Can we start moving dull politics into speakers' corner?
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Soldato
They also need to be banned from GD
This is exactly why I mostly just browse this forum from time to time and rarely post unlike years ago, it's littered with political debate and boring SJW outrage. I would also like to see generic RSS style new topics being moderated more heavily with threads being removed or suspensions giving for just new topics that consist of nothing more than a link and run; I feel many posters on here just take pleasure in having a thread they started run for several pages without putting in any effort, it's nearly as bad as Reddit now.
Oh, I agree.
I enjoy the political/SJW threads, mainly because I usually fall on the opposite side of the argument to the majority of posters in here and I find it interesting to hear and try to understand their position.
I also enjoy teasing you about being an RSS feed, but it’s always in jest.
I also enjoy teasing you about being an RSS feed, but it’s always in jest.
Well that's fine
Some people get genuinely upset with it though which I find both bizarre and amusing... like just go and read another thread if you're really wound up. I do at least tend to offer an opinion/POV and actively participate in threads I create.In fact some of the people moaning haven't bothered to start a GD thread themselves for months anyway... it just seems so silly for people to complain about content when no one is stopping them from posting the sort of threads they'd prefer to see.
SC is a circle jerk that I stay away from being a middle of the road kind of guy. If you don't fall into the hive mind consensus then it feels like you're being thrown into the pit like Russell Crowe in Gladiator.
We should at least have one sticky thread for all of it.
Will read rest of replies later.
Will read rest of replies later.
Do you go on other more women orientated /populated forums to sneer at then as well?
I guessing not as you appear to be one of thoose all too often creepy male feminists?
Still Whatever gets you through the day....
Agreed, GD is just a Daily Mai RSS feed with the same inane babbling about the loony left and SJWs.
Anyone who wants to debate a serious discussion around political and social issues should do so in SC.
The only reason these posts are spamming GD is because these same few posters lacked the ability to follow basic rules in SC. I don't see how letting them post their rubbish in GD is any kind of improvement to the forum. Let them post in SC, follow through with the usual suspensions and then a permaban.
Anyone who wants to debate a serious discussion around political and social issues should do so in SC.
The only reason these posts are spamming GD is because these same few posters lacked the ability to follow basic rules in SC. I don't see how letting them post their rubbish in GD is any kind of improvement to the forum. Let them post in SC, follow through with the usual suspensions and then a permaban.
I love the allusions to elitism and snobbish attitudes from people who, when you look at their own track record here, are in no position to be lording over other posters either intellectually or morally ....
You know...... like people who all too often solely hide in posts behind academic 'peer reviewed' papers eminating from the humanities to make their arguments on these forums.
When it has been shown that such peer review is so worthless that you can literally submit fake/ hoax papers to relevant journals and get such work peer reviewed.
and don't forget all your forum peasants out there its what your forum betters say that's important not what they do, where they choose to reside and work and their chosen paths in life that matter...…..because they are better than you... what with all you people still living in your cess pit of a country which some of your betters couldn't wait to abandon for pastures greener....
And again you had better not forget its what they say that's important because otherwise they might have all sorts of awkward questions to answer...………
Like why they might claim to be a feminist when they choose to work and reside in a country that was one of the last in Europe to give women the vote in 1971 (at the federal/ country wide level), that only had its first woman elected to parliament in 1984 (when you despicable brits had a government under a female prime minster from 1979), that only gave women paid maternity pay in 2004 (mothers were entitled to 18 weeks' paid leave from 1999 in the UK four more than currently available in Switzerland) and that offers no paternity pay ensuring women bear the full brunt of caring for young children unless families want the male to fully give up work.
and like why they choose to lecture you small minded Brexit supporters about how nasty you are for seeking to be in a country that's not in the EU but which retains some favourable economic ties with the EU whilst making some of its own trade deals when they themselves reside in a country that's..... errrr not in the EU and which benefits from a 'special' relationship with the EU and which makes its own trade deals
Dieter by the way grew up and works in Switzerland (use google translate or similar)
Don't any of you filthy Brexiteers get ideas about wanting any of this cake! Switzerland's is busy jealously hoarding it!
