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Foreign people of ALL races and cultures are welcome so long as they ADD to the richness of British culture, rather than detracting from it. However, there are some values about being decent towards each other, working for a living, not imposing your religious beliefs, and treating women and children with respect, that are a fundamental part of British working class culture. If you don't share those values, adopt them as soon as you arrive, or don't bother coming.
Black, white, brown, oriental, or any other ethnicity - all are welcome and will be treated with kindness and compassion by the vast majority of Britons.
Every nation has its xenophobes and racists, but they are just a very vocal, but tiny minority.
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I fully understand the difficulty in separating a potential human from an actual one. Every sperm is a potential human. A zygote (the moment a sperm fertilises an egg) is a potential human, but it is NOT a baby. It has no brain, no autonomy, no physical feeling, no thoughts. Despite that, I am filled with thoughts about the person it COULD become if allowed to come to term. The child it might be, the adult it might grow up to be.
I 100% agree with anyone who argues against the murder of BABIES (at whatever point we decide taht they move from being a collection of cells to an autonomous human being) for the convenience of a mother too careless or stupid to prevent its formation. But where is your compassion the second it is born? How many of you give a darn about childhood poverty, or the 400,000 children in orphanages in the US, or women who have to carry the products of rape or incest? Or women whose health is threatened by carrying a baby to term, or the tens of thousands of women whose life will be threatened performing back alley abortions? How many of you care about the poverty that unwanted babies inflict on entire families? How many of you are doing this much handwringing about the 5 kids who have died at the border, or the hundred of thousands your government has killed in the middle east or Yemen?
Frankly, your moralising is about as convincing as your Christianity, and your empathy suffers a bad case of tunnel vision.
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I love London. The only thing that ruins it are the crowds of tourists. Don't get me wrong, I love to see them having a good time but they do make moving around an effort. London has a VAST amount to offer tourists. It's a fantastic meeting place for the rich history of Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, The plague, the Royal family, Buckingham Palace, the Natural History museum, the Tower of London and much more, with the modernity of the Shard, The Tate Modern, the London Eye, Harrods, The science Museum, Leicester square, theatre district, and so on. It also has the spectacular beauty of all its parks and gardens, especially Kew, and the river itself. To a tourist from a country that is less than 300 years old, to come to a city with 1000 year old buildings must hold some interest. You could spend a month in London and never see the same thing twice. It's a fascinating city.
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@0IIIIII Leaders can make inflation MUCH worse with their policies. Here in Britain, our nation did not contract gas at fixed prices, assuming that the buyers would always be the ones in control. A number of factors stopped that being the case, and suddenly everything down the chain, including electricity, leapt massively in price. In Britain, we also left Europe, which limited the supply of lorry drivers, just at a time when lorry drivers were already hit by poor working conditions and covid. Our government could have responded to the poor working conditions a decade ago as shortages were manifesting themselves. Also, there was a massive gas storage facility which the government allowed to close. Britain has the lowest gas stores in Europe, so yet again, the gas situation hit us harder. I could go on, but you get the point.
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I agree with your assessment of the Muslim situation, and I feel most saddened for any reasonable person living in a Muslim nation, but it's high time that Europe recognises the cancer that this religion represents.
Germany, France and Belgium have woken up with a bang, and I suspect Sweden will follow suit soon enough. With the Muslim population of Britain doubling to 3 million in just 10 years, and the ultralib PC politicians selling us in the interests of whatever they gain from this, I am not hopeful about the future.
As for Dianne Abbott, I don't know what's in her heart, and I agree that she needs to be much more careful about her use of language if the reports are accurate.
You say that the Labour Party are anti British. I'm not sure that I agree with that, but let's say that you ARE correct, what is their motivation for that?
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@johnallan1134 There is absolutely concrete evidence. We can chart the rise in rainfall, sea level, the transition of weather events, the frequency and direction of frontal systems, changes in global sea temperature, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, rates of flood deposition, even tree ring growth rates, and we can compare all of that against records (ice cores, plant growth, deposition plains, then written records) stretching back tens of thousands of years. It is absolutely indisputable that the global climate is changing with dangerous rapidity.
Yes, there have always been floods, but not this frequent or severe in the areas where we build houses. I can drop a bucket of water on your garden once a year and it will probably survive, but if I drop a tanker load every week your flowers and vegetables will not survive.
Do you really think anyone would put a housing estate somewhere that was expected to be underwater every year?
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@mistxfusion "please come up with 1 crime he could genuinely be convicted for. I’ll wait." The hilarity of that "I'll wait" comment. You genuinely believe you've said something clever huh?
Okay, where to start - breaching the emoluments clause by profiting from the presidency, colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election, running a false university (already convicted), hiring illegal labour, blackmailing a foreign leader over Hunter Biden, money laundering, false tax declarations, failing to pay his debts or employees, incitement to insurrection, trying to influence the Georgia election results, incitement to violence at his 2016 rallies, illegal use of the military at the BLM rallies, and extortion - to name but some.
But you aren't actually interested in facts are you?
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@Duncan23 Someone once said "Democracy is the worst system of government except all the other ones." The trouble with democracy is that there is no IQ or comprehension test for participation. I wouldn't trust 10% of my neighbours to wipe their own asses much less decide my future, and I don't trust the intellectual capacity of 70% of the population. Yes, you WOULD have the right not to participate in the theoretical eating of babies, but what if it was YOUR baby on offer, and refusal was not an option? Example; feminism, all across the western world, laws are becoming harsher against males, to the extent that the old basis of innocent until proven guilty is no longer the case in many sexual assault cases. How do men choose NOT to participate in a gendered legal system that now places THEM at a disadvantage? Or in America, money has been defined as speech, so people with money get an undue voice, so how does democracy work in THAT situation?
Democracy is NOT the ideal system - a benign dictatorship is.
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@dekmackie What can ANY non-superpower country do to make another country act? Britain has precisely as much power as France - which is diplomacy, sanctions, international courts, and if things ever became desperate, a medium sized military and a nuclear arsenal. Exactly as France does. Even the largest superpower on the planet has discovered time and again that it's not THAT easy to impose your will on other nations if they are willing to fight back. They've just suffered defeat in the longest war in US history, and got their asses kicked in Vietnam. France has short-term leverage over Britain, but the more they apply it, the weaker it becomes as Britain finds ways to bypass them. Extremely stupid short-term thinking by both nations.
The really stupid thing is, if we simply intercepted these migrants midway across the channel and turned them back, we wouldn't even be HAVING this debate. It is FRANCE that is breaking its international obligations not Britain. That said, if Britain is serious about resolving this issue, it WOULD go a long way if we contributed to the cost of patrolling France's coastal border.
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@bogeyonanostrilhair9568 I don't care why the US has a 99% out of court settlement rate - Andrew is not subject to US jurisprudence. He is completely aware of how this makes him look, and how it harms the royal family, and that he will NEVER regain his former status with a settlement instead of fighting his case, yet he STILL went with a settlement. It strains all credibility to suggest that he is innocent.
A criminal case has STILL not been ruled out, especially as he declined to speak to the FBI, and given the fact it took them this long to get Maxwell, (the main surviving lynchpin in this case,) I can't imagine what would convince you that there's not enough evidence, but even if there was not, lack of evidence would certainly not prove innocence, but his APPALLING performance during that interview weighs extremely badly against him, as do all of his efforts to avoid standing trial. And now we're going around in circles. As for IQs, I have no idea why you would mention that. What's the relevance?
Frankly, I'm bemused by why you are so desperate to argue for the most clearly guilty man I've ever seen. You're either a contrarian, the most desperate Royalist ever, or a person who has special empathy with sex abusers.
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This is the great lie that you've been sold by the Republicans George. They want you to think that your woes are due to your taxes going on immigrants and the poor.The last, completely pointless war cost 20 trillion dollars. That's enough to provide completely free education and health care for several generations. And now Trump want's increase America's nuclear arsenal 10 fold and has just approved a 70 billion dollar spending INCREASE on the military. Even whilst the soldiers from the last one are not being cared for.
The working and middle classes are not the problem - the wealthy are. They get ever richer, whilst paying middle America less and less. Wages are lower in real terms now than at any time since the 1950s, yet working hours are up, productivity is through the roof, and workers' right are all but non existent.
As for education and healthcare, not every person is dealt cards that allows them to pay for it. Health care costs are predatory, Pharma costs verge on price gouging, and even a relatively minor illness or accident can wipe out your family's cash reserves, savings and even their house.
George, the rest of the world works hard. They manage to have affordable socialised healthcare and education. Almost everybody pays into it and almost everyone benefits from it. What's wrong with that?
I notice you answered NONE of my points and provided none of your own. Perhaps if you stopped and thought about it, rather than reacting with the script that the Republican mouth pieces have given you, you might see things a bit differently?
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@bogeyonanostrilhair9568 I'm assuming this is Andrew's social media account speaking to me? Either that, or you're the most gullible person on Earth. That interview alone was enough to prove his guilt to me, and coincidentally, 90% of the rest of the country, hence the start of his downfall, the loss of all privileges, titles, and patronages. Criminal charges have not been ruled out, but Andrew refused to go speak to the FBI about it when requested. I have zero problem seeing Giuffre as whatever. But she has won TWO of these cases now and never had charges brought against her. Moreover, given that she was groomed by Maxwell for years, and was a minor in all three relevant jurisictions, it feels to me as though you are victim shaming. On the other hand, Andrew has blatantly lied (badly) at every stage, used slimy legal manouevres to avoid accountability, and even his own mother (who considered him her favourite) and brother have virtually disowned him. And now, having proclaimed that he looked forwards to proving his innocence in a jury trial, he has instead paid her off. Like innocent people don't.
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+Portugal Forense The world has never and will never be a matriarchy. Women are physically weaker than men, intellectually similar, and when this current blip of male stupidity passes, they will once again be viewed, at best, as equals, rather than pandering to their every whine. I'm sorry, but a world where might is right rules has been the default state for most of human history, and it will likely return to being the default state because it rewards the strongest, not the biggest whiners.
Yes, high heels are using sex to provide nice frontage for the business, because the most powerful people in business are male, and they respond to such things. Complaining about it is as deeply in denial as to complain about the fact that your taste buds react to the scent of fresh cooked bread.
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Well, I have to say that that is not an entirely unreasonable position, except for the fact that Trump is so breathtakingly incompetent and lacking in experience that he'd be at risk of creating a world war, not just ISIS. Remember, this is a man who has asked repeatedly why we can't drop nukes on the Middle East, has said that he would not rule out dropping nukes on the Europe, where America's allies live! And has said that he would abandon his allies. Given that America has not managed to subdue Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria WITH the support of allies, what chance do you think it would stand without them? America already spends 50% of its discretion budget on the military - would you be prepared to pay an extra few thousand per year in taxes to support Trump's military vision?
