Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Channel 4 News"
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@django3422 : Even Lineker wasn’t talking about the policy directly. He was talking about the dangers of normalising the type of language Braverman uses; “hoards,” “swarms,” etc. That is how it began in 1930’s Germany. When it became acceptable for politicians to use unfair stereotypes, inflammatory epithets and pejoratives to describe specific groups of people. That is what makes the next steps to the gas chambers that much smaller. It’s monstrous to murder a person. But not monstrous to exterminate a rat. You follow me?
In actual fact, we may be able to guess at Lineker’s feelings on Home Office policy, but we cannot, “know,” anything from that Tweet. Only his disgust at barbaric language. He was careful to state a fact, not a speculation. And I agree with him wholeheartedly. Not because of any political opinion, but simply because facts are empirical things that cannot be argued with, nor are the susceptible to opinion. “You can choose your opinions, not your facts,” as they say. That too is a fact.
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I have great admiration for Lyndsay Hillstam (probably spelled that wrong, sorry) and her gallant, comprehensive and ultimately informative journalism. In fact, Channel 4 has genuinely surpassed the BBC in terms of fresh news out of Ukraine, in depth coverage, honest comprehensive coverage and that all important INFORMATION. Lyndsay stands out in a highly competitive crowd of great reporters working for Channel 4 in Ukraine, making the channel one of my main, “go to,” sources for this war. Her, “obsession with WWI poetry,” doesn’t surprise me. The coverage we’re getting is clearly coming from an informed, educated place, which makes such a huge difference to how the news is focussed, processed and passed on to us, in the comfort of our living rooms. Thank you, Channel 4. And, thank you especially, Lyndsay. You deserve some form of recognition for your excellent, brave work.
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@frixosfriedman7813 : Well, this is why it’s so complex and tricky, but they always pull the same levers. Raising interest rates will raise rents and house prices. Especially since the, “government,” has just confessed that it’s not even going to try to build the 30,000 new houses they planned; mostly because of NIMBYism. I own several properties, but live in Scotland where the, “Rent Freeze,” is still in effect and I’m glad of it! The bottom line is NEVER fall for the LIE that, “there is no money,” or the question, “So, where will the money come from?” Because the answer is obvious to anyone who isn’t a Westminster Lobbyist (which includes roughly half of the property owning Mp’s): We’ll take it from all those fat cat subsidies, the energy and transport companies (who offered to pay a windfall tax, btw!) and the banks that were lyingly purported to be, “too big to fail.” And that’s just for starters. The money is there. It’s just in the wrong hands.
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@TFx2TV : Keep in mind that many of these protesting parents are the same parents who pay good money once a year to see some actor drop knob gags into every other line during Panto Season, and laugh out loud at them in front of their kids, while their pre-teen daughter is asking, “But, what’s a Brass Monkey, daddy?”
The whole point of a drag artist used to be that it was a, “Grotesque.” A deliberate distortion of what women are, done for humour’s sake. There is nothing, “normal,” about a drag artist, which is evidenced by the fact that you can choose it as a career path in the entertainment industry, NOT see it at your elbow in your local pub. There is something deeply misguided about this class.
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@GlasPthalocyanine : Indeed. None of this particular, “culture war,” makes any sense to me. The joke about Widow Twanky is either that, “men just don’t get women, as this makes patently obvious,” or, “wouldn’t it be awful if women were like this?” I just don’t get what they’re going for, or who thought it was a good idea?
Don’t get me wrong. I have no doubt that this particular interviewee has his heart in the right place, has no dark agendas, and enjoys putting his craft to the service of entertaining education. And these same idiots outside, waving placards and demanding he be strung up for sexual deviancy are the same people who will pay good money every year to see Widow Twankie dropping knob gags and every imaginable innuendo into his dialogue, whilst laughing out loud and simply saying, “ask me later,” when his daughter asks him, “What’s a Brass Monkey, daddy?”
