Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "spiked" channel.

  1. Think globally, act hypocritically.
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  2. Andrew Tate represents a more extreme version of Jordan Peterson?! <- Have Spiked gone crazy? There's no connection between them.
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  3. The pronoun religion seems imposed, from above, to me. I don't believe that 95% of journalists went mad over a 10-year period.
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  4. "Why are they all wearing synthetic, oil-based clothing?" <- Asking them why their ideas make no sense is itself senseless. Why would we expect them to have sensible ideas? It's performative politics. They're actors on stage, engaged in a senseless plot. The government and BBC do the same thing to a lesser degree. BBC critics - such as myself are literally banned by speaking at the BBC. Hallam is clearly mentally unstable - mad. Authoritarian, censorious, good versus evil politics I see in the Green, Tory, Labour, Scots Nats must inevitably lead to some version of Hallam. Because when one bans debate on a topic - it inevitably leads to madness in society, and to giving mad fanatics a platform - while denying sane debaters a platform.
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  5. The state has always outsourced censorship to private bodies. For example, during the French Enlightenment it was the Catholic Church (an IGO). Hollywood hired Will Hayes in the 1920s who was opposed to outright censorship, because “self-regulation educates and strengthens those who practice it.”
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  6. Ella says: "making farming more efficient makes it greener" <- greens don't believe that. Greens don't follow any rational accounting system and it is impossible to communicate with them because they have entirely different standards. Greens seem to think that with 'organic farming' humanity and nature will live in 'harmony'. Farmers will farm side-by-side with rabbits, foxes, and all sorts of wildlife. Green harmony doesn't fit in with any kind of accounting of productivity, and efficiency; harmony seems to be more of a mystical aim.
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  7. “It’s interesting to watch Glastonbury and look at the audience and not see any black people there ... I’m always surprised by the lack of black and brown faces at festivals,” he continued, adding: “I think, ‘Wow, that’s still very much a dominant culture thing’.” - Lenny Henry
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  8. Russia isn't under threat from the West. There is an obsessive internal dialogue in Russia about the threatening West. It's not a real threat. In contrast the occupation of Eastern Europe for 45, or more years, was a real thing; even though that's no longer a threat either.
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  9.  @L_Martin  It's not belief which need to be protected; it's ideas.
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  10. "Punish her" is probably an understatement. Psychopaths want to hurt people.
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  11. Did he say he didn't "feel at home"? I don't think so. That's your interpretation.
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  12. We need to neuter this cat nonsense. Too much "stroke my back and I'll scratch your thigh" business going on among elites. Their paws need trimming.
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  13. Normalization of "Jews are the new NAZIs" horrifies and disgusts me.
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  14. It's no kind of religion; it's more a pathology.
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  15. The Blairite faction of the Tory party are in conflict with the traditional Tories. Blairites outnumber the trads. Also, I bet there are more Blairites in the City than trad Tories. Truss can't do anything, anyhow, because she needs the Tories on her side, by either being them, or by replacing them.
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  16. "In America, the parents got together and they became a powerful force" <- If you have kids, join your PTA, and find out what they're teaching. Catwomen, and Moon-people are video game and Disney characters. Not real things.
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  17. Spiked must stop pussing-footing on this issue. There's no significant man-made climate change - it can be scientifically shown that climate alarmist models and data are senseless. Spiked must accept reality, and you must stop pretending that you can ally yourself with climate change alarmists and fence-sitters such as Shellenberger, Lomborg, etc. Net Zero was always their plan. They want to completely abandon use of fossil fuel. Man-made climate change was nothing other than a pretext for their Malthusian intentions. "Net Zero is a nice idea" <- No it is not. It is an evil Malthusian idea. "I'm not a climate change denier" <- Not even pussing-footing or fence-sitting there! You use their terms, then you accept their mentality. There are NO "climate change deniers". Every climate alarm skeptic knows the climate changes.
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  18. Banning, censoring, cancelling critics. What a coincidence that the government's spook / 77th Brigade agenda aligns so well with the transers. One might almost imagine it's by design!
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  19. The physical reactions they get: nervousness, hyperventilating : those are real experiences they're having. I genuinely do not think they are faking it.
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  20. If loss of anonymity is the price paid for free-speech I'll take free-speech.
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  21.  @DieFlabbergast  Q: By whom? A: By people who planned it. Much like the climate and net zero PLANS, the transing scam is no accident. Q: Simple, one-size fits all? A: No, it's not simple. For example, the same people financing it didn't dream it up; but, there were - theorists - people profitting from it, such as doctors - politicos (on the left). Pushed by ideologically driven NGOs, charities, medical associations. Climate scam: - their theorists were climate modellers - renewable energy suppliers, and electric vehicle companies profit from it. Even farmers profit by converting their land from green to brown field, after 15 years. - politicos galarore. Nearly all UK political parties are in tune with it. Pushed by every green NGO - financed by US foundations. Similar structure, both scams are driven by anti-humanism. The climate scame explicitly so, and the transing scam by proxy transhumanism (which is itself an antihumanism).
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  22.  @DieFlabbergast  “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
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  23. Some of the loony ones (XR, Just Stop Oil) do "care about the climate". Like Red Guards cared about communism in China, and trans-teens care about their gender identity. Yes - the climate change issue was ALWAYS a pretext for Net Zero. They literally do want to end fossil fuel use. All the climate activists want that.
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  24. Nothing stops woke inventing some new mind-fuck and declaring it the latest woke or "progressive" idea.
