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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Sciolus » Fri May 20, 2022 6:55 pm

dyqik wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 2:19 pm
And to put it another way, the price of housing, which is the largest expense in any middle or lower income household (and often more than 50% of all expenses or income), is set by market conditions: i.e. how much others can afford to pay, and what income landlords need to feel prosperous.
Housing is a particularly difficult issue, because (uniquely, I think) it has these three characteristics:
- Severe constraints on supply;
- Everyone needs it;
- Many people want more of it.

The result is that rich people buy more of the finite stock --- larger houses, second homes, whatever. It appears there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with enough disposable income that they can spend half a million on a country pad. This pushes up prices for all, both by using up stock and increasing scarcity, and through sheer buying power at the top.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Grumble » Fri May 20, 2022 7:32 pm

Sciolus wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 6:55 pm
dyqik wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 2:19 pm
And to put it another way, the price of housing, which is the largest expense in any middle or lower income household (and often more than 50% of all expenses or income), is set by market conditions: i.e. how much others can afford to pay, and what income landlords need to feel prosperous.
Housing is a particularly difficult issue, because (uniquely, I think) it has these three characteristics:
- Severe constraints on supply;
- Everyone needs it;
- Many people want more of it.

The result is that rich people buy more of the finite stock --- larger houses, second homes, whatever. It appears there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with enough disposable income that they can spend half a million on a country pad. This pushes up prices for all, both by using up stock and increasing scarcity, and through sheer buying power at the top.
I genuinely think that if you own a house that is not anyone’s main residence (so excluding rented properties) you should be paying at least double council tax and double stamp duty. I’m not sure how to prevent housing stock being bought up by landlords without increasing rents.
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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by dyqik » Fri May 20, 2022 11:47 pm

Grumble wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 7:32 pm
Sciolus wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 6:55 pm
dyqik wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 2:19 pm
And to put it another way, the price of housing, which is the largest expense in any middle or lower income household (and often more than 50% of all expenses or income), is set by market conditions: i.e. how much others can afford to pay, and what income landlords need to feel prosperous.
Housing is a particularly difficult issue, because (uniquely, I think) it has these three characteristics:
- Severe constraints on supply;
- Everyone needs it;
- Many people want more of it.

The result is that rich people buy more of the finite stock --- larger houses, second homes, whatever. It appears there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with enough disposable income that they can spend half a million on a country pad. This pushes up prices for all, both by using up stock and increasing scarcity, and through sheer buying power at the top.
I genuinely think that if you own a house that is not anyone’s main residence (so excluding rented properties) you should be paying at least double council tax and double stamp duty. I’m not sure how to prevent housing stock being bought up by landlords without increasing rents.
Much more generous protections for tenants than there currently is.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Millennie Al » Sat May 21, 2022 1:23 am

JQH wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 9:38 am
Millennie Al wrote:
Thu May 19, 2022 11:14 pm
Reducing inequality is not a legitimate priority ...
How do you feel about the legitimacy of reducing crime?
That too is not in itself a legitimate aim. How about guaranteeing to reduce crime to zero by abolishing all laws? Or, as is more realistic as it is frequently advocated, a policy of harsher sentences and sweeping police powers? Execution for stealing a shilling?

The purpose of having crimes is to try to allow us to do what we like, restricted by the need to balance what one person likes against what another likes. Once you lose sight of that and start having laws for their own sake you make things worse for everyone.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Millennie Al » Sat May 21, 2022 1:42 am

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In a time of economic misery, priority to helping those in most need obviously requires reductions at the top.
That's not at all obvious without the assumption of zero sum economics.
It's not just zero-sum economics, at the moment it's shrinking cake economics.
Maybe there are policies which help the poorest but also start the cake growing again and this makes some people much richer.
Plus reducing inequalities, it has been persuasively been argued, boosts productivity and a country's economic performance.
Some people are easily persuaded.
The argument that "inequality is an essential side-effect of many things that help the poorest" is pretty extraordinary.
That's the nature of progress. Valuable innovations very frequently start expensive and only available to the rich before economies of scale and further innovation make them available to less and less wealthy people. For example, you can get a smartphone now for about £40. There was a time when it cost very much more, and before that there was a time where they had not yet been invented. As well as inequality across time, you can have inequality by place - things are introduced somewhere and take some time to spread. If there was some fixed ultimate level of wealth, you could eliminate inequality by bringing everyone up to that point, but there isn't. However much wealth gets created, there's always scope for more.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Millennie Al » Sat May 21, 2022 1:51 am

