Politics & Stuff

[cosmicway 1,333]

COPYRIGHT BULLIES AND YOUTUBE

They forced me to take down almost all my videos from youtube.
The excuse was "violation of copyright" but it was only scenes of movies - some funny lines.
I was lucky because the particular video they challenged was one for which the producers themselves had given me permission.
For some reason I had been in contact with them some ten years in the past, I asked them "do you approve of this ?" and they replied by email "yes-yes very nice".
So now they could n't sue me but rather reluctantly they said in the end "ok there was a license and now we revoke it".
When I asked "what about the tens of thousands of similar videos with just scenes in youtube ?" they said "we will catch everybody in the end".
Youtube themselves don't care less either way.

 

[lucio 5,418]

On 29/01/2023 at 19:38, Vesper said:

Sweden is pretty unique in terms of the insane amounts (the US population adjusted equivalent of over 50 million in the past 25 years) and the types we took in (hardcore islamistiska and western culture haters who never wanted to be here, unlike many of the UK immigrants to a degree and especially the US ones), then how we ended up isolating them and concentrating them in certain areas.

Plus, too many politicians on both sides ripped Swedish culture, and said for years that most efforts at integration were inherently racist. All the parties up until 2016 or so also refused to pretty much even discuss it and allowed the far right Sweden Democrats to grow to a point where they are now the 2nd biggest party and the power players behind the new RW government. They allow the trad RW (Moderaterna, Christian Democrats, Centre, Liberals, etc) to further turn the country over to the banksters and the billionaires, whilst pushing for crazy racist initiatives in exchange for their votes.

The refugees have now become a permanent underclass and are exploding our wealth inequality (as are the rise of the financial sector enriched millionaires and billionaires).

It's a clusterfuck of epic proportions.

Just now a 10 year old girl in Sweden got randomly stabbed in the park by some migrant man from some stone age country. You have to question what was the motivation behind letting such garbage into the country, because it was never going to benefit the people already living there.

[Vesper 30,272]

One of the most powerful anti-hate messages I have ever seen. Just wow.

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

On 07/03/2023 at 01:13, Vesper said:

One of the most powerful anti-hate messages I have ever seen. Just wow.

 

The haters are crazy folks.
The haters think the Belgians should take on the Swiss, the Swiss against the Portuguese, all together against the Swedes and so on.
It's literally like that.
Altogether in the service of Putin (Stalin-madame Mao previously).

[Hot Dawg 17]

Looks like Gary Lineker has started doing Hitler  sign language 😂

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

On 09/03/2023 at 19:46, Hot Dawg said:

Looks like Gary Lineker has started doing Hitler  sign language 😂

 

Suella is an immigrant.
Never had the opportunity to meet a converso of this type.
I have come across converted commies, converted fascists, converted socialists - all kinds.
But a converted immigrant ?
Extraordinary.

[Fulham Broadway 17,352]

MPs in Uganda have passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which would make homosexual acts punishable by death.

All but two of the 389 legislators voted late on Tuesday for the anti-homosexuality bill, which introduces capital and life imprisonment sentences for gay sex and “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities”. 😲

[Fulham Broadway 17,352]

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

On 22/03/2023 at 03:56, Fulham Broadway said:

MPs in Uganda have passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which would make homosexual acts punishable by death.

All but two of the 389 legislators voted late on Tuesday for the anti-homosexuality bill, which introduces capital and life imprisonment sentences for gay sex and “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities”. 😲

The C of E is also in trouble over this.
We should oppose discrimination against LBGTQ because when we don't the Soviet spies will try to blackmail our spies.
But all this gay atmosphere is none other than the old "Charilaos prem" 21st century style.
Charilaos Florakis was the leader of the Greek communist party.
Everytime we had elections the conservative New Democracy had to dish out some confetti money, so the reds would not boost the socialist party vote.
We don't say it any longer, but it has been replaced by the "brotherhood of the knights".

Edited March 23, 2023 by cosmicway

[Fulham Broadway 17,352]

130 mass shootings in the US since January. 10 000 people shot to death so far this year.

Is the NRA right ? 'guns dont kill people, people kill people'

Maybe the gun has something to do with it, just a hunch.

[Fulham Broadway 17,352]

Trump - apparently there's 30 counts in the indictment and the hush money to plastic tits, the thing might stretch to 2 counts. They're going to indict him on every criminal thing he's ever done in NY including the indictments Cy Vance decided not to file last year.

Melania probably can't wait to have that huge carcass writhing on top of her, tiny hands grasping...

