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  Fake News
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  @barbarian said in Fake News: @Rembrandt said in Fake News: Here we have a significant number of people including high profile celebs, politicians, multiple mainstream media outlets, social media organisations calling for or defending threats to school children because it suits their particular hatred of an orange man. You don't see frightening parallels here? I have friends and family that now think this way against anything Trump related, it's like a mental illness has taken over and these are or at least were absolutely decent upstanding people, that scares me. There are parallels, of course. I'd also point out that there are individuals on the other side who have marched with literal swastikas too. I just think it's a lazy comparison. There were so many distinct, unique factors that were present in Germany in the 20s and 30s that just aren't there today. But also, we are in a different world now, as this latest saga illustrates. Harking back to Nazi Germany just masks the complexities of both that situation and the current situation. And I also think it's lazy name-calling. Both sides throw the term 'Nazi' around to the point where it's lost all meaning or proportion. The big difference is who is acting like this. A few pathetic losers pretending to be the SS represent zero threat. Neither do trailer park KKK members. They're a joke. The big danger is from people who are educated and/or have major influence and are able use that to inflict serious harm. Just look at what's happened the last few days. As @Rembrandt said, something darker has emerged from all this. The unhinged calls for violence went to another level. This kid would have been lynched if they could have gotten away with it. You may not like the Nazi comparison, but you cannot deny there are some clear parallels between the way they thought and acted and what we've witnessed during the past few days.
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  Religion, Morality and Political Correctness on campus
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  @Salacious-Crumb said in Religion, Morality and Political Correctness on campus: @Rembrandt said in Religion, Morality and Political Correctness on campus: I wonder why the change? ... It would be amazing to know what goes on behind the scenes with these politicians. Still a very powerful Jewish political lobby in Canada, and none more$o than in Montreal, which is Trudeau’s home riding. The oldest Jewish community in Canada lives there, about 100,000 of them (think Bronfman family, Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen, etc.) very connected to the community in New York. Adding,, much like the large Jewish communiities in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, the large Jewish communities to the north in Montreal and Toronto by-and-large tend to be fiscally conservative and culturally liberal. The tension within the latter is the Israel-palestine issue, where culturally & socially liberal Jews will fight tooth & nail to defend Israel and many notable intellectuals who are the loudest opponents of Israeli policy. Trudeau is deeply accustomed at all of it, he’s socialized in Jewish circles at the foot of his father who socialized in the same circles. And like their brethren in New York, these families have outsized power, infuence, money and lots & lots of lawyers.
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  NZ Politics
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  The UN is a fucking joke anyway, why do people talk about it like it has any relevance today?
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  US Politics
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  @jegga said in US Politics: It’s pretty incredible the amount of exposure a junior congresswoman has managed to get for herself in a very short amount of time. Reminds me a bit of Trump on the campaign trail. https://news.avclub.com/rep-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-tells-rich-guy-stephen-col-1831945164 Just on her marginal tax rates discussion with Colbert: Thomas Sowell points out she either wants a symbolic high tax rate to win votes politically or she's economically ignorant:
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  Brexit
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  @Rembrandt Ms Ardern gave a long interview yesterday to BBC TV about Brexit. Obviously she thought her voice should be heard on the issue. I wish she hadn't wade into a UK domestic matter.
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  British Politics
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  The more I read about Tommy and look into source video footage and interviews the more it looks like he has been completely stitched up by media, law enforcement and politicians alike. Just amazing how he is treated by the police and politicians in this video compared to just every day people who regard him as a hero.
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  Political censorship online
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  @Rancid-Schnitzel I think he was once arrested for a pub scuffle years back..but yeah that's it. Making fun of Nazis is his biggest crime.
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  Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues
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  Globalization vs. Natiomalism
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  @canefan everyone loves a dentist with an eye for detail.
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  The Failed policy of Multiculturalism
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  I just finished reading 'Strange death of Europe' by Douglas Murray. It's taken me a good few weeks, its a hard read, not in the way its written (it flows beautifully) but in its content which got me waaaay too worked up from time to time. Not something you can read before bed that is for damn sure but probably one of the most important books to come out in a long time. An absolute must read for anyone who gives a damn about what the future might hold in an age of political correctness and forced mass-migration from very ideologically opposed cultures.
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  Your favourite conspiracy theories
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  @No-Quarter said in Your favourite conspiracy theories: One thing the Sandy Hook conspiracy theories never mention is the ongoing law suits the victims families (who are apparently all just actors) have against Alex Jones. This is good to see. Its worth reading this to get an idea of the damage conspiracy tards can do http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html?gtm=bottom>m=bottom
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  Indigenous people of the Chatham islands
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  @antipodean said in Indigenous people of the Chatham islands: a cunt Reckon they both are
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  Aussie Politics
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  @NTA said in Aussie Politics: @MajorRage said in Aussie Politics: A second generation Somali immigrant who has integrated nicely Or, even worse - a second generation immigrant who has NOT followed their arriving parents' example of integrating nicely. Or someone who emigrated as a youth and decided to raise hell. Happened with Vietnamese and Lebanese in Sydney, both groups fleeing civil war overseas during other eras. They had a much higher level of organised crime rather than just random attacks, too. Thats true, but the reason I said integrated, was to point out how two people who share similar ethics and contribute strongly to society may have a completely different view on things. Reality is that immigration is a huge source of issue, across all walks of life. But ultimately, almost all immigration is just one set of people, trying to make things better for themselves & their loved ones.
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  French Politics
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  @MajorRage I agree too on that..well at least in Australia. Just think France is a whole different situation now. I'd be picking the next Yougov poll would have his approval nearing 15%, figures like that you gotta think that maybe the problem isn't entirely the thousands of protesters
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  Harvey Weinstein
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  Germany’s descent
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  AfD MP badly beaten by masked men just days after a bombing at an AfD office. Who are supposed to be the brownshirts again? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46792556
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  peak guardian
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  @jegga said in peak guardian: @Rembrandt said in peak guardian: @jegga said in peak guardian: What a smug unfunny cunt the author of this is. https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/dec/11/my-day-in-the-life-of-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-gulag-centenary I got this book for Christmas, I don't think I'll be wasting my time reading the Guardians hot-take on it. Their journalists are exactly the kind of people who would run camps like this without question. He’s not reviewing a book he’s trying to live a day in the life of and I think trying to be funny . Instead he comes across as an obnoxious turd . She? Marianna. Mind you .... zhe?
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  NZ justice system 2.0
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  @booboo said in NZ justice system 2.0: Found it interesting how disproportionate the Canterbury representation was ... Thanks, now I can put faces to the names on the fern.
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  European Politics
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  Belgium PM resigns over his support of the UN migration pact. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/18/belgium-pm-charles-michel-resigns-government-collapses-dispute/