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Couldn't agree more - wish they'd picked "Just Stop NEW Oil" as their motto though, because it invites shit like this. Fuck me, I just watched it through and I just felt so furious on behalf of the campaigner . The other woman who's ranting about eco-festivals is twitching like a psycho, yet the campaigner seems to really hold her shit together , for no benefit.

"Whole gender binary anyway; to the point where it doesn't really matter anymore, who is what" Yeah, as contentious as it is, I think this is where I start becoming old and immutable. I'm perfectly fine with self identity etc, I understand that - but I also understand dysmorphia / dysphoria and I do feel it falls into that category. This is an awful comparison, but someone with body dysmorphia who amputates their arms and legs does not become someone who is the same as one born with tetra-amelia. Or ones an amputee and ones a quadriplegic person. So, in English - personally, I support being able to identify how you feel comfortable if you have dysphoria / dysmorphia - but I cannot come to terms with saying that you can actually 100% change gender from the sex you were born as, because that's a TRUE or FALSE statement that's scientific , to me. Scientifically, there are 3 sexes - Male, Female and Hermaphrodite at birth. So I end up actually agreeing with some of the hate mongers 😕 Not that I think people dont have a right to "identify" but I struggle when a post op transexual claims the sex that they have re-assinged to. We need a nicer term than Post-Op mind - but it isn't based in any science. And fuck me sorry - haven't I just derailed this whole thiing with my own personal curiosity/ opinion and I'm not sure anyone gives a fuck anymore for my particular demographic's opinion. (Im GEN X and proud!! The forgotten generation that weren't boomers or millenials!) The government are an embarrassment, I'd rather talk about something positive.

Ok, that's more believable. I took it literally, knowing OF and knowing are separate things, in my book. I really feel for them, as it just seems that as society becomes "better" , we just pick another bunch of people to demonise. My generation faught Racism, then Homophobia . Once racism was addressed, BBC comedies would use the gay bloke as the punchline instead of the black bloke - it seems in the 00's that that then changed to the Transexual community with "I'm a lady" little britain etc. I've always thought that the Trans community is a LOT less people than the "non white" communities of the 80's and 90's and homosexuals. So I've been shocked at how much shit they've had to take really.

I would DEFO remember that! Seriously though, I do know 1 trans person, I forgot. I worked with him years ago at a big UK bank head office and there was a bit of a kafuffle when they came back into the office. It wasn't horrible but it was quite weird , with HR sending a message to everyone not to mention the "change" from man to woman - which seemed wrong to me at the time.

That nails it. It's totally honesty based and not enforcable by anyone. The Pritti Patel bullying case showed that.

I mean this genuinely, how many? I've never met one in my entire life (as in, knowing anyone whos trans) and think I've had a pretty varied life so far - I'm intrigued as I've always thought that they are a very very small minority of people in the world?

Personally, I'm pretty pissed off that the Labour party has gone anti right to protest too. It's a protest, it happens. Address it, give them a platform and start dialogue and this stuff stops. To be fair, they've got a point - they want us to do nothing more to expand oil production; which is what we've pledged to do in the COP26 when Alok whoever the fuck shed his crocodile tears about how much the UK had led it... Rees Mogg thinks we should get "every last drop" in the North Sea , and he's always wrong or pushing for evil.... <rant over>

Ah that's too negative. In a weird way I'm becoming very optimistic of big change a coming. They are fucking up on such a huge scale, with such velocity that even the most rabid supporter may turn. We may actually get change and those fuckers might actually be brave enough to run a PR referendum. I dont think the SE middle classes will appreciate the blatent "economy first" push they've had towards going to work in the office during a pandemic - they've realised savings in excess of 100 pounds a week in most cases, by hybrid working. That combined with the monumental fuck up of Quasi kwateng or whatever the fuck he's called - he deregulated power companies, this 50% raise is on him really. Then we've Sunak fucking over small LTD company owners now, this will bite him hard. Not to mention the betrayal of the hardcore I assume vote for them, in the retired bracket.

And I'm in agreement, that's how right this post is. Now I need to go and bleach my fookin fingers.

We need to make voting a legal requirement with a fine if you don't do it - Like Australia. You can spoil the ballot - but right now we don't even have 60% of the eligible population voting - do we?

My wife just came out of 10 days isolation - she's vulnerable but triple jabbed. We were sharing a box room as we had family over staying, so how I've dodged it , is beyond me. I did have a cold and sore throat at the same time, but the same LFTs that were strong positive for her, remain negative for me. I'm still a bit dubious of "mild" - triple jabbed maybe - but I'm glad she had them. Day 5 and 6 were a bit scary for me, I could hear her coughing and wheezing and she got tired and out of breath just climbing 10 stairs or so. One morning her O2 saturation was 88 and she looked pretty unwell (but said she felt fine !) Generally her symptoms have passed now , still got low oxygen in the mornings (93 or lower, but above 90 usually). I went to the theatre and the South Shields Customs house comedy club this weekend - and heard a lot of people saying "its just like a cold now , there's no need to isolate anymore , let alone wear masks the government wouldn't say it was safe if it wasn't" . That proper scared me. I was among a handful wearing masks, and the only one wearing N95 (but I'll be fucked if I'm passing it on, negative LFT or not) The pessimist in me see's a price being paid with lives, if we get a severe variant now - all this infection cannot be good" How the fuck did so many people in our country get so fucking stupid - who in their right minds would believe anything this government says about anything at all?

