Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. I LOVE this man! ❤ Never heard of him before now. He really gets it. I've been saying it all for years. Family and home are our power as individuals and as society. And women are beautifully designed to nurture and amplify that power.❤
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  2. You should trademark that because it's 100% the problem. Everyone of these poor people wants to be 'different' and they end up being the same.
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  3. Excellent assessment. Professional. Well spoken. A joy to watch and listen to. Thank you Esther, FF, KK and Team Trigger!
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  4.  @DefneDance  Best description of her style - I don't know, has she invented a new genre: African sideshow pastiche?
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  5. 9 mins in and I'm done. Life's too short to listen to clowns. Good exercise for our KK though.
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  6.  @johanswede8200  LOL! How much talent does it take to say "If you want to stop racism, just stop talking about it!" ?? 🤣🤣🤣
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  7. There's a cheery thought. (Hang on, are we still allowed to have thoughts...?)
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  8. ​ @tonycatman  I agree that amongst men's primary 'purposes' is to protect women, children and those more vulnerable. I was brought up by a man who was a perfect example of a protector and provider - he was magnificent in his kind and caring maleness without compromising a scrap of his masculinity. I also have male relatives who were the same. But, Tony, you're absolutely completely wrong about women's inability to understand boys' fighting. Indeed, one of my sons appreciates the fighting with his brother because he says it made him able to be a better, more effective police officer. (Police being, along with the military, the epitome of controlled male power). I did not stop their fighting. Because boys. As a mum it was totally clear to me that boys NEED an education and upbringing that helps them to be good men, proud to be men and to be able use their power in good, constructive ways. For the most part, our schooling does not enable boys to be boys, that is, men-in-training. I can't count the innumerable times I was at their schools standing up for their needs to be boys and do boy things that stretched their physical abilities, physical problem-solving abilities, stretch their courage and needs for adventure and their need to conquer and succeed through pitting themselves against others and the elements. I was the mum from hell as far as their teachers were concerned always pushing to stop their mostly lefty women teachers from treating boys like girls expecting them to be compliant and demure. I made sure that they had loads of organised boy/man-training activities outside school. I could write a book about all this, even years later, I am so annoyed at their schools.And even though they have indeed become MEN, leaders in their fields (whilst many of the boys of parents who went along with the feminisation schooling have sons who became drug abusers, got into trouble just for the fun of it in some sort of misplaced man-training they created for themselves, now in 3rd rate jobs well beneath their potentials....). No Tony, please don't disrespect what many mothers actually do to bring up MEN - but please feel free to castigate leftist, feminist social engineering which has been going on for decades now.
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  9. 🤣🤣🤣 Yes!!
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  10. So well done, FF & KK. Thank you for asking the tough questions and articulating the very uncomfortable conclusions that many, if not most people will come to. Kudos to Hannah Barnes for her courage in investigating and writing this book which is a groundbreaker for sure. It has to be said though that the BBC has been in the forefront of promoting transgender and could well have contributed to the upsurge in Tavistock cases. It must be carefully noted that the BBC and other media have carried out all this promotion, as we now know from Hannah's research, on the basis of almost no evidence of benefit. Where's the Evidence Based Medical practice? Time to think? Isn't it more like Time to stop, look and listen?
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  11. I'm deeply unimpressed. He appears to know very little - and KK has to give him potted histories. He dismisses the GR as a myth. It doesn't look like that out here in the real world.
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  12. For me, this would be far easier to watch and less distracting if Blaire would cut down on the girlie gestures and eye flicking all over the place. Blaire is speaking about a serious topic but the body language is like the topic is ultra-girlie things like make-up and Jimmy Choos.
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  13. You're describing the place I thought most of society had thankfully reached some 15-20 years ago. But that threatened to render a lot of people redundant.... As you say, drop the t plus -and then let's all get back to being civilised.
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  14. Exactly, sir! And it sounds like yours is a life well lived. Thank you.
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  15. Yep, popped in just to see him and cheer him on!
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  16. I doubt whether religious people give more than a minute or so to the state of your soul. On the other hand, God is concerned about your soul all the time....
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  17. Eric is encouraging people to do animated Banksy. Banksy went way out on a limb to do what he did. I don't know about his parents and home life, but I do know the school he went to. It had an exceptional art dept. Inspiring teachers. Teachers that had the integrity to tear up when reading a pupil's deeply touching poetry. We have fewer and fewer schools like that. Instead we have industrial processing machines. Turning bright, creative, full of adventure and wonder children into rabbits in headlights fearful of the jackbooted teacher telling them what to think, what they should believe and if they don't comply then they can get out and find another school that'll put up with their independent thoughts and creative arguments. This has to be fixed. Stop crushing our children's spirit.
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  18.  @heather333  You have a point there: it's all an idea, not reality. 🤐
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  19. LOVE THIS MAN!! I vote Rupert for Prime Minister! NOW!!
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  20. I've never heard of him before this evening. Not a pop/rock person. But it's deeply troubling that anyone so obviously lacking any agenda but a general, all-American (and in the current climate, naive) support for the Constitution should have his career and reputation destroyed on no legal basis whatsoever.
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  21.  @markcreemore4915  I don't have trouble following him. It's just that stream of consciousness is not intellectualism. All thoughts and ideas need to be weighed and ordered by priority and relevance if you want to meaningfully communicate them to others so that they understand your point or hypothesis. He does not have that capability. Couple that with the lack of the edit tool means that he says nothing of real importance or real use or things that could be important/useful get lost in his stream of consciousness reverie. No doubt this sounds 'intellectual' to some folks. But hey, on the plus side he's read a lot of books.
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  22. I so agree - and further, I believe we should get all children out of school once they can read, write and do sums to the level that they are able to easily self-direct their learning. Get them out before their confidence is irrevocably shattered. Eric talked about the creativity and problem solving skills of what society thinks of as lower class trades (these people are phenomenal! These people built the world with their 'lowly' talents and skills!) ...they didn't get those skills by sitting still in school being told what to think. Let everyone learn things they find interesting and enjoy watching them all - and our world - flourish. I'm not meaning to diminish your needs at all, Newperson. I know most schools are just about the worst place for neurodivergent people, who are often the most creative kids in the room. It's just that, as a former educator, I know that many/most? schools are not good for a lot of normies too.
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  23. Well said! This chap is a self-styled 'intellectual' who likes to hear himself
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  24.  @Thepoweroftheriffcompelsme  I so agree with you. Time was when people's thoughts and opinions were valuable simply because they were human beings. When I was a kid and bullies would try it on we immediately answered back with 'No you can't make me! This is a free country!!' This ID ranking is obnoxious bullying.
