Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Guardian" channel.

  1. Good work all around: as much as learning stuff, it's important that we unlearn the stuff that's not true -- like our misleading faith in memory.
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  2.  @Ji_hadJoe  Uh, Jonny, can I break it to you gently? They didn't all move to the same place, Jonny. They moved to different places, Jonny. Infrastructure gets built and renewed all the time, all over the place. Do you have complaints about some specific bit of infrastructure, Jonny? In "Greater" Manchester, is it, Jonny? If so, why don't you say so? Jonny.
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  3.  @Ji_hadJoe  But nowhere do you analyse infrastructure construction and maintenance before and after, do you, Jonny? You just give us a lot of guff about Greater manchester.
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  4. Sorry, Jake. You lose. Bannon brings out all the old farts so we can laugh at them. Look at that old geezer ten minutes in, claiming "The future belongs to us," a Nazi line from the good film "Cabaret"! That clown's future is single digit years of drinking his government-paid pint a day!
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  5. Russia -- the Empire of the Duchy of Muscovy -- is the grandchild of the Lithuanian Empire. That's why it was called Kievan Rus. Kiev is the capital of Ukraine. Russia is its spawn.
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  6.  Monkee Media  I think they already went, M^2. I saw all their boats parked in the bay in front of Monte Carlo. All the Muslims we've got left are the moral ones who aren't interested in roulette and baccarat...
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  7.  @Ji_hadJoe  Good points all, Jonny -- and nothing to do with your original post, Jonny.
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  8.  @Ji_hadJoe  Jonny, A tiny majority of those voting, not of your "the electorate," voted "leave" -- at the end of a campaign filled with lies and false promises. I don't believe that the Guardian or anybody else has said that "all 17 million are massive racists." I think you're making stuff up. A few hundred thousand people a year is not "mass migration," it's the normal flow of peple in any dynamic and productive economy. You have shown no evidence of any adverse effects on anybody.
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  9.  @Ji_hadJoe  Jonny, " Sorry to be 'that guy' but I suspect there are..." you write! And you say I am putting spin that would make a politician blush on things. That's all you've got is your "I suspects," a population larger than Greater London, no doubt. The fact remains the Leavers were voting for hundreds of millions of pounds in candy-floss, unicorns and rainbows that simply don't and can't exist. I don't live there at the moment, though I'm planning on coming back for the Festival of Britain in 2051 (assuming they hold the real one, not some stupid imitation dreamed up by Mrs May), so I don't have a cat in this fight. I'm tempted to hope that you crash out -- so all the stupid gits who voted for Farge's Dream can find out just exactly what it all means. The world is round, which is why a global economy is the same way it has been for the last seven hundred years -- normal. The redistribution of the gains is a different question, and the working people have been screwed over -- but rational economics has produced the wealth, class-biased politics is what has given it to the disgusting fascistic Rees-Moggsies of this world. In real life I wish you all well, but if you crash out I won't have a hell of a lot of sympathy for your suffering. You, with the help of David Cameron's stupidity, brought it on yourselves. Cheers, -dlj.
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  10. All these streets remind me of a Skipton, Yorks, story from my childhood, during the war: the main street was round cobblestones, and everybody agreed it was time to pave the place. But how? So they debated it and then they debated it, and in the end they decided. The pulled up all the coblestones, put down nice new tarmac, and then put the cobblestones back as before. Nice new weatherproof cobblestones!
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  11. There are about four time zones he's in danger of losing out there -- although China operates 62 degrees of longitude on a single time zone. This may be why he recently took time out of his hectic schedule to visit Kazakhstani and China. If he manages to stay in office, he may live to see Moscow's loss of any influence in Mongolia...
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  12. We'll always need a security guard to keep some nihiist from pulling out the plug.
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  13. "Loo-ten-nant_ governor" -- on The Manchester Guardian? Say wot? But if you were a real journalist you would research Oz's claim that Fetterman "would add another trillion, etc. etc." That Democrats cause deficits is an endlessly repeated claim and it's roughly 179 degrees wrong: it will take you a bit of research, but you will find that over the past 70 years it has been Republicans who built up the debt, half through greed, half through plain stoo-pid carelessness, and it has been the Democrats, time after time after time, who have cut deficits and in some cases even run surpluses cutting the debt. Counter-intuitive, perhaps. Counter-mythological, but true. The Republicans' deficit and budget claims are lies, lies believed only because they are so relentlessly repeated.
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  14.  @Ji_hadJoe  There was a referendum on maintaining infrastructure, Jonny?
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  15. Good point, Devon. If the press every wakes up to the fact that Bannon and Trump are just a lot of noise, and the real issues are stripping away people's pensions, the game is up. Keep up the good work. Expose the SOBs.
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