star Wars had a badly written new trilogy but has since redeemed itself with the Mandalorian....
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  4496. The covid vaccine doesn't do anything to their DNA. Stop reading absolute drivel on Facebook, please.
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  4497.  bob bob  Are you a flag shagger, mate? Does flag banging give you the horn?
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  4498. Why? He killed thousands with his psychotic austerity policies.
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  4499. No he doesn't. Stop believing the absolute drivel you read in tabloids and Facebook. Biden is looking after US interests and the UK run by a treacherous priapic gonk & a government with links to Russia which makes the Americans pause before they do anything.
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  4500.  @bbfeign1  Is weird that you mention students but not police raping and murdering women. Agenda much?
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  4501. Imagine being a stalker - "Oh that blue mask makes me invisible, if I couldn't wear one then I wouldn't be able to threaten women any more". Absolute nano-brained argument.
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  4502.  @MajorT0m  Yes they may be a sort of disguise, but its pretty poor. Especially as its easier to wear a hoodie and sunglasses - or a scarf round their face. Plus as every adult woman these days has a phone then its possible (assuming is safe for her) to video the creeper, or if she can't video turn the audio record on her phone. Or just call police/boyfriend. Stalking is a horrendous crime and creepers should be locked up. But covid masks aren't the reason for any increase.
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  4503.  @xenomorph6-_gaming  In theory but depends on the quality of the evidence.
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  4504.  @xenomorph6-_gaming  I'm not.
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  4505. Dear me, his point was there are transgender men who live as men and look like men. Genetically they are indeed women, but to all intents and purposes they live as men and most people would be none the wiser. For example, have you see that Money for Nothing restoration show on the telly? One of the wood experts is a bloke called EJ. EJ appears to have a slightly odd voice and most people assume is because he's an Aussie. Nope. He's a woman who has transitioned to a male (now dead sadly, had cancer). There are also a small proportion of people with intersex disorders where things get really complex - these have existed for as long as humans.
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  4506. Or maybe Trump's deal was idiotic from the start?
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  4507.  @lumpyfishgravy  The truth is it was an idiotic deal?
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  4508. Wait till you find out about driving licenses and passports. A government document needed to leave the country!!!
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  4509.  @seandelap6268  It really is. And what about clubs asking for ID (which they've done forever)?
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  4510. @Anti Woke Oh dear, are we going to keep doing this? Are we that much of a moron we think this strategy will work?
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  4511. Yeah cool, and would you like to tell us those rural NIMBY people with the expensive houses that their houses are now worthless? HS2 has cost a fortune for a bloomin' train line - building a dozen coal stations and digging up chunks of the country for mines would cost far, far more (before we even get to the pollution aspect). Before anyone has a go - this is also the reason we don't have more nuclear power stations. Or solar arrays. Boo hoo, muh property prices sort of thing.
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  4512. She's seen the ratings.
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  4513. 'tory are center left' - only in magical fairyland. They're pretty far right at present - austerity, benefit cuts, militarism, grift, contempt for the working class, culture war paranoiacs...
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  4514.  @nonoyorbusness  No, I am not blessed in that way.
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  4515.  @nonoyorbusness  I did. This is why I'm such a delight on the Internet.
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  4516.  @jezworld  Weird because I've yet to meet someone who had a bad reaction. Maybe you're just unlucky?
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  4517. Sacked for not crawling to the government? You people get ever more ridiculous with each passing day.
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  4518. The rich spread it last time. They'll do it again. Am all for clamping down on the sociopathic shits.
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  4519. What, con men like Sikora or Yeadon? Science is science. You can't change it just because you disagree with it.
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  4520. And they should be paid more, but HM Gov is trying to get work done cheap with the profits going to private companies so the care agencies exploit as much as they like.
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  4521. So if young people are worried about the environment, jobs and their idiot government is that leftwing ideology?
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  4522. Am sure they're crying like a Japanese porn actress at the loss of revenue.
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  4523. Yep, even applying for benefits has to be done online and everything is tracked. Ditto for most other public services.
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  4524.  @docbradleydc  Dude I've heard the gubbmint force you to get a government-backed license before you can fly one. Oppression!!!
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  4525. Terraforming Mars is so difficult it would be far easier to fix Earth's climate.
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  4526. Yet you watch this brain-washing drivel.
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  4527. But we'll have to pay tons of taxes for the idiots who get deliberately infected and develop long-term health problems.
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  4528.  @tomhud2022  If the government drops all restrictions and says 'You're on your own' then that is tantamount to deliberate infection. Same as if the government took away all the police then complained its not their fault people are stupid enough to get mugged.
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  4529. Didn't GBNews cancel their own presenter for no reason?
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  4530.  @Lothnar5070  Here's a fascinating thing. Ivor is a low carb devotee. Roughly at the same time last year most of the famous low carbers suddenly turned into (Harcombe, Noakes, Nora whassername etc.) covid sceptics. Almost liiterally overnight. Now it could be these people all suddenly found amazing evidence, yet they pretty much spent the past year uttering the same drivel as all the other pro-Covid types and (more importantly) getting everything wrong. So do I think they're sincere? Or 'influencers' with a new gig? Second one.
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  4531. There actually was. I was reading about it last year.
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  4532. This is the same Ted that did a runner to Cancun when Texas was falling apart in a winter storm?
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  4533. Nuclear power stations, then. Just one problem - lots of Tory voters in rural areas will have to live next door to them.
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  4534. He is weak, but he doesn't care. He had almost the entire press on his side and they're happy to lie for him. Tho of course Uncle Rupert is lining up Pob Gove to take over, so there's that terrifying possibility.
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  4535. So you honestly think infecting your kids with covid is a better alternative? What sort of adult thinks infecting kids deliberately is the right thing to do?
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  4536. 'Truth' doesn't mean 'I am a weird Kiwi who makes stuff up and shouts'.
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  4537. No, because he was found guilty by a jury fair and square.
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  4538. You mean Epoch Times run by the Falun Gong religious cult???
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  4539. Andrew Neil looks like Baron Von Greenback. I very much doubt he's spending his mornings on the Peloton.
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  4540. Do you not watch all the new comedy mate?
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  4541. She clearly has one more than Andrew Doyle then.
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  4542. Welcome to capitalism.
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  4543. Gee, and how's Florida doing these days? Last time I checked it was riddled with corona.
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  4544. At least they can spell.
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  4545. They did put him in charge. He lost an election. He was useless. Then he got into austerity and begun the task of killing off the peasants which is now more refined under the rule of Boris.
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  4546. Sadly, Britain not far behind.
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  4547. So we're even attacking reverends as 'woke' now? Was Jesus 'woke' mate? Because I think he was reading the Bible. Do you hate Jesus? Do you hate the Bible?
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  4548. "The NHS is always in some sort of winter crisis" So the plan this year is to deliberately make it worse? What the actual FcUK is going on?
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  4549. Am sure your MPs secretary will be shaking in her boots. He won't read it.
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  4550.  @davidbarlow350  Right, so every country in the world is part of the scam and the only people who see through it are Youtube conspiracy wonks who provide zero evidence? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/02/uk-excess-death-toll-since-start-of-covid-pandemic-passes-100000 https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-hcid/ 1% of the UK adult population is half a million people.
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  4551. And yet this channel is offended by half a dozen different things every day.
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  4552.  @kevinbillington9773  No, I'm kind of depressed that he's managed to kill more people than the Blitz in 18 months & is now giving us Brexit food shortages and mass infection of kids. If you think that's good then your humanity has gone.
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  4553.  @owaindavies9971  No, the Blitz was between 40 and 70,000 with about 120000 injured. The 450000 is for the number of British people killed in the war (Blitz + 300+ thousand soldiers). There's been noticeable shortages for a while - many things online out of stock, issues with building material etc. Has been widely reported even in the right-wing press.
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  4554. Oh wow, there appears to be a fake Rob posting racist stuff on here. Folks, this isn't me, I'm the one with 1000 comments. Fake rob is probably one of Downwith Woke's friends.
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  4555.  @dean-gm1lg  No they won't. Stop making crap up.
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  4556.  @dean-gm1lg  No lockdowns because Boris thinks mass-infecting kids is the way to go. Few dead kids & a few thousand of them in hospital, but never mind. Keep those profits up and all that.
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  4557. Why do you lot always hate on the women and assume the men are somehow bewitched by the evil lady magic? Is exactly the same with how the media act towards Prince Harry.
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  4558. Yes, you may chuckle but these floods and related ones are going to affect an awful lot of middle-class Tory voters who am sure will be delighted having the piss taken out of them by their own political group.
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  4559.  @oojimmyflip  Again, the floods are happening more these days than in the past and the UK tends to have warmer winters (Google 1947 winter on Youtube for example). That means more infrastructure and property damage which a lot of 'non greenie' Tories will get hit by.
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  4560.  @commonsenseskeptic  Musk furiously reading about Project Orion...
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  4561. I've gotten more socialist since I paid more taxes. Because I can see the utility of that money partly going to help other people which means a stronger economy all-round. If you don't believe that then let's drop pensions by 50% and redistribute the money saved as tax-cuts to the working population.
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  4562. Right, so you're okay with pedos sexually harassing schoolgirls? Is this the level of poster on GB News now?
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  4563.  CacheerioAsh  ', looking for another law to take down men' - gee, I think my critique was on the nose as the poster clearly doesn't see kerb crawling as a problem.
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  4564. They do work and are used to diagnose many things as well as being the basis for much of forensic medicine. If PCR didn't work then we'd have to let most of the rapists and murderers out of jail as they'd have 'unsafe convictions'.
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  4565. Yes, but Gervais is quite funny. Most of these characters aren't. It reminds me of Joe Rogan. Rogan's comedy is basically a bargain basement Bill Hicks (Drugs! Weirdness! Aliens! Stupid people!) but he lacks Hick's talent or observational skills or, well, ability to be funny. So somehow Rogan is now a 'top stand-up' despite being rubbish and on his show (also inspired by other people - he basically ripped off paranormal podcasts) he whines about covid and 'cancel culture' all the time. Rogan also seems to get oddly stressed at funny women. Was watching him go po-faced a while back at this female comedian and checked out some of her stuff - smutty and hilarious. So my point is right-wing comedians - certainly these days - are derivative, tedious and lack perspective. If anyone doubts me go watch someone like Kev Smith do his show - he's rambling about films, or weed, or gay bears or Mewes being a twit - and you can't help but laugh. Compare to a Rogan stand-up. No contest. Rogan is to comedy when Neil Oliver is to virology.
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  4566.  @Wrath-r6j  The drug addict Jordan Peterson?
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  4567.  @Wrath-r6j  The guy who was addicted to benzos, had his crazy daughter send him to Russia to recover, nearly died, got covid off the crazy daughter, the guy who sounds like Kermit and is clinically depressed but is promoted in the media as some sort of expert on personal responsibility and mental health? That guy? That's who you're following as a fount of wisdom? Dear me.
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  4568. Nothing wrong with learning to respect other people. That's a great lesson to give to young girls.
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  4569. This channel really does hate women, doesn't it? Any time a woman does something vaguely right they get all angry and make 15 videos about how they're terrible.
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  4570. Tax billionaires then and stop whining that we don't have the money.
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  4571. 'I am sick to the back teeth with BJ”s' - many women can empathise.
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  4572. Well yes, because it will be their fault. Bit like blaming burglars for burglaries.
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  4573. @Retro Picker78 Well the anti-vaxxers are a chunk of the populace who can get infected. They've also been lobbying to stop kids getting vaccinated which means kids are vulnerable. The antivaxxers are also the ones telling people covid is just a cold/flu thus encouraging a lack of caution in anyone so easily manipulated. They tend to also be against masks & social distancing. So on a scale of blame, they're pretty high up. But here's my prediction. Boris is currently doing a bit of genocide to pwn the libs. This will not end well. Will Boris resign? Nope he'll just flip blame to the antivaxxers and all his papers will demonise them overnight. Antivaxxers by Sep will be the new 'benefit scroungers' in the tabloid press.
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  4574. Talking of Eurovision, I did like that blonde bass player in the Italian entry. The British entry.... not so much.
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  4575. Well if you paid attention you'd know that the US regulators thought Thalidomide was dodgy from the start and wouldn't authorise it. Some were given it in the 50s but after that, nope. A horrible tragedy, but one that was stopped relatively soon in the US thanks to proper science.
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  4576. ALDI are German so probably have a lot of long-term relationships with European suppliers.
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  4577. Or maybe you're easily triggered?
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  4578.  @karentanner4002  What narrative? Please list what you're accusing the medical profession of.
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  4579.  @karentanner4002  Ivor Cummins is an absolute clown who spent most of last year claiming we'd have no second wave. Jesus, please don't tell me that's the sort of information you're relying on?
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  4580. @Amanda Hughes So because there were warming periods in the past we should just keep polluting now? Is that your point?
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  4581. They're all bs artists. Yeadon's articles in the Mail last year were so hilariously wrong they could be posted in a book of 'Most hilariously wrong things ever posted in the Daily Mail'.
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  4582. Probably not. Been a few articles in the more serious papers about it. The ratings aren't holding either - they can get some ratings for a bit of Farage clickbait but the channel really hasn't worked with general audiences.
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  4583. Yes everyone, spread that Rona!
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  4584. They'll probably have Darren Grimes on later talking about how to fix the education system. He's a bit of a crafty lad, he is.
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  4585. Can we have some examples of comedy that has been 'cancelled'? Ok, there was that sitcom about Hitler in the 90s. Also Hardwicke House in the 80s. Plus I guess Mind your Language was sort of cancelled. But what's being cancelled now? There's lots of types whining on here that you can't say anything these days while saying anything on the TV. They're hardly cancelled, either.
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  4586.  @biteme8905  1`% death rate is not benign. Add in Long covid. Vaccines will be fine. Covid is not. Sorry to rain on your anti-vax parade, but you're catastrophically wrong about this.
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  4587.  @wavell14  Someone is very proud of their 'I'm a dickhead' certificate aren't they?
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  4588. Suppose those bodies piled high courtesy of Boris don't count then?
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  4589. Let's think... Count Dankula - not funny. Tho the nazi dog was amusing for all of 30 seconds. Also Scotland: Rab C Nesbitt, a genius of a comedy creation that somehow managed to cover topics as diverse as politics, transgenderism, the welfare system and violence all through the eyes of a Scottish drunkard.
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  4590. Note Brazier is allowing a bit of blue to show through so his background flag looks less nazi. GB News are listening to my wisdom!
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  4591. Oh look, its a GB News presenter moaning about unions and nurses being overpaid. What exactly happened to the £60 million start up funding for your channel? It certainly didn't go on sound engineers. Did it by any chance go on massive wages for presenters?....
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  4592. The twitterers aren't the problem. Half the media are spending their time on culture war drivel instead of covering actual stories.
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  4593. Yes, you lot just want to kill them with the Rona instead.
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  4594.  @nickeldridge9454  And did this story appear in the papers? Why not tell GB news to run it?
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  4595. There's lots of amazing characters in English history but often they live in the background because the Conservative establishment doesn't like them.
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  4596.  @bobjob1656  You mean as a slave to big tobacco?
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  4597. I believe you're a bot who is talking nonsense.
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  4598.  @samcarpenter4259  Dude only brainlets on the Internet are rattling on about tyranny because they have to wear a mask in the Asda. Seriously your case would be stated better if you dropped the hyperbole.
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  4599.  @samcarpenter4259  They haven't though, have they. Pandemics tend to last a while, politicians knew that but they also like optimistic headlines. So rather than come out and be honest they make short-term promises. We could have sorted track and track and travel restriction testing last year and got our numbers right down, but gov chose not to.
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  4600. Have some chamomile tea and don't vote Tory next time.
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  4601.  @bemusedkidney8619  They don't. Rupert Murdoch controls most of it for starters. The BBC is riddled with Tory plants. The Mail is super right-wing. GB News is borderline fascist. Where's the left wing media? The Guardian? Morning Star?
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  4602. Alex Jones is a scumbag of epic proportions. Why apologise to that thing?
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  4603.  @jordandonoghue7666  Again, if they wanted to kill you all they'd do it let Covid spread and that would do the job. Which is exactly what they've done - vaccinate the politicians and Tory voters, let the young rot. As for anti-coagulants they're used a lot in medicine and spending 3 billion on them over four years doesn't sound that much more than they spend now. although funnily enough long covid sufferers often have blood clots, no vaccine required.
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  4604. Why is this scumbag in Britain? Is he planning a coup against Boris?
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  4605. Don't remember Mayor Boris stopping the stabbings, so do tell us what should be done...
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  4606. Can you give an example of this? No. No you can't.
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  4607.  @badgoogle9938  Yes because some scumbag keeps posting fake comments claiming to be me. I guess impersonating someone and trying to make people think they're an anti-semite/pedo is the latest new hilarious conservative debating technique.
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  4608.  @walterbishop1697  I can't take him seriously. He's a weird cross-dressing contrarian nutter who got famous writing a column in the Sun.
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  4609. So Nige, please tell us how close those anti-vax types are to the conservative establishment. Why they have mutual media friends and Tory MPs in common and why the anti-vax groups have only had a go at a Tory today when there's a mysterious number of police around? Here's the thing - how many will be arrested and prosecuted? When there's some hippy protest the press are full of the bios of protestors within hours. With the anti-vax/lockdown/Qanon weirdo types we very rarely see any coverage.
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  4610. Yes, it's not all over. This is just a bit of PR which the Tories know will be reporting by Quisling media such as GB News. If it was over then we wouldn't have tens of thousands of cases a day with 5000 people in hospital with covid.
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  4611.  @unquietsoul4208  Being a pro-covid promoter is a bit of a tragic life choice in 2021.
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  4612.  @nightwingtrp7399  No it isn't. People are still sick with this thing after months. If it was 'a myth' then why is the government opening long covid clinics? Why are other governments around the world opening them?
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  4613.  @clivemortimore8203  True story: I know someone whose nephew had covid last year. He was a super-fit boxer type and it knocked him for six for three weeks. He recovered by was a slow process. Meanwhile his aunt ended up becoming an anti-vaxxer who thinks covid is all exaggerated and only a threat to fatties and 90yr olds. Is baffling the mental hoops people jump through.
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  4614. So we just let the covid lies flow and watch the bodies pile up? Is that right?
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  4615.  @Chaggy1978  Actually the climate is destabilising quite badly. No lockdowns, but lots of giant fires and floods...
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  4616. Gee, do you think the Tories attacks on universities (along with many populist right governments), followed by financial cuts and hiking up student loans may be limiting them from training more scientists?
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  4617. See a doctor, mate. That's not right.
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  4618.  @tomround8271  What part of America? Florida with 37000 dead? Texas with 50000 dead? The actual USA with 600000 dead compared to under 30,000 in the whole of Canada? Clearly you've been reading right-wing drivel and are brain-addled.
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  4619.  @tomround8271  Is true that many don't, but they do have some efficacy even if some use them improperly.
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  4620.  @tomround8271  Jeez, did I say that? I said masks will have some effect. They're not perfect but are better than nothing. If you don't believe me, put on a mask, walk up to someone and sneeze. Now take the mask off and sneeze on them. In the first scenario the person is not affected and may just got 'Oi, watch it'. In the second, they're covered in snot and punching you in the face.
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  4621.  @tomround8271  How have I? America did catastrophically badly. They're doing better now because Uncle Joe is dishing the vaccines out. Why is this hard to understand?
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  4622.  @walterbishop1697  He's not, my Fringe-watching chum. He's toast.
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  4623.  @kieron63  Temp hit 48.8C today in Sicily. That's over 199 fahrenheit which is pretty much a record for Europe full stop.
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  4624. Graveyards. Gardens of remembrance? Or maybe you can go to your local council office and check out the death certificates?
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  4625.  @imwithstupid00011  No we weren't. A few thought that (and it was reported on pop TV shows like In Search Of) but most thought we'd be warming up.
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  4626.  @Gozzillacia  Please explain how turning a shape-shifting alien Timelord who turns into an old man, quirky man, middle-aged man, grumpy man and young man is somehow ruined by him turning into a woman? Especially when the very show you mention had women Time Lords decades ago?
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  4627. No it isn't.
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  4628. Hitlers dead mate.
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  4629. But isn't that your problem, pretending that only the Tories are worth voting for and all other parties are as bad when they're clearly not? Tell me why the Lib Dems are bad or the Greens?
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  4630.  @NoFaceOrGun  Yes, I watched an 8 Bit Guy (Texan computer nerd channel) video where his house basically got trashed because the pipes blew.
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  4631. They do a fair bit of decent journalism. Look at the story about the spyware used to spy on politicians and activists the other week. Astonishing story which most of the media ignored.
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  4632. Lots of countries want you to have various vaccinations before you visit. This is no different, really. https://practio.co.uk/travel-health/articles/vaccination-certificate
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  4633.  @elongatedmush7805  Right, so those countries don't have bad diseases then? Everything makes money, that's capitalism.
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  4634. There's not much to talk about, is there?
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  4635.  @walterbishop1697  'which it won't be'... and you know this how?
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  4636.  @walterbishop1697  I have seen those documents and people are misinterpreting them. Had an anti-vax friend send me a British government one big PDF and it basically had a list of every disease known to man and things not related to disease (such as breaking a bone or becoming a drug addict) & it looked awfully like unprocessed data to me. Even so the vaccine is considerably safer than the alternativem - 130+ thousand dead and counting in the UK.
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  4637. Thousands will catch it there. See the increase from the Scottish football. But the gov likes money, so whatever.
