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Blond Bombshell said:
What's happened?
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Biden couldn't string together coherent sentences, forgot what it was he was saying, and, they're calling it a cold, but it sounded like he was either dying or that they'd dug him up for the debate. So weak and raspy.

He made Trump look incredibly strong. Which in itself is no easy feat giving his conviction and the absolute nonsense he comes out with.

The democrats replace biden or they suffer a historic loss by the looks of it.
 
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Disco down under said:
Biden couldn't string together coherent sentences, forgot what it was he was saying, and, they're calling it a cold, but it sounded like he was either dying or that they'd dug him up for the debate. So weak and raspy.

He made Trump look incredibly strong. Which in itself is no easy feat giving his conviction and the absolute nonsense he comes out with.

The democrats replace biden or they suffer a historic loss by the looks of it.
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Sad to hear, but even a blind man would tell you Biden needed replacing midterm last term
 
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Blond Bombshell said:
Sad to hear, but even a blind man would tell you Biden needed replacing midterm last term
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Yeah, I am assuming they replace him now and hope it isn't too late. Won't be with Harris as they'd hoped as she is not a popular woman.

Trump should really be a doddle to contend with for anyone lucid. Bizarre they let it get to this.
 
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Disco down under said:
I'm a bit nervous about how much gyspy stock is in me. I'm pretty certain it isn't negligible.
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I’m mainly English, Italian and Iberian with a little bit of Scottish and Irish thrown in.

I already knew this because I’d been told about my family history when I was growing up. The DNA test confirmed it. It was all a bit meh with no great surprises.
 
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Bob the Mackem said:
BIG SHOUT OUT TO Sir John Hall, a mackem at heart , he was a class act today at the Nigel Farage do at Rainton arena.
Farage was on top form and truthful over how our country is going down hill fast as we lose our identity.
I AM ENGLISH AND PROUD OF IT.
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I'm English, proud of it and hate John Hall, always have ...

... he's no Mackem and I doubt he has a heart tbh.

He's just another, like Farage, who'll say absolutely anything to get people to believe him imo.

He's from Ashington and watched Newcastle since he was a child ...

... he only pretended to have any interest in Sunderland when he tried to bully Newcastle council into building a new SJP.

'Mr Newcastle and his Geordie Nation' ffs.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
I'm English, proud of it and hate John Hall, always have ...

... he's no Mackem and I doubt he has a heart tbh.

He's just another, like Farage, who'll say absolutely anything to get people to believe him imo.

He's from Ashington and watched Newcastle since he was a child ...

... he only pretended to have any interest in Sunderland when he tried to bully Newcastle council into building a new SJP.
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Met him once, not to talk to, came across as a canny bloke.
 
Disco down under said:
Yeah, I am assuming they replace him now and hope it isn't too late. Won't be with Harris as they'd hoped as she is not a popular woman.

Trump should really be a doddle to contend with for anyone lucid. Bizarre they let it get to this.
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The Democrats are so terrified or Trump they haven't been able to think since the mid 2010s.

They still won't learn when he wins. Same plays, over and over again. Trapped.
 
alcoauth said:
Can you explain what you mean here?

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Let's be direct, no need to be coy, let's get to the bottom of this.
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Coy, why on earth would I want to be coy ...

... it's a little chat forum, not the ECHR, and I'm just posting my opinion.

Hall is out of order because, as usual, he only thinks of himself and ignores the rest of the UK. He only talks about 'the English' because the rest are of no concern, just as he referred to 'The Geordie Nation' and ignored everyone else.

And, it's impossible to know how 'English' all English people are or how white they're supposed to be.

Because of how far back in time you choose to go, and what you think your family history might be your ethnicity can be a matter of choice. The Roman invasion would've most likely have brought Africans, who knows what the Norman invasion brought. I doubt there were many black Viking invaders though <laugh>

Hall doesn't actually say what he wants done, if anything ...

... does anyone know?
 
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The Norton Cat said:
Genetic testing can't identify your ethnicity. Ethnicity is a set of shared cultural and social characteristics that include language, religion, beliefs, customs, history, mythology, clothing, amongst other things. There is often an overlap with ancestry/genetics but ethnicity is not necessarily defined by it. There are various agencies through which individuals can change ethnic groups. Some anthropologists and social scientists regard ethnicity as a product of specific kinds of inter-group interactions, rather than an essential quality inherent to human groups.
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Completely agree. As an experienced Genealogist (not DNA) I had my DNA tested to help breakdown a number of brick walls in my ancestry. As an "extra" the company give you an ethnicity estimate based on a reference panel of other people worldwide, who have submitted their DNA and the results are held in a database. The ethnicity estimates are not to be taken seriously and are little more than a bit of fun.
DNA testing becomes useful in genealogy by allowing you to explore shared matches, helping to breakdown brick walls when other primary evidence is not available and confirming the results of your existing family tree.
 
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Disco down under said:
Biden couldn't string together coherent sentences, forgot what it was he was saying, and, they're calling it a cold, but it sounded like he was either dying or that they'd dug him up for the debate. So weak and raspy.

He made Trump look incredibly strong. Which in itself is no easy feat giving his conviction and the absolute nonsense he comes out with.

The democrats replace biden or they suffer a historic loss by the looks of it.
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It's really depressing looking at the leading 2 candidates of the UK and US. Absolutely no hope for me regardless of who is in power at the moment. Lots of right/far-right candidates getting in across Europe and South America as well. No real options for any centrists or lefties at the moment
 
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Why are they far right movements gaining such traction across Europe and here?

It seems to me to be so divisive, so easy to blame a countries issues on people with a different skin tone or nationality.
 
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Chunksafc said:
Why are they far right movements gaining such traction across Europe and here?

It seems to me to be so divisive, so easy to blame a countries issues on people with a different skin tone or nationality.
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There's your answer right there, because it's easy. It's not possible to fix the world's problems, the best anyone can do is try to navigate through it whilst being a bit more progressive and respectful of themselves and others along the way (that goes for individuals and governments).

But someone comes along and says "it's really easy to solve all of our problems. They're the ones to blame and if everyone was like us and not like them everything will be better."

It's hard to win against that when you can't offer a total solution in the same way. Serious fixes take time, require continuous work and need compromise. That doesn't sound as easy.
 
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Flash Gordon said:
There's your answer right there, because it's easy. It's not possible to fix the world's problems, the best anyone can do is try to navigate through it whilst being a bit more progressive and respectful of themselves and others along the way (that goes for individuals and governments).

But someone comes along and says "it's really easy to solve all of our problems. They're the ones to blame and if everyone was like us and not like them everything will be better."

It's hard to win against that when you can't offer a total solution in the same way. Serious fixes take time, require continuous work and need compromise. That doesn't sound as easy.
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Divide and Rule. The Tories have done it for a long, long time.
 
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