and don't you forget them telling you about how direct democracy doesn't work when it comes to things like the filthy peasants voting to live in a sovereign country (like BREXIT) when they themselves live in one of the few countries that has direct democracy which prevented the country from entering the EU via a referendum!
and lets not forget that you peasants are living in xenophobic country what with the majority voting for Brexit coming from someone living in a county that voted to restrict free movement to keep those nasty foreigners out and which may be allowed to bring in laws allowing companies to prefer domestic applicants for jobs over nasty foreigners they don't want!
and of course the piece de resistance don't you peasants forget to uncritically accept lectures on UK taxation and social policy (including how nasty the Tories and their 'austerity' are) from a socialist sympathiser who has chosen to live and works in a country mainly famous for funny shaped chocolate bars, clocks with birds in them and tax evasion/ avoidance* on an industrial scale (*the difference depends mainly on how good you accountant is*) and who couldn't wait to get all of their assets of the UK so they wont be paying any tax there whilst 'forgetting' to pay back their student loans until the loan company (owned and acting on behalf of the government) started to hound them!
and what do certain forum members say the do?
Work as a CEO for a small (presumably Swiss) company? Is that a company like... for example Nissan Switzerland that doesn't make many cars domestically (if at all?)but works a ruse where they 'buy' the raw materials to used to make cars in the UK and pay the UK branch a tiny amount over the build cost of the car which the Swiss subsidiary then 'owns' with the profits on UK made and sold cars being declared in Switzerland depriving the UK treasury of vital revenue?
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Caracus, you have excelled yourself, I salute the content of the post, and you personally, a marvcellous stimulant on a dull Monday morning.
Soldato
I'm voting for dwarves. Thorin Oakenshield's reluctance to take the field during the Battle of the Five Armies likely cost tens of thousands of human and elven lives needlessly. Diminutive, axe wielding ********.
Ah yes, those were the days. Who was the chap that used to start his posts with "as a muslim..." ??
Soldato
As a part of the GD glory days with the battletoads I remember people complaining about who none of us took GD seriously and to stop posting stupid crap. Well look at GD now, instead of people posting lighthearted content with the occasional serious thread. It's now the same people posting stories to fit their narrative and waiting for the same posters to come validate their opinion.
Another wall of mindless verbal diarrhea from you, quelle surprise.
Where has it been shown that peer-review is worthless? 1 single paper in a dubious journal does not constitute proof of anything
And yes, I absolutely will take the opinions of Academics and experts over some random on a forum who hates Muslims and women.
And an absolute right decision that was, just look at the UK now, laughing stock of the world.
Who says I am a feminist? You can't interpret an obvious joke?
And who says I support Switzerland lack of closer EU integration, or their dire record of womean's rights?
And it would be great if the result of Brexit would be a Swiss style deal, full support of the 3 pilalr, Freedom of Movement and good. Uk would then get to follow all the EU rules but have no say in them, unlike the UK's historic position of being able to amend and set the rules as on of the key members.
You do realize a vast majority of the Swiss actually support the EU integration:
https://lenews.ch/2017/03/27/most-swiss-support-eu-agreements-says-poll/
Yet again you fail completely. The direct democracy is one of the worst aspect of Swiss politics.
Just because I live here does not mean I support it
I know that concept might be hard for someone like you, but it is entirely possible to live somewhere and not agree with 100% of the politics. I live in the US for 7 years for starters. Again, you seem to think I support this policy. Another compete failure on you part. I'm sensing a pattern here. You state something you think you know about me, but it turns out you are 100% wrong.
Wow, yet another failure. You know, even a broken clock is correct twice a day, it takes a special skill to be so fundamentally and consistently wrong, time and time again.
Trying to use personal attacks now because you have yet to find anything interesting to say depsite this wall of irrelevant nonsense?
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^Great example of why very few bother with SC.
It's not because you're owning it up with great arguments, it's because you're all utterly insufferable.
It's not because you're owning it up with great arguments, it's because you're all utterly insufferable.
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WOW! that must have taken some diligent attention to trivia . . . thread should definitely be demoted to Speaker's Corner
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