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 Stirlingsays  17 Sep 22 9.47pm |
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Originally posted by georgenorman
As Oliver Cromwell once said: Ask yourself the same question. I guess we are going to find out aren't we. I'd certainly prefer you to be right but as you sit in the same camp with WE, I feel you're probably going to have the same prediction success rate. Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Sep 2022 10.18pm)
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| Stirlingsays 17 Sep 22 9.48pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
. You really have swallowed the propaganda haven’t you! The west is not going to collapse. It will change, of course it will. Everything has to, to adapt and survive new circumstances. Evolutionary principles apply here just as much as anywhere. What I suspect you mean is that the west as you remember it, and still want it to be, won’t exist anymore. That’s certainly true, but collapse it won’t. We will have to get used to lower growth and be happy with what we have, rather than always demanding more. Lower birth rates, and migration flows as a result of climate change, will mean our ethnic mix will be different. That’s nothing new though. It’s been happening throughout my life. If the 20th century belonged to the USA then the 21st will belong to China. That though doesn’t mean collapse. It means change, which you can either embrace and enjoy, or resist and be miserable. Have you got a toaster for that waffle?
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 17 Sep 22 10.34pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Have you got a toaster for that waffle? Yet another non reply. When anyone has nothing to say it’s generally advisable to not say anything. Better to leave people wondering what the response might have been, than confirm there isn’t one.
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| Stirlingsays 17 Sep 22 11.24pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Yet another non reply. When anyone has nothing to say it’s generally advisable to not say anything. Better to leave people wondering what the response might have been, than confirm there isn’t one. With your prediction record anyone taking advice from you needs insurance first. You only have opinion and excuses for an elite who have worsened working and middle class people's living standards over decades while becoming richer themselves. That's statistical fact. Answering you point by point has been done numerous times. You don't address anything and essentially it comes down to 'A is A because I say it is'.....Continuing to answer that is just feeding the troll, and sometimes I can be bothered to throw you some biscuits and sometimes I can't.
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HKOwen  Hong Kong 17 Sep 22 11.54pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
With your prediction record anyone taking advice from you needs insurance first. You only have opinion and excuses for an elite who have worsened working and middle class people's living standards over decades while becoming richer themselves. That's statistical fact. Answering you point by point has been done numerous times. You don't address anything and essentially it comes down to 'A is A because I say it is'.....Continuing to answer that is just feeding the troll, and sometimes I can be bothered to throw you some biscuits and sometimes I can't. This could be your standard reply to the poster, just cut and paste and save keystrokes.
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| Stirlingsays 17 Sep 22 11.59pm |
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Originally posted by HKOwen
This could be your standard reply to the poster, just cut and paste and save keystrokes. True.
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Goal Machine  The Cronx 18 Sep 22 1.57am |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
With your prediction record anyone taking advice from you needs insurance first. You only have opinion and excuses for an elite who have worsened working and middle class people's living standards over decades while becoming richer themselves. That's statistical fact. Answering you point by point has been done numerous times. You don't address anything and essentially it comes down to 'A is A because I say it is'.....Continuing to answer that is just feeding the troll, and sometimes I can be bothered to throw you some biscuits and sometimes I can't. Sterling…. I don’t post that regularly but follow this thread and it’s comments closely and daily. I’m interested in the topic because it’s a big deal and half my family (although I’m not close to them) live in Kiev. Generally, I agree with your opinions on most things, and you’re clearly an intelligent bloke, but I’m afraid you’re so off the mark with this. The way you conduct yourself against Wisbech suggests you have no proper response and resort to low level digs. For what it’s worth, I disagree with Wisbech on most of his centre/left views. If you want respect from passive HOLer’s, you need to post with more respect and up your game. This war is simply about a deranged bully (Putin) trying to forcefully take land from a democratic and peaceful country in Ukraine. Any sane leader would focus on trying to make their country and people prosperous and successful. NATO are standing up to a modern day Hitler and so we should. No one wants this war. If Ukraine/NATO/Europe accept it, then what country does Russia invade next? God forbid this war ever reaches our shores, but if it does, this is the sort of thing you fight for. The Russian army don’t know what they’re fighting for. The Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom and future. Good will win.
