Comments by "earthstick" (@earthstick) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. Boycotting these copmanies is a good idea, exactly what I have been advocating for the BBC. The only problem I see is that there is something called an ESG score, awarded to a company from Blackrock/Vanguard. The score is for diversity, 'ethical business' etc. The companies with the highest scores get the investment. But I still agree with boycotting them.
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  2. I went to Telford on a school trip nearly 40 years ago. The school organised pen pals with pupils from Telford and we went to meet them. Mine was a Pakistani boy, he might be one of the groomers now. But when I got to Telford, there was another English pupil who had sent me a letter, but the schools never forwarded it. He told me then that the authorities were up to no good. That was almost 40 years ago.
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  3. My brothers daughter has just started school. For the first 5 minutes after they return to the classroom after break they watch BBC Newsround on a big screen. It's blatant indoctrination of children as early as possible.
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  4. Shouldn't we be talking about misandry? Because it appears that there is a great hate of men and this is causing men to become maldeveloped.
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  5. Boris Johnson says obesity is a comorbidity factor in CoVid deaths yet as soon as he had chance he opened McDonalds and had them sell their unhealthy food at half price. Now they are selling double BigMacs. Double-speak I say.
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  6. I’ve come to the conclusion that society has been groomed for decades to fall. The racism accusation is one of the foundation axioms in this logic that has been used to groom western civilisation for its own destruction. History shows every civilisation can be toppled and given that western culture is the current pinnacle, it is western culture that is always facing demise. We have to be serious about that. But the point is this self loathing is a grooming technique.
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  7. 'the more actual hardship a country has faced, the less likely they are to overreact to CoVid'. In 1957 Britain experienced an influenza pandemic that killed about 30,000 people but nobody paid much attention to it. And again in 1968. Many of those people who lived through those pandemics were the generation who lived through WWI and WWII.
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  8. We don't even need low skilled workers. There are few low skilled jobs here anymore.
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  9. The interesting thing about this 'man in a women body' is that it implies that there is a 'you' and there is a 'body' and that they are different things. It also implies that the you exists before the body and that the you is assigned to the wrong body before birth. So it implies that if not an after life, there is a before life.
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  10. Nobody has a national identity any longer because our history has not been taught for at least 40 years. A German is more likely to know Britain's history than a Briton. But they do not have our interests in mind. We do not even teach English grammar; can you tell? Education across Britain is dire.
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  11. Her assessment of Boris' options in a general election are about right. He can campaign on the claim that he has been prevented by parliament from delivering Brexit, that's clear to see. If he were to offer a no deal Brexit he would no doubt get the Brexit party vote and many Labour leave votes but the problem is you cannot trust him to actually leave without a deal. Whereas the Brexit party is almost certain to nullify the existing treaties and not sign any more.
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  12. The discussion has moved to what do we do about it. Exactly what we need.
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  13. It isn't Cressida Dick's decision as to whether people have lost confidence in the Police. It's is everyone else's decision.
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  14. I'm a proponent of boycotts, the BBC in particular, and I have questioned whether it's the same as cancel culture. Are we being hypocritical? No, it's different. Maybe only in the minutest detail: Cancel culture is the prevention of speech, whereas to boycott is to ignore. A person can say what they like, but I don't have to listen.
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  15. 'Tolerance of other faiths.' What if those other faiths are intolerant? There lies the problem, it is contradictory. Perhaps a better value would be tolerant of those who are tolerant.
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  16. I am not owned by the Government.
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  17. We know the SJW, BLM, Antifa etc are all Marxists. It's nothing we have not seen before and they have been defeated before, it's just they are in our house now. We have to look at what we need to do to stop this and what the consequences for society will be after our actions so that we don't defeat ourselves in the process.
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  18. I wish people would just think of themselves as human beings rather than a race.
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  19. On the depression, John B Calhoon studied rats and mice who lived in a world of plenty, where all needs were provided for. The populations rose rapidly before collapsing. We all have to struggle to survive, if there is no struggle, we have no purpose.
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  20. The Conservative Party appearing to be two parties in one, unable to control the differences within the party, about to split apart. This is how the Labour party appeared recently under Corbyn. Both these parties are barely capable of holding themselves together, not least the country. The fault line in society today is not represented by the two main parties.
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  21. Wind turbines are called renewable because they have a lifespan of 30 years and have to be replaced. All the turbines put up in the 90's are being scrapped and they cannot recycle the blades so they are putting them in land fill!
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  22. This is being used as Britain's George Floyd. The argument being used is always generalisation - guilt by association. They want to treat a group of people with suspicion and guilt because of the actions of a single member of the group. It is only valid to use this technique if the member were arbitrary, i.e. they have no rare properties. But every person has something about them that if different to all others therefore every person has a rare property and there are no arbitrary people therefore generalisation is fallacious.
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  23. On the point of education. One change I would like to see now we have left the EU is that the history of this country, warts and all, should be taught in schools along with English grammar. There are people from other countries who are now more knowledgeable of our country than we are. I suspect this was a purposeful decision made once we joined the EU/EEC. If you remove peoples history you remove their identity. Perfect for the EU, the organisation that wants to dissolve nations and rule over all those people. If you don't know the history of your country you have no counter argument against their assertions.
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  24. The governments are weak because for 40 years they have been jumped up civil servants who just have to fulfil the orders handed down by the EU. They have lost the skill. We have to relearn.
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  25. We can only hope their demise will be soon and swift, like Icarus.
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  26. The College Of Policing is private limited company of which Priti Patel is the sole shareholder. Now that is a revelation.
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  27. History is not a _story_. It's just a record of what happened.
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  28. Today's Conservative party can't even conserve themselves.
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  29. Not just inform but strategize and act.
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  30. I was taught the history of Russia in history at school. We covered the tzars, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. It certainly covered the death and failure.
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  31. When it comes to GBS some people say he was a communist, others say a fascist. I think this just highlights how similar the two are, how the similarities far outweigh the differences.
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  32. And those who control the past control the future
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  33. 34:06 Defund the BBC - A few years ago you would think a few cranks. I was one of those cranks and I'm proud of it 😊😊 No TV No Licence No BBC
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  34. I read the BBC are interested in getting more involved with education. I means only one thing.
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  35. Chris Russ It gets accepted if there is no alternative but (cynically) they get no credit for the achievement. More likely someone of less competency gets the credit. That is itself dangerous because it rewards incompetence while simultaneously disincentives the competent. It’s the question of forgiveness, when, how and why.
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  36. She's right
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  37. I suggest we have some talks on what caused other dictatorships, such as the soviet union, to finally come to an end. If we study this we can accelerate the end of the current movement.
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  38. George Orwell may have written 1984 as a warning but what it did was lay the path to that future. The mechanics of the book can be brought into being because anyone who objects can be dismissed as believing in a fantasy that will never happen or called a conspiracy theorist. Orwell cleared the way.
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  39. Cis and trans come from chemistry. They are names used to describe the isomers of a molecule. Isomers are variations of a molecule that are made from identical atoms, but the atoms are arranged differently. Why cis and trans? My guess is trans was chosen first to describe someone who has changed gender, they then needed a word to describe those who have not. Chemistry provided cis because in chemistry it is the counterpart to trans.
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  40. What I would like to know is why a lot of our great academics go off to American universities? In my subject there are almost no lecturers indigenous to the UK. Given that we have been sending as many people to university as possible for the last 20 years I would expect more. Instead almost all the lecturers are from overseas.
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  41. Rafe Heydel-Mankoo makes a good point when he says that as the number of children in a family declines, the value placed on each increases, to the point where they are spoilt. I would also raise the voting age. My rationale is that the brain has not finished developing until about 25, so I would suggest about 25, but I will settle for 21.