The most important question is this, how sane is it to elect a man who is viewed by the greatest advisors and experts in the nation, as a threat to national security? A man who would not even be able to get a low level government job because of his international affiliations.
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You remind me of a Muslim apologist trying to justify the murder of children and the oppression of women. This boy DOES NOT have an eating disorder. He has a greed disorder and a mother too weak and stupid to stop feeding him. At the start of the piece it clearly says that he has to go on a crash diet. You can't crash diet a medical condition away. If she can't find a way to keep food out of his fat hands, then it really is time for her to lose the child.
The trouble is, you're sooo desperate to virtue signal your empathy and anti-bullying SJW colours that you make excuses which, if listened to, would definitely kill this boy.
You then go on to cry crocodile tears about how the most likely cause of this kid's death will be suicide. All the while enabling the behaviour with your excuses that lead to his misery. You remind me of these people who weigh 400 pounds and try to convince the world that big is beautiful, even as the cellulite hangs off your flabby thighs.
Why do I hate fat so much? Because it's repugnant. Because it's self inflicted. Because society pays for it. Because it's a tangible sign of decadence, indulgence and laziness. There's NOTHING to like about obesity and everything to dislike.
People like YOU are what is wrong with this world. I'll do you the courtesy of assuming your good intent, even though is by no means certain, but even if I assume that, the feeble excuses you are making for this pathetic woman's dire parenting, contrary to the facts, are just abysmal. 21st century liberalism at its worst.
I work with kids. Shitty parents make shitty kids ALWAYS. Of the thousands, maybe tens of thousand of kids I've worked with, I never met ONE who had great parents but was a shitty kid. So yeah, I've got parenting issues. I despise shitty parents.
And what the hell does my race have anything to do with the issue?
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@lukesalvidge5451 It's an incredibly fraught business to interfere in the actions of ANY nation. One of the most sacrosanct standards of international justice is sovereignty. As soon as you start infringinging upon that because you don't like their internal behaviour, you are on murky ground. Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Iran are justice SOME of the examples of where we have gotten it disastrously wrong.
And that's not counting the shifting vagaries of what ARE crimes against humanity.
I'd love a world in which rogue nations are held to account, but looking at the world right now, the most powerful nations are all LEAD by rogue leaders. Bolsanaro, Trump, Erdogan, Putin, Jinping - I wouldn't trust ANY of them to act with restraint of integrity.
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@2msvalkyrie529 Did I mention Brexit? How would Brexit have affected cost of living in Spain? The causes to which I alluded, were the ongoing fuel price hikes, covid knock on effects, and lorry driver shortages. All of these are Europe-wide. The irony is, you're so triggered, that you see stories that have ZERO to do with Brexit as somehow speaking to or against your narrative there. Europe had problems BEFORE Brexit - the excess of power in Germany, the financial problems in Greece, the admission of poverty-stricken nations, free labour exchange between nations that favoured the poorest nations to the detriment of those better off, and the effect of Euro compliance on the freedom to self regulate currencies. I doubt that any Remainer was not cogniscent of those issues.
But of course, in your fact free world, you reduce every comment to a tribalistic for/against Brexit. Tsunami in Malawi? Must be because you were against Brexit. Planet crashing into the sun? Of course it would worse if we'd remained in Europe. Get a grip with your silly identity politics.
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@yoloswaggins7121 Nope, again, your logic is faulty. If one terrorist responsible for 100,000 deaths uses a human shield - especially one consisting of his own family, it's a lesser of two evils situation. Why should the people fighting him risk THEIR lives simply to meet YOUR sense of morality? Fighting on the ground is MUCH more risky. If I was the partner of a US soldier killed on the ground, knowing they could have just drone striked the whole building, I'd be outraged at the loss.
Again, the point that you are missing IN THIS CASE, is that these civilians were his FAMILY. HE was the one that placed them in the fire zone. America simply pulled the trigger.
Civilians were NOT targeted - they happened to be in kill zone. That's HIS fault. I passionately HATE that children were killed, but do you think that they were ever going to grow up to be peaceful, democracy loving adults?
Terrorists frequently specifically TARGET civilians - that's often what terrorism is all about - creating a sense of terror among the populace to bring about political pressure for action.
And again, with Hiroshima, your comparison is totally faulty. Neither Hiroshima OR Nagaaki were MILITARY targets so there is no collateral damage justification. The US uses a lesser of two evils argument, but even if you considered murdering 100,000 people to be a fair exchange to get a single nation out of the war, Japan was already making overtures to surrender. That was a crime against humanity AND terrorism pure and simple. Which is why America constantly waves the Geneva convention at its enemies but refuses to be bound by its terms itself.
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@khworker1322 No it's not a cop out. I gave you the statistics. This is just one of VERY many active volcanoes across the globe. This one has been intermittently active for over 600 years. Mount Etna has been an active volcano for over 35,000 years that erupted in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009, so why would it surprise you that it is making noise? Likewise, Fagradalsfjall is part of an extensive but not dead volcanic system. Okay, so it started to become active in 2019 and erupted in 2021, but why would that surprise you? What is the correct interval between eruptions? Why would more multiple volcanic eruptions across the planet raise your concern? How many volcanoes have CEASED to become active over the same period?
It seems to me, Chicken Little, that YOU are the one failing to do the research.
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@deveshkhairnar2723 I'm sorry, but this is YOUR inferiority complex, not my SUPERIORITY complex. The fact that the west are number 1 is not due to to anything I personally did, any more than India's position is due to you. I feel no personal pride at our position, just massive good fortune to have been born here, but that was just an accident of fate.
I don't act like ALL Indians are dumb and poor but millions are. Globally, India is 52nd in average income, 32nd by education, 132nd in life expectancey and 140th on the happiness index. Despite your pride, India is objectively a worse place to live than almost every 1st world country.
If being told this offends you, then do something about it Devesh. Become a politician or a campaigner and change the country. Get a fantastic job where you are not choking to death in smog, and do your little bit to raise happiness.
Look, India is only going through what the first world went through 100-200 years ago. Except you're fortunate - you get to ride ion the shoulders of giants. The west already did all the hard work inventing technology to make things easier for you. All you have to do, is reach out and use it. And you are. That's smart, and that's why India will become a first world nation far faster than any of us did so.
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@JK-ff6zc An innocent man sleeping in his own car should NOT be arrested. Mistake number 1. Then he escalated a non violent situation. Mistake 2.Then the officer lost control of his taser. Mistake 3. Then he shot an unarmed, fleeing man in the back. Mistake 4 If that's your idea of "doing well", I'd hate to see when the police do badly!
But well done for doing exactly what I complained about, and throwing in the victim's past history, none of which is relevant. The cop was not acting upon that, nor was any of it grounds for execution, and even if it WAS, he was entitled to judicial process. So the man was a nasty person in the past - he'd just served time for that. Maybe he found religion. Maybe he learned from his mistakes. Or maybe not. Completely irrelevant to what happened here.
And if you don't like that his family, who just lost their father, will now get money in compensation, how about training the police better so that they don't arrest people for sleeping in their own car and then execute them when they panic.
And this is the police on best behaviour!
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@breathingviolatestermsofse9915 "Its called not living in a crazy blue city full of gangbangers and nutjobs." "Print a gun violence map of your state on transparent plastic, then print an electoral results map by county of your state."
I followed your advice - highest gun violence texas, 3rd highest Florida then 56th and 6th Ohio and Pennsylvania. It's almost as though there's no correlation at all. You'll forgive me if I evaluate the accuracy of the rest of your comment with a degree of skepticism. Nevertheless, it's hardly a surprise if the most violence occurs where the most people live. I'd be more interested in a per capita analysis.
All of this said, I have no dog in this race. It would be nice to think that rural folk were nicer. It's not been my experience, but my experience is not extensive. The fact is, the vast majority of Americans live in heavily populated areas, so for them, the danger of gun violence is real, if not constant. Given that there are more guns than people, I think that danger is well founded.
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Was 51% ready to give this a serious listen, then the bullshit started at 100%. The 17% gender pay gap is a fantasy that has been disproven. Quota hiring is a disgraceful piece of social engineering that forces companies to hire by gender rather than qualification. Less women get into politics because less women are willing to make the lifelong sacrifices needed to succeed (and that's a GOOD thing - I don't like that our politicians are borderline sociopaths in their desire for success). And paid maternity leave? Why the hell should the rest of the COUNTRY pay you full pay to take a 39 week break from contributing, just when the rest of us are being told we're going to have to keep working until 70 or even 75?!
This shameless reporter is an example of the BBC's gender hiring policies - regurgitating tired victim narratives I WANT women to get an equal opportunity. Women ARE a vital voting demographic, but you don't have to BE a woman to provide meaningful things TO women. Women tend to score higher on social empathy, which is why Brexit matters less, but issues like the NHS, schools, OAP care and more, score higher on their lst of concerns.
This pathetic piece completely missed the mark, and when even trans people don't sign onto legislation misguidedly designed to help them, you know you've completely missed the mark.
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@marco78397 40 people died yesterday, 37 the day before, then 11, 18, 27. They're not cases, they're people's family members. By maintaining lockdown and social distancing. This week we're running at between 1000 and 5000 new cases per week. The number of people dying of other diseases is irrelevant unless they are highly contagious, common, and incurable. Cancer for example - condition of our age, kills millions, and it cannot be immunised against, but nor is it contagious. Massive difference.
Corona is NOT curable. It's managable. Barely. If it was curable, pharma companies across the planet would not be investing billions into cures and vaccines.
You seem to be saying to me "Why do we keep warning people not to cross the road during busy traffic. No one ever dies crossing the road. Not since we made it stopped all the traffic." You look at the RESULTS of all of this massive effort to control the disease, then use that to explain why we never needed the effort in the first place.
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@PaulBriden The problem is Paul, if you only let those with mortgages decide policy, self interest means nothing will change, and if you only allow naive idealists without ANY commitments, it will alienate those who have more prosaic concerns. But tell me, if I said that within 24 hours, I was going to murder your children or grandchildren if you didn't halve your carbon emissions, you'd move heaven and earth and achieve it yes? No whining about jobs or cost or inconvenience - you'd get it done. Yet here is an existential threat far greater, and you're complaining about your boiler.
Don't get me wrong - it's appalling, that you were missold the wrong boiler, and frustrating that diesel is not as eco-friendly as the experts thought. They're trying to respond quickly to something that is new territory - just like covid vaccines. We're all fumbling to repair the damage that industrialisation and dirty fuel and poor energy policies have wrought on the planet, but it's an effort that we MUST make. There's simply no alternative if you care about life on earth beyond the duration of your own existence.
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@juliorosa9857 Your visits to the 3rd world are irrelevant. But nice attempt at virtue willy waving. We cannot take responsibility for everyone on the planet, but we can each do things for those within our sphere of influence.
