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[Mr Pigeon]

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GB News is such a genuine choice that they cancelled one of their own staff. How are you meant to debate with someone so deluded?

 

[Trequarista10]

I find it interesting that in that entire post you haven't said one reason for being left wing. You've said you are, but none of your reasoning or statements suggest you are.

I don't think you need to be forced to be anything, I've never fitted into a convention politically but know I value worldwide human rights above everything else, and state owned enterprises can be no-brainers like the NHS but still appreciate that capitalism has increased innovation and without it it can stagnate (see NASA). That probably doesn't fit a left or right viewpoint but so what?

I've said, which is that economically I'm left wing. I didn't think there were two interpretations of this so didn't feel the need to expand upon it. For good measure: I'm from a working class family, my grandparents worked in factories, and their parents, and before that I have no idea but I presume for centuries or millenia even my ancestors were rural workers, tradesmen, manufacturers etc, I imagine many were at some point probably drafted to fight in a pointless war so that their overlords could expand their territory, many probably died young due to horrendous working conditions, most probably had little more than a pot to piss in whilst others sat on a toilet made of gold. My parents were boomers and had the luxury of attending university and earning a half decent wage as civil servants, by which I mean they worked their asses off for 40+ years in order to live in a slightly bigger home and go abroad once a year. I think that excessive wealth is vulgar and the entire financial system is insanity. There's trillions of debt, trillions unspent in bank accounts of rich people, people making money from money by moving numbers around, or by simply owning property and renting it out at an extortionate rate. The vast majority of people are exploited financially. Its sickening how much we are bombarded with advertising in order to drain us of our money, cartoon characters and puppets used to make companies seem friendly and caring, whilst the shareholders and owners make a killing. I hate the tax rates, I don't understand how 150k is the highest tax bracket when there are people who make 100x that, tax the feckers infinitely more, nobody needs that much money whilst essential services are having to scrape by. I hate how the rich find tax loopholes, I hate how big companies find tax loopholes, I hate how it's all a big networking club and politicians and big business work arm in arm, making deals that favour their old school chums. I hate how many people have to work their balls off to have a meagre amount of disposable income. I hate how working class people are priced out of taking legal action due to the extortionate costs, I hate how working class people are preyed upon by gambling companies and loans companies and credit card companies who profit on the dream of wealth, or the fear of not paying the bills. I hate how capitalism's drive for efficiency creates an enormous amount of pressure on front line workers - sales targets, call targets, the "how did your advisor do today" surveys you get bombarded with, and knowing if I give a bad score the poor guy or girl will get a grilling or lose their miniscule bonus, I hate how if you're rich you can send your kids to a special school where they hang out with other rich kids and development a sense of entitlement that permanently destroys their sense of connection to the rest of society, I hate how despite all of society's technological advances the majority of people have to work 40 hours a week, with little extra to show for it.

I hate how the best and brightest are tempted away from careers where they can help people, in order to make a bit more money for themselves, by making a shit load more money for some rich cnuts. I hate how the best psychologists use their expertise to entice people to buy a product, I hate how the best engineers are used to design a car that goes slightly faster than the previous car they made and costs twice as much, I hate how the best technicians design some gadget that is slightly smaller than the last gadget they designed, is twice as expensive and will break after two years, I hate how consumer culture makes people feel compelled to buy the latest shit or wear the coolest clothes or drink the fanciest beer or attend the coolest festivals or have the most gourmet cheese delivered to their door once a month, I hate how the best nurses get burnt out and either go into teaching or research, or middle management for some pointless company, or they just endure the job and can barely even pretend to give a shit anymore, I hate how entire industries like retail, customer service and social care pay so little that staff turn around is enormous, meaning a workforce that is young and inexperienced and out of their depth, I hate the customer-is-always-right culture which leads to people treating staff members like a piece of shit in order to pressure them for a discount or special treatment, I hate how essential public services are sold off to private business for sod all, I hate how privatisation of certain sectors just leads to monopolies, or companies spending more and more money on acquiring new business from their competitors, or skimping on running costs, rather than actually providing a service that is functional and fair, I hate how insurance is a giant fecking racket to take as much money from people as possible whilst paying out as little as possible when it's needed, whilst they make themselves a shit load of money, I hate the notion that people are lazy and greedy and are incapable of working hard and efficiently without the incentive of money being used as a giant dangling carrot in front of their face, I hate how the right wing overlook the fact that hanging a giant dangling carrot of money in front of people's faces leads to morals and ethics being front out of the window, I hate how companies will cut costs or outright cheat on health and safety measures, I hate how the right wing media mocked Ed Miliband for daring to suggest that people who inherit a million pound home should probably pay some inheritance tax, I hate how right wing people talk about the NHS, teachers, civil servants etc, I hate how wealthy people think their success is purely of their own making, not luck, genetics or upbringing, I hate how wealthy people and celebrities are lauded, I hate how if you're rich and famous, companies give you shit loads of money to do a one hour photo shoot to convince regular people to buy a product from said company, I hate how if you're poor and sick then you have to rely on a health service that is stretched to capacity. I hate how I'm typing this in my dinky two bed new build flat that most of my wage packet goes towards the mortgage of, and the walls are so thin I can hear my neighbours TV.