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  25. If you were also to say 'the governmental system that shunts all its mistakes onto an inept and inadequate welfare system' then I'd cheer louder than anyone at your assessment of a vast and immoral disaster. This view is most certainly shared by a huge number of people in the UK. But the governmental snafus and fubars are where the actual problem is. (Would it make a difference if most of our governments were made up of ordinary reasonably intelligent people who are NOT from Eton and other public schools, Oxbridge, and the finance industry...?? I think yes.)
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  26.  @steveorinox1313  Except that disinformation has ALWAYS been a part of free debate. Ditto spin. Yet more or less the right way forward has most often emerged in the West. As the communists found, to put all the power in the hands of a small ruling cadre and to quash free debate has always led to disastrous outcomes. History is a reliable teacher, may I suggest that you check it out?
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  27. So well articulated. Thank you.
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  28.  @brodyschum  If he's wrong about gender then how can you be sure he's right about astrophysics? ? In the public sphere he should keep his mouth shut about anything he isn't educated about.
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  29. And sounds like he's never heard of Sartre.
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  30. Yes, I was surprised that there was no discussion of e.g. the possibility of Munchausens parents, child sexual abuse, sociopathic/Mengele type doctors et al . Also no real discussion of childrens' mental health and the woeful lack of provision; also the impact of particularly men who lead the violent activism for these procedures and what their motivations are.
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  31.  @thewaronu8842  :face-green-smiling:
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  32. Well said!
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  33. Thank you. You confirmed my diagnosis made after 15 minutes. I'm also suffering acute cheesegrater.
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  34. I think you'll find that Irish, Welsh and Scots people would be horrified at the suggestion that they become English or ever wanted to be.
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  35. That's the most compelling question for me too. Where the hell are we?!!!🤣
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  36.  @grannyannie2948  Thank you for reminding us about that abhorrent arrest. "It is the first duty of a citizen to question authority." (Ben Franklin) Asking questions and analysing/criticising events is not hate speech. It is democratic engagement.
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  37. My family on both sides have immigrant forebears. I thoroughly agree that this uncontrolled immigration has to stop. For the good of everyone involved. The majority of the immigrants coming in today won't ever be paying enough taxes etc to recompense the UK for housing/benefits/healthcare etc. Their children might though in 20-25yrs time. Meanwhile, the country goes to the wall supporting these people. (And don't anyone say that all immigrants are able to work here from the get go because they already have qualifications....I could write a thesis on how and why this doesn't happen - it's utterly soul-destroying to see, e.g. as I did an Indian chartered accountant sweeping the bus station in a UK city because the gvt don't accept that qualification and wouldn't loan/pay for him to convert his quals to UK standards. The gvt don't tell you this sort of thing....).
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  38.  @lalaDrlalaDr  Hmmm... 🙅‍♀ I wonder what that could be....? 🕺💃?
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  39.  @DukeBluedevil70  HAHAHAHAHA! no.
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  40. Thank you for your analysis. Yes, that 'absolute equality', which is absolutely impossible, is what woke call 'equity' and it's what they're striving for.
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  41.  @jamesdellaneve9005  As a woman, I wholeheartedly support the widespread use of the lens of masculinity.
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  42. Good news for her!! One of my sons had that sort of epiphany at a wedding too. He had a church schooling so he has roots to build on. I'm sad that so many young people now don't have that foundation so they don't know what to plant in their 'God-shaped holes'. Thus the fervour for any old ideologies that come along?
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  43.  @gordoncrawley5826  I tell you, I used to have agonies about that confabulation and the one about the tooth fairy.... They all seem to have forgiven me. To the extent that they're now doing the Father Christmas/Tooth fairy on their own children!
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  44.  @andyhx  Ditto. I'm sure he has a great following wherever he's from, but I was lost after a couple minutes (and wondering why so many American people have sort of cartoon voices....)
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  45. I actually LOLed!! 🤣🤣🤣 Good on you Francis! You're a star! 🌟
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  46.  @tonycatman  Thanks for your response and acknowledgment. I find this subject of great interest - because my whole, visceral purpose was to grow happy, healthy men (and a daughter but girls are a completely different species!!). And on an intellectual level, I have long been very concerned about what Western culture and its social engineering is doing to men. One of my sons called me just after his first child was born and told me, choking back a tear, that when he first held his minute-old baby he was instantaneously totally overcome, flooded by a feeling of ferocious k!ller-protection as he tenderly spoke to her for the first time . That's a MAN. He's still the same. I've done my job, somehow I managed to press the right buttons to get them on the right track!. My biological purpose fulfilled. And,you gave me pause for thought...you may be right, a lot of their classmates' had mothers and fathers who seemed to go along with the programme (amongst their friends were boys like the budding ballerina, a nascent actor who did make it to stage and screen, several who became artists, countless web designers and sysadmins...Meanwhile, my sons are in action careers which are the stuff of the movies/tv series that the IT guys watch...). Point I'd like to make is that I don't think we should blame mothers alone for allowing their boys' healthy masculinity to be eroded. The social engineering power behind this programme is far too great for most parents to counter. I'll recount the story behind a then well-known study by 'reputable experts'which concluded that children aren't affected by single-parenting, in fact they do as well as children in 2 parent families. This study was much quoted, gvt policies were founded on it etc.Years later it turned out that the male experts had skewed the data to give positive conclusions because they had separated from their wives/children and were feeling deeply guilty and suffering terrible angst about what they'd done to their children . I don't trust any academic study unless the results are copiously internationally and independently replicated. Yes, I'm not moved either by the sort of tears you describe and the sort of personalities that can manipulate people that way. To my mind, to get out of the mess we're in, we need MEN! Of the courageous action type we're talking about.
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  47.  @gillianbarker2663  Tragically, the gvt does know and tacitly supports the culture that Minky talks about. Gvt and NHS are a double act, hand-in-glove.
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  48.  @callmeej8399  IMHO, the answer to "mob mentality, disinformation, apathy, overstimulation, and the degradation of objective truth" etc, is better education. E.g. Why was British Constitution dropped from schools' curriculae? Ditto sociology and media studies? Come to that, why was Religious Studies with all its moralising messages stopped?
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  49.  @Torquemadia  Before we start bashing the boomers, let's remember that they were told that their pension contributions were being well-managed, that there would be good pensions when the time came. 10s of millions of Brits have had their pensions frauded and/or mismanaged away from them. Then there's about 4million women who had £many millions of their pension just taken away from them by the gvt with no warning. This pension shortfall mess is nothing to do with ordinary people. It's ALL to do with successive gvts. Just as they are creating a mess with hauling unsuspecting slaves into the country to pay for their fuck-ups. (Yes, I do mean slaves. )
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  50. I've never heard of him before. He sounds like a salesman to me. But what do I know about US doctors....?
