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[dholliday]

Interesting that you got so upset about someone not engaging with your points and yet when I've laid out what I believe yours to be you won't engage.

I think the phrase is 'check mate'

ok mate x

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Interesting that you got so upset about someone not engaging with your points and yet when I've laid out what I believe yours to be you won't engage.

I think the phrase is 'check mate'

By the way, 'check mate' was a phrase popularised by a game called chess. It's a very historic game but quite cerebral so I'm not sure you'll get it

As I said earlier, he's all over the place.

 

[dholliday]

As I said earlier, he's all over the place.

still waiting for your take on that Forbes piece which appears to contradict your "nonsense" claim earlier.

At least let's keep the facts straight: then we can better accept each others' ideological/philosophical differences.

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

still waiting for your take on that Forbes piece which appears to contradict your "nonsense" claim earlier.

At least let's keep the facts straight: then we can better accept each others' ideological/philosophical differences.

I've told you already under which circumstances I'll read and reply to your link.

Also why don't you respond properly to @dead_soft? Stop trying to appear enigmatic, it just makes you look even more nonsensical.

 

[dholliday]

I've told you already under which circumstances I'll read and reply to your link.

ok mate x

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

ok mate x

Yup, that's what I thought. You can't. Glad we've established your limitations.

 

[dholliday]

Yup, that's what I thought. You can't. Glad we've established your limitations.

crackers this.

you've been caught out, and instead of just admitting it you're employing olympic-levels of mental gymnastics to appear the bigger man. i believe the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome is the cause for this mental block. i.e. Orange Man Bad. Fascinating stuff.

Here's the exchange again:

Fair enough, I don't think that Trump was anywhere near as bad as Stalin or Mao, mainly because he got his arse handed to him before he could do as much damage as they did.

i'm interested in how you think Trump would have, in time, caused millions of deaths?

He pushed the vaccine development, so those deaths wouldn't have come from Covid.

Here are your comments claiming Trump pushed the vaccine development, which is nonsense.

Are Forbes nonsense too?

Operation Warp Speed Head Says Trump Administration Responsible For 90% Of Vaccine Rollout

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

crackers this.

you've been caught out, and instead of just admitting it you're employing olympic-levels of mental gymnastics to appear the bigger man. i believe the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome is the cause for this mental block. i.e. Orange Man Bad. Fascinating stuff.

Here's the exchange again:

Funny that, I was thinking the exact same thing about you claiming to be above insults* and then almost immediately insulting another poster. You've been caught out, and instead of just admitting it you're employing olympic-levels of mental gymnastics to appear the bigger man.

Once you've acknowledged this and apologised for such rank hypocrisy, I'll be glad to click the Forbes link, read it and respond. Which I've now said a number of times only for you to disregard it.

*your exact words were if you resort to ad hominem attacks then you've lost the argument.

 

[dholliday]

Funny that, I was thinking the exact same thing about you claiming to be above insults* and then almost immediately insulting another poster. You've been caught out, and instead of just admitting it you're employing olympic-levels of mental gymnastics to appear the bigger man.

Once you've acknowledged this and apologised for such rank hypocrisy, I'll be glad to click the Forbes link, read it and respond. Which I've now said a number of times only for you to disregard it.

*your exact words were if you resort to ad hominem attacks then you've lost the argument.

well, there's no hope then...not on this issue anyway.

and no, calling @dead_soft "soft lad" isn't an insult, he identifies as 'soft' in his very username...dead soft, in fact. it's part of his identity.

that you're clinging to this as your protection against being wrong about something else...it's just dead soft, lad.

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

well, there's no hope then...not on this issue anyway.

and no, calling @dead_soft "soft lad" isn't an insult, he identifies as 'soft' in his very username...dead soft, in fact. it's part of his identity.

that you're clinging to this as your protection against being wrong about something else...it's just dead soft, lad.

Ah, more insults.

Thanks for admitting you've lost the argument, I appreciate it

 

[Charro]

Alt right troll

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Wow. For the record I supported a Corbyn Labour government. But I cringed hard at the woke-aspects of his campaign. It cost him. Keir is doing the same thing, and it will cost him too.

Go woke, go broke. innit.



Not normal, but some 18-year olds do say stupid & nasty things, which most thankfully grow out of once they properly grow up. If they show remorse, and show examples that they don't believe the things they said back then, then all is well.

Forgiveness is a virtue. Cancel Culture wants nothing to do with it. Cancel Culture even hates apologies, doubling down on anyone attempting to do so. The actual best tactic for most affected by Cancel Culture is to simply ignore them. But in Ollie's case, beholden as he is to a higher power (ECB) he must not just apologise, but show genuine remorse & understanding. If he does that, and the ECB reinstate him, I bet Cancel Culture won't be happy, and it will pressure ECB to not allow Ollie back into the fold.

Because that's what Cancel Culture does. They're vipers who are drunk on the power of Twitter-outrage parties.

Sorry but what were the 'woke' aspects of Corbyn's campaign?

And as for Starmer, I think 'Asleep' would be more appropriate to describe his opposition so far. Except when it comes to socialist in the Labour party who he seems determined to drive out and/or alienate.

 

[dholliday]

Sorry but what were the 'woke' aspects of Corbyn's campaign?

And as for Starmer, I think 'Asleep' would be more appropriate to describe his opposition so far. Except when it comes to socialist in the Labour party who he seems determined to drive out and/or alienate.

Agree on Keir's efforts being somewhat sleepy.

Lots of analysis directly after the Dec 19 election:

Britain’s Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It’s Broke

'Labour FAR too connected to woke metropolitan UK'

Labour Pain: What the Left-Liberal-Woke troika can learn from Jeremy Corbyn’s loss

 

[tsubaki]

Agree on Keir's efforts being somewhat sleepy.

Lots of analysis directly after the Dec 19 election:

Britain’s Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It’s Broke

'Labour FAR too connected to woke metropolitan UK'

Labour Pain: What the Left-Liberal-Woke troika can learn from Jeremy Corbyn’s loss

Quilette and the Daily Express are sources of analysis now?

Christ.

 

[peteblue]

Nice to see this place being somewhere of peace and harmony while I’ve been away...