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Second homes are a luxury. Tax them as such.
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@joestaskowicz4717 OK, time for you to remove your military bases from our soil
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I was listening to this live last night on FM radio - my mouth was hanging open, realising that i was listening to key point in world history.
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O'Brien has been doing these "one benefit" lines fir years, even before the referendum, and no one has ever managed to give a straight answer. And yet still they call him.
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@kevbillows7113 - a "southern Christian girl" is the last thing I would want in my life
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The majority never wanted to leave, but the EU will never have us back, and I don't blame them.
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Musk is following the Trump playbook. First do something outrageous, and allow people to deny that it was meant seriously, but then others normalise it, and by the following week it’s on the agenda. We saw the same with the idea of Canada becoming a US state. First it was a bit of a joke, but they said it would be a great idea. A couple of weeks later he mentions it at Davos.
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@legendaryjonblue It has people. It needs money and equipment.
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@GGBBGGBB940 he’s not an Ivan but looks like a far right Daily Mail reading boomer from the looks of his profile.
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@VicePointGTAX-wd9iz you have provided no evidence of a shift to more left wing values in the mainstream, but there has been a huge rise in radical right wing beliefs.
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It's exhausting enough for those living outside the US - I can't imagine what it;s like for those who have to live there.
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And while there is a dictionary definition of socialism and one would use it in political science circles, there are many other working definitions that people use in daily life. If I ever get stuck in a conversation on socialism with someone, the first thing to do it ask them what they mean by socialism, rather that debate the dictionary definition. The reality is that nearly every economy is mixed to some degree - even the USA has a state high school system.
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 @TheRockkickass nothing has changed for you, but it has changed for people who get snatched off the streets by masked gangs because they wrote an article that someone in government didn't like.
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@ the alarming thing about Trump is that he regards his nation's friends as enemies and its enemies as friends. I am not sure that Trump directly influenced the Brexit votes, but he sits at the head of a movement that made things like Brexit a reality.
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No, second home owners can pay to help resolve the housing shortage that they contributed to.
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He is an extremist by modern terms
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And today is 1938.
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There is no obligation on UK Radio presenters to be impartial. LBC has a mixture of left and right wing presenters who are fairly open in their views.
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Well, James was rubbing his face in it, with the use of polite language.
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Everyone lost and everyone is dealing with it.
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@VicePointGTAX-wd9iz these people have changed and there has been hardly any growth in the far left. No one is standing on a platform of public ownership of the means of production. However, there has been a clear growth in the far right. You can take the political compass test to see where your views align on a test that hasn't changed for decades.
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That's economic nonsense. Obviously some do, but the majority of rich people become rich by providing a service that other people wish to buy. Often that is through a new innovation or by supplying the service more efficiently, and this more cheaply
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She beat Rishi Sunak with here amazing skill of being white, like the party membership.
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It wasn't free, but the US war loans were absolutely vital to the war effort. The reason they were repaid in 2006 was not because the loans were onerous, but because we were given a very long time to repay them and because they were very cheap, so we're not a drain on the UK - by the time they were finally repaid, the debt was nominal.
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@ericchild3363 I understood the point he was trying to make, ludicrous as it is, but that explains nothing about his support for far right movements, such as AfD. And this is what he refused to answer, instead babbled away about his interpretation of what Trump is hoping to achieve in space.
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 @theend9494 nothing. He also isn't one of Trump's cronies and I expect that he's retired given that he's 94.
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@bettablue2660 - hope you enjoyed this show - James O'Brian is an excellent interviewer. Not sure I quite see how you could immigrate "back" to France though if you weren't born there.
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I can't see any of these comments. Why haven't you replied to them? If course you know that these are unlikely to be serious calls, even if they were there. And I bet you never equally condemn calls from the extreme right for violence.
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He probably took CSEs, the less academic equivalent to O- levels, which were abolished in 1987.