Goes without saying really. That's pretty much what I consider to be left wing. Pronouns, offensive jokes, people's life choices on what to do with their genitals, whatever else, not important. Who cares. Don't give a shit. It's the middle and upper class attempting to take ownership of the left wing, and repurposing it for their own trivial pet projects.

 

[Balljy]

I've said, which is that economically I'm left wing. I didn't think there were two interpretations of this so didn't feel the need to expand upon it. For good measure: I'm from a working class family, my grandparents worked in factories, and their parents, and before that I have no idea but I presume for centuries or millenia even my ancestors were rural workers, tradesmen, manufacturers etc, I imagine many were at some point probably drafted to fight in a pointless war so that their overlords could expand their territory, many probably died young due to horrendous working conditions, most probably had little more than a pot to piss in whilst others sat on a toilet made of gold. My parents were boomers and had the luxury of attending university and earning a half decent wage as civil servants, by which I mean they worked their asses off for 40+ years in order to live in a slightly bigger home and go abroad once a year. I think that excessive wealth is vulgar and the entire financial system is insanity. There's trillions of debt, trillions unspent in bank accounts of rich people, people making money from money by moving numbers around, or by simply owning property and renting it out at an extortionate rate. The vast majority of people are exploited financially. Its sickening how much we are bombarded with advertising in order to drain us of our money, cartoon characters and puppets used to make companies seem friendly and caring, whilst the shareholders and owners make a killing. I hate the tax rates, I don't understand how 150k is the highest tax bracket when there are people who make 100x that, tax the feckers infinitely more, nobody needs that much money whilst essential services are having to scrape by. I hate how the rich find tax loopholes, I hate how big companies find tax loopholes, I hate how it's all a big networking club and politicians and big business work arm in arm, making deals that favour their old school chums. I hate how many people have to work their balls off to have a meagre amount of disposable income. I hate how working class people are priced out of taking legal action due to the extortionate costs, I hate how working class people are preyed upon by gambling companies and loans companies and credit card companies who profit on the dream of wealth, or the fear of not paying the bills. I hate how capitalism's drive for efficiency creates an enormous amount of pressure on front line workers - sales targets, call targets, the "how did your advisor do today" surveys you get bombarded with, and knowing if I give a bad score the poor guy or girl will get a grilling or lose their miniscule bonus, I hate how if you're rich you can send your kids to a special school where they hang out with other rich kids and development a sense of entitlement that permanently destroys their sense of connection to the rest of society, I hate how despite all of society's technological advances the majority of people have to work 40 hours a week, with little extra to show for it.