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  42. The climate change narrative is really grooming. Michael Moores film is evidence of this. The idea has been planted in peoples mind that humans are changing the environment. The initial solution proposed is to change the energy source from CO2 emitting sources to renewable. This doesn't work for many reasons. Renewables are very inefficient, the manufacture of solar and wind turbines is very CO2 intensive. So now that solution is being shown to be false, another solution has to be found. The thing on everyone's minds is the population. So now the first solution has failed people are ready to accept depopulation. Climate change is grooming for depopulation.
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  43. That's exactly what I thought and I was going to make that my comment when there were no views of this version but I shied away. I was unsubscribed as well. Free speech requires dedication.
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  44. This is where the conversation needs to go. How do we change the present direction rather than commentating on what we don't like.
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  45. The kids are beginning to really wake up to the woke. I hear it every so often.
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  46. The BBC do not act with impunity. 500,000 people cancelled them last year. Their traditional revenue is drying up but more importantly the audience for their propaganda is disappearing. Is the cancellation of the BBC justified?
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  47. On the one hand, we might want to judge art on its own merit and not on the character of the artist. On the other, many people take issue with the statue outside the BBC that was made by Eric Gill.
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  48. My gay uncle told me his mother dressed him in girl's clothes as a child, probably my mother's clothes. This seemed to be a root issue for him. It was about 20 years ago that people started dressing their infants in gender-neutral yellow. Those children, from the earliest age, were not told what gender they are, now there is an explosion of seemly confused people who are 'transitioning'.
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  49. Kamala Harris was introduced at a recent Biden rally as 'the next president of the united states'.
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  50. Regarding the slavery, the reason why Britain, and to a less extent America, takes all the blame is because we are the top nations and some people want to take us down. There's no gain in taking down Africa for the Barbary Coast slave trade.
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  51. Only one thing to say No TV No licence No BBC
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  52.  @DeviantDeveloper  Malicious entities act out of self interest. But I do question whether there is a single malicious entity or if we have just lost our way and blindly walking into our own destruction.
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  53. I've never worn one. Not paid much attention to the mandates.
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  54. Bath is a beautiful city. The buildings are definitely uplifting.
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  55. British comedy is not dead. Comedy Unleashed is blazing a trail. Until I saw that a few weeks ago I would have agreed that British comedy is dead. Before seeing Comedy Unleashed I had not watched any comedy since I stopped watching TV about 20 years ago and BBC comedy was a big contributing factor. But the thing is the left always proclaimed they were the alternative but now they are the establishment and they are tyrannical, they have had their revolution, they are at the top of the wheel and the only way for them now is down. 2016 was the watershed, the high tide mark, peak alt-left.
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  56. That's what they have achieved. The politicians 20 - 30 years from now will be drawn from those people. They have sewn the seed, at the very least, they can wait for it to bear fruit.
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  57. Post-modernism tells us there is no such thing as consensus, except when science or the post-modernists have reached a consensus, and then it is canon. The inconsistencies are ridiculous, they should just drop the facade and tell us the truth is whatever suits their dictatorship.
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  58. Maybe we should all move to America. The culture is about as close as you could get and the language is English.
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  59. Switzerland maintained independence without going to war - they just supplied the NAZI with arms for the first year of WWII.
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  60.  @mooseyman74  They will be even more in favour. Money and power is what they crave and will suck up to those that have it.
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  61. How disrespectful that they cannot even look up from their phones or stop shuffling papers. As if it is of no concern.
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  62. Every person, society, civilisation takes knocks. The ones that fail are the ones that don't get back up. People looking for a challenge or to do something big in the world - now is the time.
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  63. The Chinese rocket that just came down was called 'The Long March 5B'
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  64. When they become a commercially funded organisation and change the name, they can be as politically biased as their revenue allows. Until then, No TV = No Licence = No BBC.
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  65. @Pale Rider Yes, but you understand what I was trying to say? Besides, I thought it was sex that was agreed could not be changed. And that's why they do not say transsexual any more, as they did in The Rocky Horror Show. Instead, the term is now transgender, because they believe gender is a 'social constuct' or something, rather than physically immutable. But who knows, that's so last week.
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  66. If they demonise men then they demonise fathers. Then children grow up without a proper family.
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  67. I think the people of this country can see through Meghan and will have some sympathy for Harry. What those two have done is more likely to rally people around the institution of the monarchy. The real worry I have for the monarchy is that they are now speaking the words of the woke. 'Strength in diversity', 'defender of faiths' (plural), eco nonsense.
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  68. Rwanda is better than the Ascension Island. Rwanda is not Britain, while Ascention is British territory. Once they are on Ascension, lawyers can say they are already in Britain and use it as leverage.
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  69. Isn't he describing mass formation?
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  70. If we forget our history of slavery it makes it all the easier to go down that path again. History isn't always recorded for celebration, there are other reasons.
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  71.  @garethedwardking5860  I can only guess that people have been led to this unwittingly for decades. But I'm sorry to say I've started to consider if these people are worth it.
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  72. Get Jeremy on as a GB News presenter.
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  73.  @leehallam9365  I take your point and it was on my mind but on closer inspection people did not exactly have free choice. They still closed other restaurant and eateries. The property with the greatest weight when classifying whether a business was allowed to stay open was the size of the company. Big business has been allowed to stay open while small businesses have been closed. And to that I'll add, people are allowed free choice to drink and smoke but they are both heavily taxed. That goes some way to paying the health care costs. But that is also a disapproval of peoples habits when given free will. So perhaps we should allow people their free will, cut all those taxes and at the same time cut the NHS back to A&E only.
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  74.  @rupsurfer  as carers, baristas, fruit pickers? no industry though.
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  75. The BBC is easy. Don't watch, don't have a TV, they get no money and their message goes nowhere. They are on the way out.
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  76. Might have helped if they had spelled it Parlez or one of the other alternatives. Maybe that was just too far from mainstream for them.
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  77. CO2 emissions are down, CO2 level is up.
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  78. You can't use animals names to insult people because it harms animals?? Did no one tell Biden he can't call people 'Dog faced pony soldiers'?
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  79. "Give to Ceasar what [is] Ceasar's ..." taken as quoted it sounds ambiguous. Does that mean Ceasar owns the money because it has his head on it but Ceasar has no claim on anything else?
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  80. It would be even better if we had someone who could tell us how to avert it. Really is there any greatness in narrating ones own demise?
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  81.  @nikkygovier3783  Once you spot it you can build resistance. In my case I am isolated from family, as for friends, well I don't have any. But I have dodged the bombardment of the message because I eschew the BBC and treat all media with distrust. I dare say I have an above average grasp of logic which gives me a sense for contradiction. If you can knock out 2 of the 3 pillars then the house collapses.
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  82. This may be a move to completely debase fiat currency so that we do in fact move to a different currency. Maybe a cryptocurrency so Dominic may get what he wishes for. But is that a good thing? Bitcoin is a deflationary currency. There is an absolute maximum of 23M bitcoins. Some of those have been lost already in wallets that have been lost on peoples computers - remember the guy who threw away his laptop with the key to his wallet on it? Now the lost bitcoins are out of circulation there are only 21M possible bitcoins. So the value of bitcoin increases overtime rather and decreasing. That encourages people to save rather than spend. You will still get no interest on your savings because there is no money to pay to savers. Furthermore if you have debt then you are in trouble. The problem is that it really does become impossible to repay debt because there really is not enough money to pay it. With a fiat currency there is no limit to the amount of money. It is always possible to repay debt by borrowing more. It incurs more interest but that can be paid in the same way. If the rate of monetary increase is greater than the demand for money then there will be price inflation and the money hase been devalued because there is more money sloshing about with the same amount of goods and services to pay for. Price inflation encourages people to spend rather than save. Having a limitless currency is not necessarily a bad thing. It is always possible to meet demand for money such as when the population increases. The rate of monetary increase is what is important. It must equal demand. No more and no less. Otherwise you get deflation or inflation and neither of those are desirable.
