Is the race row being engineered by the reptoids?
Discussion
Tongue in cheek but a few posts I’ve seen online have got me thinking. You know the type, a bit tinfoil hat ‘we are being controlled’. Right now the hot topic in the news is race and both the left and right biased media are whipping their readers into a frenzy over it. Some people are claiming the whole thing is a diversionary tactic to distract us from the real issue of economic inequality. So is this really a pincer movement from the elite or just a game of who can sell more papers?
I think we’ve always been run by b
ds since the year dot and it’s no co-incidence they run the media as well (back in the day it was the church) I think the way issues and discourse are published with the medias views on the subjects swinging back and forth like a pendulum are totally deliberate to manipulate and divide people and also to divert attention away from the real nasty business they conduct.
ds since the year dot and it’s no co-incidence they run the media as well (back in the day it was the church) I think the way issues and discourse are published with the medias views on the subjects swinging back and forth like a pendulum are totally deliberate to manipulate and divide people and also to divert attention away from the real nasty business they conduct. There’s a lot of diversionary tactics going on with woke, race etc being just a couple of them.
Inequality will rise to never before seen levels with a marked distinction between haves and have nots IMO.
The normal person (using myself as an example) has a lifestyle based on relatively affordable pleasures.
Bit of shopping daytime weekends
Pub/restaurant on a weekend evening
Day trips to seaside in sunny times
Weekends away in hotels now and then
Camping/lodge maybe for school hols or a week abroad with daughter.
With regards to the above -
Shopping - high street decimated inc shopping centres with the push to go online (which can’t be compared to an afternoon browsing the stores). Stupid rules and queues if you do manage to go lowering the experience to a necessary evil.
Pub/restaurant - closed for best part of a year with stupid restrictions still in place and forthcoming vaccine passports and the twin pleasures of masks and social distance too to wring away any enjoyment left. That’s if they haven’t closed for good with 12000 pubs gone already!
Day trips to seaside - depends if anything is open and subject to above regs. Also because this is one of the few low cost of entry activities left, expect rammed beaches and zero parking.
Weekend away - hotel prices gone up 300percent for the places we normally go to which makes it akin to the cost of a week abroad for 2 nights in the U.K.
Basically priced out of this one.
Camping / abroad - U.K. prices have gone insane with one poster on PH showing pic evidence of his 3k lodge last year going up to 12k! Priced out of reach now.
Abroad - potential of 9hours in airport queues with a vaccine certificate and/or testing in triplicate to sit in a mask on a flight to a foreign country where you have to wear a mask at all times in the summer heat. Holiday could be cancelled at any point if country goes on red list or one of your party test positive coupled with up to two weeks quarantine when back in the U.K.
This is effectively banning foreign travel unless you are sufficiently wealthy to charter your own flight and stay in ultra elite places to circumvent the rules for the plebs.
Nutshell - majority of working class, stay at home in your garden with nothing to look forward to.
Very rich - carry on as normal without the annoyance of poor people cluttering up your resorts, hotels and beaches.
If the government wanted to proceed with one of the last phases of the Canada plan email they could simply hike up interest rates into a superheated housing market and repossess vast swathes of private mortgaged homes and then rent them back to the occupants.
You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy (suicidal)
Inequality will rise to never before seen levels with a marked distinction between haves and have nots IMO.
The normal person (using myself as an example) has a lifestyle based on relatively affordable pleasures.
Bit of shopping daytime weekends
Pub/restaurant on a weekend evening
Day trips to seaside in sunny times
Weekends away in hotels now and then
Camping/lodge maybe for school hols or a week abroad with daughter.
With regards to the above -
Shopping - high street decimated inc shopping centres with the push to go online (which can’t be compared to an afternoon browsing the stores). Stupid rules and queues if you do manage to go lowering the experience to a necessary evil.
Pub/restaurant - closed for best part of a year with stupid restrictions still in place and forthcoming vaccine passports and the twin pleasures of masks and social distance too to wring away any enjoyment left. That’s if they haven’t closed for good with 12000 pubs gone already!
Day trips to seaside - depends if anything is open and subject to above regs. Also because this is one of the few low cost of entry activities left, expect rammed beaches and zero parking.
Weekend away - hotel prices gone up 300percent for the places we normally go to which makes it akin to the cost of a week abroad for 2 nights in the U.K.
Basically priced out of this one.
Camping / abroad - U.K. prices have gone insane with one poster on PH showing pic evidence of his 3k lodge last year going up to 12k! Priced out of reach now.
