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Chomper Higgot

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  1. Which in turn is adding to all the other issues driving the wider economy into recession.
  2. Let’s distinguish between two different things. ‘Court Docket’ and ‘Agenda’ Equality of marriage rights are not currently on the ‘Court Docket’ but removing equality marriage rights is absolutely on the ‘Agenda’ of the extreme rightwing religious zealots that are driving much of Republican policies these days. I’ll remind you ‘Roe v Wade’ was in the words of a SCOTUS appointee, ‘settled case law’, until she got the opportunity to ‘un-settle it’.
  3. Protecting people’s rights is pretty important.
  4. Once again 2022 shows it’s face as a sterling year for Justice. This one comes with the added bonus of the court find ‘Seditious conspiracy’ So there ends the ‘peaceful protest’ gaslighting we’ve had to put up with. Now lock this piece of scum up for the full 30 years, snd let’s hope that that’s the rest of his life.
  5. We won’t have to put up with Republicans telling us the Democrats failed to protect the right to marry whoever you wish. So yes, well done Joe Biden, the Democrats and the 47 Republicans who put protecting people’s rights above Party politics and religious zealotry.
  6. And therein lies the problem with residential renting. Rents need to be affordable, but also homes need to be safe, tenancies need to be secured. When ‘affordable homes’ moves from being a social issue to a political one, the Government will respond with legislation and regulations. Whatever the laws and regulations are today they will become more onerous to landlords as time goes bye. The most obvious being rent controls and assured tenancy
  7. It’s called Realpolitik. Hypocrisy is bleating about gas prices, blaming Biden for gas prices and then moaning when he takes action to reduce gas prices.
  8. I’ll gladly comment. Are we to tar all British Immigrants to Thailand with this man’s heinous crimes?
  9. How you managed to jump to that off topic fabrication is a mystery.
  10. Firstly to be very clear, this is not a reference to ASEAN NOW. I’m not convinced that claims of being banned from Internet forums are anything beyond claims of being banned from Internet forums. Or indeed that the stated reason is the actual reason. Seems much more like conspiracy theorizing and painting a picture of being a victim of such a conspiracy, which is an identifiable characteristic of rightwing grievance nurturing.
  11. When were you ever punished for saying the truth?
  12. There’s absolutely nothing superficial about not being able to find a de study when you need one, not a doctor and certainly nothing superficial about police not attending crimes.
  13. The Merriam-Webster has obviously been following threads on this forum.
  14. Good for you old chap.
  15. The callous cruelty is the intent.
  16. Well maybe most, but not all could become drivers, or cleaners, but I doubt palliative care and rehabilitation are jobs anyone can do.
  17. There are far better arguments for remaining in NATO, building conventional military capabilities and getting rid of the nukes than there are for leaving NATO. The UK bought insignificant amounts of oil and gas from Russia. However I note, you back the UK leaving NATO (I’m sure Putin agrees), you back buying Russian O&G (I’m sure Russia agrees).
  18. You are correct, you referred to the ‘Health Care Industry’, I guess you meant Boots the Chemist. ”An industry with 50000 vacancies. Vacancies that can be filled by anyone. No experience required.” Refer your earlier post below:
  19. And therein lies the problem. The UK doesn’t have the capability to scale its military response between conventional warfare, were the UK could not on its own field a force that could fight Russia and full on Nuclear Engagement. However as a member of NATO the UK can rely on its NATO Allie’s to provide the necessary scale of conventional warfare response, the meat presence of which is a significant deterrent. I’d give upon the ‘get out of NATO’ if I were you, those days are well gone.
  20. US National and State Parks are indeed astounding.
  21. Let’s flip that. What could Russia do to the UK? Hence the UK is better off in NATO.
  22. Oil is a commodity, more oil anywhere in the global market reduces the price of oil across the global market. Well done Joe.
  23. Obesity is a relatively recent societal wide problem and can be tracked against the spread of fast foods and processed foods. First appearing in the US , and then arriving in the UK. You may recall the comments about ‘fat Americans’ being common place before nationwide obesity arrived in the UK. If you’ve been coming to Thailand long enough you’ll recall a time when an obese Thai person was a rare sight, not so these days. The global experience is the arrival of fast foods and processed foods gives rise to obesity. The marketing of these foods is directed at deprived communities, refer links I provided earlier. And the marketing works. Open fast food outlets in a community, market fast food to that community and obesity will follow. It’s the same the world over. ——- Addressing the pint ‘Healthy Food can be bought for the same price or cheaper than fast/process foods’. Yes it can. But people who are poor choose high calorie, instantly satisfying food because that’s the way human beings have evolved. When money is short, (evolution wise food is in short supply) choose high calorie foods first. We are all hardwired that way.
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