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  83. The Guy Fawkes masks worn by Anonymous are from the film V For Vendetta.
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  84.  @user-sw2lv3zp6o  All Peter Hitchens ever does is reminisce about the past, rail against the present but then tell us there is no future. He is so downbeat you could mistake him for an agent of despair, here to convince us not to even bother opposing. Clearing the way for the communists.
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  85. I read about people in China contracting CoVid in late October. I know it was late October because I talked to someone about it, they didn't believe me, and later we talked about Guy Fawkes, because November the 5th was approaching.
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  86. Was it SARS in China or Sarin in Tokyo when people in those places started wearing masks? They never stopped. The media always told us that the masks had no effect, yet now we are being told to wear them.
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  87. I'm not a voter for London Mayor, but he seems pretty good. The problem is there are many candidates in opposition to Sadiq that will split the vote. I fear Sadiq will get in again for this reason. I think we should abolish the Mayor and all these positions like crime commissioner. It politicises organisations that are supposed to be separate from politics.
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  88.  @ColonelRoge  I hope it was the YT algorithm. You can't champion free speech and then take down peoples comments. It wasn't even controversial. The Anglo-Saxon on might have been though.
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  89. And someone else made a whole film out of a Hitler joke that is running in cinemas now.
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  90. People cannot help but lean to one side of politics or another. The social media giants started with intention to operate impartially but they have failed. They need anti-trust actions against them. Microsoft did when they tried to dominate the internet and the social media giants should now. The problem now the companies that host social media platforms have their own platforms, if a customer takes an opposite political stance to the social media giant then it can stop hosting them. Therefore they are competing with their customers and there is a conflict of interest. The first thing that needs to take place is that they need to be broken up into separate organisations for hosting services and social media platforms. The hosting services can enjoy the status of a utility company on the condition that they do not refuse to host any legal platform. The social media platforms can be just as political as a news paper or other media outlet but they cannot enjoy the status of a utility.
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  91.  @ottosump3356  My guess is they thought after two world wars that the west had something wrong with it.
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  92. The question is did Priti Patel become the owner when she took the job of home secretary or did she own it before? I guess the records are in companies house.
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  93. And the view from Solsbury Hill is a treat.
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  94. Germans hate our system of law. They are here at universities doing everything can to codify our law so it can be administered by IT systems. But they cannot do it and they hate that. German law is so much better than British law, they say.
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  95. I think Rafe is fighting the wrong battle with this one. Why celebrate how multicultural Britain is? It's a broken society full of distrust, and dysfunction. In one breath the right argue for controlled migration, and less of it, in the next breath they are talking up what a good place this is for migrants. But everyone knows it's a disaster.
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  96. I was not, and am not afraid.
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  97. Maybe it's because we finished paying back the debt that this has flared up again. People not satisfied.
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  98. Perhaps Hollywood has picked up on the new cultural movement, that is that the left-wing have had their revolution and they are now the establishment not the alternative. They are no longer the cool counterculture and the only way for them now is down. Perhaps Hollywood is making films to pander to a new revolution.
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  99. In my mind it's not right or left. It's individualist or collectivist. Socialism, communism even fascism, these are all collectivist strategies. All collectivist strategies are authoritarian. To form the collective there must be authority and then to maintain the collective particularly in times of crisis authority is required otherwise people will put their individual needs before those of the collective. I think this goes all the way back to hunter-gathers. Some people go out and hunt, these people are more independent and individual and they have the ability to take what they require. Others have to look after the young and old, they are the collective. Unlike the hunters they do not have the ability to take what they need, this gives them a curious sense of entitlement. They feel entitled because they know they must be given what they need therefore they feel no gratitude.
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  100. When was asked at work to provide my pronouns, I replied ‘King’. Not technically a pronoun, but if a man can call themselves a woman, then I am the King of England.
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  101. If mayors had more power then we would have an even bigger problem when someone like Sadiq Khan has the role.
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  102. Collectives are a response to adversity. A crisis like war, famine, disease are adversaries so people might group together to overcome that adversary but if it is perceived as being too great then people may decide to go their own way. For example if a person is a farmer in a collective during a famine and they know there is simply not enough food to go around then they may very well decide to feed themselves and their family first thus putting themselves before the collective. Collectives become more authoritarian during a crisis to prevent people from jumping ship.
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  103. Is it so much that cities are dead or that now they the cities have been conquered the push is to take over the suburbs, towns and villages?
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  104. It’s a non-crime since Blair.
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  105.  @susancurtis1651  Well, to my knowledge, he did not remove them entirely, he just removed the death penality for treason. I shouldn't exaggerate.
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  106. Have you thought about the consequences of what he proposes regarding fiat currency?
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  107.  @jane---489  Yeah we can all see what's happening. I'm afraid you're wrong. It's not enough to just tell us what we already know. The thing we don't know is what to do about this. See my other posts. Are we too civilised to defend ourselves? If we have a line we won't cross then that can be exploited. If we have no boundaries then we have half a chance of surviving.
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  108.  @jane---489  Yeah I'm just annoyed. It's like watching someone on a train track saying 'hey look there's a train coming watch out everyone'. No one remembers the losers. Action needs to be taken.
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  109.  @nikkygovier3783  During a pandemic it must be normal to use experimental treatments. The use of alcohol as an anti-septic was discovered by experiment in a field hospital. But isn't the problem that people are not being made fully aware of the risk? Reports came out that doctors were being told the risk to fertility was unknown yet that was left out of the information given to patients.
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  110. Brian Gable I’m not convinced money should have any intrinsic value. At its simplest it is a medium for exchange. If that medium is necessary for some other purpose then there is a conflict of interest. For instance if money was Covid19 vaccines (which would have great intrinsic value now) then you either destroy the medium of exchange by vaccination and have to return to battering or you fail to prevent an epidemic.
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  111. It seems to me that a lot of the rise in anti-slavery is the guilt of those who are descened from slave owners/traders, and those who did not take part in or opposed the abolition. They missed the boat and combined with their fear of migrants, they try to recreate the same fight that was going on 200 years ago, so that they can be the rightous.
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  112.  @purpuradraco3747  It's cognitive dissonance. The other example is Bill Gates. He wants to depopulate the world yet at the same time he wants to take care of everyone's health. Well healthy people live longer, that's not depopulation. I'm not in favour of depopulation BTW, I'm just pointing out the contradiction. Would anyone trust a person who wants to depopulate the world with their health? Would you put Harold Shipman in charge of a old age care home?
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  113. Surely feminism has done for this country. The problem is this: Men simply cannot give birth. If women do not play their role in raising a family, and instead go out to work, then the next generation will be smaller than the last. Then the debt and pension commitments become too great for the next generation to cover. Therefore the politicians bring in migrants to make up the shortfall. Sorry, but I cannot see a way around that.
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  114. We are trapped between a rock and a hard place - as ever.
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  115. There is good reason for an English parliament, but will the countries diverge so far that the union is under threat? I would like us to be one Britain.
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  116. I thought Ann was naive. Workplace healthcare like workplace pensions??? No. Private pensions, private healthcare. There is nothing to it. You give a bank account and sort code to the employer and they pay employer and employee contributions into that. You can do the same for a private health scheme. The company you work for should have no management of your pension or health. Otherwise, they will pilfer. And if you are self-employed then you will have private schemes anyway. NHS should be reduced to A&E only.
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  117.  @ColonelRoge  When I read William Blake's poem at school that has the 'dark satanic mills' line, the left-wing middle class types looked down on the working class and to them the poem confirmed their sentiment, it was food for them. I know that was not the intent of the poem but I was wondering whether it may have helped demonise the working class through association. I also know it is part of our heritage and literature and I am not trying to undermine the piece but if I'm right then the subject is worth discussing if only to exorcise the myth.
