comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
My eyes have been open to the naive assumptions I had of minorities. That they being minorities would want to help other minorities but this election specifically has taught me that many of them are very much ‘pull the ladder up once they’ve made it’ types. Watching a Latino online saying his parents came from Cuba and the second they got settled in Miami they were very much anti ‘more Latinos’ coming into the country.
And that kind of ‘I’m alright jack’ mentality was an assumption the Democrats had thinking minorities would help. We see here in Australia come indigenous people act in the worst interests of their people by becoming right wingers - re Jacinta Price and in England the many Tory examples.
So yeah, I think the worst thing you can call some people is a minority as what they really want is to be accepted in their new country even if it means acting in the interest of those they most have kinship with
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People, wherever they come from, are a mixed bag. Who knew.
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 23 minutes ago
Oh come on
And who's fault was it that Corbyn and Foot "weren't given the opportunity" to govern?
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I don't know about Foot, but Corbyn had the party's entire Westminster apparatus and vast swathes of the main left-leaning media against him pretty much from day one.
You could argue it was his fault for not getting them onside, but how much of the actual left-wing principles and supporters that voted him in would he have had to betray?
comment by AFCISMYTEAM (U14931)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 1 minute ago
I don't really see the presidential election as anything other than a gameshow tbh, to a lot of Americans, they voted for Trump because he was more entertaining to watch.
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This..the whole of America just seems like a ongoing TV show imo...
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Isn't this partly what we make of it though?
We love stereotyping the Yanks, and in that regard, Trump makes for a near-perfect pantomime villain.
We mostly witness their reality through a computer/tv/phone screen and have much less exposure to whatever the current debates are in their public arenas.
And it's also a bit of a national pastime to depict them all as idiots.
Given how the far right is growing in Europe too, we could probably do worse than to question our own preconceptions.
I don't think we're any better, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage we just do things on a smaller scale.
Yes I think we have a large percentage of stupid people
https://x.com/saras76/status/1854068685930991952?s=46&t=OGfZZhWP7rROftTlMhKPZg
AI is crazy
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
My eyes have been open to the naive assumptions I had of minorities. That they being minorities would want to help other minorities but this election specifically has taught me that many of them are very much ‘pull the ladder up once they’ve made it’ types. Watching a Latino online saying his parents came from Cuba and the second they got settled in Miami they were very much anti ‘more Latinos’ coming into the country.
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Minorities are human beings, who knew.
comment by Bats Uncensored (U18355)
posted 2 hours, 3 minutes ago
https://x.com/saras76/status/1854068685930991952?s=46&t=OGfZZhWP7rROftTlMhKPZg
AI is crazy
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It's quite obviously AI if you're not an idiot
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 hours, 56 minutes ago
I don't think we're any better, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage we just do things on a smaller scale.
Yes I think we have a large percentage of stupid people
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You mean much like the US we have a large percentage of people who are more likely to vote for someone who they think will allow them to afford milk than someone who wants them to engage in a middle class pastime of checking others privileges for them.
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 23 minutes ago
Oh come on
And who's fault was it that Corbyn and Foot "weren't given the opportunity" to govern?
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I don't know about Foot, but Corbyn had the party's entire Westminster apparatus and vast swathes of the main left-leaning media against him pretty much from day one.
You could argue it was his fault for not getting them onside, but how much of the actual left-wing principles and supporters that voted him in would he have had to betray?
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Fair but this is what anyone left of the other seems to experiences
I find it frustrating that the people who feel Corbyn was sabotaged by the media etc don't see the same attacks being sent a Starmers or more recently Kamalas way
comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago
Interest rates cut to 4.75%
published at 12:00
12:00
BREAKING
The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the second time this year.
It has set the rate at 4.75%, down 0.25 percentage points from 5%.
Today’s decision means rates are now at their lowest point in more than year. The last time rates were below 5% was last June., external
This decision could lead to cheaper borrowing costs for things like mortgages and loans, but also lower returns on savings.
GET THE FOOOOK IN
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Except it didn’t. Because it doesn’t work as simply as that.
Mortgage rates for fixed terms are going to increase. Only those on variable rates may reduce. The banks will independently decide and seeing as the US is now a far more lucrative investment proposition; savings interest will likely decline which in turn will reduce lending capacity.
They are all linked.
And the BOE expect the likelihood of further cuts to be slowed down due to the inflationary impact of Reeves’s budget which will see employers insurance increases being passed on in lower wages and/or higher costs. All as expected and all hitting the “working man”. Ho hum
#New Dearborn results
🔴 President - Trump +7
🔵 Congress - Tlaib +32
Imagine being a Trump Tlaib voter, Genocide Joe ruined everything
President Trump, the man who is supposedly taking away women’s rights, has just selected Susie Wiles to be his Chief of Staff.