I hate how the best and brightest are tempted away from careers where they can help people, in order to make a bit more money for themselves, by making a shit load more money for some rich cnuts. I hate how the best psychologists use their expertise to entice people to buy a product, I hate how the best engineers are used to design a car that goes slightly faster than the previous car they made and costs twice as much, I hate how the best technicians design some gadget that is slightly smaller than the last gadget they designed, is twice as expensive and will break after two years, I hate how consumer culture makes people feel compelled to buy the latest shit or wear the coolest clothes or drink the fanciest beer or attend the coolest festivals or have the most gourmet cheese delivered to their door once a month, I hate how the best nurses get burnt out and either go into teaching or research, or middle management for some pointless company, or they just endure the job and can barely even pretend to give a shit anymore, I hate how entire industries like retail, customer service and social care pay so little that staff turn around is enormous, meaning a workforce that is young and inexperienced and out of their depth, I hate the customer-is-always-right culture which leads to people treating staff members like a piece of shit in order to pressure them for a discount or special treatment, I hate how essential public services are sold off to private business for sod all, I hate how privatisation of certain sectors just leads to monopolies, or companies spending more and more money on acquiring new business from their competitors, or skimping on running costs, rather than actually providing a service that is functional and fair, I hate how insurance is a giant fecking racket to take as much money from people as possible whilst paying out as little as possible when it's needed, whilst they make themselves a shit load of money, I hate the notion that people are lazy and greedy and are incapable of working hard and efficiently without the incentive of money being used as a giant dangling carrot in front of their face, I hate how the right wing overlook the fact that hanging a giant dangling carrot of money in front of people's faces leads to morals and ethics being front out of the window, I hate how companies will cut costs or outright cheat on health and safety measures, I hate how the right wing media mocked Ed Miliband for daring to suggest that people who inherit a million pound home should probably pay some inheritance tax, I hate how right wing people talk about the NHS, teachers, civil servants etc, I hate how wealthy people think their success is purely of their own making, not luck, genetics or upbringing, I hate how wealthy people and celebrities are lauded, I hate how if you're rich and famous, companies give you shit loads of money to do a one hour photo shoot to convince regular people to buy a product from said company, I hate how if you're poor and sick then you have to rely on a health service that is stretched to capacity. I hate how I'm typing this in my dinky two bed new build flat that most of my wage packet goes towards the mortgage of, and the walls are so thin I can hear my neighbours TV.

Goes without saying really. That's pretty much what I consider to be left wing. Pronouns, offensive jokes, people's life choices on what to do with their genitals, whatever else, not important. Who cares. Don't give a shit. It's the middle and upper class attempting to take ownership of the left wing, and repurposing it for their own trivial pet projects.

OK, I didn't expect that

You definitely have left wing beliefs. Looking back through your comments about you changing your mind you said "I find some of the extinction rebellion stuff annoying when i'm trying to walk through town and they've shut a road down playing music and smoking weed, but it doesn't make me agree with the climate change isn't a problem brigade"

You're never going to fit into in ideal political sentiment which is designed for you which was my point earlier. Your core beliefs are obviously left from what you have said and the fact you don't subscribe to every person and every view of what can be perceived as the left doesn't really matter. If you don't like extinction rebellion as a movement, fair enough that's your choice but is nothing to do with your politics.

 

[nimic]