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  118. I heard today they are putting out warnings that you could die if you leave the house or something along those lines. Doesn't scare me, I haven't watched the BBC or had a TV in over 20 years. No TV, no licence, no BBC.
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  119. Thing is my sound card is currently broken and I only get audio out of the right channel. Had to listen to this on another PC.
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  120. That also applies to app stores.
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  121. Other solutions are peer-to-peer technologies that can share data without the need for centralised hosts. That reduces the problem to how to collect fees. So there are at least two prongs of attack here.
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  122. The same was once true of TV broadcasters and before them newspapers. In the TV world there are companies who's sole business model is to provide broadcast services to channels. As long as the channel is lawful and the company has the capacity they will host a channel that pays the fee. We have just encountered an old problem in a new guise. There are technical solutions such as peer-to-peer technologies that remove the need for a central host. And there are legal methods that can be applied to break up the tech giants.
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  123. Joost van de Goor you presume the discussion is with the man haters and the purpose is to convince them otherwise. But it is a discussion to first understand the situation and then to form a tactic to oppose the man haters.
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  124.  @forthfarean  He's a product of the left, just about everyone is. He just has to get one thing done. I can't decide which is worse out of breaking the treaty and damaging reputation or accepting the rule of the EU treaty. He really messed there. We need to unhitch ourselves from the EU but I'm fearful of damaging our reputation. And who to elect next, there's a problem as they are all from the same mould. We have to remember that we did not get into this mess in one step, and we cannot get out in one step either. We must use our victories.
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  125.  @pauls3204  Ha ha that's exactly what I was going to do this morning but I have to check that I had the right phone number for the school.
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  126.  @powerdavid6235  They only show the news that promotes their politics.
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  127. The conservative party has to go. It is no longer what it claims to be. The members who have some guts can form or join a new party.
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  128. This obsession with dystopian futures is a sickness. What a waste of lifetime to write about what you don't want to happen instead of spending equal time and effort on a detailed writing about the future we would like to come about.
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  129.  @chasleask8533  Either way he hasn't prevented any of it happening.
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  130.  @chasleask8533  While I hope you are right I don't believe in relying on hope and presently there doesn't appear to be anything that will stop it. But I do think we should keep trying and never give up.
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  131. Getting straight to the root of the problem, education of the next generation, might in theory be the quickest way out of this mess but the opposition has the upper hand in the universities and they will not allow dissent. The science fields might still be uncorrupted (except for environmental science) but the universities will never banish the humanities. The approach there might be for the scientists to take it upon themselves to leave and startup elsewhere. But overall the problem is very dense, so much so that it appears impenetrable. While going to the root immediately might appear the best way we might instead have to take victories as we can. Brexit was a massive victory. If Cummings succeeds in dismantling the lefts grip on the civil service then we will have another great victory and a platform to dismantle more. When it comes to the cultural battle I don't think we can expect the current generation of Conservatives to be able to make any significant victories because they are a product of this culture and they have been conditioned not to oppose it. But what they achieve in other areas can be put to good use by the next generation. We also need to cast aside this phrase 'live for the moment' that the opposition has come up with. It essentially means don't attempt anything that will not come to fruition within your own lifetime. It is a means to weaken opposition because of course changing a culture is always going to take longer than a lifetime. They have spanned generations in pursuit of their own ideals while simultaneously dissuading others from opposing them.
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  132. At my neice's Church of England primary school, the staff make them watch the BBC for 5 minutes after break time.
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  133. State intervention into people’s lives is infantilising people.
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  134. One of the axioms of the opposition is that it is forbidden to discriminate against an immutable attribute. From this comes racism and a host of similar taboos. But what if that proposition is false? That, in fact, it is because an attribute is immutable that you have to discriminate against it. Being a lion is an immutable attribute, and it is precisely because a lion cannot do anything about being a dangerous wild animal, that we have to treat them with extreme caution. If they were able to change their behaviour, then we could trust wild animals. I know this is a risky line to take, but the subtly on whether to discriminate is all about intent. The intent of what is being discriminated against and the intent of who is discriminating.
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  135.  @tangmothan9376  No
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  136.  @ccjelley2390  I suspect they took the cis term because they were looking for an opposite to trans, and it is the counterpart in Chemistry.
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  137. The seeker, is that a pun involving the WHO?
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  138. It's playing a character.
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  139. 26:37 I'm a bit confused here, where Peter appears to be defending the BBC licence fee on the grounds that, sometimes, they make some unbiased content. It's confusing because, one, Peter was advocating boycott of the BBC and licence fee only weeks ago, and two, even if the BBC do occasionally produce some unbiased content, the producers should be able to find another outlet if it is high enough quality. I don't see any reason to release pressure on the BBC. If they were market funded they could be as biased as they like because people would not be forced to pay for them. But, as it is, there is the threat of criminal conviction forcing people to pay for content they disagree with because it undermines our hard fought society. It's plain propaganda.
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  140. There was a video a few years ago of Police being chased through the streets of London by Muslim protestors.
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  141. What we can say without question is that genetically a transgender does not have the genetics of the opposite sex. Men have XY chromosomes and women have XX chromosomes, and every cell, including brain cells, will exhibit this. So are the transgenders claiming that genetics have no bearing on sex, that it is entirely a mental state?
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  142.  @astrecks  It went to slave owners but was it called reparations? The wrong doing was not to the slave owners. What they received was more like compensation, was it that the government effectively bought the slaves from the traders and freed them? The traders did not work the slaves. If they had then remuneration would be appropriate but if the traders did not work them then how would remuneration be measured?
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  143.  @goodlookinouthomie1757  Well that's it. It's essentially begging and anyone who has given money to a beggar know they will ask you for money again 20 minutes later as if they have never met you before. The question here is how do we put the past to rest. These people tearing p the past are their own worst enemies because it is our memory of the bad things that people did in the past that stops us from doing them again. I notice that it is one group of people who have an axe to grind. India on the other hand threw out the British empire and they have not succumbed to the victimhood narrative. Is that because they brought about their own freedom?
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  144.  @SteeeveO  The ESG must for the ones that won't otherwise tow the line.
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  145.  @SteeeveO  The organisations you give as examples are part of the state and can therefore be ordered easily, while I think its safe to say ESG scores are for private sector companies who otherwise operate on profit/loss.
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  146. I was under the impression they were in favour of level playing fields. It appears they suspend that if the playing field is tilted in their favour.
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  147. I think the woke arguments are purposefully inconsistent. When a theory, i.e. critical race theory, is shown to be contrary to observation, it is said to be incomplete. This means something has to be added to the theory to explain the contrary observation. The theory has to grow. If that larger theory is again incomplete, then it must grow further. The woke purposefully make their arguments inconsistent so that they can grow their demands ever larger, until their authority encompasses everything.
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  148. Defenders of faiths (plural), diveristy in strength, ecomania. They are already appeasing the woke mob and selling us out. They are up to their necks in it.
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  149.  @richardgribbin9641  The irony is that a lot (but not all) of the material they teach is the work of British computer scientists, mathematicians and philosophers. But I am being taught it by Germans.
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  150. Dr Martens have a similar cartoon. Their boots are rubbish and always have been.
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  151. Where I live the university has just built a campus literally on the beach. you can walk out of the lecture theatre, cross a path and there is sand under your feet. Further down they are building a concert hall on the beach. In order to put these buildings up there was great borrowing. And where there are buildings there is insurance. Borrowing and insurance both require risk assessment. So either they didn't do any risk assessment of sea level rise or they concluded the risk was not high enough to prevent the lender lending and the insurer insuring. Maybe they think the sea level will not rise any further because they worked off the computer models that said the ice caps would melt by 2014 and they believe they have gone already.
