The off topic thread 5.0

[Art Vandelay_]

Very predictable exchange.

Anyway play hq duties done.
Elimination Chamber in Aus prime time. Night sorted

 

[Bojan KantKick]

The leadership is being conservative, Liz is a Reform Party wannabe and is trying to drag the Conservatives that way. By definition everything they are doing is conservative.

A conservative hasn't led the party since Iain Duncan Smith.

Liz Truss has always been a lib dem. She moved to the Conservative Party to seek power.

 

[Bradesmaen]

A conservative hasn't led the party since Iain Duncan Smith.

Liz Truss has always been a lib dem. She moved to the Conservative Party to seek power.

She's definitely not a Lib Dem.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

She's definitely not a Lib Dem.

You know nothing about her and have chosen to ignore a mountain of evidence.

 

[moomba]

She's definitely not a Lib Dem.

She used to be.

 

[Bradesmaen]

You know nothing about her and have chosen to ignore a mountain of evidence.

She used to be.

I know she used to be a Lib Dem but her ideologies now are no longer aligned with the Lib Dems. Her economic policies are way off the Lib Dems. She favours trickle down economics and lowering taxes, the Lib Dems only favour lowering taxes on individuals not companies. She's an islamaphobe, something that the Lib Dems are not. She supported Brexit because of immigrants, the Lib Dems (mainly) did not.

The Liz Truss of 30 years ago is not the Liz Truss of now and that is quite obvious in the rhetoric and her current positions on policies.

 

[moomba]

I know she used to be a Lib Dem but her ideologies now are no longer aligned with the Lib Dems. Her economic policies are way off the Lib Dems. She favours trickle down economics and lowering taxes, the Lib Dems only favour lowering taxes on individuals not companies. She's an islamaphobe, something that the Lib Dems are not. She supported Brexit because of immigrants, the Lib Dems (mainly) did not.

The Liz Truss of 30 years ago is not the Liz Truss of now and that is quite obvious in the rhetoric and her current positions on policies.

Suspect her ideology hasn't changed much at all. But she knows that doesn't translate to votes.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Suspect her ideology hasn't changed much at all. But she knows that doesn't translate to votes.

Maybe, but she's definitely not with the Lib Dems social policies given her railing against "woke" ideology of which the Lib Dems partake.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Could teach the England players a thing or two Bradesmaen

 

[Bradesmaen]

Could teach the England players a thing or two Bradesmaen

Looks like Wales v Italy to me. Two shite teams.

 

[largebus]

Rishi Sunak, uniting the United Kingdom like never before.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Congrats on the big day Spanish Sahara. Looked like a great party!

 

[Cruyff14]

Congrats on the big day Spanish Sahara. Looked like a great party!

How cool was the sax dude!

 

[Zidane98]

Rishi Sunak, uniting the United Kingdom like never before.

Didn't expect that chant from the Chelsea end haha

 

[Frank Bunn]

Didn't expect that chant from the Chelsea end haha

Did it really happen?

 

[Misher]

Disturbing scenes in the US with that mentally ill soldier burning himself alive. Probably shouldn’t be plastering suicides all over the news.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

That's one way to look at it I guess

 

[Misher]

That's one way to look at it I guess

What do you mean?

 

[chef]

Gee that vision is pretty full on.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

What do you mean?

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that he self immolated because of mental illness. He gave the reasons for it in advance. IMO he did it in protest, similar to the buddhist monk in 1963 self immolating in protest at religious persecution in Vietnam. Not surprising that most of the western world has huge problems with recruitment to the armed services at the moment.

 

[RPCB]

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that he self immolated because of mental illness. He gave the reasons for it in advance. IMO he did it in protest, similar to the buddhist monk in 1963 self immolating in protest at religious persecution in Vietnam. Not surprising that most of the western world has huge problems with recruitment to the armed services at the moment.

Not similar at all. The Buddhist monk was living it daily and his protest was meaningful.

The US soldier was on the other side of the world.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Not similar at all. The Buddhist monk was living it daily and his protest was meaningful at the time.

The US soldier was on the other side of the world.

Who are you to say that his protest wasn't meaningful? You don't think the US soldier was living it daily? Maybe you haven't read up on why he did it.

 

[RPCB]

Who are you to say that his protest wasn't meaningful? You don't think the US soldier was living it daily? Maybe you haven't read up on why he did it.

I guess I haven’t done enough reading on it, no. So what were his reasons?

 

[Misher]

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that he self immolated because of mental illness. He gave the reasons for it in advance. IMO he did it in protest, similar to the buddhist monk in 1963 self immolating in protest at religious persecution in Vietnam. Not surprising that most of the western world has huge problems with recruitment to the armed services at the moment.

So if you kill yourself because you’re protesting that life is too difficult, you don’t have a mental illness because it’s considered a protest?

If he told any doctor his intentions I suspect 99.9999% of them would diagnose him with something.

 

[Loonerty]

You've lost the touch Gosha.