When you talk about living standards across the globe, you sound like a parent saying to a child who just broke his arm "Kids in some parts of the world don't even HAVE arms." So what? There are ALWAYS people worse off. These kids live in a British society where wages in real terms have been falling for decades, where there is an educational arms race for fewer and fewer jobs, where automation and outsourcing looks to make millions of jobs obsolete, where there is a diminishing housing stock, and climate change threatens their very futures, all during a pandemic. All of which are valid reasons for very real stress. But I'm sure all that is not stressful enough because kids live on garbage dumps in South America right? And all these kids want is an education. How unreasonable. And I'm sure that you are aware that academic stress is one of the major sources of death among teenagers.
The photographer Manabu Yamanaka went and lived in an African village for a year to experience life on the very threshold of existence, and he described them as some of the happiest people he had ever known, which demonstrates that happiness is not correlated to poverty necessarily. Yes, there are starving kids, but security and safety are only one step higher on Maslow's hierarchy, and relationships only one step higher still. You're clearly a highly intelligent person, so how can you be so dismissive?
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@justsomeguy1141 I don't know the Swiss at all, but to quote George Carlin "A person is smart. People are dumb." I don't have any dog in this fight, but I NEVER want the unwashed masses, even moderately thoughtful ones, especially conservatives, making decisions that affect my life. I want people who aspire to MUCH higher values of decency and social altruism, backed by a high intellect, making the decisions, if any must be made at all.
Personally, I'd abolish marriage and all its privileges right away, then this would not be a problem. If churches wish to have a ceremony and a bit of paper - good for them, but it would carry zero legal weight.
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"When businesses can increase profit margins and reduce costs we benefit from increased employment, higher wages, and cheaper goods and services."
Nonsense. You are basically regurgitationg trickle down economics, a failed policy championed by Reagan and now thoroughly debunked by economists. When businesses make more profity they simply keep more profits or give it to shareholders as dividends. They don't go down to the shop floor and throw it around as pay increases. Proof? Walmart, and Apple, two of the most successful businesses on the planet pay BELOW minimum wage. The wage gap between employers and employees are at historically high levels. Productivity is at 25 year highs, working hours are longer, yet pay in real terms is significantly lower even as the cost of living rises.
That said, I will grant you that zero spending on the high street or online can lead to recessions, so there is a certain level of connection between consumers and businesses, but it is not the synergistic relationship you portray; it is almost wholly predatory. Moreover, most UK manufacturing occurs overseas, and businesses are lower tax payers than the public.
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Ignoring the grade school insult, how much research do I need to have done? On his first day he cancelled mortgage relief for the poor, and took all mention of climate change and social programs from the government web site. Within a week he has declared sanctions on nations that offer abortions to US women, declared his intent to reinstate the Dakota pipeline and Keystone XL, and cancel vital health coverage for millions of Americans, shifted the cost for his wall to the US tax payer, said that he will never release his taxes, attacked his own intelligence services, and used his first official press conference to challenge estimates for the number of people at his inauguration. You wanna talk research, WTF have YOU got?
Trump is a dangerous, pitifully insecure lunatic and a world class scumbag, and if you don't see that, I'm amazed that you're smart enough to breath in and out let alone operate a computer.
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I agree that the philosophy behind the law is sound, provided you accept that harmonious coexistence is more important than personal liberty. I do, but I point that out to illustrate that even one's philosophical starting position is not a given.
In Germany, they have no speed limit on the autobahn, yet they manage just fine without killing each other. And if I want to harm myself, who is ANYBODY to tell me that is not my choice to do so?
There can be a fine line between laws that facilitate peaceful co-existence, and laws that simply assert the mechanisms of the state, or worse still, the religious will of a particular sect.
I don't know which country you come from, but if as I suspect, it's America, you guys are orders of magnitude more corrupt than here in the UK. I don't say that to one up you, but because you perhaps misunderstand British society, which has lots of checks and balances, particularly in politics, to minimise corruption.
The majority of Americans want money out of politics, they want gun regulations tightened, they want all police to be accountable, and they want marijuana legalised. None of these things are happening because money equals power in the US. Thus, laws do NOT reflect the will of the people, rather they reflect the desires of the powerful. I'm reminded of the saying "Those who want to lead are those people who we should least wont to lead."
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+Jee Dee I don't know whether it's fair to call natural preference "sexism". There's a reason why female basketball doesn't make as much money, or attract as much sponsorship as male basketball. It's because female players are bad, short, weak, and less exciting to watch compared to their male counterparts. That's not sexism - it's a statement of fact, and it's one that affects viewing figures. I NEVER watch ANY female Olympic events. Is that because I'm sexist? No. It's just why would I want to watch people are not remotely the best at what they do? Why watch the world's fastest woman run 100m race in times male college athletes can match?
In modelling, women make twice as much as men - why? Because the target demographic responds more favourably to attractive women than to attractive men.In football, the top players make tens of millions from sponsorship, yet when one of them does something wrong, like beating his kid or hitting his girlfriend, his sponsors drop him IMMEDIATELY. Quite clearly there is FAR more involved than ability.
I am still unconvinced that this is sexism so much as simple market forces.
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+Jee Dee "Given that surfing brands are an image driven market"
You said it right there."If you're so against "affirmative action" based upon merit and achievements "When it comes to the rights of advertisers to spend their own budgets however they see fit, I am absolutely against affirmative action, because the alternative is to lay out this huge list of demographics and then insist that they spend equally on each group.And you STILL haven't shown that this was sexism as opposed to "attractivism". You suggested that if it was a man, being less attractive would be less of an impediment, and you're probably correct. But even THAT is not sexism. It's a reflection of the fact that we have gendered standards of what attractiveness represents, so a less aesthetic male comes across as rugged, whereas a less aesthetic female comes across as masculine.I'm a reasonably fair minded guy: I'm not particularly bothered how this woman looks, but if she was pig ugly and you stick her in a bikini (as most surf females are portrayed in media), I would find that image actively DISSUASIVE of whatever she was selling. Why? Because our responses to attractiveness kick in before our intellectual analysis of the proposition on offer. And I should also note my surprise that you are not railing against the fact that female surfers are all portrayed in bikinis.
"then most industries would be boycotted already"Most industries WOULD NOT be boycotted, because the target demographics are not interested in the kind of level of enforced equality that you appear to espouse.
But I will agree with you on several issues. Provided it is not her behaviour in contract negotiations or on the circuit that prevented her attaining sponsorship, it is unfair in a cosmic sense, that she does not attain the same rewards for her effort as a male. It's unfair that babies die of cancer. You can't legislate for the inequities of life.
I also agree that she has achieved incredible success and deserves full respect for that, and her appearance should play NO part in that (nor has it). Her hard work and skills have earned her respect as a surfer. That respect does not come with a guaranteed sponsorship deal, anymore than being the world's best male gymnast or baton twirler does. If she wanted wealth she should have become a banker.
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@Off-Grid Not only are you 100% wrong about the confidence thing - bullies and kidnappers absolutely DO target women and kids who look like they won't fight back - soft targets, but that wasn't what I was talking about in any case. I knew a woman who took up karate and after a few months she said "I feel so much more confident now I know how to defend myself. I used to walk around that wood after work at night, but now I feel safe to walk through it." That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Looking at your channel you have two adorable daughters - don't just trust that their ma club is teaching them sensible skills - double check - are they taught to use their nails, attack the eyes, throat and groin, stamp on the foot, be noisy, be a hard target. You appear to live away from mainstreet; that's a long way from help if needed. Do you teach your girls cotinuous situational awareness? What weapons could they use? How would they use them? Where could they escape to, how could they use the environment to their advantage? Are they aware that the vast majority of rape happens with people they know? They're a little young maybe, but never too young to start talking about assertiveness.
I love that you have gone off-grid. What a wonderful way to disconnect from the madness. Here's hoping that your family will never need these skills. But as Bruce Lee once said, "Better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war."
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@gww5385 To respond tour deleted comment "Are you really that altruistic with your concern for the greater good, so much so that it saddens you? I'm guessing you're more selfish and could care less how your actions affect others."
I'm assuming you deleted it, because you realised that it was an overreach on your behalf. But to clarify, I don't buy games whose publishers are exploitative of their staff, I don't shop from Amazon or China because of their behaviour, I recycle, I use low power equipment where possible, ride a motorcycle rather than a car, and I absolutely, take actions, including getting vaccinated, in the interests of my fellow man. I am not concerned with my own mortality regarding covid, but I would not want harm anyone else, or contribute to the stress hospital staff are already under.
I'm far from perfect - I can't stop eating meat for instance, but I try to live ethically.
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@jadis40 I'd have imposed martial law in March for 2 or 3 or 4 weeks without even blinking an eye. Not out of authoritarianism, but because a government's primary function is the wellbeing of the people. It was clear from the very start that it would never be over in a couple of weeks because the lockdown was never comprehensive. If it HAD been, coupled with effective track and trace, a ban on all travel into the country, and adequate PPP for genuinely essential workers and a total edict on mask wearing in stores, plus a flawless example set from the highest level, the number of deaths would have been tiny, and we'd likely be back to relatively normal life now, as they are in Australia or new Zealand. This entire situation has been a guidebook on how to mishandle a national pandemic.
And yes, OF COURSE the restrictions will be lifted. They can't WAIT to do so. Johnson is a populist - all he wants is to be loved (and to enrich himself and his cronies). Do you think he wants to make the painful decisions? Of course not, because he's a coward, which is why he wanted to open for Christmas even though it was clearly an insane thing to do. But you don't buy hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine if your end game is to lock people down indefinitely. They're already halving the dosage in order to double the number of people given immunity quickly. There is ZERO evidence to indicate that the government has any desire to lock the nation down indefinitely.
But if that WAS the plan, to what end? How would it be financially sustainable? How would it be socially sustainable? How would a country whose coffers never fully recovered from the 2008 recession, manage to pay for all the millions whose businesses have been suspended or destroyed? How would they prevent the eventual anarchy? And how would poverty serve the elites?
You say you're looking at the bigger picture. Ignoring the slide towards fascism that you seem to be implying, what are the other consequences, and how do they weigh compared to the loss of life?
Yes, people need to get back to work and school - no argument from me - but we hit 1000 deaths yesterday and that was WITH a national lockdown. America has lost 300,000+ with a far lower population density (although admittedly many of those in cities). You have only seen the consequences in Britain when we were trying hard to control the virus. How many people are you willing to sacrifice if we simply surrender all efforts? You say you are thinking long term, but I don't believe you are considering the many knock-on effects. I am VERY concerned about the economy, and perhaps even more concerned for an entire generation of children aged 4-7 who are missing education during the most important language and socialisation formative years.
To me, it is a lesser of two evils - a draconian restriction on ALL our liberties for a month (or however long the science suggests to within reason), then the death of the virus; or trying to appease people who consider that an unacceptable infringement, and sacrificing hundreds of thousands of people. People who are financial supporters, child carers and more. To say nothing of the non-covid patients who die due to the lack of hospital beds.