Abroad - potential of 9hours in airport queues with a vaccine certificate and/or testing in triplicate to sit in a mask on a flight to a foreign country where you have to wear a mask at all times in the summer heat. Holiday could be cancelled at any point if country goes on red list or one of your party test positive coupled with up to two weeks quarantine when back in the U.K.
This is effectively banning foreign travel unless you are sufficiently wealthy to charter your own flight and stay in ultra elite places to circumvent the rules for the plebs.
Nutshell - majority of working class, stay at home in your garden with nothing to look forward to.
Very rich - carry on as normal without the annoyance of poor people cluttering up your resorts, hotels and beaches.
If the government wanted to proceed with one of the last phases of the Canada plan email they could simply hike up interest rates into a superheated housing market and repossess vast swathes of private mortgaged homes and then rent them back to the occupants.
You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy (suicidal)
Wolfmanjack said:
There’s a lot of diversionary tactics going on with woke, race etc being just a couple of them.
Inequality will rise to never before seen levels with a marked distinction between haves and have nots IMO.
The normal person (using myself as an example) has a lifestyle based on relatively affordable pleasures.
Bit of shopping daytime weekends
Pub/restaurant on a weekend evening
Day trips to seaside in sunny times
Weekends away in hotels now and then
Camping/lodge maybe for school hols or a week abroad with daughter.
With regards to the above -
Shopping - high street decimated inc shopping centres with the push to go online (which can’t be compared to an afternoon browsing the stores). Stupid rules and queues if you do manage to go lowering the experience to a necessary evil.
Pub/restaurant - closed for best part of a year with stupid restrictions still in place and forthcoming vaccine passports and the twin pleasures of masks and social distance too to wring away any enjoyment left. That’s if they haven’t closed for good with 12000 pubs gone already!
Day trips to seaside - depends if anything is open and subject to above regs. Also because this is one of the few low cost of entry activities left, expect rammed beaches and zero parking.
Weekend away - hotel prices gone up 300percent for the places we normally go to which makes it akin to the cost of a week abroad for 2 nights in the U.K.
Basically priced out of this one.
Camping / abroad - U.K. prices have gone insane with one poster on PH showing pic evidence of his 3k lodge last year going up to 12k! Priced out of reach now.
Abroad - potential of 9hours in airport queues with a vaccine certificate and/or testing in triplicate to sit in a mask on a flight to a foreign country where you have to wear a mask at all times in the summer heat. Holiday could be cancelled at any point if country goes on red list or one of your party test positive coupled with up to two weeks quarantine when back in the U.K.
This is effectively banning foreign travel unless you are sufficiently wealthy to charter your own flight and stay in ultra elite places to circumvent the rules for the plebs.
Nutshell - majority of working class, stay at home in your garden with nothing to look forward to.
Very rich - carry on as normal without the annoyance of poor people cluttering up your resorts, hotels and beaches.
If the government wanted to proceed with one of the last phases of the Canada plan email they could simply hike up interest rates into a superheated housing market and repossess vast swathes of private mortgaged homes and then rent them back to the occupants.
You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy (suicidal)
I don't understand how the rich keep getting richer if the rest of us don't keep consuming. Tell me how it works.Inequality will rise to never before seen levels with a marked distinction between haves and have nots IMO.
The normal person (using myself as an example) has a lifestyle based on relatively affordable pleasures.
Bit of shopping daytime weekends
Pub/restaurant on a weekend evening
Day trips to seaside in sunny times
Weekends away in hotels now and then
Camping/lodge maybe for school hols or a week abroad with daughter.
With regards to the above -
Shopping - high street decimated inc shopping centres with the push to go online (which can’t be compared to an afternoon browsing the stores). Stupid rules and queues if you do manage to go lowering the experience to a necessary evil.
Pub/restaurant - closed for best part of a year with stupid restrictions still in place and forthcoming vaccine passports and the twin pleasures of masks and social distance too to wring away any enjoyment left. That’s if they haven’t closed for good with 12000 pubs gone already!
Day trips to seaside - depends if anything is open and subject to above regs. Also because this is one of the few low cost of entry activities left, expect rammed beaches and zero parking.
Weekend away - hotel prices gone up 300percent for the places we normally go to which makes it akin to the cost of a week abroad for 2 nights in the U.K.
Basically priced out of this one.
Camping / abroad - U.K. prices have gone insane with one poster on PH showing pic evidence of his 3k lodge last year going up to 12k! Priced out of reach now.