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  152. It's a fee to watch live transmissions regardless of the channel. Even if a person watches material that was not produced or delivered by the BBC, the BBC still profits from it. Where is the legitimacy? When people stop watching live transmissions because they have no licence, all the independent broadcasters suffer through a drop in advertising revenue. So why are they not calling out the illegitimacy of the licence fee?
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  153. That is how the left work. If you see everyone who has more that yourself as an oppressor who’s property you can take, then you will end up with more than they. By the same reasoning, they are justified to take from you. It’s a downward spiral.
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  154. @Robin Sherwood Any other suggestions? Or if enough people move there maybe we can shift their demographic.
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  155. She did a great piece on John Peel, you won’t find it on the Grundian anymore because they have hidden it.
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  156. Are we not the peoples army already? And it is the enemy within who we fight.
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  157. People pretty much domesticated animals now.
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  158. We have been put into massive debt for nothing. To service the debt, the government will seek to increase GDP. The quickest way to do that is to increase the population. Migration will not be reduced anytime soon.
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  159. White flight into Essex, are you joking? The London disease has spread so far that white people are moving out of Essex and into East Anglia. You are about 20 years behind.
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  160. The argument seems to be whether to be proud of Britain or ashamed of Britain. Personally I would rather say that 1) I was born and live here and 2) it has been up until recently a good place to live and 3) I would like it to stay that way. Why do we have to be drawn into a war over the past?
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  161. Really doesn't matter what the government do. If you don't like the BBC you don't have to watch it. You can cancel the TV licence if you don't watch live TV and then two things happen. 1. The BBC stop receiving funding and will have to address the loss in revenue. 2. You are no longer sensitive to the BBC. If a tree falls over in a forest and you are not there does it make any sound?
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  162.  @milels6917  Do you think it is because people had first hand experience of WWII, and I guess WWI?
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  163. When talking about trans people, we should stop saying that they identify with the other sex. Do not say x is a man who identifies as a worman, Say x is a man who poses as a woman. A trans gender is fake, someone pretending to be something they are not.
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  164. Coward
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  165. The catch all clause 'any opinion' at the end of the definition of hate speech is the weakness. Because if I have the opinion that they are wrong then by their own definition they cannot restrict me. Their definition is a paradox.
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  166. 35:30 'One plus one equals three'. Remember in the Orwellian world 2 + 2 = 5
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  167. Scarface
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  168. The left wants to be everybodies hero. But every hero needs a victim. And if you follow the left then you certainly are a victim.
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  169. I agree with Dominic on government debt and taxation. They tax us to pay interest on the debt they took out that we never asked for. Expand their own powers and have us pay for it. Before long the government controls everything and anything we earn is taken from us for the privilege. It is outrageous. But I think when we start discussing such a fundamental issue of how are monetary system is going to work then we have to have a balanced discussion. Fair money is a foundation stone of civilisation. So far Dominic has aired his view many times and there has been no critical examination of it. We have had a deflationary currency before - gold. It lead to fractional reserve and interest. Cryptocurrencies are a kind of virtual gold. So from that perspective they are regressive. I don't see any need to repeat the previous system. We need a truly new system.
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  170. We also need to remember when it comes to debt, unless you have personally taken out a loan where you signed a loan agreement - a mortgage, car loan, credit card etc. Unless you have do that you have no debt. I personally have _zero_ debt. The government acts on behalf of the monarchy.
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  171.  @dfordiligence2398  I absolutely understand that. Said it myself on many occasions but I don't think that is the plan. 500K people died in India as a result of the Gates vaccines. Thousands of children left disabled in Africa.
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  172. When I was at school, the machvelian teacher said they are going to see the weather to gain control over people. The magnetic north pole has been moving for the last 70 years, it is irrefutable, and the rate is increasing. If the magnetosphere around this planet weakens, then we receive more solar radiation. Solar radiation heats the atmosphere. Recently a solar flare raise the temperature far enough to expand the atmosphere until the gravitational pull brought down 40 of Elon Musk's satellites. Now, nothing can be done about the shifting of the poles. Nothing. But if you know the shifting of the poles will increase the temperature, and you keep it to yourself, then you can blame it on something else that humans can influence. Therefore you can use a false cause to explain an observable occurrence, and use that cause to control people. Did you know the magnetic north pole started to move about 70 years ago?
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  173. Migrants are being shipped into London and paid to live there simply because otherwise the barista class would not be able to work in London and the suits would have no one to serve their lattes. Seriously, there is a low paid working class that keep the city running and it is too expensive for them to live there or commute in. The city will implode if it is not subsidised.
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  174.  @mrror8933  There are a few good ones in there.
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  175.  @mrror8933  The best insight I heard recently is that the left base their argument on the future they wish to bring about. We know this is true. While the right argue that what we have already is worth preserving. There is a stark difference between the two. The left can propose any fanciful idea they like and people really do not know if it is desirable or even possible. While the right only offer what people have already, and we do know if that is desirable. The question is: how long does a left-wing creation have to be in existence, before the right decide to preserve it? Are the right ever going to do away with the NHS?
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  176. All the recent women have been difficult for the monarchy. I liked Diana, but there's no doubt there was aggro. Fergy was a disaster and so is Meghan. Kate has a good head on her, I'm sure she will keep it.
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  177. If anything CoVid is an opportunity to formulate a solid plan for how to cure the real ailments that Britain has. These discussions are alright but where is the action? Instead we just have pundits chewing the fat.
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  178. If we have a cashless society then hackers (China) have the ability to block transactions and stop the economy.
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  179. In a parallel universe somewhere billions of people call themselves Ickeians.
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  180. It appears hating men being united is the order of the day.
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  181. These conversations are revolving around behaviour being hardwired Ora social construct. I dare say there are elements of both. But the social construct argument is that of the left, and it has been used to take us to the present mess we are in. I argue there is as much reason to end the life of a hardwired criminal as the socially influenced. We don’t want the the defective procreating.
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  182. The woman doesn’t like the idea of there being a body and a you that is separate from the body, because it contradicts the idea that consciousness is just an illusion explained by chemicals in the brain. Is there any evidence that it’s all brain chemistry? Her view is actually left wing dogma. The idea that it’s all chemistry and society.
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  183. No TV = No Licence = No BBC
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  184. Given they have a limited time to interview people, typically 20 minutes, you might think they would like the guess to get the majority of airtime. If they just want to use a program as a platform for their own agenda then why not stand as a politician?
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  185. Got to remember that woke has infected the courts now. Any attempt to fire people for imposing critical race theory will be met with resistance from the courts. We might have to start there.
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  186. People having to keep their doors locked at all times for fear of intruders walking in. Sounds like Hull.
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  187.  @daevaskye  I'm sure that is the intention but and the conditions might not have been good but I bet you would find many people there who were happy to have a job. For instance mining is hard work in dangerous conditions but the irony is that miners do take pride in their work. It's macho to do a tough job. So to those with a dislike of the working class they can easily associate the people with the place and the work. When the industry stopped and the people in the industrial towns had no jobs there was little sympathy for them.
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  188. Don't you find it a bit coincidental that shortly before CoVid kicked off Jordan disappeared to Russian with an apparent illness. And since then no one has heard from him.
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  189. I made the point about transgender soul. If you examine the phrase ‘born into the wrong body’, then there is a body, there is something that exists independently of and before the body, and that thing enters the body at birth. I am also informed by learned people that there are physiological differences between male and female brains that can identify them as male or female. It should be entirely possible to perform a brain scan of someone with gender dysphoria and identify the brain as either male or female, and thus resolve the claim.