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@1newme425 It's not murder when it's not yet a human. Is it murder when you have sex and your sperm are flushed down the toilet? They're independently alive. They'd POTENTIAL humans. A fetus is not a human. It's not a baby. I don't know at precisely what point it becomes one; when it develops a brain I'd say. Before that, it's just cells made of human stuff.
I never said Jesus didn't exist. There's reasonable evidence he did but it's far from irrefutable. But nice try, switching Jesus for God.
If I was God, I would have created my creations not to REQUIRE destruction in the first place. God is supposedly omniscient, yet he either didn't see that coming, or didn't care that he'd end up wiping out 95% of the creations he supposedly loves.
"Sorry I can't allow you to lie. You can't passionately hate it and then let it happen. One is a lie. You are lying. If you did hate it you would be against it, and fight with everything in you to stop it. That's why I know it's a lie. There is no mitigating excuses, non. "
So glad that you became a mind reader now. So there's no mitigating excuses for abortion, but they're just fine when God does it? You are so full of it I'm surprised you can stand your own hypocrisy. I'd explain the mitigating factors, but you are clearly not capable of rational thought.
"Look to simple information theory.. It's not random, there is always a mind behind it."
Oh dear, you're going to pull that one now huh? You really need to stop watching Answers in Genesis and William Lane Craig - they don't prepare you well for these conversations. For a start, you are equivocating over the meaning of "information." The sun conveys information. Within the laws of physics, it can be read and comprehended.
"Things go the other way, entropy, goes to simple not complex."
Wrong on multiple levels. For starters, entropy only occurs in a CLOSED SYSTEM. We do not know that the universe IS a closed system, and the Earth most certainly is not, nor ever has been. And if things go towards simple, how do crystals and snow flakes form? How do babies grow?
"That's why a mind is involved."
Ha ha. Even IF there was a mind (and all the stages can be explained without one), that doesn't lead to God, and certainly not the Christian God.
"That's the proof. It's so amazing, and wow, my mind is blown."
Is it blown by all the parasites that eat us, the diseases, the viruses, the disasters, the massive, massive loss of life, the misery, all the animals that live in horror then die brutally, the plants that kill us, and our own so, so VERY imperfect bodies? You don't get to claim the nice bits for god and disavow all the other stuff.
"with it was random, it's not. If it were it would be just a soup of nothing."
I suggest you don't argue subjects you are clearly massively ignorant and indoctrinated on. NOBODY claims evolution is random except ignorant Christians misrepresenting it.
"Look and see things in another way, and then a lot of what we are told will be like, hang on... It's just a world view telling you,"
The lack of self awareness here is absolutely staggering. I already DID look beyond my world view - as a former Christian, and what I saw was an embarrasing fairy story created by patriarchal warlords and priests and goat herders from the bronze age.
"That's why first seek God and you will see."
Nope. Not how it works. I seek THE truth, not YOUR truth. I don't start with the conclusion then look for ways to make it true.
"You will be so happy to see as well, because it's the truth"
That's why the majority of prison inmates in America are Christians right? That's why US evangelicals voted for a POS like Trump as president right? As for happiness, a cow might be happy in its ignorance but it still ends up in the slaughterhouse. I will not delude myself simply to make the bleakness of the universe more palatable.
You seem genuinely well-meaning, but you are like a walking poster child for the silly apologetics of Ken Ham or Kent Hovind's pitiful apologetics. They're conmen and liars and you've surrendered your intellect to them.
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@turquoiseowl A first year university chemistry can demonstrate a rise in C02 levels by burning fossil fuels. A decent scientist can calculate the C02 output of many of this planet's pollutants: cars, deforestation, fossil fuel burning, dairy farming, etc, and extrapolate that against the volume of Earth's atmosphere. A decent climatologist can map the rise in global C02, normalise it against known solar and volcanic events as well as the wobble of the Earth, and come up with a rate of change compared to previous ebbs and flows in this cycle. It really doesn't seem to me to be particularly remarkable to state as a fact "I know that putting one gram of C02 into a billion litres of atmosphere produces this effect. Mankind is putting this many tons of C02 into this many billions of tons of atmosphere, so when the volumes are scaled linearly, this is the result." Yes, there may be differences in effects at massive scale, but when we have two other planets to study the effcets of probable runaway greenhouse gases (Mars and Venus), I'm not going to gamble the future of the planet that we might somehow be a special case. If this means a gradual transition away from fossil fuels, and recycling, and living in a more eco friendly house, that doesn't seem a high price to pay.
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@ericeandco If you are in a room with one person who has a long history of stabbings, and 10 people who have never harmed somebody, then the lights go off, and somebody has what appears to be a knife hole in their corpse when the lights come back on, where do you turn your suspicions to first, and with what method of attack?
That said, you are correct, if I was a public figure, or somebody with any power, assuming the worst COULD complicate matters, but I am just a total nobody speculating about a monster with known form, so I feel quite comfortable speculating.
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Utter nonsense. You ave just thrown in every ecological scare phrase you know with zero understanding of the impact of any of them. Please tell me how plastics are affecting inscts or how the death of fish is affecting the overall golbal food budget. Also, there are many water reclamation technologies, and with a warmer, wetter earth, more water in the air to be collected and dropped as rain, to say nothing of the trillions of tons of glacial melt. As some areas of the planet become unsuitable for crops, other open up at higher and lower latitudes. Also, higher humidity and rainfall is actively GOOD for many crops.
Tesla is the least profitable of all the electric car manufacturers - in fact it has never turned a profit, so an unsustainable business model is not the future of the planet. Moreover, Tesla only took existing technologies that others had already developed. Musk was not the innovator, only the brander, and his ideas keep failing spectacularly. As for what I have done, I used a recyclable bag to go shopping last week so that's my job done.
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@yoloswaggins7121 No soldier (or policeman) signs up to take NEEDLESS risks.
Yes, killing innocent children is unfair. War is unfair. Terrorism is unfair. If they don't like their kids getting killed, don't become a terrorist.
Yes, I am absolutely talking about this case. You don't seriously believe he blew himself up do you? They dropped a bomb on the house from altitude then went in on the ground. And I'm 100% satisfied with that, because he was a terrorist. Then they tried to make it that HE killed all those people to appease well meaning liberals like you who are high on morality and low of prosaic practicality.
In any action where civilians may become collateral damage, there is a cost benefit equation. Blowing up an entire hospital in Gaza because a single terrorist may be inside is outrageous. However, if half the hierarchy of Hamas were being treated there, then killing 100 innocent civilians could save the lives of thousands more so a reasonable exchange.
The reason I didn't answer your Kabul attack was because it was going to take us down a whole lot of routes about the justification of terrorism as a tactic in the first place. I absolutely DO think it's justified. It's the weapon of the underdog. The Taliban had zero chance fighting toe to toe with America, yet they still forced them to withdraw. They fought smart. We can debate whether or not they are good people, but they had more right to be there than America did.
I say this with respect, but idealists like you are all very well meaning in principle, thinking in absolutes and high-minded morality, but when yuo've been around a while, you realise that the world doesn't work like that. If you throw your soldiers lives away cheaply to protect the lives of terrorist families, you'd lose the political fight at home, and the confidence of the troops. That's EXACTLY what happened with Vietnam. America was on the verge of WINNING militarily, but the media footage of body bags and mass student protests, meant that the government, that was more concerned about its OWN survival, caved to public sentiment and withdrew.
You cannot operate a war by public approval, which is why journalist access in Iraq was so restricted.
And yes, I 100% think that killing 1 innocent child to kill a terrorist who has killed 10s of thousands is a fair trade.
I suspect that you would be the one faced with the trolley problem, would choose to kill 10 because you refused to take the action that would kill 1. Ultimately, that is a failing of YOUR reasoning. Morality isolated from real world practicality is useless.
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@highnoon2535 Men have as many casual sexual relationships as they like, and they pay no price, and will even be respected for it, but when women do it, they deserve to be denigrated? Most of Weinstein's victims were not pushing themselves on him for casual sex, and Cosby literally drugged his victims so that they couldn't say no.There's no doubt that some women DO use sex as a tool to get ahead, and if that backfires, I have far less sympathy, but most in these cases were not. Weinstein was a fat, repugnant predator who used his power, his physical strength and his control over these womens' careers to force them into sex. He deserves everything he gets.
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@mememachine5244 So your position is the world would not be successful without businesses paying people a wage to do things? Hmmmm. That seems like a much softer assertion than you were making at the beginning, but if that is ALL yuo are claiming, then yes, I'll grant it.
As for university funding, you just pulled up the funding for a single university, now here's a study for the system in the UK as a whole. https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2016/university-funding-explained.pdf that supports my statsistics. Perhaps a little less arrogance from you huh?
"Sorry but you are just simply wrong, science came after business, science NEEDS business and a strong economy." more unsubstantiated assertions. I gave you multiple examples, including the LHC that you worked on, where business was not needed. How many more do I need to look up before you admit that maybe your claim is not as watertight or absolute as you seem to think?
As for your comment on research funding, I quote from the University of Sheffield "The UK government funds research in universities through what is known as the ‘dual support’ mechanism. This comprises an annual grant from the funding councils to support the research infrastructure and specific project grants from the research councils to fund particular pieces of research." https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/finance/staff-information/howfinanceworks/higher_education/funding_of_research.
I do not doubt that there are many companies funding projects that benefit them, but there are millions of projects that offer nothing in return except minor prestige as a supporter. Why would companies fund them? Many projects are funded by charities, governments or individual benefactors.
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Vinny Mac Okay, just to answer one point, the 70 million percent thing. In 2005 H7N9 bird flu struck. He looked at the last global pandemic in 1918, looked at the number of deaths and extrapolated for the increased population, and off the cuff he said 200 million could die. As it happened, it was a mixture of containment and luck that kept the numbers down to under 300 people. It would be like me predicting "If I shoot you with this gun, you will be injured." Then you take the gun from me and call me a fool because you were not injured.
As it happened, the world was lucky. The virus spontaneously mutated to a form that was not contagious by humans. In coming up with policy, you cannot depend on luck. Plan for the worst, hope for the best. There's no doubt that it was simplistic of him to assume similar spread rates in a modern world. On one hand, we travel far more extensively, but on the other, we have much better spread protection mechanisms. I will DEFINITELY grant that it was exceedingly irresponsible of him to make such a claim to the Guardian newspaper.
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@Kraska93 Again, it is YOU who is completely missing the point. "The west" is not, nor ever WAS a monolith. It has always comprised over a dozen nations, each with their own bloody history and aspirations. And before you get too pompous about the history of the west, let's not forget Russia's OWN bloody history of imperialism. I don't blame you for that, any more than I take personal responsibility for Britain's appalling colonial past, much less taht of the entire "West."