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  4638.  @badgoogle9938  At the moment. Hardly anyone was dying of it last summer, either and look what happened there.
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  4639. Dear, dear me. Covering the lives of ordinary people is very much a part of history. Its not just about kings and their perversions.
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  4640. Not so happy if the environment collapses, mate.
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  4641.  @goodyeoman4534  I agree, but why is the staff member a 'covid' zealot? There must be a reason you used that term?
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  4642. You mean the one where you're cancelling a dude who works here?
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  4643. Or maybe ask why China actually locked down properly and gave other countries data about the virus while the UK wanted 'herd immunity' and was willing to sacrifice thousands. If China is the villain here then the UK helped them right along.
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  4644.  @jimmimckenzie8549  Sweden had far worse numbers than their neighbours and they did have quite a few restrictions in place. Israel has a large anti-vax movement. If you bothered to read you'd note I'm not against my own country. This is why I don't like it that so many died because the government were morons who thought Julia Hartley Brewer and Allison Pearson were the right people to listen to in a global pandemic.
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  4645.  @barbaraneville5036  He needs to show some evidence then. Thinks and believes isn't enough.
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  4646.  @elleygray02776  Here's the thing. Over 90% of UK adults have had their covid shot. Most adults support vaccinating youngsters. The number of anti-vaxxers is tiny (<5%) and yet they appear to dominate every online discussion. So who exactly is paying for all this? Or is Britain really full of absolute morons?
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  4647. Bet you weren't saying that during the Chinese protests or French protests or any others. You're only saying it now because right-wing memes tell you to. Sad.
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  4648. Nige, the bot army whining about taking the knee are flogging a dead horse. The British people are with our footy lads, not the hooligans and booing types.
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  4649. @Anti Woke I'm antisemitic for supporting our footy team? How does that work? Please don't quote inspiration to Anders Brevik, Mel Phillips in your answer...
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  4650. Yes, but not the same numbers. With restrictions the Rona has killed 120,000 Brits. If we had let it rip it would have been at least half a million. Flu is nowhere near as bad due to vaccines and a slower spread rate.
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  4651. If we had no lockdowns we'd have had far more death, so you'd be whining them about not having lockdowns.
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  4652. Lol, these clowns telling people not to get vaccinated and arguing over masks are now going to have to face the consequences of more winter restrictions due to their own idiocy. Well done British media - your brainlessness is getting our own citizens killed.
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  4653. Why? What qualifications do you bring to the table?
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  4654. Or maybe they understand that letting the Rona rip through society is going to injure and kill lots of people and those very same doctors will have to risk their lives AGAIN treating them?
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  4655. Turkey on fire. Greece on fire. Albania on fire. 48.8C in Sicily smashing records.
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  4656. Woke lefties were protesting about this mess while everyone else was cheering it on.
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  4657. Yes. Billionaires want you plebs back at work as they need a new mansion. Some of you will have to die, but that's a price they think is well worth paying.
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  4658. Helicopter pilot, ran his own special olympics, spent his early years watching his mum get harassed by the press then die horribly and still be mocked for dating foreign gents... ... Harry's got a lot to talk about.
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  4659. I agree. These people have no idea of how tough medical jobs are, they're just here to whine about something. It'll be immigrants or feminists tomorrow....
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  4660. ​ @joebloggs3551  ' Don't think we have to tow the left's moronic line ' - oh, I think we can see where you're coming from. No one is saying the NHS is perfect. They're saying that its a fine institution and doing its best under difficult circumstances.
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  4661.  @joebloggs3551  'Free speech' means free speech. But so far in the time I've been here I've been accused of being a spy, working for the BBC, a communist, managed to get myself two stalkers who posted false quotes trying to frame me as a pervert & antisemite AND regularly get shouted down. That's not free speech, is it mate?
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  4662. Go on then, name something the BBC does that has sent the country downhill....
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  4663. Are you honestly stupid enough to think a vaccine connects you to the phone grid? How do you think that works?
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  4664. But you're watching it on a TV station with about 17 viewers which strongly indicates your worldview isn't that popular.
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  4665. You can apply the same argument to vaccine passports.
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  4666. Only an utter brainlet would think protecting kids in a pandemic is actually a socialist plot by union barons.
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  4667.  @jamescollins3647  Am assuming its a genetic sequence - cytosine, guanine, guanine. Which pops up in other places: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82050-5
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  4668. They could actually cover the story about the strange relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn. Is downright bizarre and worthy of a book. P.S. for the all pepe alt-right types, Roy Cohn loved to collect toy cartoon frogs. And Cohn was also a very dark sexual deviant indeed. All a matter of public record.
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  4669. Yes, that was the original intention. It was a keynsian stimulation to Southern property prices and wealthy Tory industrialists. If it had been a sincere plan we'd have had a fast rail network across the entire country.
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  4670. Don't think you did before anyway.
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  4671. They do seem a bit obsessed about pretty 18 yr old girls jumping up and down. I have yet to see a picture in the press of a group of fat lads doing the same. Wonder why?
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  4672. "Well at least he's better than that Von Hindenburg" - Germans in 1938. Possibly.
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  4673. Or maybe the problem lies with an idiot government that is allowing a pandemic virus to spread?
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  4674. So does GB News favour a war with China now? Just asking because those Chinese nuclear submarines can sit under the Atlantic* waiting and flatten Britain in about an hour.... *I believe each sub has 12 missiles that each have a range of 4500 miles. Yeah I know British subs are awesome but China very big compared to us. It wouldn't take many hits to knock us back to the middle-ages.
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  4675.  @simonewardle3742  Cool, this is the first time I've been accused of being Chinese on here. Previously I was a government spy, a BBC plant, a EU troll, now I'm Chinese!
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  4676.  @wrathchild68  Rule number 1: Don't misjudge your enemies.
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  4677. So what was the Kray Twins excuse?
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  4678.  @Andrea.583  God gave us the brains to invent vaccines. Listen to God not corrupt preachers. Matthew 7:15
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  4679. Khan appears to care more about Londoners than Boris. Even when Boris was mayor London was full of stabbings but oddly the press kept quiet, unlike when a labour mayor is in power.
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  4680.  @engineeredlifeform  Seen those ebikes in my city. They appear to be popular, but expensive to use. Am assuming the expense is (partially) to pay for someone to drive round town picking up depleted ones for recharging? Quite funny though coming out the house at 6am and the first thing you see is a glowing green light from a recently used bike.
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  4681. So Javid, Patel and the like are all Marxists?
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  4682.  @The_Cosmic_Yog-Sothoth  You said diverse and equitable meant cultural Marxism. Ergo the diverse Tory Mps are therefore Marxists in your odd worldview.
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  4683. Honestly the MPs are basically terrified of their own monster in the form of the Tory press, so instead of being candid ("We have a problem") they'll skate around the issue and only do something when it gets horribly worse. Last year the Mail etc. pretended we'd have no second wave, they said we had herd immunity, they incessantly whined about 'saving Christmas' and the results of their nonsense were catastrophic. Boris thinks the Tory press reflect the British people's beliefs. This is no more accurate than Youtube antivax bots reflecting the beliefs of the general population.
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  4684. It's not true. It's his stupid opinion - he has no medical qualifications, he's a historian and clearly one who hasn't read the several hundred year history of vaccines and why they're useful.
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  4685.  @guidofarage7457  Is this the new talking point? Vaccines are bad therefore we should let kids be infected? A sort of modern equivalent of 'let God judge them?' Is telling that none of the anti-vaxxers apparently notice how many Covid has killed. They're definitely pro-corona.
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  4686.  @guidofarage7457  "Viruses evolve by becoming more transmissible, and generally less severe. This is evolutionary biology." - as we've seen from Smallpox, Hiv and dozens of others the time it takes for the severity to drop can be decades or centuries. "As for Coronavirus death figures in the U.K, they’ve been proven to have been inflated" - is the entire world inflating their figures, too? Or are you trying to minimise the effects of the disease? Many diseases kill people who have other medical issues but we don't say 'Did Grandma die of cancer or with cancer?' or 'Oh, your dad died of a heart attack but he was unhealthy anyway so it doesn't count'. Eating healthy etc. is great, but its not a panacea. Nor is vitamin d. Very useful but not a cure-all. The side-effects of the vaccines are real, but appear to be exaggerated by the anti-vax crowd if the government PDFs I was looking at were anything to go by (they included general medical information and problems that would have zero to do with vaccines - like catching HIV or having broken limbs or your kids teething issues.) Pretty much everyone I know who has had their shots experienced a day or so of being tired, or a bit of a headache. The reason I'm having a go at the anti-vax crowd is because they've consistently lied and allied themselves with the anti-lockdown types and are basically demanding no public policies for handling the pandemic. They are literally pro-coronavirus and therefore not worth listening to. I also remember the vaccines cause autism nonsense and the same lot fighting against HPV vaccines which are one of the few medical treatments we have that can actually reduce the risk of certain cancers. They also present themselves as 'concerned citizens' but show a complete lack of concern for the gigantic number of people killed by this thing. Hope this answers your question!
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  4687.  @guidofarage7457  ' that PCR Ct. thresholds have been set ridiculously high around 37-40 to include basically non-existent trace infections. So the case numbers are baloney. ' - in which case we should see a massively high positive rate during daily testing. We don't, so... "I would prefer life to get back to some form of normality, because we are going to have to live with this whether we like it or not," - we all want life to be more normal and so far it's not too bad with most things being open. Removing all restrictions won't boost the economy if the disease is fast spreading because a chunk of the populace will voluntarily distance and cut back on their economic activity. Then you're left with clubs, pubs and events with low audiences and no government help = mass bankruptcy. Look at the psychology of the population last year - before lockdown we had mass panic buying and within the first few weeks of lockdown shops had been cleared out of basic foodstuffs and many places had to bring in temporary rationing. If you're expecting the populace to merrily soldier along as their friends/kids get hit with corona then you haven't been paying attention.
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  4688. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/super-fit-plymouth-bodybuilder-stuart-4893361
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  4689.  @rsvbiker4149  So you accept that bodybuilders and athletes can get a bad case of covid? We've also seen a dead Broadway star (def not fat or on steroids), kids, babies, pregnant women and so on. Clearly this thing is a bit nasty.
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  4690.  @MASTERSTUDIOS889  But that's assuming you wear one. And use it properly. And don't whine like a toddler about it infringing your civil liberties. If a facemask is used properly that too will be fairly effective (although there are much better masks about for medical people etc.)
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  4691.  @MASTERSTUDIOS889  Dear me, everyone just had to be a smart arse, don't they? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776536 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8
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  4692.  @chrisjie2127  Apprenticeships cost money and companies don't want to pay out - this is why they have a few places where in the past there were thousands. Second, the social life is just as achievable for a young person with a minimum wage job - no need for university to go out, get drunk or fly to Spain. I agree we need to invest but what we're seeing at the moment is companies passing on their training costs to the state and students. They've effectively externalised those costs then complain they can't get the staff.
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  4693. What, you think immolated cats are good news?
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  4694. This is Tory drivel designed to hide their funding cuts. If a 'lefty agenda' was stopping working class kids from getting on, it would equally be hitting middle-class kids. Now go check how well middle-class boys do compared to working-class boys - even if the middle-class kids are in an ethnically diverse school. Now go and look at how the British press talk about the working class - uneducated, chavs, scroungers etc. Do you see? Its not the 'lefties' holding your kids back - is the Oxbridge-educated establishment playing divide and rule (again).
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  4695. So many blokes scared of needles these days. Is weird.
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  4696.  @Robertsmith001  Bot armies use random names and pictures. As many of them are foreign they don't quite understand the culture to whom they're posting.
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  4697. Many other diseases kill people because they have other issues but I bet you don't run round saying ' I don't believe all these people are dying of cancer. How many of them are old? Or fat? Or maybe they fell out of a window and the government are saying its cancer'... The levels of stupidity in this country stun me.
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  4698. Very important point. The Nimbyism is extremely common as fewer houses means prices stay high.
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  4699. None. Grow up.
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  4700.  @davidwebb4904  a) Most of the yellow card/Vaers data is unprocessed and contains stuff which clearly isn't related to vaccines. b) Even if that were true that means with 50% of the country vaccinated we've had about 1% of the deaths of covid which has only infected 20% of the country. c) You're the one listening to a failed comedian on the tv and some random talking heads. I'm off reading scientific papers & listening to doctors for my information.
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  4701.  @davidwebb4904  Most people have minor immune reactions to the vaccine. I was tired for a day and felt like I had a cold. That's to be expected. The yellow card scheme is full of unprocessed data. I have an anti-vax friend who sent me one of their documents so I had a look and it made no sense. It had categories for 'premature menarche' and 'teething' (Kids didn't have the vaccine, especially toddlers), sections on genetic diseases which are diagnosed at birth and definitely not something you'd suddenly get aged 30 and a baffling part about people with 'one homosexual parent'. Pretty sure the card documents are general medical info all thrown in the one doc which is then processed properly later. Unless you believe the vaccine gives you broken arms, Aids and makes you addicted to heroin?
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  4702.  @davidwebb4904  You didn't read that story properly did you? It was in Eastern Europe and the man fell off the ladder because he was anoxic. Not enough oxygen so fell, got taken to hospital and covid had destroyed his lungs. UK Column is a very dubious source. Bryan Gerrish seems to be chums with a lot of very shady types and no one is too sure who is funding him. All we know is he's ex-Navy but apparently has no real past to check...
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  4703. Is a bit of a right-wing thing that they like mocking women and calling left-wing men 'weak' yet every one of them has some sort of issue that would make them a laughing stock in the extreme right circles they suck up to. Think of Paul Joseph Watson rambling about soy boys - but he looks exactly like a 'soy boy'. Or Joe Rogan being a tough guy then admitting he's been on HRT since he was 39. Or Alex Jones selling fitness supplements while being obese. Or Matt Gaetz and his... perversions. Or Lindsay Graham and his... alleged perversions. The list goes on. The left may have their idiots, but they don't do the cartoon machismo thing which is very much a harbinger of upcoming fascism.
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  4704. @Amanda Hughes Yes mate UN conspiracies are a mainstay of the far-right, particularly the American far-right like the Birchers. In reality the Un has very little power as we can see by its lack of success in stopping any wars.
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  4705. @Amanda Hughes You're talking to someone who was studying this stuff decades ago. I'm perfectly familiar with all this drivel and how its being pushed by the far-right. See: Timothy McVeigh for a 1990s example.
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  4706. @Amanda Hughes You're either a bot or a weirdo. I use the term far-right because the far-right have been the ones pushing UN conspiracies since the 1950s. They've also mounted terrorist attacks for their ideology. So am perfectly 100% correct in this.
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  4707. @Amanda Hughes You really are a brainlet. You're telling me the white neo-nazis in America are Islamic? Or the Russian neo-nazis? Yes, the Taliban can easily be classified as far-right types, but there's many that agree with the basics of what they're doing in the US. And then you quote Donald Trump? Do you think you're owning the libs by quoting America's worst president or something?
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  4708.  @monstrositylabs  Either way, Britain would be a tad lost without US military support. The Chinese have decent nuclear submarines and are building more. They could sit in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and incinerate most of England in an hour. P.S. I love how Conservatives always jump to defend Russia or pretend its not really a threat. Very telling!
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  4709.  @monstrositylabs  Umm, so why does Russia want the EU to break up and to foster internal divisions in the US (Dugin)? Why are they funding so much information warfare?
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  4710. You do realise that if you dolts get Boris to kill even more people that the 90% of the population who've had their shots and done their best will be very, very angry? Good luck...
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  4711. Am sure the SAS are terrified of the gammon army, mate.
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  4712. Agreed.
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  4713.  Bres of the Tuatha De Danann  I bet your real name is Botty McBotface.
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  4714. This is completely true and something even people like Warren Buffet agree on.
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  4715. We have hundreds of kids in hospital with covid. We're going to mass-infect the rest in September. Any parent who agrees with that needs to think very carefully about how moronic they are.
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  4716.  @Mialogan2009  You're forgetting the 4800 in hospital (more now) and the 690 with inflammatory syndrome and all those with long covid. Plus it was 25 kids who died out of 500,000 which is low but not as low as people pretend. But so long as your kids are okay, who cares about others?...
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  4717. If it helps, today we've seen 223 deaths from covid and another 43000 cases, which makes us about the worst on the planet. Deaths are likely to stay high for weeks. Those were people with lives and families. Gone. Yet no one cares.
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  4718. @Sam Black Have you seen me stan for Starmer? No. Labour has a better record on freedom than the Tories. Aside from their idiot ID card policy (which the Tories are doing now in spades) they were pretty decent over rights. Which the Tory press whined about constantly. Since getting in the Tories have removed rights from the poor, the sick, reduced legal aid and generally made life a lot harder for the average person. I don't recall my local Tesco being full of food bank collection points when Blair and Brown were in. Labour definitely not decent over warmongering but again almost the entire Tory party supported the wars, so...
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  4719.  @philhill3359  Pagel is a mathematician who works in healthcare so has some direct experience. Reicher is a psychologist, yes fair enough. But psychology is also relevant to covid as we have to model how masses of people behave during a threat (see: Toilet paper shortage). Economist bloke is very selectively quoting evidence and missing out all the economic problems mass rona infection will cause.
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  4720.  @elkpaz560  Yeadon wrote a large article in the Mail last year. I read it and was stunned at how he'd got everything wrong (No second wave, it only kills 1in 500 infected and so on). Since then he's got worse. Even his former scientific colleagues think he's gone bonkers.
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  4721.  @elkpaz560  There was a second wave because covid rates shot up and people dying also shot up. Those people would still be alive without covid. Most of the co-morbidities are things people can live with treated for years. All you're doing is trying to play this down to make Boris and his chums look good. Stop it.
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  4722.  @elkpaz560  Is pretty obvious Boris is controlled by big money. The problem is when everyone neatly creates a conspiracy with one big baddie rather than looking at the entire rotten system.
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  4723. Did the polytheists chuck 80 billion ton of pollution in the air every year and fill the oceans with plastic garbage and oil leaks?
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  4724.  @Marvin-dg8vj  I am learning from history - and that's why I'm a bit worried about right-wingers obsessed with conspiracies wanting to have a culture war.
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  4725.  @stuartanderson852  Comedy often changes with the times. Plenty of material in the old days wouldn't work now just as our modern culture would look weird to someone 50 years ago. Its not some grand plot - is more to do with marketing your stuff to a wide audience.
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  4726.  @Marvin-dg8vj  The Tory who whined he wasn't going to watch the football because of the anti-racism gesture. There's one. Or the Tories who spent much of the 1980s whining about Eastenders. Or, y'know Mary Whitehouse. Long history of right-wing cancel culture from the Tories - even Paul McCartney managed to get one of his songs banned.
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  4727.  @stuartanderson852  Or perhaps is more due to rubbish writing and assembly line creativity? No one has cared about the Oscars in years thanks to youtube and 24 hour news making it less of an event. Dr Who is a funny example - when it was a Northern bloke using his Northern accent with a council estate sidekick and her black boyfriend everybody loved it. Now is a Northern Actress using her Northern accent with similar multi-racial chums everyone is complaining its too 'woke'.
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  4728. Well they suffered a lot more with the Rona, so perhaps we should work out a solution that doesn't kill them?
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  4729. Antivaxxers, mate. And sick kids due to us infecting them en-masse.
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  4730.  @hattmancock6396  No mate, the psychopaths are the people who want to mass-infect kids and hope that magically they'll suffer no consequences. If you lot gave a single toss about kids you'd be campaigning for masks and ventillation and other procedures to limit infection. Absolute nutbags, but I daresay the telly will be full of sad-face middle-class types in a few years with their long covid-suffering youngsters on documentaries etc.
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  4731.  @hattmancock6396  Again, you're not answering how many kids you think is okay to sacrifice on the alter of anti-vaxxism. I wouldn't even have that much of a problem with not vaccinating kids if we put other procedures in place to protect them, but the anti-vaxxers and also anti-maskers, whine about distancing, don't believe in ventillation... Their agenda is clear, cull the 'weak'. Sorry if that offends, but that's what you're arguing for.
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  4732.  @hattmancock6396  You say that, but you're basing it off no evidence. We know kids get long covid, we know they get inflammatory disorder, we know there will be other problems in some. Vaccines are not 100% perfect or 100% safe (nothing is) but they're all we have as it seems like the gov and their friends don't want other non pharmaceutical interventions like proper ventilation.
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  4733.  @hattmancock6396  I've read about that. Here's the thing - if there's a risk of heart problems in young people then reformulate the vaccine with a lower dose. That should solve the issue.
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  4734. 42000 cases in one day. Things are going to get bad.
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  4735. Yep. Considerably.
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  4736. Shall we make a list of some of the 130,000 people who have died of Covid in the UK? Or do they not count?
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  4737. @Neria Wolf You're doing the usual 'of/with' nonsense to try and confuse the issue. Is like saying noone dies of AIDS, they all die with other health issues, despite said AIDS causing the health issues in the first place. But if it helps, it was in the recent report 25 out of 500,000 who died of it. They excluded another 30+ who were positive but died entirely of something else.
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  4738. I dunno people working with the public who don't want to get exposed to the rona and don't want to give it to their customers?
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  4739.  @meatfeast335  Did you spend ages thinking that one up? Yes, very witty. I was totally triggered.
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  4740. What, you want to kill poor people fleeing from tyranny? That's SS-level psychopathy.
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  4741.  @mx3fto  No, tyranny in the countries they escape from. You know, the Taliban, mass-rapes, people getting shot, families getting bombed sort of thing.
