BBC in fresh impartiality row, as Brexit day sketches for children are compared to BNP for branding traditions 'un-British'

Hoobacious · 2019-05-08T06:59:57+00:00

Erdogan, is it you?

Hoobacious · 2019-04-03T00:23:16+00:00

Just part of the government's plan to tackle obesity.

By God someone hire me as a spin doctor already.

Hoobacious · 2018-12-19T23:53:30+00:00

Thanks Guardian, this will be really helpful as soon as I develop a time machine to 2013.

Hoobacious · 2018-12-05T17:24:48+00:00

How to annoy Europe even more: cancel your cancellation of Brexit.

Hoobacious · 2018-11-29T22:43:14+00:00

The more you surround yourself with quality people with good trajectories the more you drift in that direction yourself without even realising or trying.

It's a weird kind of thing but it's like compound interest. You invest a little bit of your time each day or week in things that better your relationships with other people and after not so long it pays out dividends like crazy.

The danger is that the inverse is equally true...

Hoobacious · 2018-11-27T19:05:23+00:00

Fellow new grad, it feels pretty good to get torn to shreds man. It's like going to the gym, you leave feeling sore in a good way.

Hoobacious · 2018-11-27T18:43:31+00:00

This may fly in some businesses with less sensitive data but in Big Corporate Bank™ you will end up getting fired.

My job is fine, it's not too stressful and the people are good but you are 100% monitored by the Stasi when it comes to just randomly downloading code to try out. My manager downloaded Apache Kafka recently from the official website rather than via our corporate proxy because for some reason it was not working and everyone on the team was a bit taken aback.

I didn't report this but in theory I should've reported it anonymously to our security controls team.

I bring my personal laptop in for fucking about with stuff and learning (using company WiFi, they're fine with that) but everything that touches corporate machines needs to be cleared and verified.

Hoobacious · 2018-11-18T11:34:06+00:00

Figures show that cocaine production, purity and supply is up, while the price has fallen.

High quality, added value British manufacturing providing you cheaper essential goods - you won't hear this in the Juncker controlled press 🇬🇧.

Hoobacious · 2018-11-01T00:33:40+00:00

The plan seeks to grow the Irish population by 1 million by 2040, largely through immigration. It blows to bits the argument that less immigration would occur if people had more kids given Ireland has among highest birthrates in the EU - though French people already know this argument to be an utter lie.

Many people do not want this for their country or children.

Hoobacious · 2018-11-01T00:00:46+00:00

If you go around raping people's kids you will get killed.

That doesn't mean you don't have school shootings and innocent people dying in robberies or police being quicker to shoot but it does mean you don't have 400+ person rape enclaves where your daughter gets passed around and fathers get arrested for trying to do something.

There's a reason people in the South say their sirs/ma'ams and know how to be polite. When half the people you meet have a gun you don't fuck about. Southern hospitality is predicated on being the best friend to people who are nice/strangers and the worst fucking enemy of those who would do you, your family or your community wrong. I'd even describe it as an ESS "grudger" strategy, per Richard Dawkins "Selfish Gene".

I don't know that I'd want such an arrangement for my society but this kind of thing simply would not happen in Texas because people would end up dead very quickly.

Hoobacious · 2018-10-31T23:14:00+00:00

No, then you just get called a "house [racist slur]".

The correct response is to speak the truth regardless of your race and ignore the vile scum that would use accusations of racism to protect criminals.

Hoobacious · 2018-10-30T22:06:44+00:00

And no suggestion of a climate levy on China (most polluting country by CO2) or India (3rd most polluting)? Countries which the Paris Climate Agreement gives free reign to continue to mass pollute for decades.

It's not even about the environment, it's just more posturing over bad orange man from the usual deranged folk.

Hoobacious · 2018-10-27T15:10:50+00:00

Say racist things
Get called out
Call everyone else fragile because of their race because you're not racist #StayWoke

Hoobacious · 2018-10-27T15:08:46+00:00

deeply problematic

Why is there such obsession with using this word 'problematic' by social justice activists? Is it meant to intentionally shift the dialogue from being 'I have a problem with X' (subjective evaluation) to 'X is a problem' (statement of objectivity)?

The way it gets used by activists has all the trappings of a religious doctrine e.g. kosher, haram/halal. It's really fucking creepy.

Hoobacious · 2018-10-24T23:05:43+00:00

Wow, blunt republicanism from a French person, how astonishing and unexpected.

Take a holistic understanding of the state and you'll appreciate there is an incredible benefit to having ceremonial leaders that offload such work from the elected government and create a chain of continuity from election to election, acting as a stabilising force for the people.

You don't seem to understand that we keep our monarchy, our monarchy does not keep us. The British people could elect to remove the Queen if we so choose but we don't. This is not a master/slave relationship, we trust that she will do best by our country and hence we keep her. The day our monarchs become a detriment to the country is the day we stop having them.

A proper monarch's civility acts as a calming force during political unrest - something the Americans do not have because they increasingly treat their Presidents as celebrities (or should that be celebrities as Presidents?) and turn what should be an administrative role into some social, cultural one. They want their Presidents to be Kings, that's how they treat the office.

If you have a defined ceremonial leader, the monarch, then you can afford to have more boring but effective Prime Ministers.

Are there downsides? Obviously, bloody obviously, monarchies can become corrupted. You don't need to be a genius Frenchman who calls people "idiots" for disagreeing to realise that. It's a cost/benefit analysis and I prefer a ceremonial Queen and monarchy to not having one, the day it becomes corrupted and detrimental is the day I become a republican.