Abroad - potential of 9hours in airport queues with a vaccine certificate and/or testing in triplicate to sit in a mask on a flight to a foreign country where you have to wear a mask at all times in the summer heat. Holiday could be cancelled at any point if country goes on red list or one of your party test positive coupled with up to two weeks quarantine when back in the U.K.
This is effectively banning foreign travel unless you are sufficiently wealthy to charter your own flight and stay in ultra elite places to circumvent the rules for the plebs.
Nutshell - majority of working class, stay at home in your garden with nothing to look forward to.
Very rich - carry on as normal without the annoyance of poor people cluttering up your resorts, hotels and beaches.
If the government wanted to proceed with one of the last phases of the Canada plan email they could simply hike up interest rates into a superheated housing market and repossess vast swathes of private mortgaged homes and then rent them back to the occupants.
You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy (suicidal)
Pothole said:
I don't understand how the rich keep getting richer if the rest of us don't keep consuming. Tell me how it works.
Government contracts with taxpayer money, online businesses benefiting from forced closure of high street, lending money to skint plebs via financial institutions, healthcare medical companies mandating vaccines or simply taking the money off them with repossessions of their homes and assets.They don’t have to always sell a product to cream money.
foxbody-87 said:
economic inequality
A consequence of capitalism. The alternative is socialism which brings different but equally damaging problems.
Nobody has yet worked out a decent middle ground. The closest we perhaps had the chance of getting was when we had the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition.
When you don't have something life is unfair. That changes when you get something. Take housing. When you're a young person trying to get on the housing ladder you might struggle to save for a deposit and / or find something affordable. Life then is unfair. But when you do finally get a house, you want the value of that house to increase as much as possible and when you come to sell it, you'll sell for the highest price you can - thereby contributing to the situation you, only a few years previously, were citing as being unfair.
There is no institutionally driven or intended division at play to divert attention away from anything - certainly not in the UK. That is not to say there is no division but that exists because of government's inability to recognise root cause and those who consider themselves as being 'excluded' unable to either understand why this is case themselves or articulate the reasons with sufficient clarity. Gender, sexual orientation or skin colour are tangible things on which a hat can be hung but are not necessarily to the root cause (although sometimes they are).
Pothole said:
I don't understand how the rich keep getting richer if the rest of us don't keep consuming. Tell me how it works.
I think in recent years there has been a shift in emphasis, especially online, away from innovations creating wealth towards concentrating wealth. Amazon is a case in point. It was great (for the consumer) when it started because it had all sorts of books that wouldn't be on the high street, recommendations that even a good bookshop might not have heard of and popular books at good prices. And CDs, DVDs etc. Now it is a publisher, broadcaster, seller of just about everything and pusher of many apps. It isn't even that cheap for a lot of stuff.It is a great business model and deserves its success, but I think its phase of being a benefit to the consumer is over and its now a bit of a monster.
Google is the same. The whole draw of it was a simple, uncluttered search engine with a column of ads down the side and relevant, interesting results. Now it's positively sinister.
JuanCarlosFandango said:
Pothole said:
I don't understand how the rich keep getting richer if the rest of us don't keep consuming. Tell me how it works.
I think in recent years there has been a shift in emphasis, especially online, away from innovations creating wealth towards concentrating wealth. Amazon is a case in point. It was great (for the consumer) when it started because it had all sorts of books that wouldn't be on the high street, recommendations that even a good bookshop might not have heard of and popular books at good prices. And CDs, DVDs etc. Now it is a publisher, broadcaster, seller of just about everything and pusher of many apps. It isn't even that cheap for a lot of stuff.It is a great business model and deserves its success, but I think its phase of being a benefit to the consumer is over and its now a bit of a monster.
Google is the same. The whole draw of it was a simple, uncluttered search engine with a column of ads down the side and relevant, interesting results. Now it's positively sinister.
Pothole said:
I'm not disputing it may not be a benefit to the customer, but it is designed to keep us consuming or there is no more money into the rich person's pocket. Surely?
There is if you have to consume things that are of no benefit to you in order to do something you previously could have done without consuming them. I'm no better for booking a swimming session through an app as compared to just paying for it at a desk. Someone is.foxbody-87 said:
Tongue in cheek but a few posts I’ve seen online have got me thinking. You know the type, a bit tinfoil hat ‘we are being controlled’. Right now the hot topic in the news is race and both the left and right biased media are whipping their readers into a frenzy over it. Some people are claiming the whole thing is a diversionary tactic to distract us from the real issue of economic inequality. So is this really a pincer movement from the elite or just a game of who can sell more papers?