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  4742.  @mx3fto  If only we were in the EU we could have made France control their borders better...
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  4743.  @mx3fto  Well there's plenty of space and houses but a Tory government that wants high property prices, so they're unaffordable. We could help British-born people and get almost every single one out of poverty if we could be bothered. But we're not. No sense in blaming the foreigners for that when its our own mainly white overclasses doing. Remember how we ended homelessness in a week last year during lockdown? The rich were a bit scared of homeless people spreading covid, so they sorted them out with places to stay. Soon as the threat subsided it was back on the streets for them...
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  4744. You're close to attempting a joke there. But not close enough.
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  4745.  John Smith  The Tories are in power and their nastiness is astonishing compared to even previous governments. Letting the bodies pile high and no punishment at all from anywhere.
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  4746. 1930s Germany, mate. We don't want to go down that road.
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  4747. Does Tom bother to do research and look at what happened at this point last year? Spoilers: Cases dropped even faster than today. Until December when they blew up again. Now sure, we have the vaccines this time which keeps deaths down but covid is still not something to be written off.
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  4748. I might have a tiny bit of respect for the antivaxxers and think they genuinely care about kids if they weren't the very same people who don't want masks, don't want to spend money on ventilation, don't want sick kids to isolate and also didn't hypocritically get their shots and pretend they didn't (which is most celeb anti-vaxxers). The only conclusion I come to is they want to kill off people for some weird, dark reason.
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  4749.  @dominus519  Tell me where I'm wrong. The antivaxxers and the covidiots have argued against every single public health measure. Every one. Even down to setting up astroturfed 'parent groups' to lobby the government (UsForThem etc.) History won't forget.
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  4750.  @walterbishop1697  Why would Bill Gates want to kill off his customers? Have you thought this through? It makes no sense even as a conspiracy - kill off the 'sheep' leaving only the pissed-off rebels left, so Bill would have no customers and get strung up in a week. There's a lot more eugenics ideas in the pro-covid anti vax movement at the moment.
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  4751. I recall lots of concept art featuring giant dirigibles on Mars years ago, so guessing Nasa realised normal balloons would be a bit useless in the thin atmosphere.
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  4752. Our great team nearly win. Get it right. However the attendance thing was idiotic and will probably kill hundreds.
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  4753. Yes, the same is true for other vaccines and has been for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_Vaccination_or_Prophylaxis
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  4754.  @glamladwales7056  Doesn't matter. Rona spreads pretty fast and can infect lots of people quickly. Add in long covid and the number in hospital and its something you really don't want to spread.
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  4755.  @shaun5344  I'm sorry that you think actual science is propaganda but sit round believing actual propaganda instead. We're supposed to learn from history, but apparently not.
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  4756. He is. He's grifting idiots out of money by feeding them nonsense.
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  4757. Well there appears to be lots of very bright young people about, so they're clearly somewhat educated.
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  4758.  @bridiesmith460  Is it the kid's fault that the government put up the price of education to make it unaffordable?
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  4759.  @bridiesmith460  Actually it was ongoing before Blair. Mrs T introduced student loans with the intention of them eventually replacing the grant system. Pre 80s students got grants and often signed on in the summer. Those same students are now in their 50s and voting for education cuts and more loans for their own kids. Baffling.
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  4760. Ah, so Boris is a secret lefty, alongside Lewis Hamilton and Prince Harry. Gottit.
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  4761. Fred West Jnr attacking the NHS again, like he does every week. I wonder who's paying for this?
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  4762.  @pip1723  They're trying to figure out who to blame. By tonight Nige will be blaming Dutch lorry drivers who hate Britain.
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  4763. The freedom to spread disease and kill your own people?
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  4764.  @ollieo6109  Antivaxxers get sick and spread covid. It ends up killing British people, some of whom are antivaxers, some with health issues. Look at the US - several thousand dead a day and a good 90% of them are conservative anti-vaxxers.
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  4765. No he isn't. Who pays his bills? He seems to write a couple of rubbish articles for the fake news and do TV interviews on Fox but somehow has enough money to do what he wants. Who is paying for this? He's not working for the NYT or the Times or the CHicago Tribune, he's a hack with no back-story who's suddenly all over the place. Grifters will grift.
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  4766.  @mrmagoo-i2l  That's weird. Is supporting grifters a thing now?
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  4767. Hollywood gave us John Wayne as Ghenghis Khan 60 years ago.
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  4768. I think they mean for rich people who hold lots of shares. They don't give a toss if some peasants get sick from garbage food.
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  4769. I bet you can't tell me what the word 'woke' means without being racist...
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  4770.  @thebatman4279  Last time that happened Geri Halliwell was wearing it and showing her knickers.
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  4771. A bunch of right-wingers whine about how everyone is cancelling them while they cancel their own presenter and run segments screaming for Prince Harry and Transgender athletes to be cancelled?
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  4772. @Dea Harri So you want Prince Harry cancelled?
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  4773.  @Wrath-r6j  Kneeling is not breaking any regulations. If you think it is then am pretty sure spewing medical misinformation during a pandemic is worse, so why not sack Oliver and the like?
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  4774.  @adrianmeyer2157  Here we go - why did the media suddenly all start using the word woke just as Boris got elected? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=GB&q=woke
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  4775.  @adrianmeyer2157  It was a minor term that hardly anyone used in day to day language, then suddenly its promoted in the media incessantly. Especially odd as examples of 'woke' culture go back decades and were much loved at the time. Go watch a film like Truly, Madly, Deeply. It's super-'woke' but was adored by most of the critical press including characters now selling themselves as 'anti-woke' (Tony Parsons, Allison Pearson etc.)
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  4776.  @adrianmeyer2157  Fair dos, but trust me dude, the culture war stuff is being manipulated from the top by HM Gov.
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  4777.  @neilhedley6080  Neil was on Twitter last night having a go at the anti-vaxxers who invaded the wrong BBC building. He got shredded by people pointing out that his channel keeps supporting and encouraging said anti-vaxxers.
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  4778. If your reason was legitimate you'd say why in 99% of cases.* After all, if someone huffing from COPD is struggling in their supermarket and a member of staff asks them if they're okay they'll likely say they have COPD and need a sit down and not scream 'NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS'. *there may well be some traumatised crime victims who have mask flashbacks but not many.
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  4779. @Anti Woke You're not getting very far with this being a dolt thing you know.
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  4780. Because mate, its crap aimed at teenagers who want to gawk at some fanciable lads and lasses. Is basically the same nonsense as Blind Date in the 80s.
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  4781.  @janekennaway8008  Is that like the Democratic Republic of North Korea then?
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  4782.  @waynemcleod6767  Hitler was not the left. He hated Marxists and threw them in concentration camps. He privatised chunks of German industry. He was much admired by the Capitalist elites who thought he'd be a good foil for Stalin. The 'Hitler is a leftist' meme comes from idiots like Pat Buchanan.
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  4783. Also death, long covid, erectile dysfunction, breathing problems, headaches...killed 120,000+ Brits*. Yeah, no biggie. *Vaccines are cool but recall the deaths were also very low last summer.
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  4784. Well seeing as its been in the Daily Mirror, the Mail and various London papers already then methinks the story is being reported.
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  4785.  David Ward  Yes, Florida is currently having massive problems as they get hit with a new covid wave. Florida has close to 50,000 beds, but at present over 10000 of them are filled with covid patients. No NHS is America but they're having the same problems - as are other countries worldwide.
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  4786.  David Ward  Yes they are, and is hitting kids as well but the governor is trying to cover-up his stupidity by not allowing any restrictions to lower cases. Terrible for the Florida people.
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  4787. Which makes sense. If there's an outbreak the venue has done all it can to legally protect itself. If there was an outbreak with no mitigations then they'd be getting sued into the bankruptcy court.
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  4788. For now. Same situation as last summer. Then it comes back without proper controls. Did you forget last summer?
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  4789. We should go the Moon. HS2 will cost about the same as a Moon mission, so do that for a laugh instead. Send Boris as well. Let the Clangers deal with him.
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  4790. Plus a good joke book. Comedians are supposed to be funny. And before anyone says 'Oh but he's a sophisticated political satirist, his witty anti-PC takes are going over your head, they're not supposed to be haha funny'.... I'd like to answer with two names... Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci. Bother genius satirists. Morris made an entire film about suicide bombers and it was hilarious & incredibly dark. Iannucci gave us the Thick of It and the Death of Stalin. Amazing work.
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  4791. GB News is worse. By orders of magnitude. At least BBC has Dr Who with that nice Jodie AND John Bishop is in it! Everyone loves a scouser!
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  4792. So giving them a deadly virus is preferable?
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  4793. Who's paying for them? Who's paying for the transport? Why is nobody even asking this question???
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  4794.  @justwrongright4977  If they're broke they can't afford regular trips to London, mate. So either they're not broke or someone is helping them out. Or do you really think skint unemployed workers on Universal Credit can drop a spare £500 every month to go to London? Dark money is funding this stuff. The truth will come out.
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  4795.  @justwrongright4977  Many are from all over the country, seen the videos of them & lots of odd shady political groups there, too (Qanon types). Plus the sheer size of the protests is suss - spreading rona is not exactly a popular cause and people know that restrictions won't stop while this thing is raging.
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  4796.  @justwrongright4977  I've just watched the vid with the protestors in front of Downing Street. At the front someone is waving a 'Trump 2024' flag. Sounds legit. Hmmm.
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  4797.  @justwrongright4977  Why do you think only leftists are paid to protest? There was a trump flag there, Qanon types there, that is very, very creepy. Who is funding all the z-grade celebs who suddenly emerged on social media as covid deniers and all spew out the same bullet points with zero understanding of what they're saying. You don't think some 'influencer' money might have made its way to them? If they were really interested in the subject they might do a bit of proper book research or talk to actual scientists instead of puking out the canned talking points.
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  4798. I might have a tiny amount of respect for Tory voters angry about vaccine passports if they were also angry about the new voter ID laws. But they only affect the poors, so the Tories don't give two hoots. They do care about vaccine passports because such things would expose how many anti-vax Tories have been vaccinated but pretended otherwise to keep the grift going.
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  4799.  The Salvation  Are you talking about Britain where the incidences of voter fraud are close to zero?
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  4800.  @winstonsmith9424  Nope. Lots of anti-vaxxers have had their shots but pretend otherwise. Go read about Fox News's vaccine policies. Or for that matter the vaccine policies of GB News.
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  4801.  The Salvation  Please explain that mental leap? You want to suppress votes to stop the Scottish voting in their chosen party?
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  4802. Wind power has been a thing in Britain for centuries. It looks pretty cool and if something better comes along those turbines can be recycled into something else.
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  4803. In today's show Fred West Jnr is wrong yet again and hopes that we'll not only get rid of the NHS but have a big war with China to teach them a lesson for the virus that Boris allowed to wreak havoc on the country because Boris was told we could have natural herd immunity and ended up killing a medium-sized town's worth of Brits.
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  4804. Will that be the members of the public who are currently being flooded?
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  4805. So they end up with Delta covid and spend the rest of their lives hating their parents for letting them get infected.
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  4806. Not endemic in New Zealand. Funny what you can do with a decent government.
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  4807. Why is Clinton Baptiste talking about politics? This is a side to him we've not seen before.
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  4808.  @stuartanderson852  Do you remember what happened last year before lockdown when the gov were dithering and Corona was taking off. Do you remember how people panic bought up entire shops worth of pasta/flour/toilet paper and how the shops had to bring in restrictions and temporary rationing? Now, lets say we end all restrictions and there's another blow up. Do you think people's behaviour will be any better? Do you think they're all going to be cheerily going to the nightclub and helping each other out - or will we be like last year with everything falling apart?
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  4809.  @NoneNone-kp1qc  Restrictions are a pain in the neck and cause economic dislocation, but the alternatives aren't really any better and in many cases worse.
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  4810.  @elkpaz560  Again, all covid treatments are experimental because its only been around 18 months. Try harder.
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  4811.  @ashsqx3246  120+ thousand dead. It isn't the flu, and no they didn't count everyone as a covid death who was positive. For example did you read the report on kids with covid the other week? The 1 in 500000 report the media pushed? Well it turns out was actually a death rate of 25 in 500,000 BUT an extra 30 odd kids were positive but listed as dying of something else so weren't counted. If you're going to put misinformation online don't be surprised when you get criticised for it.
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  4812.  @S-North  Really, so people killing each other over whether they believe in the God of the Catholics or the God of the protestants (which are the same, anyway) seems like cultural backwardness to me.
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  4813. @Anglo Saxon They got £60 million in funding. Where did that go? It clearly wasn't spent on proper cameras or audio equipment.
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  4814. Probably for as long as you are naturally immune to the flu - maybe a year if you're lucky.
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  4815. @Arthur Daley 20 million from Discovery network in the US, millions from several Tory hedge fund types and the rest coming from a 'private investment firm' in Dubai.
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  4816. He's also a covidiot.
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  4817. Tarquin and Imelda hope that Boris will allow enough poor to die so they can take their kids abroad for a nice hol & fingers crossed its burnt out by the time they get back.
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  4818. Oh please. If the Libs or Labour had killed 130000 Brits by screwing up their covid policies and then told everyone to get on with it, I guarantee Tory voters would be out on the streets screaming for a coup. But when the Tories do a bit of Eugenics and mass killing.... crickets.
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  4819.  @saxglend9439  We'd have certainly seen far lower deaths and none of this idiocy with 37 billion for track and trace.
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  4820. Deaths - probably not, am guessing you're misinterpreting VAERS data. Adverse effects - 'oh I feel a bit tired today' make up most of them. Meanwhile covid... FOUR MILLION+ DEAD.
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  4821.  @rcasper1809  You mean Hilary's emails hacked by the Russians after Trump asked them to? Oh dear me.
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  4822.  @TremaLord  Is that why GB news relies on it to boost their viewing figures? Anne Widdecombe is currently trending - and am pretty sure its not 'lefties' doing that.
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  4823. To be fair they're doing better than us. At least Merkel and Macron aren't happily mass-infecting their nations children with glee, unlike the wobbling wig running this country.
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  4824. The woke mob are an invention of the right-wing press, who have clearly read Umberto Eco's article on Ur Fascism and decided to put it into practice, i.e. the enemy is both strong ("WOKE MOB") and weak ("LIMP WRISTED KEYBOARD ACTIVISTS") Winding up people to be scared of an invisible enemy. Very 1984. Before anyone grinches, yes there are a few weirdos on the left and a few over-zealous types, but no one is too stressed about them and they're certainly not part of a giant conspiracy.
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  4825. So now the Boomers have had their shots we should just let it run rampant among younger people and if a few die then no biggie?
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  4826.  @andrewoliver8930  I know, the level of idiocy am reading from these people stuns me. And I say this as a working-class person. Terrifying.
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  4827.  @roccoparks  No, because they read drivel in the tabloids and repeat it as truth and don't seem to realise they're being played. Like working-class Trump supporters in the US.
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  4828.  @mariogmajner6549  You are correct, sir and do apologise for over-generalising. Yes, the Tory/Labour ratio flips once you go over 50 and by the time retirement approaches Conservatives have a large majority. This is a phenomena seen in many places in the world and much of it is relating to the sort of media those groups are consuming. Of course in the UK there's also the triple-lock pension bonus that affects things.
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  4829.  @ruffness1  Get traced via smart phone wifi/bluetooth/gps/email or by security cameras. There's an easy way to do this... and a hard way.
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  4830. Yes, it would have looked like one of those post-apocalyptic films.
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  4831. He's an absolute dolt who has obliterated his career with this nonsense. Quite what possesses a history bloke to decide he's an alternate medical expert and try to scare parents into not getting their kids vaccinated I do not know.
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  4832.  @ddanson5831  Yes but I'm not on the telly pretending to be a medical expert, am I?
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  4833. No because horse de-wormer doesn't work and neither does the quinine drug.
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  4834.  @LesBurgess1867  They use dexamethasone which is also cheap. Why? Because it works. The other two are meme drugs pushed by Trumpists.
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  4835.  @davidwhitworth5724  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-supporting-ivermectin-as-covid-treatment-withdrawn-over-ethical-concerns
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  4836.  @davidwhitworth5724  This might help... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w
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  4837.  @davidwhitworth5724  Yep, am familiar with Martenson, watched the full crash course videos years ago. The odd thing is how many libertarian types (especially low-carb promoters) pivoted to being covid sceptics overnight. Not actual scepticism, but in pushing stuff that doesn't really make any sense. Is almost as if they're some sort of paid opposition, like we see in Russia where Putin funds left and right-wing groups and lets them go at each other (then he gets left alone).
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  4838.  @davidwhitworth5724  He's a clever guy, but am very suspicious at a lot of it. Thing is if the alternative treatments worked then all those conservative doctors in America currently losing a fortune* would be on those treatments like a shot, cure covid and be getting awards thrown at them. As they're not, well.... *while there's small amounts of compensation from medicare etc., a lot of docs make bank through doing routine operations. If you can't do as many knee/hip ops due to covid then you lose enormous quantities of income.
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  4839.  @davidwhitworth5724  There were lots of doctors claiming to use hydroxy and ivermectin. A lot of drugs were tried, but usually held off until they demonstrated some efficacy - like dexamethasone. At the start no one knew anything - even things like proning were controversial until they appeared to help & were widely adopted soon after. Ta for vid link. Will have a nose.
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  4840. There's a good half dozen bell end comments on this article. Is this the new insult du jour? Because I'll have to prepare myself for the torrent of todger-related digital hate texts.
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  4841. Wait till you find out about metabolic dysfunction disorders linked to covid.
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  4842. https://www.diabetes.org.uk/research/take-part-in-research/covidiab
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  4843. Does wearing pants do that? Is illegal to walk round with no pants on? Can you tell me why?
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  4844.  @e3498-v7l  But they're still wearing clothes covering their bits up. Because if they don't they'll be arrested for public indecency.
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  4845.  @e3498-v7l  Well if the government asks you to wear something to protect the population and you lot kick off but when the government tells people they need to wear clothes or be locked up then somehow that's totally okay. I fully support making people wear clothes, btw, but odd how anti-maskers never raise this issue. Nor do they complain about businesses making staff wear uniforms. Or schools forcing uniform codes. But masks trigger them. I used to work in a server room. I'd much rather wear a mask then a suit and tie in those conditions (and yes, I had to wear a suit and tie).
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  4846. Yep, China also spending a ton of cash on fusion research. Ultimately the Chinese know that without better energy sources their country will collapse rapidly within twenty years, so its a matter of survival for them. Of course we'll collapse soon after, but we sort of sit around and hope accountants know more than scientists.
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  4847.  @dartskipper3170  Is actually a fair point that the battery tech sucks and needs improving a lot. That can be done. However diesel also spews out a lot of carcinogenic particles so isn't much of a solution, either.
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  4848. Jimmy Saville wasn't a leftist. Nor were most of those Catholic Priests and Boy Scout leaders.
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  4849.  @SH-fz9dy Pretty sure the Catholic church from the 50s-2000 wasn't woke.
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  4850. Every health authority on the planet agrees with this stuff. The only ones who don't are right-wing contrarian weirdos who fancy killing off some of the 'weak' for fun and profit.
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  4851.  @iainwisdom568  Yes partly on dropping restrictions but the basics are agreed by pretty much everyone. But yes, there are differences in various countries.
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  4852. In the UK we had one case on the 23rd Jan last year - a Chinese student. Then all of a sudden there were thousands. Exponential growth.
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  4853. Fighter pilots have to wear inflatable suits AND masks. When are they going to be free from mask tyranny?
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  4854. Note how its the best option for the children of the wealthy. But when it comes to the working class they're suddenly on the fence. If one MP decides their kid isn't going to Oxbridge and is taking a job in Asda instead then I might have a tiny bit of respect for their point of view. As it stands they're simply hypocrites who want to stop their offspring being outshined by us peasants.
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  4855. I saw antilockdown protesters fighting with the police, waving Trump flags and of course there was that time when they wanted to hang nurses. This stuff is all over the Internet. The protest hippies may be a bit annoying, but they're not actively trying to commit mass murder bought and paid for by dark money billionaires.
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  4856.  @jimmyp7928  Not dark money billionaire right wingers, they pay for all the 'climate skeptic' drivel in the press. Tho to be fair this current motorway protest lot look a bit shady and are probably useful idiots so Patel can ban protesting.
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  4857. Are you a doctor, L Jo or do you get your medical information from Facebook?
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  4858. The same NHS that did a sterling job during the pandemic, and are still doing it today. Is not their fault politicians are scumbags who underfund it.
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  4859.  @margaretfoley1247  You're still quoting the flu numbers to try and make covid look like the flu. Even Donald Trump admitted (to Bob Woodward, is on tape) the death rate is 5x worse than that. Do you lot get paid to spam this drivel?
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  4860.  @retrowrath9374  In event of exponential growth it is best to stamp on it with low cases and not wait until the healthcare system is overwhelmed.
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  4861. Please define woke. I'm waiting.
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  4862. There's a guy called Jacques Attali - he's a philosopher-type person who was very connected in European political circles. In the early 90s he wrote a short book called Millennium. At the time it was ripped apart for all its predictions being wrong. Now when you look at it - pretty much everything in it has happened. He has a whole section talking about how we'll basically privatise ordinary human interaction and discrimination will be based around aesthetics (being fat etc.) and poverty. This will be mediated through electronic devices we all carry round with us. Bear in mind was written in the early 90s when a smartphone was Star Trek-level bonkers. He got a few things wrong - such as thinking Japan will be the Asian superpower in the 21st Century, but other stuff was just spookily bang-on. People with hand-held devices monitoring their medical signs, economic problems in the US caused by military/medical/education debt and a lack of infrastructure building etc. Well worth a read.