By NO MEANS do I forget the massive loss of Russian lives during WW2, but Russia was fighting for its survival, and many of those lives were not at the end of guns, rather they were civilian casualties.
"The west may not have voted for it but they sure made sure the H boy got as strong as possible and even collaborated with him."
I've not read such a pile of nonsense under the guise of "analysis" since I read holocaust denial. Yes, Vichy France collaborated to save itself, and yes, Italy under Musollini joined the Germans, but one and a half nations are not "The west." You raised issue that I was not considering the 20 million Russian lives lost - what about the 41 million additional allied lives? Then you s**t on their memory with that BS.
We're done here. You are clearly incapable of rational thought. Your jingoism has blinded you to reality. Go suck Putin's rancid p**is if it pleases you.
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@MultiMatrosik If America made agreements with Russia and there is no reason not to follow through on those agreements, then OF course America should stick to its end. If Moscow is interfering in US elections (and it seems fairly certain it did to some extent, even if that was "only" social media disinformation), then that would count as an attack on sovereign nation, and all agreements are suspended until civil relations are resumed. For what possible reason would America go along with Moscow's wishes if Moscow acts as an enemy power?
Yes, Moscow interfered IS a trump card, but it doesn't make it untrue. I would LOVE to see America and Russia and China and Europe as close friends.China is socially too alien for that to happen unless true democracy is restored, America seems to be a failing democracy, Europe seems moderately strong in terms of democracy, if not cohesion. Russia appears to be culturally not dissimilar to Europe in many ways, so who knows, but as long as demagogue leaders rule America, Russia and China, I don't see much hope. If the world could take the ego and greed out of politics then things could move forwards.
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@darwinism14 Hmmm, so the world is going to hold it accountable how? We stop trading with it, and we all get hurt. We levy tarrifs, and it is US that pays. We impose fines and they just laugh at us. We threaten war and they simply point out their million soldiers and nuclear arsenal. Ultimately, as with trump's trade tarrifs, we are toothless tigers. The best we can do is try to foster great openness, but given that they are economically at war with us, I don't see that happening. They are ideological different to us. Almost totally self-sufficient if needs be, and their sources of minerals are not from the west or NATO nations.
And of course, that's assuming I accpt that their behaviour was criminal, which it was not because they are not bound by any international laws.
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@spongeBob77086 Cowardice and politics are not mutually exclusive, but with Vietnam, it was not out of fear of military loss that the US withdrew, but political loss. The decision of America to withdraw from Vietnam was about the polical SURVIVAL of the administration which saw its popularity plumetting amidst footage of bodybags and a surging student anti-war protest movement at home. Their withdrawal, while wasteful of the lives already lost, spared many more.
With France, the capitulation to an INVADING army was not done for purely political gain, but out of a desire for existential survival, but that surrender led to MORE deaths. It was the antithesis of what America did, and for entirely the wrong reasons, not least because it betrayed OTHER FRENCH PEOPLE, to say nothing of the alliance forces. Whether you describe that as politics or something else, the fact remains that when others were fighting and dying FOR FRENCH people, a large part of France rolled on its back and surrendered.
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@teoethio I am by NO means claiming Egypt is good and if they abandoned Palestin as yuo suggest, then that is a black mark on their character. I am merely stating that they will not tolerate the water that they depend upon to live on being throttled if they have the power to do anything about it, and they do.
Again, comparing the Middle East to Vietnam is not a sensible comparison. The terrain in Vietnam was dense jungle which made travel onerous, and spotting the enemy difficult. Also, America could not go scorched earth because there were civilians in the area. Moreover, America has air weapons now that are total game changers. If you want to make a comparison, compare to Iraq or Syria. America's current strategy is not to put boots on the ground if they don't need to.
Analysis suggests that water shortage in the Middle East due to climate change will be one of the great sources of military conflict over the coming century. Creating an artificial shortage for an entire nation, so that you can make hydro-electric power seems desperately short sighted, simply hastening something that could have been avoided.
And speaking personally, I have always seen Egyptians as black according to their portrayal in the TV series Rome and in the Bible. Not that their skin colour matters.
My hope is that Ethiiopia will be reasonable, and conflict can be avoided. On one hand they are to be praised for developing renewable energy. I just hope that they can find a way to do so that will not destabilise the region. My fear is that the American war machine is constantly SEEKING new opportunities to go to war to justify its bloated budget and pay dividends to its shareholders. They're a danger to the entire planet, even as so-called allies.
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@ToyotaVertexSoarer Sex is not remotely sacred. If anything, it's two animals interacting at their most primitive. Any sacredness is a result of biases that you bring to it. But I do agree 100% about wearing a condom or using some other form of contraception or prevention.
"no person, man or woman, has any right to be judge, jury, and executioner of another human life." I'm gonna guess from this that you are Christian. God or agents acting for him are responsible for the deaths of 2,038,344 people in the old testament. Everyone from children to entire populations of innocent people. He also approves of abortion, and child murder is practiced constantly in the OT.
As for executing people, there are people on this planet that need eradicating for the good of everyone else. I would happily see Trump, McConnell, and Graham executed and would pull the switch myself if offered the chance. What about Hitler, Mengele, Amin, Hussein, Bin Laden - do you think that nobody has the right to stand in judgement over them? If so, I would suggested that you are placing high minded ideals about lives. Why should people like El Chapo, who brought about the most brutal murder and torture of many innocents including little children, get to languish in prison, sucking up resources that could be used to save the lives of thousands? I would execute any of them whistling as I did so without the slghtest moral qualm were it not for the slippery slope that legalising the death penalty opens up.
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@ToyotaVertexSoarer I only ever edit posts to correct for grammar, spelling or to refine an argument. I have certainly not deleted any in this thread.
"Humans aren't animals" and you just made everything after this point meaningless. If you don't even comprehend or accept the most biologiical facts, we're not even operating from the same frame of reference. I am operating from the correct one and you are not. You don't get to redefine the meaning of words to suit your argument.
You seem to think that sex between two people carries all of that extra stuff, and it's true that for a great many couples it does, but that is not a necessary component, nor is it omnipresent. Just ask all the millions of tinder fuck buddies. They meet, they have sex, they never meet again.
The "energies" between two people has been researched every which way. People have been hooked up, measured, studied, recorded and analysed. I can understand that in SOME cases, sex can indeed be a beautiful sharing between two people although when you start to describe itin terms of "energies" rather than simply the heightened emotions of two people in close physical contact, I think you mysticise something that is not that mystical.
I certainly agree that allowing one's hormones to blind one's logic is not a good thing, but then the Catholic church is a great example of what happens when you supress such fundmental urges. Somewhere in between a reasonable middle ground.
You suggest that restraint is something only found in humans. You couldn't be more wrong. Animals that mate for lifew don't go around having sex with everything else, and in hierarchical animal groups such as lion or chimpanzees, the lower animals wouldn't DARE to try to mate with the alpha's females..
You talk about pregnancy prevention being the key, and again I agree, but not by denying such a pleasurable and fundamental act. Indeed, religious communities where abstinence is taught to teenagers, have higher levels sexually abnormal behaviour such as anal sex. Take an honest approach to sexual behaviour. Teach the kids about contraception then make it widely available. In Iceland for instance, condoms are available in sizes for 12 year olds. At first glance it is disturbing, until you recognise the fact that kids that age are inevitably HAVING sex so you may as well be prosaic about having to prevent pregancy.
The reason I jump to religion is because it is respansible for a massive percentage of repressive and negative behaviour on this planet. To leave it out is like having a conversation about Flu without talking about how viruses work.
I don't believe that I have the right to murder someone. When a foetus becomes a someone rather than mere cells, I think abortion should no long be a choice. Why do YOU think you have the right to condemn people to a life of misery simply because of beliefs habded down to you in a dusty old book?
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@richardoshea7133 I think robotisation and automation are an unstoppable inevitability. All the massive employers are looking at ways to take employees out of the loop. I don't blame them. Humans are unreliable, costly, argumentative, have rights, sick days, holidays, babies, and more. Why wouldn't you want to replace that with programming and power costs? Companies have no obligation towards human beings per se, and when profit and competitiveness are your sole motivations, why should they care about the human cost? I'm actually genuinely interested about an economy where nobody has jobs any more. If you could look forwards 200 years would it be a Star Trek world where everybody lives for free, able to pursue their own interests, or will everyone be compulsory food for the machine?
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Ramming Speed I've heard a lot of bullshit conspiracy theories on youtube, but that wasn't one of them. I think you're wrong, but not because everything you say doesn't make perfect sense, but simply because I don't believe there is enough cohesion in the international community to pull it off. Hell, they can't decide whether or not not destroying our planet is a bad thing!
The move towards automation, followed by a nanotechnological zero-cost manufacturing future wher almost NOBODY works is inevitable, and there will need to be new social models to cope with that. I'd like to think it will be an egalitarian, socialist world where everybody is freed to pursue their own personal enrichment, a la Star Trek, but realistically, there will always be bast*rds who want to control everybody and exploit us.
I will say, whilst the virus was probably not man-made, and if it was, certainly not with the objective you espouse, I'm 100% certain that governments have jumped on this opportunity to try some social experimentation, seeing how far they can push things, in readiness for a future where most of us are out of work.
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@QwadLuzr No, it absolutely enrages me that the wealthy are free to move around in public; that Cummings crossed the country; that Johnson's dad went to spain, that the MP bar remained open, and excepptions were made for grouse hunting. But the wealthy have ALWAYS been selfish c***s. It doesn't mean we have to descend to their level. As for the definition of "essential", again, I agree with you that many of them are most certainly not. Sadly, it's bullshit like that, and the fact that school checks are optional, that undermine the public's faith in the government's integrity or competence. But then we all KNEW Johnson was a f****g clown long before this didn't we? As for leftist causes, personally, I'd arrest every single BLM, antilockdown and anti mask campaigner and throw them ALL into prison until this is over. Left and right can rot and infect each other there together.
None of which has the slightest thing to do with the critical value of TV to a population in lockdown.
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@chrisbell5032 "there aren't many are there though" Yes, there certainly are. I know numerous hospital staff who were suffering the equivalent of post traumatic stress over the death and conditions they were seeing. Do you think China built two vast hospitals virtually overnight because they were overreacting? Do you think Britain spent millions on two more for no reason. The fact that you are unaware of the cases doesn't mean they didn't happen. As for your strange fatalism, you look when you cross the road right? You drive with reasonable care and attention, and I assume that you pay for medical insurance when you vacation in foreign countries. Why? Sure, people die young. My own best friend was only 37 when he died. But I'm sure you still collected your children from school when they were young right?
