The not so short lived non argumentative political thread.

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    edited February 2020
    Yorkshire Tea is not an evil company. ;)
    Although fair play to you for wanting to
    Have workers sacked, -{ Perhaps this
    sort of attitude shows why the populist
    Right is gaining a foothold once more ?
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,429MI6 Agent
    As smoking became less common many people working in tobacco companies lost their jobs, so did many tobacco farmers. When capital punishment stopped in the civilized world many executioners were laid off and people who made guillotines may have lost their jobs too. When rap music goes out of style many rappers and dancers with big butts may lose their jobs. It doesn't mean everyone wants those people to be unemployed. People just decided they didn't want the services they provided because of the nature of that service. If those people who lost their jobs started growing potatoes, making chips of the potatoes, became jailers, made prison bars, making real music, appeared in FHM magazine or found other gainful employment I'm sure no-one would mind. I even think Higgins doesn't mind people having jobs. :)
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I do find it amusing for someone who says they'll fight Nazism, Yet wants to close
    factories leading to unemployment, which is the very situation that produced the
    Nazis in the first place :D So far from fighting them he's actually helping them to
    get members ! :))
    I too hate Nazis ( even with being called one on this forum ) But I think full employment,
    workers rights and a respect for the results of elections when people vote, will do much
    more to stamp it out.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,429MI6 Agent
    I don't think anyone here wants unemployment on the common working man or woman. We may dislike what their workplace does, but we see unemployment as a goal in it self.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,429MI6 Agent
    Anyway, you're right that unemployment can lead to fascism. It's no accident fascism and nazism got into power during economically tough times.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited February 2020
    Interesting comparisons.

    So, one shows sympathy and understanding when people turn to Nazis after they have lost their job.

    Yesterday, a Coors employee from Milwaukee who has previously lost his job there, killed 5 people at his former workplace.
    Should we have sympathy with him because he lost his job and this all was the cause what happened and why he's done it?

    Nestle in Africa dries out local springs because they drill deeply for their bottled water there and consequently sells the bottled water to those, who can't get drinking water from their dried out springs.

    Thus, I boycot every Nestle product available and am asking everybody to do the same!
    Nestle may employ lots of people in their water bottling branches and consequently many people may lose their jobs if the boycot is really successful. Do I have empathy with those workers?
    Hell, yes!
    Does it keep me away from boycoting Nestle?
    Hell, no!

    Do I understand and have sympathy with workers, who are losing their jobs? Yes! It happened to me more than once as well!
    Do I understand, have sympathy or will I defend if they vote for fascists and Nazis as a result of their bad feelings about losing their jobs?
    Hell no!

    You vote for fascists and Nazis - you are making your own life more miserable - and most importantly - other people's life!
    You vote for fascists and Nazis - you are teaming up with fascist and Nazis and are consequently responsible for everything they do!

    And I'll not have sympathy for you and I will not defend you!

    Rant over
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    It's good to have a rant now and again.
    Please remember this is about a Yorkshire
    Company making tea.
    I can't wait till a conservative MP is pictured
    Going to an NHS hospital, so the calls will
    Start to boycott the NHS :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited February 2020
    No this is not about Yorkshire Tea Company.
    And it was clear from my previous post where I broadened the spectrum that sometimes boycots in a capitalist world lead to workers unemployment because even evil companies employ people.

    But I can see your previous post where you relativised people electing and becoming Nazis after losing their jobs.
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The original post was about Yorkshire Tea,
    You can go off on as many tangents as you
    Want, I'll stick to the actual " Point " . ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    The original post on page 1 was about Trump, North Korea, Modern genocide to the recent German election and Brexit.

    Everything coming after is a tangent
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Fair enough but All I wish to discuss
    Is lovely tea, so you can simply ignore
    My posts, and move on. {[]
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,429MI6 Agent
    edited February 2020
    Moving on seems like a great idea! Sadly there are lots of things to rant about besides tea and nazis. The Chinese government allows the sale of wild and sometimes endangered animals at markets, leading to the outbreak of the Corona virus. But when Doctor Li Wenliang warned of the epidemic was reprimanded by the police for "spreading rumors" about the coronavirus in December. He was among eight medical professionals who were accused of spreading "illegal and false information" about the virus. The joys of a police state…...
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Fair enough but All I wish to discuss
    Is lovely tea {[]

    One of the (sadly few) things I have in common with Ian Fleming is that I can’t stand tea. It’s coffee all the way for me. Does anyone else feel that way?
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    You are Dead to me C&D ! ;)

    Coffee is too strong for my weak
    Taste buds, and Earl Grey tea far
    Too scented. So I only like big
    Standard tea.
    I also don't do the cold shower thing
    Bond does has to be very hot....... rather
    Like my love life :D .....
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,429MI6 Agent
    I like neither tea nor coffee. I also don't drink alcohol. In short I don't like adult beverages.
    This is hard-hitting political debate, folks! :))
  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,338MI6 Agent
    Tea and a long hot shower for me (not at the same time..! :) )
    "Any of the opposition around..?"
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,088Chief of Staff
    Coffee usually, sometimes tea.
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    Fair enough but All I wish to discuss
    Is lovely tea {[]

    One of the (sadly few) things I have in common with Ian Fleming is that I can’t stand tea. It’s coffee all the way for me. Does anyone else feel that way?


    Not quite, I don't think tea is mud, I drink tea first thing in the morning then I'm coffee all day long, and unfortunately I don't really like instant coffee.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Coffee usually, sometimes tea.

    You forgot the beer {[]
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,088Chief of Staff
    :)) And the whisky!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Great news, seems there's no politics today {[] :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    TP :))
    Not quite, in light of Syria (Russian jets and ordnance) bombing Turkey who is a Nato member, is the west actually just pretending this hasn't happened to conveniently avoid a direct conflict with Russia?
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Russian jets dropping bombs, is of no interest to the great political intellects of AJB
    Teabags, ...... Yes, Tea-bagging is where its at ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    Russian jets dropping bombs, is of no interest to the great political intellects of AJB
    Teabags, ...... Yes, Tea-bagging is where its at ;)
    :)) :))
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    "The not so short lived non argumentative tea bagging thread"

    Sounds like the OP got the sack. :D
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,088Chief of Staff
    I did think that something was brewing...
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Honestly, sometimes politics can feel like
    A slap in the face. :p
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,429MI6 Agent
    edited February 2020
    The reason the West don't mention what's happening with Turkey is probably because Erdogan controls the refugee migration to Europe. Now he's bussing them to the Greek border, perhaps because he feels the West/NATO isn't supporting him enough.

    There's also the peace treaty in Afghanistan that got signed today. Good luck, but I don't think it'll work. Perhaps it'll give the US and the West an excuse to leave.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,088Chief of Staff
    A senior civil servant, Sir Philip Rutnam, has resigned, making priti strong statements about Home Secretary Priti Patel.

    Correction- current Home Secretary.
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