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  4863. Does the hospitals filling with kids suffering from covid-induced multi-system inflammatory disorder worry you at all? Or the kids who will have long covid? Or the kids who will spread covid to vulnerable relatives and kill some of them?
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  4864.  @thomasmain5986  Mate there have been over 5000 UK kids hospitalised with covid and hundreds with inflammatory syndrome. The syndrome is now so common Great Ormond Street have a page devoted to explaining it to young people needing treatment. That's not something I made up. Its in the government data and on the hospital's website.
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  4865.  @thomasmain5986  Thousands of kids hospitalised. They don't die as often as adults, but it still causes problems & long-term health issues. The antivaxxers know this and increasingly appear to be a part of a death cult. Remember dude the same people arguing against the vax for kids argued against the vax for adults, and the vax for care workers and against masks and against distancing and against lockdowns and against ventilation. They want this thing to spread. They're pro-Covid. Is very sinister and I'm certainly not the only person who's spotted it.
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  4866. Then keep them at home. Or have them vaccinated. Or make them wear masks.
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  4867.  @mixedracebajan6119  Its a vaccine, not a drug. A mask will stop them spreading the Rona. We had this same shit years ago with parents reading tabloid nonsense and thinking vaccines would make their kids autistic. We ended up with less vaccinated kids and more sicker kids. And more autism. Now Wakefield is living in America pushing the same nonsense about the covid vaccines AND STILL people believe him. Is baffling.
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  4868. @Dale Benton I know, but people are see issues in a simple way thanks to tabloid hacks. Give you an example - we've been talking about small shops struggling for years. Which group are a large chunk of the custom of small shops? The poor and those on low incomes. The wealthy can drive out of town or whatever the poor shop local. Now, if you cut benefits to 'stop the scroungers' you also reduce the amounts the poor spend in those shops, and those shops increasingly shut down thus causing an economic hit to former middle-class business people. Small stores can't market their way out of trouble or move to a more lucrative spot, so they disappear. Go look at your high street these days - charity and betting shops. Where's everyone else gone?.... (Yes, I know online is a large contributor, but remember people shop online because its cheap. And pushing wages down or cutting benefits will mean even more looking for the cheap deal killing more shops)
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  4869. 'flatten the curve' means reducing the rate of increase, which is what happened.
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  4870.  @mj9494  Why, because I'm pointing out your idiocy?
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  4871.  @summan41man  Rob's trying to get across scientific points to commenters on here who are clearly dimmer than a 5w bulb covered with a bin bag.
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  4872.  @happyapple4269  And covid.
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  4873.  @mb6010  Again, for the hard of thinking on here, the vaccine reduces the spread. It doesn't stop it entirely but is one weapon against a horrible pandemic.
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  4874.  @mb6010  I'm ignorant because I don't believe Facebook memes and instead read actual medical reports? Jeez, the stupid on here burns.
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  4875.  @williammiller567  Jan 2020 were the first cases. We should have locked down earlier, but didn't. Matter of record.
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  4876.  @mb6010  We're in dire straits because the government screwed up their covid approach and a) We lost loads of people b) Loads of people are ill with long covid and c) the lockdowns went on longer than they needed to. Saying 'lockdowns don't work' is simply misrepresenting the facts in order to protect Boris and his crew of verminous aristocrats.
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  4877.  @mb6010  And yet no cold has killed 150,000 Brits in just over a year. Saying 'Oh well, it has a 97% survival rate' is one of the most idiotic things I've read on here. Most people survive car crashes. Should we all crash our cars for fun?
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  4878. Hey Dan, did you read the research the other day about how there's a coordinated effort to spew out anti Meghan/Harry propaganda across social media? Just asking because you seem to be the chief dispenser of said hate in the print media and was wondering if you've had any contact with your Internet counterparts?
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  4879.  Sean Mulcahy  The interesting thing is the massive effort online to spread the hate.. Someone is paying a fortune for it & is not like the average British person gives two hoots. I've never spoke to anyone who said to me 'You know what would make my life more meaningful? If the press did more stories hating on Meghan and Harry'... Look at the ratings on stories like this - no one cares. Except the establishment and the social media trolls who they're clearly paying for.
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  4880. Because it's a massive story.
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  4881.  @shanjanusman9974  But they're not actually wrong, are they? The climate is destabilising. Yes the world won't end in ten years, but the world we have now essentially will without some serious fixes. Britain has fell to bits after a short pandemic. What do you think is going to happen when crops start failing across the world and countries become unlivable? Do you think capitalism will function when insurance companies start collapsing due to massive payouts for flood damage (See: 2008 with insurance company collapses - and the government bail-outs that followed)?
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  4882. You tell me. The Tories seem obsessed with the idea of mass-infecting kids. The antivaxxers are obsessed with the same. Is almost as if there's a weird genocidal agenda from these people...
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  4883.  @roystonrubble7103  No, if you get the vax the chance of you dying from covid is massively reduced.
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  4884.  @roystonrubble7103  Is reduced. We have 30+ thousand cases of Rona a day and there's less than 100 people dying. Compare that to the pre-vax era when it was at least 5x that number dying and the hospitals were choked.
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  4885. Since 120+000 people died in a pandemic and hundreds of thousands more got long covid.
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  4886. You're clearly not neutral if you think the current Labour party are Marxists. They're also definitely not anti-working class in the same way as the Tories are. So what's actually happening is you're believing what the right wing press say without questioning any of it. Which is why the right-wing press love you.
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  4887. @Jo Sm Keep boot-licking the Tories mate. One reason for the race thing was that many Brexit voters did indeed vote to get rid of the immigrants. You see that on this channel with Nige and the comments on his articles. If you think Europeans in England is bad but English is Europe is good then clearly you have a bit of prejudice going on. However Abbott didn't realise that a lot of said prejudice was stoked up via social media manipulation and many Brexit voters were lied to. The same social media manipulation we saw in US elections, in Eastern Europe and in Africa (Fun fact: Alex from this channel used to work for a company who did work for cambridge analytica helping to rig an election in Africa.)
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  4888. @Jo Sm Jeez, let's go through this. The current front bench of the labour party are trying their hardest to distance themselves from left wing policies. John McDonnell is not the shadow chancellor, Starmer is not going to nationalise things or let workers own the means of production. They're effectively moderate liberals like the US democrats. Yes some labour people have a super left-wing background but these aren't the ones running the party. The reason I mention Marxism is that British conservatives have copied American conservatives by calling everything they hate Marxism even if those policies were accepted by the whole political spectrum in the past - for example the interstate highway in the US, or medicare or envrionmentalism. Hence we live in a bizarro world where the policies of Richard Nixon would now count as super-left-Marxist among todays conservatives (i.e. setting up the EPA, dealing with China). Or for that matter Mrs Thatcher signing up to get rid of CFCs would also be denounced as Marxist these days.
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  4889. @Jo Sm Not me boot-licking the Tories, is it mate?
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  4890.  @lawrencegrantham805  Mate if you think the Tories are socialists then you're overdoing the glue sniffing. Tories will always spend money when it helps them - and it was either pandemic spending or Boris being booted out, so they spent. But rest assured they'll punish the poor as always because they love doing that.
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  4891.  @byebyebadman2313  No, 'you lot' as in the weirdos on here who love blanket quoting stupid bullet points from right-wing disinformation artists yet can't be bothered to study their own history.
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  4892. Side 1: Scientists produce vast amounts of evidence saying the climate is destabilising and this will cause massive problems. Side 2: Think tanks funded by oil companies pay right-wing journalists to say its all a bit overblown. Remember kids, those same think tanks told you smoking was fine, asbestos was great, lead in petrol was nothing to worry about and that huffing coal smoke was a price worth paying for glorious free enterprise.
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  4893. The lets infect the kids strategy is not a wise one, mate.
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  4894.  @joycejnn  Because kids haven't been vaccinated. Go and look at the figures the other day - small death toll, but of half a million infections in kids, 690 has inflammatory syndrome and nearly 6000 were hospitalised. If we let a couple of million unvaccinated kids get infected over the next few months children's hospitals will have a nightmare dealing with it all. And that's before long covid.
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  4895.  @joycejnn  Oh dear. Let's see the reports quoted last week by the entire British media: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-689684/v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57766717 "Some 5,800 children were admitted with the virus, compared to about 367,600 admitted for other emergencies (excluding injuries) About 250 required intensive care There were 690 children admitted for a rare inflammatory condition linked to Covid, called paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS-TS)"
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  4896. Yikes, is this real?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65-HVWsl7Yw Just checking. Appears to be from 1995? OMG.
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  4897. They know because they do science. For example you send a big ship to the arctic and drill down ice cores. As it doesn't defrost the ice has been packing on the land for a vast amount of time. So you get the ice cores and then you chemically analyse them - the bottom ice is from long ago. This gives a pretty accurate picture of the climate going back thousands of years. Other techniques can take us further - such as examining fossilised plant material or looking at the chemical composition of rocks.
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  4898. The stupid, it hurts my brain. Memes instead of actual thoughts. Jeez.
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  4899.  @yesmate78  Ummm, try again failed at history bot... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775%E2%80%931782_North_American_smallpox_epidemic
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  4900. I'd argue the criminals are the brainlets who want to mass-infect the nation's kids so they can keep making money.
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  4901. Would they be the same fans who we saw on the telly drunk, doing coke and sneaking into the footy without buying tickets? Those guys?
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  4902. Smiler here hasn't noticed that the UK isn't going to survive. Especially today as the government effectively voted to legalise corruption.
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  4903. Help me out here, is Crowder actually a comedian or is he just identifying as one to troll the libs?
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  4904. It reminds me of the engineer jokes when the 3G licenses were announced. Nerds joked that in the future you will have a tiny phone that can stream off the Internet and play videos but you'd need to wear a backpack containing the batteries. Chip tech got better, screens more efficient, batteries better... and here we are. The same will happen with EVs, though personally I think they should throw everything at better battery tech and stop pissing around with self-driving gimmicks. If you could, say, create solid state batteries with 50% more capacity then that would give a better range for the expensive cars but it would also mean smaller cheaper cars could be made with smaller batteries which would still have decent range (as said smaller car is lugging around fewer kilos of batteries).
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  4905. In what way was he good? In killing more Americans than Vietnam? In sucking up to Putin? In being chums with the bone saw guy? In overseeing a rise of right-wing extremism and mass shootings? In being such a weirdo he appears to have no read a single book while in office?
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  4906. Protecting human life during a pandemic is a good idea. We have passports for travel, and licenses to drive a car, work as a bouncer, be a doctor or lawyer and vaccine requirements have been a thing for decades.
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  4907.  @blueknight3943  But the virus kills people and disables people. Like Polio, its not just the 1% who die, is those who have life-long illnesses that will cost a fortune to treat.
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  4908. Thanks to masks and social distancing and travel restrictions we had almost no flu last year. Amazing stuff and very cool.
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  4909.  @shanjanusman9974  Galloway is a bit shady, to be fair. And yes I know about the left and Europe in the 70s. If you recall being anti-Europe basically killed the Labour party and the Tories pushed ahead with all the EU stuff. It was only very recently when the Tories decided they hate it. As I've said a Brexit with proper investment might have worked. We won't do that. If you'd read my comments you'd also know I'm very pro-technology and want us to have new energy sources, manufacturing etc. I just don't think it'll happen when we're run by Tory landlords who are a shining examples of the evils of what Adam Smith described as 'The Rentier class'.
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  4910. Well I took mine to reduce the chance of me getting sick from the rona and to help protect people around me.
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  4911. Anyone who uses the word 'scamdemic' is definitely a modern version of the Holocaust deniers. Just repulsive.
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  4912. Pretty much. He's being an absolute idiot as usual.
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  4913. Yeah but to be fair the previous 2000 years of history weren't any better when you think about it.
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  4914. They'll love you when they see the 1998 quality video and lots of aged men complaining about how bad everything is.
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  4915. The comments below are all fine examples of racist paranoia and come from the minds of Brits who believe a one in a century pandemic isn't a big deal, but some immigrants crossing the channel is Armageddon.
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  4916.  @MALEXI10  Well my point stands. The people here are stressing more about immigrants than covid. Is very strange and shows an odd worldview.
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  4917. Nope. Apparently Flare Bum Boy did that and the papers offered him money for his story.
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  4918.  @testudohorsfieldii7052  Yep, and this shower are all whining about 'lefties' because they mentioned the young lady is of immigrant stock.
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  4919. Attack proper journalists while watching GB News. Sigh.
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  4920.  @beatermax1  GB News isn't proper news, tho, is it? Is political propaganda. Is like saying North Korean news is proper news and the BBC isn't.
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  4921. You're a foreigner. If you're American your system is much worse than ours.
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  4922.  @eteline_music Imagine making people be healthy for the common good! The right-wing really are offended by anything.
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  4923. Or maybe they want to protect as many people as possible. Look at that anti-vax fitness bloke the other day. 42, climbed mountains, didn't want the vaccine... dead of covid. A lot of 'healthy' people will find out the Rona doesn't mess around.
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  4924. Meanwhile Boris has cancelled 150,000 people and his chums are now cancelling clean water. But this boot-licking fascist brain-free suit sits here pretending none of that is happening.
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  4925. By woke do you mean 'read lots of history and realise it's a lot more complicated than tabloid hacks portray'?
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  4926.  @tomround8271  Yes, that was a great idea. Now the country is torn in two, the Jocks are going to be leaving, we're skint, we haven't even got any lorry drivers and you think we need more right-wing politics?
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  4927. We do that with German measles. Give the jab to kids partially to protect pregnant women. We also give HPV vaccinations to young girls years before most of them become sexually active. It protects them in the future and other adults.
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  4928.  @Ps-cz5fo  The vaccine has been through several large-scale trials. It was done quickly due to a) Money being no object (hence no messing around waiting months for grant proposals and bureaucratic approval) and b) Lots of people infected meaning it was easy to compare infected/non-infected during said trials. And yes there was a kick off about the HPV vaccine with antivaxxers the same arguments as they give now despite it being tremendously useful and should reduce massively cases of reproductive system cancer over time.
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  4929.  @Ps-cz5fo  So we just wait for a few years and watch the death toll mount up? Is that what you're saying?
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  4930.  RED SKULL  You sound like a charmer.
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  4931. Nige thinks grade inflation is bad... but Nige also thinks inflating the claims of Brexit are good. Can you explain this, Nige? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/10/emergency-brexit-powers-for-lorry-queues-to-be-made-permanent
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  4932. @I Feed On Bad-Faith Actors As I've told you before I never upvote myself and I do not have a sock account. Unlike you who keeps changing your user name on here every few days. Nor am I an antisemite. I find it funny you accuse me of such a thing but say not one word to posters like oswald moseley and the Evola fanboy.
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  4933. Yet here you are criticising it while watching a TV programme criticising it.
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  4934. I may have called some people brainlets, but am fine with them calling me a knob. That's the point of discussion, am okay with that.
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  4935.  @accountformelyknownasarsen3072  Not at all, but you're pushing the great replacement drivel which came from right-wing US sites and spread via the chans. So am just calling it out.
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  4936. Thing that gets me is these characters sit round whining that we can't do something and how expensive it'll be. They completely forget we can and do develop new technology and is easy to accelerate this with the right incentives. For example, in the early 90s it was estimated digital HD TV sets would cost upwards of $10,000 due to the powerful computer hardware required to decode compressed video in real time. There was a battle between analogue and digital HD TV standards as many insisted the digital would always be far too expensive & Japan had a working analogue system since the 80s. The chip tech got better and now your $300 cheapo TV can out perform the most advanced TV sets of 25 years ago. It also uses less power, generates less heat, weighs less and is far safer to repair. We can create better battery technology, use nuclear power for charging, use more efficient engines - the list goes on. Stop whining that it can't be done. We either do it now or wait until oil prices shoot up and collapse the economy - then end up buying the technology we should have developed from the Chinese (See: Solar panels).
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  4937.  @benjaminimos7425  Very true, but there's certainly engineers who can create better technology if they have the resources. You can see that in the way aircraft went from propeller driven things to Concorde & the SR-71 in under 30 years. Or how we went from a few equations to nuclear weapons in a decade. Remember Moores law would have been dead 20 years ago without billions a year in R&D & those other big advancements relied on lots and lots of capital to fund them.
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  4938. That would be the socialist George Orwell who was an expert on fascism and would not be in the least bit impressed with GB News. He also died of TB and if he was around today would be a big fan of vaccinations and public health measures.
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  4939. Julia does indeed talk BS. You are correct.
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  4940. Let me help you out, man - some of the bravest people in our society are the ones who risked their lives fighting the Rona and making sure people could still get fed and supplies during the last year. They took big risks and many of them died. They weren't cretins sitting at home earning social media bucks for posting drivel like you post - they are true heroes and people we should be honouring.
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  4941. That's why most parents will let their kids get the shot.
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  4942. Well we can have no lockdown, rampant disease and watch the economy collapse anyway?
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  4943.  @ikm64  So hang on a tick, you're telling me because Britain has a larger economy than NZ then its okay to have a 400x worse death rate in a pandemic? Shouldn't it be the other way round? The 'most powerful' countries should have used their resources to prevent catastrophe?
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  4944.  @ikm64  Is an interesting point about the level 4 labs in the UK and US. Most people here have no idea of some of the nasty stuff in Porton Down and the animal disease place (whose name I forget). If I recall we had a case of Ebola in the 1970s in Britain and it was a guy who got infected at Porton Down - most people didn't hear of Ebola until the 80s (outside of medical researchers) but twenty years before we were 'researching' it here. The lab leak hypothesis is interesting but needs more proof as a lot of the information is dubious. One thing that might help is full analysis of sweage samples and medical records in the West to see if the Rona was here before 2020 & if so what was its structure compared to the later virus. Lots of anecdotal stories about it being in Europe prior to 2020 but needs proof.
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  4945.  @ikm64  It certainly is odd that both the US and UK had pandemic response plans (albeit for a flu) in place as well as the typical Nato plans in event of a bio-weapon attack - then did nothing but wait around like idiots. We definitely need more information. It wouldn't be out the realms of possibility to hack the Chinese servers and download all their genome data. Am still going with an accident, but willing to change tack if proper evidence appears.
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  4946. That would require them getting rid of the libel laws... which protects them, so they won't.
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  4947. Yeah I can just see the sort of women who pay a fortune for their stuff going 'Am not going to buy it now because you had a model who was only 5ft 4 in your advert'. Not everything is culture war. Some things are merely clever marketing.
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  4948. So how come UKIP only won seats under European PR elections then?
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  4949.  @AthelstanEngland  Florida currently has cases blowing up, so its not all sunshine and roses there. Why not mention New Zealand which has done amazing and far better than Florida?
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  4950. Well seeing as we peasants could read about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan weeks before it went pear-shaped and Boris has access to vast amounts of intelligence we don't, then that implies the British government weren't abandoned with 'no warning' but instead couldn't be bothered until things got bad. Boris and Raab were on holiday IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS. Should be an instant resignation matter.
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  4951.  @ridemx77  Well because the moment a rona outbreak led back to your place of business you'd be on thin ice legally. Much like if you have a restaurant and sell manky food.
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  4952.  @ridemx77  Using the manual methods epidemiologists have used for decades? How do you think they trace food poisoning? There's no Puke and Trace app, is there?
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  4953. Or maybe you've been believing too much conspiracy drivel and should use occam's razor to actually conclude that we're run by idiots and Brexit is a big cause of our problems.
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  4954.  @vicforbetvicforbet141  We were promised quick benefits and tons of money for the NHS. Now you're saying we'll have to wait years for some nebulous benefits that will only happen if the government breaks the habit of a lifetime and invests money in working-class British people?
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  4955.  @barbaraclarke6573  To a degree, but you'll never get any change in a one-party state.
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  4956. And yet not a word on how many of these deaths are due to Tory austerity and reduced capacity of the NHS due to Tory austerity (something like 30,000 beds less than in 2010).
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  4957. Yep. Happening all over the place.
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  4958. Right, so the free market is now the government can try to shame companies for not advertising with a specific news channel? Have I got that right?
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  4959. Not spreading the mange to other people isn't servitude, whatever American right-wing conspiracy wonks like to think.
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  4960.  @funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871  Bonkers in what way? The Tories have killed thousands of their own voters due to pandemic incompetence, which is pretty unforgivable.
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  4961.  @francesjohn2625  I believe they were in a dispute with their record company and were told to give them one more single to finish their contract. So they did this in revenge. It wasn't formally released (for obvious reasons!) but has popped up on various compilations.
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  4962. So if you're 63 you were born around 1957 when kids were all getting vaccinated. So you must have had some.
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  4963.  @yukyukyuk1335  'called an immune system' - yes and it fails often, that's why we have vaccines. They only ate organic food a century ago and people still dropped from the plague, TB, Smallpox etc...
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  4964. Obama was right though. The Tory establishment constantly attacked him and he realised they were not good allies to have.
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  4965. Is Carrie causing the forest fires across the US then? Or the Siberian heat waves? Or flooding Europe? Or baking Australia? Did Carry flood New York the other week or cause those hurricanes? Is that all Carrie's doing? Is she a blonde version of angry Yahweh throwing down punishment on his disobedient creations?
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  4966. Didn't we have a top-tier footballer keel over with a heart attack the other week? Poor health can hit anyone.