IvanV wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 12:09 pm
Millennie Al wrote:
Thu May 19, 2022 11:14 pm
Re the Labour party manifesto:
Reducing inequality is not a legitimate priority. The priority should be helping those in most need.
It is a common way of thinking, and I used to think that way too, but I no longer do. Perhaps to oversimplify, what you are basically saying is that poverty is absolute poverty, and relative poverty doesn't really matter very much.
No. That's very much not what I said. "Those most in need" is relative. What I am saying is that when people obsess over the 1% - meaning the richest 1%, they are wrong to do so. Very wrong. If they want a 1% to obsess over, it should be the poorest 1%.
But relative poverty is genuine poverty. For example, the poor in Britain today have an income similar to the middle class in the 19th century, who then were thought of as "prosperous". But by today's standards, they are poor. Similarly, applying modern income criteria of what is poverty to 1960 incomes, and you find that 90% of the 1960 population was poor. Relative poverty is poverty, because if your income is insufficient to join in the normal activities of present-day society and its economy, you are substantially excluded from that economy and society.
Even supposing that's true, it has little to say about inequality in the sense that people currently use it (i.e. the difference between the poor and the very rich). You are saying that a society whereby 99% of people has almost identical wealth is very good even if 1% are billionaires because the normal activities of society would not involve billionaires.
I suspect the effect of the thought experiment you suggest might not be as nugatory as you think. That 0.1% have a very profound effect on society, which would be much changed if they were no longer rich. That is not to say that I am proposing it. Though it is not dissimilar to the kind of thing that happened as practice in various revolutions and was probably even a specific aim of the revolutionaries: there was a large loss of societal wealth in those revolutions, and the formerly wealthy were dispossessed. So wealth vanished, especially from the very rich, who often lost everything.
And after such revolutions, did this make the poor better off?

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Millennie Al » Sat May 21, 2022 1:59 am

Sciolus wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 6:55 pm
Housing is a particularly difficult issue, because (uniquely, I think) it has these three characteristics:
- Severe constraints on supply;
- Everyone needs it;
- Many people want more of it.

The result is that rich people buy more of the finite stock --- larger houses, second homes, whatever. It appears there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with enough disposable income that they can spend half a million on a country pad. This pushes up prices for all, both by using up stock and increasing scarcity, and through sheer buying power at the top.
Ok. So take this very simplified society: people have three levels of wealth. Some have two houses, the vast majority have one, and some are homeless. Now apply a policy of reducing inequality which destroys all the second houses. This surely reduces inequality, so surely you would not claim it is an improvement? And what about the more extreme version of reducing inequality which destroys every house? Is that better or worse? What about a policy which builds more houses so that everyone now has one, but quite a few have three and some even have four. That has made inequality worse, but housed everyone. Is that really the worst policy?

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by JQH » Sat May 21, 2022 7:39 am

Millennie Al wrote:
Sat May 21, 2022 1:23 am
JQH wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 9:38 am
Millennie Al wrote:
Thu May 19, 2022 11:14 pm
Reducing inequality is not a legitimate priority ...
How do you feel about the legitimacy of reducing crime?
That too is not in itself a legitimate aim. How about guaranteeing to reduce crime to zero by abolishing all laws? Or, as is more realistic as it is frequently advocated, a policy of harsher sentences and sweeping police powers? Execution for stealing a shilling?

The purpose of having crimes is to try to allow us to do what we like, restricted by the need to balance what one person likes against what another likes. Once you lose sight of that and start having laws for their own sake you make things worse for everyone.
Is it not? Making life for citizens safer and more secure is not a legitimate aim? I'll ignore all your straw-man arguments and point out that societies with high levels of inequality tend to have higher crime rates.

See this for example
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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Sciolus » Sat May 21, 2022 8:22 am

Millennie Al wrote:
Sat May 21, 2022 1:59 am
Sciolus wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 6:55 pm
Housing is a particularly difficult issue, because (uniquely, I think) it has these three characteristics:
- Severe constraints on supply;
- Everyone needs it;
- Many people want more of it.

The result is that rich people buy more of the finite stock --- larger houses, second homes, whatever. It appears there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with enough disposable income that they can spend half a million on a country pad. This pushes up prices for all, both by using up stock and increasing scarcity, and through sheer buying power at the top.
Ok. So take this very simplified society: people have three levels of wealth. Some have two houses, the vast majority have one, and some are homeless. Now apply a policy of reducing inequality which destroys all the second houses. This surely reduces inequality, so surely you would not claim it is an improvement? And what about the more extreme version of reducing inequality which destroys every house? Is that better or worse? What about a policy which builds more houses so that everyone now has one, but quite a few have three and some even have four. That has made inequality worse, but housed everyone. Is that really the worst policy?
You what? I gave you an example where inequality -- specifically wealth inequality, either cash or access to credit -- has direct adverse effects on poor people. It should be pretty obvious that if wealthy people and poor people are competing for a finite resource, poor people are going to do badly.

