Comments by "Emanon" (@Emanon...) on "LBC" channel.

  1. We live in a society that promotes the very worst of us to the top positions in our society. They're not better than you or more intelligent, they're simply more callous and cruel - and are rewarded for it.
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  2. I'm becoming increasingly convinced that greed is an undiagnosed mental disorder. It certainly covers a lot of the basic criteria for mental illness.
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  3. This has been going on for 56 years. Almost every day Palestinians have been killed, beaten, imprisoned and/or evicted from their homes. And we've simply watched it all happen because of our guilt from European crimes from which the Palestinians are innocent. How tragic that Israeli Jews are treating another people exactly like they themselves were treated.
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  4. Overheard in Bruxelles: "Yeah, We're not doing too well. But it could be worse, we could be Britain!"
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  5. The UK: Quickly becoming morally as well as financially bankrupt.
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  6.  @lestrem11  "Before labour"... Sure mate. The entire British economy flipped before they even had a budget let alone implementation of one, right? You sound absolutely deranged.
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  7. If the public had their say, many of these Israeli officers and politicians would be in the Hague.
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  8. Read up on the conflict if you're that ignorant. The Palestinian Territories are in fact occupied by Israel and not an independent country. The settlements are illegal colonies. These teens are imprisoned for years, many of them without trials and exposed to torture and beatings.
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  9. (In a Dane, just my two cents) With Brexit, the UK has ironically caused the very same problem that the Brexit fearmongers were constantly talking about. The UK suffered a hemorrhage of skilled labour, particularly nurses, and are now resorting to let people of a "certain complexion" immigrate to the UK. Add to that, Britain has no longer treaty protections with regards to asylum seekers from the rest of the EU, resulting in an increase in asylum seekers of a "certain complexion". Oh well, swings and roundabouts, eh?
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  10. The greatest threat to national security will be the conflicts over water, arable land and the inevitable climate catastrophes unleashed. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
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  11. This might be the best summation of these horrid events I have read. Thank you
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  12. Poor O'Brien. 8 years of dealing with denial and gaslighting. It's a miracle he's still sane.
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  13. In my lifetime, you guys went from "the empire where the sun always shined" to now being "the place where the sun doesn't shine"...
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  14. Corbyn, the man you needed, but the way he was treated evidently not the one you deserved.
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  15. The world must be a scary and complicated place for you, if you can't grasp that Hamas' actions don't speak for the people and that civilians are being murdered by Israeli armed forces as we speak. Are you okay with that?
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  16. It doesn't matter. If you're voting Trump you'll excuse it away as you've excused away every other horrible thing he has said and done...
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  17. YOU voted for the Tories again and again, and YOU allowed yourself to be deceived by xenophobia and pies in the sky, despite every knowledgeable person screaming to you of the consequences. Yes, the media and politicians are to blame, but they couldn't have done it without YOU. (By "YOU" I mean the British public in general, not necessarily you as a person)
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  18. Media literacy and source analysis is the single most important skill for an informed citizenry today. It should be thought as a separate subject as soon as the kids are able to comprehend it.
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  19. "A people that eschews moral integrity over financial integrity, will in the end deserve neither and lose both" Just paraphrasing old Benny Franks for something to consider across the channel.
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  20. I don't know why many of these 2nd gen politicians feel the need to "outdo" the mainstream elements of their party when it comes to the treatment of people seeking the same life as their parents once did, Instead we see them resort to the language of fear, hate and cruelty...
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  21. "Beware of charismatic leaders" Frank Herbert in an interview about the main themes in Dune.
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  22. I agree completely. It is however a bit more complex since the press in Britain is heavily skewed towards misinforming the average voter
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  23. I'd argue that personal integrity has always been a bit lacklustre in a country that has occupied another people for 3 generations.
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  24. It's not misogyny. It's the refusal of "crowning" a candidate and expecting the voter to do as they're told. It's supposed to be the other way around, but the Obama's and Clinton's of the world have forgotten that.
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  25. Go. But make sure to send a second camera crew undercover that can ask around and interview people.
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  26. I've been publicly called an anti-Semite in an opinion piece (I'm Danish Palestinian), after criticizing the Israeli govt. in my own opinion piece. Just as if you're a Muslim that sympathizes or support islamistic violence, I don't believe it's unfair to request the same of Jews, of whom many, have a vested interest in the continued annexation, occupation and illegal settling of non-Israeli land - especially since a Jewish person can, any day of the week, be granted citizenship based solely on religion.
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  27.  @1inchPunchBowl  Compelling argument. Care to attach anything substantive to prove your point. Maybe some sources too. I'm curious how someone can be so ill informed and yet so certain...
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  28. That's part of the danger. The result is an inevitable crumbling of our standards when deciding who to lead the country and settling for lesser people in positions of power...
