June 30, 20187 yr Please don't feel the need. It's a quiet time for politics. Well, it's not, but clearly no one has found much to say about Russia continuing to brag about influencing the US election, Erdogan taking more freedoms away from Turkey by the day despite flagrant corruption in his election, more promising pushes for cannabis legalisation across the world, Puerto Rico looking to become a state by 2021 (that's a cool little thing I almost missed). Partly, I blame the World Cup. It's easy to ignore headlines that don't directly apply to you when there's a big international sporting event taking up all of the limelight. Which is nice, it's a mostly positive event.
June 30, 20187 yr Please don't feel the need. Don't worry, I'm bound to do so purely by accident, sooner or later. :lol:
June 30, 20187 yr Please don't feel the need. It's a quiet time for politics. Well, it's not, but clearly no one has found much to say about Russia continuing to brag about influencing the US election, Erdogan taking more freedoms away from Turkey by the day despite flagrant corruption in his election, more promising pushes for cannabis legalisation across the world, Puerto Rico looking to become a state by 2021 (that's a cool little thing I almost missed). Partly, I blame the World Cup. It's easy to ignore headlines that don't directly apply to you when there's a big international sporting event taking up all of the limelight. Which is nice, it's a mostly positive event. Unless you're German :P
June 30, 20187 yr It’s the new “don’t mention the war” So looking forward to returning to Berlin in a week and a half :lol:
July 1, 20187 yr Don't forget Mein Trumpf now showing anti-immigrant propaganda videos to people visiting the detention centres. Can no one remember history, orrrrr??
July 1, 20187 yr Don't forget Mein Trumpf now showing anti-immigrant propaganda videos to people visiting the detention centres. Can no one remember history, orrrrr?? Is it all immigrants he is against, or mainly illegal ones?
July 1, 20187 yr Author Is it all immigrants he is against, or mainly illegal ones? Just the non white ones. See previous trump tweets. He married 2 white immigrant models, his mother was a white immigrant, his father a kkk loving racist. Everything he does and says shows he is utterly racist and its nothing to do with illegals nor terrorist states. The 911 bombers were from countries that arenot banned and which have trump business dealings.
July 4, 20186 yr As you have been repeatedly told: A minority group cannot discriminate against a majority group when that majority group are dominant throughout the positions of power and the general ruling class. The heteros control the world therefore discrimination against heteros is not a thing. IMO 'control' is too strong a term here. Getting back to the point though : civil partnerships gave inheritance rights to gays which were not available to unmarried heterosexuals. Was that equality?
July 5, 20186 yr The EU’s elected MEPs have, thankfully, used their democratic powers to reject the proposed Article 13, the one that was going to destroy user-created content on the internet. That was something I was worried would go the way of US net neutrality, but fortunately, having 600 people voting on it has yielded a more representative result than the equivalent 5 people did in the US. Not over yet, it was just the first (obviously technologically inept) draft that was rejected from what I can see, by a margin of only 40 votes as well, and it is going to a second vote in September, but for now, good stuff.
July 6, 20186 yr The EU’s elected MEPs have, thankfully, used their democratic powers to reject the proposed Article 13, the one that was going to destroy user-created content on the internet. That was something I was worried would go the way of US net neutrality, but fortunately, having 600 people voting on it has yielded a more representative result than the equivalent 5 people did in the US. Not over yet, it was just the first (obviously technologically inept) draft that was rejected from what I can see, by a margin of only 40 votes as well, and it is going to a second vote in September, but for now, good stuff. How did the British MEP's vote on the issue?
July 6, 20186 yr This is the kind of article I would have expected from the Guardian, rather than the Mail! :P *********************************************** Older people really ARE more racist: We become prejudiced as we age because we feel isolated and anxious about death, psychologists claim Scientists said hating a group can grant some elderly people a sense of identity This is because they can share their prejudices with others For some the insecurities that commonly come with age lead to self-hatred This self-hatred is then directed at minority groups, psychologists claim http://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article...ious-death.html
July 6, 20186 yr How did the British MEP's vote on the issue? A mixed bag, not along party lines aside from UKIP and Leave supporters (all of EFDD voted against) voting against. Which for once, I can agree with, even if they probably just voted against as a matter of course.
