@kirwan said in Political censorship online:

It'll be interesting to see how they insulate themselves from the payment systems, like Paypal. Or even the credit card companies, which are also vulnerable to the leftist misinformation and attacks.

Pretty owellion times we are living in when one side of the political sphere is shutting down their opponents ability to discuss ideas.

Reading between the lines I think they have some big money backers, guys like Thiel etc have been on Rubins show, so I think there is more under the covers occurring than we think.
One thing for sure Patreon really messed up.

Weirdly they state that it is hard to build such a platform and make it successful... but I was told it was easy...

@higgins said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:

Have been flicking over to the 7s coverage to keep up with scores etc between overs in the cricket and can't help but notice that there have been no men officiating womens matches. The increasing number of female referees must be a valuable new resource to rugby given they are, presumably, winning those appointments on merit against all referees available.

You think they are winning the appointments on merit and not gender? I dont.

@rancid-schnitzel said in Brexit:

@booboo said in Brexit:

@baron-silas-greenback said in Brexit:

@catogrande said in Brexit:

Often with such complicated issues it is good to break them down into a more understandable format. So here we have Brexit - the omelette problem.

LEAVER: I want an omelette.

REMAINER: Right. It’s just we haven’t got any eggs.

SnIp

Is that supposed to funny, informing, accurate or even mildy amusing? Because it fails on all fronts.

11 likes v one dissenting opinion... I'm guessing the majority think it's at least one of those things.

It's a really shit analogy though. Basically it's implying that the Brexit is about getting back an expedible resource it gave up in 1973. And what was that about icing being good? A monolithic and undemocratic bureaucracy is good? It might be amusing or clever, but it is a farking retarded analogy.

A better analogy would be a complex business partnership.

It isnt clever. I am wondering if people actually found it funny.

@booboo said in Brexit:

@baron-silas-greenback said in Brexit:

@catogrande said in Brexit:

Often with such complicated issues it is good to break them down into a more understandable format. So here we have Brexit - the omelette problem.

LEAVER: I want an omelette.

REMAINER: Right. It’s just we haven’t got any eggs.

SnIp

Is that supposed to funny, informing, accurate or even mildy amusing? Because it fails on all fronts.

11 likes v one dissenting opinion... I'm guessing the majority think it's at least one of those things.

Oh I am sure remainers liked the stupidity. Did you think it was accurate or funny?

@smudge said in NZ Politics:

@jegga said in NZ Politics:

I think today is the last question session in parliament, Ardern has been stalling around questions surrounding her relationship with our resident Czech career criminal. Hopefully Bridges and co have some more fun with her.

Still two Question Times to go - Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Parliament only sits on a Friday under urgency anyway (which wouldn't involve Question Time).

I cannot believe how the media is just not attacking over this.

@catogrande said in Brexit:

Often with such complicated issues it is good to break them down into a more understandable format. So here we have Brexit - the omelette problem.

LEAVER: I want an omelette.

REMAINER: Right. It’s just we haven’t got any eggs.

SnIp

Is that supposed to funny, informing, accurate or even mildy amusing? Because it fails on all fronts.

@catogrande said in Brexit:

@jc said in Brexit:

So May wins the confidence vote 200 - 117.

Would you say that makes her position stronger than before the no confidence vote was forced? I'm thinking yes. Whilst it's not good to have 33% odd of your own party having no confidence it is still a pretty large margin of support.

I am not sure. But I think she only survived by promising to resign before the next election.

@catogrande said in US Politics:

@baron-silas-greenback said in US Politics:

@catogrande said in US Politics:

So Cohen has been found guilty of several charges and faces a jail term of 36 months. Any thoughts as to how this might impact on Trump? Some news outlets are suggesting his wider business dealings are being put under greater scrutiny following the verdict on Cohen.

he has been convicted of lying.... good luck using him as a witness...
Muller is just an invesigator looking for a crime. he is oging to keep finding things, because... how could he not. Even if he has to make stuff up, he will. Trump is correct this is a witch hunt. Anyone remember when the point of this was russian collusion?

Ha! Good point. A somewhat compromised witness.

Fair point also about it being supposed to be about Russian collusion but, in the case of Cohen, if one investigation uncovers something else, well they shouldn't ignore it should they? Anyway not just lying, campaign finance violations and tax evasion. If any I'd say the middle one is most likely to impact on Trump. To what extent though is something else.

Because the bedrock of western judicial process is that prosecutors investigate crimes, not people. This has turned into a farce. If anyone on the planet faced this sort of scrutiny they would all be compromised.

@crucial said in Brexit:

@baron-silas-greenback said in Brexit:

@crucial said in Brexit:

@majorrage said in Brexit:

@crucial Labour would withdraw article 50 without a doubt.

It has been the process and vagueness around what 'out' really means that has been the killer. Imaging voting for something that wasn't defined but would have a major impact?

You seem to keep beatng the drum that the vote was somehow confusing. It wasnt. It was very very straight forward. People wanted out of the EU, they werent voting on process, and for good reason. That would never end. Where exactly do you dstop ewith that? Answer - You dont, and therefore you never leaver the EU. Which admittedly is the goal of the remainers but hardly democratic.
This is just a continuation of the remainers arrogance in the assumption that people didnt know what they were voting for. Yes... they did.

The question was straight forward, people understood it.
I think remainers will keep pushing for referendums until they get a win.. then suddenly all votes will be stopped and things will me magically clear.

Seriously? That is quite an astounding lack of self awareness you are showing. You have been repeating ther same mantra for years and then accuse people who respond to it as broken record..