I'd like to agree with that - but as an EnvironMENTALIST - I'm not ashamed ; I thought that the response to the pandemic from many youths was upsetting. On one hand, prior to Covid - on the environment front - we had youngsters getting really angry at "Boomers" and the fact that they weren't backing a standard of living change required to avoid the younger generations paying the price for climate emergencies. Then, once the covid virus hit and was " only hitting the elderly" , we had a hardcore posting and trending "BoomerExcluder" and then within months, just loads of youngsters partying and meeting up because "it doesnt affect us" - or protesting on things that really could have waited. Total hypocracy.. Really pissed me off and continues to. Fact means nothing nowadays in the UK "The narrative" is all that counts.

I totally agree and thought exactly the same thing - they've been there for months in the town centre - I *think* they replaced the Covid safe ones ; I bet they justify it as they'd bought the advertising space anyway.

I'm not saying it's organised as such, I dont think much is. But I do think that there's an "accepted way" of running a business / corporation and the push against anti competition laws ; together with the type of buying your talking about, leads to more money going to fund politicians and therefore more pressure to work for the economy. Once something "works" for one company, everyone follows suit and it becomes acceptable. No way could Unilever (im not picking on them in particular) have the number of subsidiary companies and purchases, under 1980s competition laws. But yeah, hearing about P&G is perhaps regional, I meant globally - there's a definite movement in my field with the youngest professionals, anyway.

I'm a bit more optimistic than this - but yeah - Peak Oil is our "economy collapse" , or was to the people in power in the late 90's (e.g. the people in power money wise - not politically) . The equivalent of a "man in the pub" was telling me years ago, the change to neoliberalism (get rid of regulation) may have been a response to people in the know, knowing that peak was being reached - science wasn't keeping pace with consumption of oil and the new technologies needed to get it from more difficult sources. Lobbying became more about reducing regulation and getting bailouts, tax breaks etc. I personally buy into it, there's been a definite change - some striking things are: 1. The IMF basically kicking out an elected government and taking control because of "national debt" in Greece. 2. The move to neoliberalism , adopted by many nations - basically removing anti monopoly regulations first , allowing what we have today with the media, multinationals and offshore trading. 3. The start of monitoring of behaviours and intrusive collecting of data of your own citizens private communications (USA , Patriot ACT - UK , Investigatory Powers Act). 4 . Is the above combined with “Nudge Unit” | The Institute for Government , resulting in Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem - Oxford report | University of Oxford ?? Probably - get us hating the foreigners, jobseekers, disabled - scroungers etc - to justify the swiping of funds from their pot into the private sector. 5. The mass redistribution of wealth, from the public purse into the private sector, in many countries worldwide - with the IMF and Financial hubs pushing it as necessary. (Australia gave everyone a cheque to go out and spend in the economy , public purse back to the public - it was very successful - Australians get $900 cheques from government to boost spending (telegraph.co.uk)). But, I'm optimistic on it, thankfully. The younger generation are shifting , or in my field they are - many more people don't want to work for Unilever etc. I do think you can have economic growth without it being tied to consumption of finite resources , but marketing needs regulating - WANTS and NEEDS need to be redefined to something more sensible . In other news, I just watched the BBC doco "The decade the rich won" - couldn't agree more tbh and I don't understand the mind control that people dont see it.

BBC doco - "the decade the Rich Won" - well worth a watch and made me feel so much less isolated in my views on the past 10 years. (so its obviously bang on the truth!)

Cheers. I went down the allotment for a bit, did me the world of good. I could have just said " just be careful of propoganda, in war time. Especially with the social engineering and AI shit thats now part of our world." Instead I just sit trance like in bed, writing shit for 2 hours in the day. An "interesting time" to be alive, thats for sure. At least there's the footie!

This whole left and right thing , to me, shows the problem. Black and white always and its hust not like that. Go and live in central USA for a few years its fucking awful cos of divide and conquer. Im not communist or capatalist , but the culture wars are just as bad on both sides. More people have died to US foreign policy and domestic policy than russians. (China wins on that tho, they had people literally eating those withthe opposing view). Dark shit, but this good and bad is not helping. Left and right shows indoctrination in my opinion. Its a term that simply didnt exist before neoliberilsm replaced keynesian / social policies.same and neoliberalism including the word liberal, when theres fuck all liberal about freeing corporations from social and human responsibilities in the name of GDP Seriously tho, who is the "lefty" person right now you dont see hating Putin? Ive not seen anything even from the most rabid of the media

Now i am being a bit silly BUT Replace "idealistic democratic utopia" and perhaps 20 years instead of 30 And couldnt you say the same of the UK / USA idea of democracy and neoliberalism? We are also corrupt states with the equivalent of oligarchs , just ours are "entrepreneurs" or "wealth creators". Democracy does exist , switzerland manage it , as does New Zealand, but I think its been rigged to fuck in the US and UK . Hopefully the ukranian war will be over quickly and the information war will win. Russia cannot control the internet unless they remove it entirely.