As for the govrernment's estimates being wrong, you realise that this is a living organism, not a computer program right? And that it is at large in a society full of unpredictable organisms. Furthermore, complaining that they overestimated, after spending an entire year in lockdown to PREVENT those estimates coming true is a partricularly strange stance to take. If you were driving a bus full of people towards a cliff, and I warned you that if you don't turn, you're going to go over the cliff, then I forcibly yank the steering wheel to the side so you DON'T go over the cliff, you'd hardly complain that I was lying about the cliff would you Chris?
As for masks, you have literally NO idea bout the impact they made because you are not qualified, nor likely have studied the data on their efficacy. But as they were worn in CONJUNCTION with lockdown, your point really is questionable.
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That's a lie. By far the largest part of my insults (a ratio of at least 500:1) are for white people - Donald Trump, US and British politicians, the police, gun supporters, white nationalists, SJWs, 3rd wave feminists, the Alt right, and others. However, anywhere I see bullshit, such as your stupid comment, if I am sufficiently motivated, I comment upon it. If the stupid people are not white, I am not so racist that I withhold my comments in case race baiters such as yourself see it and make asinine remarks.
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@theo9952 Oh the hilarious irony of patronising me about your impression of my historical knowldege, and preaching to me about the horrors of an Islamic state, while 2 billion people live under the misery of a Christian state. Just last year, Christian lawmakers stole a woman's right to bodily autonomy in the largest "democracy" on the planet, and self-proclaimed Christians in the senate work daily to oppress the population and steal their rights.
For the record, I do not believe in democracy. If the internet age has taught me anything - reinforced by the number of people who voted for Trump the second time, and other far right extremists across the planet over the past 5 years, is that a large percentage of the population are complete bigotted morons. There are very few, if any of my neighbours that I would want deciding how I get to live my life. You seem like a decent person Theo, but if you have any religious leanings, as you seem to, I would not want you having ANY influence over my freedoms.
Christians are the least persecuted demographic on this planet and they have managed to convince themselves that they are constant victims. It takes nothing to develop a persecution complex amongst theocrats.
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@Cotac_Rastic The planet will survive. The life on it may not. Virtually all life on earth has been wiped out on multiple occasions. Early life almost wiped itself out by overbreeding and excreting too much oxygen which was poisonous to it. You wanna talk about fragile? A single asteroid 65 million years ago wiped out the dominant lifeform on the planet. It's not about the duration of the event, it's about its severity. So yes, I do think that less than 500 years of industrialisation can do the same thing.
"Humanity is an absoloute force of nature, one of the most incredible creations in the known universe."
If you believe that, then why would you not want to take better care of our home?
"nature itself produces more toxic influence upon the earth than we ever could have dreamed of" We can't control the sun, and man's output massively exceeds that of volcanoes. Methane would remain trapped underground if we didn't keep freeing it in our search for oil, so no, nature doesn't.
"if we're a venus bomb as you claim it would've happened a helluva lot sooner bub." Utter nonsense. That's like saying, "If someone was going to drown in a tsunami, they would have done so before the one that killed them." There were never as many people on the Earth. Farming and car use and industrialisation was never as great. This is kindergarten-level logic. You shouldn't need it explained to you.
"Listen, if you want high taxes and authouritarian rules that restrict your freedom then go ahead. But i will not kow-tow blah blah"
Yeah, I get it - you're not willing to tolerate ANY inconvenience for the future of the planet. That's already abundantly clear. You want the freedom to kill yourself - that's fine, do it. But you don't have the freedom to kill everyone around you. Lots of people just like you died from covid for exactly the same reason. Fortunately, the world's governments who know the truth are starting to take the choice out of the hands of people like you. The switch to low carbon cars and fuel sources has been underway for decades, and even America, filled with the most selfish ignorant citizens on Earth, is slowly having to change, with Biden pledging to halve C02 emmissions by 2030.
Anyway, you're clearly too stupid to waste more time on. You're dismissed. Bub.
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@NPC You live in a world where the Russian government uses social media to erode faith in western democracy, where Chinese state hackers infiltrate western industries, where America destabilised Iran to bring about a more malleable government AND infected the world's nuclear refining equipment with viruses, where leading global figures are talking about the "great reset", where the NHS is being privatised by stealth, where opposition to Palestine was painted as "anti-semetism" to undermine the electability of the most pro-working class labour leader this country has had in decades, where a virus has emerged from a district in China right on top of the state-funded virology lab, and whose work is partially funded by the US right after the US (ineptly) played trade hardball with them, where Russian agents literally kill people on the streets of Britain, and you are NOT at least a little sceptical of EVERY event of national import?!!! Then I would suggest that the problem is your staggering level of naivete, not any propensity towards conspiritorial thinking on my behalf.
The rich and powerful are DEMONSTRABLY, PROVABLY playing international games. The question is, which events are simply down to unintentilonal global forces, and which are the result of conscious actions.
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@deveshkhairnar2723 My country is NOT number one. Not by a long way, and it has an appalling history of oppressing people in other nations, just as America does now, and Rome and the Ottomans and the Egyptians did before. But that was the wealthy in my nation. Ordinary people like me just died to help the powerful gain more money. It never helped the working classes. I don't mean this rudely Devesh, but you have been on this Earth for less than 20 years. The fact that you talk about 6 years as though it's a long time shows that you don't have a deep historical perspective. My advice to you, try to live a good life, by kind to people, try to improve yourself and your country when you can. Holding onto anger about things that you cannot change, in the distant past will not help you. The people who profitted from the terrible treatment of India are long dead, and there's no way that today's British working classes beneffitted from it, so that wealth has gone. Maybe there are some treasures that should be returned, and I'm all for that. India's best course forwards is to become an economic powerhouse, but before that can happen, it needs to treat it's OWN people better.
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@Charles White Large companies use national infrastructure, are the greatest destroyers of roads, are the first with their hands out in disasters, and cause huge harm to the environment, the cost which has to be picked up by the public both financially, and in terms of loss. Moreover, when companies such as Amazon and EA are "incentivised" to trade in Britain with low tax rates, and literal payouts on taxes they never even paid, that is not big government stealing from their pockets; that's government stealing from OURS on the myth of trickle down economics.
But even if NONE of that was true, there is a benefit to operating in a well ordered, safe, stable society. If you want to do so, you share in the cost of maintaining that society. If you don't, you can take your libertarian BS and piss off to Texas, where corrupt, inept politicians get wealthy, and the citizens cannot depend upon power, safe water or bridges.
As for Ronald Reagan, comparing America, a nation that has the worst welfare in the Western world, to one which, prior to Bozo, rated moderately high on that scale, shows how little you know about anything. One of the factors driving the grerat quit, was people discovering after lockdown, how much they hated their jobs. Even in America, with almost no social safety nets, an unprecendented number of employees quit the jobs where they were being exploited.
Sadly, unions in Britain became too powerful so authoritarian Margaret Thatcher broke them. British workers lacked solidarity, but in France, the workers would decimate someone like Thatcher. And now, one of the remaining unions with the leverage to swing its muscle is going to demonstrate why they deserved to be broken. They would be wise to find a middle ground that does not penalise the public for their greed. Workers deserve to be fairly compensated, and work in safety (or get compensated for the danger). THAT should be the primary purpose of unions, NOT exploiting their position to hold the nation to ransom. By the same token, governments role is to ensure the safe, prosperous, harmonious function of society, NOT to prevent citizens from deciding on the value of their labour to private companies.
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@StrangerThanFiction11 Wow, you're gonna spew that tired old "fool hath said in his heart" verse with no sense of irony or self awareness huh? Because of course, that was not written to innoculate questioning Christians, by making non-Christians look foolish.
I try not to watch Christian historians at all. Like you, they have nothing new - they're just an embarrassing testament to the power of childhood indoctrination, glibly parroting lines learned by rote from a book they don't even truly believe or follow themselves.
And the reason so many "real" atheists dedicate so much time to fighting Christianity, is because Christians demand so much special priviliege. Tens of millions of you voted the worst president in living memory into power, you actively dumb down the planet, you indoctrinate children, and you harm people in your imaginary friend's name.
Oh, and for the record, sin is a religious concept. I don't believe in it, ergo, no sins to hide from.
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@KiteTurbine You haven't even demonstrated the proof of concept at a feasible power output yet - say enough to power a single houuse. We see FAR too many of these fantastical ideas at minute scale and are asked to believe that scaling them up is as easy as imagining it - water from the desert, solar roadways, super high power batteries, hyperlink and more - and by a massive margin, they never amount to anything. You'll excuse my absolute scepticism.
What you've showed us so far is a small, exotic kite that generates a small amount of electricity. If this video had had an array up in the air, generating even enough to power an electric car or a small house, it would have been something. The world needs dreamers, and it's a great cause, but the BBC should have waited until you had more than a child's toy to demonstrate. Also, how does being an autogyro help? It reduced the rate of descent, but if the wind just cuts out, or changes direction, you still have hundreds or thousands of feet of wires falling to earth. What's your retrieval strategy as cable length magnifies? Is there a lift to cable to air density ratio beyond which you can no longer go?
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@AlanWattResistance There are standards that are near universally agreed upon as desirable. Some of them are cultural, and many are indicative that cultures have evolved beyond a certain level of barbarism. Not murdering not raping, not treating humans as chattel or slaves, giving people choice in their own lives, educating children and ensuring that people have enough food, can stay healthy, and are homed. Societies that achieve that level tend to thrive and flourish. I would suggest that that is one of the baseline standards for human existence. I realise you can do this whole "each culture is free to set its own standards", and while that's true, I absolutely do not think that makes them right. "Good" is clearly subjective, but following the golden rule, treat others how you want to be treated, many of these cultures would fall at the first hurdle.
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Hilarious! If he could just avoid being a petty, vindictive, petulant, manipulative, egotistic POS for two weeks, he'd have gotten away scott free with hundreds of millions in donations, profits and all his delusional followers. Instead, he punched himself repeatedly in the face and did what the Dems were too spineless to do, whilst betraying the people who have showed him the most loyalty. And now what money he has left, he's going to piss away on legal fees.
Can you just imagine the rage the little manchild is in now? Stamping around the White House, snarling at everyone, plotting how to get even without making it worse, and seeing that all his social and financial capital is evaporated, and by his own hand. I couldn't be happier.
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@alkdjfhgks1919 Yes, I noticed taht. I don't believe in white victimhood narratives, but nor do I believe that all whites are responsible for the ills in America. The "Jews will not replace us" mob are an appalling example of American manhood, but the idea that ALL whites are guilty by virtue of skin colour is pathetic. When it comes to issues such as reparation, for America's slave-owning past or Britain's colonial past, it's more complicated. I DO think Britain should return all the national treasures it looted, but I do NOT think that white America should pay reparations, which amounts to stealing from groups who were not responsible, to give to another who were never personally victims. That said, the American right in politics contines to push racial division, and disempower ethnic minorities for petty political gain. America is not in a good place ATM.
