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Somehow - we've all got to get back to being human beings again and not automatically hate someone just because they disagree with yiu about politics. I saw Tim Berners-Lee being interviewed yesterday. And he was explaining the algorithms job is to keep you locked in and engaging in the content. So it will deliberately show you things to become enraged about. His argument has that this has led to a lot of the polarisation we see in society and gives us a false view of the world really is. He essentially said the Internet had been monopolised by these huge companies - all keeping us scrolling with their negative algorithms. He said it should be outlawed. Social media firms should still He able to exist but with strict guidelines around hiw their algorithms work. Banned in the same way that we banned guns. Because it's so damaging to society. Remember when Facebook was good and it really was all your friends posting stupid shit all day about what they were doing? It's NOTHING like that now. I barely see any posts from my friends anymore. It's just adverts and videos to make me start doomscrolling. Fuck that shit - I'm done with it! Let's just start being decent with each other again. I'll put my pipe down now! 😁✌️☮️🕊

Oh he was great at debating. But the fact that folk like him can be become so famous on the back of such extreme views and a fractured society is a bad reflection on our current times, especially in the US. That goes for the weirdos debating him in the first place. Him, Andrew Tate etc etc. It's not good.

My Nana lived in upstate New York. She was 98 when she passed away. She had good friends who were white, black, Asian, Chinese, Armenian, Italian. Her group of friends gave huge amounts of time volunteering as part of a community that looked after everybody. I remember how excited she was when the States had their first black president - someone who seemed to genuinely care about all people regardless of politics, race, religion etc. She died a few weeks after Obama was first voted in as President. She was so full of hope for the country. I thank God she didn’t have to witness this spiral the US has been on over recent years. Truly so sad.

it's been proven on here many, many times that former British military chaps can, and will, talk absolute shite.

Great post In a nutshell really I remember tuning into some Tommy Robinson videos a year or so ago. Simply as means to understand his mindset and life story. Within a week my YouTube feed had gone from football vloggers, music & cooking videos to loads of hateful, dramatic videos. Purely exaggerated nonsense about ‘military aged men invading, the demise of the white man & woke universities’. The comments are filled to brim with foamy mouthed, brainwashed people. Who see one incident & tar everyone (& whole institutions) with the same brush. It’s scary how quickly it all happens. I went from watching interesting, relaxing videos one week, to just not watching anything anymore. We tend to talk more about the devastating impacts these algorithms have on children. & I’d love to see social media banned for U18s, but the effect it’s having on adults is equally concerning. It works both ways as well, that was just my particular experience.

There are some massive horseshoe ideologies involved here. Imagine a preacher of Islam coming out with a similar rhetoric. They'd be castigated by the right wing nut jobs that are currently mourning him.

arms were too little to aim properly

See you need to do what I do. Have a pretty equal split of right wing nut jobs and left wing unwashed freaks. Equal split on anti vaxers and pro vaxers. Equal split on the Party’s running for power…….. That way you have a balanced view like I do and don’t end up in an echo chamber 😄😄 RW - here to help,

Made the mistake of watching the video when I knew it was someone I shouldn't have trusted to press play on 😪 For what its worth, I couldn't be further from the lads political beliefs. But fuck me, I don't mind admitting that I just shead a tear after seeing that. The world is fucked. How has it come to such devision, even between lads I I've known since childhood, I've never seem such fall outs even just chatting in the boozer. Obviously not as bad as what's just happened, but just as sad in it's own little way as far as I can see. 😪

I have the misfortune, as do many of my colleagues, to have to deal with Mr Veitch in the course of my job. Having had to have face to face dialogue with him in that scenario, I can vouch that he is a complete and utter knob. The only area where he is clever or smart is knowing how much he can get away with, and how close he can get to the line of getting himself arrested.

Surely Forss up front to be replaced by Dalby? McAtee has proved numerous times he can’t play up top so surely Forss has to be first choice?

There's also a big problem with politics having turned into a circus of performative hate. Which helps nothing and exacerbates everything.

Just been on Facebook and there are people on their point scoring over this. 2 kids just could have lost their dad. Just no respect and both sides are at it.

He is anti abortion and wants to take the choice away from the woman These laws are often made and passed by men It's bullshit

To be fair to RW and we know how literal he is, itd be better if it was mum, imo However, its not a perfect world

At 4 month old who would you say would be better suited staying at home with them? I’m sorry but anyone saying dad is speaking utter shite.

Lot of people in the US blowing their careers up and getting fired because they couldn't help but publicly celebrate a guy getting murdered. What a world.

Are you Andy Burnham ?

Have those in power in Israel said that’s their plan? As we have heard many influential folk from the Palestine side say they want to get rid of Israel and all Jews

Master debater though.

