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What a world we sadly live in :(, i have lived a lot longer then most on here and lived and worked in lots of different countrys and come across several faiths and cultures.

My honest opinion [ for what its worth] is there are arseholes in all faiths, beliefs and cultures no matter what they do or not believe.

I usally stay away from these types of threads as they generally go round and round with everyone blaming this faith or that faith. Sad times. 😢
You have nailed it though, something I have said on here for years.....there are people from all faiths and religions who want to live in peace and there are arseholes in all that ruin it for everyone. Everyone has them in equal portion.

I wish the arseholes would do one and leave the rest of us to live and let live in peace
 
What a world we sadly live in :(, i have lived a lot longer then most on here and lived and worked in lots of different countrys and come across several faiths and cultures.

My honest opinion [ for what its worth] is there are arseholes in all faiths, beliefs and cultures no matter what they do or not believe.

I usally stay away from these types of threads as they generally go round and round with everyone blaming this faith or that faith. Sad times. 😢
I don’t disagree with the sentiment at all but it’s generally just one faith that gets blamed, on here at least.
 
I don’t disagree with the sentiment at all but it’s generally just one faith that gets blamed, on here at least.

Fair comment, however its everywhere and in daily life. Its always that religion/that culture/ that faith etc,etc. Folks of all races/religion calling out others. My GHod, my faith, my culture is better then yours is the cry. Like i say i do not have a opinion/stance on what is good or bad.
 
Well you labelled it a religious belief which is fundamentally wrong to start with.

There is a religious zionism subgrouping (in both Christian 'bring on Armageddon/the Rapture' thinking and within some jewish communities) but it is overall a ethnic socio-political ideology, not a religion.
It isn't fundamentally wrong to start with. I was brought up in a Catholic family being dragged to mass and sunday school every week and having the contents of the bible rammed down my throat every sodding day of my childhood and early teens. I am not religious these days but this sh*t is ingrained into me.

Abraham was promised a holy land, his grandson Jacob was renamed Israel and his descendents were the israelites who inherited the holy land of israel promised to them by GHod. Zion is Jerusalem. The holiest city in Israel. For the lord has chosen Zion says the bible.

The whole zionist movement is based on this religious text that GHod commanded the israelites to move and settle Israel and Zion which was promised to them as a place of safety on condition of obiedience.
 
It isn't fundamentally wrong to start with. I was brought up in a Catholic family being dragged to mass and sunday school every week and having the contents of the bible rammed down my throat every sodding day of my childhood and early teens. I am not religious these days but this sh*t is ingrained into me.

Abraham was promised a holy land, his grandson Jacob was renamed Israel and his descendents were the israelites who inherited the holy land of israel promised to them by GHod. Zion is Jerusalem. The holiest city in Israel. For the lord has chosen Zion says the bible.

The whole zionist movement is based on this religious text that GHod commanded the israelites to move and settle Israel and Zion which was promised to them as a place of safety on condition of obiedience.

Everyone knows this. But Zionism is a movement to create an ethnostate. That's it.
 
On what basis has there been ever increasing wealth inequality and if there has been, on what basis does that link to increased racism/anti-semitism etc?

Every so often, the average person realises they're being shafted economically. Cue a few 'stories' guiding people to believe that this is all because of immigration/refugees/PoC, as opposed to corporate tax loopholes, policy agendas set to favour big business, economic policies which ensure the first cuts usually affect ordinary people first via services, etc. Trickle down economics failing? It MUST be the fault of all those immigrants!!!

https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/rese...fit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics

Obviously there are nuances, and of course there needs to be reasonable control applied to immigration, but there can be little doubt that when a problem exacerbated by the very wealthy pops up, well, let's blame immigration and refugees first.

Tragically, anti-semitism has never really gone away.
 
Every so often, the average person realises they're being shafted economically. Cue a few 'stories' guiding people to believe that this is all because of immigration/refugees/PoC, as opposed to corporate tax loopholes, policy agendas set to favour big business, economic policies which ensure the first cuts usually affect ordinary people first via services, etc. Trickle down economics failing? It MUST be the fault of all those immigrants!!!

https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/rese...fit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics

Obviously there are nuances, and of course there needs to be reasonable control applied to immigration, but there can be little doubt that when a problem exacerbated by the very wealthy pops up, well, let's blame immigration and refugees first.