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  51. Thank you. I dropped into the comments on my way out early.
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  52.  @jeffh2166  You know what? Businesses may be finding it easier to part black people from their cash...they're milking the market. I strongly object to the patronisation and exploitation of black people.
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  53. Thank goodness for parents like you! Gives me hope for the future - that there'll be at least some sane people about. I'd bet that they'll be the ones who become leaders once all this furore is past.
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  54. Exactly so.
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  55. Well said. Good v evil. The universe is binary. Good always wins in the end, because good made the universe whilst evil seeks to destroy it. Yep, tediously boring this self-justifying argumentation against simple commitment to the Ultimate Good.
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  56. 👏👏👏
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  57.  @OkTxSheepLady  I agree that the welfare state is very beneficial for its managers, the gvt. Instead of investing our National Insurance payments it spends them on whatever it wants and its usually not on welfare. Also a welfare system allows gvts to play fast and loose with other areas of policy - they fuck up the economy? Oh that's ok the welfare system can mop up the human fall out. In fact a relatively high proportion of welfare system expenditure could be tracked back to this sort of cause. But I think you're not British? I don't think any Brit would say that welfare recipients are 'slave owners' benefiting from the hard work of others under their command. You'd have to be British to understand why /how it doesn't work like that. In fact, it's rather the other way round, a good number of Brits would like to contribute £more if it would make the welfare system actually work well for everyone. Plus, some Brits think they own welfare recipients and can treat them like dirt with fewer rights. (As has happened with some schemes that various psycho gvts have cooked up!) Just to add that a couple of years ago, the UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty investigated the UK's welfare system that fails so many and called it 'worse than Dickensian'. It's a truthful, fascinating, independent and hard-hitting report available online if you'd like to find out more.
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  58.  @beowulf_of_wall_st  👏👏👏
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  59.  @daniel.lopresti  Yes, it's horrendous. This is an organisation-wide operating principle though....
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  60. That's a heavy burden to bear, I'm sorry it's left you so poorly. But they really didn't know what they were doing. Which is why I didn't get vaxxed - having an autoimmune disease too, I live with the ferocious overactivity of my immune system and experience has shown me that I need to be seriously careful about any new substance. No one could tell me anything about how I'd fare with a covid jab, so I didn't go near it.
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  61. Thank you for your cogent insight. I've long held that equality isn't possible (nor entirely desirable) but was too lazy or distracted to undergird my conviction. Having said that, I'm struck by the way these two words have long been been used to enthrall us to a particular unrealistic, impossible to achieve perspective. Which is why we're where we are now: almost overcome by nonsense.
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  62. You enumerate the basic necessities for a functional, free, democratic society very well. Your list is chilling in that it pinpoints not only what we're increasingly lacking in the the West but also the negative foundations of the Soviet Union. If I may, I would add something along the lines of : we do not have an extensive, all pervasive network of government controlled data collection and spying network surveilling the citizenry at all times and places.
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  63.  @Cytochrome8  Do you work in the NHS?
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  64. Get this government out now and hand over to Starmer who said a couple of days ago that he'd far rather be in Davos than in the British Parliament?
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  65. If I may say, you might look to what Ben Shapiro's done... do it together though, you're a perfect team, you need each other.
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  66. Calling him on what he imagines to be hiring practices in the UK. All responsible employers have long separated personal, identifying details from the experience/qualifications section which is the only part that the shortlisters/ interviewers get. Only skank employers would keep an application together.
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  67. 💯
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  68. I can vouch for loosing the peace. I saw it happen. It should never have happened. The Russians deserved much better. IMHO as a loyal Brit.
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  69. Agree. Also, doesn't reflect new research and the opinions/recommendations coming out of that. More understanding now of how social conditions/experience affect us. 'Working on yourself', 'managing your inner chimp' isn't healthy in too many circs. Changing society is more and more posited as the treatment. (And 'most people don't have a clue who they really are' is, IMHO, a serious blanket patronisation. 'Coping strategies' is a big red flag AFAIC.)
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  70.  @grannyannie2948  I first watched him years back - debunking some aspect of the paranormal or UFOs or something. He'd just made up his mind without considering any evidence and pronounced it all debunked.
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  71.  @iggyblitz8739  No, you can't overcome anything/everything. To believe otherwise is a fantasy.
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  72.  @Droo75  Thank you for your perspectives. In another comment today, I wrote about how we were there 20 odd years ago and now it's all messed up for everyone (except the entitled loud people). In a comment an hour ago, chatting with another person who'd lamented the small minority of oppressive vocal people who are refusing to let others speak their opinions, I suggested that if they don't talk and get reasonable and discuss solutions then eventually some of the people and the government are going to come down on them - the ugly retort. Because that's always the how these things go.. Don't get me started on how white men are being bashed, and how women are being intimidated. I'm the mother of sons and a daughter, I had senior positions in education, the irrational bashing of boys was to fight even then. Now we're scared to go into ladies toilets.... It's the loss of not only humour but also humanity, "the minority controlling the majority, without empathy."
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  73.  @PGHEngineer  My children are quite a bit older than yours. They too grew up and did their own thing, thought their own thoughts, left the church behind - or so they thought. You should see them as parents now! Teaching their kids all the same values as they were, sending them to church schools, serving their communities...but they don't call it Christianity. Nor did Jesus. You're right, you gave your boys a tower of strength to help them along life's way and it wouldn't be surprising if, as they mature, they're drawn back to that strength.
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  74.  @PGHEngineer  Amazing to hear about your friend's Holy Spirit moment...I've heard so many people over the years who say very similar. It's like it often comes out of nowhere when it's least expected - and you just know, it's completely convincing yet impossible to describe to non-Christians. I shall keep hoping for you and your sons! 🕊
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  75. This isn't actually incredible, it's horrendous and millions of ordinary folk have had dire experiences with police dismissing crimes.
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  76. Or at least real women are second class now...