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  25. Pre-Musk, I was not banned for life at Twitter for publishing "disinformation". I was banned for a post I made describing a real experience I had. On Twitter, one normally only sees - in one's feed - posts by those one follows. Unless one a) specifically searches for something, b) reads adverts, or c) reads posts selected by the algorithm "for you". As such it's difficult for disinformation to enter one's feed unless one specifically looks for it, or foolishly follows people who habitually post it. Most accounts in my feed are edited by one single person in control. There's little scope for government to apply mass censorship - without a mass-purge of these distinct individuals publishing their opinions, citizen-news and research. The advice to give people on twitter is - follow accounts you trust, unless you're specifically there to read what the "other side" have to say on an issue. By now, I only follow accounts I trust. BTW: I was able to get back on Twitter, but only with a brand new anonymous account. The European Enlightenment was the product of many single individuals communicating via books, pamphlets, letters, salon discussions. Enlightenment communication was bottom-up; just like Twitter is today. TPTB really fear this bottom-up communication; just as they did during The Enlightenment. They cannot control what we think, nor what we discuss.
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  26. Why does Spiked assume giving up one's car is desirable? Not one person I know who has a car will go back to live without a car. The green agenda is bonkers. It is anti-democratic because they know no one supports it. Their ideas are unreasonable because they've never been debated, and they never answered sensible points. Because they know no one supports them, they have total contempt for people who don't support them. It's not something you'll see from them in public unless you're an anti-green activist.
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  27. Trans-Taliban! Transiban?
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  28. "Trans genderism has it's origins in Feminism"? "My truth" was invented as "lived experience" by feminists in 1889 (in Australia!). The second part of Simone de Beauvoir's ground-breaking book "The Second Sex" (published in 1949), is called "Lived Experience". Modern epistemic relativism of "truth is what I want it to be" began with Feminism; Postmodernism copied it. <- Discuss!
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  29. Re: "Why Now?" It's not clear to our toff news reporters and "fact checkers" that they're dishonestly biased. They believe themselves honestly biased. Biased with superior morals to me and you. Q: What is that morality and why is it both so elastic and woolly, yet also very specific & precise? A: In response to criticism over the Global Financial Crash, GFC, by "Occupy Wall Street", and the Left, asset managers instituted "Environmental and Social Governance", ESG. ESG is a set of woolly criteria for running a company. ESG institutionalizes business support for woke and green issues; it's the pretext for media SJW support and censorship of such. I think they began ESG about 2015. The effects weren't immediate, but it's built up a momentum. It's not so much that everyone in establishment media became woke overnight. They became owned by ESG over the past 5 years. PS: "Asset Managers" are financiers who manage assets of wealthy institutions such as pension funds, foundations, charities, and the like. They often have strong links to Investment Banks. Some big asset managers are: Blackrock, Fidelity, State Street, Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, ...
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  30. It's not "dividing society". It seems to have captured alot of the elite media types. They don't count as society; they're often very anti-social.
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  31. When I hear "her penis", I think "you prick"
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  32. "I'd like to see Elon simply withdraw Twitter service in countries that oppose free speech" Why?
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  33. Which perfectly explains their weekly meetings.
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  34. Are they really far left or is it more a case of mindless authoritarianism?
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  35. At one stage, Andrew blames Postmodernism. It's not. The originators of pomo whouldn't be able recognize these spoit kids as their progeny. Seems to me some daft people got a cauldren, mixed in some postmodernism, a bit of Frankfurt School (I not going to call it critical theory because it's uncritical cubed), some gender theory, some ideas from racism, a bit of Marxism, loads of intersectionality and intersexualiy, tonnes of vivtimhood batshit. Mixed up a concoction which is pure poison to the mind. Designed to paralyse their opponents; but which has, instead, zombiefied the perps.
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  36.  @idorus  = OTT narcissism
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  37. The real enemy of free speech today is Big Government/Big Business alliance - not Islamic nutters. The Government has been killing free speech forever because they hate open and free debate. Government also enable Islamic terrorists by being their apologists. It's Government telling us that free speech can "scar and maim", as they pile lie on top of metaphor on top of exaggeration. Hardly surprising that words used by, and laws enacted by, politicos encourage fundamentalist outrages.
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  38. I think Google put climate change warnings on ALL videos which mention climate.
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  39.  @Jezza_One  Isn't it also on every video which mentions "climate"? - even on alarmist videos too.
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  40. Just Stop Oil's policy is to increase the price and scarcity of energy. Many of them think humans are evil and animals holy. Their cause is toxic to humanity, otherwise known as the Green / or Sustainable, future. Climate change is: natural, not man-made.
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  41.  @mesolithicman164  The US did not start this war. The Russians did.
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  42.  @shaunpatrick8345  "Coup"? In November 2013, a wave of large-scale protests (known as Euromaidan) began in response to President Yanukovych's sudden decision not to sign a political association and free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), instead choosing closer ties to Russia. Earlier that year, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) had overwhelmingly approved finalizing the agreement with the EU. In January and February 2014, clashes in Kyiv between protesters and Berkut special riot police resulted in the deaths of 108 protesters and 13 police officers, and the wounding of many others. Protesters occupied government buildings throughout the country, and the Azarov government resigned. So the President subverted the will of the people. Leading to violent protests, leading to the government resigning. Not a "coup". It fails to me the definition of coup because it was NOT sudden; and it wasn't a small group of protesters, not a military faction. I am not an EU fan. I was even sympathetic to Putin prior to 2014. But he's shown himself to be a thug, Russian nationalist, and to disregard democracy. Corruption is thriving under Putin as never before.
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  43.  @shaunpatrick8345  The Ukraine President over-ruled the congressional delegates (parliament). So was it first a pro-Putin "coup" in November 2013? One month after the so-called Febuary 2014 "coup", Putin annexed Crimea. So maybe Putin wanted that "coup" to happen?
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