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  190. Isn't it just astoundingly stupid that the power to Police London has been given to one single individual? Conservatives are all for small state but devolving power to mayors and NGOs has just enabled minorities and unaccountables to take over. There really is so much more nuance to the argument than 'big state bad, small state good'.
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  191.  @zivkovicable That may be the case on paper, but what is to stop the home office just allowing him to do what he wants? What exactly does a supervisory role mean? He either has power or the role is unnecessary.
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  192. Interesting the conversation about if an Englishman thinks of himself as English or British. I wouldn't expect Anglo-Saxons to think of themselves as British any more than I would expect illegal immigrants to think of themselves as a Britons. If you invade a country you don't have to integrate. The problem for the Anglo-Saxon is that by following the rule of whatever you take is yours then you have no moral position to defend from. How can a thief claim they have been wronged if another thief steals from them? It's just the law of the jungle.
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  193. When it comes to the Windrush scandal I cannot believe that someone could be so stupid to have though they could get away with it. Remember, for people who are mentally altogether there is only stupidity and conspiracy. Thus it leads me to believe the attempt to deport Windrush people was done knowing it would fail and be used as a weapon against all deportation.
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  194. The holocaust is the base case that they derive every one of their arguments from. I don't think we can talk or vote our way out of this.
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  195.  @cdrone4066  You're right overall. So why were pubs not allowed to sell beer at half price instead of pouring it down the drain?
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  196. I think the division is not left or right, socialist or capitalist, communist or fascist. It's collectivist and individualist. Socialism, communism, fascism, these are all collectivist strategies. Libertarian is individualist. The only rule is that your actions must not prevent another's ability to act on their individual instinct. All collectivist strategies are authoritarian because to form a collective the individual must forfeit their individual instinct for the common purpose and if they resist then they must be forced. The collective can only be maintained by suppressing those instincts when they arise. If you suppose that challenges face humanity that we must overcome then collectivism is a weak strategy because all those people could be trying their own methods for solving the challenge instead of all following the same method and with 7 billion people in the world we have massive parallel activity.
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  197. When the new year began, I did sense a change in, for want of a better word, the covid narrative. Now we are at the end of the first month, the change is quite apparent. Is it really that people marching through London at the weekend has swayed the government's opinion? Is it that Omicron is not very virulent? Is it that the government's hypocrisy has bitten them? Interesting that the government parties happened almost 2 years ago, and they have only just been exposed. So is it that enough has been achieved for now?
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  198. I don't think I believe in disempowering women but I have this notion that women tackle issues in a way that comes naturally to them and that it is only half of the necessary measures for successful society. There are both men and women in society and for the influence to be largely feminine is not healthy. Men need guidance from other men.
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  199.  Madeleine deleine  I believe the correct response is charming. When I went to America, everyone liked the accent, it was quickly evident that an English accent would open all sorts of doors for a person. It was like a rebirth, I felt more appreciated in America than in England. Many world leaders were educated at Oxford or Cambridge, the previous Kind of Thailand, for instance. He looked after his people and was well-loved by them. I can see the English education as our 'soft power' influence in the world, but on balance I think it is beneficial. Now it appears China is using education to influence - they are buying up English private schools.
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  200.  Madeleine deleine  I'm not convinced they are buying schools because they admire the English, but it's a noble thought. What makes me weary, is that 1) we did get 20M of them hooked on opium, and 2) they are communists. I think Uri Bezmenov said the majority of subversive effort goes into education. That's how they play the long game.
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  201. @Sarah Bukhara Indeed.
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  202. I think the argument for black people building Stonehenge is really that Britain is only inhabited during interglacial warm periods. When it is covered in ice then people migrate to the equator, and return when the ice melts. People returned to Britain from Spain and had a darker skin tone. Some Welsh have a darker skin tone. But so what, it’s just an adaptation to the environment, and white skin is an adaptation to weaker sun further from the equator. Besides colour is not supposed to matter.
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  203. Brian Gable I watched the whole 2007 credit crunch unfolding with great interest after I bought a house in 2005. Until I had that responsibility I paid no attention to economics or politics. After buying the house, those subjects became my main interests. I listened to the fiat currency, fractional reserve, interest argument and took it onboard. I still have ears for it. But I have gone almost full circle now just as people seem to be waking up to it. As I see it now the problem is not that the currency is infinite but that the supply is irresponsible. The population is increasing and those who are economically active are increasing. If the money supply is finite the you end up with more goods and services chasing the same amount of currency. That leads to price deflation and people are encouraged not to spend. Then people can’t sell anything. Fiat (infinite) currency can meet any demand for money but the supply has to be equal to demand otherwise currency inflation and devaluation of the currency.
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  204.  @abrahamblankfein5042  Thanks
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  205. @Sheerluck Holmes We are pretty much in Orwells future.
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  206. @Sheerluck Holmes You don't really understand. The people presenting these tales are not prophets. They are presenting you with a possible future and your consumption of that tale is taken as your acceptance of that future.
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  207.  @grahamparkhouse8467  Every time I talk to religious people I get stuck on the evolution argument. I just could not work out exactly what their beef is with it. Then I asked one recently what they thought of CoVid and the governments response. Their reply was that they thought it was somewhere between a gentle and firm message from god that we are wrecking the environment. Then it became clear that the problem they have with evolution is that it means god does not directly create everything. Without it every thing from species to viruses are a created by god. The religious person seemed somewhat excited by the virus. Some are talking about the rapture and the second coming. I found it quite distasteful.
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  208.  @grahamparkhouse8467  Evolution is certainly a theory that is popular amongst atheist's and they do use it to deny god but it was not theorised by an atheist. In my opinion you do not have to deny god to accept that evolution could take place. That is a false argument used by atheists. Do oak tree's appear fully grown? No they grow from an acorn and an acorn bears no more resemblance to an oak tree than a butterfly does to a caterpillar yet to a religious person these are all products of god. The point I am making is that god has already shown us how he can allow his creations to change into something quite different so what is the obstacle to accepting that god may have created the process of evolution? The only difference I can see is that if you accept evolution can take place then you accept that species do not have to be created directly by the hand of god. I really have no issue with that.
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  209. We should not have ended capital punishment. But now those who would not have made it, have control. If we bring back capital punishment now, then we might be in the situation where the wrong people put the right people to death.
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  210. Here we go with the golden years of the Anglo-Saxon again. If they had it so sorted out then why did they do nothing but fight amongst themselves? Alfred was an interlude, when he died they went back to fighting themselves again. That’s why they were weak and lost.
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  211. I don't see where the legal basis for the TV licence is. For instance LBC make live transmissions of their own content that is transmitted over the internet. The description of the licence is that it is to view 'live transmissions'. It omits to say who produced the content or the channel that is being viewed. If it does not say specifically which content and channel then according to the letter of the licence all live transmissions of content fall under the category of 'live transmission'. I am arguing that LBC content, viewed live, counts as a live transmission therefore requires a licence to view it live. But LBC do not receive revenue from the licence fee. Only the BBC and Channel 4 receive the proceeds of the licence fee. However neither the BBC or Channel 4 have produced the content and the transmission is via the internet, which they do not own. If they do not own the content or the delivery system then how can they lay claim to receiving revenue for viewing that content live? You cannot sell what you don't own. I cannot charge a licence fee to breathe the air because I do not own the air. And I cannot sell something or charge for use of something that I do not own. Clearly there is a licence and someone has said it is to view live transmissions but again you cannot just make up a law to say everyone must pay you some money. Is there some patent they own and a licence has to be paid for use of a patented technique? What is the basis for the licence?
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  212.  Fela George  It's a false dichotomy
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  213.  @alanthorpe3640  Go for the heart?
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  214. To put it another way: Blood type is an immutable property. If a person requires a blood transfusion and, in the unlikely event that, the hospital does not have any compatible blood, then the hospital will have no option but to deny the treatment because otherwise the person will die from a transfusion of incompatible blood.