July 9, 20186 yr https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44757403 Pride in London sorry after anti-trans protest 'People's Front Of Judea', anyone... :P
July 10, 20186 yr Author https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44757403 Pride in London sorry after anti-trans protest 'People's Front Of Judea', anyone... :P The reports on this protest are useless and biased. Some lesbians feel they are being pressured by some not even in the gay community to accept the basic concept that a man who wishes to self identify as a Lesbian - that is a man who like to dress as a woman, but is physically a man, and is sexually attracted to women, can call himself a Lesbian. Now, anyone is free to call themselves what they like, but when gay women are pressured to accept this as a thing and get criticised for not being able to accept shacking up with men wishing to be Lesbians then they have a right to express a view that is being ignored by self-righteous people who aren't part of the community and who are pressuring the community?
July 11, 20186 yr Central Europe is a lesson to liberals: don’t be anti-nationalist Ivan Krastev https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...-poland-hungary
July 11, 20186 yr Author Central Europe is a lesson to liberals: don’t be anti-nationalist Ivan Krastev https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...-poland-hungary No the lesson is try and persuade your young people not to be so pissed off that they leave the country and let it fall into nationalistic anti-immigrant-based propaganda because that sows the seeds of right-wing fascism. Also, don't fragment into local groupings within a culture and watch it split apart and war amongst each other. It's called tolerance and making sure that every part of society feels involved in society. Blaming Liberalism for what are social malaises is just bollocks. Liberalism didn't cause the banking Crisis which has sparked off so many other problems, it was purely Western-based money-chasing and blinkered monitoring, and fires stoked-up by fascist states in the East aimed at easily-persuaded angry people who feel left-out of society. Or in other words, nothing to do with liberals. It's just that liberals end up having to sort out the messes made by non-liberals when they eventually f***-up as they always do because unfair societies are inherently unstable. Articles that sound pseudo-intellectual phrases and words always piss me off, I've made a lifetime of translating bullshit into plain English..... "definition: Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support civil rights, democracy, secularism, gender and race equality, internationalism and the freedoms of speech, the press, religion and markets." Feel free to explain how those are undesirable traits in society and what you mean exactly by "anti-nationalist" because as far as I'm aware liberals arent demonstrating in the streets to stop people waving the flag for England/Any Other Country, they are criticising those that hijack the flag to twist arguments against those that don't see things their way.
July 11, 20186 yr Central Europe is a lesson to liberals: don’t be anti-nationalist Ivan Krastev https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...-poland-hungary Ah nationalism. The belief that being born in a certain.place makes you better than another person born in another place. The antithesis of reason.
July 18, 20186 yr Author bit unfair to post this in Brexit - it's linked though. It's a tragic murder with "You couldnt make it up" usual UKIP bullshit "we're just normal blokes" self-excuses. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-44861508 So, shagging your son's partner, strangling your wife, ex-Marine, and a UKIP councillor who thinks he's still a lovely bloke and victim of unfortunate circumstances. The circumstances being the aforementioned. "UKIP - where morals are not required, and are in fact a hindrance to career prospects"
July 19, 20186 yr bit unfair to post this in Brexit - it's linked though. It's a tragic murder with "You couldnt make it up" usual UKIP bullshit "we're just normal blokes" self-excuses. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-44861508 So, shagging your son's partner, strangling your wife, ex-Marine, and a UKIP councillor who thinks he's still a lovely bloke and victim of unfortunate circumstances. The circumstances being the aforementioned. "UKIP - where morals are not required, and are in fact a hindrance to career prospects" You got the 'unfair' part right - unless he killed his wife for voting Remain, politics has nothing to do with it.
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