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@benstern310 an impact of allowing massive immigration AND not building enough properties is a housing shortage. However, this has always been a problem in areas like Dorset and Devon that can be reached from the SE easily and are often bought with inherited money or remortgaging. These areas do not have a lot of immigration, but have always suffered the impact of weekend cottages depriving locals of homes of their own. As I said at the start, second properties are a luxury, and in a time of shortage, they should be taxed as a luxury. And if you can afford that tax, you have nothing to worry about.
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The topic today on Radio North Norfolk Digital is "What's your favourite cheese?" with your host James O'Brien.
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Problem is, he doesn't know what traditional or new Marxism means.
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@Cal-Valhalla what on earth are you talking about?
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 @unitysprings3631 nonsense. He was appointed legally. The 11th circuit will reverse Cannon on appeal and kick her off the case.
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Ukraine has been defending itself with money from Europe and the USA for three years. There is $308bn of Russian money in European banks. So yes, Europe probably can continue to fund the war effort for some years to come.
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Reading between the lines of this post, we can pretty much guess your opinions on a wide range of issues, and it is deeply unpleasant.
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@retrorampage484 - like Trump, it is easier to become hugely wealthy if you started with fantastic inherited wealth. But on his specific mandate - to improve government efficiency, don't you think that the contracts that his space company has with the US government might be a conflict of interest?
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@retrorampage484 one thing that the previous Trump administration showed us is that conflicts of interest were to be exploited, not respected.
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@twinatoms given that Musk has Trump's ear, what he "recommends" will likely go through unchallenged.
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If the rich southern owners can easily absorb this, then no problem- let’s make the charge on second properties even higher.
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Perhaps more like listening to the BBC's World Service as dar as the accents are concerned.
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@ericchild3363 had any counter arguments been presented, then sure. But it the clip presented, there were like, other than a guy called Robert who was rambling about interplanetary non-sequitar.
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@aupaaupa2377 I have zero Gaelic, but I can only think that you said, "that Scottish caller was an idiot" or words to that effect.
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It's illegal to sell a knife to an under 18 in the UK, just like you can't sell a beer to one. Age needs to be verified at the point of delivery.
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@mrreeree3633 firstly, the second home tax would not apply to a property that is rented out, but only to properties that are unoccupied. And yes, they can sell the property and the person who buys it can then love in it as a home. It helps the everyday person because more of them will be able to buy a home to live in.
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@mrreeree3633 this has nothing to do with landlords - the second home tax wouldn't apply to houses that are occupied by tenants. It would apply to properties that are not occupied full-time and owned as a second property.
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@benstern310 I would like to specifically tax second houses more because they are a luxury at a time of a housing shortage. And the extra income generated will hopefully allow some actual improvements. It has nothing to do with others having a little bit more than me. As someone who has power of attorney over another house (one that has recently become empty) and one that I'm likely to inherit, I essentially do have a second property, at least in the short-term. But I do not intend to own two properties when there is a massive shortage of property. What I will not do is leave a property standing empty for 90% of the year so that I can enjoy it (also it's worth over a million, so I'd quite like the money LOL).
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He gave him ample opportunity to explain the words he was using, which the caller refused or was unable to do.
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Listen mate
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Ah bless. Did he make a fool of you too once?
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Because the USA has always been a large military, which is why it has seen it being in its strategic interest for decades to have military bases across Europe.
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@prasiet1 he clearly is smart - you don't rise to the position he did both professionally and politically without intelligence. Whereas Trump displays his lack of intelligence over and over again, even if he does have a remarkable sense of cunning.
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@BestCollabX it is, thanks. I think the best equivalent in the USA now would be to ask people what CRT is. The more vociferous their opposition, the least likely they are to understand it. And if you are going to phone a radio station and moan about "woke" at least be able to articulate what you think it means.
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True. But when they know that it is there and specifically decide not to remove it, that's different.
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True, but he does it well
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@ but still you’re denying another family a roof over their head. Your weekend escape is bad for others. But this law doesn’t ban second homes, but it taxes a luxury as a luxury.