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  77.  @youtubemom497  👏👏👏
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  78.  @OkTxSheepLady  Ah, OK, thank you for your explanation. We, like most Europeans, have a very different perspective. Everyone here pays into a gvt administered National Insurance scheme (since 1947) and via taxation (everyone - e.g. part of the tax on the sweeties and toys that children buy from their pocket money goes towards the welfare system too). It could have been set up as a private while-nation health and social security insurance scheme but wasn't - it was introduced by a Labour gvt. In short, think of it as an insurance policy - when someone gets ill and/or loses their job they apply to the insurance company which everyone else has a policy with and the company pays for healthcare and/or your basic living costs when you've fulfilled all the strict rules for payout. Most welfare systems work exactly like this. Most people are glad that they DON'T have to claim. Most people are pleased that the insurance is there for all even though others might get more out of it. National Insurance/taxes are also enforced with criminal penalties - we all pay into it and it's distributed according to qualified need - but no one looks at that as 'secondhand stealing'. The basic principle is for the basic communal good. I don't want hordes of homeless people sleeping on my property or along the High Street, or burgling my home. I don't want people to lose their homes because they had to pay for cancer/stroke/heart/accident injuries. Nor do I want people going to work with transmissible diseases to infect us with because they can't afford to stay off work and get treatment. Looking at it another way, what do you think about some of your taxes paying for jails and the criminal justice system, or for state education, for the FBI, for your national government etc? Also, I assume you're aware of LBJ's great wheeze to pull in more Democrat votes by instituting a massive nationwide welfare scheme which made it easier to claim benefits than working, which undermining not only the family unit amongst poor people but also skewed their education and the job market so badly that it's never recovered? Our welfare system isn't like that. I think you're right to be upset with yours in the US, but not at individuals - your gvt actively caused this dire state of affairs, not individuals who have been and still are conditioned to be co-dependent. with gvt.
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  79.  @OkTxSheepLady  I do so admire Thomas Sowell, he's a scholar of great integrity and incisive intelligence. Similarly, Candace Owens has written so clearly of the way African American people have been corralled on the 'Democrat Plantation'. It's horrendous that they and, it has to be said, disadvantaged white people have been used in this way. It's happened in the UK too to some extent. We're not supposed to notice it. Instead, we're supposed to go after the victims of these vote-catching scams instead of seeing the users for what they are. It's good to see our traditional Labour voters ditching that party in their millions now.
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  81. 1. This young woman betrays her lack of knowledge and understanding of the UK welfare system and the institutional sexism that women still face throughout their adulthood. 2. I agree that men are too often treated poorly by their narcissistic princess wags these days. (I'm a mother of sons. Seen it for years.)
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  82. I've been thinking about the wisdom of don't ask/don't tell policy recently. Treat humans as humans. No need for exhibitions of victimhood. And your point about early warning and outcome predictions can equally be said about the feminist movement. On balance, it's not really improved women's lot - apart from being able to buy one's own house, if you have the money. I speak as a woman, mother, grandmother.
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  83. Don't you think that we have enough horror IRL?
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  84. It's wonderful to hear your eloquent, positive experiences and successes. It's also what I would expect...I've lived in the UK most of my life, too many decades to count now. I was at schools with children from all over the world , there were always different cultures around and our house was like the United Nations! You're right, we're far more the same than we're different. There was never any racism...that business started in the mid-80s. An import from that large country over the pond. Now it all looks and sounds to me like a horrible and very deliberate scheme to make everyone enemies - and we're damned well not!! We should start a Fightback Against Fake Narratives group!!
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  85.  @TheOverlordFrank  Thank you for the heads down. Doing my best to stifle independent thoughts, been watching a lot of old Parliamentary highlights of ditch-flooding, vole conservation and the UK's dwindling tablecloth industry etc. debates. It's helped to suppress any stray eruptions of cheeriness.
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  86.  @srspower  It's truly, genuinely awesome.
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  87. Rather a good analogy. Character above all.
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  88. I could tell you but I rather think that you wouldn't get it. This isn't to patronise you. But people either get it or they don't.
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  89.  @sendadiestra7203  Well, not impossible but the mafiosi culture that's grown and grown in the NHS prohibits genuine reform in the UK's health system. Law unto itself now. Each gvt keeps quiet about it - their quid pro quo is that they can use the NHS as votecatchers every election.
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  90.  @Torquemadia  Why?
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  91.  @fazole  Thank you for that explanation. But, oh! what a pity to base a whole society upon individualistic ego-boosting in order to acquire the necessities of life. Forgive me, I don't mean to sound harsh - I love America and Americans. But the chasm between that culture and European culture is infinite in this respect.
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  92.  @pearljessica  Yep. We're still benefiting from the huge network of pipes (gas, sewage, water etc) that they laid. And the houses they built are so solid still. My Victorian house was 103 years old when I had to replace the original stopcock.
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  93. Yes, and I think gvts should do their bit to support families instead of treating people as worker units to shunt around for their own £profit and the profits of their mates in big industry. We're at a time now where this widespread policy is costing society/our gvts more than it yields in societal benefits and profits.
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  94.  @PittbuII  Thank you. Some of us have been paying attention!
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  95.  @grannyannie2948  It's worrying, isn't it, that there are these 'experts' out there who pontificate so much and know so little! I once asked a hardcore climate crisis activist what she thought about the effect of the Maunder cycle on our climate....'What's that?' she asked....
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  96. He's talking about the Codified law (Roman law) of Europe versus the hodge-podge Common Law of the UK. Big legal cultural difference for the UK and the EU.
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  97.  @5ur113  Indeed. Although 40yrs of European hegemony didn't tempt us! It's not just the laws though, they are very different systems of legal administration. Many different CL jurisdictions are networked with ours. Millions of lawyers and judges would have to retrain. Easier to scrap the individual laws that aren't useful.
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  98. Is he saying "this change now is not organic, not for the ultimate benefit of we-the-people, there are aligned forces provoking and pushing it. And that's sinister and destroying people-centred rights and freedoms." ? Something along those lines?
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  99.  @Catturtlelover3000  IMHO, that's child a buse
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  100. Freud is indeed at the core of all this mayhem. His patients were mainly women who had been abused in all sorts of ways. Freud's advice was that it's all in their minds or they should feel honoured that some man was paying attention to them. This is obviously a very crass way of putting it. But essentially so. He also created a field in which many could make a lot of money for 3rd rate doctors. For decades there's been a huge and odious project to feminise men. Expecting them to respond well to treatments that most women accept because, let's face it, most women are too agreeable and compliant, is insanity.
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  101. Now, an hour or so on his neuroses would have been a cracker!
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  102. Thank you for sharing your thinking. I believe you're on the right track. Why don't we understand our world now? Who benefits when people don't understand what's going on? Why do people feel so threatened that they feel they need to join a tribe?Who benefits most from acrimonious division and fragmented communities? And what are those beneficiaries doing whilst the rest of us are struggling through this widespread mess and disruption?
