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Tories taking on the big issues again
at 17:20 27 Mar 2024

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Sunak gone by the end of next week?
at 20:18 23 Mar 2024

tory mps form circular firing squad. it's slap stick politics.
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The all powerful Zionist lobby claims another victim (n/t) (n/t)
at 14:42 22 Mar 2024

interesting.
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The all powerful Zionist lobby claims another victim
at 14:00 22 Mar 2024

or false flags. cil was a big one for her false flags.
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The all powerful Zionist lobby claims another victim
at 14:56 21 Mar 2024

side steps the moon landing question .... hmmmmm.
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The all powerful Zionist lobby claims another victim
at 12:48 21 Mar 2024

the thing is that in democracies with free speech, a free press, an effective and independent judiciary, and effective political challenge, major conspiracies are really really hard. and for them to remain unproven for a significant time is really really unlikely.

in the sorts of autocracies, dictatorships, kleptocracies and thug regimes that you favour they're really easy.

equally with free speech, and also the internet, comes the possibility for malign actors and convenient idiots to spread nonsense and for suckers to buy into it and think they're clever in doing so.

but those moon landing were clearly faked, weren't they?
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The all powerful Zionist lobby claims another victim
at 11:58 21 Mar 2024

i guess his intention is to mock stupidity and racist conspiracy nonsense. which of those have you come to excuse?
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I’m no conspiracy theorist but that does not look like Princess Kate…
at 09:08 20 Mar 2024

no. they're the poor souls ending off their bank account details.
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I’m no conspiracy theorist but that does not look like Princess Kate…
at 08:34 20 Mar 2024

it's the credulous that they're after alas. they really are not far off that email from the foreign prince with an inheritance stuck in a bank account who wants you to have half of it. i don't think it requires a particularly great mind to realise that.
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I’m no conspiracy theorist but that does not look like Princess Kate…
at 22:00 19 Mar 2024

conspiracy theories are similar to online fraudsters - both rely upon filtering out anyone with a brain. it's the gullible and credulous that they both unfailingly attract.
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Yeah it was racist and misogynistic….but they want his money, so let’s move
at 13:02 19 Mar 2024

you don't need to rely on discrimination to explain differences in socio-economic outcomes. background determines resources and opportunities and expectations. these things are cumulative and persist from generation to generation. they appear as class inequalities and regional inequalities and also correlated with things like race and recent migration. this isn't to deny that discrimination occurs, but the more powerful forces shaping the structure of inequality are the social background characteristics that are commonly labeled as 'class'.
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Yeah it was racist and misogynistic….but they want his money, so let’s move
at 10:26 16 Mar 2024

hopefully when jeremy finally sets up his party she'll have a home.

abbotts career is a tragedy - she has huge symbolic significance as the first black female mp but has wasted so much good will. the abuse she receives is completely disgusting, but a career full of ineptitude can't be explained by that alone. that a party seriously put her forward as a potential home secretary is a stain upon it alas.
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Yeah it was racist and misogynistic….but they want his money, so let’s move
at 12:50 15 Mar 2024

there are many reasons why working class white boys as a group underperform educationally and why that disadvantage is then cumulative. but racism or discrimination is not one of them. class, intergenerational and regional socio-economic disadvantage is explained very well without relying on racism.
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Yeah it was racist and misogynistic….but they want his money, so let’s move
at 09:59 15 Mar 2024

"Discriminating against the majority is a recipe for disaster. We have done a good job of fighting institutional racism against non-whites, so much so that whites are discriminated against."

go on then justify this, with examples if you have them.
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Yeah it was racist and misogynistic….but they want his money, so let’s move
at 18:11 14 Mar 2024

i guess he's hoping that if he can create enough confusion and misunderstanding about the meaning of anti-semitism it makes it easier to claim that it's all made up, or, using the phrase without which the site feels incomplete, 'has been weaponised'.
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Today's trolling Guardian article.
at 11:22 12 Mar 2024

yes but even that is small compared to the total government spend. covid is actually an example of spending having huge and very broadly distributed benefits. there was fraud and there were bad decisions, but equally i'm not all that surprised that there was some waste during an unprecedented national emergency.
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Today's trolling Guardian article.
at 11:12 12 Mar 2024

i'm not sure that's right. the £70bn was the cost of furlough - which was very widespread and particularly went to people in the lower paid service sector. the benefit of the £70bn furlough spend was widely distributed. any excess profits / fraud that occurred was small compared to the cost of furlough, even smaller relative to total public expenditure on covid at some £350bn.
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Today's trolling Guardian article.
at 09:46 12 Mar 2024

just to add some difficulties: the tax take as a percent of national income is now at a record high; transfer payments are at a record high; and the percentage of the working age population who are economically inactive is at a record high. that is a huge fiscal deadweight for any future government.
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Today's trolling Guardian article.
at 09:16 12 Mar 2024

an article criticising fiscal responsibility and fiscal constraints that doesn't even mention truss and kwarteng is really economically illiterate. but i agree, it would be lovely if fiscal policy was unconstrained, if budget deficits didn't need to be financed, if debt was free, if interest rates never rose, if people wanted to lend to governments with unfinanced deficits, if the £ never fell and inflation never went up, and transfer payments just magically paid for themsleves. perhaps if we all just wish hard enough it will happen?
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Pushing on string....bubbles bursting again?
at 10:16 10 Mar 2024

guardian article combined with attempt to poke other posters. what an exciting sunday morning you are having.

i'm only replying to point out that we're actually in the 'pulling on a string' phase of monetary policy which is the issue with the commercial property sector referenced in the article. i for one certainly have never read the guardian predict financial crisis before ... oh, no, hold on a minute.
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