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While Musk overpaid 20 billion for it, the cost has been repaid in influence.
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Hence the importance of agreeing definitions. Of course most of his callers don't really understand the meaning of the words they utter.
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@lonelyone69 - I would argue that free healthcare is a socialist policy because the state owns the means of production. The industry is medicine and it's managed by the state. The same with schooling. Just because every country on earth just about offers free education to children doesn't mean that the provision model isn't socialist. Right wing Americans get confused when you point out that they have a socialist high school system.
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I understood everything until you said "WA for Signal" - what are they? And Facebook own Instagram too.
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@appstratum9747 he backed Brexit, but I don't think that that is evidence for influencing it. Donald Trump has always been very unpopular here, and the few that like him are already of the Brexit variety anyway.
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@ the majority of those that voted on the day, but there were a lot of people who were content with the status quo, and who believed that the Remain vote was nailed on, who didn't vote. This is why there was such paranoia about any second referendum because the Leave votes correctly suspected that the vote would not carry a second time. While I personally do not believe in second referendums in general, when the margins are so tight and the impact so permanent, you have to be totally sure. But yes, 17m people did vote to leave, out of a population of over 60m.
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President Trump has abdicated from the US's role of leader of the free world. He wants to retain the associated power, but he has lost the crown. The rest of the world must step up. The armies of Europe are much more powerful than those of Russia, and history shows that Russia will back down when stood up to, and is militarily weak against any country prepared to put up a fight against its aggression.
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I wish I could compare but my left arm has been stuck to the radiator for two months!
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@BluddyGoodBloke slight edit for early morning typos
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Elon Skum or Elon Smuk - which is better?
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Much more than triple the GNP
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It isn’t about paying for services. It is about making a financial disincentive to own second properties.
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I had to think that through a couple of times before really enjoying this comment
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 @ibexdnb2879 - what is wokeness? Perhaps you should call James O'Brien and explain.
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@kjetilknyttnev3702 in the first year Trump didn't accept pay, but in the next three years he did. But he also used the role as president to enrich himself and his family in a way that third world dictators can only dream of.
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@kjetilknyttnev3702 SpaceX is ultimately funded by the government and however much he claims to hate subsidies, they have ensured that his poorly built cars get purchased.
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"Listen mate"
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T @jacqdanieles - totally agree. Or at least 55% as that is still a margin of 10%. The problem was that everyone who was pro-Brexit voted but not everyone who was pro-status quo voted. The opinion polls made it look so certain that it was going to be a remain result, that quite a few didn't vote at all.
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@hqm85y but no Europeans are involved in these talks.
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@JohnM-sw4sc European countries have been supporting Ukraine in its defence of its independence since the beginning, as has the USA. The only difference now is that the USA is supporting the surrender of Ukraine under the banner of peace.
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While I live seeing JOB rip ignorant callers apart and happily wore masks when required, I think that the caller used dictator as hyperbole, and should have clarified. There are plenty of countries that are more paternalistic than the UK, such as Japan, Austria, Singapore and Switzerland. They don't have dictators as such and some have functioning democracies, but they are less "free" in a traditional liberal sense of the word. I'm not picking a side here, but there is some underlying logic to the point he's getting at.
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@ - yes, Putin was solely responsible for the decision to invade. Of course the Russian propaganda channels have been desperately pushing alternatives to make it sound defensive, but it is nothing more than a war of aggression by someone who never got over 1989.
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@iriscollins7583 - sorry, can't remember by original post and there's now 186 of them. No doubt they are part of Irish or Scottish. Very rarely do they remember that they are probably part English well. Donald Trump really was half Scottish, but for most, the links are pretty distant.
