Flyguy330

Are you a nutter?

Welcome to my ignore list. You're the first ever.

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I can't cure all the worlds ills.

I don't 'live' in Thailand. I told you in my post I am in SE Asia. All over it. One thing I see in my travels is that it is Government policy in most SE Asian nations to depress wages and keep their economies 'cheap' - for the Corporatists. Are you a Corporatist? Instead of criticising me, why don't you take aim at the true source of the problem.

Maybe the Thais need better Unions.

Where to begin......😑

Lets start with this - I am living a very comfortable retirement now, thanks entirely to my Union. My Union was not a huxters scam, or a mafia, it was a professional association of men and women determined to protect their job contract and conditions. It was not communist, or socialist, it was anti-corporatist, anti-elitist and anti-exploitationist.

If it was not for the solidarity of that group I would not have a pension now, and I would not be living a decent retirement in SE Asia. I would be broke and living in poverty in the freezing cold back home.

We stood up to all attempts of self agrandising managers to further their own careers by destroying ours. Yes, it sometimes involved having the backbone to strike. That only ever happened when we were pushed to the absolute limit by managers who believed they could break us. They always failed, and it cost many of them their own jobs.

It amazes me how brainwashed and deluded so many of the current generation are. Especially in the United States. Indeed it's a uniquely American product, one of their biggest exports. Workers have bought into the propaganda rammed down their throats by the Corporate Media daily - Unions are bad for you, they are Anti American, Unions are commies, save your money on Union fees, don't expect a permanent job anyway, it's a gig economy so get a gig, health insurance is optional, so get a side gig to pay for it, you have no right to strike, stop complaining, and when you're 60 <deleted> off and die quietly - and the sooner the better.

This same US Corporatism has infected much of the anglosphere.  I'm not from the US, but I see the same message sold every day in my home country. When we had our 'disputes' with the company it was shocking to see how certain newspapers simply outright LIED about the issue, about wages and conditions, how they would cherry pick their facts and how they covered up those that didn't fit their biased agenda. It's why I trust nothing I read, see or hear in the mainstream media anymore. It's only when you are directly involved in a newsworthy story that you begin to understand that everything they write is lies or misdirection.

The anti Union movement has been hugely succesful in the last couple of decades. It is an organised effort, driven by the corporations and aided by the media they own, and the politicians they buy.

The result is millions of ordinary people seeing their incomes falling year on year. Governments open borders to cheap goods which kill homegrown business, and import dirt cheap manual labour to erode native workers pay and job security. UKIP convinced the Brits that this influx would end if they voted for Brexit - which they obligingly did. But the influx continues, and indeed increased. The Tories are standing for election and making promises to stop it - but they have had 8 years since Brexit and it continued. Why? Because ultimately it suits the Corporate Agenda to destroy British workers wages and job security.

It's not just the Tories - Gordon Brown (Labour) perpetrated one of the most disgusting crimes against UK workers in 1997 when he changed the accounting laws on company reports which effectively made the elimination of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes inevitable in the UK. There isn't a single FTSE100 company now that still has a DBPS. https://theconversation.com/britains-great-pension-robbery-why-the-defined-benefits-gold-standard-is-a-luxury-of-the-past-100844

My Union defended our DBPS to the death. I'm very grateful, as are hundreds of my colleagues.

Bullet proof glass helps a lot too.

As with Trump, he's a manifestation of the anger growing in White Western society. Blaming him - a symptom - instead of tackling the real illness, is missing the point. There are certainly big questions to be asked about him, his true name etc. But I tend to think a lot of those charges he's been hit with are trumped up by the authorities (including the UK Police) who have an undeniable Woke agenda.

Regarding his 'bona fides' - he's been attacked and threatened by Islamists in his home. They 'know where he lives', and it's an ordinary working class area. Would you have the guts to stand up and speak out when your home might come under attack as a result? The Islamists hate him and have it in for him. I'm surprised he hasn't been murdered already by them.

By the way, regarding the accusations of anti black/brown racism - he has had loads of support from the Sikh community in the UK. The Sikhs have fought Islam for centuries and British Sikhs are still on the frontline against Islamic domination, same as Mr.Robinson.

1 hour ago, theblether said:

The thing that entertains me above all is the Irish complaining about immigrants. I can't think of many countries that have exported more people than Ireland over the past couple of centuries.

Eh, 'exported'? Like it was desired by them? The Irish diaspora was mainly a result of centuries of invader persecution, finally accelerated by a decade of intentionally man made famine, which resulted in millions of deaths by starvation, and millions more being driven out of their homeland. Now that's being followed by a new invasion, and likely the final eradication of Irish race and culture. 

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And there lies the foundational racist issue. White people should be able to settle anywhere without restriction, brown and black should be put through torturous hell for the right to live in the UK. 