Suppose you have access to £100k to buy a house. Unfortunately you can't buy the house you would have bought ten years ago, because it's just been bought by someone with £150k. They bought it because the house they would have bought ten years ago has just been bought by someone with £200k. They bought it because the house they would have bought ten years ago has just been bought by someone with £300k. They bought it because ... the whole of London has been bought by zillionaire tax dodgers and kleptocrats. So you're f.cked.

Your "just build more" position doesn't change this because it's a structural thing. Apart from the practical issues which should be obvious to anyone paying attention, if you're going to build a new house, you still want to sell it to a rich person not a poor person. If the council forces you to build "affordable" or even "social" housing, you're still going to sell it to the wealthiest qualifying people because the price cap is relative not absolute. Your fantasy policy will fail because demand from the rich will always outstrip supply.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by purplehaze » Sat May 21, 2022 10:15 am

Voted Labour in the last general election, despite Corbyn being the leader.

Care not a jot about the 'leader' and their so call charisma of any party but about the values that define my life. That value is Labour.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Millennie Al » Mon May 23, 2022 12:21 am

JQH wrote:
Sat May 21, 2022 7:39 am
Millennie Al wrote:
Sat May 21, 2022 1:23 am
JQH wrote:
Fri May 20, 2022 9:38 am


How do you feel about the legitimacy of reducing crime?
That too is not in itself a legitimate aim. How about guaranteeing to reduce crime to zero by abolishing all laws? Or, as is more realistic as it is frequently advocated, a policy of harsher sentences and sweeping police powers? Execution for stealing a shilling?

The purpose of having crimes is to try to allow us to do what we like, restricted by the need to balance what one person likes against what another likes. Once you lose sight of that and start having laws for their own sake you make things worse for everyone.
Is it not? Making life for citizens safer and more secure is not a legitimate aim?
It is a legitimate aim. But that's not the same as reducing crime. One of the ways that a citizen's safety and security can be reduced is by law enforcement doing things like randomly stopping and searching people, confiscating assets on presumption of guilt, arresting on inadequate grounds, extracting information by torture etc. If the cost of preventing someone using a counterfeit $20 bill is that they get killed by the police, then we'd prefer that that law go unenforced in that case. Reduction of crime is a means and not an end.
I'll ignore all your straw-man arguments and point out that societies with high levels of inequality tend to have higher crime rates.

See this for example
That's describing a model. Models tell you a lot about the assumptions that go into them and very little about reality.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

Post by Millennie Al » Mon May 23, 2022 12:46 am

Sciolus wrote:
Sat May 21, 2022 8:22 am
You what? I gave you an example where inequality -- specifically wealth inequality, either cash or access to credit -- has direct adverse effects on poor people. It should be pretty obvious that if wealthy people and poor people are competing for a finite resource, poor people are going to do badly.
Yes, there are few poor people who own a world famous artwork or an exceptionally large diamond. But housing is not finite. 49,470 new homes were completed in January to March 2021.
Suppose you have access to £100k to buy a house. Unfortunately you can't buy the house you would have bought ten years ago, because it's just been bought by someone with £150k. They bought it because the house they would have bought ten years ago has just been bought by someone with £200k. They bought it because the house they would have bought ten years ago has just been bought by someone with £300k.
That argument makes no sense. If you have N people and N houses, they each get one regardless of the price: if you have N+1 people and N houses, someone is left without. You could have zero inequality where everyone has £100k and every house costs £100k and still have the same number of people owning a house and the same number without. It's all about how many there are.
They bought it because ... the whole of London has been bought by zillionaire tax dodgers and kleptocrats. So you're f.cked.
Which you seem to realise here, but then leap off into fantasy. Firstly, the whole of London has most certainly not been bought by zillionaires of any kind. Secondly, even if it were true, London is not the whole country and it is not mandatory to live there.
Your "just build more" position doesn't change this because it's a structural thing.
Housing is not exempt from the link between price, supply, and demand.
Apart from the practical issues which should be obvious to anyone paying attention, if you're going to build a new house, you still want to sell it to a rich person not a poor person. If the council forces you to build "affordable" or even "social" housing, you're still going to sell it to the wealthiest qualifying people because the price cap is relative not absolute. Your fantasy policy will fail because demand from the rich will always outstrip supply.
What are these rich people going to do with all the unused houses? And after a rich person has three houses that they don't use, why are they willing to pay as much for the fourth?