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@ - one of the tactics of the MAGA - alt-right types is to accuse those in the centre and centre left as sharing their extreme views - they accuse others of doing what they do. So while calling for violence against opponents is a standard feature of the extreme right, (hence the groups like Proud Boys), it is not on the centre. But they need to depict centrists as being extremists, because that is all they understand, and the only way they can justify their own opinions. Most of these people are damaged individuals; people who are so mentally weak that they want to give up their democracy to an all-powerful daddy figure who will make everything better. While it is pathetic, their votes give them power and embolden them.
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@mrreeree3633 - please stop talking about tenants and landlords. They have nothing to do with the extra charge because it doesn’t apply to properties that are occupied. It only applies to unoccupied properties, such as weekend cottages.
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@benstern310 mortgages aren’t a tax for a start. But the fact that they pay some tax, such as council tax already, does not address the main point that this tax is designed to provide a disincentive to own a second property for holidays and weekends at a time of a national housing shortage.
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@benstern310 two sides of the same coin
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@benstern310 you just given a massive list of whataboutery. What we can do is tax people a little bit more if they have a second home as a luxury (do not disingenuously claim that a 3-bed is a luxury). And if a little bit more tax is too much for them, they can sell it to someone who badly needs a house to call their own.
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@ a rhetorical device known as reduction ad absurdum. The 3 bed house in the common form of property in the UK, so by definition would not be a luxury. Second homes are owned by a tiny minority and are by definition not required for basic accommodation and are therefore a luxury.
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@ plenty of 3-bed houses in London are worth £1m - so what? Only one family lives in them. And as for your two house example in the case of a break up in the marriage, then both houses will be OCCUPIED and so not in-scope for the tax. Your whataboutery is so tedious and random. All because you want to defend a small number of people who enjoy the luxury of second homes.
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@ yes, but more
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@benstern310 - your arguments about cars are really silly. The impact of someone owning a second car is minimal. It doesn't deprive anyone else of a car. However, an unoccupied second home 100% deprives others of a home of their own (either rented or owner -occupied). No amount of mental gymnastics will change this fact, even if you are unwilling to face this.
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@benstern310 you really are flogging a dead horse with this flawed two car argument. But if you want to tie yourself to it, sure, feel free to vote for a party that intends to tax second cars to achieve tax consistency in your mind.
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@benstern310 I don’t own more than one house or more than one car. However there is a material difference between a product with an elastic supply which causes minimal adverse externalities (or at least externalities which are accounted for by the current tax) and a product that has an inelastic supply (property). The additional tax proposed on second houses is clearly to address the inelasticity of supply and that is why your car analogy fails to be relevant.
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@benstern310 it isn't "huge" to the same extent. A second car ok the driveway doesn't clog up the roads because you can't drive more than one car at a time. Yes, it does have a negative effect on the environment, and that impact is already reflected in the fact that there is a road tax on the purchase. But unlike owning a second home, it doesn't have a disproportionate impact on other people. Whatever tortured way you try to claim that second cars are equivalent to second homes it will not work because of the supply issue and inelasticity of housing.
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@benstern310 - this isn’t (only) about the influx of people- the impact of second homes has been an issue as long as I can remember- going back to the 80s.
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@maartenvanderzwan8281 I have just checked the figures and over 60% of those eligible to vote voted. However, there was a campaign of removing eligible voters from the rolls just before the election which is a new tactic employed in marginal states which may have swung the election to Donald Trump. So far this has been under-reported probably because it might sound too much like Trump-style whinging about stolen elections.
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 @markwilkie3677 it has a functioning democracy, even if a certain part of the country (Scotland) gets a disproportionately large say in British politics.
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@catherineball7584 it great that @Kay_B786 only needed to wait a few hours
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The European military could easily overpower Russia's. It is time to ignore the US - it has abdicated its role as leader of the free world, and support Ukraine directly. Whatever the deal is, Russia will be back for the rest, and more.
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I disagree. No one else really does this. He scratches the surface and sees that they don't understand the terms that they use, and are parroting nonsense. If they had bothered to understand them they might put a coherent argument together. Like his Brexit debates as well - the caller's could never articulate specifically what they disliked about it, but rather spoke in generalities. Take a peak inside and you see that they are empty.