This this this, all day long.

Not sure what to make of this article. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/10/england-fans-chants-cast-keir-starmer-as-first-prime-minister-to-become-the-enemy Football and politics eh! 😀

Facing people with other opinions, openly, in public is surely a good thing. That's what universities in particular were once a centre of- debate. Instead they now have become the opposite, sadly.

He’s on about Charlie Veitch

Bloody nora, do you actually think about this before you type?

He's a American devout Christian. He's right sided but I wouldn't say right wing. He was an extremely clever man and could out debate pretty much anyone who dared to speak with him, so used that as his thing to be like a viral influencer. He'd hold debates and ask people to try and win their argument. Inevitably these were normally taken up by left minded folk or left side extremists who wanted to be "the one" that outsmarted him. Inevitably people became upset and outraged and couldn't handle that after a while people began to agree with him. For reference I've never once seen him spout any real hatred, or been aggressive.. in fact on most the polar opposite

That's what they want to do, kill every single Palestinian

You should see state of him

no, he's going to get a proper pasting though one of these days, and he'll deserve it

LW doesn’t love facts. Makes stuff up thinking he's clever ... its boring. Gets found out then changes the narrative to suit ... Rinse repeat. He's a expert at it. Lad's been rattled more than a beggers tin. It's why I don't bother much

To save yourself anymore confusion just go back a few pages and read the original comment. This is fkin painful .

So far about 70,000 of Palestinians that lived in either West Bank, Gaza or Israel have been killed since Oct 7th. 70,000 out of 6,900,000. So about 1% in 23 months of war against one of most sophisticated and advanced military in the world. If they wanted to kill all ... think they'd have done it by now. It's not a ethnic cleansing ... its not genocide 1% in 23 months

Time to post this again

Shocking, good job the PM spoke out against him and said his words didn’t represent the government leads also he isn’t part of the security cabinet that gets to decide these things Unlike the other lot hey 👍

The BBC have already gone to extreme lengths to try to determine just this. Reporter earlier explaining that they have gone into the finances of his partner's family in detail. Not quite sure how a journalist can ascertain exactly how much money someone has, but that's their job I suppose. If something is found, then it will be out like a shot, and those poll leads may start to come down. No doubt we'll find out in good time.

This is ideology competing with biology. Nature has created many different means of raining young, across different living things. In mamals for example, females are the ones that give birth and produce milk, so it is simply a fundamental of life that early days and weeks the mother is more important. That doesn't mean males aren't important, and become more so later on. Basic stuff.

It’s all about choice Charlie didn’t want a society where women & gay people have freedom & choice. He’s an extremist

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu is another Israel’s far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has said that his government is “racing against time to wipe out Gaza and its Palestinian population,” adding that the territory will become “entirely Jewish.” https://trt.global/world/article/9041df0f631c

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich for one. 'Smotrich, speaking to a conference on Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, went further, making clear that many Palestinians would be driven out of the territory altogether, as part of a scorched earth offensive. “Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to … the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” ' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/hamas-israel-hunger-war-in-gaza

Not sure I'd fancy his job! 😆

Cheers for the nod, but managed to get one elsewhere.

It is and the lower teams seem to do better as the better league finishers end up having a break. Love the play offs but I don’t think this brings anything to the party

Janner wanker.

Not really. Not sure why that would be a reason for it being truthful ? I’ve watched bits throughout. The first minute has numerous mistruths & statements lacking context. Quick google search tells you the ‘military chap’ has his own bias & agenda “Kemp is a director and trustee of UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers (UK-AWIS), a British charity that raises money to support the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).” It’s just two allies giving off the pretence that one is non biased. Titles in the video like “Britains Shameful Gaza lies” & “The Truth” don’t help their cause either.

Never even heard of him before but listening to some clips on the radio today of his views makes me glad I hadn't. No one should be killed though for expressing views others find distasteful or even offensive. The Christian fundamentalists over in the US are a fucking odd bunch.

Aye he's up there with the death to the west TV personalities in the middle East imo

I reckon someone who wanted to take us back to the dark ages of no abortions, no vaccines, no same sex marriage & women told to stay at home, poses more of threat than some leftie fantasist who sometimes supported the wrong groups. I’m my humble opinion of course.

are you an immigrant drug dealer who operates in picadilly gardens by any chance?

In which case a team that finishes 6th, or 5th, or 4th, shouldnt get a shot either. If you want it to be fair, only have automatic promotion. If you want it to be fun, and for your team to be in with a shot for a long as possible, do it this way. National League N and S have been doing this for years. Football isn't designed to be fair; it's designed to make money and entertain people.