RuamRudy

I remember the guy who was missing a foot and would drag himself prostrate along the pavement in Sukhumvit (BKK) while pushing a begging bowl in front of him. Initially I was horrified at his plight so would give him some coins, then I wondered why he just didn't use crutches or a wheelchair... I usually try to give some money to those who look down on their luck, especially the elderly, but I have had a long standing principle of ignoring anyone begging with a child. I don't know if true, but I was told that the very young children are rented out and frequently doped up with some sort of medication to make them sleep for long periods.

No, that is discrimination. It is also an indication of your mental acuity and critical thinking skills that you liberally write off almost 6 million people as 'useless people'. That is like saying that all Americans are dull witted sheep because they elected Trump.

I get what you are saying, but just how troubled a soul would Comey need to be for him to do this? It seems utterly bizarre if true. If this was the plot of a Netflix movie I would turn it off because it would be much too far fetched.

Is it not more likely that another person arranged the seashells like this and Comey stumbled across them before posting the photo out of curiosity rather than malice? I can imagine that there are a vast number of people in the US who are outraged that their president is this criminal who's corruption is continuing unabated. In a country of so much anger and so much violence, there are going to be plenty of people who would call for violence to be directed towards him.

When you build a cult consisting on mono-thinking sheep who believe every nonsense utterance that is carefully crafted and spoonfed to them, of course you are going to get stories like this, where every innocent issue can be twisted and manipulated to show Trump as anything other than the serial criminal he actually is.

Do you think that either Kemi or Farage would have told Trump he wasn't welcome?

I see you are struggling - maybe Google AI can help you explain why removing restrictions on the sale of your private data is a good thing?

Rather than attack the man, why not try to explain why the removal of restrictions on the sale of private data is a good idea?

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

Even if any of that was remotely true, Biden is history. Trump is the current corrupt man in power. If you keep saying 'but but but' then nothing will change. Why not make a fresh, determined start to clean up politics by incarcerating the Trump crime family?

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scrapping a proposal issued under former President Joe Biden that would have sharply limited the sale of Americans' private information by "data brokers," according to a Federal Register notice issued Wednesday. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/trump-administration-scraps-biden-era-plan-limit-sale-americans-personal-data-2025-05-14/

I won't get my hopes up.

You have shown a total failure to understand this thread and the posts made. It is possible to condemn the individual without condemning the organisation. I don't believe you will find a soul on this thread who would advocate for the abolition of the British Armed Forces; it is the rot within it, however, that is damaging the reputation of the vast majority, and should be properly dealt with.

Did it really take you a year and a week to come back with something so... underwhelming?

Alleged and unproven because they have not been investigated. That is how most allegations originate. But you simply don't know and have absolutely no basis to assume otherwise. Again, this attempt to say that a murder of a child carried out by the British Army is not nearly as bad as a murder carried out by the Taliban. There is no acceptable number of children that an organisation is allowed to kill and still remain the good guys. Show me a Taliban thread and I will participate. I would imagine that most of the British armed forces would be equally as disgusted as I am at this story. In fact, these are Armed Forces members who are taking a moral stand against it. It is you, @JonnyF who are disrespecting the armed forces by trying to downplay this as if it is acceptable.

Nor would, I presume, the person alleged to have handcuffed him before shooting him.

No, as I have been trying to help you realise, you were (and remain) wrong. Here was the pathetic attempt to equivalise and justify the actions of the British Army by comparing them to those of the Taliban:

And yet this thread is full of apologists and those who simply don't care. It's truly sickening.

Did you actually read the post I was replying to, because if you did you wouldn't have been so quick to respond in the way you did.

What is disgusting about it?

You seem less outraged at allegations of British soldiers murdering afghan children than you do about Pakistani men molesting British girls. Do you believe that some children are worth less than others?

That is why it needs to be fully and openly investigated by the police.

How many does there need to be to move from acceptable to unacceptable? The article mentions does mention one 'individual' who was allegedly murdered by British forces:

So you are equating UK forces to the Taliban? Certainly they both seem to have been indiscriminate in their murder of innocent civilians.

There needs to be a full and unimpeded police investigation now. Those alleged to have perpetrated these acts of murder should be charged accordingly. Those who helped cover up their crimes should be charged appropriately too.