I've said, which is that economically I'm left wing. I didn't think there were two interpretations of this so didn't feel the need to expand upon it. For good measure: I'm from a working class family, my grandparents worked in factories, and their parents, and before that I have no idea but I presume for centuries or millenia even my ancestors were rural workers, tradesmen, manufacturers etc, I imagine many were at some point probably drafted to fight in a pointless war so that their overlords could expand their territory, many probably died young due to horrendous working conditions, most probably had little more than a pot to piss in whilst others sat on a toilet made of gold. My parents were boomers and had the luxury of attending university and earning a half decent wage as civil servants, by which I mean they worked their asses off for 40+ years in order to live in a slightly bigger home and go abroad once a year. I think that excessive wealth is vulgar and the entire financial system is insanity. There's trillions of debt, trillions unspent in bank accounts of rich people, people making money from money by moving numbers around, or by simply owning property and renting it out at an extortionate rate. The vast majority of people are exploited financially. Its sickening how much we are bombarded with advertising in order to drain us of our money, cartoon characters and puppets used to make companies seem friendly and caring, whilst the shareholders and owners make a killing. I hate the tax rates, I don't understand how 150k is the highest tax bracket when there are people who make 100x that, tax the feckers infinitely more, nobody needs that much money whilst essential services are having to scrape by. I hate how the rich find tax loopholes, I hate how big companies find tax loopholes, I hate how it's all a big networking club and politicians and big business work arm in arm, making deals that favour their old school chums. I hate how many people have to work their balls off to have a meagre amount of disposable income. I hate how working class people are priced out of taking legal action due to the extortionate costs, I hate how working class people are preyed upon by gambling companies and loans companies and credit card companies who profit on the dream of wealth, or the fear of not paying the bills. I hate how capitalism's drive for efficiency creates an enormous amount of pressure on front line workers - sales targets, call targets, the "how did your advisor do today" surveys you get bombarded with, and knowing if I give a bad score the poor guy or girl will get a grilling or lose their miniscule bonus, I hate how if you're rich you can send your kids to a special school where they hang out with other rich kids and development a sense of entitlement that permanently destroys their sense of connection to the rest of society, I hate how despite all of society's technological advances the majority of people have to work 40 hours a week, with little extra to show for it.

I hate how the best and brightest are tempted away from careers where they can help people, in order to make a bit more money for themselves, by making a shit load more money for some rich cnuts. I hate how the best psychologists use their expertise to entice people to buy a product, I hate how the best engineers are used to design a car that goes slightly faster than the previous car they made and costs twice as much, I hate how the best technicians design some gadget that is slightly smaller than the last gadget they designed, is twice as expensive and will break after two years, I hate how consumer culture makes people feel compelled to buy the latest shit or wear the coolest clothes or drink the fanciest beer or attend the coolest festivals or have the most gourmet cheese delivered to their door once a month, I hate how the best nurses get burnt out and either go into teaching or research, or middle management for some pointless company, or they just endure the job and can barely even pretend to give a shit anymore, I hate how entire industries like retail, customer service and social care pay so little that staff turn around is enormous, meaning a workforce that is young and inexperienced and out of their depth, I hate the customer-is-always-right culture which leads to people treating staff members like a piece of shit in order to pressure them for a discount or special treatment, I hate how essential public services are sold off to private business for sod all, I hate how privatisation of certain sectors just leads to monopolies, or companies spending more and more money on acquiring new business from their competitors, or skimping on running costs, rather than actually providing a service that is functional and fair, I hate how insurance is a giant fecking racket to take as much money from people as possible whilst paying out as little as possible when it's needed, whilst they make themselves a shit load of money, I hate the notion that people are lazy and greedy and are incapable of working hard and efficiently without the incentive of money being used as a giant dangling carrot in front of their face, I hate how the right wing overlook the fact that hanging a giant dangling carrot of money in front of people's faces leads to morals and ethics being front out of the window, I hate how companies will cut costs or outright cheat on health and safety measures, I hate how the right wing media mocked Ed Miliband for daring to suggest that people who inherit a million pound home should probably pay some inheritance tax, I hate how right wing people talk about the NHS, teachers, civil servants etc, I hate how wealthy people think their success is purely of their own making, not luck, genetics or upbringing, I hate how wealthy people and celebrities are lauded, I hate how if you're rich and famous, companies give you shit loads of money to do a one hour photo shoot to convince regular people to buy a product from said company, I hate how if you're poor and sick then you have to rely on a health service that is stretched to capacity. I hate how I'm typing this in my dinky two bed new build flat that most of my wage packet goes towards the mortgage of, and the walls are so thin I can hear my neighbours TV.

Goes without saying really. That's pretty much what I consider to be left wing. Pronouns, offensive jokes, people's life choices on what to do with their genitals, whatever else, not important. Who cares. Don't give a shit. It's the middle and upper class attempting to take ownership of the left wing, and repurposing it for their own trivial pet projects.