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  215. So white people don't know what it's like to be an ethnic minority in Britain, well ask again in 25 years, because white people will be by then.
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  216. Wasn't neutral colours for childrens clothes the prelude to transgenderism? I can't remember exactly when that was but I think it was before 2012.
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  217. Just watched the opening. What Ann does not understand is that the phone will be made essential by removing cash. All financial transactions will be done through the phone, this ensures you must have a phone otherwise you will frankly starve. Digital transactions will be visible to the government because they will be recorded on a blockchain. Your social credit score will be calculated from that. You will not be able to avoid being monitored by the government because the software to do it will be integrated into the O/S of the phone. Once the government can score you, they require a means to affect your behaviour. The very last piece of the puzzle is universal basic income. As UBI comes in, employers will reduce salaries, people will demand more UBI. The process will repeat until people are entirely dependent on the government. Once that happens, they can reduce your credit if you do not score high enough. It's quite irresponsible to keep calling this conspiracy theory because it is happening right now. UBI is being trialled. Rishi Sunak is contemplating a central bank digital currency (Britcoin). Payment via phone is already possible. Universities across the world are researching blockchain technology to do away with ownership of property. The WEF are completely transparent that it is their objective.
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  218. 34:19 Play it until you like it! Same with radio. The perfumed garden.
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  219.  @Hypestrike1  Their population might be lower but the large majority live in a few cities, Stockholm, Uppsala and Gotenberg, Malmo. The density is still probably lower but it's 88% urban population. What I mean is they are still living in relatively close proximity.
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  220. 1. I haven't read the present act. 2. Not sure I will accept their axioms and as they are not up for discussion that means I may find myself excluded.
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  221. My question regarding these self evident truths (axioms). Some of them are easy to accept - the right to speak publicly about the laws of our country, sex is immutable, gender has taken a different meaning to sex for the purpose of being mutable therefore gender is now defined as a social construct. Are you simply stating the language of discourse here?
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  222. @Sarah Phillimore Are you simply defining the language of discourse?
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  223. @Sarah Phillimore I agree humans cannot change sex it is immutable. The word gender has taken on a different meaning to mean a social construct that is mutable.
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  224. When it comes to the BBC you can just stop watching. Even better don't watch live TV - it is a bit of a sacrifice but it might not be forever. If you do this then you don't need a licence and 1. they don't have any revenue and 2. their message and therefore power is gone.
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  225.  @bilonggrisimmeri  Absolutely
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  226. People were once nomadic,herding livestock from one pasture to another, when farming began people took up permanent residence on the land. Villages lead to towns, towns to cities. Private property began. The nomads don’t like this, you will own nothing and be happy. They want a world with no boundaries they cannot cross, nothing they cannot take.
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  227. There was a solar flare that reached Earth between the 18th and 19th, temperatures were steadily rising to the upper 20^C in the weeks prior. Then, on the 18th, the temperature went up sharply to about 38^C, and then 41^C on the 19th. But did everyone notice that the next day, the 20th, the temperature had dropped as quickly as it climbed? On the 20th the temperature had come own to the low 20’s. It halved overnight, a drop of 20^C, just as the solar flare passed. A few weeks earlier there had been another flare that brought down 40 of Elon Musk’s satellites. The flare had caused the atmosphere temperature to rise, and expand, taking it closer to his satellites and the gravitational pull was enough to bring them down.
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  228. The right used to be the Conserative party but it has now fragmented into a multitude of parties that don't quite agree with each other. This will probably lead to the Labour left gaining power. As a result some right wing people are calling for proportional representation, but maybe the answer is to fragment the left. We have already seen a Muslim party emerging that will take votes from Labour, and if Jeremy Corbyn launches his own far left party then he can take more votes. It seems division is the name of the game these days.
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  229. Don’t forget, India was ruled by Islam, Spain was ruled by Islam, both threw off their oppressors.
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  230. I think we have been experiencing a palace, or as I called it, a Royal coup, for possibly decades. When Charles goes to the WEF, or COP26, and tells them we need to do this and that to prevent climate change, he is instructing the people who instruct our government. He is circumventing the restrictions on Royal rule.
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  231.  @kungfutzu3779  I have not seen the statue but I'm aware there is one by Eric Gill that a lot of people take issue with. My guess is that the statue you mention is that statue.
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  232.  @mikereger1186  I don't know. Again, I can only guess that it was the BBC.
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  233. When I say maldeveloped I mean where people do not have fathers for instance they are at a big disadvantage in life. Then this policeman who killed Sarah Everard, well he is not the kind of person someone should want to turn out like. If maldeveloped is not the right word then at least I can say men who end up becoming criminals (real criminals). And then of course by continually attacking men they are putting people on the outside of society who end up committing crime so they fulfil the prophecy. I realise this is a bit of a lefty argument but isn't there some truth in that?
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  234. The problem is welfare It enables people to slack off. It allows people who are physically and mentally deficient to survive and pass on their deficient DNA. Now we have a glut of slackers who believe they deserve a free ride just because they were born. Now there are so many that the ship is sinking.
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  235. CoVid is about doing unprecedented things. We would not be able to put illegal migrants in 4 star hotels if it were not for CoVid - the rooms would be booked by regular guests. Businesses would not be pushed into bankruptcy en mass. It's like the saying Little Finger from GoT had - chaos is a ladder.
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  236. Even if the BBC created something with a similar format to Joe Rogan you know it would just appear as contrived cringe-worthy rubbish made by some leftover from the British empire trying to be wacky. The BBC have lost it. They are yesterdays obsolete technology who can only follow and make knockoff material.
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  237. I was thinking earlier about how communism and fascism look so similar when applied and came round to thinking they are both collectivist. The antonym to that would be individualist. That doesn't mean that the individual is necessarily favourable to the group. Groups of people working together can overcome greater adversity, we are able to form networks of specialists and therefore achieve more, etc. Society is good, but it has to be the right one with the right guiding principles, not just any society. History is a tale of failed societies. And the social contract should not overreach. People enjoy some independence, so maybe a more suitable antonym would have been independent. Either way, seeking to respect the individual is being blamed. Well firstly I think the antics of the woke are taking personal rights to perverse extremes to the point that it undermines the reasonable desire for some personal freedom. Secondly I don't think the hard-left woke are really interested in individual rights anyway. It's just a ploy to hoodwink people into their joining their zombie army. The left don't want individuals because it's too much trouble. They want everyone equal in every way, so they can be herded like cattle, billions of individuals is just too difficult for their megalomaniacal minds. Individuals are not equal and interchangeable, and they require individual attention. The perverse antics of the woke are just reducing personal rights to absurdity, are they not?
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  238. It's only 5% of the population who are especially susptable to CV. If we let the other 95% live their lives normally, worked and paid taxes then we could easily afford the cost of taking special care of the 5%. What we are doing will destroy the county and we risk 99% dying of poverty.
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  239. I studied the history of Russian in history at school. We surreptitiously covered communism then.
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  240. I'd like to see a discussion on superhero films in general, the origins, nietzsche, the ubermench, oppressed, oppressor, saviour ..... There has been an explosion in the last few years.
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  241. So what are you doing to get respect?
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  242. No TV, No Licence, No BBC That's what I did.
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  243. How about this: They attack our history and figures because we have some. So who are their great figures? Their thinkers, their politicians, their prophets? Expose their backgrounds, go on the attack, instead of the defence.
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  244. I'd like Roger to give some examples of modern utilitarian architecture that puts function first. I live in Bristol. If I take bridges as an example then Bristol has it's famous Clifton suspension bridge. It is purely functional and straight. Spanning the river in the shortest distance. Then I compare that to the most modern bridges in Bristol which rather than being straight, instead they have purposely built them in S shapes. They are longer than necessary, surely more costly and narrower than they could have been if the money had been spent functionally. It appears there is no good reason for this vanity. I am making the point that utilitarian can indeed be beautiful and useful in one. Modern materials and construction have enabled architecture to be boundless. As a result, all manner of weird and unnecessary shapes are now possible. There can be beauty in function and I think we should try and attain that.
