Off Topic Politics Thread

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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
**I get 'slightly' annoyed about them :)

On the Peter Crouch podcast this week he brought it up. You go into a restaurant and everyone is subjected to the "have you got any allergies or is anyone a vegan" question. Surely if you are vegan or allergic to shellfish or nuts, you will mention it...why ask 8 people around a table.
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
**I get 'slightly' annoyed about them :)

On the Peter Crouch podcast this week he brought it up. You go into a restaurant and everyone is subjected to the "have you got any allergies or is anyone a vegan" question. Surely if you are vegan or allergic to shellfish or nuts, you will mention it...why ask 8 people around a table.
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I mean…
‘Subjected’ to a ten second question is some confirmation bias stuff right there!

I am a vegetarian and the only issue I have with vegans is all the cheese has disappeared off my choices in restaurants!
 
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Onionman said:
I'm specifically talking about your response to a pretty run of the mill statement about wanting a politician thrown off a bridge in a sack full of bricks. It's the sort of hyperbole said about politicians, TV presenters, football managers, etc, etc daily.

Acting deeply offended and saying you think the poster was being deadly serious is, at the very least, unusual.

I'll leave it now.

Vin

PS. In passing, I wonder if there's any chance of any post disagreeing with me not getting the thumbs up from Billy/Negative Creep. It's good to have fans.
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Thank you, Vin, for recognising my comment for how it was meant and for your defence.
Perhaps I should have used blue ink.
Anyway as already stated, in my response to him, I don’t give a **** about his opinions.
 
StJabbo1 said:
Look at the history of initially secret negotiations with the IRA, a terrorist organisation, that led to the good Friday agreement. Something many thought impossible during the worst if the troubles. Of course it's a different set of circumstances with more parties involved with different agendas but dialogue must take place to end the current atrocities and move to a lasting peace. Hope not hate.
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Yes that's completely fair. I guess there are secret negotiations taking place but when that broker is Qatar, you really do have to wonder!
 
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‘Subjected’ to a ten second question is some confirmation bias stuff right there!

I am a vegetarian and the only issue I have with vegans is all the cheese has disappeared off my choices in restaurants!
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Mrs No7 is a veggie too, and she says the same.

My point is that as she doesn't eat meat, she actively asks for the veggie choices and always will as she doesn't want meat. I can 'accidentally' eat the veggie choice and it doesn't go against my principles.
 
Archers Road said:
On another forum, I see people regularly asking the question “What should Israel have done after Hamas slaughtered 1400 innocent people, and carried off hundreds of hostages?”

In both instances the question, which if you’re honest you must admit is largely rhetorical, is put by way of a justification for war.

Perhaps there is no satisfactory answer, but the mind set which decrees that the observer must take sides, and having done so must supply the chosen side with weapons and active support, seems unhelpful in the extreme. Violence is always justified by the protagonists.
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No,the question isn't rhetorical. If your view is peace at all costs then I'm genuinely interested in where that leaves Ukraine, once the tanks are in their country.

You're a bright bloke (I mean that genuinely) so I'm just interested in your opinion as to what you do if you lead Ukraine and Russian tanks are rolling towards your capital.

I'm not asking you to take sides, I'm interested in what concrete action your 'peace at all costs' policy would cause you to take in that circumstance. It's not a trick question.

Vin
 
Onionman said:
Yet you think (about four posts earlier) that letting people get on with their lives will lead to societal collapse.

Vin
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Not really sure I see the link between upholding moral standards in a well functioning democratic society and the anti-human agenda?

Two very different issues which you chose to conflate for some reason
 
StJabbo1 said:
Don't forget bearded kaftan wearing woke Guardian readers. David Attenborough, Chris Packham and a host of climate scientists and naturalists conspiring worldwide. Anyone with an electric vehicle or councils introducing LEZs and pedestrianisation of towns and cities. There are more of course apologies to any I left out.
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Just because you enjoy being bent over and shafted by politicians who choose to cover their deceit with climate virtue signalling, doesn’t mean I will.
 
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