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Mostlymadeofwater said:
It isn't though. If the UK Gov is the source, you are most likely to be a benefit claimant if you are white british.

Source: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures...y-and-benefits/benefits/state-support/latest/
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That's clearly not the same type of analysis. It's looking at claims per family rather than claims per x number of population and is also looking at ethnicity rather than nationality.

You'd also need to look at what each of the studies meant by "benefits". When most people talk about benefits they're often not talking about things like the state pension or child benefit, which that study does consider benefits and which are the most widely received.
 
San Tejón said:
I know they keep saying that they want Greenland for security reasons but are there any minerals or fossil fuels buried in the ground there that they want to get their greedy little hands on?
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Yes, Greenland is rich in "rare earths" that Trump likes to go on about. But getting them would destroy much of the natural environment, so people locally are mainly against mining.
 
I'm getting quite annoyed at this phrase "suicidal empathy". Empathy is the one redeeming feature that raises us up above the animals. Intellect can make us cruel and self-serving, but empathy is that one thing that helps us understand our actions have consequences. It is one selfless motivation mankind has. The opposite of empathy is indifference. When we are indifferent to the suffering of the few, what is the point in society in the first place? Where has it led when we have allowed indifference to overpower empathy?

Holocaust.
 
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Yes, Greenland is rich in "rare earths" that Trump likes to go on about. But getting them would destroy much of the natural environment, so people locally are mainly against mining.
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Ah.
Oddly enough I have just read a novel that claimed that there were gas and oil fields under the ice, but in the novel they also discovered a buried but still active volcano that was being prevented from eruption by the pressure of the ground and ice above it.
True to “baddy” form someone wanted to risk drilling down and risking an eruption that would cause a tsunami of colossal proportions because the gain was worth wiping out millions of people in an over populated world.
Sounds like it could have been based on the Trumpster and Muskrat.
 
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Osvaldorama said:
All you have to do is look on the gov website and you’ll see them all.

They are harrowing

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A 1% tax on billionaires would barely cover these costs.

The solutions often touted on here are just completely unrealistic. We have to slash spending
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This is nonsense. You’d have to be completely innumerate to even try to read anything into those figures, given the way they’re presented. Forget the veracity of the source material, this is statistical gibberish only a simpleton would take seriously.
 
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Archers Road said:
This is nonsense. You’d have to be completely innumerate to even try to read anything into those figures, given the way they’re presented. Forget the veracity of the source material, this is statistical gibberish only a simpleton would take seriously.
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He used exactly the same kind of statistical gibberish to prove that most rapes were committed by immigrants. Except they aren’t.

Mr Statistical Gibberish is at it again.
 
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Puck said:
I imagine that chart is part of a larger document where all this is explained. You're right that posting it by itself does make it difficult to interpret.
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Looking at their website, that doesn't seem to be their MO. I spent a few minutes trying to dig and once I'd found out the size of the congolese population and why they arrived here, I didn't bother any more. It seemed like an attempt to skew some statistics. It may be true per 1000, but it's not representative.
 
A story about sewage being pumped straight into streams/rivers, NOT because of the water companies but as a result of blocks of flats having their waste pipes plumbed into the rainwater pipes and not the sewage pipes, when under construction.
Who is responsible is briefly talked about in the short video.

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