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  4967. As opposed to the Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph, TalkRadio, GBNews, Fox etc. brainwashing their parents? The kids are kids and we expect them to be a bit naive. What excuse do their parents have??
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  4968.  @melindagallegan5093  And spreading covid. Morons.
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  4969.  @martinus4873  Here's the thing, if this stuff was true the governments all around the world have basically allowed a biological weapons attack on their own people and - in the case of the UK - are now telling their people to suck it up and cope with said attack. This goes against defence plans going back to early Nato stuff from the 50s. So if it is engineered then the British government basically allowed it to kill our own. That makes our gov very, very bad and all the anti-vax/anti-lockdown types shills for the enemy.
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  4970. Yes, he can explain how he got vaccinated in secret while discouraging his fanbase from getting the vaccine. Now his fanbase are dropping by the thousand....
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  4971. Avoided here for the weekend. Looks like the ratings didn't improve since I was last here...
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  4972. He deserves a slap for that, but it was ongoing for many years. Mrs T first brought in student loans and it was understood even in the late 80s that we were going the same way as America where a college education costs big money.
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  4973. Well over a year of death and horror, so yes, they do deserve a pay rise.
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  4974.  @TheB1nary  He's a jerk for wanting to save lives?
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  4975.  @helenhughes9420  Yes.
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  4976.  @gerrygeko9712  What is the deal with the Trump personality cult? I mean I can sort of get it with other crazy leaders as they did something that kind of stuck out - Stalin in WW2, Kim Il Sung fighting the US etc. But Trump has his own cult of personality despite being useless and a living example of everything conservatives profess to hate. Is just weird.
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  4977.  @politicalsheepdog  Don't forget Florida and Texas being riddled with the Corona because their governors are psychopaths, dude. Or is that not relevant because you can't blame Biden for it?
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  4978. Dead teachers = traumatised kids. Kids infecting families = traumatised kids when grandma dies. How hard is this to understand?
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  4979.  @SirGeorgeButtox  You lot were arguing against masks last summer when there were no vaccines.
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  4980.  @katieadams3080  Nope. Delightfully imbalanced nerd, but not a teacher.
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  4981.  @meatfeast335  The English in this comment screams foreign troll at me.
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  4982.  @localbod  Yes, and we should what, kill more just so you don't have to be inconvenienced while buying Stella in Waitrose?
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  4983.  @localbod  We went through this last year. Almost non-existent deaths in June, less than 1000 cases a day then... bang, kicks off again. Vaccine should slow it right down, but is best to be cautious for now.
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  4984.  @SirGeorgeButtox  Am working-class and living in the hood, so your attack is irrelevant. However, I am massively concerned about the economic effects of said pandemic. The problem is that if it resurges then you'll still have decline, open or not. People will stay away from shops etc. if they have a high risk of catching the mange. This is why we need a comprehensive strategy to sort the issues out and it should have been done last year but we decided to pretend the Rona was done then acted all surprised when it came back.
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  4985. Unless that reform is 'sack the government then prosecute them for manslaughter' then no, it doesn't. It just needs resources.
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  4986.  @MayorOfBigDaddysPizza  It was indeed most amusing but was written through the eyes of a gay man who had a bit of a quirky view of women. Corrie itself has had lots of social agenda stuff over the years - as mentioned the Roy and Hayley thing, or do you remember when Tricia was thrown in jail for not paying her TV license? She was played by Labour MP Tracey Brabin.
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  4987. Lateral flow bit rubbish and should only be used in certain contexts. PCR is good and works well.
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  4988.  @adamsmith307  Kary Mullis quote video - have a watch.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H2YA0JvfRc
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  4989.  @adamsmith307  He also didn't think Aids was caused by HIV, or that climate change was real and he did a lot of drugs. Very eccentric guy.
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  4990.  @eva-imogenewharehoka2299  Not really. I've been reading conspiracy stuff for a long time and the current wave of it is very creepy and clearly funded by some sinister dark money. The change in the past couple of years has been so staggering that there's even podcasts devoted to the weird neo-fascist agenda of the 'alt media' - Conspirituality podcast is a good one.
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  4991. Masks Social distancing Limited travel from Asia Early flu shots That explains it. Covid was not the flu, stop pushing nonsense. They are a different virus with different symptoms.
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  4992. Lol, those rules on GM food were put in place in Europe for a reason. But Boris can see rapidly approaching dollar signs, so...
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  4993.  @ericboxer3053  meanwhile the 'libertarians' are happy with mass death and mass infection so long as they don't get personally inconvenienced by having to wear a mask in Asda.
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  4994. Weird how people are scared of a disease that spreads via the air and has killed 120+ thousand of their fellow citizens. And now the gov is like 'Ahhh, it'll be fine. Do your duty Brits and get a dose'.
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  4995.  @hqcf  Which you can apply to things like seatbelts, drink driving, taking drugs and public nudity. Society sets certain limits to protect others. I bet if Covid was killing Tory activists and being spread by unemployed people this whole debate wouldn't even exist.
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  4996. Meanwhile those of us who aren't weird psychos don't care.
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  4997. By 'bed wetters' do you mean the majority of the country who aren't psychopaths and don't like the idea of killing thousands of their own countrymen? Funny how 'patriotic conservatives' seem to love the idea of murdering their own.
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  4998. You showed him! I mean the fact you're offended by someone asking you if you've had a shot that a good 60% of the adult population has had shows that you're a bit odd.
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  4999. 37000 dead in Florida and highest covid infections in the US. 50000 dead in Texas and a government so crap they can't keep the electric running in a minor storm. Not good examples. Funny how you lot never praise New Zealand who managed to not kill its own people AND keep their economy chugging away.
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  5000.  @michaelcarney6280  We've been through this in other comments. No, they didn't fiddle the figures so people who got hit by a bus died of covid, although Florida has been shady with figures for sure. No they don't pay you more for saying someone died of covid - in the US those doctors are nearly all private sector workers and were losing a fortune being unable to do normal operations. NZ is small, but even adjusted for population size did incredibly well, far, far better than Florida and Texas and Sweden.
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  5001.  @michaelcarney6280  Jeez, let's go through this. Florida did okay in their first wave, but stopped caring so had lots more death in the second one. New Zealand has 26 covid deaths for 5 million people. If it was 4 x bigger to equalise with Florida's population that would work out at around 100 deaths. Florida has 37000. Florida and Texas aren't thriving, they're doing okay ish economically. Texas power grid collapsed because their government couldn't handle a minor snow storm & they're still having issues. California is doing better than both financially. Texas and Florida are not who we should be looking up to. NZ has been very careful with food imports/exports and did have cases linked to warehouses initially.
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  5002. Wait till you find out about Brendan O'Neill and Clare Fox...
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  5003.  sluana1  Are you sure he invented mRNA tech? He appears to have worked on the technology some time ago but published no work since and is not listed anywhere as an inventor other than on his own website.
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  5004. Imagine being a stressed ICU doctor who's had the worst year of their professional life, then get told by some airhead who was once on the Apprentice to pull your finger out.
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  5005.  David Ward  Agreed! Do you remember a few years ago they had Emma Willis do a show where she trained to work on a ward delivering babies and made a documentary about it? Don't see why Dewbs couldn't have a bit of training then go help out at a covid ward.... she could take along Neil Oliver, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Richard Madeley and all the other sit in front of their Macbook and write drivel types who comprise our press.
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  5006. Isaac Asimov wrote a sci-fi story called The Gods Themselves in the 1970s. It featured interdimensional jelly-type monsters who were trisexual and 'had fun' by oozing into each other. Was actually a really good story!
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  5007. Annoyed right-wingers. Right-wingers basically have no arguments other than to deny climate change and Greta & co. wind them up.
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  5008. That's the whole model of modern media - outrage and exploit people's emotions. Compare 'conservative media' in, say, the 1960s or 70s to conservative media now. Anger, anger, hate, hate nowadays and its exhausting. Which is the intention - burn you out emotionally.
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  5009. You do realise if we get another Rona kick-off that no lockdowns won't mean things are back to normal? That businesses will go bankrupt as customers stay away and without support from the gov lots and lots of Tory voters will be destitute? You do understand that in an economy where most of the money is in the hands of the over 50s that a Rona outbreak will see those groups go back to isolating, no matter how many times Internet spods call them 'bedwetters'? You do understand that even though deaths are less thanks to the vaccines that people still get sick and have long-term problems? Who is going to pay for those problems? We've already opened 40 'long covid' clinics. How much do you think this will cost if we let it get out of control again?
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  5010. Most of us think racial harmony is a good thing.
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  5011.  @kentwydell9322  Not if you infect other people deliberately.
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  5012.  @blacksheep5259  And the Tory party in control for the past ten years. The same Tory party who wanted us to have a war in Syria as well.
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  5013.  @bongsound  Clearly not if cases are going up.
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  5014.  @Gone_Gaming0  But they still did badly. Texas had their whole power grid collapse due to a small snow storm and months later they're still not fixed. Meanwhile the government has been busy bringing in anti-abortion-type laws instead of sorting shit out. Massive, massive incompetence.
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  5015. @Down With Woke I'm a troll for pointing out facts? This appears to be a new definition of 'troll'.
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  5016.  @blue24563  So we're denying that New Zealand's lockdown has worked now? Yes, they're not as busy as London, but they still get about 4 million overseas visitors a year. Clearly lockdown along with travel restrictions worked out there. Pretending otherwise is silly.
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  5017.  @jackiebarlow4920  No they're not. That was drivel made up last year by Yeadon and amplified by Brewer.
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  5018.  @jackiebarlow4920  If we did then there wouldn't have been an extra 80,000 dead of the Rona now, would there? Please think before you write nonsense.
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  5019. Boris doesn't care about human lives. His covid cock-up killed more people than the Blitz, but he's completely not bothered.
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  5020. Spoilers: All the celebs have had their shots, even the anti-vax ones. They keep the lies going because its gets them clicks and cash off angry anti-vaxxers.
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  5021. Was Siberia having regular heatwaves 35 years ago?
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  5022. Biden won the election because people were terrified of more Trump. Trump only won his using dirty tricks, that's why he couldn't win again.
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  5023. Does deliberately spreading a deadly disease also not infringe on other people's human rights?
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  5024.  Mac Raghnaill  Dear me. 1) It hasn't been downgraded. Don't lie. 2) Its killed more than the 1957 flu and 1969 flu and a LOT more in the case of the US (100k in 1969 vs 600k today). Antimaskers were a big problem in 1918 as well and look what happened there. 3) A large chunk of the country is not vaccinated. 4) Herd immunity is not viable with this virus via natural infection as it mutates a lot. See reinfection rates in Manaus for example. 40 odd thousand cases today, 96 dead. Vaccines are great but you need much wider coverage to snuff this thing out - that includes most kids.
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  5025. Lemme try and understand this... vaccine passports are the worst thing ever and a sign of a nazi Britain, but police stopping and searching random people is perfectly fine? Have I got that right? Is the difference perhaps that police are stopping mainly those of a dusky hue while vax passports most annoy the white middle-classes?
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  5026. Many of the argument types are also paid to stir things up. Is basically the Pro Wrestling model of media where the bad guy comes along and stirs up trouble. Admittedly social media is also full of plain old idiots, but the very focussed hate we see tends to be bought and paid for by various sinister groups.
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  5027. The Tories always do the same, promise no tax rises, then whack up taxes on the poor while cutting for the rich. This is why we have 20% VAT and airport taxes and a council tax that is capped so that mansion owners only pay 2.5x what McDonalds workers pay in a bedsit.
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  5028. @Neria Wolf Actually I'm super-patriotic because I don't hate Britain. I hate the idiots running it, the boot-licking media and the corrupt oligarchy we have in place. I'd rather have fewer people in poverty and less people dying of covid than more parasitic politicians eating away at all that's good about the place. If you looked at my other comments you'd notice much admiration for Britain, despite our quirkiness as a nation.
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  5029. First part correct. Second part not. How do you have a fraud that the entire planet is a part of? How is it a fraud when you have governments that hate each other (Iran/Israel or Japan/China) agreeing on almost everything? If it was that easy to get all world governments on side then we'd have had world peace decades ago.
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  5030.  @elkpaz560  There's 4 million dead, plus millions with long-term issues from it. That counts as a pandemic. Even if it was a lab leak (we have no evidence of this as yet) then other countries have screwed up monumentally allowing it to spread. Japan did put some restrictions in place (I don't recall there being an Olympics last year for example & masks were common) but they still got hit.
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  5031.  @stephenbmassey  Well no, the Tories are the same sociopaths they've always been. That's why they've just cut welfare, cut pensions and increased taxes but haven't touched the wealth of billionaires.
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  5032.  @DD-gt2cv  No it isn't. The 5% earn vastly more than the 95%. They pay more in pure cash terms but as a percentage its smaller than the peasants pay. And before you whine about 40% upper-rate tax, what percentage of the wealthy pay that? Very few - they have accountants & form companies etc.
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  5033.  @DD-gt2cv  The fact remains they've rigged the system in their favour. This is why we have 'lower' income tax but 20% VAT. This is why there's endless money for property at the top while normal workers get a NI rise. Also the whole risk thing is moot for those at the top. Small businesses may be taking a risk but large businesses are constantly protected from their own poor behaviour and can fall back on limited liability when the boss wrecks everything and runs off with the cash.
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  5034. The neo-fascism is coming from the right, mate. Including the dolts who run this channel and are actively encourage the population to catch a deadly disease.
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  5035. What freedom are you missing?
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  5036.  @tazzie2shoos  You do know that trying to treat normal illnesses while letting the Rona spread means you've killed even more people? That they restricted other treatments because of the gigantic risks to already sick people and the NHS had little spare capacity because its controlled by parasitic big-business worshippers who all have Bupa, anyway, so don't give a shit.
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  5037. No, it's basically a created culture war by the right-wing. Go look at Google trends and the word 'woke' suddenly blew up in Britain at the end of 2019 - coinciding with Boris being elected. Papers run 'woke' stories every day and 90% of them are complete nonsense. Is the modern very of 'PC gone mad' the right obsessed over in the 90s (which was also borrowed from American right-wingers, funnily enough). Meanwhile British people outside the bubble of right-wing politics don't actually care one jot, they know is Trumpist style nonsense designed to rile up their Daily Mail-reading parents. We're at a point now where the government is basically going to sacrifice the health of its own children for a quick covid solution so their minions will churn out hundreds more 'woke' stories over the next month to cover up the ongoing public health catastrophe.
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  5038.  @stevenpaddybwoy  Both of them are traitors, so no problem there.
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  5039. He's an absolute twit. Let's look at his figures - the 'flu and pneumonia' is mainly pneumonia as there's pretty much no flu about at this time of year. Much of said pneumonia is a consequence of patients weakened by covid. Then he does the 'of or with' covid nonsense that no one ever does with any other disease. Have you every heard a conversation like this? "My gran died of cancer." "Sorry to hear that, but did she die of cancer or with cancer?" "She died of cancer!" "Ahhh, but how many comorbidities did she have? She was a bit fat wasn't she? Getting on as well. Surely is best to say she died of being fat and we shouldn't blame cancer"...
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  5040. You'll have empty shelves soon anyway due to Brexit and the Rona. Note the lack of fresh fruit in supermarkets? Or the price of tech? Or the difficulty in getting wood supplies?
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  5041. Not at all. The climate is rapidly altering. Even in England - I've still got flowers in my garden, in November. Downright insane.
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  5042.  @robertbeveridge4439  Sigh. Ok, the flu is an entirely different virus to covid. They look different, that have different proteins, they're different. Saying the flu is a madeover covid is like saying a tiger is merely a housecat in a fur coat makeover. However, the reasons we had less flu were simple: Masks Social distancing Travel from China and Asia somewhat lower Flu shots given out earlier Flu has a lower r rate than Covid so flu didn't spread much while covid was still able to spread somewhat.
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  5043.  @robertbeveridge4439  They have some effect. If you're wearing a mask and sneeze, your mucosal sniffings go into the mask, not onto the check-out girl at the Asda. Again no one is saying masks are 100% successful, but they help and they cost little and are easy to use. P.S. I have done a lot of research into this stuff, using books and medical papers, not Facebook memery.
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  5044.  @dancer5355  a) No one is stopping you seeing your family. b) the restrictions proposed are minimal. But they probably won't be minimal when Boris lets this run out of control (again).
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  5045.  @perovwellyz560  No they haven't. Stop spreading lies.
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  5046.  @Diamondphobe  Is less than the US spends on their healthcare - and with better results.
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  5047. Viruses don't care. Pretending they've gone won't do anything.
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  5048. Get the teachers vaccinated and (medical authorisation allowing) the kids can have shots too and be protected.
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  5049.  @badgoogle9938  Teachers first, kids eventually when its authorised. I'd be fine about giving our excess vaccines to poor people around the world, but am sure the usual suspects would whine. Israel looks like they're going to have to vaccinate kids - we'll probably follow.
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  5050. Do Maxists work for Max Factor?
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  5051. He's killed thousands with his evil austerity policies, or are you okay with that?
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  5052. Most Americans do sympathise. Here's what they see... Andy Pandy is in a lot of trouble for alleged noncery... silence. Harry and Megs haven't done much other than being slightly annoying celebs... OUTRAGE. The Americans can figure out that the British ire with Meghan is not entirely sincere.
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  5053.  @susansusan1980  Yes they're rich people who are a bit out of touch. As for the passports thing, well the Rona is still spreading and still killing people including a lot of Republicans. So what do you do? Kill more conservatives or perhaps get your shots like normal people?
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  5054. They don't. Try talking to some people who've been to school.
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  5055. We need to reach out to this person and tell them how much fun Paw Patrol is, especially the Welsh version.
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  5056. Because covid is deadly and causes neurological problems so even if it doesn't kill you it causes many other issues.
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  5057. Nope. But if they mention the 52000 new cases of covid and infections are running at around a million then people might get a bit angry.
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  5058. Nasty colds don't kill 120000 Brits in a year you absolute clot.
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  5059. He's selectively naming, that's the problem. I mean logically Pat should be praising Jeremy Corbyn for being against the war from the start. Or even David Davies who was sort of against on the Tory side.
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  5060. You won't get much help on here, mate. Pretty much every commenter is a frothing forrin hater and will happily let you and your people die in pain.
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  5061.  @springer-qb4dv  Something like a decent solid state battery would be a massive money spinner - billions just from selling the tech to mobile phone companies - but he can't even get that right.
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  5062. Yes, the Church of England formed partly because a former king wanted to get divorced. Meanwhile our current Queen has stayed married but all of her kids are divorced (except Edward, ironically) and somewhat dysfunctional.
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  5063.  @carparkcampers8407  I don't know, maybe ask the Daily Mail who hates on a different thing every day?
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  5064. Non-sense.
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  5065. Not entirely. Many animals are intelligent and have large brains. Killing them is extremely nasty so we need to protect them and in Western societies thats done through the law.
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  5066. No they're not. Stop being a brainlet.
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  5067. Yet the tabloid press (and this channel) have daily Harry & Meghan stories and daily immigrant stories yet you're not fed up with those? Viruses don't give a shit if you're fed up.
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  5068. Instead you put your hopes in a failed comedian on the UK's worst TV channel.
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  5069.  @zorbathegreek192  Not my fault you get science advice off failed comedians and Jock historians with a scarf permanently glued to their neck.
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  5070.  @allandesoer7672  Is this the new thing? Let's attack the guy pointing out we're morons? Because someone has to do it.
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  5071.  @allandesoer7672  Again, is not me getting my biology education off the clowns on this channel. So, y'know...
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  5072. Everyone here plugging Sky Aus has to be a PR bot.
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  5073.  @biteme8905  No, because its jolly odd enormous numbers of 'British' people are all saying the same about an Australian TV channel that even Australians detest. It comes across as a bit of marketing rather than sincerity.
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  5074.  @biteme8905  'not another corporate shill' - you actually think the climate-change denying, pro-right wing, Murdoch owned Sky is not a corporate shill?!??
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  5075. Or maybe its a bit of publicity for their tourist dept? You know, so they can try and dispel the idea of Aussieland being full of lethal wildlife?
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  5076. Star Wars was also based on... Joseph Campbell's myth studies, Dune, the movies of Kurosawa, EE Doc Smith's books, British war films, and with a touch of Dr Doom thrown in. Lucas also referenced the Vietnam war, communism, fascism and even had a go at Bush in Sith. George Lucas is quite left-wing by the standards of billionaires so not sure your point works.
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  5077.  @marcgoodman4561  I never give myself thumbs up. I clearly am developing a fan base.
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  5078.  @michaelmahon8896  Watch what happens with antivaxxers in a few months. Just watch.
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  5079. As GB News (and by extension the government idiots who give them their talking points) doesn't seem to like wind power, or solar power, or France then we might have a few issues soon.
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  5080. How much do the KBF smiley crowd get paid to post this drivel?
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  5081. No, the elites are scumbags. That's why we need to reign them in. But we also need to reign in covid which mainly kills poorer people. Disabling or killing another few thousand working-class people isn't going to teach the elites a lesson. They don't mind and love it when everyone protests and spreads it.
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  5082.  Lawrence Newman  Initially yes, but we killed off a big chunk of the over 80s and now is very common for people in their 50s and 60s to die of it. Any age can die of it, but the risks increase with age, however they also increase with exposure, population density etc. which hits a lot more working-class people who can't stay at home doing Zoom calls.
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  5083. And yet the same people on here would be mortally offended if you called the Queen 'Liz' or 'old girl' to her face and didn't use the correct protocols and also kneel like, well, a recently let-go GB News presenter.