Ive no idea who that is, so apologies. But that could be polarisation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum#:~:text=The official result from the,Russian Federation with an 89 Now , to show im trying to be balanced, the UN pretty much called it invalid BUT they did Isreals occupation too, along with our war in Iraq and syria and yemen. That doesnt make those less valid to the people on the aggressive side though.

Careful what you wish for, and the last bit is impossible. When Russia said they'd upped the nuclear status - it means they activated this: Dead Hand - Wikipedia Nuclear war is the end of us, even if its one fucking bomb. The "small" Tactical nukes are 10's if not 100's of times more powerful than Hiroshima. We've a fucking climate crisis going on. We need an information war - good on the BBC for joining the dark web and onion sites - let the Russians rise up - they will. No one is born a cunt. Or, lets get him assassinated.

So is catastrophic climate change - yet our Governments say that we need to consume, chase economic growth and increase GDP and the clear majority of the populace believe it and follow it. We serve the nation by putting GDP first, arguably? We voted out of the union on nationalist and arguably racist terms. If you want anything different you are a Communist , "Lefty" or enemy. Now I know this ISNT facism, but it's certainly on the spectrum : ok, im timing myself out here, I think I'm going mad with all the stress of the world !

Yes, that's the point of NATO. Arming Ukraine and member states interfering in the internal politics of non member states, is not. This is old news - but this is the "other side" to how free a state Ukraine is. Official results: 97 percent of Crimea voters back joining Russia - CBS News Crimeans voted over 97% in favor of being russian. Then what? Yup, you guessed it - US interference . It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war | Seumas Milne | The Guardian And then we have the annex by the Russians. Then we have sabre rattling and escalation when Putin shows his hand - in the case of the UK - to give our Shithouse PM an out for being a cunt. Nothing justifies Russia's actions right now NOTHING - but conversely - denying history and not taking a look at how the West and NATO have played a part in this , and saying we are "Free" and fair is dangerous imo. This is a battle of super powers - and if history shows us anything its that "super powers" are dangerous and that the level of power they hold perverts all who lead them. Preachy and I have no answer, but I'm pretty sure "more war" isn't the answer - and NATO escalating in a non member country would assure that. We need global co-operation and a new world order imo - all this is detracting from the destruction of our habitat and the overriding belief in greed and "good and evil". lol, im off my soapbox as I'm cringing at myself here , and also people are dying while I write some of this contentious stuff (but devil and angel on the shoulder - so are they in Yemen , and Nigeria, and down the cadmium mines at 8 years old for our fucking technologies). I think I'll fuck off and do something in nature for a bit .. Edit -> this weeks panaroma is worth a watch if you have the stomach for it. It's harrowing.

Yeah - I dont think its worth taking a risk with a man whos clearly unhinged / deranged with a Nuclear war , myself. That's my reality here. I dont mean whataboutism by the way - Yemen is now - its not a past thing and its , in my view almost directly comparable to Russia and Ukraine. A BS manufactured reason to try a land grab for historical reasons. All the "atrocities" we are seeing in the news are / have been happening there - to this day - that's my point I think. This "US vs Them" is manufactured crap imo. I dont want to take sides because I'm being told to either. Interesting that you use the term facism for Russia and not Ukraine, who both have equally facist backgrounds. Fascism Returns to Ukraine | The New Republic Ukraine's Toxic History of Fascism and Ethnic Cleansing | History News Network Is Ukraine Fascist? | HuffPost null (The huff post is a bit ambigous, but this kind of strikes the point: Svoboda's approach to ethnic relations has been termed fascist but in point of fact it is strikingly similar to official policy in Estonia, Latvia and Israel. In effect, Svoboda aspires to create a "lite" version of what Israeli scholar Oren Yiftachel calls an "ethnocracy," a system of rule within which the titular nation holds a position of dominance over the other nations inhabiting the land, such as Estonians and Latvians vis-à-vis Russians or Jews vis-à-vis Palestinians. As the Baltic and Israeli examples show, ethnocracies can be democratic, but they're obviously not as democratic as liberal democracies and, with their penchant for hierarchy, can easily violate the civil rights of minorities." I'm not trying to defend anyone - I'm sticking to the same line - its not black and white and being polarised only fuels this conflict imo. If we want change and for these atrocities to stop happening , we need a global uprising the like of which we've never seen - not virtue signalling that we care about 1 country and turn a blind eye to 5 others. Syria , Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria are all proxy wars with actors from all sides. It's not whataboutism , going back 20 years - this is TODAY. Can you spot the difference between caring about those 4 and caring about Ukraine? Disclaimer as usual, I'm not arguing with any passion etc - just debating , I'm friends with all here.

The back heel seems to be a signature move! He used it twice to pass the ball in the Brazil game, one leading to the goal!!