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  29. Hand X-rays show the age of an individual. It's standard procedure for unaccompanied minors.
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  30.  @JoBroughton-yw7un  You're talking about 1948. I'm talking about the 242 UN resolution on 1967 borders. But nice job, sport. You didn't even leave a link or a direct quote and citation. Whatever country you're from you should ask them to invest more in history and critical analysis skills.
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  31. It's the same story all over. Don't count him out and don't count out the sheer numbers of nutters that'll still vote for him.
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  32. If anything some of the callers are an indictment of the education system.
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  33. And they tweeted about the attack, and that they had struck a hospital moments after it happened. Then deleted the tweet. That's your smoking gun right there. Also, no Hamas rockets have ever carried the amount of ordnance required for such a huge explosion. As in ever.
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  34. I'm not a Brit, I'm a Dane (and an MD). The whole reason for the strike is exactly that horrors and tragedies already are unfolding due to staff shortage and underfunding of the NHS. We're in a bit of the same state here in DK where the nurses were shafted during their strike, and guess what, the lack of nurses has only increased and record few are training to become nurses... A cautionary tale.
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  35.  @didntlistendad  No doubt. But it's as if the system itself selects for these rather nasty attributes. Think of how many politicians you actually respect. Journalists. Business execs. Bankers and finance analysts. An anecdote: I work as an MD in Denmark, I've been in dusins of departments (training, specialisation etc) and I can think of three separate bosses I've respected and felt took the concerns of the employees seriously. Three out of dusins!
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  36. It's like a fever needed to flush out the infection.
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  37. @mogznwaz  Compelling argument. I'll repeat it to all the people sleeping with full bellies in my country.
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  38. Okay "Bro"
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  39. Well, his per Diem as we know from his colleagues is around 10K a day so... Win?
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  40. Suella is of Indian heritage. They're not exactly known for their love of Pakistanis. Not exactly known for great treatment of women either, ironically.
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  41. You SHOULD name names. Otherwise nothing will change.
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  42. UBI. Reform the wage system so that you split the difference, lower income taxation on lower brackets and increase company profit taxation or even convert to revenue based taxation for all companies (so that companies no longer can funnel their profits abroad). Result: A competitive consumer driven system with lower wages attracting high value added jobs, a much higher overall living standard for all and billions saved on admin for heckling and hassling disabled or mentally ill people. Crunch the numbers. Tell me I'm wrong on this.
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  43. Hate. Which is useful, since they should be considered enemies of the public.
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  44. British press are among the worst people on this planet
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  45. Think tanks are NOT a vital part of the political process. Just listen to their names "The Freedom Institute", "National Prosperity Forum" etc etc. It's almost Orwellian. NGOs and vested interest groups are part of the process, but the aforementioned entities are solely there to lend (faux) credibility in the media to especially economic policies that have either been not proven to work, or proven to not work. Always ask "Who funds you" and "Why do they fund you"...
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  46. Far more than half. 30% didn't even bother to vote.
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  47. Israel has committed war crimes for 18 years straight with the siege in Gaza. That must be some kind of record! And then there's the usual strike/operation/raid (terror has many synonyms apparently) with thousands of civilians killed over the years. Israel is not a moral country. When our policies support the criminals, we become complicit.
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  48. He's simply the newest branch on the tree of pathetic misogynists we see online. You should report on their activities because as we've seen, when they finally misstep, the attention is still there to make sure they lose everything.
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  49. The UK has a systematic problem of their media being integrally married to their politics. In the UK, many media outlets are not "watch dogs" for the have-nots. They're "attack dogs" for the have-alls.
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  50. I was so sad when I heard he will accidentally fall off the balcony tomorrow
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  51. The British people doesn't have a viable alternative to vote for. It's the Tories, or slightly less Tories they can vote for.
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  52. Fun fact. Sunak has so much money, he'd be dead before he had counted it all...
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  53. Polling "guru". Sure. Just like economic "expert" or government "consultant". You could remove all these jobs tomorrow and no one would miss it (probably not even themselves...).
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  54. This man is the face of oppression. And please acknowledge that he tries to dodge every single question regarding treatment of Palestinian civilians.
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  55. I'm not even a UK citizen, and I absolutely abhor the Tories...
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  56. Techno-feudalism. Yanis Varoufakis has already described this dystopia. Where the power and wealth is inherited, and the vast majority cannot own anything, let alone have any true freedoms or rights.
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  57. In Denmark, we've had 20 years with a 2% increase in efficiency as a target. The target has been met, effectively making health workers run 40% faster, and working 40% harder (not accounting for compound interest, of course). And now, finally, the politicians are starting to realise that when they trimmed all the fat, they accidentally started cutting into vital organs. It's not Brexit per se that is the problem, although it a hugely contributing factor.
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  58. Great Britain has always been great! It says so right there in the name, does it not?
