Are you honestly proposing that an increase in cold related deaths beyond expected levels during a cold snap is more likely to be explained by thousands of OAP’s just happening to forget to turn the heating on, rather than them not being able to afford it?
people just don’t forgive or forget easily (especially if there is a cold snap and the papers fill with stories of pensioners dying because they can’t afford to turn the heating on).
This is a really sketchy phrasing of “if Labour cuts kill pensioners”. People remember when government policies kill their family members, it’s not just a matter of optics.
I just want to be absolutely clear here, to make sure that you fully understand the question, because your answer suggests you don’t: It’s not couple of weeks a year, it’s just a couple of weeks, right at the start, and it’s not a holiday, you have to look after the baby at its most helpless during those extra weeks of leave. Are you sure that you consider a few extra weeks of looking after a child to be worth 18 years of looking after the child? Like I’m not doing a silly hypothetical where I ask if you consider yourself more or less likely to consider having a child in future, I am asking you, personally, if you will be having a child and raising it should men recieve more paternal leave.
Would you honestly take on at least 18 years of responsibility for another human being in exchange for a couple of weeks off work? Do you seriously consider that an incentive?
Israel has been in open breach of the 3rd Geneva convention since 1948. Nothing they’ve done has been legal under international law.
Right, so uni fees don’t need raising, they need funding given back.
domestic undergraduate fees remaining frozen since 2012
Not untrue, but they like tripled or quadrupled fees a few years before then, so I’m pretty sure it still accounts for inflation.
Your position is based on your assumption that unionists in northern Ireland are representative of Irish people rather than English people, despite an ongoing race war over their englishness. Catholic and protestant communities are still walled off from each other to maintain the relative peace. The idea that imperialism and colonialism are some unimportant detail of the past is preposterous, they’re ongoing issues that make up the core of northern Irish politics.
You don’t belong here, reactionary. Would you tell First Nations Americans that the white Europeans occupying their lands are real Americans, representative of them? Do you tell Palestinians that their occupiers are Palestinians?
Like I don’t understand why you’d bring such an obviously ignorant take to the table - do you genuinely know nothing of why it’s Ireland and Northern Ireland? Do you know nothing of the Troubles? Do you think the violence and ethnoreligious lines just disappeared when the good Friday agreement was signed? Do you not know about them because your education was inexpensive?
Not sure if you heard, but Ireland had this big thing over the English living there. Northern Irish protestants are English.
right wing vs left wing conspiracies
Go into the notes of almost any of their releases and you’ll find borderline schizophrenic screeds full of hate and bigotry. Racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, thinking the Harry Potter series is good, all kinds of shit. Also, at least once she said she was going to jail because she was caught cracking something but kept putting out releases without any disruption. Here’s one from the time she was accused of being a trans woman (cw: all of the above)
Not sure why you’d interpret validity as applying to the concept of it being an idea rather than the idea’s relation to reality.
I know they’re both called classes, but martial arts and higher education aren’t remotely comparable in their content or methods. Also you seem to be arguing against yourself by saying martial arts classes (or debate clubs) won’t help you in a real fight (or argument).
This is exactly why I say ideas don’t have to be treated as valid because they exist - your ideas exist but are just a mess of half formed, contradictory assumptions. The only reason to show your ideas at all is as a demonstration of really terrrible ones, and nobody needs to be forced to defend them to prove their lack of validity.
You don’t have to treat ideas as valid just because they exist. Study them, sure, but students don’t owe you a debate on whether women should have rights or black people are inherently criminal. There is no reason to expose them to such hate just you can say it’s been fairly debated like all opinions are equal.
No you won’t, if you were the type to self crit you would have just done it instead of assuring me it’ll happen. Also it is on topic and our nation is far from fine, by any definition of the word.
I don’t know what that last line is supposed to mean, but your latching onto name calling suggests you’re incapable of forming a coherent argument and can only argue against people being mean to you, not against their actual points.
At least we can be sure you’re not lying about being from Bradford.
Yeah you’re totally right, people come and here and post for literally no reason whatsoever all the time. Completely normal to post without any form of motivation behind it. Like obviously there’s absolutely no motive behind your accusations of “agenda posting”, you just slapped a random set of letters and they happened to form those words.
Maybe you should examine what you really mean when you accuse other people of having an agenda.
Everyone has an agenda you fucking nonce. Anyway I’m firing off reports about your harrassment of new accounts.
Perhaps I’m being paranoid but if the country is disappointed with Labour I don’t want them to resort to electing an even more right wing version of the Tories further down the line.
Red Tories have indicated an absolute commitment to maintaining the status quo, which is why I’ve been saying for the past few months that the government after this one will be reform regardless of the outcome of the recent election.
And let’s be real, we completely deserve it.
Ok, why aren’t the papers already full of those stories then? Old people die all the time. If the stories are guaranteed regardless of the governments actions, why are you bothered about the optics at all? They’re going to be the same no matter what.