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

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Jeremy Corbyn wanted to destroy all these companies with his mad free broadband policy. He's even more anti-business than Boris Johnson.

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The utter sh.t went on the antisemitic, Assadist, pro-Hezbollah and pro-Russian channel al-Mayadeen to do an interview where he argued the west shouldn't be sending arms to Ukraine, among other things. When your problem is a difference of opinion, sure, it's best to talk it over. When your problem is an invading imperialist and colonialist army that tortures, rapes and murders wherever it occupies and it has a massive artillery advantage is uses to both enable the occupation of more cities in which to torture rape and murder, and also just to directly shell those cities targetting hospitals and schools and residential areas, you need GMLRS.

I remember how much his pathetic, dishonest defenders would bristle when it was mentioned that he and his cronies varied from disgracefully soft on Assad and Putin to downright supporting them. Between this and Williamson's overt Putinism lately...

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Is he a Putin asset, or just monumentally thick?

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Is he a Putin asset, or just monumentally thick?
Thick enough to be an asset even if he doesn't realise it. Too thick to understand that while it is good to criticise one's own government for doing wrong, other nations can also do wrong, and that fascist nations generally do a lot more wrong than democracies. He did paid work for Iran's vile regime for some years, though, stopping only when the relevant channel was taken off the air for failing to pay the fines they incurred for complicity in torture - them broadcasting interviews coerced from prisoners by torture did not cause Corbyn to cease working for their propaganda outfit.

The international far left has generally been abysmal on the issue of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though, as they are too f.cking western-centric to understand that other nations are also capable of imperialism and racism, and a failure to understand the ways in which Russian and Ottoman imperialism shaped the world, and more recently how Russian and Arabic ethnonationalism do so, especially among Americans who think ethnicity=skin colour, is one of the major intellectual failings of the movement.

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Re: The General Corbyn Thread

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headshot wrote:
Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:43 pm
Is he a Putin asset, or just monumentally thick?
Especially among Americans who think ethnicity=skin colour, is one of the major intellectual failings of the movement.
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Post by EACLucifer » Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:44 pm

Al Mayadeen, the channel on which he appeared, have also engaged in Holocaust denial. They are run by a friend of Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah. And while on them, aside from his idiotic commens on Ukraine, he also used antisemitic dogwhistles about "powerful forces", just as Abbott did in his defence. Meanwhile, Shameless Seumas is very interested in articles arguing that Ukraine should lose the war, and Chris Williamson - who was fervently defended by the Corbynite cult - is now claiming that Jews were settler colonists in (checks notes) Odesa.

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They don't reprimand Alan Sugar for telling people to vote Tory.
It was even more on the nose than that:-

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/sir-alan ... r-11310726

Not even "Corbyn's rhetoric sounds a bit like a Nazi" but "Corbyn actually is a Nazi".

I'd argue whatever dubious requirement there is for the BBC's top earners to give the impression of total impartiality even when expressing their private opinion away from the BBC would apply more to someone like Sugar, an actual member of parliament who is regularly put forward as some sort of serious spokesperson for the business community, rather than the crisp-peddler whose BBC input is usually limited to whether or not Port Vale have been unlucky with VAR offside calls this season.
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Post by EACLucifer » Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:56 pm

Little waster wrote:
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Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:03 pm
They don't reprimand Alan Sugar for telling people to vote Tory.
It was even more on the nose than that:-

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/sir-alan ... r-11310726

Not even "Corbyn's rhetoric sounds a bit like a Nazi" but "Corbyn actually is a Nazi".
b.llsh.t was it.

It was a f.cking joke depicting Corbyn alongside Hitler not to say Corbyn was Hitler, but to mock the way he and his followers would claim there was no possible way Corbyn could have known that the various notorious antisemites he met were notorious antisemites. Hitler's present in the joke not to equate him with Corbyn, but as an example of the ultimate obvious antisemite, to highlight how antisemitism was never a bar to Corbyn working with people even when he otherwise claimed to have strict standards. To put it another way, Hitler's a stand in for people like Paul Eisen, the Holocaust denier Corbyn donated to in 2014 or so, who'd been a participant in a bitter debate in a campaign group Corbyn was a patron of and an open Holocaust denier for many years at that point, Raed Saleh, about whom there was a heated debate due to his open antisemitism around the time Corbyn praised him and invited him to Parliament, or Dyab Abou Jahjah, who Corbyn "forgot" meeting, despite having been challenged over meeting with the aforementioned bigot on several occasions over the years.

Sugar should have been free to make it, just as Lineker should be free to espouse his (on the issue in question) quite commendable views.