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  59. The "average" Tory member, ladies and gentlemen. At least they're being honest about it nowadays...
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  60. Why is there an opinion on whether Scots are for/against the monarchy? Surely it's a matter of finding the polls that show the data. End of. The rest of it, well, if our monarchy (in Denmark) had scandal after scandal, the persons involved would have been forced to "retire" and would have their royal privileges revoked.
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  61.  @colinstephenson5386  You're absolutely right. I was being a bit glib, I guess. Hate or despair are absolutely useless emotions. Even revenge, if one is predisposed to that kind of action, is as they say "best served cold" 😉
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  62. The Daily Show had a brilliant bit where they had a argument between different types of conspiracists: Flat Earth, Vaccines, Climate, Q etc...
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  63. The mental gymnastics in this one is strong.
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  64. Even if you're a gambler, gaming theory would suggest you do everything you can about climate change
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  65. I'd like to remind the British people that a majority of you did in fact vote for Brexit and a Tory government the last 12 years. The electorate is also responsible if they continue to reward lies, incompetence and elitist corruption. Just an external observation.
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  66. The most dangerous people on this planet are the people internalising detrimental viewpoints and defending them as their own, and not realising they've been had.
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  67. It's all about setting up further steps and making it more of a hassle to vote. And the groups most likely to be affected are the poor and people with migrant background. Go figure.
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  68. The fact that you have "honest" conservatives in Europe cheering for Trump shows you that a Tory with integrity is a rare breed indeed.
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  69. The subtitles guy killed himself
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  70. Form over substance. Sounds very British to me...
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  71.  @FoxholeFightClub  Epic comeback, "Bro".
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  72. Land ownership in the UK is very much still Crown, aristocracy (and/or billionaire class) and Church. It never moved on from the 16th century.
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  73. Truss got a Shelagh'ing and was visibly Marr'ed.
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  74. Hhhmmm. Maybe that whole "Anglo" two party system isn't that great if it consistently can give you Bush, Trump, Boris and Truss. I'm sure the Australians have a thing to say about it too.
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  75. This focus on evermore "growth" is detrimental to us and our environment. Let me put it this way: unlimited growth in nature is called cancer.
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  76. Then you've fallen victim to the usual Israeli deny, cover, blame MO which they have used for decades. You think "plausible" because that's what you want to believe. Meanwhile 1200 children have been bombed to death and that barely gets a mention in the media. So much for principles and morals.
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  77.  @DoktrDub  You need to factcheck with the language experts and military analysts. None of them are convinced by the Israeli story. And it still doesn't excuse the killing of 3500+ Palestinians, a third of them being children. But hey, just shut your eyes and ears and you'll be able to sleep at night.
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  78. People are naive if they think that Israel will allow any investigation. They never do, because they always know what happened. I won't be surprised if the entire area is levelled by military engineers or bombs the next 48 hours to conceal the evidence.
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  79. As a European, I'd welcome the UK back. But without any of the privileges they used to enjoy. That ship has sailed, and the EU is better for it.
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  80. Westminster is vastly more oppressive, undemocratic and illiberal than Bruxelles would ever be towards Scotland. Not even allowing the choice reinforces the point of Scotland being a subservient partner in a supposed Union of equal countries...
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  81. Brits are like the battered housewife that keep returning to her abusive partner, despite everyone and everything telling her to leave because she deserves better.
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  82. You're always welcome back. But without all the BS privileges you had before.
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  83. Corbyn did absolutely everything right, and they (media and corporate interests) assassinated his character and buried his career. After Brexit and voting Tory three times, at this point, I'm thinking that the English are truly deserving of the pathetic and corrupt leadership they have.
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  84. Exactly. We need a rapprochement with Russia. They're not our friends, yes, but they need to be our enemies either just because Washington seems it so. Same goes with China and Iran. Our interests are simply not the same as the US' and it's time we realise that fact. At the very least, we need to recognise that the US is not a viable, steady partner.
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  85. Always ask these imbeciles to define the words they're using. That's usually when they definitively lose the argument.
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  86. 6 1/2 years later...
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  87. The true meaning of Brexit is the lives we ruined along the way
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  88. What I don't understand is how a "science" like economics based on purist ideology, very limited sample sizes, erroneous socio-psychological conclusions and consistently being wrong, can still be considered more correct than the random rantings of a soothsayer at the town fair. A shaved baboon with a keyboard has only slightly less performance in the field than many of these so-called analysts... Secondly, many of these economists have themselves skin in the game when they offer advice on investment opportunities and price fluctuations....
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  89. Wrong. Palestinians are Muslim and Christian and are fighting for freedom and statehood. If what you're saying is correct, surely the Christian nations would aid their Palestinian minority brothers, no?