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  5084. Is ironic that not one word has been said about how horrible customers were being during lockdown. Instead of behaving themselves so many Karen and Ken types were kicking off and having a go at the staff. So the staff started quitting, and wouldn't go back.
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  5085.  @matthewsmith2787  In what way? In asking you to wear a mask? I've been in a lot of shops and the shitty behaviour from customers over the past year is awe-inspiring in its idiocy.
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  5086. Who is we? The audience of Talk Radio is vanishingly small compared to the rest of the population.
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  5087. It's a face mask dude to help stop spread of the mange. That's it. It's not more oppressive than laws requiring you to wear pants in public.
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  5088. Well with the plague it was 30% of Europe. With the 1918 Flu it was tens of millions of under 50s. AIDs millions of mainly fit young gay men alongside young straight people in Africa. Is almost as if viral pandemics are really dangerous? (If you noted the plague was caused by a bacterium then well done and thanks for paying attention)
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  5089.  @joecater894  So to pwn the libs you'll happily see the country collapse? Weird how so many 'patriots' love trashing their own country.
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  5090.  @joecater894  Its falling apart now. We already have the wrong people running things and they're going to run it into the ground so they can sell everything to their shady mates.
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  5091.  @joecater894  Umm, I don't recall empty shelves when any of those were in power? Choppy waters created by our own policies are a bit of a self-own.
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  5092. Is a statue, mate. Show as much concern for the mistreated kids and I might think you have a point.
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  5093. He's not.
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  5094. Do you like being told about medical science by a bloke who couldn't pass a GCSE in biology?
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  5095. No because we knew the Tories would come after the NHS like a hungry dog wanting to grab a pile of sausages.
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  5096. This is true and we have a group of 'conservatives' who are against all public health measures and care not if they kill other people.
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  5097. Yes the truth that they died because they believed billionaire-funded propaganda on social media.
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  5098. Was better than Boris at the UN talking about Kermit, ffs.
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  5099.  @callumlaird9443  Good for you, sir. But look at the opinion polls. Boris even had his own former boss say how useless he was and his popularity shot up. Why is it still so high? Corbyn is gone, they can't kick that fear-based dead horse again - why do so many British people think a talking Gonk is the best they can attain as a world leader?
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  5100. So is the ruling class creating an alternate mythical reality to keep the peasants confused. Which is what Neil is doing. Seriously, his granddad didn't fight in the war so Neil could spread disease for freedom. Absolute eejit.
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  5101. Their ratings are dropping faster than a parachuting rhinoceros. Probably sacked the VT tech or something to save money.
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  5102.  @daleanderin1  Well a competent PM would have locked down quicker, thus saving a ton of lives. Then would keep moderate restrictions after lockdown until the threat was over with. Meanwhile the current PM is mass-infecting kids and pretending covid has gone away, despite there currently being 8000 people in hospital with it and 100+ a day dying.
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  5103.  @daleanderin1  Let's put it this way - Geronimo the Alpaca would have been more competent than Johnson, so pretty much anyone with a functioning brain would have done.
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  5104.  @daleanderin1  Yep, you know why? Because the leavers gave out no detailed economic plans and were clearly winging it & also lying about the costs of Brexit. I remember arguing with Brexity types that we'd be spending a fortune on lawyers & consultants and end up paying more to them than the EU bureaucrats. Which happened. Along with many other unfortunate things.
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  5105. That would actually be funny. They'd have a massive audience, gobble up all the advertising money from ITV & Sky (& GB News), could dump all the establishment stuff (Farming shows, church shows, Tory party propaganda) & still rake it in from flogging Dr Who and other shows abroad. Then the Tories would be left with no one to whine at and a BBC that would openly hate them as they could massively appeal to the youth audience that way.
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  5106. Laugh away. Labour aren't the ones causing mass death and tanking the economy. But of course you don't care about any of that, do you?
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  5107.  @lawrencegrantham805  Severe lockdowns would have been shorter, so the economy wouldn't have been destroyed.
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  5108. Is Neil going to have a shave this year? He looks like an overly fed Charles Manson.
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  5109.  @MrPHILLCROW  Thank you for the measured response. Agree, there will always be edge cases (like runaways) but is a problem we have to solve.
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  5110. So they create a worldwide shutdown and tank economies so they can make a few quid off a vaccine. Am I understanding this is what you're saying? In my day conspiracy theorists were cool and read books and stuff. Now, not so much...
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  5111.  @davidbarlow350  i appear to have more of an understanding than those whose learned background is based on Facebook memes.
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  5112. Is a culture war the Tories rack up everytime they have a policy disaster.
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  5113. It is a vaccine - something designed to stimulate an immune reaction to a particular infectious agent.
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  5114. Imagine if liars were prosecuted... https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2020/04/dan-wootton-on-disinformation.html
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  5115. Blimey, Charles Manson is at it again. Helter Skelter everyone, go break them health rules, spread the Rona... No wonder Baron Von Greenback resigned.
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  5116. This bloke is an absolute disease-spreading muppet. Just the worst thing to come out of Scotland since Denis Nielsen.
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  5117. Julia's been whining with the same nonsense for over a year. She's fine with mass death so long as it doesn't affect her Barbados trips.
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  5118.  @lumpyfishgravy  Yes, were many of them not Tories? I recall them boasting about it on social media.
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  5119.  @oswaldmosley4315  Is a God that impregnates a teenage girl using his supernatural powers okay? Or a God (same one the Muslims have funnily enough) who destroys all of humanity with a giant flood? Or a God that asks a father to kill his own kid in a sacrifice to prove how much he loves said God?
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  5120.  @smsheard  He's an interesting one for sure - this year's Richard Doty.
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  5121. "Feels a bit woke" - not if you're one of the millions getting their benefits cut or the pensioners being killed off by covid or you're aware of the third-world-level corruption at every level of the Tory party. Or for that matter if you understand that our rape conviction rate is something like 1.6% which effectively means rape is pretty much legal in this country.
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  5122. So do you guys support China now? You were all pro-Russia last year...
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  5123. Patriotic marine helping the doggos... but he's been critical of Boris... can't have that now, can we... Horror show of a channel.
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  5124.  @therealpollyanna5846  Yep, am fine with what he's doing. The government should have made sure there were enough planes to take everyone and told the Taliban any attempt to interfere and they'd be flattened.
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  5125.  @therealpollyanna5846  Yep, I also saw them airlifting out cars. Absolute disgrace and Boris & Raab should both resign over it. My mate sent me some stuff about the Taliban kicking off and it was posted in July. If random Twitter news sites knew then how come Boris didn't? He must have arms fulls of intelligence data the press never see but he still chose to ignore it.
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  5126.  @therealpollyanna5846  Is insanity what's going on there. Just checking the news, now.
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  5127. There's a fascinating history of Conservatives here & in the US opposing any measures to reduce obesity. You can see it in food labelling, in the campaigns against Michelle Obama's healthy lunches, in the constant whines about the 'nanny state' every time a medical person says do a bit of exercise and of course in the giant amounts of cash made by Tories from unhealthy school & hospital dinners.
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  5128. Funny thing about entitlement culture is the people who complain about it the most are the ones who are most entitled. Look at the endless cavalcade of boo hoos on this channel about everything they disagree with.
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  5129. Dunno, because apparently is good enough for the Queen and Tory MPs and elderly Tory voters. But as soon as the young want it, oh noooo....
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  5130. ​ Tim Foster  The flu itself was a virus, assumed to be H1N1 type. People may have also died from bacterial pneumonia later on after their lungs were weakened by the original virus (something which has happened with Covid, especially to a lot of older people whose deaths aren't recorded as Covid).
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  5131.  @diesel92kj1  If Britain was actually socialist we'd have done much better with the pandemic. But keep deluding yourself that conservatives are anything other than useless grifters.
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  5132. The smaller the number of views the more crazy the presenters get. I expect by next week we'll have NIge asking if we can have mass hangings of peasants who insult the Queen.
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  5133. So I have a pleasant day avoiding GB News. Come back to see its as wretched as ever. Now we're having a go at scientists (again). Sigh.
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  5134.  @seanpidduck  Gupta said we had herd immunity by May 2020. Very wrong. She's a part of the Barrington crowd and her opinions are dubious.
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  5135. Especially as he gave Florida and Texas as examples of how to do it right when they got absolutely everything wrong. Just staggering. Does this bloke bother to read American newspapers or does he get all his news from a right-wing thinktank?
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  5136. Toby Young should be in jail for spreading misinformation during the pandemic. He's a monstrous little shit who helped make this thing much, much worse.
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  5137. Kier was right. We did have a summer of chaos - remember the media saying it was the 'pingdemic' while masses of people were off work? At present its killing 1000 a week, which is apparently fine in Tom's little brain.
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  5138. I bet if you tried to explain this to a bunch of people in your town they'd look at you like you had two heads.
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  5139.  @user-nl2kt9jc9p  Mate you're ranting about one bloke kneeling as if it's Armageddon. Please grow up, it's not a good look for an adult.
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  5140. Roy mate, tell us some jokes then. The Marxists aren't holding you back, they're too busy reading books and things. Spill your humour guts onto our shiny Internet floor...
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  5141. Gee and your user name is a sheep dip drug that doesn't work on Covid. Clearly you're not bright enough to even make informed decisions.
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  5142. a) Mao was a scumbag, but no he didn't. b) The Taiping Rebellion in the 1800s had massive death but is usually not mentioned by Westerners, probably because it involved a strange psudeo-Jesusy religious cult.
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  5143. Yep, that's what the weirdos on here don't understand - their lockdowns were shorter, their restrictions on freedom fewer, health costs less, job losses less.... overall an impressive job.
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  5144. If it helps mate, your lot lost the war and you're never going to win another.
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  5145.  @andyforshaw8489  No, but a large chunk of the population isn't vaccinated - which includes almost all kids.
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  5146. Yes, and those 'once in a century' storms seem to happen every year now which indicates the climate is going a bit bonkers. But keep thinking it won't affect you... and please don't whine when your insurance payments blow up to pay for all the constant flood repairs needed.
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  5147. Yeah, its not like sickies are a thing anywhere else, is it?...
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  5148. What real stories? All I'm seeing is opinion of shady characters.
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  5149. Feel free. Shutting up all those right-wing grifters would be hilarious. It would also bankrupt GB News as it gets most of its traffic now from posting outrage clips on Twitter.
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  5150. @Grinning Idiot What left-wing status quo? 90% of the print media is super right-wing, the BBC sucks up to the government, ITV is useless, Channel 5 is worse, Sky is Rupert Murdoch....
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  5151. @Grinning Idiot Only if you're a complete goblin who doesn't understand the first thing about politics.
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  5152. Jeez, the laws of the sea. We do not sink boats with civilians in during peacetime. Get it into your brain-free heads that mass murder is not a viable strategy.
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  5153. Do pubs fill up with covid patients then? Does your tattooist have their own back-room ICU? There's clearly problems with GP surgeries but whining isn't going to do any good.
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  5154.  @flumpaustin1994  No you won't.
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  5155.  @SheilaTitchener  Siberian heat waves, Greek forest fires, Turkish fires, American fires... the climate is bonkers everywhere. This is not a normal thing no matter how hard you pretend it is.
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  5156.  @imwithstupid00011  So there's a worldwide arson campaign that pops up every summer just as temperatures hit record levels? (and I know that some fires are started deliberately. Not all)
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  5157.  @imwithstupid00011  So we are in agreement the seasons are changing, there's less snow and weather is stranger. Climate change acknowledged.
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  5158.  @garytallowin6623  Coleman didn't do any research, the scientific community pointed out he was talking nonsense. Standard contrarian thing - like with Kary Mullis who also didn't believe in climate change, but did believe in astrology (yikes).
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  5159.  @OAPHarmerHerrStarmler  But that's what people are arguing on here. They're not bothered about covid or austerity or vote-rigging or a lack of rape convictions or mass cronyism, they're bothered about some imaginary race war and the idea that everybody hates us.
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  5160. Hey kids, here's a little article for you to all read the next time you call everyone a Marxist. Guess whose ideology you're parroting?... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism "Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism, music Bolshevism or sexual Bolshevism,[1] was a term widely used by Nazi German-sponsored critics to denounce modernist and progressive movements in the culture. " The Germans really liked waving the flag in those days as well. Just sayin'.
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  5161. 'They don't need it' -- well apparently all those kids in hospital in Florida & Louisiana with covid needed something...
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  5162.  @walterbishop1697  Very few in Florida are fully vaccinated. Sorry but that's the truth.
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  5163.  @Thomas-ok9ot  I don't do Twitter. They'd be unable to cope with me.
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  5164.  @doonie8287  You could say the same for most Presidents in the past 40 years.
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  5165. Hey everyone, a simple non-political request - our Life boat men & women risk their lives to save people at sea. They've been doing it for over a century. They have no political affiliation and don't care who you are - if you get in trouble, they'll be out to rescue you. Be kind and drop them a small donation if possible. Or a big donation if you have tons of money and want to give some away. k. Thx.
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  5166.  @iandavis1723  Who was more accurate than the lockdown skeptics telling us we'd have no second wave or that its harmless to anyone under 82...
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  5167. Tory Party ID in action. Moron.
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  5168. Never apologising when you're wrong is a sign of a personality disorder - look at Trump.
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  5169.  @emceedoctorb3022  Perhaps calling anyone a sheep who is trying to stop a pandemic from killing more Britons shows that you have a bit of a problem with idiocy.
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  5170.  @simonoak70  Yes brilliant. 10/10 for that retort. You're such a good example of the educational system of Tory Britain.
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  5171.  @prochoice9670  This is my stalker again. Jeez, will you clowns grow up. For anyone who doubts look at the number of comments I have and the number this person has.
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  5172.  @ItsJustRyan89  Not quite, there's a lot more help and encouragement now for girls with subjects like science even outside of schools. Lots of big companies do events to attract girls for example. Nothing wrong with that at all, but it explains a bit.
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  5173. Eating a burger won't kill your friends with respiratory burger disease.
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  5174. Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn was in power and there were 120,000 dead of Corona. Could you see the Tories going 'Oh never mind, he did his best, its not that bad anyway?' No, of course not. But the current lot use their media goblins to play down their catastrophic response by pretending the Rona is just the flu. Very disturbing.
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  5175. And yet the gov is bringing in voter ID and not a word from all the 'freedom' types. Hmmm.
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  5176.  @extraspicywasabi  Heavy metals? What heavy metals? The AZ does contain tiny amounts of magnesium but there's nothing dangerous in there like lead or mercury or Thallium.
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  5177. I love how GB News now is opting to become a Trump cheerleader. Would imagine any non-Trumpy Americans looking at this channel would be mortified beyond belief.
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  5178. Covid killed more than the Blitz. In what world is that not a huge problem?
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  5179.  @yesmate78  I'm not the one arguing for mass infection of Britons, am I? I'm also not the one who's going to be doing sad-faced TV shows in a few months saying 'Why didn't we know this was going to happen?'.
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  5180. Yeah, hours of 'OMG THE LEFT ARE DESTROYING US WITH GAY SHOE LACES AND WOKE STUFF!!!' every day is a sign of a perfectly normal 'good news' channel.
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  5181. I think rising right-wing nationalism was a bigger factor. And conspiracy theories about Marxists. And support from rich foreigners who thought fascism was a safer bet than Communism. Oh shit. We're there again, aren't we?
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  5182. Lol, this is hysterical. Bonehead boot-lickers have basically tried to portray Megs as a cross between Lady Macbeth and Countess Bathory. The people are not convinced. While she may not be entirely honest, she's definitely not involved in shady business like Andy Pandy.
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  5183.  @CastrolHondaSP2  But you know I'm correct. The anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-lockdown Venn Diagram is a circle. What is motivating these people to be pro-Coronavirus? Is very odd.
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  5184.  @billybud8178  So their 'freedom' involves killing thousands of their own friends and relatives every week? Their choices are clearly not designated by scientific influence, but by the influence of weird internet conspirituality gibberish and right-wing grift.
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  5185. Lockdowns, 'woke' stuff, flipping out about transgenders and generally being cretinous opinionated brainlets. This is why Paw Patrol in Welsh gets better viewing figures.
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  5186. You talk like Britain didn't already have Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Fred West, the Moors murderers, pedo priests, noncy Royals, noncy MPs or pervy scout masters.
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  5187.  @Petal4822  My point is that its awfully strange how we started talking about foreign grooming gangs at about the same time as all the historical sex abuse stuff came out. Almost as if we're using one group of perverts to cover up for another (white & wealthy) one.
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  5188. As opposed to tampon-obsessed cheated-on-his-wife and talks to plants while being best mates with Jimmy Savile, Charles?
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  5189. It must be incredibly annoying that Macron is doing a better job than Boris. Well done Brexit voters.
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  5190.  @alboy4  I'm a 90s early Internet conspiracy nerd, mate. I've been reading this stuff for decades and can spot drivel from a mile off. And thank you, much respect. Fight the good fight for truth and science!
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  5191.  @alboy4  Am sure that's where Trump's ranting about bleach came from last year. Someone must have told him about MMS.
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  5192.  @winstonsmithsoul  As I've said nothing factually wrong then no.
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  5193. Which right is that? The right in Britain who keeps taking people's rights away?
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  5194.  @commonsenseskeptic  Also, what medical supplies do you take along? We can pack food in there and water but what drugs would be needed? Some meds require refrigeration, others have a fairly short shelf-life. Do we just take some common ones - vitamins, insulin, painkillers, anti-emetics - and hope for the best, or should we also pack in some more obscure drugs just in case? Treatment is tricky as well - ultrasound machines are quite portable, but an X-Ray unit is hefty and a CT scanner heavier still. Would be ridiculous to lose an astronaut because there's no proper diagnostic equipment on the craft. Then we also have the question of basic surgery - how would that be done on a spacecraft? Could imagine the mess from opening someone up (even for a routine emergency procedure like appendicitis) would be somewhat nasty floating round in the air for hours. There will be health problems even for a fit crew if they're stuck in non-existent g for several years or longer but this isn't really spoken about by the Muskites.
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  5195.  @commonsenseskeptic  Yep, working my way through. Good stuff!
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  5196. Children don't want to grow up with ruined lungs, brain fog, kidney damage or any of the other problems associated with corona.
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  5197. No, they start to get sick and a percentage will get long covid and be on the social for years claiming benefits.
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  5198.  @alexrussell5401  I didn't say all, I said a percentage. 5% with health problems is a lot of health problems if you infect 5 million people.
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  5199. Glug glug glug...
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  5200. @Ramzan Can you give me examples?
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  5201. @Ramzan Superior and inferior cultures and what makes them superior or inferior.
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  5202. @Ramzan Okay, that's quite a good example and certainly a repellent cultural practice. In Victorian England child prostitution was rampant, despite it being the most advanced nation in the world and a Christian nation. There wasn't really an outcry about it until the 1880s when a series of newspaper stories raised the issue, culminating in the journalist (W T Stead) who wrote them winding up in jail for showing how easy it was to 'buy' a 13 year old girl. A century+ later we have Jimmy Savile, pervert priests, twisted teachers and numerous other weirdos engaging in those same practices despite them being abhorrent to the majority of the population.
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  5203.  @luisbustamante9869  Yep, especially as the problems here have been repeated all over the world where covid has kicked off. Florida is currently having massive problems with medical cases and there's no NHS there to blame...
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  5204. On what science do you base that? Especially as reinfection is a known phenomena.
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  5205.  @alandockrill4924  Is that why in the US the most vaccinated areas have the lowest covid numbers and the least vaccinated the highest?
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  5206. It is about a virus although some people are brainlets who think its about some mad lizard plot for world domination they read about on Facebook.
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  5207.  @dexine4723  And yet you say 'mask nonsense' whereas someone who sincerely couldn't use one would respect other people's choices. Anti-maskers are more motivated by politics than actual utility.
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  5208.  @rewdwarf123  Do you also pass out wearing a scarf round your face in a snow storm? If so you may need to talk to a doctor.
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  5209. You mean France with its own large navy? The same navy who work with the British as part of Nato? You want to attack a nato ally?
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  5210. In WW2 the Russians had female snipers who killed tons of Germans. Looked like ordinary lasses but absolutely lethal. Other countries did the same. As for the gays, well pretty sure there was a lot of that going on in Rome & Greece and those dudes were extremely tough. Why are we pretending having women/gay people in the military now is 'woke'?
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  5211.  @Petal4822  Right, very good. A definition. Except the problem is firstly The right-wing are far more into cancelling people they don't agree with (See: Dixie Chicks, heavy metal, Dungeons & Dragons, Paul McCartney's song about Irealand and even an episode of Star Trek - oh and Angela Rayner who they threatened to kill this week or Jo Cox who actually was killed). Second is you assume there's a grand marxist conspiracy based on no evidence other than Facebook meme conspiracies. You know who else thought there was a Marxist conspiracy to destroy culture? Hitler. So basically you're being fed neo-nazi conspiracies and believing them.
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  5212.  @Petal4822  Designed to stimulate immune response to a pathogen makes it by definition a vaccination. Absolutely no one is saying you'll need three shots every year, that's just waffle.
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  5213.  @Petal4822  HPV can require three shots. So can Hepatitis A & B. Age dependent of course (like with covid).
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  5214.  @Petal4822  Better than being dead or disabled long term, isn't it?
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  5215.  @Petal4822  Not in the same way. Antibiotics will usually attack the cell wall of invading bacteria thus damaging it in some manner, at which point the immune system will find it easier to attack the invaders. Vaccines pre-program the immune system to recognise a potential virus or bacteria so the immune system can get to work quicker. Vaccines don't actually damage viruses or bacteria directly.