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@BestCollabX - you are of course watching a particularly edited highlights of calls. I actually listen to these show live quite a lot - being a Londoner I can often catch it on FM radio. He's actually on for 15 hours a week mostly on political stuff, but with an amusing "mystery hour" once a week. However, he does challenge people well when they speak on general terms yet can't articulate what they mean when they use words. I agree that he sometimes over does it and should move on, but her is great at uncovering the fact people often hold beliefs without evidence and build an entire viewpoint based on false assumptions. It probably did pop into your feed because of something like TYT. I see a surprising number of comments from Americans in what is basically a London radio show.
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@BestCollabX but if a caller wants to come on and discuss Marxism, it would be a fairly basic thing to check that they have a basic understanding of the thing they are calling about. If someone called about WWII and did not know what it was, or who the participants were or the era, it would not be a fruitful conversation.
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@barryboom717 - it also got damaged by flooding one point
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@boxerotheweek6789 Jones is labelled a fool because he is one. He ruined people's lives with his conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook. I have no idea when he was talking about "multiple planes" and epstein island, but so waht?
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As far as I can see, in the US you don't get the same level of confrontational political discourse at either the interview level or in call ins. James O'Brian follows a conservative host (Nick Ferrari) who does the morning show. The latter is also a brilliant interviewer and absolutely demolishes conservative and left-wing politicians alike. James is excellent at drilling down and asking callers to back up their claims. They never learn and keep getting called.
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It is a phone in show. He starts each one by giving his introduction, setting out his opinion and then opens the phone lines for Londoners with names like Dave in Dagenham to tell him that Trump and Musk are god's gift to humanity.
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No one has been forced to the negotiation table. I expect Americans can afford to pay more for their shirts and shoes - and if they can, great. Trump's tax rises are passed on to the consumer and it won't affect sales of imports. No one loses except the American consumer 👍
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@localzookeeper - yes, this is consistent with economic theory and evidence. The costs tend to be split between buyer and seller based on a number of factors, such as substitutability and elasticity of demand.
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The threat of Russia must be resisted. His successful attempt to split NATO will lead to him attacking the Baltic states and other ex-Soviet and Warsaw pact countries. Russia has a large population but it is poor and smaller than two big European countries combined. Its military has been largely broken. This is the time for a new European defence force to stand up to Putin and show Trump that if he won’t provide resources, he’s not in charge. Putin knows that he wouldn’t stand a chance against a combined Europe militarily, so he wants it leaderless and prone to appeasement. No appeasement, or we will pay for it in years to come.
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But we are not alone- France and Germany have armies too, and together bigger and better equipped than Putin.
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I would love to see that. But interviews are rarely critical for what I see.
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We'd then just get onto neo and cultural variations. I've actually read Marx, but couldn't say what the others actually mean.
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@bronte6364 and yet everyone knows exactly what he means by that
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By denying the ability of one other family to buy a home of their own.
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Nonsense
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@ruhaluddin of course they can work, but there was a time when people saved a few months salary for a deposit. Now this might be a years salary. And the people who are buying multiple properties are often people just remortgaging a property they bought for a song years ago.
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@lonelyone69 - that is basically my point. Conceptually the idea of the state owning an industry (the means of production) is an entirely socialist thing. Therefore the state owning education is entirely consistent with socialism. It is definitely inconsistent with pure capitalism where it is a commodity like any others (libertarians would largely take this view). However, the reality is that most countries do have this method of providing education that is largely "socialist". And nearly all countries have a mixed economy whereby the state provides certain services and private enterprise others. There is no black and white line to determine when a country becomes socialist.
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Sorry, was Soros their fawning at Trump's feet? Oh no, the retired 94 year old ex-hedge fund owner worth a measly $7.2bn who now gives his money away rather than acquiring more wasn't invited. But the extreme right still assume that he is in the shadows pulling the strings of power because yes, he's Jewish. By contrast, these people aren't saying "what about Warren Buffet" - much richer and still working, because he isn't Jewish.