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Re: Gary Lineker

Post by EACLucifer » Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:47 pm

Little waster wrote:
Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:23 pm
EACLucifer wrote:
Sat Mar 11, 2023 5:56 pm

Sugar should all been free to make it, just as Lineker should be free to espouse his (on the issue in question) quite commendable views.
Regardless of whether you agree with Sugar or not, it was still a blatant bit of partisan point scoring...
It's funny how people think criticising tolerance of racist bigotry and promotion of racist bigots is partisan point scoring when the those who tolerate the racist bigotry and promote the racist bigots are on their side. Wait, no, not funny. The other thing.

It's no more partisan than comparing the government's policies to 30s Germany. Both are hyperbole*, both are perfectly valid uses of hyperbole. Most importantly, of course, neither is the kind of thing that should be the BBCs business when their employees say it in their own time.

*Yes, government policy is hideous, but please check up on what thirties Germany was like before thinking it's a valid literal comparison. A better comparison, if one wants to be literal - hyperbole being of course a perfectly valid form of expression - would be the attitude of the British government here and in the colonies to refugees from thirties Germany.

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Re: Gary Lineker

Post by Little waster » Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:18 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:47 pm

It's funny how people think criticising tolerance of racist bigotry and promotion of racist bigots is partisan point scoring]
It's funny how some so-called progressives tolerate racist and dehumanising language when it's aimed at an out-group they disapprove of. It's hilarious when that language is used to support policies that result in the actual deaths of those people.

Still don't worry the next time some odious far-right creep crawls from under a rock to post some antisemitic meme, I'll think to myself WWEACL do and remind myself "it's just a joke".

Similarly when they start to rant about how we are being "invaded" and "swarmed" as part of The Great Replacement, I'll remind myself the language isn't literally the same as the 1930s so everything is probably fine. I mean they wouldn't have made her Home Secretary if it wasn't.
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Re: Gary Lineker

Post by Tntp » Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:28 pm

I see Corbyn is still living in your head rent free.

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Re: Gary Lineker

Post by EACLucifer » Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:51 pm

Little waster wrote:
Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:18 pm
EACLucifer wrote:
Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:47 pm

It's funny how people think criticising tolerance of racist bigotry and promotion of racist bigots is partisan point scoring]
It's funny how some so-called progressives tolerate racist and dehumanising language when it's aimed at an out-group they disapprove of. It's hilarious when that language is used to support policies that result in the actual deaths of those people.
I'm on Lineker's side re: the government and their vile xenophobia. I thought that would be obvious from the fact I said his views on this issue were commendable, but apparently you aren't engaging your brain in the slightest right now, or perhaps, as you are so offended by criticism of Corbyn past and present, you don't have much of a one to engage.[/quote]
Still don't worry the next time some odious far-right creep crawls from under a rock to post some antisemitic meme, I'll think to myself WWEACL do and remind myself "it's just a joke".
I defended a meme attacking antisemitism and those who tolerate it and promote those who engage in it. That's very different to defending an antisemitic meme. I appreciate Corbyn's apologists aren't noted for being very bright, but a meme of Corbyn sitting next to Hitler and acting as if he was there purely by chance is attacking Corbyn's long and disgraceful track record of promoting and platforming antisemites, and has nothing in common with odious far right - or far left or far frankly-who-the-f.ck-can-tell-but-they-like-Putin-and-hate-Jews -creeps posting antisemitic memes.
Similarly when they start to rant about how we are being "invaded" and "swarmed" as part of The Great Replacement, I'll remind myself the language isn't literally the same as the 1930s so everything is probably fine. I mean they wouldn't have made her Home Secretary if it wasn't.
I suggest directing your anger at the government, as I'm vehemently opposed to their policies on this issue - saying it is acceptable hyperbole to compare something to thirties Germany isn't condoning it in the slightest, and you'd note - at least if you'd read my post properly you'd have noted - that I did compare the government's attitude to that of the British government in the thirties regarding refugees arriving in Britain and what were then British colonies, which resulted in significantly more people being murdered in the Holocaust than would otherwise have happened. The list of appalling things the British Empire did was long, but denying refugees asylum in the thirties was one of them.

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Re: Gary Lineker

Post by EACLucifer » Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:57 pm

Tntp wrote:
Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:28 pm
I see Corbyn is still living in your head rent free.
And I see the utter f.cking cretins that supported the racist-enabling Russian apologist anti-EU bellend that took a dive in the referendum campaign (due to, you know, opposing the EU all his polical life) and handed a man with a double digit negative net approval rating an eighty seat majority are still ridiculously sensitive about criticism of the f.cker, hence the kind of stupid "rent free" line one usually sees from Trump supporters.

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