But are these parents going to chastise Little Timmy when he holds open a door for his sister and says, “Ladies first,” because he saw how cross Twanky got at Aladdin when he failed to hold the door open for her . . . him? . . . them?
It’s so unhealthy and sending the ultimate mixed messages.
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@PrintProfessor : Absolutely. What an embarrassing time to be a trump fan, right? We cannot afford to let up the pressure. I hope everyone is contacting their representatives and demanding we deport all oligarchs, seize their assets, pay off any losses to western businesses and use the rest to fund Zelensky’s army! It sickens me to hear them talk about using sanctions as a, “deterrent,” when they sat on their asses when Putin stole the Crimea! Putin is simply stealing and murdering his way to control over Ukraine’s MASSIVE oil and gas reserves!
And 10% is NOT a, “tiny,” amount of our gas, as the foreign office asserts. It’s well over a third of Germany’s and most of Europe’s! It’s suicidal! It’s like FDR ordering his aircraft carriers from Hirohito and his tanks from Hitler during WWII! And now we’re paying the price of our leaders’ GREED as they’ve allowed oligarchs to bribe and blackmail their way deep into the western world, to persuade us to rely on a dictatorship for our energy supplies!
I’m so sick of this corrupt government and I regret voting for them! Time we got rid at the next elections. Especially if they don’t start HURTING Putin! So far, all we’ve done is what he’s expected and built into his calculations. Sanctions are no good unless they’re WORSE than they expected or can handle!
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@davec3974 : Not sure what you’re getting at? You just explained the basic idea of, “borrowing.” Which, I imagine most people know. Yet, you must realise that there are a lot of other influences on the borrowing markets, both domestically and internationally, driven by trade, international relations, politics, beliefs, the markets, etc, etc, etc. It’s never simply the case that the banks just say, “X = Y, therefore we will do Z today,” right? You get that, I presume?
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@Klaus : A) Wrong topic. B) The Myth of Scarcity is peddled by the very rich, because they want all your stuff, but there’s more than enough to go around. C) “400,000,” is not an accurate figure but I wish it were. We NEED more economic migrants. There are more than a MILLION jobs going begging in Britain, because people like you and me don’t like picking fruit, cleaning streets, or working for fast food outlets, for more than a couple of weeks. D) The reason so many countries are facing serious possibilities of decline is because of population shortages. Only growing populations survive this economy. China and Russia have ageing, shrinking populations, for different reasons, but they’re desperate for more young adults of working age and tax generation capabilities. E) Read a book, son.
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And it’s so gladdening to my heart that this is what people want to talk about, FINALLY! Andrew Marr excused himself from even discussing that topic, with a hand wave, saying, “They’ve always done it like that.” But he gets his residual pay,ents for his books and documentaries from the BBC, so that’s not hard to understand. Especially when you consider that anyone who takes a more lucrative job at another outlet still relies on their, “network,” of contacts for those big interviews that draw the punters. The whole topic of corrupt appointments has been subject to Omertà within the BBC because they don’t want to rock their leaky boat.
But, a system that no one would bat an eye at in the early 1930’s, The State appointing State Radio Management, which was made even a necessity during the war, already looked outdated by the 1960’s and unfit for purpose by the end of the 80’s. Now it’s just an invasion by stealth, dismantling its values, public trust and its future viability by putting more and more Tories at the top, whilst using those positions to fish around for Tories among their presenters who might be stupid enough to allow themselves to be persuaded to shill for the government, like Fiona Bruce. And that’s not her first offence either, shilling for Johnson’s wife beating dad. I’ve literally watched her agog, on Question Time, stating the government’s arguments for them, because the Tory MP on the panel was refusing to.
If anyone should be like a royal, taking their political biases to their graves with them, it’s political and news presenters. But Andrew Neil was never even questioned for starting his own right wing news outlet! The hypocrisy is palpable and shocking. Damn, I could site example after example, but it would be too long for a YouTube comment and it would leave all decent people feeling sicker than they already do.