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  103. How well said. I agree with all you say.
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  104.  @tommore3263  You did a grand job - usually it takes about 5 introductory books to begin to get your head round metaphysics! I was lucky enough to study philosophy as one of my u/g electives for 3 years. It helps! Robert Barron is wonderful indeed, a great teacher and he makes things so easy to follow.
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  105.  @MrJREllman  Poverty is relative.And a third of the UK's children are currently living in poverty. "Dickensian" That quote and statistic come directly from the UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty who investigated poverty in the UK a few years back. Don't take my word for it, go read his UN report.
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  106. Oh my goodness! It's such a joy to listen to such an intelligent young woman who values genuinely intellectual discourse. The abhorrent treatment to which she was subjected used to be called 'stereotyping' and it was a huge project in the 80s and 90s to eradicate such Neanderthal thinking, and thus to treat people as the individuals they are. The lack of a common, shared morality will be the downfall of society. imho.
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  107.  @mrror8933  To be fair, each gvt sells itself on their continued support for and enhancement of the welfare state. A portion of our taxes are explicitly for our welfare state. Thus it's part of the social contract, and it is well argued that citizens and taxpayers are within their rights to feel entitled to its benefits. i might have the wrong end of the stick though about what you've said - please elaborate if you wish.
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  108. The solution is not tablets and 'therapy'. The solution is a return to a way of life and systems that are people-friendly and respectful of human beings. That's not just my humble opinion, the British Psychological Society and many before have articulated this far better than I can here.
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  109.  @Esehe  Making women go out to earn doubled the potential income streams of gov and business.
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  110.  @MaggieTheCat01  30-40 years ago there was a Wages for Housework movement. Of course it got denigrated and obliterated. The outcomes would have been far less expensive and far less messy than the hellish mess we're faced with today.
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  111.  @beowulf_of_wall_st  👏👏👏
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  112. I'll remind YT of that every time they do it to me. Which is frequently!
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  113. 👏👏👏
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  114. "It's easier to fight with a figment of your imagination than actually engage with what people say." (Andrew Doyle - many thanks) But this phenomenon is certainly not new. E.g . Ask a thousand patients how many times their doctors have doggedly not listened to them but persisted in misdiagnosing them. What're the common factors here? Arrogance, sense of superiority, leading to 'I'm smarter than you', 'I know more that you,' 'I'm right, you're wrong', 'I'm saving people', 'I'm morally better than you'.....etc. Ask the bereaved relatives of such patients... Why do you think all our professions have leapt to adopt wokery...?? Because these attitudes were there all along in the background, unspoken - and most of those who challenged them have been 'cancelled' in various ways peculiar to whatever profession they've called out. We need to acknowledge and remove this ancient 'wokery' in our long-established culture as well. It is all about achieving power no matter if it's old or new wokery. 'New wokery' didn't arise in a vacuum. None of these wokesters ever wanted any sort of paradise for all...
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  115.  @rensha8635  Very good points.
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  116. And why would such exquisitely formulated rules develop so that eventually a rackety little life-form like us can ask these questions? Is the universe/multiverse quasi-Darwinistic? Does it continually birth and collapse universes until a version pops up that's capable of creating sentient beings that are curious about these things? Is this process itself sentient in some unfathomable way?
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  117.  @stepheneurosailor1623  He did too. Campbell years 1 and 2 were pretty worrying.
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  118.  @willallen7757  I guess the issue is that many, many were taken in by lies, but most can't or don't get on a wide reach platform to promote those inaccuracies. It's a teachable example not a crucifixion.
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  119.  @PittbuII  very well said.
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  120.  @james970027  Thank you, you've put it all so well. If you want to be left alone to live your life, don't put your life in other people's faces! That's just needy affirmation-seeking. I always say I don't give a flying fig about anyone's sexuality (unless they're into illegal/harmful things). I really don't. I'm only interested in you if you're a person of integrity, honest, considerate and sociable! So many of the characters who get themselves in the media are terribly needy and giving everyone in the letters 'community' a bad rap. It's such a shame.
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  121.  @rokko_fable  👍
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  122.  @Alliancewolf  Aye, there are always trade-offs.
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  123.  @Alliancewolf  Speaking as a woman and mother, that choice of 'standard of living' is far more acute for women. Especially as nowadays 'standard of living' and quality of life is almost exclusively measured in £financial terms. This is why birthrate is collapsing all over the West. For many decades, new humans have not been appreciated as intrinsically valuable simply for their existence. Pressures from leaders obsessed with economic success have shattered and scattered families which are essential in terms of help with bringing up children. Women know that choosing to have a child nowadays usually means losing perhaps £millions in income and benefits throughout their lifetimes, often leaving them with minimal income in old age. I would have had at least 1 perhaps 2 more children if our society were not so sociopathically run. I loathe our anti-family culture.
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  124.  @r.8902  One thing that no one's mentioned is simply talking to strangers. I used to do a shed load of travelling for my work before smart phones. Some of the most interesting, enlightening , honest and poignant conversations I've had have been with other solo travellers on planes, buses, trains etc.
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  125.  @getyoursupervisor8519  Well, yes, it's shocking to see how much freedom we've lost. But that was the commonly heard catchphrase of British children (and adults) up to 30-odd years after WW2. Which was still in our parents and grandparents' minds. There were still bombsites in the UK well into the late 1970s. We were proud that that our forces had fought to free Europe from tyranny.
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  126.  @jabbrewoki  YES! Exactly. Of course it's messy, but at least 1000yr's worth of argumentation led directly to Western democracy and economic success and stability for the vast majority of citizens. Social engineering needs to stop. It is evil and anti-human.
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  127. Nicely explained, thank you. AFAIC, there's been no 'left' and no 'right' for a long while now. Now there's just two tribes, them and us. One side reasonably respects the past not least for what it can teach us, good and bad, and can help us to form visions and plans for a united, healthy and productive future. The other side emotively dismantles all that's gone before - yet weaponises the bad bits to diminish and punish the other side - and doesn't seem to be able to create any sort of coherent vision of any future that supports a unified, nurturing and productive society.
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  128. Perhaps not so coincidentally, I found myself thinking about Charter 88 as Silkie Carlo was speaking. I understand your tears. Our political classes and their acolytes never seem to learn from the past.
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  129.  @somedandy7694  That's an absolutely excellent presentation and unimpeachably logical. Every household should get a copy of it.
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  130. 🙃I think you put a short dash (see keyboard) each side of 'comedian'! DASH : - word - DASH : * word * DASH : shift_ word shift_ Note, put all characters up close to word.