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  5216.  @darrenhems2291  Then you're one of a small minority who will help to keep this thing going and spread disease to your fellow Britons. I bet you claim to be a flag-waving patriot as well.
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  5217.  @darrenhems2291  Try not to spread the rona, mate. Wear a mask and self-isolate if you catch it.
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  5218.  @mattrickl06  No, is a joke because I had a stalker on here impersonating me. Is actually a proper QR code with a cheery optimistic message.
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  5219. Well in case you didn't know, most boilers have a set life and have to be upgraded anyway. So by the time upgrades are due the newer more efficient boilers will have dropped in price.
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  5220. We didn't vote to ban flags mate. Don't be silly.
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  5221. Not really, its the one of the few things we've got that works and benefits all of the people. Sure there's problems, but we can thank Tory cuts & an incompetent pandemic response for that.
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  5222.  @stephenrichards5386  Do you understand what 40% of GDP is? 2 trillion is our GDP. So you're saying the NHS budget will go from 120 billion to 800 billion in two years because of pen pushers? Please stop getting taken in by social media nonsense. British people pay around 2 grand for the NHS. This is a lot less than they'd pay under a private system like in the USA. We are being hit by Tory cuts because Tories do not believe in the NHS and want it gone. The coronavirus is a big opportunity to do that, hence the likes of Fred West Jnr ranting on here every week.
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  5223.  @aclark903  I think kids have known about the gays for a long time mate. Remember Larry Grayson and Kenny Everett forty years ago?
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  5224.  @johnking5174  Does he still own an apartment in one of Trump's buildings?
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  5225.  @bigbarty8648  In the same time period how much have newspaper sales fell? Seems like even more people are not buying Tory rags.
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  5226.  @bigbarty8648  The BBC will be fine, they have a good Internet presence and are popular in the US.
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  5227. Just checked. Apparently the antivaxxers attacked a former BBC building. They went to the wrong place. Clearly their vaccine research is similarly high quality.
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  5228. Historical note for the kids: Nasa was formed in the late 1950s. By 1969 they had men standing on the Moon and had sent probes to Mars & craft to monitor solar activity in orbit. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and despite 30+ years of previous genius to work with have not been to the moon. Though they have done some cool self-landing rockets which are totally awesome if we forget the Delta Clipper from the 90s. The above comment can form part of your answer when asked why capitalism always fuels innovation. The rest of your answer being it kind of doesn't very often.
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  5229. And yet Britain is full of people actively encouraging the alleged bioweapon by protesting against every heatlh measure. Hmmm, wonder if they're in the employ of someone?
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  5230. If only we didn't hit students with massive amounts of debt like in the old days when they went to uni for free, got a grant and could even sign on in the summer...
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  5231. Blair was amazing compared to this crowd. So was Brown. Is hilarious really.
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  5232.  @Luis-sz7ry  You're not their main demographic. The Tories only become the majority when the votes of the over 50s are taken into account.
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  5233.  @josephverdins6921  I keep getting accused of being a military intelligence plant, which is hilarious if you met me (don't think the British army are fans of anti-war leftists) and especially hilarious that everyone on here thinks the government is trolling them.
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  5234.  @plug6038  Right, now did I imagine all those younger people with long-term symptoms? Sure, they're not dead per se, but is pretty tough being in your twenties and suddenly developing covid-related lung damage or heart issues. We can gloss over this but eventually there will be a torrent of health issues that will be impossible to hide.
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  5235. Like Mrs T who signed up to ban CFCs in the 80s? Or the 1956 Conservative government who did the Clean Air Act? Or the Victorian's who spent massive amounts of money after the disaster of the Great Stink? Do you know anything about conservative political history?
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  5236.  @Neil-Aspinall  Like armies? State pensions? The Queen? Nuclear bombs? Roads?
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  5237. Yeah and tens of thousands died.
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  5238. For the same reason the army needs money, or the police, or the Royals, or anything. Are you a cretin?
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  5239. You do know GB News has a massive promotional campaign on Twitter with acolytes using fake accounts to promote whatever drivel they're trying to be angry about today? Go look at all those weirdos with GB News avatars who spend all day agreeing with nonsense.
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  5240.  @pdizzle7111  How is it any more ridiculous than saying we shouldn't test for a virus that has killed 120+000 British people in a year. Not testing would kill even more. That's psychopathic.
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  5241.  @jango1968  You do know other countries will mandate them so you'll still be restricted travel-wise even if they're not implemented in the UK?
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  5242. They actually do in any history class. Alex is just stirring up nonsense as usual.
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  5243. It's about the virus, mate. The government screwed up, so they're scrambling to cover their tracks. Having news networks telling everyone to go out and catch it for 'muh herd immunity' allows the government to say 'Oh, wasn't us guv, it was the plebs ignoring the rules.' The UK is already known as plague island due to us infecting half of Europe over the Christmas because we must have our holidays, mustn't we?
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  5244.  @jason88580  Yeah, was dark British humour in action! Believe the kent variant spread was probably made worse by all the lorry traffic at the end of the year. The one thing the gov should have sorted out but didn't so you ended up with thousands of blokes stuck outside with no proper toilets for days. No wonder stuff spread.
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  5245. If you voted for Boris then it's on you, man.
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  5246. So how much did GB News pay Andrew Neil for a job he couldn't be bothered to do for more than a fortnight?
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  5247.  @kevinbillington9773  I'm here for the love, not money.
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  5248. Andrew Neil was apparently going to be paid £700,000 a year for his GB News gig. That's for a channel no one watches, that can't get advertisers and is funded by shady foreign money.
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  5249. They do zero research on this channel. Here's the most famous boxer in history in 1978 promoting vaccines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7t2IGwiSHw And here's the most famous singer ever promoting vaccines in the 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlISLBBnYOo
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  5250. Oh, the gammon revolution of 2021 whereupon they rioted due to the pubs being shut in a global pandemic?
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  5251.  british resistance fighter  Was there a gammon revolution I missed?
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  5252.  british resistance fighter  The fact your name is 'British resistance fighter' tells me all I need to know about you, dude.
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  5253.  british resistance fighter  Yes, thank you Dr Freud, but I'm not the one succumbing to fascism, am I? There's quite a history on fascism. Would suggest you read up on some of it.
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  5254.  british resistance fighter  You are weird, and not in a good way.
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  5255.  british resistance fighter  Are you one of those fetishists who are obsessed with 'daddies'? Euughhh.
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  5256. Is weird, they made education dearer, houses unaffordable, criticise women for working, criticise women for not working, kill off 150 thousand with a deadly virus, inflate prices, cut child benefits and treat anyone who isn't rich like garbage.... ... then they go 'Why aren't people having more kids?'
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  5257. They were astroturfers. Do you think tens of thousands of laid-off workers can afford a weekend in London every month? Is nonsense. Most were paid to be there.
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  5258.  @deanhaycox  Umm, surgeons also wear them to reduce the risk of infection via bacteria and viruses. Bloody hell, you'll be arguing the moon is made of green cheese next.
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  5259. You can easily see a list of SAGE participants. Relatively few psychologists on there and the ones that are are considerably better qualified than Botoxed weirdo Emma Kenney.
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  5260.  @34bally  So why are you here so early? Always posting anti-vax stuff? Hmmm...
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  5261.  @lilyrbtv4740  I've been on here a month or so and been accused of being a BBC spy, an actual spy, a member of military intelligence, a paid poster and a communist. Been accused of this by people who spend all day posting the same anti-vax talking points like robots and are clearly on the payroll of some creepy libertarian group pushing an agenda.
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  5262.  @34bally  As I said on here many times, give the posting data for this site to the media to examine. I bet I'm one of the few here who isn't being paid to push an agenda. I'm probably also one of the few who aren't foreign pretending to be English.
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  5263. Media criticism has long been a thing. The difference is now the right-wing press constantly froth about it while using that outrage to cover up the massive failings of the absolute gonks we have in power.
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  5264. Have just read Alastair Stewart has gone off work because he was knocked over by a horse and broke his hip?? Can't he work from home? He could make videos moaning about horses and telling the viewers he can't take the knee because he can't actually stand up at the moment. Get well soon, mate! Your hip will be fine!!
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  5265. Laura is a nazi. Even her own brother says she's a nazi. Not a good person to emulate.
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  5266. Is that why doctors wear them in surgery then?
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  5267. Meghan appears to be a massive resource to be exploited by z-grade media hacks eager for clicks.
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  5268.  @MikeWalls7829  That's why there's thousands of scientists producing reports and writing books and giving out data, while in the opposite camp there's tabloids journalists and a few idiot libertarian weirdos.
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  5269. Oh noes, the forrins!!!!!!!!! BE SCARED BOOMERS!!!!!!
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  5270. Yep. £60 million spent al this is what we get.
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  5271. @Form Emptiness No it isn't. Selling the NHS means people paying through the nose for private.
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  5272. @Form Emptiness And you think Britain is going to opt for a mainland Europe plan when there's giant American supercorporations waiting to take over? Are you being paid to post this promotion of anti-Britishness?
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  5273.  @darrylhewes2376  I don't think its unfair to say we should reduce restrictions when we're on top of this thing, but at the moment we're not. That's the issue. If we get through winter with a few thousand cases a day, then cool, is beat. If we get slammed like last year, uh oh.
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  5274. The 80s says hi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PYqUHfTMA
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  5275.  @markstephen1308  Yes, and he also killed off hundreds of thousands of his own voters by being an idiot. Mass-culling of Americans is nothing to be proud of.
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  5276.  @pdizzle7111  You're on GB News. Both Claire Fox and Brendan O'Neil used to be in the Revolutionary Communist Party. Are you okay with them, then?
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  5277.  @pdizzle7111  Go look up the RCP's history and their association with Spiked magazine and 'muh free speech'. Funnily enough the only one calling them out years ago was lefty journo George Monbiot. The right never criticised them at all...
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  5278.  @Sol-ui2if  He's an epic clown. "Ooh, me freedom to infect people with covid"...
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  5279. And yet when we smacked around kids in the old days we ended up with far more violent societies. Lots of wife-beating, alcoholism, child abuse, gangsterism, constant wars.
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  5280. He's a weirdo and a great example of why Knighthoods should be abolished.
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  5281. Someone fought it and the law won.
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  5282. Is the best thing to come out of Britain post-war. Nothing comes close.
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  5283. You mean the party led by Neil 'King of Tory Sleaze' Hamilton? Lol.
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  5284. Side-effects are mainly 'had a bit of a headache'. There are some more serious ones, as expected but not many in comparison to what the Rona was doing to people.
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  5285. Is like when they talk about 'mental health' during lockdowns and forget to mention all the cuts to mental health services and the way the government actively encourage hate against such people ("So-called depressed benefit scroungers" headlines for years*) to cut welfare bills. *plus y'know Jeremy Kyle, Benefits Street etc.
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  5286. We actually had rationing last year in Britain for many weeks, so please stop being a moron.
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  5287. Posh Putin Boris is turning into. He's also going after Channel 4.
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  5288. We're doing that already by infecting them with Corona. Do keep up.
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  5289. I've had my shots. If Jen wants to meet up, will happily buy her a mocha....
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  5290. What's a simplified environmental justification? Other than we're destabilising the atmosphere by chucking 80 billion ton of c02 into it each year along with billions of tons of other pollutants? Trust me, that's going to be THE problem for human civilisation for the next century.
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  5291. He actually did. At the start of the pandemic his 500k figure was for if the rona was allowed to run loose (1% death rate). Germany and other countries ran their own models which confirmed this, hence lockdown. Ferguson said with mitigation (lockdown), we'd lose 50k, while the government were saying it would be under 20k. The first wave killed 40k, but in reality closer to 50. So he was right.
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  5292.  @danielbate13  So they deserve to die because they're fat? Do you say the same about every other disease? Do you ask women with ovarian cancer if they've been promiscuous? Or tell people who've lost a relative to heart disease that it was their own fault for being tubby?
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  5293. Spoiler: Everyone who whines about being cancelled - has not been cancelled. In fact claiming to be cancelled is a good way to make money on social media.
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  5294.  @spectralon7677  Having spent much time around conservative spaces (am one of those who believes in listening to people on the other side), the reason many of these places get banned is because they turn into a cesspit of hate & weirdness*. The same has also happened to the left - for example Chapo Trap House is a massively popular lefty podcast but their reddit page was banned a year or two ago. Oddly the right never mention this. *like how much of the Donalds support came from 4 and 8 chan for instance.
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  5295. I had a BCG in the early 80s as a teenager. So did all my classmates. Vaccines aren't a new thing. Nor is worrying about the environment - unless you've completely forgotten the 1960s happened.
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  5296. A war with France would be kind of amusing. Brits can't handle petrol queues and wearing a mask, pretty sure they wouldn't cope well with shit blowing up all around them every night. Note: Am not in favour of war with France. Was being facetious to demonstrate the gammon's lack of coping skills.
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  5297. This is about the third or forth whine at universities today on this hellscape of a channel. Maybe GB News could get more viewers if they occasionally said something nice about young British people?
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  5298. And yet no one was voting for that. The promise was we'd be able to co-exist in the same EU markets. Stop trying to rewrite history.
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  5299.  @oswaldmosley4315  I kind of like vegans but they do get their fare share of mockery, heh.
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  5300.  @ladylove3636  Normal beans on toast, or posh version produced using a toastie maker?
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  5301. Can we also ban 4x4s which run over kids and spew out massive amounts of pollution?
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  5302. Oh please. We get a 'so and so is cancelled' story every day and in almost all cases they're not cancelled. Is just fodder for angry gammons to get steamed up about.
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  5303. No. Is right-wing drivel. They're here to promote free-market think tanks and their rich chums. If they were indeed aiming to be neutral we could have some nice debates with lefty people. But they won't.
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  5304.  @jeremylister89  I had a look at that New Zealand person ranting nonsense. No, just no. Dire.
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  5305.  @jeremylister89  Yep, Wooton. Today's he's anti-lockdown and brings in such experts to discuss as ... other anti-lockdown characters. This isn't how you handle complex issues. Especially considering the likes of Pearson wrote an article last year seemingly overjoyed at her student son getting Covid. When you're that far gone you think your own child getting infected with a novel virus is great, then, well, you're not a person who should be discussing health matters on TV. Or parenting. Or anything else.
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  5306. Because a) No one ever said it would be too weeks - most predictions were for 18-36 months. The 'two weeks to flatten the curve' was exactly that, two weeks to slow down the increase (which it did). In theory we could have killed the Rona off in just over two weeks but that would require the entire population to be completely isolated for a fortnight+ - clearly not possible as you need many to still work (power, medical, food etc.) Plus the Tories are useless and will always opt for short-term solutions at the expense of long-term problems. Which is where we are now.
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  5307.  @bottleofwatero1  Then if you did that you'd have seen massively increased deaths in the UK. But sounds like you'd be fine with that.
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  5308.  @bottleofwatero1  No, it needn't have been like that. Sars didn't kill millions, nor did Mers, not did Zika, nor did Hendra. Covid was allowed to spread because politicians are idiots with zero concern for their population.
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  5309. You mean cancel him?
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  5310.  @liamc9425  Blimey, this boot-licking is astonishing. 1. Our roll out was quick at the start and now most of Europe is ahead of us. 2. He's cutting support in a month so will happily see poor people starve. 3. He didn't even want to feed kids until shamed into it by a footy lad. 4. We're not even going to vaccinate younger teenagers, unlike most of the planet. She's better because NZ has locked down less than the UK, had a smaller economic decline, far more freedom and will have much reduced medical costs (no need for long covid clinics like in the UK). On top of this 25 dead compared to 130,000 in the UK.
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  5311. No, it makes complete sense. Pregnant women are likely to be around kids more than most. This means their chance of catching German measles is very high from unvaccinated groups. Catch it at the wrong time and the consequences for your baby are not pleasant. Hence the shots.
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  5312.  @Wonmanbanned  But therefore if you don't wish to be vaccinated then you should be willing to adhere to distancing, masks and the like. Otherwise you are using your freedom to endanger others which even libertarians think is bad. Is shocking that the anti-vax crowd are also the herd immunity crowd and opposed to any attempts to control this thing. Mass death is apparently the way...
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  5313. Why not try and be polite and use the lady's name?
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  5314. The're meme drugs that don't work for covid. Go away bot.
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  5315. So tell me how Dido Harding ended up running a telecoms company and track & trace with her PPE degree? Personally I think proper engineering types would have made a decent job of it, but nope, David Cameron's classmate got it instead.
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  5316. It was pretty cool for most people, actually. Nice and quiet, watch Netflix, less pollution, solution to homelessness worked out, no pub fights, chilling at the park having a run, no flu, crime at 1950s levels, fewer allergies, fewer STDs, kids spending quality time with their parents.... Yes, lockdown was bad for the sick and a lot of old people, but the anti-lockdown groups don't care about them anyway - which is why they are against vaccines and want the vulnerable to die. Nor do they care about the unemployed and never have.
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  5317. Is weird how this very channel seems to attract people who call themselves 'purebloods', claim there's a worldwide Marxist plot to control everything (like Hitler claimed), rant daily about the white race and often have Youtube usernames that are tributes to horrors like Oswald Moseley. Is almost as if this channel is full of right-wing extremists and racists?...
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  5318. Today in social media Mike Graham of Talk Radio was hassling a kid who made a video about covid. So today's question is... what does Mike Graham most remind you of? 1. A Wind in the Willows character who was banged up for offences against badgers. 2. A bloke who sits on the Internet all day complaining about beta males. 3. A real-world version of a retired alcoholic Penfold from Dangermouse. Take your pick...
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  5319.  @grief1  He'll probably be on GB News soon...
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  5320. No it isn't 3-4 people. There's a lot of member of Sage. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response-membership/list-of-participants-of-sage-and-related-sub-groups
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  5321.  @michaelwynn8811  They are giving data on deaths. Is released every day. Please don't tell me you're one of those who think the covid deaths are exaggerated but believe all the anti-vaxx exaggerations?
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  5322. There's a difference between a moan and the weird Incel culture which is downright creepy.
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  5323. Well am betting as Lloyd Webber's Cinderella has been delayed that she probably mugged Cinderella and made off with her dress?
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  5324.  @grief1  Its the right doing this mate. Do keep up.
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  5325.  @grief1  Using fake patriotism to hide their monstrous record of failure.
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  5326. Ivermectin pluggers are really the same as bitcoin bots. It's embarrassing.
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  5327. Everybody and their dog told you Boris was a clown with a personality defect but you all voted for him to stick it to the 'lefties' and now you're complaining? And before anyone whines about Corbyn, you could have voted Green or Lib Dem and we could have had a decent coalition, but noooooo.
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  5328.  @marcusbradley3081  And there's your problem. You'll watch your country die* so you can laugh at the 'lefties'. Weird how British patriots seem to hate Britain? *won't be a UK soon - Scots break off, Ireland unifies...
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  5329. I have done. It's terrible. Vaccines have been a thing since the days of Jenner. They work tremendously well.
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  5330.  @dulls8475  Boris isn't in his place tho, is he? He's currently committing biological warfare against our teenagers while appearing on TV asking people to email him some policies.
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  5331. British Youtube posters are weird. Is like they learnt history by watching Saving Private Ryan while sniffing glue and pleasuring themselves to pictures of Enoch Powell.
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  5332. If any Victoria's Secret girls want to use this bloke, then am happy to volunteer. That was a sex joke, btw, not me confessing to a cross-dressing habit.
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  5333. Then have another lockdown in September.
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  5334. More Masked Singer, probably.
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  5335. But Boris isn't a creep? Boris who dumped his wife while she was having cancer treatment to chase Princess Nut Nut instead?
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  5336. You do remember everyone saying this last summer then going mysteriously quiet when it blew up in September?
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  5337.  @garystorey  Since when did we willingly infect kids with a novel disease? It may be the sniffles for some, but others get extremely ill (inflammatory syndrome etc.)
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  5338. Porn and polygamy... something tells me there's a huge Tory scandal incoming...
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  5339. I actually am stunned that in the middle of another covid blow-up that this absolute imbecile is arguing against any restrictions whatsoever. Remember, the freedoms of 150,000 don't exist anymore because they're dead. And the freedoms of several times that will be curtailed for perhaps years due to long covid. But Dan doesn't care about them. Nope. Doesn't give a toss.
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  5340. That might well be true if there wasn't a massive worldwide disinformation campaign designed to discredit vaccines. We're fighting against that.
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  5341.  @davidcorbett1713  Absolute brainlet. Everything you do is on your phone, computer - you're scanned everywhere with facial recognition cameras. You actually think they need a vaccine to control you?
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  5342.  @johnallen7807  Have you seen what covid does to you? Have you seen the odds of getting a blood clot from covid? Not good.
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  5343. Yes, and they're currently very annoyed at the pro-Covid crowd, of which Dolan is one.
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  5344. @Bev Bev The British political system is such that with an 80 seat majority it doesn't matter what the opposition do - Boris can (and does) ignore them.
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  5345.  @briancox8518  They're backing off from that because they know the optics are bad. But might happen in a few weeks.
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  5346.  @wimkop9597  Well there's over three million dead so far. To most of us that's a catastrophe, but the pro-Rona types seem fine with it.
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  5347.  @doriangray5750  The Rona caused most of them. Last year normal deaths should have dropped due to lockdowns - less cars, so fewer crashes, pubs closed so no drunken fights, restrictions outside so none of the usual gang stuff, cleaner air for a few months... we should have been much healthier & safer, but apparently not. The Rona killed a staggering amount of British people.