I can see where you're coming from, but I think you're making a huge mistake when you're trying to disassociate left-wing politics from: "Pronouns, people's life choices on what to do with their genitals, whatever else". Ever since the beginning socialists were connected with feminism and anti-racism, and took an early interest in issues such as abortion rights, female suffrage, civil rights, and so on. Isn't that analogous to issues of transgender rights (pronouns, genitals), systemic racism/BLM, etc? Hell, one of the favourite attacks on BLM from some (not you, as far as I can tell) is that they are "Marxist". Your description of economic issues doesn't sound too far from Marxism to me.

Edit: just to say, if those are your genuine views then I think you've much more to gain by "sticking with the left". No matter how close you might feel to the right on issues of culture war, they are never ever going to give you what you want economically. Also I'd add that issues of society, culture and economy can't ever be disconnected from each other. Can't fight inequality and ignore systemic issues that contribute to that (for example racism).

 

[nimic]

I edited (only added to) my post a couple of times, sorry about that if you're replying right now.

(very sorry @oates)

 

[Trequarista10]

OK, I didn't expect that

You definitely have left wing beliefs. Looking back through your comments about you changing your mind you said "I find some of the extinction rebellion stuff annoying when i'm trying to walk through town and they've shut a road down playing music and smoking weed, but it doesn't make me agree with the climate change isn't a problem brigade"

You're never going to fit into in ideal political sentiment which is designed for you which was my point earlier. Your core beliefs are obviously left from what you have said and the fact you don't subscribe to every person and every view of what can be perceived as the left doesn't really matter. If you don't like extinction rebellion as a movement, fair enough that's your choice but is nothing to do with your politics.

I didn't say that, the person I quoted said that.

 

[Oo0AahCantona]

I consider myself left wing

Apologies for the formatting, I still cant get spoilers to work. But i'm essentially replying to both your larger posts since I first quoted you. Frankly, it would take days to reply and unpack everything you have said in detail, and I don't mean that condescendingly, i'm in a good mood and I'm interested in engaging properly with you because you seem amenable to some sense, and you are still reachable if your on the fence.

From what i took from what you wrote it comes across as that you have quite a nebulous assortment of emotions, experiences and ideas that I'm not sure you have unpacked to their core ideas beyond a surface level. That's not to say you don't know what your talking about or your view of reality is necessarily wrong, its that you don't have a rock solid foundation of what you fundamentally believe in? I would be interested to see where you end up on a decent online political spectrum test, then following that perhaps do some brief philosophy 101 research regarding the ideologies you seem to subscribe to. There's some genuinely good unbiased stuff on YouTube as long as you stick to the actual concepts and not directly from channels propagating a particular stance.

Don't fall into the trap of buying into the divisive online shit, its not representative of ideas in the real world(although it is representative of general human stupidity). For example, you can be left leaning economically but largely socially conservative and you don't have to agree with every particular stance of the "side" you align with. However you do somewhat need to align to what you believe in, being "in the center" isn't some enlightened position, its a side in and of itself with its own ideological can of worms it needs to own. Unless you want to live in the woods, you do have a vote and it counts and its important you understand what your giving power to.

 

[Tarrou]

I love that the TV channel here to save us from cancel culture cancelled one of it's own presenters

 

[Cheesy]

Darren Grimes trying to replace the people who will inevitably leave.

 

[Realist81]

GB News is such a genuine choice that they cancelled one of their own staff. How are you meant to debate with someone so deluded?

I wish that cnut would just disappear into the shitpond he crawled from, I can't stand his hypocritical 'I'm white northern working class and I hate identity politics' shite.

EDIT: He's clearly still angling for a job there, his earlier attempts were pretty damn funny/pathetic.

 

[Longshanks]

Apologies for the formatting, I still cant get spoilers to work. But i'm essentially replying to both your larger posts since I first quoted you. Frankly, it would take days to reply and unpack everything you have said in detail, and I don't mean that condescendingly, i'm in a good mood and I'm interested in engaging properly with you because you seem amenable to some sense, and you are still reachable if your on the fence.

From what i took from what you wrote it comes across as that you have quite a nebulous assortment of emotions, experiences and ideas that I'm not sure you have unpacked to their core ideas beyond a surface level. That's not to say you don't know what your talking about or your view of reality is necessarily wrong, its that you don't have a rock solid foundation of what you fundamentally believe in? I would be interested to see where you end up on a decent online political spectrum test, then following that perhaps do some brief philosophy 101 research regarding the ideologies you seem to subscribe to. There's some genuinely good unbiased stuff on YouTube as long as you stick to the actual concepts and not directly from channels propagating a particular stance.

Don't fall into the trap of buying into the divisive online shit, its not representative of ideas in the real world(although it is representative of general human stupidity). For example, you can be left leaning economically but largely socially conservative and you don't have to agree with every particular stance of the "side" you align with. However you do somewhat need to align to what you believe in, being "in the center" isn't some enlightened position, its a side in and of itself with its own ideological can of worms it needs to own. Unless you want to live in the woods, you do have a vote and it counts and its important you understand what your giving power to.

Nobody has to align themselves to anything. When it comes to voting time, read the manifestos, engage and debate with activists, potential MP's etc (if you really want to put yourself through it) and stick a cross in the box of the party/person that most closely matches your ideologies at that time or if noone gets close enough to your ideologies than you do a protest vote.

You never need to feel like you align to anything nor do you have to identify yourselves as left/right/center most peoples ideologies tend to be mixed bag anyway, you can lean left on some things, right on others and they change over time depending on there personal situation.

 

[esmufc07]

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He makes me want to hurt things.

 

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“We do not have a company line on taking the knee.”

“Oh but the guy who took the knee breached our standards.”

Exactly. They must realise how that comes across. What the feck.

 

[ShinjiNinja26]

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I wouldn’t piss on this cnut if he was on fire. Absolute cretin.

 

[Pexbo]

I wouldn’t piss on this cnut if he was on fire. Absolute cretin.

I’d do a poo on him if he was on fire

 

[Damien]

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KBO, Darren. Continue to lick their arse and one day you too may have your own show on GB News.

 

[Trequarista10]

Apologies for the formatting, I still cant get spoilers to work. But i'm essentially replying to both your larger posts since I first quoted you. Frankly, it would take days to reply and unpack everything you have said in detail, and I don't mean that condescendingly, i'm in a good mood and I'm interested in engaging properly with you because you seem amenable to some sense, and you are still reachable if your on the fence.

From what i took from what you wrote it comes across as that you have quite a nebulous assortment of emotions, experiences and ideas that I'm not sure you have unpacked to their core ideas beyond a surface level. That's not to say you don't know what your talking about or your view of reality is necessarily wrong, its that you don't have a rock solid foundation of what you fundamentally believe in? I would be interested to see where you end up on a decent online political spectrum test, then following that perhaps do some brief philosophy 101 research regarding the ideologies you seem to subscribe to. There's some genuinely good unbiased stuff on YouTube as long as you stick to the actual concepts and not directly from channels propagating a particular stance.

Don't fall into the trap of buying into the divisive online shit, its not representative of ideas in the real world(although it is representative of general human stupidity). For example, you can be left leaning economically but largely socially conservative and you don't have to agree with every particular stance of the "side" you align with. However you do somewhat need to align to what you believe in, being "in the center" isn't some enlightened position, its a side in and of itself with its own ideological can of worms it needs to own. Unless you want to live in the woods, you do have a vote and it counts and its important you understand what your giving power to.

I think we are largely on the same page. It is possible to avoid the divisive, polarized politics, I just I think it's easier said than done. I understand how people fall into it, and fear that if the right are the only 'side' to question certain issues they will attract more people to the right and away from the genuine left.

If you have any reliable sources/sites/media/YouTube channels that you'd recommend for decent centrist/balanced/economically-left-socially-conservative content I'd be very appreciative, as it is something I have struggled to find much of. There's a few I used to watch who I thought represented this, but then they went deeper into the culture war and their views became more extreme and tribal.

I wouldn't even say I'm socially conservative though to be fair, but I don't know how else to even loosely describe it. I dont think the left-right nor liberal-conservative spectrum works to define social ideologies. I've done that well known political spectrum test countless times where it measures 'authoritarian vs libertarian' and my results vary on my mood as I think most of the questions and possible answers can be interpreted in different ways.