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  131. I'm by no means an apologist for the Catholics, but I can honestly say this about my own experience of schooling. Two of the three schools I was at had this effect. The third was brilliant. Perhaps not surprisingly, the damaging schools were state schools and the brilliant school was a secular fee-paying school (i.e. 'public' school' in the UK, private school in the US).
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  132. Intelligent perspectives.
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  133. It'll take generations. At least 4 more generations. That's if leaders stop warring- this only adds to the trauma.
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  134. You've raised a huge problem behind the scenes. Those who disagree with the favoured agenda are simply ignored. I applaud Shaun's call for people to take control of the problems....but over the years I've seen hundreds and thousands of people attempting to do that reasonably and they're simply squashed out of whatever sphere they're seeking to change. The local powers that be have it down to a fine art. As with most systemic problems in this country its roots are in the culture of the power-holders - it's rarely a question of lack of money. (And no, this isn't about race in any shape or form. It's about powerful people who're incompetent seeing off those who would do better than them.)
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  135. "There is no love but the deeds of love." Jean-Paul Sartre. Love is a choice, a commitment. The chemical imbalance lurve stuff is the willing suspension of disbelief in exchange for the fleeting pleasure of chemical highs. imho.
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  136. It's of note that the institutions mentioned here and in the US all receive funding from companies with vested interests. Similarly, the good doctor illustrates exactly the passion he sees in those he accuses of being 'plum wrong'. And, democratic systems are used to de-stabilisation. Only fascist systems 'nip' de-stabilisation in the bud. < ...need I go on...? >
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  137. ♥
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  138. I'm one of those 10% or so people without the caffeine receptor thing gene. This means coffee does nothing for me, it's just a nice warm taste. Conversely, alcohol just makes me feel sleepy. Is this why I've never been taken in by the BS?! Seriously though, my takeaway from Prof Nutt's description of the insane 'war on drugs' is that if we had an honest, straightforward and fair society we wouldn't have drug and alcohol problems. As ever, those who have the power cause the problems. Note also that there's a new movement within psychology and psychiatry which sees 'depression' , 'anxiety', 'ptsd' etc as caused by societal dysfunctions, not by the individual's 'chemical imbalances' or 'disordered' reactions. Big pharma read this writing on the wall some while back and have opted out of trying to treat these 'maladies' with their faux scientific concoctions.
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  139.  @scrock8621  To be honest, I just took it as non-significant mis-speech. I'm quite certain that we don't have another daft Diane Abbot in the making here!!
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  140. Could you explain firmament please?
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  141.  @avastone5539  What's a strand type universe please?
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  142. Hey. Everyone has a right to their own opinions. I don't agree with you but you made me think a bit more deeply about why. Quite often in life the ones to blame for cockups are not the most obvious.
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  143. AFAIC, there's been no 'left' and no 'right' for a long while now. Now there's just two tribes, them and us. One side reasonably respects the past not least for what it can teach us, good and bad, and can help us to form visions and plans for a united, healthy and productive future. The other side emotively dismantles all that's gone before - yet weaponises the bad bits to diminish and punish the other side - and doesn't seem to be able to create any sort of coherent vision of any future that supports a unified, nurturing and productive society.
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  144.  @bellelacroix5938  👍like our friends in the far east?
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  145. Exactly my first thought on his prognostications. SETI is already old hat. Scientists have already successfully entangled photons in their first baby steps to achieve instantaneous very long distance communication systems.
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  146.  @peterwebb8732  ​ I think your argument is simplistic. You are confusing what I wrote with your thoughts about what you call a 'poor-bugger-me syndrome'. In no way am I denying any victim their agency, self-respect and the ability to take advantage of whatever help is available.
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  147. I would like Nigel to REALLY investigate why so many people are stuck at home out of work. He might be surprised and horrified at what he finds. Social 'welfare' was created for a reason...
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  148. Well, I wonder. Is it a fresh insight? Our forebears knew a lot better than us it seems to me.
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  149.  @Elizabeth-jd3mn  I saw that and noted no buy in required.
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  150.  @TomNoles007  You absolutely don't have to believe in God to join a church.
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  151. You know, just as that interview finished, for the first time in my life I truly felt 'blimey, I'm really glad to be in my generation!' (which is coming up to yours). We always had tv but my parents wouldn't allow us to watch any channel with ads. Probably for the same reasons as we should be restricting social media for children and young people now. We need to devalue the media and restrict engagement with it.
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  152. Never again. Never, ever again.
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  153. Money? Easier to exploit naive, troubled kids than it is to exploit world wise troubled adults. The bottom of the 'depression' market is going to fall out in the next few years, they need to replace their patients.
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  154.  @dianetrue2396  🤡🌎😆
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  155. Well, from all that I get that Poo Tin's not getting any so he's gone to war to up his power status to not only pull more ladies but also to get lots of warm/fuzzies as he pulls his little bro Ukraine back into the family. Someone should given him oxytocin tea...
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  156. So profoundly true. Sadly, so many people lack the will or the wit to understand this. They mistake confected liberality for freedom. They deliver themselves into chains that men have made for them.
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  157.  @carolynbrightfield8911  Thing is, I don't understand how anyone, male or female, could assert that they have the 'soul' of the opposite sex. How would they know? How do I know as a woman what the 'soul' of a man feels like? Preposterous for me to claim I do!!
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  158. KK is pretty accurate about social conditions back then.
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  159. "The first duty of a citizen is to question authority." Benjamin Franklin would like you to repeat this to yourself 10 times when you wake up, 10 times before you go to sleep and every 30 mins in between. Question EVERYTHING!
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  160.  @bobibufi1389  Well said.
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  161.  @texluh  You said it so I don't have to! Thank you!
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  162.  @tommore3263  Ah Tom! You've proved my 1st year semiotics argument at uni! We were set an essay on whether a reader can discern whether an author is male or female from their text alone. I argued that one couldn't! I'm so happy to be an adult human female!
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  163. And, pray tell, where is that intelligent life...?
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  164. Nope, guys. I think you've got it wrong about mental health treatment! Women too want to feel competent, powerful etc just like men do. We just take /pretend to take the kwikfix tablets because we don't want to upset the doctor. And the 6 sessions of talk therapy with a professional empathiser is probably just as ineffective for us as for you. Actually, let's be frank, the NHS has got it wrong for all of us!!