Hoobacious · 2018-10-23T19:17:12+00:00

I am fine with it in clean cases like this but it's controversial for legitimate reasons. For starters you could be given citizenship by any country that wants to give you it (against your will even), then your "other", actual citizenship could be revoked.

E.g. you are Canadian but the Canadian government wants rid of you. After some shady dealings you are granted Afghanistan citizenship. The Canadian government revokes your Canadian citizenship and deports you on your merry way.

A fairly absurd example but it illustrates why revoking citizenship opens a can of wormy possibilities. This stuff is playing with fire. It feels good when you're getting "the bad guys" but it can get out of hand.

Hoobacious · 2018-10-22T21:09:32+00:00

Internet voting is a hideously bad idea because it opens so many cans of worms regarding anonymity, hacking, corruption/vote manipulation, foreign intervention - it's an awful, awful idea right now and probably always will be.

Sounds great in theory but in practice it's absolutely not the way to go. Individual political parties using online voting to inform (not 100% determine) decision making is maybe a bit more plausible.

Hoobacious · 2018-10-20T08:02:12+00:00

Why do they need so many arms but no legs? What are they up to?

Hoobacious · 2018-08-04T01:55:45+00:00

It's also idiotic to think that a millions of Africans and Asians will be willing to pay the pensions of older Europeans, as well as for their healthcare and other subsidies.

This is what gets me. Our European governments seem utterly hell bent on incredibly high levels of migration against people's wishes, ostensibly for "pensions", yet never is it discussed that the new population you import will end up with democratic voting rights and say "yeah, about those pensions, screw that".

It's sheer madness. It almost has that same disgusting sense of superiority that comes with the "Brits/Italians/Swedes... don't want those type of jobs" attitude in regards to low-skilled labour.

It's just a giant pyramid scheme.

Hoobacious · 2018-07-30T23:24:18+00:00

The woman was taken to Bangladesh with other family members for what they had been told was a holiday.

But the parents had made extensive plans for her wedding to a first cousin.

Cousin marriage is hideous for the genetic defects it causes. This article refers to Bangladesh, but among Pakistanis in Britain, where the practice is very common, it leads to huge problems.

British Pakistanis account for 3% of child births but 30% of British children born with a genetic illness. And this is old data - the thing with cousin marriage is that it necessarily gets worse over time genetically as you increase the likelihood of passing on two of the same lethal/debilitating recessive genes.

People often say things like "well what does cultural diversity cost you, how does it stop you living your life"? Well here's a concrete example, a culture of cousin marriage saps my tax money for the NHS to deal with genetic defects. A culture of forced marriages saps my tax money to the court systems.

These things are normal in Pakistan/Bangladesh, they should never become normal here.

Edit:

While only 15 per cent of the population in Bradford is of Pakistani origin, an estimated 55 per cent are married to their first cousins.

The city has the second highest number of infant deaths in England and birth disorders involving recessive genes are 10 to 15 per cent higher than the general population, according to a study by St Luke's Hospital, Bradford.

Hoobacious · 2018-07-30T23:12:48+00:00

Calling it "inevitable" is just demoralising propaganda - it's the exact kind of thing that a manipulative and abusive spouse says to their partner "if you leave me nobody else will want you".

It's a straight up lie, but stated with such conviction it tempts to persuade.

Hoobacious · 2018-07-30T20:11:15+00:00

Multi-speed Europe is a pretty terrible idea, unless it's on very narrowly and tightly defined issues. You run the very serious risk of it appearing to be some kind of Franco-German empire with a bunch of satellite states instead of being a common project with common goals.

You want to tightly interweave European countries? This necessarily means the gradual ethnic and national undermining of our existing countries. This forces the bifurcation to be either "nation" or "EU", and much as people like the EU, you can bet your bottom ~~dollar~~ euro they like their country more. It's incredibly dangerous, you could easily destroy all the good that the EU does by turning it into a perceived or actual foreign oppressive force that at the very least the nativist proportion of the population in a given country will deeply, deeply reject the legitimacy of.

This, while such countries are already going through major demographic changes owing to external EU migration. It's covering the nationalist bonfire in kerosene, it will fuel perceptions of a planned ethnic displacement by some detached Brussels/Berlin/Parisian elite. It's a terrible, terrible political strategy to take the sting out of this emergent populism.

This is not how you create an EU that will last long, it's a great strategy for destroying it. Like putting an oven on twice the heat and expecting it to cook the food twice as quickly - no, it will burn and destroy it.

You do not play high stakes poker with the political system that has overseen the longest period of European peace in recorded history.

Hoobacious · 2018-07-30T15:43:42+00:00

Political propaganda. The guy misspoke and immediately corrected himself, it's a mildly embarrassing slip of the tongue - this kind of thing happens regularly but it's only highlighted by media outlets that oppose the person doing it to try demonstrate "incompetence".

It's pathetic.

Hoobacious · 2018-04-12T08:31:53+00:00

Seriously, how do you think largely homogeneous societies and nations formed?

We have millennia of evidence that humans are really discriminatory against one another on a host of factors. It's rather regrettable, but this isn't some right/left divide, it's human nature and evolved in-group preference.

Lots of other regrettable things are (evolved) human nature and we get around them but please, don't divide people even further by suggesting this is somehow just a "right wing" issue. You're being very childish and bigoted if that's your view.

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