(May 2, 2015 at 2:58 am)robvalue Wrote: Here's some stuffs about millbandybrain and his totalitarian islam toadying efforts:Haha, i'm sick of the knee-jerk reaction to defend a minority no matter what, what if that minority isn't particularly fond of other minorities? There's no thought to what they're defending
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics...-vote.html
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse...mediately/
Pitifully, if you break down what he is actually saying, it's "Being irrationally scared of Islam is going to be made an aggravated crime."
If you're going to bastardise a phrasing so utterly milliband, you have to be pretty clear on what distorted definition you have in your brain. And why exactly Islam needs special protection above and beyond discrimination, hate speech laws etc. that already exist.
Why does Allah need so much protection? Lost the lead in his pencil? Whoops, I said pencil. You can draw with that. Draw pictures of a bloke from ages ago. Blasphemy. There's milliband now with his ball-gag.
I think the arguments in those two articles reduce criticism of islam to "they're raping our kids and they're gonna kill all the cartoonists!!", what about all the muslim countries that execute or throw in jail apostates, blasphemers and gay people? If more people heard that argument instead of the first one they'd be more open to "islamophobia"
They do seem to have a penchant for raping kids though
(May 2, 2015 at 4:24 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote:(May 1, 2015 at 9:43 am)Saxmoof Wrote: Does anyone take Miliband at his word when he says he won't go into government with the SNP? I believe him, i don't think he would explicitly promise he wouldn't if he intended to go back on it, people wouldn't let him live it down.
I'm not sure I believe him. In this view he doesn't have as much to lose by saying that now and reneging on his statement because he has to appeal to the rest of the UK. Look at how much the Tories lie and people still vote them back in. It's very easy to stand up in front of the camera and appear reasonable and a good choice if you are lying through your teeth. The Tories lied so much before the last election they have since removed all their speeches and videos from on-line sources and the wayback machine.
Clegg lied about tuition fees but he went back on his word in spectacular fashion. Now that means the end of the Lib Dems. They're finished as a party. But it's possible that Miliband might be waiting for a full majority the next time rather than blow his chances this time. Westminster doesn't like coalitions. What Miliband doesn't realise though is that if he lets the Tories in rather than work with SNP then he is also finished in Scotland. Same as the Tories are finished in Scotland.
Now the Scots are in the position of having all or almost all of their seats for one party working solely for Scotland and still never able to have a leader at Westminster. Whereas before they were either ignored or taken for granted which amounts to the same thing. What this means is that the case for independence becomes even stronger.
The situation for Miliband in this election isn't do a deal with the SNP or the tories get in, the tories still won't be able to make a majority even with ukip, the lib dems and the dup
You have to admit it's unfair for a country of 5.5 million people to hold the balance of power over the other 55 million, I know that Scottish people have had Tory policies forced on them that no one there wanted over the years but everyone where i'm from in the north of England could say the same, where's our independence?
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin