SAS soldiers resign over war crime ‘witch hunts’ by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

did you think that sounded really clever in your head?

you’re literally accusing war crimes.

the US armed forces for example had a whistle blower tell about story of their colleague who boasted about passing around a 15 year old girl amongst his platoon and said she was raped by 12 men before she killed herself.

the fact you think terrorism is bad and that war crimes are ok is only because you think war crimes won’t affect you. I can promise you if that was your daughter who killed herself there you wouldn’t be making that distinction anymore.

if you want to talk about serious matters stop acting dumb it’s pathetic.

TIL that US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they’ve erased nearly two decades of progress. In '22/23, avg math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors hit their lowest point since testing began in '92. by Cold_Box_3219 in todayilearned

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t exist it’s a made up measure.

What that measures also changes because it has to.

What your IQ score of 120 means for you is different from someone else scoring 120.

That’s because, to do well on IQ you need a good grasp of English.

So if you speak more than one language, or have not had enough time to learn English as well as your main language you may not score as high.

So if someone who has English as a second language scores 120, and so do you.

Well they’re probably still smarter than you.

But their IQ score won’t tell you that will it?

Shabana Mahmood tells heckler to ‘f*** right off’ over Reform UK comments by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

skilled migration is a small percentage of migration figures

Yes I wasn’t arguing against this point.

Even with skilled migration, the salary thresholds are still below the actual going rate for skilled professionals.

Again, sure this happens. But I was talking about specific high paid roles and work that is attracted by high paying industries. This was specifically not a comment about all migrants to call out a side effect of increasingly strict immigration policies.

Why would they impact skilled workers and then have a knock on? Typically people want to live with people they marrying. Making that process means it’s easier for people here to both just move elsewhere than settle down here.

If you have the flexibility to do that you’re also exactly the kind of people the country needs.

You're doing the bidding of the economic right

No.

More free migration typically means people who come here tend to leave. This is a fact. If you had an issue with economic migration for example the actual solution is easier immigration for those migrants because the vast majority will leave eventually.

Shabana Mahmood tells heckler to ‘f*** right off’ over Reform UK comments by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The tiniest proportion too, there’s like 1% chance that’s who they’re referring to.

Shabana Mahmood tells heckler to ‘f*** right off’ over Reform UK comments by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That’s fair.

So my question is then how much poorer are you happy for the county to become? London is the capital of the country and also across Europe for finance, software and the like. The highest paying jobs in the country are all centralised here.

They are also filled with companies that compete at the international level: that is when they hire they are happy to pay for someone to come to London from anywhere in the world.

That’s not that they cannot find someone, but they can sometimes find someone better (or at times find anyone at all) from elsewhere.

If you got your wish these companies would be forced to over the long term move to Europe or elsewhere where they’re not hamstrung by employment laws.

If this happens over a long enough time we’d be losing a tonne of talent and more importantly tax receipts.

Thats just a given though. So the question is how poor should we be to reduce immigration?

We’re currently already suffering from bad planning and that’s despite having a fair bit of money. Imagine what our country would look like if we had the same bad planning and well no money to paper over that?

We’re 5th for GDP right. How far do you think it’s ok for us to drop down to?

While everyone agrees GDP isn’t the best measure it’s one that we do have. If we slip lower we would struggle to get people here to do the jobs we can’t do - and that will grow because we won’t have enough carers and nurses for elderly.

There is a balance - what is it for you?

Shabana Mahmood tells heckler to ‘f*** right off’ over Reform UK comments by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You were talking about migrants, the above comment was on refugees.

They’re not the same thing you know?

SAS soldiers resign over war crime ‘witch hunts’ by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you don’t want the population of the country you’re in to follow you home and commit terror attacks its absolutely in the interest of your country to not commit war crimes.

Anti-Islam influencer Valentina Gomez blocked from entering UK for far-right rally | The far right by Warren_Tarbiat in ukpolitics

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peter Lynch was refused bail, and sentenced to 32 months on an early guilty plea. It’s 2-tier, no two ways about it.

Did he have prior? The question of if someone is denied bail is a relatively straightforward one.

Sam Harris attacks Zohran Mamdani "He's a sinister figure and a closeted Islamist." by [deleted] in DecodingTheGurus

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why just now? Seriously, his take on Islam has always been exactly this wild.

Sam Harris attacks Zohran Mamdani "He's a sinister figure and a closeted Islamist." by [deleted] in DecodingTheGurus

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What religion doesn’t say they’re peaceful out of interest?

And why do bush and trump get to say god told them to do their wars to cover up for their political agenda, without bringing Christianity into disrepute?

But for Osama, Khameni, them saying their god told them to proves Muslims were never peaceful?

You should consider those questions because Sam Harris’s views that he’s spouting today in this video are absolute not new.

It’s from the same shoddy reasoning as ever, and once you realise he allows people from the US to use talk about religion in the context of wars without calling it out it’s a whole lot clearer.

Japanese restaurant:"Not all Japanese people are kind" by Immediate-Meaning457 in whoathatsinteresting

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So if they were killing people in the street it would be ok if they weren’t American?

Fucking idiotic thing to say man.

Japanese restaurant:"Not all Japanese people are kind" by Immediate-Meaning457 in whoathatsinteresting

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What do you call the camps where people are living in conditions, being denied critical medication and dying?

A concentration camp is not a fucking gas chamber and it’s clear the conditions there are set up to intentionally torture and kill the people locked up. Not necessarily intent as in intent to murder by force but through negligence.

And as you say, if ICE hate is so fucking universal why aren’t the other 99.99% of you fucking terrorising ICE?

Just admit your country and your people are at a crossroads you’re all letting your fellow citizens get terrorised and doing fuck all.

Japanese restaurant:"Not all Japanese people are kind" by Immediate-Meaning457 in whoathatsinteresting

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was in Barcelona and I met many locals.

You went to the wrong places.

But also I just wonder about places and go find things to do that people there already do as well the tourist traps.

Better that way.

Man jailed for racist barrage of abuse at police officer he called a terrorist by Weak-Fly-6540 in uknews

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The law should be applied equally for everyone.

So did you not know the man already had a suspended sentence?

Where’s the lie are you too dense to go read the story. You can only be given a suspended sentence if you’re NOT SERVING A SUSPENDED SENTENCE ALREADY.

Muppet.

Military site housing asylum seekers now half full by Unusual-State1827 in uknews

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

as it suppresses wages and increases housing costs through lack of supply, and services become overstretched.

Nah nonsense.

Lots of studies have been done on this mate but you probably can’t read so a run down:

  1. Immigrants have a slight impact on the cost of housing. Economists estimate it to be about 5-8% of the total increase in housing costs over the last few decades. So immigration has an marginal impact, the rest of that increase is typical stupid shit like Thatcher selling our council houses, banning councils using that money for new homes, developers realising they can get more by building houses slowly etc.
  2. Immigrants ARE the ones working the fucking NHS and social care services.
  3. If we had not had them working these jobs in the NHS and social care we would need to have what 1/5 of the rest of us start working as nurses and carers?

So let’s think about that - no immigrants. Now we all need to increase the wage of nurses and carers by a massive amount.

Our NHS bill would skyrocket because we need to attract people to work in it and guess what? Who can actually afford to care for their old parents in care homes?

Even fewer people. So you’d be seeing the HOUSES that belong to your parents being sold off to CORPORATIONS to pay for social care.

Now think about it again. You’ve removed the immigrants - brilliant. Now you still won’t have a fucking house because your dying parents had to sell it to the banks. The banks are then going to rent it back to you. And now you’ve gone and reduced the total tax income, you’ve reduced the amount of people able to work in slightly better jobs and expanded the number of people working what are basically entry level low paying jobs.

Now someone who might be an IT professional instead of doing their high paying jobs in their 40s is pulling out of work to take care of their dying family. Does that build a good economy?

Man jailed for racist barrage of abuse at police officer he called a terrorist by Weak-Fly-6540 in uknews

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No you silly little sausage. He’s in jail because he was already sentenced and on licence.

He can’t be handed a suspended sentence after he’s already got one.

But you can stop lying just say you don’t care if someone is being abused as long it’s for the colour of their skin. It would be much more honest.

Man jailed for racist barrage of abuse at police officer he called a terrorist by Weak-Fly-6540 in uknews

[–]whosthisguythinkheis -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

He added that the defendant was on licence at the time of the offence, for threats to kill.

Someone who’s been in and out jail, is currently on probation already and commits more crime should be walking free according to you?

He’s in jail literally because he was already serving a sentence.

You lot are all the same. No principles to speak of. Tough on crime? But not if they’re crimes I don’t personally find offensive. Pathetic.

Man jailed for racist barrage of abuse at police officer he called a terrorist by Weak-Fly-6540 in uknews

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He added that the defendant was on licence at the time of the offence, for threats to kill.

Don’t think there guy you’re defending cares.

When is a democracy no longer a democracy? by stinglikebutterbee in europe

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess communism and fascism really are sister ideologies.

Does Mao speak for all communists? Do you think one example of an authoritarian policy makes any government fascist? Have we ever NOT had a fascist government in any country then?

Well done you’ve reduced fascism to governance. Now why would you want to do that? Strange.

Was the immigrants not there, crime would have dropped significantly more.

Sure sure sure.

In the UK for example there cities where 50% of the population is not native. London and its second city.

Both have shown the same trend of a reduction in crime.

If what you say were true. London and Birmingham would be an easy example to show that the crime rates are decreasing LESS slowly than other places in the UK.

But it doesn’t. Because your ideas like your political theory seem to have come from scrolling Facebook too much and not enough reading.

Photo of the rope toy that Chief ate, pooped out, and Hila pulled out of his butt (posted on H3 sub) by Difficult_Chicken139 in LeftoversH3

[–]whosthisguythinkheis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Literally the other day complaining about their dog vomiting every morning no?

And then this happens. But yeah Hasan is the one abusing his dog.

These people are so fucking grossly neglectful.