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@AlanWattResistance I don't believe in God, so I don't accept the concept of sin much less original sin. I don't look to any external entity for my sense of morality. For the same reason, I don't despise God any more than you despise Voldemort in the Harry Potter books. You can dislike the character portrayal, and I am dismayed that so many adults live their lives as though he was real. Frankly, even the character is so wildly inconsistent and hormonal that he's impossible to take seriously. If he was the main protagonist in a piece of literature, he would be in a piece of poorly written junior high literature. He is EXACTLY what I would expect from a stone or bronze age author; a perfect depiction of the values of the time: vengeful, vindictive, all-powerful yet ridiclously limited, sexist, patriarchal, capricious and contradictory.
As for salvation, I'd need to believe there was something I needed saving from - I do not, but even if I did, the temporary suffering of a proxy to satisfy capricious and arbitrary rules that he himself set could not possibly serve as redemption, and a choice offered under threat of eternal torment BY HIM is not free - it's coercion.
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@AlanWattResistance You speak for "Christians" with complete certainty, as if there was any remotely cohesive set of beliefs. I never heard a truer statement than "The Bible is a mirror for people's personal beliefs." Bigots pull all the horrible stuff out and use it to hate. Good people point to the turn the other cheek, help people stuff, and control freaks point to all the rules and threats.
"Morality is in-built or hardwired into every human soul" if we are created in the image of god, it's in the image of a genocidal lunatic who murdered his own children during the flood, and in sodom and gomorrah; killed children for calling Elijah a baldy, and killed Job's children just to test what his omniscient brain already knew, to name but a few cases of god's "morality."
"Stealing is wrong, but you could argue that stealing something that nobody is going to miss would be ok, but the very act of stealing itself harms you within" That's why God authorised the stealing of land, people and wives on multiple occasions right? So stealing IS okay when it's part of a greater purpose?
"Hell is simply an eternal seperation from God," says YOUR flavour of christianity.
" God doesn't send anyone to hell, you send yourself to hell by your pride. " So I act according to the nature god gave me, living out the precise life his omniscient brain knew I would live, following a deterministic existence that I'm not capable of changing even if I wanted to, but it's MY fault that I am utterly unconvinced in the existence of god. That's like dropping a puppy then murdering it for falling.
"not subject to the irrational desires of the body. " the desires God gave us. "You sometimes do things you didn't wish to do" Because I'm not perfect. "We're all failures, we all fall short of what is expected of us. These are our sins" no, failing to be perfect is not a sin, it is what it means to exist in an imperfect brain, in an imperfect universe - both of which god supposedly created with total omniscience.
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@tomh6588 There is NO guarantee that a virus will become weaker. A virus mutates randomly, not with purpose. It could just as easily become MORE virulent. Spanish flu, one of the most lethal viriuses ever, evolved from a less deadly version AND spread globally. Quote "A May study out of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany, found evidence that the virus responsible did mutate into more lethal variants. These deadlier strains, responsible for three later influenza outbreaks, likely made the virus better at spreading between humans rather than birds, its natural hosts, and better at evading the immune system. "
Ebola was also a more deadly mutation, as was West Nile virus. Quote "Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier" New Scientist
Try reading beyond the headlines Tom.
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@tomh6588 No, they didn't. Viruses don't "learn" - they're not intelligent or purpose driven, so no, that is not why Omicron is more contagious but less virulent. I get what you're trying to imply, but you under a slight misapprehension that this is a dependable rule, rather than general trend. There is a (very reasonable) school of reasoning that suggests that a virus that is TOO deadly will kill all of its hosts, and thus kill itself. But viruses do not consciously work TOWARDS the goal of maximum transmissibility, that is simply its most effective state if you consider replication and propogation to be goals for any organism. However, the black death, to name just one, completely refutes that as an absolute truth. It was completely lethal, killed 200 million people which was between 30 and 60 percent of the population of Europe at the time, and never grew weaker.
"Otherwise we'd all be dead by now wouldn't we Matthew.." No Thomas, we wouldn't. We defeated the black death by quarantining, not by waiting for it to become weaker, which it never did. The reason we are not all dead from it now, even though bubonic plague STILL exists (and has resurfaced periodically since the 13th century) is that we are better at managing and treating it.
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@apeloyalist9821 t doesn't matter if the crown jewels were a symbol of Britain, if the Britain they symbolise is a shitty one that oppressed the world and stole all its riches. Your argument is as assinine as saying, "Yeah, I stole your stuff but I built the foundations of my house with it so I shouldn't have to give it back." No court would consider that a reasonable argument. Indeed, that exact kind of thing has happened in the past.
So yeah, we SHOULD give back everything we stole from every nation. As for iron, so far as I am aware, Britain had its own rich deposits of iron, buuut, for the sake of argument, as one chunk of iron is no more valuable than any other, we should return the mineral wealth we stole or its agreed upon value - THEIR decision which. The fact that returning things we stole is inconvenient would not be a consideration in ANY other case of theft, so why should it be a special case now?
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No, the only nation ever to have nukes that used them was America. The fact is, Trump is a tough-talking man-baby who only respects strength, which is EXACTLY what Tehran projected. Does anyone seriously believe that they are going to start lobbing nukes around at their neighbours when fallout doesn't respect borders. Perhaps you should be asking why Israel is the largest recipient of American aid on the planet whilst they are already a nuclear nation, already have a massive army, and by any metric are oppressing their their neighbours. The middle east is complicated and it is not for the USA, with the support of its delusional apocalypse-loving mornonic christian electorate to be picking winners and losers, especially when they have fucked up so spectacularly in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, and many of the other places thay have shoved their unwelcome attentions.
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@WildwoodCastle In what other situation is that the standard? If I come to your house, steal all your stuff and build a different cleaner house for you where your old house used to be, then you complain, would ANYONE be taken seriously if they said "What proof do you have thatwas 'HAPPY' and not oppressed by his neighbours?" You're reaching so hard you're gonna get a strain.
"Do you believe that other nations should intervene where people are starving and children are dying from diseases because their rulers abuse them."
You're creating a fictitious history for this nation in order to support your premise. But even if you are right, I have mixed feelings about whether other nations should intervene. Who the fuck are WE to impose our view of morality on people? Suppose we did that on the Amazonian rain forest tribes, they could rightly say "You're destroying the planet, who are YOU to tell me what to do?"
Suppose we did it to North Korea, they'd be justified in saying "But your politics Britain and America are the joke of the planet."
And so often (Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel) our interventions leave these place worse than they were AND turn out to be about mineral wealth.
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@Kioki1-x8p Bad example that only serves to support my case. Japan's nuclear plant was built on the cheap, below code, and was not maintained. People are in prison right now for the fact that it was NOT built to agreed upon safety standards that indeed WOULD have protected it. The government KNEW that tsunamis in that location were a possibility, and wrote a construction code that was ignored by the private contractors that built and operated it.
"Most infrastructures are made for basic functions" You are mistaken. There is a huge additional tolerance built in. Dams are designed to withstand 500 year highs, buildings are designed in prone areas to withstand earthquakes, bridges are designed to withstand excessive loads, winds and water flows. The amount by which structures are built to exceed normal daily conditions depends upon the budget, local regulations, and the severity of impact if the structure fails. Clearly you don't make a garden shed nuclear proof, but a school for instance, might be built to higher level of gale resistance than a small corner store.
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@AlanWattResistance The vaccine NEVER claimed to provide 100% protection. I KNOW YOU KNOW THIS because I personally have remnded you on at least a few occasions. At this stage, I can only assume that it is wilful ignorance, or outright disingenuity.
The idea that a vaccine which would have what, a few years of emotional effectiveness, is being used GLOBALLY as a panacea for people's concerns over the changing world simply holds no water. It amuses me that you disbelieve the vaccine "narrative" as being implausible, yet you have no trouble believing that the governments of the entire planet managed to cooperate enough to conspire in this short-term plan to give the impression of stability EVEN AS America is on the verge of civil war, Russia and Europe are rattling the sabres on the borders of Ukraine, China is threatening Taiwan, the planet is having the worst climate decade in recorded history, and Britain has virtually self destructed. And all without a single person in a single country revealing the truth? But you think a vaccine is going to reassure us that everything is okay? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The irony is, like some well drone worker ant, you proclaim that individualism is unsustainable, whilst demanding that very individualistic right to defy the vaccination that would protect the colony. You appear to be somewhat inconsistent in your position.
The sad thing is, I bet you and I would have a lot in common regarding a general distaste regarding big government.
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@gethcreator751 BritainForTheBritish The Iranian non-proliferation treaty was made with 6 nations as a single entity, in exchange for return of money that was stolen from them by the USA, and the dropping of trade sanctions. If ANY ONE of those six nations (let alone the most powerful one) withdraws from the deal, it becomes nul and void and Iran is no longer obligated to comply with it. The US DID withdraw, then reimposed sanctions, then threatened the other 5 signatories with penalties if THEY abided by the terms of the deal and continued to trade with Iran. Iran was 100% within its rights to start re-enriching nuclear material.
"if May didn't care about public opinion she would of overturned Brexit" That's massively simplistic and naive. It's like saying "If you don't mind breaking the law, you'd rob Fort Knox". There are degrees of not minding. Had she countermanded the democratic will of the majority of the British public, her party would have been unelectable again. Therefore, it was her own peers in the houses of parliament that brought pressure. Also, she never had the power to unilaterally impose her own will on parliament - it had to go back for approval and by the house of Lords.
I was not ranting, I was discussing, and I didn't misquote - I simply omitted the first couple of words because they were irrelevant to the conversation which was about Britain and the US. It's a pity that you've become snarky when we were having a civil conversation. Still, if that's how you react when you are intellectually outclassed, fair enough. It's kind of childish, but then what should I expect from a person whose channel is called "Britain for the British", a statement so blisteringly ignorant of Britain's history over the past 2000 years that you have disqualified yourself from being taken seriously right there. Go away fool, I'm done with you.
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@gethcreator751 Exceptionalism is the precursor to extremism. We saw it is Germany, we're seeing it in America, and it's played out time after time. The blind, fawning love of a nation state without the ability to acknowledge its multitude of faults. A million innocent Iraqis would still be alive now if not for our two nations (sorry if my use of the word "our" to denote a group of which I am a member triggers you). Syria is a burning ruin because of our coalition. 100s of thousands of innocent Yemenis are starving to death or already dead because of us. Is that what you mean when you call us the greatest nation on earth?
There are some great things about both nations, but among first world nations, Britain is far from being the best by almost any metric - personal happiness, income, poverty, education socia welfare, freedom, crime, environmental policy. And America is lower still. If you cannot recognise the truth, then your head is stuck so far up the British Bulldog's ass that you're blinded by its shit. Run along sonny. You're dismissed. I won't be reading any more of your feeble nonsense.