 

[Vesper 30,272]

DONALD TRUMP INDICTED ON 34 COUNTS, IMMEDIATELY LOSES HIS MIND

 

[Vesper 30,272]

[Vesper 30,272]

Goodwin’s Law: How Britain’s Political 'Elite' Seek to Distract From Their Own Power

The longer a debate continues, the greater the likelihood is that the side with actual power will accuse the side with none, of being part of the 'elite'

https://adambienkov.substack.com/p/goodwins-law-how-britains-political

There’s an old adage from the early days of the internet which suggests that the longer an online discussion continues, the greater the probability that somebody will mention the Nazis.

This truism, known as ‘Godwin’s Law’ after the American lawyer who first coined it, now has a far more modern equivalent in British politics.

This updated version, which I will call ‘Goodwin’s Law’ after the one-time academic, turned anti-woke warrior, Professor Matthew Goodwin, states that the longer an online debate continues, the greater the possibility that the side with actual power will accuse the side with none, of being part of the ‘elite’.

No-one has more perfectly demonstrated this than Goodwin himself, who this week toured the nation’s television studios in order to promote his new book about what he calls the “new elite” now governing British life.

If you’ve somehow missed Goodwin’s thesis, you might assume that the “governing class” he refers to is the actual Government that has been in charge of the UK for the past 13 years, as well as its extensive network of financial and media supporters. 

You might even assume that it includes organisations like the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum, whose think tank arm currently employs Goodwin himself.

However, you would be wrong.

For Goodwin, the actual people running the show are the “radical woke middle-class liberals” which make up Britain’s “new elite.”

As he explains in his promotional piece for The Sun, these include:

“The increasingly political celebrity class, like Carol Vorderman and Gary Lineker, the legal activists who argue their profession should no longer be impartial, or prominent left-leaning journalists, like Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and others, who similarly shape the national conversation around a particular set of minority values. Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell. Almost any Radio 4 presenter.”

 

So while you might have assumed that Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron have been in charge of the country for the past decade, it has in fact been under the all-seeing Machiavellian control of a shadowy elite, headed by the former presenter of Countdown.

Of course it’s easy to mock such nonsense, which is exactly why I have, but there is actually a serious point here.

In recent years there has been a co-ordinated attempt by people in powerful positions, to accuse anyone who dares to question that power, of being part of an ‘elite’ that is wildly out of touch with the actual public. This strategy was first trialed during the Brexit referendum, when Boris Johnson and his media supporters waged a campaign against so-called ‘elite’ Remainers.

At the time this was a hugely successful strategy, in large part because it had at least a grain of truth to it. The Remain campaign at the time was led by the Prime Minister, his government, the opposition, most business people and trade unions. Attempts to paint these people as the ‘elite’ were therefore not difficult, even if those leading the Leave campaign were equally as much of a part of that elite as those who opposed it.

However, since Cameron was replaced, and since Brexit was actually enacted, Johnson and his successors have continued to use these tactics, despite the fact that they are now very much in power and despite the fact that both of the major political parties back the status quo on Brexit.

Of course pursuing an anti-establishment message when you are the actual establishment inevitably poses some difficulties, as Johnson eventually found out at the end of his premiership.

This is especially the case when the people most keen on attacking the ‘elite’ are so obviously part of that elite themselves. Whether it’s Eton-educated politicians like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg, or their social equivalents running newspapers like the Daily Mail and The Sun, attempts by the actual elite to distance themselves from their own power and status have become increasingly less convincing.

For these people, Goodwin’s theory obviously has a great deal of appeal.

However, trying to construct an actual academic basis for such a flimsy theory is difficult, as Professor Goodwin’s rather awkward attempts this week clearly demonstrate.

As a result some shortcuts are inevitable. For Goodwin, who first made a name for himself through his attempts to paint Brexit as some sort of grassroots popular revolt, rather than one backed by some of the most powerful people in the country (including Goodwin’s own current employers) the need for academic rigour appears to have been gradually sacrificed.

So while he now claims that Gary Lineker and other members of this supposed “new elite” are wildly out of touch with the public on issues like immigration, he ignores almost all of the evidence showing that public opinion is actually far more nuanced than his caricature suggests.

 

An exchange between Matthew Goodwin and Jonn Elledge

Meanwhile his own ‘People polling’ operation, which is conducted for the benefit of the similarly Legatum-funded GB News channel, is used to add intellectual and academic heft to what, is in reality, a fairly transparent attempt to deflect blame from those people with power, to those people without. 

So whether it’s desperate refugees on small boats, or the handful of celebrities who dare to use their platforms to support them, Goodwin’s ‘new elite’ bears little resemblance to the actual people who have been in charge of the country for the past 13 years.

For this reason, Goodwin’s work is already receiving a lot of attention from those who most stand to benefit from his theory. In one review in the Times, which describes his book as “forceful”, the former journalist turned Conservative think-tanker Sebastian Payne writes that “the fundamental thrust of Goodwin’s argument is right,” even if he does admit to finding some flaws in his arguments.

