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3 hours ago, Freeedom said:
The met have always been institutionally racist, sexist, homophobic, authoritarian etc. They're not here to protect people, they are here to keep us all in our place and protect the interests of capital and the establishment. The lower your rung is in society the worse you are likely to have been treated by them. It's only in the last decade or so that some of the white middle class (myself included) have come to realise exactly how they operate.
As people have gotten more angry, the government has become more authoritarian and fascist to clamp down on any kind of dissent and as a consequence we've seen clubs like Rangers and their supporters follow suit.
I read about in the "Untouchables: Dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard"
Pretty interesting seeing how MET and IPCC are a revolving door, plus with Lawrence and other high profile cases.
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9 hours ago, aaid said:
Maybe this will make them change their minds. The Met Police are an absolute joke.
They made up intelligence then, cause of the outcry they'd have to produce said intelligence if it existed. Just targeted them this is what actual free speech violation looks like.
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Not seen any of the coronation at all.
I did see a couple of videos of the march in Glasgow, looked well attended.
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To be fair , she's the bestest, most intelligent person in the whole wide SNP is a cringe fanboi argument. Even if Aaid is going to perpetually defend the SNP.
I sort of despair when the debate is no more nuanced than two 13 year olds with a poster of Cherry and a poster of Sturgeon on their wall arguing. While folk line up to take sides rather than call out this low-iq shit show for what it is.
fucking dregs of political discourse in here.
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10 minutes ago, duncan II said:
Then you've not really been paying attention. Up here, the issue has attached itself to either party to some extent.
No idea what your Glencoe comment means.
I have no interest in party politics. The issue exists outside of SNP ALBA party politics and would still exist if neither party existed. As evidenced by the fact it's legislated in many countries where neither party exists.
I'm just seeing it as a global issue (similiar bills have been passed in multiple countries spanning different continents), fuck the GRR bill had full cross party support when it was passed. The tories then used it as a culture war dead cat so everyone (including me as i'm now typing out all this) to detract from all the crazy shit happening around brexit and the various other shit-shows happening.
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Sadowitz was pulled as well last year.
I don't know how recent it is as a phenomenom, anyone who has been to Glencoe will have seen examples of certain clans being cancelled
I generally side with the worker however i'm an evil marxist. Not sure what ALBA and the SNP have to do with any of it. Perhaps if the workers of the Stand were as enlightened as us TAMBers they would realise they should allow the event to go on and that would spare us all the facile victimhood and frankly hysterical rhetoric from Cherry who comes across as a narcissistic demagogue in some of these quotes.
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21 minutes ago, Rich NATA said:
Am I missing something? This seems a fairly new phenomena and I don't understand...
How can a venue cancel an event because some of their own staff don't like the performer? A venue is just a venue. An act hires it and that's that. Surely the staff are employed to do a job. Who's on stage is irrelevant.
Over the years, I'm sure there were staff who considered Roy-Chubby-Brown too 'blue' for their liking, but they didn't call for his show to be called off.
In the case of a political conference (no matter what the party) they hire the venue and that's it. A big conference centre will employ many staff of various political persuasion's; there must be Labour voters working at the Conservative Party Conference, surely.
I can't stand George Ezra, but if I worked at a venue where he was performing, I wouldn't call for his show to be cancelled.
Since when did staff have a say on who takes to the stage?
Here's the statement
“Further to our previous policy statement on this matter, following extensive discussions with our staff, it has become clear that a number of The Stand’s key operational staff, including venue management and box office personnel, are unwilling to work on this event.
“As we have previously stated, we will ensure that their views are respected. We will not compel our staff to work on this event and so have concluded the event is unable to proceed on a properly staffed, safe and legally compliant basis.
“We advised the show’s producers, Fair Pley Productions, of this operational issue and they advised Joanna Cherry that it is no longer possible to host the event in our venue.”
It answers some of your questions.
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She's being "censored" somewhat. As happens to everyone as in who gets access to mass communication channels.
However cause the Times won't publish my views in their newspaper or i'm not allowed to speak on BBC doesn't mean i'm being cancelled.
It's just a function of her ego and entitlement that she views herself as being cancelled when she is actually in the top tiny percentage of folk with any sort of platform to air their views.
The only good thing about this culture war stuff i one just needs to sit by the river long enough...
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The real issue for me is the Dominion case. We have all the released texts, emails and calls. Showing how folk like Carlson act when they think no one is watching. It's tangible, on the record and shows a duplicity of amazing proportions.
The curtain got pulled back big time. I'd not waste a second listening to Carlson on anything. One of the most dishonest brokers in media history. Proven in the dominion case and, this blows my mind hence why i keep bringing it up, argued by his own defence in court that no reasonable person would think he is being earnest.
You're being sued and your own defence is hey, if you have one iota of common sense you'd know this is hyperbolic performance not an actual real news report. Fucking wild.
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1 hour ago, ThistleWhistle said:
The bit where he shows CNN quoting a US government letter asking Russia to take care of US nuclear technologies in the Ukrainian power plant they've seized is fucking scary!
Wonder with Musk and a shift to online platforms if we're seeing a paradigm shift away from traditional sources for the masses?
Interesting times
Musk is too busy cosplaying as his 3 year old child on twitter to worry about.
I'm going uninformed , as the only other option is misinformed. They are the same functionally but uninformed takes less effort
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1 hour ago, ThistleWhistle said:
Saw a documentary a while back where they reckon Tibetans and the nomadic tribes around have evolved almost separately because of climate, remoteness, isolation etc and have kept facits of early man. The Tibetans on the plateau haven't developed the same.