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  165. Chances are that I'm quite a bit older than you. This interview didn't make me question anything. Instead, it was a hopeful intimation of a return to sanity that our western culture once enjoyed and which I grew up in. Mary is kindly non-judgemental and presents the case gently and skilfully. Even since a teenager, when 'women's lib' was in full flight, I knew it was bad for all of us. Indeed, it liberated men. But in so many ways that could fill a PhD thesis, it imposed new shackles on women and undermined, even destroyed very many children's chances of growing up with healthy nurturing, healthy self-esteem, clarity of goals and so on etc.
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  166. It was heartbreaking to me seeing it as a foreigner with a nice safe, well-ordered country to go back to.
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  167.  @shawn4110  Where do I begin...? Police and women victims of SA, stalking, harassment etc etc subject to poor treatment and secondary victimisation; NHS: 2022 UK gov survey found that 84% of all women report being routinely treated poorly by male AND female GPs with frequent horrendous results (gov put a trigger warning on 10s of thousands of narratives). Average of 1 male GP a week is struck off for SA on women patients. Hundreds of thousands of women cheated out of their rightful pensions by gov on top of the fact that women are poorer than men in older life, women are still expected to do most family caring work with no pay and lose paid time and benefits/NI etc from work; ... This is tip of the iceberg of the mountain of covert discrimination.
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  168. How do we know those science shows are right? And it's not true to say that 'the stars only move a little bit' - they only move a fraction in our perception. Over billions of years they've been racing around like crazy, just as the earth goes round the sun at 67,000mph, and whizzes around the galaxy at about 500,000 mph. Thing is, we're mostly all moving together so it only appears that things are static.
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  169.  @fredneecher1746  Yes, this is the sort of thing I remember too. Don't forget the street kids living in the metros. It was hard to stop the tears.
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  170. Seems to me that Brendan is quite out of touch or naive. People increasingly look to the government for help when things go pear shaped because : - We are taxed at the highest rate in 70 years....the gvt is stealing from us and we know it. People are simply asking for their own money back. - The whole 'community support' thing hasn't actually been a thing since at least WW2 and it was rather a contrived notion even back then. Successive gvt policies have continuously eroded community solidarity and family functionality. Community solidarity brings down gvts. Ask Lech Walensa. - Probably all public services are now deeply dysfunctional. They're no longer there to help people when their problems are small and easily fixed. We know that gvts have done this to us through bad management, and favouring their own pet priorities . Expecting gvt to do something in times of dire need is merely asking them to clean up their mess, holding them to account. - The 'nanny state' has been a huge long power grab by successive gvts. People didn't just give up their liberties for benefits increases of £2.83 a week or free school meals that they were able to afford 5 years ago. Their liberties (including the right to earn a decent wage) have been pulled from them. Gvts have instead subsidised huge corporations to employ people. It's not just ordinary people with their hands out. Business gets far bigger welfare cheques than we do. - Gvts since 97 have increasingly lied to us and nudged us relentlessly. People know this, intuitively they know they're being gaslit even if they don't have the words for it. Please Brendan, hold and express whatever opinions you want, but do not blame the casualties of these govts, do not underestimate ordinary people's ability to understand what's been going on , and do not misunderstand their ways of acquiring recompense and restoration.
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  171. Hear, hear.
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  172. If the wokesters ever become the dominant power in the US, the first thing to go will be the First and Second Amendments at one stroke. The stakes are that high.
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  173.  @missnicthomas  Yes, I agree. I've had sons, daughters, and now grandchilden. From tiny, boys and girls have quite different mannerisms, INHERENTLY! NATURALLY! False anything is just false, and doesn't fool the majority of people.
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  174.  @missnicthomas  ✅
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  175.  @arc5015  Ok, but I've no idea what Bloodborne is. Unfathomable sentience sounds to me rather like Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise.
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  176.  @arc5015  Aye, God! Except that every day, we humans also create realities by thinking about them.
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  177.  @bmxaf  All credit to him for his frank change of mind based on the evidence.
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  178. Wellll....not me.
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  179. Concomitant - it's a word. He didn't pronounce it in the way that I've always heard it. So that made me switch off to the context in which he used it. Would have to go back and listen again to check applicability.
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  180.  @samfourness4737  Yes, it does. We are many and we comprise a valuable, very diverse cohort offering robust clinical data about the variables that gave us natural protection and how we coped with the bug when we caught it.
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  181. Interesting pov.
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  182. Well, they've mostly all been defined by big pharma with regard to whatever drugs they can flog for it. They made the 'illnesses' fit their chemistry. If there's no drug you can sell it, the MH condition is ignored.
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  183. It certainly happened in the women's movement too.
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  184. Anyway....the gndr stuff as per the good doctor... I'm off >>>>
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  185. And me!! 🕊
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  186. It's long past time that 'supernatural' needs to be redefined or erased.
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  187. Yes! When I was a child growing up in the 60s-70s we just didn't think - or overthink rather - about ourselves much, if at all. We just got on with life. Then along came the feminists and effed everyone up. Before the feminists there was room for all sorts of diversity, there isn't now. You have to identify as something and join their cult. I've always been 100% happy to be a woman, but in my own way - that was the norm when I grew up, you were expected to be yourself. Differences weren't pathologised. I'm ecstatic to be a mum and now a granny. Curse the feminists!!
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  188. That's horrible. It's like we're regressing... that backlash is because of misogynists in disguise. imho
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  189.  @grannyannie2948  Well done Granny Annie! You have more strength than I have! All of that...'his truths' no doubt...how did I pick this mindset up from a few minutes?! I declined the jab. Cancel culture is metaphorically about eradicating (k ! ll!ng) people. It's only a short hop from there to actually carrying out that action. As every dictatorship's henchmen have demonstrated. He and I wouldn't see eye to eye EVER.
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  190.  @pittsburghboyertown3821  👍
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  191.  @garethlee2473  Your comment deserves no more that a note that making assumptions about commenters being in echo chambers is antagonist and pejorative,tantamount to an ad hominem. There's no point in engaging with anyone with those assumptions and attitudes.
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  192. Yes, she's taken a very risky, heroic step towards restoring sanity. I'd like to know 1. how we can support Jamie in real terms, and 2. have FF & KK put her in touch with the woman who's fighting her dismissal from the Tavistock Clinic. Perhaps we can get some concerted transatlantic pushback going?
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  193.  @grannyannie2948  Yes, it was shocking that the terror brought out the fascist in so many people. A close friend of 30 yrs went hysterical on me for declining the vaxx. It badly dented our friendship which has never really recovered. Grannyannie, how do you see those formerly censorious and hateful people who are still around us now? I look at people in quite a different way. Thinking about it, I'm far more inclined to trust un-vaxxed people than vaxxed people - because generally, the former think for themselves, are more honest with themselves, are courageous to the extent of putting their own lives on the line (given we were told we'd probably die without the vaxx): these are people I want around me when tshtf. I've 99% lost trust in the pharma/gov/medical complex.
