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- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 21 hours ago:
It is a political tool …
What is?
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 2 days ago:
national narrative
WTF is that?
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
feigning ignorance of the subject matter
your comments do come off a little bit like that
LOL damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If one doesn’t understand what another person means, there’s no way to gain understanding except to ask them. That people interpret genuine attempts to enter into dialogue as feigning ignorance shows, to me at least, how astonishingly low the average level of communication ability is.
people often use it to dismiss any further discussion
Communication can be too difficult for some.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
the sealion
I don’t understand what you mean.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 2 weeks ago:
each party
Who decides who is a “party”?
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
Wow, who did all that? Do you have references to back up what you’re saying?
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
I believe there’s strength in sticking with the other EU members
What do you mean, “strength”?
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
The architects and enablers of Brexit should be tried as traitors.
Why? How did they betray the nation?
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
I hope so.
Can I ask why?
conveniences of the EU
Such as?
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
God yes please.
Can I ask why you want to rejoin?
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
God I hope not. Why the fuck would we want to join the EU again?
- Comment on Poor governance at Mermaids amounted to mismanagement, inquiry reveals. 3 weeks ago:
akin to the teaching of creationism in the science curriculum across the pond
LOL that’s off-deep-end hyperbole
- Comment on British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses 1 month ago:
“It’s like influencers who are going to Syria, just doing travel vlogs from Syria without talking about years and years of war and devastation. You can’t do that, and you can’t do that in Xinjiang either.”
Actually you can.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Theresa May was all about drug control because her husband is high up in a company that pretty much has a monopoly on medical cannabis export.
It looks like you’re confusing Theresa May and Victoria Atkins:
www.bbc.co.uk/…/uk-england-lincolnshire-44109060
…stackexchange.com/…/did-the-husbands-of-theresa-…
New labour, in the early 2000s, made moves to be more lenient on cannabis, and they were absolutely hounded by the conservative press for it, which then prompted them to reverse track.
No. New Labour under Tony Blair didn’t just make moves, they changed they law in 2001 and reclassified cannabis from class B to class C. This was fine and even up until 2006, the Blair government stated that they would not be reclassifying cannabis to class B. Then, after Gordon Brown (whose father was a Christian minister) became prime minister in 2007, his government changed the law again in 2008 and reclassified cannabis back from class C to class B, based on lies which they themselves produced.
I’m not sure where you got the idea that the right wing press had anything to do with it. This was entirely the doing of Gordon Brown (whose father was a Christian minister).
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
True but I found it interesting reading positive drug stories in The Mirror when I read them.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
give me a dirty look
QED
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Mate, they’re people too.
This does not accord with my experience.
They generally don’t care on a personal level
Again, this does not accord with my experience.
except pearl clutchers
You mean like mini Hitlers who get nervous when people don’t Follow The Rules? AKA police officers?
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Alcoholic drinks are the blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
if they were to stop everyone like that they’d have their hands full
Just because they have to prioritise, doesn’t mean they’re happy about people using cannabis.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Why won’t they just take the shot?
Religion. Many people (like Theresa May, whose father was a Christian minister and Gordon Brown, whose father was a Christian minister) see taking drugs as inherently immoral.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
I think the government/police are generally happy to ignore it
I’m not sure where you get that idea from.
- Comment on Ketamine: what you need to know about the UK’s growing drug problem. 1 month ago:
on the internet always …
Please don’t presume to advise me.
- Comment on Ketamine: what you need to know about the UK’s growing drug problem. 1 month ago:
You’re not willing to be candid about why you posted a negative article about drugs. I presume your reasons are religious or otherwise ideological.
- Comment on Ketamine: what you need to know about the UK’s growing drug problem. 1 month ago:
I don’t believe I need to know anything presented in this article. I would like to know why the author thinks I need to know lots of dry statistics and speculation but they don’t bother to present that bit of information, alas.
- Comment on Royton Cemetery mass grave: Babies and children among 300 bodies found 2 months ago:
How on Earth did the woman “uncover” a mass grave? No details at all in the article. Typical BBC crap.
- Comment on The male gaze in these places is cranked up to over 9000 but women are just not the target 2 months ago:
I think you’ve confused what “male gaze” refers to:
- Comment on UK's first drugs consumption room to open in October 2 months ago:
No.
- Comment on UK's first drugs consumption room to open in October 2 months ago:
Finally!
- Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act 2 months ago:
A vocal critic of NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine
Stopped reading there.