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  5348.  @thewatchman6074  Oh gee, a Tory who wants to get rid of the NHS. What a surprise.... Tories have an almost Mao-like zeal for permanent revolution and chaos to protect the ruling class, don't they?
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  5349. What are they doing, mate? We're killing ours and mass-infecting them, that's pretty evil in itself.
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  5350. Well someone is being a bit of pig, aren't they?
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  5351. So is infecting your class and watching teacher carted off to ICU.
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  5352. While this channel gives us 99% Tory/Brexit hellions and pretends to be balanced.
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  5353. Pete, stop being triggered and threatening people. Chill. Go drink some chamomile tea and listen to a nice bit of Vivaldi.
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  5354. Tory cuts as well. Apparently since 2010 hundreds of youth clubs have been closed due to 'austerity'. Same will happen with the pensioners.
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  5355. Hey Alex, lots of people are wound up by scumbags who worked for Cambridge Analytica helping to ruin democracy. Could you perhaps say a few words about that?
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  5356.  @edmundblackadder2741  It also relies on you getting covid and possibly dying or having a 10-20% chance of long-term illness. And if natural immunity was 13x better, care to explain why Brazil, Russia and Iran keep getting infected again and again? (they all have rubbish vaccine rollouts, as well)
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  5357.  @beatermax1  They're just asking for people to not be racist sacks of shit. Is pretty simple.
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  5358.  @Tsaniko  You could argue the same with almost any industry, tho.
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  5359.  @Tsaniko  Would agree if we also include politicians and all of the media. I really would like to see 'Sponsored by <name of > Shady Billionaire' on every dodgy video pretending to be 'alt media'.
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  5360. They clearly don't.
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  5361. Also the Rona has caused problems all around the world, especially with trade. So if the UK dropped all restrictions tomorrow we'd still have to contend with a somewhat hosed international trading system.
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  5362. Found some footage of GB News viewers eagerly enjoying the new channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvGmOZ5T6_Y
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  5363. You should have paid more attention in school. They reduce the chance of you doing both but are not 100%, not any other vaccine.
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  5364. Is a generic legal disclaimer. They do the job of reducing spread if used correctly.
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  5365. So they should copy England and just infect everyone and fill the hospitals then watch their healthcare system collapse and lots more people die?
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  5366. Probably because anti-vaxxers are idiots and their arguments make little sense. And y'know, all those anti-vax types telling people they'll die of the vax soon and wishing random people 'RIP' on social media adds an extra layer of irritation.
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  5367. Yes we should show more respect for the NHS, and less for the Tory parasites who are trying to kill it.
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  5368. Grow up snowflake.
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  5369. No we don't. Go and google the Keeling curve.
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  5370. She's getting better at reading off the autocue.
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  5371. There's no one watching it. Paw Patrol is on.
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  5372. Facts: We're probably doomed. Sorry to break it to you.
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  5373. If it helps it looks like Pfizer's vaccine is going to be authorised fully by the FDA within the next month.
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  5374. Is when the nationalists launch wars and kill millions. See: World War 2 ... and 1.
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  5375. Just looking at today's Guardian... we've got air pollution, vaccines for holidays, more Rona news, Stormont news, a piece about the new Chinese space station, a piece about press freedom in Hong Kong, social media influencers being called out for a lack of commercial transparency, the footy, the cricket.... seems pretty diverse.
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  5376. The Tories don't believe in spending money on state schools, so your plan falls apart at the first hurdle.
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  5377. No it isn't.
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  5378. That wouldn't work. The viewers would be irate its got Kiwis in who think covid is bad.
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  5379. Vaccines will help the kids. As 90% of adults have had their shots in the UK is awfully suspicious how many supposed anti-vaxxers there are on here. Statistically most of them will have had vaccines, so I have to assume they're not sincere in their beliefs but pushing a sinister agenda (probably foreign powers information warfare).
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  5380.  @MrPlenty1  Apart from the hundreds with multisystem inflammatory disorder, and the ones in hospital and the ones with long covid. The death rate from a recent report was around 25 per half million, which is low but nothing to be complacent about.
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  5381. So you're saying the variations are completely natural and nothing to do with the 80 billion ton of CO2 we're chucking in the air every year? Is that your argument?
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  5382. Imagine being Pat, thinking of himself as a journalist but now spends his days doing rants on the telly that make him look like a prize idiot. I liked it when journalists reported the news and checked their facts - not shouted at you.
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  5383.  @jeremyfielding2333  So? The pandemic hasn't even finished yet, that's a pretty gigantic number. Or are we doing the Stalin thing now where we don't care about big numbers?
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  5384. He should know. He lost an election, lost a few marriages, lost billions running a casino...
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  5385. Pen Farthing is a bloke who has embarrassed the lazy slackers in the government. For that he will be punished and I fully expect the deviant rags we call 'newspapers' to be accusing him of everything by this time next week.
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  5386. Us lefties would happily support an emergency profiteering tax to deter this. Which is actually what they do in wartime, often with harsh penalties for business types who break the rules.
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  5387. What do you even mean? You're talking like someone who's just been released from a gulag.
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  5388. I bet it was a woman you threatened.
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  5389. Read their 2019 manifesto. You voted for it.
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  5390.  @rickshaw2779  So you voted Brexit which has goosed the economy and you have no regrets? Is this English patriotism? Screwing one's country for 'freedom'?
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  5391.  @rickshaw2779  If it helps Brexit has failed miserably and Boris is going to kill a shit ton more of his own voters over the next few months. Well done for voting for that.
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  5392. He's sitting in front of what looks like a Nazi flag talking Orwellian drivel every night.
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  5393. Yoyo Bojo has backed down and will now self-isolate. This is good in two ways - 1. He's got to stick to his own rules and 2. He'll be spending freedom week stuck in the house.
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  5394. Or the news about Britain becoming plague island once again?
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  5395. Go on, tell us why?
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  5396. As 12 million are kids and haven't had vaccines and perhaps 2 million have had it then that means we're clearly not at 90% (10 million out of 66 million is 15% before you start) . The figure is for adults and am guessing that is also selective & not including younger people not vaccinated yet. Then of course there are the antivaxxers. Yes some of these will have had the rona, but there's no guarantee immunity will be conferred for very long with infection (See: Brazil outbreaks in Manaus). And many of the 'producing antibodies' numbers are people who have had one shot. Which is good but not full protection.
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  5397. Yep, imagine how much your medical insurance will be when you're 70 with eight different health issues. "Oh Mrs Jones, looks like you'll have to sell that nice house you have"....
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  5398.  @jonathanj.7344  The people who think like sheep are the ones getting their info off FB and right-wing media. This is why they'll often completely change their views to whatever right-wing media parrots. And this is how we end up with the worst covid death toll in Europe and the 'freedom lovers' seem to think is great and we need some more death over winter rather than the horrors of wearing a mask in the chemist.
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  5399. Have to agree. Some absolute troglodytes in the media who coasted on easy degrees whining about the kids who have to work far harder these days to get by. I remember when David Cameron decided to promote computer science. Cool. But watched him give a speech where he spoke about 'the new language of computer coding' and was like WUT??? When Dave was a teenager computer programming was a huge thing and was heavily promoted by the government via the Computer Literacy Project. The PM at the time was Dave's icon, Mrs Thatcher. Dave apparently had zero knowledge of this. At least Ed Milliband confessed to being a ZX Spectrum fan.
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  5400. And yet the right just can't do anything that's actually funny. Compare my loony lefty comments on here to all the Conservatives who sound like robots reciting from a script. Up your funny game right-wingers if you want to prove your point.
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  5401. Tons of evidence to show the Rona is a lot worse than its made out to be, but oddly everyone ignores that.
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  5402. I don't think going to war with China would be a good idea, mate. Especially for something that may well be natural or an accidental release. Besides, if it was a deliberate attack is funny how so many on here want to let it rip through the population.
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  5403. And yet the ones who claim to love Britain voted in a libertine twit who has successfully alienated us from most of our allies and set the population at each other's throats.
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  5404. I know, mate. I know this bloke - quite a good cv, lots of media work... anyway, he got this job during lockdown. Did it for two weeks then decided he couldn't be bothered and would go off to live in his holiday home and work there. But he didn't do any work - for months. And now he's resigned. Lazy workshy sponger. Bet he hasn't given any of the money back!!!
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  5405. So tell me, did green policies have anything to do with us dropping out of the European energy market, thus making us vulnerable to price spikes? Were green policies at fault for the UK not building gas storage systems and only having a week's worth of reserves?
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  5406. This is North Korean-style drivel. Absolutely embarrassing to put this nonsense out as if it were true.
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  5407.  @douglasgreen437  But this very channel cancelled its own presenter, alienated several guests and screams about cancelling different things every day. All the Conservative sites I've been to do the same. Constant whining and constant victim playing. The left may be annoying at times but generally they can report a story without turning it into a persecution fest. Compare, say, the Guardians coverage to the never-ending toddler tantrums here.
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  5408. Height is irrelevant. Tho I definitely wouldn't moan if the Jocks made Karen Gillan First Minister....
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  5409. Which is good because you won't give anyone corona. Win win!
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  5410. Never mind. The papers said at the weekend Boris is happy with around 1000 dead a week from the Rona, so expect another 50+ thousand dead of that yearly and the health service to collapse. Oh, and BTW, they can't get enough glass tubes for blood samples, so if you need a blood test, well...
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  5411. Farage is pals with the US repubs and wants us to buy more fossil fuels off the US. Very simple agenda.
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  5412.  @Warren2490  Mate, how many people do you think are in the British army and how many do you think will be required to do house to house searches of a country of 67 million? And mass deportations? Really? Perilously close to Adolf territory. Please stop.
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  5413.  @luisbustamante9869  Indeed, this is very correct. Is one worldview that comes from right-wing think-tanks in which conservatives are always correct but they're stopped from doing things by an enemy. The enemy changes every week - footy players, lefties, trans people, hippie protesters, environmentalists. We tend to look at people who blame every problem on someone else as a bit weird, but in politics apparently not taking personal responsibility for bad decisions is fine.
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  5414.  @firstknight6057  You might be fine with it, the NIMBYS won't be. That's the problem, even if they do spend the money on cleaner-burning coal plants.
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  5415.  @rogersmith422  Don't forget Mark Steele! "In 1993, Steele was convicted of the shooting of a teenage girl, who had been hit by a shot from a hand-gun fired by Steele during an argument outside the Redskins Pub, Washington, Tyne and Wear. Steele, who was working as a bouncer at the pub, claimed that he was concerned about his safety and brandished the weapon out of "bravado". In court, Steele admitted to unlawful wounding, possession of a firearm with an intent to endanger life and illegal possession of ammunition. Steele was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. The bullet entered the victim's skull and she was left with serious disabilities.["
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  5416. They actually do have covid and were vaccinating there until very recently.
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  5417. Because the rest of the media did - and British people were disgusted by what was going on. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/fury-at-vile-speech-made-at-anti-vax-rally-as-doctors-and-nurses-threatened/
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  5418. Blame France. It'll be stroppy French fishermens fault for protesting. They'll also tell people to suck it up and should be happy to be eating gruel. See: Isablel Oakenshotts nonsense from the other day.
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  5419. Who've had one shot. Need two.
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  5420. Well it is because its killed over four million people worldwide and 120+ thousand in the UK. If ISIS bombed us and killed 120000 Brits I don't think anyone would be saying 'Well acshually is not nearly as bad as that WW1 trench warfare...'
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  5421.  @masterofparsnips5327  No there isn't. That's the usual conspiracy claptrap created by characters with a vested interest in playing down the pandemic. Is basically like saying hardly anyone dies of cancer, they die 'with' cancer and if they didn't have underlying health issues the cancer wouldn't kill them.
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  5422.  @angrybrit7331  Thats quite amusing coming from a poster on here who most likely is paid to spurt out gibberish every day. I'm a perfectly normal (and witty) person who is not a military intelligence spook or whatever other mindless conspiracy you're thinking of. I also notice you don't mention the giant right-wing apparatus churning out banal and disinformational content on the Internet. I'm just distributing truth to a bunch of dorks who like being brainwashed. I also like funny pet videos and decent coffee, if that helps.
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  5423.  @masterofparsnips5327  https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/21438897/troll-farm-turning-point-teenagers-moderation
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  5424. But is it though - it doesn't seem that seasonal in many countries (Iran for example). The seasonal effects may be more to do with changes in behaviour than changes of the virus's potency. But willing to be convinced either way.
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  5425. Stop whining. Your gran's generation had a decade of rationing and didn't know if they'd be alive the next morning wondering if a German bomb would drop on them. They got through it and were a credit to this nation. The kids will do the same.
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  5426.  @agenda2154  The vaccines in the 40s/50s were based on new technologies as well. The parents didn't whine, they sorted their kids out with shots thus reducing a whole horde of nasty killer diseases.
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  5427. They are. Stop lying.
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  5428.  @oswaldmosley4315  Did he do much for the Africans he enslaved? Or don't they count?
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  5429. @M Last time I checked we did indeed lose over 120000 through Tory incompetence during the pandemic. Pretend its not true all you want, but it is.
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  5430. Why do you lot use the same phrases again and again? So if its not about a virus what is it about? Control? You've all been controlled for years. Smartphones, house prices, Brexit, cameras in the streets, social media shaming, libel laws.... A population who keep quiet and go on holiday & vote Tory is a lot more controllable than a population terrified by a deadly disease.
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  5431.  @oldshiny3012  Most on here did and they're all saying the same thing. They need to own their shit.
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  5432. Wait until climate change kicks in properly. This is a mere fire cracker compared to the explosions to come.
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  5433. Was it his covidiot ranting? The 'look at me trashing a face mask' stuff?
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  5434. We had a film a few years back, the Imitation Game about Alan turing. Very good movie, but historically inaccurate in dozens of places. Hardly anyone noticed. We had another recent movie featuring Gary Oldman as Churchill. Oldman is a great actor but it contains absolute nonsense scenes like where Churchill goes on the underground and is going all patriotic with the working-class people. It seems that the establishment is quite happy to create completely fake history but somehow gets offended when actual historians point out true & verified dark episodes in our past.
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  5435. Apparently not: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/13/leading-tory-mp-says-party-must-change-attitude-on-taking-the-knee
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  5436. Lol, remember when the British press said Brexit would be easy, we'd give billions to the NHS, stop immigrants and the economy would boom? Remember when those dastardly leftists said nothing of the sort would happen and the economy would tank & everyone would hate us? Now everyone hates us, the economy is tanking and these absolute clowns still pretend they got it right. Dear, dear me. This is tragic.
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  5437. Because Boris is a psycho. He knows Covid is more likely to kill the working-class and sick so is getting rid of them in order to keep his rich chums happy.
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  5438. So tell me what we should do then? Wait another 3-4 years, let corona spread, kill millions more and then will you take the vaccine?
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  5439.  @Andrew-ri5qo  I've been out this morning, is quite nice. How come you're here posting drivel, Tufton St contract?
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  5440.  @Andrew-ri5qo  I'm trying to stop people from falling victim to lies and endangering their lives. That makes me more of a patriot than you lot endlessly ejaculating the same talking points in the hope of pushing out sensible debate.
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  5441.  Colin Beever  Yes Colin, that's what happens with deadly viruses. Or are you going to do the 'hur de hurr, is not deadly, I read it on Facebook' comeback?
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  5442. Don't think Dan's realising that every viewer who tunes in and sees his defence of the Tories and demands for selling off the NHS are adding to the number of British people incandescent with rage at the clowns we have in now.
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  5443.  @matthewsmith2787  Cool, should be handy.
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  5444.  @johnbrereton5229  So what about all those Euro elections then? You know, the ones with proportional representation which allowed Farage to gain seats, unlike the English system where he never won anything. Is the Queen elected? Lords? Civil service?
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  5445.  @user.--.  The point is the Queen, Lords and civil service are not elected & MPs are elected under a very unfair system, so we can hardly grinch at the Europeans for being undemocratic.
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  5446. Lol. Bet you haven't read it.
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  5447. No, because like all of O'Keefe's stuff, it's utter drivel.
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  5448.  @KisMiska10  Yes, he's a hack who lies and manipulates his source material.
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  5449. If you quoted Neimoller properly they came for the socialists and he did not speak out. And funnily enough the right have been trying to destroy the left (even if it means by constant lying and mass propaganda) and none of you 'free speech' warriors have spoken out. Now you want the rest of us to help you? Hmmm. Learn the poem's lesson.
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  5450. Good luck with running your businesses when a chunk of your customers and sick and your staff sick and 30% of the population is avoiding going out.
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  5451. This has been going on for a while. You just haven't been paying attention.
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  5452. We live in Britain. The FDA doesn't approve our vaccines.
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  5453.  @op3488  Gotcha. The Americans were pretty good seeing the problems with Thalidomide, and they think the current vaccines are safe enough.
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  5454. They can get help. Go see the Citizens advice. They've been badly advised by the social, the CA will help - or the local councils welfare right officer.
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  5455. This is assuming professional help is available, and many times it isn't due to cuts in healthcare.
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  5456. Is humour watching a po-faced bloke complain endlessly about lefties?
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  5457.  @rebeccah4585  You probs need to get out more, mate.
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  5458. Were they like the ones where Nige's minion was called names on live tv yesterday?
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  5459.  @Parzival711-x7i  Being covered widely in the press: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/fury-at-vile-speech-made-at-anti-vax-rally-as-doctors-and-nurses-threatened/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/anti-vaxxer-slammed-comparing-nhs-24610532 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/anti-vaccine-crowd-surrounds-covid-24610660 https://www.indy100.com/news/trafalgar-square-protests-kate-shemirani-twitter-b1890047
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  5460.  @iamjamie9562  The same Hitler who hated Marxists, privatised chunks of the German economy, loved big business? That fucking Hitler?
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  5461.  @iamjamie9562  Funny thing I find is that right-wingers always pretend the far-right doesn't exist and is all some lefty plot. Is like that failed basic history (horseshoe theory of politics etc.) and need to pretend their lot aren't nearly as bad as the other lot when both yer Stalinist left and Nazi right were repulsive in the extreme.
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  5462. Weird, doctors have been wearing them for decades. Surely they know something you don't?
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  5463.  @elsiegreer826  Tell them the bit about Donald Trump as the Antichrist. And the false prophets. Go on, tell them.
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  5464. That's pandemics for you. Ignore them, pretend they're not there... they won't go away.
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  5465. King of the North, mate. He's cool.
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  5466. Have an idea. The presenter can come to work dressed in Simon's suit with her hair tied up. Then the show can be renamed - the Alex Agender. I'll be here all night and do apologise if that jokes has been used before by anyone else. No shit joke copyright infringement intended.
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  5467.  @Arizmi  Whereas getting infected with a disease that can nuke all your major organs isn't?
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  5468.  @Looshfarmer  I find it funny all the people online telling their terrible vaccine stories never, ever tell the story to the media - even a compliant outlet like GB News or the Mail. Nope, its always anecdotal ("Well I know 15 people who died of the vaccine in my steet!")
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  5469. So what happened to smallpox then? How did we get rid of something that has killed hundreds of millions over the course of thousands of years?
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  5470.  @vasili1207  Plague yes, smallpox, no. Last cases in the US were in the 50s.
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  5471.  @vasili1207  Smallpox officially eliminated in 1980, tho there are stocks of it in a couple of biowarfare places.
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  5472.  @anthonydavis9842  Gotcha, was mistaken. Apologies.
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  5473. Tories do that all the time, tho. That's what their culture war is about - to stop us peasants discussing the dark side of our history.
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  5474. No, that's Britain. We were warned not just by the Euros, by actual lawyers, by Irish advisors themselves but also by the US government. If everyone thinks you're wrong the odds are you're doing something wrong.
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  5475. No mate, Boris pretty much did that last year.
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  5476. Neil seems to be okay will killing off a big chunk of the populace. That's the scary part. His 'reasonable' critique amounts to a lot of dead British people. Weird thing to push for a supposed patriot.
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  5477.  @JPnielsen  Hate to point it out, but Tom Wolfe was doing similar with I Am Charlotte Simmons in 2006. Smiler on here is really jumping on a bandwagon years after everyone else.
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  5478. Vaccination has been a thing for centuries. Do keep up.
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  5479. To be fair Boris killed 130000 Brits, so I don't think he's too bothered.
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  5480. Nige is there to defend the establishment while claiming to be anti-establishment.
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  5481. I don't recall immigrants living in all those expensive seaside properties? They all seem to be rich white people.
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  5482. @Slap-moore Cheeks Tell me how many British live in Europe and how many of them don't actually work but live off UK benefits (mainly pensions)? Also tell me how many of those actually speak the language of their adopted country and don't spend their time moaning and voting for Brexit...
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  5483. @Down With Woke Does Sikora run his own cancer company? Yes. Does he have a sell-the-NHS agenda? YES. Has he worked with American libertarian groups to have a go at the NHS? YES. As a patriotic British person I love our NHS and all the staff and am not a fan of scumbags wanting to sell it off for ££££.
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  5484.  @neuralwarp  Cool, does that mean Piers Morgan or Wooten won't be writing constantly articles about them? Will Piers find another black woman to annoy?
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  5485. Yep, they can't see this, is baffling. Also if we develop lots of different green tech then we have less dependence on middle-Eastern oil and Russian gas, so not reason to get entangled in more wars.
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  5486. The Manics hate anti-vax muppets. Big on warning about fascism, too. Good lads.
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