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  194.  @sw.7519  Yep. You're on the right track!
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  195.  @1mimarin  🌹
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  196.  @skhebaa3539  Good grief. I had no idea that the asset stripping was so organised and so deeply entrenched. How many young Botswanans leave/stay in Botswana after education?
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  197.  @skhebaa3539  Still, those who go overseas and don't come back are the highest achievers that your country (like others which are similarly pillaged) needs to progress. It's good for them to have such opportunities (which actually sound better than those available to many poor young Brits), but all that talent is lost to your country. If that were happening in the UK there would be an outcry. China is full of smart young, well-educated people so I suppose they don't have to retain foreigners. The UK doesn't invest as much , pro rata, in education or health nowadays. It all vexes me, especially that your most able young people are used to fill some of the UK's deficits because of poor policy decisions of UK governments.
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  198. 💯 YES!
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  199.  @michaellitten4538  May I amend slightly? 'So many younger women'. We older women see right through the game.
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  200.  @mamameme4887  It occurred to me reading your comment that religion is so denigrated now but it did provide a movement for those who wanted to learn and practice kindness and good intentions. The huge plus is that it really wasn't as horribly restrictive and exclusive as this wo ke one.
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  201.  @Fedorevsky  Indeed, I've heard several black academics talking on the same theme.
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  202.  @garylake1676  LOL! man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assured, his glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep... Your patronising ad hominems are wasted on me LOL!
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  203. Have they DNA tested the population north-east of Berkshire>Mersey to the Shetlands yet? Should the millions of us with Viking 'right wing' blood expect a heavy knock at our doors? And how many crims did that police force get prosecuted in the last 5 years....? When will this lunacy end...?
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  204. He's on the spectrum.
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  205. That type of character was obvious in many of the vaxx advocates. I never warmed to Harris anyway, because of what you describe.
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  206.  @Thepoweroftheriffcompelsme  👍:goodvibes:
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  207.  @EliteBuildingCompany  You think they wouldn't have got to AH? Oh wait....they already did: see Prescott Bush and the other US financiers who were funding AH's war.
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  208.  @Teal_Seal  Thank you for that! You gave me pause to imagine how life might have been over the past 3yrs nearly without all the gvt and NHS histrionics! Bliss! The state of UK ed is much the same as yours. Recently I had a look at a few UK universities prospectuses. Now, I spent more than 7yrs in unis. I'm not a stranger to these things....but the claptrap I read from unis recently was all but incoherent. There are few actual recognisable degree courses! It's all interwoven with the most ludicrous woke word salad, like it's a different planet!
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  209. Yes, that's really all that needs to be said. This Marxist is a deluded windbag.
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  210. Oh dear.
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  211. Yaaaasss.
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  212.  @fraserbailey6347  Oh!! THAT explains everything! Teh Grauniad. Tired old socialists with nowhere else to go.
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  213. Great talk, Konstantin! Are you on paternity leave yet?! If so, huge congrats!
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  214. What about the identifiable and well-known cohorts of people who are not accorded the 'kudos of being a victim' and thus don't get the help they need nor the sympathy/empathy? Mark's explications of trauma and how to heal are quite simplistic. That may be a function of a relatively short conversational format. Though if it's not then his understanding of the extent and depth of trauma is a concern.
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  215. Actually, a multiverse system which births and collapses universes isn't incompatible with the Biblical narrative.
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  216. I guess he makes a lot of coin blowing smoke up the backsides of US captains of industry...
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  217.  @tommore3263  That's interesting to hear that Catholic schools are top of the league table there. It's the same in the UK. I sent my children to church schools. Not just for their educational quality but because of the reasons you describe.
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  218. @catscan2022 Just so.
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  219. Hear hear!
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  220. Just so.
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  221. The big secret is that there's never been any such thing as equality. (And equity is equality on crack).
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  222. He said it himself, 'you gotta have a certain amount of balls'. Oh, the luxury of having a complete tank of testosterone! Unfortunately, far more than half the world simply cannot physically produce that level of upbeat resilience.
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  223.  @JS67137  Stick with us, Son. All will become clear with time.
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  224.  @actionflower6706  I think it works because they just keep circulating those debt notes around...
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  225.  @daveshongkongchinachannel  Here's a comfort - most people become more and more right leaning as they get older.
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  226.  @AnnabelleJARankin  Yes, you're right. It was freer and more relaxed.
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  227. Methinks the lady doth protest overmuch. BTW, IRL I have an English name but I'm entirely of another culture.
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  228.  @kennorthunder2428  Wisdom versus intelligence.....yes, so well said. Flat-earthers and autogenderisers have so much in common. So little wisdom in the face of so much settled science.
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  229. Thank you for your eloquent and deeply insightful assessment. The humble, in all their wisdom, shall inherit the earth...
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  230.  @theinngu5560  I rather see the rejection of tradition in the West as an outcome of failed leadership. Where have all the wise and honourable leaders been during the past 50-60 years? Those people who are willing and able to set their own needs/ambitions aside to serve their country and communities? Those with a strong vision of the future that encompasses the needs and ambitions of the people....? What leader has championed and consolidated good traditions? And identified poor and dangerous traditions and ended them? (Why does the NHS come to mind here? We've been endlessly encouraged by those in government to worship this corrupt monstrosity with all its traditions of bullying and cover-ups...) Apart from a notable 2 or 3, all we've had are control freaks, ideologues, incompetents, narcissists, self-seeking puff pieces that'll roll over and feather their own nests and cover their own backs before serving the people who elected them. Now all we have are store managers like Rishi who wouldn't be out of place as a McDonald's regional manager. Who knows who his ultimate boss is - it's not the electorate for sure. Mammon has most emphatically routed leadership. Without traditional leadership , companies and countries fail, leaving the door open for all sorts of barbarians, loons and ne'er-do-wells...just as we see US and Oxford Street stores looted and trashed at will in broad daylight. Leaving the majority of people who are quite content with moderate traditions aghast, confused, annoyed, unsettled, and voiceless whilst the managers, following the money and publicity, pander to the violent, the bullies, those who don't care for any tradition, good or bad, and the would be usurpers.
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  231. Isn't that why they destroy communities in all sorts of little, incremental ways? Because people in strong communities are individually stronger and are a powerful force together. Community is certainly the way through and out of this almighty shitshow.
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