WTF is going on in France Svarty?

[Rum]

Whose media? And what evidence do you have that most media has a left bias?

[Scot Dutchy]

Of course he has none. He thinks like Trump.

[Svartalf]

Oh, there are certainly people who say that, but the core yellow vest crowd, to the best of my knowledge, are protesting the fact that the president is acting in favor of a wealthy minority, and playing switch and bait with the tax money, pretending he's making life easier on the poorer section of population, while actually making the tax charge heavier on them... I mean, he says he's lifting the poll residency tax of 80% of the population, but how many of those were actually already exempt because of being too poor? and he's encouraging people to find work always further from their homes, and then raising the taxes on gas so it stops being economical...

[Scot Dutchy]

Well I am disappointed. I hope this is a wake up call for him but some things had to change Svarty? Or not?

[Svartalf]

to start with, even if we do need a change (and we do, the poor are being pushed into revolutionary violence out of lack of money and not being properly represented to the gummint), he's not the man to bring it on, he's an entitled, authoritarian arsehole who has brought crony politics to a degree of perfection rarely achieved in this country...

[Cunt]

Whose media? And what evidence do you have that most media has a left bias?

The thing about bias is it is hidden. If you are 'left', you will find it a lot easier to see 'right' bias (and vice-versa)

With this confounding principle in mind, what sort of evidence would convince you that there was such a bias?

[Cunt]

He reminds me of Trudeau Jr.

Groomed since birth to be in that position...no reason to expect an understanding of life, only government.

[Svartalf]

well, trudeau just might be less self infatuated and corrupt than macron, which is saying a lot as to how low macron is in my regard...

[Cunt]

It's like royalty, but everyone still votes for them.

Or enough of 'everyone'.

[Hermit]

The thing about bias is it is hidden. If you are 'left', you will find it a lot easier to see 'right' bias (and vice-versa)

With this confounding principle in mind, what sort of evidence would convince you that there was such a bias?

What is bias anyway? Should we cease criticising what we see as wrong on the grounds that there is good and bad on both sides? Should we hold our tongue about Trump because one day he just might do something sensationally beneficially like, say, find a cure for cancer?

I mean, let's not be so biased regarding Hitler. There are plenty of positives about him. He made Germany great again. He was a vegetarian. He loved his dog, Blondi. He always dressed snappily. He invented the autobahn and the Volkswagen. He fought communism. Ignoring the good in him is an example of outrageous bias.

[Sean Hayden]

[laklak]

Who's "we"?

[Svartalf]

What? a thread about ME has already reached the Godwin point? I'm ashamed.

[Brian Peacock]

NEXIT?

Dutch yellow jacket protests draw small crowds, PM has some sympathy



Some 600 people took part in ‘yellow jacket’ demonstrations in several Dutch cities this weekend, as politicians, including the prime minister said they had some sympathy for the cause.

In Amsterdam, local broadcaster At5 said around 70 demonstrators showed up at city hall for a protest, which involved walking round the building singing the song ‘15 miljoen mensen‘. Other estimates put the crowd in Amsterdam at 200.

In Maastricht, between 150 and 200 people held a march and handed out leaflets saying ‘let us battle together for the future of our grandchildren’. A similar number gathered at the Erasmus bridge in central Rotterdam. There were also demonstrations by ‘several dozen’ people in The Hague, Arnhem and Eindhoven, Dutch media reported.

On Friday, prime minister Mark Rutte said in his weekly broadcast on public television that ‘everyone is wearing a yellow jacket, up to a certain point’, while at the same time condemning the violence in France.

Rutte said he could understand that people in the Netherlands had concerns about migration and refugees, about the consequences of climate change and about income...

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/12/d ... -sympathy/

www.dutchnews.nl : Well worth adding to your bookmark folder.

[JimC]

Can someone spot Scot in that photo? I'm sure he's there somewhere... (clearly, Dutch yellow jackets are the best yellow jackets...)