Think they've found they've developed a gene for operating at altitude where the brain and muscles can cope with lack of oxygen- Inca's similar.
Different traits will get selected for depending on enviroment. Incas are pretty recent though, Linlithgow Palace is older than Machu Picchu for example. The problem is working out how much of that is due to acclimatation to enviroment and how much is due to a specific gene which produces that phenotype. I'm way out any area of expertise though, so I'd defer to someone who knows what they are talking about.
I was more meaning that it's the mutations that cause the differences , so it's when DNA doesn't replicate properly that we get evolution. So looking at the plan , the DNA itself, doesn't always give you an idea. Also knowing how the information interacts with each strand to produce what is totally unknown atm.
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On the race thing it doesn't matter what the actual taxonomy is if folk are acting based on a false understanding of it anyway.
Also we don't have a good enough understanding genetically to be making definitive statements either. Considering it is normally the mutations that cause phenotypical differences as opposed to the actual template itself.
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4 hours ago, ThistleWhistle said:
Tucker Carlson's last monologue is interesting
https://rumble.com/v2jaois-tucker-carlson-full-monologue-april-19-2023.html
15 minutes long, by a person who argued in court no reasonable viewer takes him at face value, about the "filthy dishonesty" of the media. Brilliant satire from Tucker as always he's my favourite Stephen Colbert copy-cat.
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40 minutes ago, fringo said:
Defenestration
One of my favourite words
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The SNP are generally a bit to the right. Although I guess direction is relative to where you are standing. Moscow isn't East if you're in Tokyo.
There's no analysis just sticking labels on things with zero depth.
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There's a lot of questions in that picture , but i'll stow them for another time. Have a good evening!
1 hour ago, Big Ramy 1314 said:Pre retirement night out with Mrs.Ramy... One week it's official !! 🫡🫡✈️
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5 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:
I think Herts has a point though it does seem to not have been this overt overarching policy though. It's much more pervasive than I thought, seems still ongoing around the world though. Its origins very deep, deeper than the church.
Although my original point stands. I hadn't appreciated that and had filled in the gaps in my knowledge by assuming somethings which might not be the case.
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13 minutes ago, Hertsscot said:
No doubt the latter was the case but isn't the first a bit of a myth? Plenty of people been persecuted by churches over the centuries but was this ever an official policy?
Well i'm not sure if it was an official policy. Was used as evidence of witch-craft in trials , denouncement of being unholy.
Although i suppose the aversion to left-handedness transcends religion as it is world-wide pretty much, I was more lumping them into the stories about it happening here in the west in catholic schools. I read a book ages ago about it and all the testimony seemed to come from schools run by priests and nuns beating folk for using their left hand.
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50 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:
Were you on one of these people in the 70s and 80’s that thought gays were ‘ a tiny minority’ and kids should not be indoctrinated that being gay was a way of life ?
How do you know that more people would not identify as a different sex if the stigma wasnt there ? Society changes. Human life evolves.You just need to see the numbers for left handedness after the church stopped persecuting people and schools stopped beating you for it.
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3 hours ago, Malcolm said:
The equality act and GRR will force people to treat trans women as real women which they are not. Access to safe spaces. They want to compete in womens sporting events even though they are men, if it’s born a man it’s a biological man. You can all carry on calling them what you like.If the greens and snp have their way it will be a hate crime for calling a trans a man which biologically of course they are. Cant change your chromosomes.
The adoption laws forces authorities to do the same with regards to parents and biological parents. What's your views on that? Parenthood is biologically determined as well. With access to "safe spaces" on being one.
The biology is a lot more complicated, you can have XX chromosome and male gametes, de la chappelle syndrome for example, or 46XY DSD on the other-side, in sport the latter is common, the 3 fastest 800m runners on the female side all had hormonal issues with various chromosome configurations.
Only the scientifically illiterate think everything can be neatly tucked away into nice little drawers. Sure the vast majority can be classified one way, which is fine. We need to help minority cases though as they're as relevant and natural as the rest of us, thinking the outcome with the highest probability has some inherent value that is higher is just dumb.
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24 minutes ago, Malcolm said:
each to their own. I have no problem with folk believing what they like - just don’t enforce these views on me.
What's specifically do you feel is being enforced on you?
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1 hour ago, Malcolm said:
fine have the GRR…. If it’s meaningless. But they should revoke the equality act and stop biological men having access to womens spaces.Humans born as men are not women - don’t expect the human race to ignore facts. For example when some trans women want to go around waffling shit about their periods that don’t actually exist for them good luck to them, don’t expect the rest of of us not to believe they are a bunch of crackpots.
"Don't expect the human race to ignore facts" is perhaps the single funniest lack of awareness statement written here i've read.
That's of course assuming you are here on good faith, which you aren't.
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We have no way of knowing what the public want, outwith a referendum.
What we do know is their representatives voted overwhelmingly cross-party for it. However...
None of this is the point though, the bill is irrelevant. It's the constitutional integrity of who get's to make the decisions that is the issue.
Arguing about the "popularity" of the bill misses the bigger picture completely imo. It's myopic thinking to be like I don't like this or it's not popular. The bigger issue is the integrity of decision making in Scotland. Now if you're an "unionist" ofc then that doens't bother you, in which case fire on.
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Shouldn't the fighting the court issue be about the principle of whether the UK should be able to block the scottish government. As opposed to what one thinks about what is being blocked.
SNP leadership election
in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere
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It was 11+ just a while back.