She’ll be the first female Chief of Staff in American history!
According to reports ‘Trump is distancing himself from
RFK Jr’
Oh please be true 😂
comment by ProPokerPlayer (U23205)
posted about 7 hours ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 hours, 56 minutes ago
I don't think we're any better, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage we just do things on a smaller scale.
Yes I think we have a large percentage of stupid people
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You mean much like the US we have a large percentage of people who are more likely to vote for someone who they think will allow them to afford milk than someone who wants them to engage in a middle class pastime of checking others privileges for them.
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No.
comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFig... (U12980)
posted about 6 hours ago
President Trump, the man who is supposedly taking away women’s rights, has just selected Susie Wiles to be his Chief of Staff.
She’ll be the first female Chief of Staff in American history!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That smootsh over that whole Rowe v Wade thing right enough.
Rachael Gunn to retire from competition.
‘A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says.’
Cool cool cool.
Meanwhile:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-nations-emissions-gap-global-warming-data-climate-change-report/
comment by It’s time for some Lancashire hotPote, Ruben (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
‘A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says.’
Cool cool cool.
Meanwhile:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-nations-emissions-gap-global-warming-data-climate-change-report/
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We really are, domestically and international, kicking the can down the road on the environment. As long as there's wars and identity politics to get distracted by.
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by It’s time for some Lancashire hotPote, Ruben (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
‘A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says.’
Cool cool cool.
Meanwhile:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-nations-emissions-gap-global-warming-data-climate-change-report/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We really are, domestically and international, kicking the can down the road on the environment. As long as there's wars and identity politics to get distracted by.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, and the problem is we've already baked in a vast amount of damage which we'll never be able to undo.
We're losing species at a frightening rate. I was at a seminar last month at which a herpetologist was talking about a lizard we've just lost, forever, in the Serra de Estrela (a mountain range in the north of PT), and basically listing off which species we're going to lose next, regardless of whether we manage to cheat two degrees (which now looks practically impossible anyway).
Even with much stronger targets in place and actual action against those targets - which is the meat of the problem - we'd still watching ongoing ecosystem deterioration and record-breaking species loss for decades.
As I said to Ginge last week, two degrees isn't a huge problem for ecosystems and most plant and animal species over 100,000 years. Two degrees over 200 years is disastrous.
Favorability with Independent Voters
Bernie Sanders: 41-41 (even)
Elon Musk: 42-43 (-1)
JD Vance 34-42 (-8)
Tim Walz: 32-41 (-9)
Kamala Harris: 39-51 (-12)
Liz Cheney: 24-36 (-12)
Donald Trump: 40-53 (-13)
Joe Biden: 29-62 (-33)
Source: Economist/YouGov
Grate work from Genocide Kamala for campaigning with Bernie.. OH WAIT!
Can anyone shine some light on this story about Israel sending in air force planes to rescue citizens in Amsterdam?
I've seen the Guardian have rolling live coverage, which is headed with a picture captioned "Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv stage a pro-Israel demonstration at the Dam Square yesterday before the match with Ajax" - but then there isn't a single mention of that in the coverage.
There's also a mention of a Palestinian flag being torn down off a building.
Some broad details of the attack on the Israeli fans are given, with reports of wounded, condemnation from politicians, but not really a cohesive narrative.
Can anyone fill in?
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 1 minute ago
Can anyone shine some light on this story about Israel sending in air force planes to rescue citizens in Amsterdam?
I've seen the Guardian have rolling live coverage, which is headed with a picture captioned "Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv stage a pro-Israel demonstration at the Dam Square yesterday before the match with Ajax" - but then there isn't a single mention of that in the coverage.
There's also a mention of a Palestinian flag being torn down off a building.
Some broad details of the attack on the Israeli fans are given, with reports of wounded, condemnation from politicians, but not really a cohesive narrative.
Can anyone fill in?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From what I’ve seen the Tel Aviv fans were chanting death to Arabs and there’s a video of them ripping down Palestinian flags from buildings.
https://x.com/hashim0307/status/1854815574938796217?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
They attack a taxi driver as well apparently
https://x.com/suppressednws/status/1854701760385872270?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
They were playing Ajax who who a fanbase notoriety and generally pro Israeli stance.
Opposition fans use every opportunity to bait them and cause havoc. Been out there following my team a couple of times and it’s mental.
Sign in if you want to comment
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posted on 7/11/24
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
My eyes have been open to the naive assumptions I had of minorities. That they being minorities would want to help other minorities but this election specifically has taught me that many of them are very much ‘pull the ladder up once they’ve made it’ types. Watching a Latino online saying his parents came from Cuba and the second they got settled in Miami they were very much anti ‘more Latinos’ coming into the country.
