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HortonNash posted:That's a direct declaration of war on News International. I don't expect them to support Labour, but doing what you suggest is akin to poking a tiger in the eye with your cock. That's exactly the kind of attitude that NI get their power from, the idea that any feeble statement, no matter how mild, could be seen as an attack on NI and thus provoke negative headlines.
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Can we not consult ASAB for a ruling on this "protect are boys" legislation?
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Spangly A posted:Lords are conservatives, proper conservatives. Not reactionary right wing pieces of poo poo. So while they might slow down or attempt to block a lot of progressive reform, they've utterly shut down a lot of alarmingly undemocratic poo poo the tories have tried to pull, and the tories know that forcing through violations of human rights against public will and legislative process is a step they can't take. I see the argument that the Lords act quite well as a cork to stop parliament making GBS threads on everyone continuously, and that still doesn't really address the issue of why they aren't elected.
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Fluo posted:Not everyone is perfect, even the proler than thou types. You agree with the good and disagree with the bad. This can be godwinned pretty easy which I'll do it myself I guess, Hitler banned smoking in public places which is good. Hitler killed million of jews, blacks, homosexuals, mentally ill, disabled, trade unionists, Jjehovah witnesses and so on and so on. Hitler banning smoking was good, pretty much everything else he did was evil. This is the extreme. If you're interested in evolutionary biology, and science generally, then don't bother with Dorkins, try Richard Lewontin, whose excellent and very accessible marxist-based take on biology and science, "Biology as Ideology", is avaliable on youtube. Dorkins at this point is clearly just a MRA born 60 years too late. It's his twitter ramblings that have exposed him properly, though going back and reading his books in a different light throws up all kinds of stuff you might not have paid attention to before.
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Fluo posted:Politics and science shouldn't mix*. It can fog your judgement and make you a bad scientist (on both sides of the fence). His point, in the first video, is that they are fundamentally inseparable and acting as if they aren't does you no favours. In this regard, he is a much better scientist then Richard Dawkins.
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Fluo posted:That is a dumb statement though, I'm not the biggest fan of the army but someone has to do it. Or would you rather bring back conscription? Has to do what? Last time the army was necessary to stop people getting overrun with fascists was coming up 70 years ago. Since then what have we "had" to do?
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