It's just capitalism working as intended. The rich get richer and have more options/opportunities and the poor get poorer. The rich can move their money around to reduce tax exposure and make it 'work for them', whilst the poor have to rent and cant save.We keep on voting in Conservative governments (for cheap taxes), when a little bit of socialist levelling is what is probably required to return to a level of equity. I.e. free university education, a programme of housebuilding, true social mobility and better social care of the needy. A fiscally responsible labour party is the answer, but it seems like we would much rather vote Conservative and moan about social problems, rather than bite the bullet. I think this was shown by Brexit and the former labour seats turning blue. People want change but none of the traditional parties are currently offering it.
Wolfmanjack said:
Pothole said:
I don't understand how the rich keep getting richer if the rest of us don't keep consuming. Tell me how it works.
Government contracts with taxpayer money, online businesses benefiting from forced closure of high street, lending money to skint plebs via financial institutions, healthcare medical companies mandating vaccines or simply taking the money off them with repossessions of their homes and assets.They don’t have to always sell a product to cream money.
anonymous said:
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YepIdentity politics is for the most part a distraction from the real issues in society. Enthusiastically embraced by the elites because it is much more convenient to put a rainbow flag on a corporate website or put in some token quotas than it is to pay their fair share of taxes or pay a living wage. The media follow along as most of them are bought and paid for propogandists rather than journalists.
tangerine_sedge said:
foxbody-87 said:
Tongue in cheek but a few posts I’ve seen online have got me thinking. You know the type, a bit tinfoil hat ‘we are being controlled’. Right now the hot topic in the news is race and both the left and right biased media are whipping their readers into a frenzy over it. Some people are claiming the whole thing is a diversionary tactic to distract us from the real issue of economic inequality. So is this really a pincer movement from the elite or just a game of who can sell more papers?
It's just capitalism working as intended. The rich get richer and have more options/opportunities and the poor get poorer. The rich can move their money around to reduce tax exposure and make it 'work for them', whilst the poor have to rent and cant save.We keep on voting in Conservative governments (for cheap taxes), when a little bit of socialist levelling is what is probably required to return to a level of equity. I.e. free university education, a programme of housebuilding, true social mobility and better social care of the needy. A fiscally responsible labour party is the answer, but it seems like we would much rather vote Conservative and moan about social problems, rather than bite the bullet. I think this was shown by Brexit and the former labour seats turning blue. People want change but none of the traditional parties are currently offering it.
Why does it need the Labour party to build houses? Houses are built by housebuilders, not governments.
Labour have consistently f
ked the economy, and the last manifesto was economic lunacy.mike74 said:
Race "issues", transgender "issues", lgbqt "issues" me too "issues" are all just irrelevant fripperies... manufactured issues designed to deflect and distract from the real issue that the 99% regardless of their race, gender or sexuality are being well and truly shafted by the 1%.
I sort of agree but wouldn't have used the term "irrelevant fripperies" because I think they are all important things. I just think that those with more power encourage us to get angry about those things without ever having any real ambition to sort them out. People are their own worst enemy.
Every action they see nowadays has to have an ulterior motive, has to have an “ism” associated, has to be malicious, or self serving, or oppressive. Nobody can do anything against a black, gay, female or transgender person for fear of having their lives dissected down the road for it being construed as a pattern of bias. Just look at the mess Reddit got itself into, and the Liberal Democrats casually ignoring, over a transgender person with a very concerning history - one that if it was attached to a straight white bloke would see him publicly flogged for being a nonce.
The sooner everyone stops turning on each other in a desperate clamour to be the wokest woke person, calling people racist or sexist to garner support for their cause, the sooner people can start acting in each other’s interests again.
Every action they see nowadays has to have an ulterior motive, has to have an “ism” associated, has to be malicious, or self serving, or oppressive. Nobody can do anything against a black, gay, female or transgender person for fear of having their lives dissected down the road for it being construed as a pattern of bias. Just look at the mess Reddit got itself into, and the Liberal Democrats casually ignoring, over a transgender person with a very concerning history - one that if it was attached to a straight white bloke would see him publicly flogged for being a nonce.
The sooner everyone stops turning on each other in a desperate clamour to be the wokest woke person, calling people racist or sexist to garner support for their cause, the sooner people can start acting in each other’s interests again.
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