And that kind of ‘I’m alright jack’ mentality was an assumption the Democrats had thinking minorities would help. We see here in Australia come indigenous people act in the worst interests of their people by becoming right wingers - re Jacinta Price and in England the many Tory examples.
So yeah, I think the worst thing you can call some people is a minority as what they really want is to be accepted in their new country even if it means acting in the interest of those they most have kinship with
----------------------------------------------------------------------
People, wherever they come from, are a mixed bag. Who knew.
posted on 7/11/24
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 23 minutes ago
Oh come on
And who's fault was it that Corbyn and Foot "weren't given the opportunity" to govern?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know about Foot, but Corbyn had the party's entire Westminster apparatus and vast swathes of the main left-leaning media against him pretty much from day one.
You could argue it was his fault for not getting them onside, but how much of the actual left-wing principles and supporters that voted him in would he have had to betray?
posted on 7/11/24
comment by AFCISMYTEAM (U14931)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 1 minute ago
I don't really see the presidential election as anything other than a gameshow tbh, to a lot of Americans, they voted for Trump because he was more entertaining to watch.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This..the whole of America just seems like a ongoing TV show imo...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Isn't this partly what we make of it though?
We love stereotyping the Yanks, and in that regard, Trump makes for a near-perfect pantomime villain.
We mostly witness their reality through a computer/tv/phone screen and have much less exposure to whatever the current debates are in their public arenas.
And it's also a bit of a national pastime to depict them all as idiots.
Given how the far right is growing in Europe too, we could probably do worse than to question our own preconceptions.
posted on 7/11/24
I don't think we're any better, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage we just do things on a smaller scale.
Yes I think we have a large percentage of stupid people
posted on 7/11/24
https://x.com/saras76/status/1854068685930991952?s=46&t=OGfZZhWP7rROftTlMhKPZg
AI is crazy
posted on 7/11/24
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
My eyes have been open to the naive assumptions I had of minorities. That they being minorities would want to help other minorities but this election specifically has taught me that many of them are very much ‘pull the ladder up once they’ve made it’ types. Watching a Latino online saying his parents came from Cuba and the second they got settled in Miami they were very much anti ‘more Latinos’ coming into the country.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Minorities are human beings, who knew.
posted on 7/11/24
comment by Bats Uncensored (U18355)
posted 2 hours, 3 minutes ago
https://x.com/saras76/status/1854068685930991952?s=46&t=OGfZZhWP7rROftTlMhKPZg
AI is crazy
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It's quite obviously AI if you're not an idiot
posted on 7/11/24
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 hours, 56 minutes ago
I don't think we're any better, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage we just do things on a smaller scale.
Yes I think we have a large percentage of stupid people
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You mean much like the US we have a large percentage of people who are more likely to vote for someone who they think will allow them to afford milk than someone who wants them to engage in a middle class pastime of checking others privileges for them.
posted on 7/11/24
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 23 minutes ago
Oh come on
And who's fault was it that Corbyn and Foot "weren't given the opportunity" to govern?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know about Foot, but Corbyn had the party's entire Westminster apparatus and vast swathes of the main left-leaning media against him pretty much from day one.
You could argue it was his fault for not getting them onside, but how much of the actual left-wing principles and supporters that voted him in would he have had to betray?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fair but this is what anyone left of the other seems to experiences
I find it frustrating that the people who feel Corbyn was sabotaged by the media etc don't see the same attacks being sent a Starmers or more recently Kamalas way
posted on 7/11/24
comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago
Interest rates cut to 4.75%
published at 12:00
12:00
BREAKING
The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the second time this year.
It has set the rate at 4.75%, down 0.25 percentage points from 5%.
Today’s decision means rates are now at their lowest point in more than year. The last time rates were below 5% was last June., external
This decision could lead to cheaper borrowing costs for things like mortgages and loans, but also lower returns on savings.
GET THE FOOOOK IN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Except it didn’t. Because it doesn’t work as simply as that.
Mortgage rates for fixed terms are going to increase. Only those on variable rates may reduce. The banks will independently decide and seeing as the US is now a far more lucrative investment proposition; savings interest will likely decline which in turn will reduce lending capacity.
They are all linked.
And the BOE expect the likelihood of further cuts to be slowed down due to the inflationary impact of Reeves’s budget which will see employers insurance increases being passed on in lower wages and/or higher costs. All as expected and all hitting the “working man”. Ho hum
posted on 7/11/24
#New Dearborn results
🔴 President - Trump +7
🔵 Congress - Tlaib +32
Imagine being a Trump Tlaib voter, Genocide Joe ruined everything
posted on 7/11/24
President Trump, the man who is supposedly taking away women’s rights, has just selected Susie Wiles to be his Chief of Staff.