As usual the 'white guilt complex' comes blurting out. Maybe you haven't looked around very closely, but nations all over Asia are rigorously rejecting mass refugee arrivals, even though the refugees are BROWN and (even more shockingly) of the same religion - I'm referring especially to the Muslim nations of Asia. These same Islamic peoples constantly and loudly declare their membership of the global Ummah of muslims, yet when muslim refugees arrive on their shores they push their boats back out to sea and tell them to fk off!

https://www.scmp.com/video/asia/3242288/rohingya-refugees-indonesias-aceh-province-fear-being-forced-back-sea

Mr.Whitey European on the other hand throws the doors open and gives them shelter - even if he grumbles a lot about it.

Grumbling is a damn sight less nasty than cold hearted expulsion, by your own Ummah! 

https://www.scmp.com/video/asia/3244924/parasites-refugees-face-rejection-indonesia-boat-arrivals-surge

I always liked Murray's Youtube videos and writings on Islam. But since the Gaza campaign kicked off he's been acting like a rabid zionist and I've lost all interest in him.

Indeed the same applies to several other Youtubers, like The Apostate Prophet, David Wood, and Christian Prince (if you're familiar with them). They previously stuck to educating the ignorant on the truth about Islam using the Islamic texts to illustrate the insanity of that cult. But now they've all switched to plain old zionist rhetoric and denialism. The funny thing about that is they begin to resemble the very nutters they previously denounced (although, to be fair, without actually killing in the name of God themselves).

I'm a centrist mainly, perhaps floating to the right somewhat. I dislike and distrust Islam. But I don't hate every muslim. Many of them are victims of the cult themselves and secretly detest it. Prime examples include numerous muslims in Malaysia who have attempted to renounce their religion and have been dragged through the Courts and 'legally' punished for 'apostasy'. Any cult (religious, political or social) which punishes its recalcitrants by law, is a fake and weak creed, and demands rejection. Muslims need to be empowered to do so. Bombing and killing muslim kids in Gaza does not acheive that.

In fact it has the opposite effect.

Those of us who are not Americans just look at the state of the US today and shake our heads. It has always been a slightly raucous place where anything crazy could happen, but of late it is becoming positively deranged. The response to the Gaza protests is further evidence of it. Only a year or two ago politicians AND the police were 'taking a knee' to rioters busily burning down their cities. They were 'understandable' and 'justified' rioters. They were 'kosher'.  Now the very uttering of a word of criticism of Israel can result in immediate arrest and charges of anti-semitism. Total hypocrisy.

Biden is senile. Trump is a lunatic. But while Biden is a product of 'the establishment' Trumps attraction was his averred hatred of the establishment, the Swamp. Trump is a symptom of the anger gripping the American public. They KNOW something is wrong, they SEE and FEEL the problems around them daily, and they CRAVE change. A quick solution. They thought Trump was it. Turned out he was a big disappointment -and HE knows he was too.

If he gets re-elected he's probably going to go totally haywire, because now he has a hitlist, and he has learned some lessons. The Americans who really WANT change like that will surely vote for him, not because they like him, or even want him. But they want to demolish the established order as it has played out for decades. They don't want the alternative to Trump. They don't want the wokery, the insane gender debates, the mass illegal immigration etc etc. Many are willing to give him his second run, probably BECAUSE of his newly hardened agenda rather than in spite of it. He is literally The Nuclear Option.

To RdN I'd say - you are very right, if he gets in there's gonna be hell to pay. But this is the distillation of decades of misrule and disenfranchisement by 'the political establishment' in America. Were you happy with that Bob? Did you speak out about that?

Something had to give. Trump is it.

This is a big issue for me because I find it quite irksome how all (and I mean ALL) of the Asians I meet (Malaysians, Hong Kong'ers, Singaporeans mainly) express shock and disbelief at the stupidity of Europe in allowing their lands to be flooded with millions of foreigners. They seriously cannot get their head around it. The same goes for the online Forums I read, you get the same disbelief, but it's usually expressed in an even more negative and racist way. They laugh at and deride the stupidity of The West. The point being here that these Asian people do not think it is in any way racist or xenophobic to have strict immigration controls. You can see this actually borne out by the extreme limits on immigration in many Asian nations (e.g. China, Japan) where there is effectively zero immigration allowed, and generally, regional leaders do not at all shy away from openly expressing their firm intent to keep undesireable foreigners out, even their brother muslims in the case of the Rohingya refugees and Malaysia/Indonesia.

The 'opinion' you generally get to this in the western media is - "Yes, but we're better than them, so we shouldn't sink to that level of discrimination".

Isn't that the very essence of racism right there?

Then we have the situation in Gaza, where the moral superiority of The West is exposed as one big lie. I find it all seriously embarassing.

It is so jarring to read of the punishments applied for Cannabis possession just across the southern border. On one side of that invisible line a Thai or Farang can lounge in public smoking weed which is openly on sale everywhere, while yards away on the other side of that invisible line a man caught in possession of weed will face a lengthy prison sentence, or even death. Humans are really weird.

Ex-Customs officer escapes gallows, gets 15 years' jail for possessing cannabis