Such flaws are unlikely to receive much attention, however. As long as there are think tanks and media organisations with pockets deep enough to fund and promote the idea that the actual people with power in the country do not have enough of it, then Goodwin and people like him are likely to remain gainfully employed.

Yet for anyone without such dishonest motivations, Goodwin’s arguments should be treated with the disdain they really deserve.

Edited April 2, 2023 by Vesper

[Fulham Broadway 17,352]

Putin didnt want Ukraine joining NATO and being on Russias border. Spectacularly backfires as Finland joins NATO today

[Fernando 6,591]

On 28/03/2023 at 13:23, Fulham Broadway said:

130 mass shootings in the US since January. 10 000 people shot to death so far this year.

Is the NRA right ? 'guns dont kill people, people kill people'

Maybe the gun has something to do with it, just a hunch.

The problem is that guns will come from Russia or something like that. 
It won't change anything. 

Example NYC has the strictest gun law and people have a lot here. 

That being said if you notice the crimes, is everyone doing it. 

If it was racist you could say, but it's everyone, black, white, latino and trans. 

So it's the people. And not to say that seems to happen here. Don't hear about this happening in China or Russia or something like that. 

So again there's something wrong with out people. 

[Fulham Broadway 17,352]

3 hours ago, Fernando said:

The problem is that guns will come from Russia or something like that. 
It won't change anything. 

Example NYC has the strictest gun law and people have a lot here. 

That being said if you notice the crimes, is everyone doing it. 

If it was racist you could say, but it's everyone, black, white, latino and trans. 

So it's the people. And not to say that seems to happen here. Don't hear about this happening in China or Russia or something like that. 

So again there's something wrong with out people. 

It's a real tragedy -we know the answer it's anti-gun legislation, but the gun lobby, and peoples long held belief in the 'right to bear arms' makes it almost impossible within the realms of Republicanism/Democratic bipartisanship. Even the fact that 300 children have been killed by guns this year is swept under the carpet. I remember one of my American University lecturers saying the only way it would change if some Senators, Presidents children and families were massacred because so many of them are in the pockets of the NRA. It's heartbreaking knowing that innocent civilians, children, will be slaughtered in the coming months, and the same old tropes will be trotted out by the corporate media.

[Fernando 6,591]

1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said:

It's a real tragedy -we know the answer it's anti-gun legislation, but the gun lobby, and peoples long held belief in the 'right to bear arms' makes it almost impossible within the realms of Republicanism/Democratic bipartisanship. Even the fact that 300 children have been killed by guns this year is swept under the carpet. I remember one of my American University lecturers saying the only way it would change if some Senators, Presidents children and families were massacred because so many of them are in the pockets of the NRA. It's heartbreaking knowing that innocent civilians, children, will be slaughtered in the coming months, and the same old tropes will be trotted out by the corporate media.

Well I hope they do ban guns for your argument. 

But watch it won't change anything. It will come to the US just like drugs. You can't get rid of it unless you ban worldwide, and we know that is never going to happen. 

That being said it will help a bit, as it will stop it from places in the US to get it for easy. But that's about it. 

Edited April 3, 2023 by Fernando

[Fulham Broadway 17,352]

11 minutes ago, Fernando said:

Well I hope they do ban guns for your argument. 

But watch it won't change anything.

I think it would dramatically reduce the deaths and maiming. You are right there would still be illegal guns, but making it an offence to have one would overnight reduce the killing. But sadly we know it will not happen, whilst there are more guns than people in the US.

[cosmicway 1,333]

Are you a language defender ?
In Italy prime minister ms Meloni is soon to enact a new law prohibiting the English language:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/01/europe/italian-government-penalize-english-words-intl/index.html

That reminds of Cato the censor, but in Greece George Papadopoulos did a similar trick back in 1967: The words <<hotel>> and <<institut>> were forbidden. Thus <<institut Francais>> had to change its name and <<Pasteur institute>> did likewise.

I am in two minds.
Recently a friend posted in facebook a list of about 30 Greek words and the equivalent imported words we normaly tend to use, thus insulting the Greek language as he maintained.
One example is the lift. We don't say lift, we say "ascensceur" in this case -the French word- but the Greek word is "anelkystir" or "anelkystiras" rather.
I did this: Counted the vowel sounds in the foreign words and the vowel sounds in the Greek words. The count was foreign = 80, Greek = 120.
So I said to him "here is your explanation - with your words we reach Kalamata before we utter a sentence, with the other ones it's easier".
Because he is a mathematician he accepted the explanation as valid.

The English language enthusiasts, in Trump country mostly, expresss similar sentiments as those of ms Meloni in Italy, but I hesitate.
Speaking of Trump country what about my aunt from Chicago ? She used to speak half and half. Woud they send the carabinieri after her ?
What is your opinion ?