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They didn't think it would always get hotter immediately as CO2 levels rose either. No one but you has ever thought that.

What makes you think that?

At what point do you think he said that? (BTW I very much enjoyed finding out you can't spell 'globe' so thanks for that one )

Find anyone apart from you who ever thought temperature would exactly follow CO2 levels at all times and we’ll talk.

Mate. What is actually wrong with you? You have been definitively proven to be utterly wrong about the impossibility of Ukrainians operating Abrams tanks and yet you are still claiming that weapons have been held back from Ukraine on the basis of what they are able to use. This is beyond ignorant, it’s just a fantasy world of your own creation. Every politician, every analyst, every news outlet is telling you the same thing - “offensive” weaponry has been intentionally held back and drip fed into Ukrainians step by slow step with the avoidance of being seen to ‘escalate’ the war being the primary consideration in when and how Ukraine will get these weapons. The view that the US or any other nation in the west (bar Poland) is willing to give Ukraine absolutely anything they’re capable of operating cannot seriously be held by anyone who’s given this war 5 minutes of attention ever since it started. Phil is being unfair saying Biden is holding back when every major NATO member has had approximately the same level of caution. You are being flat out ridiculous.

The enemy of my enemy. Rhys has built his entire identity around being the guy who can see through all the lies and conspiracies of western government and the new world order. They are the authors of all evil in the world. Putin also calls that out, so he must be in the right, and anything he does must be right. Thus the person who claims to be a lone voice calling out fascism is actually staunchly supporting a fascist dictator.

And that Chuck Schumer is SO red.

No you wouldn’t. You’ve heard about this over and over and over again already but you’re still just trying to argue for the sake of arguing.

Easy, you literally just said he manufactured them with the intent to distribute them to the government.

No, but they do take up such a huge proprtion of public funds there is nothing left to prevent the kind of mental health crises (along with a lot of other things like homelessness in general) they spend an immense amount of time and money responding to. This is not a novel concept, right Bill? I haven't just flown down from Mars and pointed this out for the first time, have I? A little bit of good faith in your responses would be appreciated.

Does firefighting take up such a huge proportion of public funds that there is nothing left for building code inspectors?

And yet you’ve only been able to give examples of anti woke people doing it.

And if we aren’t paying too much attention to them they can do what? Continue doing the thing that you think they’re doing but (if we refuse to accept the obvious profit motive) don’t know why?

Just thinking about this some more - if that's what their aim is, why is that their aim? What is their endgame? If it's not about money, why in your opinion does Google want to make right wing people more right wing and left wing people more left wing as a standalone policy goal for the company?

You don't get it. This is capitalism. This is the way they engage people more, and their money is generated from engagement.

So like I said to begin with, it’s anti-woke people trying to redefine woke to mean any lefty thing they disagree with. Glad we won you round to that. Upthread you said cancel culture was an extension of wokeness. Do you wanna make your mind up then get back to me on that? Yes, exactly! This is the intention of the anti-woke people. Just because they’re dishonest doesn’t mean they’re not good at what they do.

“It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it,” Ok dude, you should probably show us that context because right now it seems… unlikely that he was just talking about sun setting, yeah?

Yeah - that wiki article paints a sad picture of a once decent journalist who has, over several decades, slid deep into a world of fantasy and conspiracy.

First, that doesn’t get you any closer to addressing the prevention vs cure imbalance. Secind, the idea that mental health professionals responding to mental health problems should work for the police simply comes from being conditioned to seeing the police doing that job, doesn’t it? (And there’s a world of other mental health calls they respond to in addition to ‘psychotic hobo’)

You wouldn't. Not to anyone who's taking the subject seriously. That's where you are 100% exactly wrong. More funding to the police does exacerbate the problem, because so many municipalities funding the police already don't have the money to do any damn thing else because they're paying so much for the police. Like the 9-year old girl with emotional problems who was handcuffed then pepper sprayed in the back of a cop car after police were called for her protection. The city could pay for 6+ squad cars and a score of officers to respond, plus the enormous cost of defending then settling the inevitable lawsuit but it can't afford one social worker to be available for children in her situation in the first place. those things are very much linked. When communities aren't spending so much money on the police and can therefore afford social workers, they don't need to send so much money on the police because they're not paying them to spend half their time being shit social workers.

Right but how does that have anything to do with the definition of woke you spent the rest of that post explaining to us? (And again, if cancel culture is linked then DeSantis must be the most woke person in America)

National embarrassment is what that is There can occasionally be good debate in Parliament but it'd be nice if they at least pretended to take it seriously most of the time.

Who said anything about negotiation? Russia can stop the war by retreating to their borders - and since peace is the most important thing, that is what they should do, right?

Errm, what did you read about MTG’s outburst? Marjorie Taylor Greene shouts ‘liar’ at Biden

Regardless of whether the Russians are kidnapping people, for the sake of peace they should retreat and stop fighting, shouldn’t they?