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I’m just so depressed by this appalling, degenerate, cruel, self-serving, incompetent, borderline racist, elitist, “government.” We should be allowed to FORCE an election at this point. I’m a middlingly wealthy man, by any reasonable measure, and even I can see quite plainly that we’re NOT, “all in this together.”
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I literally despair to hear that the spokesperson on this issue is from the Isle Of Wight! I lived there for more than 10 years, working for local government and discovered that this island is one of the country’s biggest strongholds for the Masons! They were overt in their abuse of power and frequently added their Masonic protection to their verbal threats of the general public! Clearly, they’re not intending anything good.
It’s good that police have learned how to pronounce the word, “sorry.” That’s a historic change. And, in their defence, Carrick’s capture may well have been the result of stepped up attempts to do more about such rotten apples, since the case of Sarah Everard. It’s a counter intuitive take, perhaps, but it may well be a sign of progress?
The, “Cultural issue,” is still the key problem. We’re talking about one of the most powerful national institutions in the country, with a monopoly on physical force and the weapons to back them, having a private members only mentality, selecting officers on the basis of their reliability to keep silent and protect t their own, rather than ability or commitment. The club needs to be broken up completely, which requires a massive national effort.
Start by breaking up all stations and moving the cops out of their comfort zones to new stations.
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@TFx2TV : I think that’s an obtuse answer. Perhaps deliberately so? So, if little 7 year old Timmy hold the door for his sister and says, without the slightest irony, “Lady’s first,” you think that’s fine? Is he allowed to site Window Twanky’s indignance at Aladdin for failing to hold the door for her? . . . him? . . . them? in his own defence?
Do you have any opinions at all about the fact that drag artistry is based upon leaning into the most unhealthy stereotypes about women? Have you noticed that this was not an issue for anyone before Covid, and now everyone is suddenly, “angry,” about what people are telling them to be angry about, rather than thinking for themselves about more important matters?
Are little boys and girls meant to infer that five hour hairdos, an unhealthy obsession with shoes, heavy makeup and jewellery and a flouncing, over dramatic body language are what women are? It’s confused and self contradictory.
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@TFx2TV : Why so defensive? I think anyone who bothers to read our discourse will note for themselves the defensive, antagonistic and, at one point, devious tone of your, “argument,” but, since you’re having such difficulty following it, I’ll make real simple for you.
There was nothing in my words from which you could infer ANYTHING about what I find, “sexual.” That much will be obvious to that person with too much free time on their hands who bothers to follow this discussion. They will simply see you wriggling on a hook of your own making, going for some low blow, to divert attention from the weakness of your position.
My point: There is no benefit from using cultural stereotypes as an educational tool, UNLESS that education is focussed on the issue of the sexual stereotypes being put to use. Which, in this case, it is clearly not. It is, however, an attempt to, “normalise,” it. His word, not mine. My question would be, “Normalise what?” To which he would probably answer, “Difference?” I could then poke so many holes in the use of this particular medium that I doubtless wouldn’t get much more than angry obfuscation in return, if he was anything like you.
Perhaps you’d prefer a question or two? Maybe consider what you’re babbling about, instead of locking on to the least relevant part of the argument, “little Timmy,” about whom you seem so passionate?
What is the benefit of having a drag artist as a teacher? Why use one at all? For the same reason they would hire a clown? These are not healthy depictions of femininity. What is the point of using a grotesque when the mere fact of his grotesqueness is not even under discussion during the class. Do you honestly believe it doesn’t raise any questions in the minds of these kids? Inform their opinions about women? You seem to be denying that drag artists do show an unhealthy obsession about makeup, shoes and jewellery? Even though that is part of the point of them. Otherwise it’s just a cross dresser, selling himself as a drag artist, under false pretences.
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