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by gadders 11mo ago
MPs - obviously, look at the Labour majority. CEOs - quite a large proportion. Bankers - more than you would expect Newspaper editors - Guardian, Mirror, Independen Civil Service - pretty much all of it
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by gadders 11mo ago
You seem to think "Elite" means "Rich" whereas "Elite" in this context means "opinion-former". Some can be rich, some can be MPs, civil servants, journalists, editors etc. EG: https://yougo
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by gadders 11mo ago
Yeah, modelling like this to prove a counterfactual seems completely legit.
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by gadders 11mo ago
You don't think Eton is being flooded with progressive views? [1] A far better proxy for "the elite" would be "people who studied PPE at Oxford" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_
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by gadders 11mo ago
People won't come round my house and verify I'm not secretly watching CNN without paying. edit/reading/watching/
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by gadders 11mo ago
All that shows is that 90% of economists were wrong. I mean I don't think it was massively good (government fumbles saw to that) but the UK isn't doing significantly worse than the rest of Europe, or worse than it was pre-Brexit.
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by gadders 11mo ago
I'm talking about providing less services in the first place, regardless of who does it.
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by gadders 11mo ago
>>how would you describe Fox News, the Daily Mail, The Times (UK), or even CNN? "I'm not forced to pay for those via a tax" would be the key difference.
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by gadders 11mo ago
>>the BBC coverage of the Scottish independence referendum, Corbyn, and Brexit was embarrassing. Yes, they were clearly pro-Remain and anti-Corbyn and anti-Scottish independence. >> The Prescott memo is just the latest observati
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by gadders 11mo ago
>>Out in the country, you still don't really need brighter headlights. Other cars' headlights will always be visible and they have reflectors, so it's not as if you'll struggle to spot other cars. The road lines ar
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by gadders 11mo ago
You accused me of saying there was a conspiracy. I said that was not what I said. >> On the substance: “definitions of dying from COVID were meaningless” is hand-waving. Excess mortality does not care about coding quirks. This is wron
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by gadders 11mo ago
>>You didn’t read it, you skimmed a line and built a conspiracy out of it. >>I never mentioned a conspiracy. Well that's awkward. Yes a very, very few young people died from it (mostly with pre-existing conditions) and a lo
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by gadders 11mo ago
There's no conspiracy. There was just panic and over-reach from government. If you think the vaccine stopped transmission, why did the official guidance change around whether it did or not? And even if (a big if) it stopped transmissio
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by gadders 11mo ago
Yes, but that's unrelated to the vaccine question.
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by gadders 11mo ago
That's not what the study says.
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by gadders 11mo ago
This study says it likely doesn't: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39283431/ We can swap one off studies all day, but the fact remains that there wasn't compelling enough evidence to justify making the vaccin
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by gadders 11mo ago
The other thing that made mandates controversial was the fact that the vaccine didn't stop transmission. If the vaccine only helps the person that takes it, then it should be personal choice.
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by gadders 11mo ago
Lumping all vaccines together makes as much as sense as lumping all medicines together. Vaccines in principle are good, not all implementations are equally good.
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by gadders 1y ago
Have you seen the fentanyl addicts in Philadelphia?
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by gadders 1y ago
It's the same as if Obama sent a drone to kill people in a foreign country, no?
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by gadders 1y ago
You could start with killing disfavoured people to order for their organ donor programme. Or that whole Tibet thing.
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by gadders 1y ago
Tacitly encouraging/aiding drug trafficking is also a low intensity way to have an asymmetric conflict with a much more powerful country. See also Cuba emptying its jails and sending the prisoners to Florida: https://www.ind
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by gadders 1y ago
Or the Pentagon Pizza Index: https://www.pizzint.watch/ Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_pizza_theory (Or similar for the nearest base/command centre for operations near Venezuel
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by gadders 1y ago
It's not really an apology - it's "I'm sorry you feel that way" and not "I'm sorry for the thing we did wrong".
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by gadders 1y ago
I remember seeing how past people were in 1-2-3 for DOS using the / menu back in the 90's.
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by gadders 1y ago
Plenty of places are still running this: https://keyhut.com/pos.htm
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by gadders 1y ago
...to make sure the war money keeps flowing.
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by gadders 1y ago
His daughter Liz is keeping the love for war going.
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by gadders 1y ago
All I know is, if millions of people are thrown out of work, but billionaires become trillionaires, society won't be stable.
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by gadders 1y ago
Thanks. That'll teach me not to proofread.

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