Comments by "Louie Berg" (@louieberg2942) on "LBC" channel.

  1. Wha?
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  2. Huh... a Lord ánd a contortionist. Such talent.
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  3. No need to swing to the other side and turn Luddite, just actively teach responsible use. Responsible use and self-worth.
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  4. Sincerely doubt you were ever an actual liberal.
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  5. I'm not even sure what this comment is supposed to argue.
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  6. The Rwanda policy has only one certain outcome: where ever the asylum seekers may end up... it's definitely NOT going to be the UK, ever. Why? Well... because... ehr... oh yeah! Because they don't want to return home someday like the Ukrainians do. Yes, that's what I'll tell myself. Gosh, having a conscience is hard work.
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  7. WHAT? EVERYBODY CALM DOWN, I CAN BARELY HEAR Y'ALL!
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  8. What is the context for the comment?
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  9. People can protest for different reasons... The farmers in the UK are almost explicitly protesting the situation that is a direct result of the Brexit. If there were no Brexit, the farmers may have joined the protests for reasons similar to those of the EU farmers. In the end there are indeed protests, but the substance is relevantly different.
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  10. You try to sound deep and even empathetic, but it actually quite the opposite. You do not need to do ANYthing, that is kind of the point. Just leave them be. At most you follow their directions for the preferred pronouns... so you either remember to call someone a she, he or they. It's almost the smallest ask someone can make of you.
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  11.  @stephenmurray2851  It's true! I'm Dutch and I am literally dying! It's a disaster zone here! Where is my lord and saviour Farage?! Help!
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  12. Cleverly's joke is a thought that would not even form in my mind. However, even if it WERE to form, I'd recognise it as one of those weird thoughts you know to acknowledge and then just let fade away again. I'd be weirded out by the strange way the brain works and then continue on. If I WERE to share that thought with people, I'd share it as a "this weird thing happened to me" story. Then a close friend and I would muse on how our brains can be weird sometimes. If I WERE to share that thought with a large group of people in the form of a joke... I'd be either having a weird dream of cosplaying James Cleverly or I would find myself participating in a strange James Cleverly biopic. That is to say it would not ever happen. I like dark humour, but... dark humour still has some logic to it and it still needs to obey rules about timing and context. Dark humour is also not an obvious tool for a public servant.
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  13. That one doesn't really work, bucko.
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  14. Just to add a little to JOB's opening bit: Limitarianism is by Ingrid Robeyns, a Belgian/Dutch philosopher and currently Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht.
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  15. Because of one of the unhinged headlines.
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  16. Is the claim here that James himself makes use of tax loopholes to minimise the taxes he pays? Or is the claim he works for an employer who does so? Or have I fullly misread the comment and did you intend to make a different point altogether?
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  17. Sue showing her true colours and tribalism, by immediately assuming the defence James appears to elicit will come from Muslim Labour voters.
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  18. I can only hope that the Sunak mistake was genuine rather than... you know, something more cynical.
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  19. The fact that people still do is, in itself, very damning for Putin and his ilk.
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  20. 1:28:28 What on Earth was this? He calls in, admits right away that whatever happens he isn't wrong, he then asks James to prompt him because he rang in without know why(?)... and then is aggrieved that James calls him on not engaging with the prompt he was given. He's acting as though JO'B called HIM up and ambushed him with a question he didn't want to deal with.
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  21. Being concerned about 15 minute cities/walkable cities is so funny as a Dutch person. What kind of hellscape do these idiots think The Netherlands is?
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  22. I'm sorry to see that. It's crazy to learn how many people (generally women) have had an experience like this. From my immediate circle, I know of two cases.
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  23.  @twisteddancer7773 I'm sure he has a nice piece of candy with your name on it. Bend deeper, buddy.
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  24. It IS talk radio. So radio blah blah, indeed.
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  25. 40:58 Here's what I do not get... how does a rag like THAT retain a readership among working class people? Why aren't they sussed out? The same people who want to take more of your money in order to give it to rich people, are the same who advocate the fake choice between either poor people or immigrants being looked after by the government. The rich must be laughing themselves silly as they stay fully outside the fray and watch as unfortunate people are being encouraged to fight among themselves. On the topic of Andrew: does any kind of taxpayer money flow to him? If I were a taxpayer, I'd want to insist that he should be stripped off the priviledge of living on my dime. He does active harm, so why is he being reimbursed?
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  26. I know this is said jokingly, but I am sure some rag would be able to spin an article out of this about how we should hate young generations.