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  90. Importing cheese from the EU: Disgrace Limiting free speech: Keep calm and carry on
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  91. Most of the "undecideds" on TV are probably voting Trump but too embarrassed to admit it or they're waiting for the perfect excuse to say they're not voting Kamala.
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  92. How is that "woke"? That's the exact opposite of police being woke, isn't it?
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  93. Seatbelts is fascism. It is known.
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  94. Why do you call them Tories when Cons is vastly more apt?
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  95. You call them "Tories" On the continent we, more aptly I believe, just call them "Cons".
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  96. Armando Ianucci should make a show about Brexit and the last 6 years.
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  97. A rising tide floats all boats. Poor sods who can't afford a boat will just drown...
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  98. Inflation is very bad, apparently
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  99. Okay bro
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  100. I might be on the wrong here, but the only "British" ethnicities are Welsh, Irish and Scot. The rest of you are German-Danish-Norwegian-Norman... Even your royal house is German and Greek.
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  101.  @1414141x  Surely Welsh, Irish and Scottish genes are more "British" on the Isles, no? There was only minor Norwegian settlements in Ireland and Scotland, and very little Roman influence compared to England proper - which was my original point. In essence it makes no sense to not only confuse ethnicity and nationality, especially if you're English and think that you are in any way, shape or form "a Briton"...
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  102. The Middle East has been hostile towards the UK and the US since their broken promise after WW1 for an independent, united Arab state. And then came WW2 and the inception of Israel, with 70 years of unequivocal military, financial and political support for Israel and continuously propping up dictators against the interests of the people of the Middle East. They don't "hate your way of life". They hate your hypocrisy and the pain it has caused.
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  103. Nazis had plenty of doctors, engineers and lawyers among them. Just a thought.
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  104. If your kids are starving, you'd do the same if you honestly believed it would help.
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  105. What is it with people with immigrant parents that suddenly go full xenophobic on people that would have been their parents 2 generations ago?
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  106. Meanwhile Sunak and his ilk are counting their mountains of money on your expense. But sure, Sangita's posh accent is the main problem here...
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  107. Every health system in Western Europe is struggling due to staff shortages, underfunding (or more accurately, a lack of a required increase in funding) and a comensurate rise in patients caused by an ageing population. The scandal in Britain is how it's been handled by your government the last 12 years whilst seemingly having no issue whatsoever with granting tax cuts to the highest standard and corporations. There's a huge difference between "350 mill a week" and cutting funding instead...
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  108. My heart goes out to the people of the UK. But you have to admit that this is pretty hilarious...
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  109. There's a very easy way to make Republicans change the gun laws: People of color should all arm themselves to the teeth. I guarantee you that when Black and Brown people start openly carrying legal firearms in red states, they will change the laws.
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  110. Of course the voters are partly to blame! You keep voting for them, despite your conscience, your wallet and your common sense!
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  111. ACAB Simple as
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  112. It's a general symptom everywhere although the UK is a prime example. If you choose to be a populist, you're forced to cater to the worst impulses to garner votes to gain power, and then you have to be progressively more vile to compete for those votes to maintain your power. No actual leadership, no visions, no plans for the future. Just hate, rinse and repeat.
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  113. Diz Trusst
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  114. Another recipe for absolute corruption...
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  115. I'm not British, but how can anyone with a straight face claim that the Tories have run anything well? There's a new scandal every week that in other countries would have brought down the government. For you people, it's Tuesday.
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  116. I've seen and heard plenty of Holocaust survivors that used the exact same language towards Palestinians that they themselves were victims of. If you're a Holocaust survivor and unequivocally defend Israel (ie you're a Zionist) then I don't believe you have a moral leg to stand on...
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  117. As an outsider, to me it seems that the class system is so entrenched that even working class people have convinced themselves it's for their benefit. Rule Brittania and all that jazz. It's not unlike the abject poverty of Americans who oppose taxes and social reform just in case they happen to become wealthy one day. They've merely switched out class for race and ideology as a means of self-identification.
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  118. "anti-growth coalition" = Everyone capable of sound economic and ethical reasoning. Including some Tories. The only thing that promotes limitless growth in a environment of limited resources, well, that's called "cancer".
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  119. It's really been that way since Reaganism and Gingrich in the Senate. Trump is simply the ideology taken to its inevitable conclusion.
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  120. More like her lack of
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  121. What is it with these 2nd to 3rd generation immigrants in power that feel they need to be worse than the worst xenophobia? Not just in the UK, mind you, but you guys have some of the worst.
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  122. Except that internal memos have shown that Netanyahus government specifically propped up Hamas to keep the Palestinians divided in negotiations and be able to continue their settlements without any consequences.
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  123. Ah, yes. "Think tanks". What a waste of time, energy and treasure. They're lobbyists disguised as serious political, economic and sociological research groups. You could remove every single think tank tomorrow and literally no one (well, except themselves, obviously) would know the difference.
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