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  245. I heard a theory recently that a male is more likely to be homosexual than the previous male born to the same mother. The reasoning is that as the male foetus develops in the womb, it floods the shared bloodstream with testosterone, the woman’s body reacts to this by releasing hormones to counter the testosterone. As the woman bears more male offspring, her body becomes more adept, and the foetus is increasingly feminised. It sounds like a plausible theory and there is evidence to support it. But it does not explain female homosexuality. Furthermore, homosexuality among men in the developed world appears to be increasing, that’s not a fact, just conjecture, yet women are having less children. To have 3 males in a row is a 1 in 8 probability. A women might have to bear 4 or 5 children to have 3 males. How many women in the developed world have more than 2?
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  246. I suppose to answer my own question, a few women have a lot of children, often with many partners, while other women have none. The proportion of homosexual males will increase.
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  247. I never saw this guys Burger King joke until I found this.
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  248. I have argued that the brain scan of a transgender should reveal a difference. Specifically, it is apparently well known that male and female brains have observable anatomic differences. If it is true that a person has been born into the wrong body, or that they have the brain of the opposite sex, then a blind test should identify the brain as of the opposite sex.
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  249.  @astrecks  My thoughts are also that the government effectively bought the slaves from the traders and freed them because at the time that the traders bought them, the practise was not illegal. I make a distinction between slaves, first sellers, traders and owners. The traders did not put the slaves to work because it was not in their interests. The first sellers also profited from slavery and the remuneration owed to the slaves from the final owners (who put them to work) can be calculated. Maybe there is an argument that the traders owed the slaves for the time between their purchase and sale. But all those involved are long gone.
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  250.  @astrecks  I think it is important to make the distinction between slaves, first owners, traders and final owners. The first owners (those who first enslaved people) were not white Europeans, they were people from neighbouring African countries, Burkina Faso and Benin. Is it ok for Africans to take slaves? If they are equal to ourselves then they should have equal standards and refrain from slavery. Or are they not equal? If they are equals yet still take slaves then we are equally entitled to. The contradiction is that they cannot be equal, engage in slavery while we cannot. Cognitive dissonance.
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  251. If the country was built by immigrants, that explains why it is so bad today.
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  252.  RedHeadNINTY9T9  Aviva do pensions as well.
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  253.  RedHeadNINTY9T9  And for us men, it makes it easy to be mysogninistic, and I'm not comfortable with that either.
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  254.  @tictoc5443  What I nean is, the companies you want to boycott will get investment from BR anyway.
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  255. You just have to stop watching it. Get rid of the TV and then you don't have to pay the licence. They get no money and they either change or disappear but either way if you don't watch them so their message goes nowhere.
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  256. Should we just give up? The populate saying - "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
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  257.  @coyhutt8022  An MP is not forever.
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  258.  @coyhutt8022  They could screw things up. I wonder if they would try for a GE after leaving the EU?
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  259.  @yasminpatel231  It all comes down to whether leavers will vote for an MP who can be trusted to remove the rules taking no deal off the table and then go for a no deal. I think I can safely say the most likely candidates are from the Brexit Party. So will people for once do something they may have never done before and break their voting habit? Where do leavers priorities lie? Do they really want to leave? Because if we remain in the EU the country will soon not resemble anything from their past.
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  260. Those Labour leave voters in the North apparently don't like Corbyn but that does not immediately mean they will vote against Labour. They are unlikely to vote Conservative and even if they do it will just enable Boris to go ahead with his bad deal. The only alternative they have if they want to leave is Brexit Party. My guess is they are just as likely to not vote at all as to vote for the Brexit Party.
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  261. If houses cannot be built for these people then indigenous people will be turned out of their homes. The death rate is up by 2500 per week, that 130,000 per year. We are not being replaced, the migrants are being replaced, we are being eradicated.
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  262. Can some explain the reasoning that proves you to be racist because you say you are not? It is key to critical race theory.
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  263. Regarding tariffs on China as a means to recompense the rest of the world for the virus we caught from them, am I wrong in thinking it is country imposing the tariff that pays the tariff? So if a tariff is imposed on goods that raises the price from 100 to 110 it is the consumer of the country imposing the tariff that pays the extra 10? If I'm right then tariffs are no recompense for our destroyed economies. As a side issue it's easily argued that our failing economy is our own making. Tariffs would only make it worse. The indirect effect might be that we purchase less from China but if there is no alternative source of goods it will be at the expense of slowing our own economies. The answer is to pull back manufacturing from China and stop being dependent on them.
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  264. When he talks about his food show and the people who talked to him afterwards about how it changed their lives it brings me back to this idea that I have that comedy is almost a replacement for religion. Here's the parallels. You have a collection of people who all congregate together to listen to a single person talking to them about things that affect their lives or shared experiences. There has to be some truth to what comedian says and that truth has to be revealed. When this truth is revealed there is an uplifting feeling of joy that is so great the audience has a physical reaction and comes away much happier. They will think about what they were told, perhaps change their behaviour, tell other people and suggest they also watch the comedian. The overall framework appears the same as people going to a church and listening to a sermon given by a priest about things in life, having a sing and feeling enlightened and joyful after and perhaps changing their behaviour.
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  265. Have you got a reference to this? I'd like to read up on it.
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  266. I am in favour of boycotting companies who turn woke. No TV, No Licence, No BBC. But what could possibly happen is that as they go into financial decline, the establishment will rally, and loan them money to keep them afloat, as happened during the credit crunch. This will further debase the currency. Alternatively, as all the large employers go woke, and then broke, there will be unemployment. All these things work in favour of CBDC and UBI.
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  267. There is an acute risk to gain-of-function research. There is supposed to be a benefit that outweighs that risk. But we have a pandemic of the very pathogen the research was supposed to prevent. So where is the benefit?
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  268. Baseball caps, it's all in the name, an American export. The Police fancy themselves as a SWAT team.
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  269.  @richardgribbin9641  Computer Science
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  270. Talk, talk, talk. You're going to have to face it, those people have to not be in our country any longer. It will only get harder the longer we leave it.
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  271. I have today received in my letter box, a total of 7 leaflets from political parties and 1 from an independent for the May elections.
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  272. The universities are run by migrants and the students are migrants.
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  273. The university I have been studying at is entirely run by Germans
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  274. Amazing the University of Portsmouth asked Peter to speak. When I went there they gave all the halls of residence to minority groups and opened the doors to hundreds of students from the middle east while ignoring the students from the UK. Now all my lecturers have left and it appears to be much like all other universities in the UK - one group of migrants teaching another group of migrants.
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  275. Peterson vanished. Covid kicked off, I looked around and Peterson was nowhere to be seen. Off to Russia, of all places, to detox from addiction. Very odd.
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  276. Switch it off permanently and you don't need a licence. Then they don't get any funding to make the programmes they attack you with. You know - don't feed the trolls.
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  277.  @Slarti  If people who don't like the BBC continue to fund them then the BBC does not need to change. If their funding drops then it's up to the BBC to recognise that and change if they so wish.
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  278. The question is whether this new party is a serious party committed to winning at least the largest number of seats in parliament or is it just another pressure group? I don't think we need another pressure group because I don't think there is any credible pressure they can apply. On cultural issues all the 3 main parties have the same policies so all a pressure group can do is threaten to take votes from the incumbent which will only serve to let in an opposition party who has the same policies anyway. It's a hollow threat. They should at least be committed to winning some seats so that they have teeth in parliament.
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