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@Cal-Valhalla I read your untrue statement
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@greglyons2526 - not sure I understand your post - I was replying to Car-Valhalla and his/her odd post. You also replied to them.
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Russia may not be your enemy, but you are Russia’s enemy.
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The American markets are panicking. And given that no one will move factories to the US based on one old man's erratic decisions, the American consumer will pick up the tab for this.
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@sionrouge1697 who do you think is going to make your clothes and shoes? If you think Americans will, what jobs are they going to stop doing now to work in a sweaty textile factory for minimum wage? And how much more are you prepared to pay for basic goods so that it can say "made in USA" on it? For a t-shirt, I would guess triple its current price.
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 @kidShibuya under 18s aren't allowed to buy knives.
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@craiggeessports1677 - James O'Brien works for LBC, a brand of Global Radio, which is available of FM, DAB, and as a live broadcast over the internet. They also share clips of the broadcast on youtube, but he does not work for YouTube or any part of Google, and I don't know why you think he does. You use the phrase "the dole", suggesting you are from the UK, so surely you must have heard of LBC - it's been running in one form or other for 50 years.
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@craiggeessports1677 no, that's not what I'm saying. Why do you think I said that?
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@craiggeessports1677 "why are LBC on YouTube?" - I don't know why you think I won't answer that. It's for much the same reason that every major broadcaster and media outlet posts clips on YouTube - it provides greater publicity for their output and provides an additional, albeit minor, revenue stream.
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From London. You can listen to LBC live on the internet. James is on Monday to Friday.
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Was it such a slow news day that you had to fall back on that trusty old radio phone-in topic?
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 @BluddyGoodBloke it's a word salad. Once you get past the verbose language, it is clear that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
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@ibexdnb2879 he is definitely more articulate than me, but also unnecessarily verbose - a device he uses to exaggerate his intelligence and also to cover the lack of intellectual weight behind the points he makes.
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I think we've realised that. But not worth making him an enemy just yet.
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This is the message that needs to be pushed - pictures of Musk leading Trump around. Nothing will turn Trump against Musk more than seeing pictures of himself as being subordinate to him.
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I think you don't quite understand how averages work. By definition, half the time the traffic is travelling faster than 14kmh. If you reduce the the speed you can go, you end up lowering the average speed you can travel at.
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If I'd had £5 for every time I'd heard the phrase, "£350m on the side of a bus" I would have enough to buy a small car. There are probably parrots who picked the phrase up bely standing too close to the radio.
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Brilliant - but what I can't understand is why these idiots keep phoning him up when it is so obvious that he's going to destroy them.
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Tax them hard? Perhaps we could suggest that to Donald Trump - it's probably near the top of his police agenda 😂
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"Sanewashing" is another great term for it - interpreting the madness in a way that makes it seems sane. See how the media treats every extreme statement of Donald Trump.
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@house2homeplus511 your post is nonsensical: "it was Russia who gave them..." absolute BS. Russia was poorly armed
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The reason that the returns on farming are so low is because the cost of an acre of farm land is artificially high because it is an inheritance tax dodge.
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it didn't. A labour party worker took unpaid leave to volunteer for the Harris campaign.
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He's impossible to ignore - that's the point
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The police are conducting an investigation into a possible breach of the law.
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@alwoo5645 you have had Harris, but instead you've got a dictator.
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 @ian38018a it has always been proud to claim that it is a democracy. It was only during Trump's attempted coup that pro-coup supporters started saying "constitutional republic"
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@aleph8888 oh dear, I see you've been listening to some of the lies ahead by the coup plotters. You can be both a constitutional republic and a democracy. This argument suddenly made an appearance after November 2020 when it was necessary to ignore democratic elections if Trump was to remain in power.
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The euro is a reserve currency, but it just isn't the primary reserve currency.
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The USD is on shakier grounds with Trump at the helm
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