I would also add that I think the foundation of my beliefs is probably more established than you think, but that's likely because of my lack of ability to properly convey and articulate it.

 

[Adisa]

Feckers have hired Farage.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

Feckers have hired Farage.

Fortunately he's so stupid he'll say something that gets the channel in a lot of trouble very quickly.

 

[Wumminator]

Fortunately he's so stupid he'll say something that gets the channel in a lot of trouble very quickly.

nah.
He’s not stupid. He knows how to stay on that line perfectly well. He’s horrible and disgusting but also a little weasel who knows how to play the game.

 

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[AllGoodNamesRGone]

Someone the other day said they hope they are around for the day of his passing and I can only agree with that sentiment.

 

[VidaRed]

There will come a time when GB News will be the most popular news channel in the land. If you let evil fester then it will ultimately spread and cover everything.

 

[LARulz]

Going to hire Morgan I think too. Throw money at him for a September relaunch/when Neil comes back

This chaos in the last couple days I think is actually good for them. They can now go full out on what some initially wanted - a channel just for the right wing

 

[VorZakone]

Surely their funding will dry up eventually if their ratings remain so low?

 

[Ramshock]

imagine drafting in the goggle eyed cockgoblin to save your shitty network

 

[Mr Pigeon]

Surely their funding will dry up eventually if their ratings remain so low?

You'd imagine so but there's plenty of rich folk who want to keep being rich, and the best way to do that is to make a proportion of the populace even dumber than they already are and create a bunch of dogwhistles that will distract them from realising they're been fecked over by a system that puts them in the dirt whilst others drink champagne frappes*.

*Already patented the idea so get fecked.

 

[Drifter]

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No, they are not desperate at all.

 

[Kentonio]

There will come a time when GB News will be the most popular news channel in the land. If you let evil fester then it will ultimately spread and cover everything.

I'm completely in Popper's corner on this one.

 

[VidaRed]

Surely their funding will dry up eventually if their ratings remain so low?

Big businesses will prop it up.

In exchange for propagating that big businesses shouldn't be taxed as high as they should be.

 

[Eyepopper]

I'm completely in Popper's corner on this one.

Good to know mate.

 

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[AllGoodNamesRGone]

I fear to ask but where on Earth have they got that stat about the jab and trebles death rises? Such utter nonsense.

Who is Tom Harwood and why does she think he’s a peado protector?

 

[Pexbo]

I fear to ask but where on Earth have they got that stat about the jab and trebles death rises? Such utter nonsense.

Who is Tom Harwood and why does she think he’s a peado protector?

He works for GBNews and he protects paedophiles

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

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[Gehrman]

There will come a time when GB News will be the most popular news channel in the land. If you let evil fester then it will ultimately spread and cover everything.

And what's the plan to do that? It's sinking quite well on it's own at the moment anyway. Might be worth reading the full quote on this.

"Less well known [than other paradoxes Popper discusses] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."

 

[berbatrick]

much to consider ...

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(my obviously unimpeachable comparison is that, if we're lucky, we are at the bell riots stage of star trek, and the pre-epstein-drive phase of the expanse)

 

[LARulz]

much to consider ...

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He is so desperate for a gig there its depressingly comical

 

[GDaly95]

Looks so unbearable.

'Woke watch', 'uncancelled'. It's like the exact type of cringey right-wing nonsense you would come to expect from old and out of touch media heads with zero creativity.

And Farage just endlessly banging on about the people getting into the UK on boats. I feel like its all he's talked about for months and instead of trying to freshen things up now he's on a new platform he's just harping on about the same old shite.

Dan Wootton seems braindead as well. Type of person who can regurgitate information but can't formulate any thoughts of his own.

I am surprised at how badly its doing ratings wise though. I thought / feared that a huge proportion of the UK would lap it up.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

much to consider ...

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(my obviously unimpeachable comparison is that, if we're lucky, we are at the bell riots stage of star trek, and the pre-epstein-drive phase of the expanse)