Tragically, anti-semitism has never really gone away.
But this is the thing. All of this "problems exacerbated by the extremely wealthy", "policy agendas favouring big business"....it is lazy tropes that are just as poorly thought through as racism/anti-semitism.

Would you rather policy agendas didn't favour big business? Made it difficult to do big deala in this country? Taxed the hell out of big corporates? Made life difficult for them in this country? Then what would happen? We would just all be happily poorer together after all the jobs and investment have f*cked off elsewhere?

Cuts always impact ordinary people first via services? Yes, they do. As public services are provided by public funding so if public funding needs to be cut then yes, its the services that get cut. I will tell you what though, goimg after big business and the wealthy and making it unfavourable for them here will lead to one guaranteed outcome: a huge drop in public revenue.

What problems have the ultra wealthy actually caused? You are ranting about people just saying "its all their fault" directed at immigrants when are you not just doing the same at another demograhic?
 
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This is the thing about people like him and Corbyn. More focused on the rights and safety of terrorists and other dangerous nutjobs than on the people they are tryimg to hurt.

No they aren't. They are focused on equity and justice. How the eff is this an argument. Those officers went overboard as per their rules. That doesn't mean you can't find it edifying to see him get battered (I don't). Some people will.
 
But this is the thing. All of this "problems exacerbated by the extremely wealthy", "policy agendas favouring big business"....it is lazy tropes that are just as poorly thought through as racism/anti-semitism.


I've lived 59 years on this planet, and I can tell you there is nothing 'lazy' or 'trope-like' about the things I am saying.
Do you really, really want to to get into a discussion of the fairness of CEO bonuses versus their 'performance' versus the people who actually do the work?
Do you really want to get into a discussion regarding the growth of wealth inequity globally and how it really ISN'T the fault of PoC?

And let me cut you off before you blast an insult my way, I am all for people being able to make whatever money they can and want to. I am not anti-wealth whatsoever. I have spent 40+ years working with people who are enormously wealthy in their field. What I am against is unfairness.
'Poorly thought tropes' eh?
Just one source here...there are others.

https://inequality.org/facts/global... been on the,people living in extreme poverty.


Would you rather policy agendas didn't favour big business? Made it difficult to do big deala in this country? Taxed the hell out of big corporates? Made life difficult for them in this country? Then what would happen? We would just all be happily poorer together after all the jobs and investment have f*cked off elsewhere?

Of course not. That is why I said there are nuances to the discussion. The issue is that globally, the corporations and uber-wealthy have rigged a system whereby if they do not get enormous tax breaks then they pack their brick up and toddle off to somewhere which is even more favorable. It is a far greater issue than just Britain or the US, it is a global problem and we are in a cycle which (IMO) is approaching it's peak point.


Cuts always impact ordinary people first via services? Yes, they do. As public services are provided by public funding so if public funding needs to be cut then yes, its the services that get cut. I will tell you what though, goimg after big business and the wealthy and making it unfavourable for them here will lead to one guaranteed outcome: a huge drop in public revenue.

It isn't even about 'going after', it's about balancing and being fairer.
I am not naive, I understand that we are in a phase of accelerated and exceptionally aggressive capitalism that is dragging us to the very precipice of monopolies. Several corporations and wealth groups basically control everything. How did we get here. That's not a direct question BTW, it's a very broad and general one which I believe we could all answer pretty easily. And I'll tell you this mate, immigration and refugees are nowhere near the top reasons for inequity of wealth.



What problems have the ultra wealthy actually caused? You are ranting about people just saying "its all their fault" directed at immigrants when are you not just doing the same at another demograhic?

If you are seriously asking me to explain this, then I fear we have reached the end of the conversation.

BTW, you might disagree with what I'm saying, but I do NOT fudging 'rant' whatsoever in that reply.
You asked a question, I answered it.
The fact you apparently have NOTHING to say other than hurl an insult speaks volumes.
 
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