draculina

I don’t know of any talk of the rise of neo-nazism or white supremacism in the UK, though I do know that small neo-nazi and racist groups are active. I also know there has been a rise in hate crimes following the brexit referendum – I don’t know whether that is still continuing.

This murder seems an open-and-shut case to me. I don’t see how or,…[Read more]

I don’t know of any talk of the rise of neo-nazism or white supremacism in the UK, though I do know that small neo-nazi and racist groups are active. I also know there has been a rise in hate crimes following the brexit referendum – I don’t know whether that is still continuing.

This murder seems an open-and-shut case to me. I don’t see how or,…[Read more]

They certainly have a slant, and sometimes they lie.

My newspaper has carried an in-depth account of Mair and the far Right in the UK today, and I trust it (insofar as oone can trust anything).

As I said, there’s no need to lie. The white supremacist and neo-nazis are ugly enough in my opinion, and they’re not being accused of hatching a plot to…[Read more]

Well, it was a political murder.

But that doesn’t mean the BBC were lying about it.

It hasn’t actually been a political issue. Nobody with any sense has blamed the Brexiteers, or even said that there was a far-Right plot. It was a lone individual.

Given the fact that it was one lone individual murdering a politican during a heated political…[Read more]

I don’t like posts being removed, Martin, though I recognise that it’s your chat site and you have the prerogative.

But some of the comments on this thread did sicken me.

I’m glad you removed them.

You’re not being disrespectful at this point, because my last post was about the killer.

The real disrespect came from others, when I posted a tribute to the victim.

The evidence for the above post I obtained from the BBC news site below. If you have reason to disbelieve the police evidence – and I mean sufficient reason – then do…[Read more]

You’re not being disrespectufl at this point, because my last post was about the killer.

The real disrespect came from others, when I posted a tribute to the victim.

The evidence for the above post I obtained from the BBC news site below. If you have reason to disbelieve the police evidence – and I mean sufficient reason – then do…[Read more]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38071894

The above was a simple tribute. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Thomas Mair, who has just been sentenced to life, was a man obsessed with white supremacist and Nazi thinking. In his drawers were Nazi memorabilia and white supremacist book and pamphlets like March of the Titans: A History of the White Race . He’d been collecting them since…[Read more]

Blossom,

I can’t agree with you about this conversation demonstrating pond life, though I do understand your not being bothered to play a part in it.

I think if you pop in to the chat room most times, the conversation is pretty inane and uninteresting, but that’s true of anywhere, incldung the pub and club where conversation took place once upon…[Read more]

That looked rather deep……

I’m sure that’s the case – when it comes to specific policies.

But he’s not a blank card.

On the econony he says he will cut tax rates for the rich, and is committed to major public spending on nfrastructure. The Republicans who control Congress are also very happy about the tax cuts.

The degree to which he does this will be come clear, but…[Read more]

Chowa,

I find the trigger is the unhappiness over not doing anything. That has to grow to a particular point where I have to do something.

The main thing which held me up was that I was so busy, especially when I had a growing family. Kids take up all your time.

What I had to do was to create a time for myself where I could brood on what…[Read more]

drac,

these models are favourites amon 1st year undergrads in the US.

When I was a student, I remember creating a model where Hitler was left wing and Lenin was right-wing; then one where the Queen was an extreme authoritarian and Genghis Khan a moderate libertarianan. lol

Baically use common sense. Any model which claims Hitler to be more…[Read more]

any model which sees Hitler as left or centre Left has something deeply wrong with it.

Eysenck did a lot of weird models like that – he also used them to show that women and blacks were intellectually inferior. It all works on how you define centre.

Methinks the model is based on false premises. Hitler’s approach to lebensraum, anti-semiticms…[Read more]

I know of no model wh9hc sees Hitler as Left or centre-left lol

A socialist isn’t necessarily leftwing. Hitler is proof of that.

The problem wiht this very eprsonal definition is that it tends to lead to some bizarre examples.

Under it, Hitler would be a centre-right politican. He had expansionary economic policies based on state intervention  at every level, and he succeeded in wiping out unemployment, leading Germany to escape from the economic catastrphe intow whihc…[Read more]

drac,

it doesn’t sound as though you know your history, for one thing. Mosley was the elader of the British Union of Fascists.

They are generally seen as radicals, appealing to the same wortking-class people who were drawn to the Socialists and communist in the past (Le pen is a classic, as the mass ex-Communist vote shifts to her, but Farage’s…[Read more]

drac, it depends on how you define right-wing??

He’s not a conservative, any more than Marie Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Putin, Farage are conservative.

Mussolini wasn’t a conservative in his day.

Most of the above endorse major public spenidng programmes whihc are more associated with the Left.

So did Sir oswald Mosley in his day.

But does that…[Read more]

Martin,

you’re right in one sense. We have just over two months when we’ll know next to nothing about what he’s going to do as he prepares tobe inaugurated.

His policy positions were so over-the-top because he was shooting his mouth off, and reality along with the institutions which were set up over 200 years ago will prevent him doing his worst…[Read more]