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24 year old from sunny Bilston. Sports Journalist. Wolves fan. Geek. Know a bit about a lot. Sports Reporter @blackcountryradio.co.uk. They/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇧🇺🇦
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Most of the arguments against that I've seen largely boil down to what-if worst-case scenarios, or bring up Canada's MAiD program (which was misused tbf and used for assisted suicide for mentally ill patients). There should be keen oversight from to make sure that doesn't happen.
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I'm firmly in the camp that assisted dying should be legal. There is dignity in dying on your own terms, especially if you're terminally ill and only face pain and low quality of life going forward. There needs to be strong safeguards in place, but it shouldn't be stopped altogether.
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Couldn't even but away his agenda for 5 minutes. I didn't think it would take 10 days to start missing Biden, but here we are.
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You are 100% correct
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It's better than chucking it in a landfill where it'll remain for thousands of years. At best you'll get a bit of methane gas from that, incinerator plants can provide power and heat for thousands of homes.
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Let natural selection run it's course
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No they're just nimbys who see "thing being built" and have a fit
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The 2020s is certainly a decade
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I'd rather a game have compelling gameplay and a good story than amazing graphics.
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Maybe don't stick your hand in train doors. It's London - there'll be another train in a few minutes
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Why do they always act shocked? Oh this man that people have been complaining about for years for being weird and creepy is actually a predator? A complete surprise! Would never have guessed it!
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As someone from the UK, the loss of coal mining jobs is just kinda something that has to be put up with. The lucky ones will reskill and move into emergent industries like the services sector, the unlucky ones who won't or can't will be unemployed for the rest of their lives.
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ACAB. No exceptions.
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A revolution
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Honestly wearing masks should have become more commonplace after the pandemic but we just went back to default
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Elongated Muskrat doesn't know what the government does, or at least he doesn't appreciate the full scope of it.
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Don Jr doesn't have a "dark sense of humour", he just wants to say the n word
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If you cut 1% of the defence budget, you could give every American free healthcare for the year. Also, universal healthcare would save money as the government wouldn't have to give billions to prop up insurance companies, most of which goes directly into the CEO's bank account. Deny. Defend. Depose.
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It's the likes of AOC who need to step up as leaders for the Democrats in the future. Trump winning again proves people want change, and the Democrats rn represent the status quo. That needs to change if the Democrats are to stand any chance in 2028 and beyond.
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We eating well tonight, boys
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Don't necessarily need skilled workers. Trade jobs require a few months of training and you gain experience on the job. We built an economy on an educated population supplemented with foreign labour, but now we can't get the labour and the ones we do have can't work because they can't be processed.
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Maybe because we left one of the largest labour markets in the world
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And give favouritism to the companies that are friendly to the regime. Hitler did it with Porsche, Mercedes and BMW and they got massive contracts to build engines for tanks and warplanes.
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It's true. How else would you explain it? The Illuminati? The secret lizard government?
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Because this was before Jewish Emancipation. Christians weren't allowed to lend money, so Jews (who could) were the ones who set up banks. In fact it was the Jewish Rothschilds that bailed out the Bank of England during the South Sea Crisis
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Ah yes, antisemitism. What are your thoughts on the Holocaust?
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Syria effectively isolated itself from the west because of Assad using chemical weapons during the Arab Spring protests, so with the US as his enemy, he turns to the next biggest power in the region - Russia, and Putin is only too happy to have an ally (and warm water ports) in the Levant.
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The US mainstream media is currently desperately trying to kowtow to Trump so he doesn't have them banned by the FCC. This is the reality of Trump's America - fall in line with the government or you're gone.
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Hopefully the French do to them as they did to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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Also you have to remember the human side. Biden has lost his wife, one of his daughters and one of his sons and doesn't want to see his only surviving son spending the next decade in jail because some kangaroo court thinks it's a good idea to make an example of the President's son.
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The enemy of the common man isn't immigrants - it's the billionaires. They are the enemy. If we put as much energy into talking about billionaires as we did about immigration, we might actually get some genuine change in this country.
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Imagine what we could do with the money that is being hoarded by these people. Imagine the problems we could fix. Homelessness, gone. The NHS, fixed. Infrastructure, fixed. There is so much money sitting around being useless when we need money now more than ever.
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And all this money that billionaires rake in isn't being invested back into the economy to help it grow, it's just being put into hard assets, like fine art or large houses. And Britain is one of the worst offenders of this. We're no longer a nation - we're a hedge fund with a country attached.
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And yes I will say it - billionaires should not exist. There is never a reason, in my eyes, to have a billion of anything. It's hoarding and when the majority have so little money, it's disgusting that so few have so much and only get more.
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The last government saw the largest transferance of wealth from poor to rich in recorded history. That is an utter disgrace. Whilst people were made homeless and using food banks to feed their kids, we were making more billionaires every year. It's disgusting.
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And this doesn't just extend to expenditure, it goes for taxes too. Tax rises are never popular but right now they are necessary, especially as the rich have been winning big over the last decade and a half with more than charitable tax cuts from the Tories. Time to reign it in.
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You might say "we can't afford it" but I say it doesn't matter. We need to make the investment now to reap the rewards in the future. Put up the money now, bare the cost and take the money when things improve.
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There needs to be serious state intervention in large areas of the economy if we are to reach sustainable growth again. We need to break up monopolies, revitalise high streets, nationalise utilities, curb price gouging and all this can only be done by intervention from the state.
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It's ridiculous. But the problem isn't the migrants - it's the government. We need to process their claims faster and deport those who don't have a valid claim. Or even better, stop them coming here in the first place by taking up Macron's offer of opening processing centers in France.
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The problem is that the Tories spent the last 14 years underfunding the immigration system into dysfunction to the point where it takes years for a claim to be processed and in the meanwhile these people are put in hotels at public expense or just dumped in the street without documentation.
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Nor am I saying immigration isn't an issue, of course it is, but the immigrants aren't the issue but the system and, dare I say, the society around them is. Britain is a multicultural nation. Hell, even the "white" folk aren't of one ethnicity. We're an island of Celts and Anglo-Saxons.
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I'm not an economist, I'm just a journalist. I'm not here to offer solutions merely to point them out and allow you to come to your own conclusions, but can anyone say honestly that the current system is working for 90% of the population? I wouldn't say so.