She’ll be the first female Chief of Staff in American history!
posted on 8/11/24
According to reports ‘Trump is distancing himself from
RFK Jr’
Oh please be true 😂
posted on 8/11/24
comment by ProPokerPlayer (U23205)
posted about 7 hours ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 hours, 56 minutes ago
I don't think we're any better, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage we just do things on a smaller scale.
Yes I think we have a large percentage of stupid people
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You mean much like the US we have a large percentage of people who are more likely to vote for someone who they think will allow them to afford milk than someone who wants them to engage in a middle class pastime of checking others privileges for them.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
No.
posted on 8/11/24
comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFig... (U12980)
posted about 6 hours ago
President Trump, the man who is supposedly taking away women’s rights, has just selected Susie Wiles to be his Chief of Staff.
She’ll be the first female Chief of Staff in American history!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That smootsh over that whole Rowe v Wade thing right enough.
posted on 8/11/24
Rachael Gunn to retire from competition.
posted on 8/11/24
‘A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says.’
Cool cool cool.
Meanwhile:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-nations-emissions-gap-global-warming-data-climate-change-report/
posted on 8/11/24
comment by It’s time for some Lancashire hotPote, Ruben (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
‘A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says.’
Cool cool cool.
Meanwhile:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-nations-emissions-gap-global-warming-data-climate-change-report/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We really are, domestically and international, kicking the can down the road on the environment. As long as there's wars and identity politics to get distracted by.
posted on 8/11/24
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by It’s time for some Lancashire hotPote, Ruben (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
‘A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report.
A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says.’
Cool cool cool.
Meanwhile:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-nations-emissions-gap-global-warming-data-climate-change-report/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We really are, domestically and international, kicking the can down the road on the environment. As long as there's wars and identity politics to get distracted by.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, and the problem is we've already baked in a vast amount of damage which we'll never be able to undo.
We're losing species at a frightening rate. I was at a seminar last month at which a herpetologist was talking about a lizard we've just lost, forever, in the Serra de Estrela (a mountain range in the north of PT), and basically listing off which species we're going to lose next, regardless of whether we manage to cheat two degrees (which now looks practically impossible anyway).
Even with much stronger targets in place and actual action against those targets - which is the meat of the problem - we'd still watching ongoing ecosystem deterioration and record-breaking species loss for decades.
As I said to Ginge last week, two degrees isn't a huge problem for ecosystems and most plant and animal species over 100,000 years. Two degrees over 200 years is disastrous.
posted on 8/11/24
Favorability with Independent Voters
Bernie Sanders: 41-41 (even)
Elon Musk: 42-43 (-1)
JD Vance 34-42 (-8)
Tim Walz: 32-41 (-9)
Kamala Harris: 39-51 (-12)
Liz Cheney: 24-36 (-12)
Donald Trump: 40-53 (-13)
Joe Biden: 29-62 (-33)
Source: Economist/YouGov
Grate work from Genocide Kamala for campaigning with Bernie.. OH WAIT!
posted on 8/11/24
Can anyone shine some light on this story about Israel sending in air force planes to rescue citizens in Amsterdam?
I've seen the Guardian have rolling live coverage, which is headed with a picture captioned "Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv stage a pro-Israel demonstration at the Dam Square yesterday before the match with Ajax" - but then there isn't a single mention of that in the coverage.
There's also a mention of a Palestinian flag being torn down off a building.
Some broad details of the attack on the Israeli fans are given, with reports of wounded, condemnation from politicians, but not really a cohesive narrative.
Can anyone fill in?
posted on 8/11/24
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 1 minute ago
Can anyone shine some light on this story about Israel sending in air force planes to rescue citizens in Amsterdam?
I've seen the Guardian have rolling live coverage, which is headed with a picture captioned "Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv stage a pro-Israel demonstration at the Dam Square yesterday before the match with Ajax" - but then there isn't a single mention of that in the coverage.
There's also a mention of a Palestinian flag being torn down off a building.
Some broad details of the attack on the Israeli fans are given, with reports of wounded, condemnation from politicians, but not really a cohesive narrative.
Can anyone fill in?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From what I’ve seen the Tel Aviv fans were chanting death to Arabs and there’s a video of them ripping down Palestinian flags from buildings.
posted on 8/11/24
https://x.com/hashim0307/status/1854815574938796217?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
posted on 8/11/24
They attack a taxi driver as well apparently
https://x.com/suppressednws/status/1854701760385872270?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
posted on 8/11/24
They were playing Ajax who who a fanbase notoriety and generally pro Israeli stance.
Opposition fans use every opportunity to bait them and cause havoc. Been out there following my team a couple of times and it’s mental.
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