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 georgenorman 18 Sep 22 7.44am |
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Originally posted by Goal Machine
Sterling…. I don’t post that regularly but follow this thread and it’s comments closely and daily. I’m interested in the topic because it’s a big deal and half my family (although I’m not close to them) live in Kiev. Generally, I agree with your opinions on most things, and you’re clearly an intelligent bloke, but I’m afraid you’re so off the mark with this. The way you conduct yourself against Wisbech suggests you have no proper response and resort to low level digs. For what it’s worth, I disagree with Wisbech on most of his centre/left views. If you want respect from passive HOLer’s, you need to post with more respect and up your game. This war is simply about a deranged bully (Putin) trying to forcefully take land from a democratic and peaceful country in Ukraine. Any sane leader would focus on trying to make their country and people prosperous and successful. NATO are standing up to a modern day Hitler and so we should. No one wants this war. If Ukraine/NATO/Europe accept it, then what country does Russia invade next? God forbid this war ever reaches our shores, but if it does, this this the sort of thing you fight for. The Russian army don’t know what they’re fighting for. The Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom and future. Good will win. Couldn't agree with you more Goal Machine.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 18 Sep 22 9.39am |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
With your prediction record anyone taking advice from you needs insurance first. You only have opinion and excuses for an elite who have worsened working and middle class people's living standards over decades while becoming richer t hemselves. That's statistical fact. Answering you point by point has been done numerous times. You don't address anything and essentially it comes down to 'A is A because I say it is'.....Continuing to answer that is just feeding the troll, and sometimes I can be bothered to throw you some biscuits and sometimes I can't. Another personal criticism posing as a reply. I suggest you follow your own advice and stop posting “at” me, if you find the exercise so distasteful. I make no excuses for anyone. I just believe you are wrong in most of your analyses. That the wealth gap has widened is indeed a statistical fact, which no-one denies. What is wrong is your assertion that there is some kind of conspiratorial master plan by a group of “elites” behind it. We are the masters at home. If we want change we can get change. What we cannot change are things beyond any one country’s control. Global events demand global co-operation and that needs organisation and structure. Things you resist at every turn. So it’s the attitude of people like you that is responsible for restraining efforts to improve the fairer distribution of wealth. Of course you don’t really care about that at all! What concerns you is making sure that your situation isn’t negatively impacted by those efforts. Everyone else can go to hell.
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| silvertop Portishead 18 Sep 22 10.37am |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
They are going to be stormtroopers tasked to operate in the combat zone for six months taking ground. Many of them won't survive and I should imagine far less will end up walking the streets than if they had served out their sentence. It is the atrocities they will certainly commit and their inevitable ineptitude that will cause the military to side line them as embarrassing; but not before a lot of civilians have suffered at their hands. Echoes of the Kaminsky Brigade.
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| silvertop Portishead 18 Sep 22 10.42am |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
I would say sending billions of dollars of military equipment into a mostly lawless country is also pretty stupid for our own future security....but hey, no one seems to care much about the consequences of that. If the Russians want to increase their manpower and fight with their most scummy prisoners then that isn't going to affect us in Europe but be their own internal problem. All those sodding weapons though....that's something else. Edited by Stirlingsays (16 Sep 2022 10.06pm) A testing ground for weapons and tactics and the first time the West has had a chance to have a go at the Ruskies albeit via proxy. They must think it's Christmas.
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| silvertop Portishead 18 Sep 22 10.47am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
. I agree that it seems probable that Putin will turn to low yield nuclear at some point. However I don’t think there is any guessing about NATO’s response. It will condemn, encourage the rest of the world to do so too, especially China and India, but stick firmly to it’s red line of no direct intervention. Nor do I see any possibility of NATO member’s supplying nuclear weapons of any kind to Ukraine or, indeed, any very long range weapons. That scenario is unlikely not probable. Pure pub chat.
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