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@dhul_qarnyan Just yesterday, my sweet 80 year old mother said "Why has British TV gone completely over to black people?" I said to her, "Mum, over 40% of British people are not white, it's just representative of the demographic of Britain." to which she replied "You'd think it was nearly 100% to see TV - I feel like a foreigner in my own country."
Look around you - the hard right are getting into power across the planet - Trump, Johnson, Duterte, Erdoghan, Bolsonaro, Macron, and it's thanks to whelps like you, who constantly try to see the worst in every situation so that they can gain their dopamine hit from a momentary sense of moral superiority, all the while amplifying the very things they claim to be opposed to. You realise that you LITERALLY make the world a worse place with your presence right? People like YOU who forcibly insert race into every conversation, acusing everyone who disagrees with them of racism, are the problem.
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You keep thinking that America cannot become a worse theocratic cesspool, then it manages to sink lower. Biden needs to grow a pair, appoint 50 new SCOTUSes by presidential order, get this immediately overturned, then impose term limits on SCOTUS, and impeach every scotus who lied during their selection. And while he's at it, can he PLEASE lock his treasononous predecessor and his partners in crime up, along with every person currently working to subvert democracy, then remove the ridiculos presidential pardon power in perpetuity, especially the means to give proactive pardons.
But we all know he wont because he's both spineless, and part of the same rancid, corrupt system, and HE wants to protect his own pitiful interests.
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@davidbarlow350 It took ten minutes to cast serious doubt on your first three cited experts. I'm not "arguing the toss", I'm shooting down the credibility of your narrative with facts.
"On July 23, 2020, Risch published a Newsweek op-ed that championed the widely discredited COVID drug hydroxychloroquine. He relied entirely on older, shoddy studies suggesting benefits for COVID patients while ignoring more recent, rigorous studies showing zero benefit and significant potential for harm.
Risch also ignored his obvious logical fallacies, such as disregarding confounding variables (adding azithromycin, doxycycline, and zinc as treatments) and conflating correlation with causation (the “natural experiments” of countries using or not using hydroxycloroquine). His own colleagues published a stinging rebuke of his argument."
https://medium.com/swlh/credible-misinformation-dr-harvey-rischs-newsweek-op-ed-700105a12e25
"After testing this three-drug cocktail on hundreds of patients, some of whom had only mild or moderate symptoms when they arrived, Dr. Zelenko claimed that 100 percent of them had survived the virus with no hospitalizations and no need for a ventilator... ...He said that while he was optimistic, it was too early to tell whether the drugs would ultimately work."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/doctor-zelenko-coronavirus-drugs.html
"Raoult “We confirm the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin (an antibiotic) in the treatment of Covid-19”, write Didier Raoult and his team. But many experts argued on Saturday that it was impossible to draw this conclusion on the sole basis of this study, which has not been published at this stage in a scientific journal, because of the way it is drawn up.
Their main criticism: the study does not include a control group (that is to say, patients to whom the treatment studied is not administered), and it is therefore impossible to establish a comparison to determine if it is the treatment that is causing the improvement."
https://www.archyde.com/professor-raoult-publishes-a-new-study-immediately-criticized/
I can't be bothered to fact check your entire rambling, conspiratorial response. Go back to flat-eartherism - at least no lives will be lost. We're done.
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@Lazarus Resurrection Ahh right, so my original points about not pissing off companies who answered your call for help in your hour of need is invalid why? And my original point about OTHER nations needing the ventillators, when the US is DESPERATE for them is invalid why?
And all of that presupposes that we have seen the worst of the virus, which the health experts say we have not, and that when lockdown ends, there will not be a second spike, which they say there will be, and that there will not be a huge bounce back in winter, which they say is likely.
But I'm sure that with your decades of disaster planning, virology degree and news analysis experience, you know better...
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@azca. China has no military experience? 😂 😂 😂 Nope, not in Mali, against India, in Vietnam, in the Russian border conflicts, in Korea, Tibet, more than half a dozen civil wars, and against Japan. But apart from that, you're right, ZERO wars, apart from the other 10. And how much military experience do you need to launch a nuke?
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@Sylfest Strutle "It takes a lot of hubris to live on an island and never got your country demolished and stolen from you." 🤣🤣🤣
You obviously forgot the Romans, the Vikings, the Celts, the Germans and the French, all of whom not only invaded, but took control collectively for many hundreds of years.
"Give me a good rebuttal, attack my character, my English, the normal routine when someone calls you out on your mean spirited BS." You seem a little senstive there. Perhaps you should surrender while you still can?
Mean spirited? Pointing out that a huge portion of France surrendered to its enemies while its allies were dying for them? I would think that France should feel about as proud of that little move as Britain feels about our abysmal colonial past. But don't worry, France is making up for it now, burning down Macron's favourite restaurant because they don't like him. Such braaaave people.
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This is not a free speech issue. I believe in free speech but not unrestricted free speech. I was delighted to see Alex Jones lose his platform for instance. But Peterson wilfully misrepresented bill C16. He repeatedly portrayed himself as a martyr who was going to be be punished by the state for refusing to use preferred pronouns. That was NEVER a danger, and he was never in a position where he was compelled to use anyone's pronouns.
I don't care whether enforced monogamy is an anthropological term. That wasn't the context in which Peterson used it, as evidenced by his huge embarrassed pause when Rogan called him on the contradiction.
As for the amount of Peterson you have watched, why is that n the same sentence as your unfamiliarity with his comments on monetising SJWs? The juxtaposition suggests that you don't believe it, in which case, I guess you haven't watched ALL the Jordan Peterson. Regardless of what his book was about (it came long after he had started receiving a monthly 5 figure income from youtube et al). Peterson became a cause celebre as a direct result of his opposition to C16, and then his subsequent eulogising to his primary target demographic - disaffected young males. The fact that as a result of his fame he was also able to sell a million books is coincidental. He said it. He did it. It worked.
And no, people didn't buy his book for free speech alone any more than people bought Milo Yianoupolis' book simply because they hated feminism. He appealed to a deep-seated sense of disaffection and grievance; the exact sentiment that lead so many people to vote for Trump.
Jordan doesn't frighten me, he disgusts me, because he comes clad in the disguise of a kindly father figure or an uncle, and some of the things he says are quite intelligent and reasonable, but mixed in amongst his wisdom is utter utter crap, but most of his audience lacks the discernment to recognise it. So he places these little toxic seeds into their heads and appeals to their sense of victimhood.
How much Peterson do I have to listen to before I can be considered to have a reasonable measure of the man? Everything? Or perhaps some of the things he says are so asinine and egregious as to disqualify him from further consideration.
I might ask you equally, why are you defending a person who spouts some arguments with such huge holes? It seems to me that it is YOUR confirmation bias that is blinding you to his flaws.
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@ritecomment2098 1. The deaths were needless because Boris Johnson's response was woeful. He was way too late shutting the border, even allowing superspreader events at the start, way too late locking down the country, he reopened too early, and then again in christmas simply to pander, the government messaging was appalling, he made repeated excuses for rule breakers among his inner circle, and has shot himself in the foot by continuously flouting the guidleines that he imposed. Kids were treated as though they could not pass it on. I could continue, but the point is, the way Johnson managed the virus at every possible point, lead to a worse outcome for the country.
2. Don't put words into my mouth. People die all the time. That's part of life. However, easily preventable deaths from a wholly new source should be prevented if possible and reasonable. If it costs a million pounds each to save a 98 year old, then that is clearly not reasonable. Mankind has successully worked for millennia to increase our life expctancy, and it is outrageous that anyone would argue that now we suddenly write off savable elderly by virtue of their age. And you know full well that it is not just people in their 90s who are dying - plenty of people in their 30s and 40s are also dying prematurely, and who would be alive now without covid.
3. More hyperbolic straw manning. I never for a second suggested that we "imprison the UK population in their homes against all sorts of 'risk'." For starters, other risks are not contagious.
But IF the entire UK population HAD been "imprisoned" for just two weeks, and then the borders closed, this would have been over almost two years ago, which would have been massively cheaper than what we did instead.
4. Covid is not flu. It's caused by a different virus. Flu does not leave the same long lasting after effects in many cases, such loss of taste and extreme fatuigue. But even if covid WAS flu, I would remind you that 100 million people died of Spanish flu in 1918. Your dismissal makes as much sense as saying WW2 was "just another war."
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@mr wpgthe
"the incentive is always there, the human will to engineer and create, " Nope, not at all. That soon disappears when your creations are stolen by people who see your creations as open source. If you make something that has a relatively limited market, the only incentive is a small profit on your development costs, not some abstract desire to make a better can opener or whatever.
"motivation is the problem," exactly right. Without an incentive for doing something, there is no reason to do so.
"monetisation, exploitation is a vile thing but todays sheep know nothing of morals...."
It's not about exploitation, it's about remuneration. Every man is entitled to a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. If you are an inventor, you are entitled to fair profit on your innovation as well. You talk about morals, but I would consider it immoral to deny me that thing. Not only do you steal from my pocket, but you literally steal from all mankind because I am disincentivised from innovating. It's far easier to simply let others do the costly hard work then steal their ideas.
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@Nick ______ I am a massive advocate of freedom, but not at any cost. My freedom end where it negatively affects others, so long as the sentiment is reciprocal.
America is not REMOTELY pro abortion. The GOP and religious right are constantly trying to repeal it. It has just about survived this long, but with the appalling supreme court you have now, I wouldn't bank on that staying the case for long.
No, there's absolutely NO debate about the virus. The mortality rate is lowish, but the cost to hospitals in terms of preventing them dealing with other patients is high. And that's if I didn't take into account the repugnant state of the healthcare service and paying for illness. The entire civilised world has collectively done the calculations and concluded that allowing the virus to run unchecked is the worst possible scenarie. The only country that tried an alternative quickly gave up. Then there's America, where thaere are currently what? Almost half a million dead?
And no, I don't say that safe is ALWAYS good. Of course not, but when your behaviour negatively affects others, you have a responsibility to your fellow citizens as well.
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@Nick ______ If we were going to argue from nature, we'd all be naked living in holes and dying in our 40s from rotten teeth or cold. If you care only about what's natural, get off the computer right now and turn off your heating and lights. What the hell does our inability to handle nature have to do with anything? Dogs have fur, bears have teeth, we have brains. And we adapted to nature better than any species on the whole planet.
By ANY values that humans hold, yes, I can say death is worse than life except against someone trying to kill you. You're trying so desperately to be abstract that you've lost all credibility. If you can't even commit to saying "Helping the most number of people to survive is better than just leaving them to die," then you really shouldn't be trying to have adult conversations. Yes, in some unknown future, keeping people alive now wipes out the human race in 100 years due to war. And in some unknown future you turn out to be a super spreader of a more deadly plague. Better if we just handed you a gun to end yourself now huh? Of course not, because we don't envision the worst case unnown scenario, then model our actions on that being a probable outcome.
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