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  27. It's weird that he just will not acknowledge the privilege. From where comes this fear to be honest and genuine? How welcomed would a line be like: "I do not know what it is to go without essentials, or not having the certainty that these essentials were there on a daily basis. That is why I will go around the country and have you tell me. I know this is a blind spot for me, so in order to actually, comprehensively tackle this problem I will need to hear all about it from you who go through it." Would a politician be savaged over this? If so, how and why?
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  28. The caller's conclusion is fixed, the reasons he has for it change as is necessary. Such is the way of the bigot. At least the caller admits that he cannot and will not change their mind. Act accordingly.
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  29. Maybe they know people who cannot be for health reasons. Maybe they worry about mutations that can arise because the virus is not being stamped out. Maybe they care for people who die needless deaths because they avoided a vaccine over bogus reasons.
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  30.  @bobenglish5084 Yeah, via an MP who took his seat with him rather than winning it while standing for Reform. Lee Anderson was even in favour of making people stand for election in his particular circumstance, but when push comes to shove...
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  31.  @BrianMcGuirkBMG  Bingo
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  32.  @MrZadir-nu7bd  That is the wildest part of all to me. So-called small government, debt cutting republicans just looking on as Trump balloons the debt. As long as he keeps those pesky foreigners out, they're all golden with it. Nevermind what the clown has in store for USA's presence on the world stage and the climate.
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  33. I need to first ask you what you mean when you say "Enough of the state of Israel". I sense your comment is swinging the pendulum aaaallll the way to the other end. You're against the eradication of the Palestinian people in Gaza, so you're warming to the idea of the eradication of the people of Israel?
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  34.  @rubberyowen1469  Which page of the book of hymns is that one from?
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  35. It is very sad to see people advocating other people lose the things that they don't have, rather than advocating for getting the things other people have. Why race to the bottom? Why not unite and demand basic rights and protections for all and secure an absolute floor no money grubber can dip below?
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  36. It's something inherent to, I suspect at least, a divide between the practical and the ideal. Art has no clear use for which it was designed... so people who do not see or acknowledge the message of a particular piece of art will dismiss it as pure bogus. A can opener has a clear goal for which it was crafted, even if it is a poor can opener.
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  37. At the end of it all "I just don't like Labour or left ideas, because" is what we ended up with.
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  38. I'm so very sure people see you write "white Muslim" and have absolutely no idea who they might be. Even people who were alive during the Balkan/Yugoslav Wars.
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  39. When Labour's in chagre, it's Labour's fault. When Tories are in charge... it's probably still Labour's fault. Look at the stuff they were throwing at Sadiq Khan. If it isn't Labour fault, it's the fault of people with a skin colour other than a slight rosy hue.
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  40. There is a correlation, but it is a very complex one. One paper (The shifting income-obesity relationship: Conditioning effects from economic development and globalization, Zhou, 2021) even suggests that the correlation between income and obesity changes depending on other factors at play. So there's likely to be a correlation, but this can differ from country to country or culture to culture.
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  41. The other side will press it as soon as they are able to do so to the best of their ability: vote them in.
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  42.  @liamsloan5410  Yeah, for the claim of Hilary Cass to work, we'd need a mechanism that works one (safe) way in precocious puberty cases and another (unsafe) way in gender dysphoric cases. I am uninformed of the exact treatment regimen in these cases, so maybe there are relevant differences that would explain a potential risk for gender dysphoric cases that would not be present in precocious puberty cases.
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  43. Henceforth, I cannot be surprised anymore. People have actually made an issue out of the mother of all non-issues. People will just get mad, they will find a way. Even when they're stuck in the Hedonic Machine, these people will be able to beat it. In fact, it is probably what brings them pleasure... they're such miserable, sick, twisted people that without their anger and cynisism they cannot make sense of the world around them.
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  44. I'll say it. I was kind of offended by this woman, as a man. Am I so base, so uncivilized that I can't help but ogle a woman? I have no agency when it comes to that? I guess I'll go club people over the head and breathe through the mouth now.
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  45.  @gooner7331  I'm assuming it does depend on what precedes the sending of such images. Unsollicited images surely must be akin to flashing someone.
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  46. Wow, that UKIP man... the honesty is refreshing, but also terrifying.
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  47. Not gonna play your game. The premise you set up is ridiculous.
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  48. Yes, he admits in this very video. He uses that experience to explain his doubt about people who claim to never ever vote for party X or Y.
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  49. Wow... that character calling in about how Sadiq Khan would back Sharia law... That's the nonsense you're up against and it's so easily gobbled up because people WANT to. It's the guy moaning about too many brown faces all over again.
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  50. Maybe yes, maybe no. I would consider the countries who do the better kind of countries (if they have the ability/riches to do so). As a consequence, I think my country should do so, too.
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