People are losing faith rapidly in the left because they don't seem to be for the everyday working class Briton like they used to be.
There is a big shift going to Reform now largely because they want to reduce immigration. The left deny the situation and the right have claimed they will reduce it every year then increase.
People are flooding to the "far right"* because they don't seen the main parties address the main issue they want addressing and have been talking about for decades at this point, generations even.
_* not actually far right. But the left love throwing that term around to anyone that has a different opinion to them. They just want lower immigration, which historically has been a left leaning ideology
So how many people want to live in Manhattan? Bringing in more people will solve the housing issue?
More job programs are the answer to that, not restricting immigration.
Well we can agree on half of that.
Immigrants across the board improve the economy and put more into welfare than they take out. So no, they are not a drain on the economy in any respect.
This is the crux of it. This is the big lie here that is never backed up.
Break down immigration by country of origin, education, even income. Look at the results on lower classes and up classes, look at the affect on housing and jobs. It will not be an improvement across the board for all those things.
But I would love, love, love to see that data. But whenever it is shown it never shows what you claim it does.
Because it isn't crime either. Immigrants are responsible for less crime per capita than US citizens.
For every group?
Overall I 100% agree with you. That's what I would expect.
You are talking like some stereotypically white knight that knows how the world works and how everyone thinks and fantasies about how things should be. Yet for all this worldly knowledge that no one ever else could possibly comprehend the world doesn't work out for you.
Some guy was being a dick on public transport, seemingly knowingly, I call him out for that and he stopped. All good.
Love how you can know so much about a situation that you didn't even see. That's a real good magic trick. Maybe you should be a detective?
Where I live we don't have a hand gesture for that. I am curious what it entails?
You put your hand up like a high 5. It is generally seen as a "I fucked up, I know, sorry" it's pretty common it a lot of cultures. Weird you don't know this yet you know so so much above everything else
"what the fuck"--- a pretty hostile thing to communicate to a stranger by any method--- wouldn't you say there is a possibility that it was interpreted as menacing?
How is wtf hostile? Like if you seen a duck carrying a cat across the road and some guy made a wtf gesture at you, you're going to reach for you gun?
Even if you do know better than to start a fight on public transit, this guy doesn't know you. People start fights for less. He's not reading your mind, to know you are thinking like sun tzu, and would therefor not attack from a position of weakness like the seat in front. People get stabbed on busses and trains for minor insults. Don't you think he could have just been cautious?
So let's get this right. People get attacked on busses for minor things. You think this guy is worried I might have beat him, and you think that too, because that's what's happened on public transport.
Well it sounds like I did this guy a favour, the next guy might have stabbed him. Everyone that gets on the bus with him wins because they don't get pissed off and he wins because no one kills him for being a dickhead.
If him being scared prevents all this then I guess you are right. I did him a favour.
Look cunt you obviously seem to know it’s not right if you acting like that so why you being a knobhead? Just because no one will call you out?
I'm sorry I can't read minds thinking about the situation at a different time period. But again, that's an awfully good skill you have.
Omg you are actually talking about video games now. You're too much.
I said "can't you put some headphones in?" And put my hands up gestured in like "what the fuck are you doing"?
I'm not going to start a fight with a guy sitting directly behind me. That's strategically stupid. I didn't even stand up.
Technically I guess he put one hand up because his other was holding the phone. Which is a very, very common gesture of guilt. I literally watched a game today and one of the players made that gesture to his own teammates when he made a mistake. I doubt he was expected to get punched by them either.
I was thinking "I bet back in the day people would have called people out on their shit. That's why standards were higher". So I called some guy out on it and he was like "sorry sorry sorry. Okay" and he put his hands up.
Look cunt you obviously seem to know it's not right if you acting like that so why you being a knobhead? Just because no one will call you out?
No. That's poor maths, you're comparing two entirely different things. This is why so so so many of the arguments and facts about immigration are in poor faith. People massively oversimplify.
Oh course its going to increase any housing shortage.
There is a lot of problems with immigration. Immigration as a whole is different to certain immigration. If you break it down certain countries, certain jobs and certain education levels can cause a net drain on a country.
That's not to say all immigration is bad. But to think all immigration under any circumstance is good is just a signs of being brainwashed by their side and refusing to look at anything that goes against their view.
You can be tolerant of intolerance. But its got to be about homophobia, sexism, threats of violence, and hatred of the status quo. But it only works if a minority is doing it.
The problem is the same all over Europe people are unhappy with immigration from MENA.
None of the centre or left parties will deal with it, except in Denmark and Poland which coincidentally have seen lower votes for far right parties. But that's probably unrelated right.
So yea. Let's decide who should be in power and what they think of is right goes and ban anyone that thinks differently.
I always got told I could do whatever I wanted and didn't know what I wanted to do. But I figured I didn't want to do anything manual into old age so ruled that out. I knew I wanted to do a lot of different things and work with different people. But talking can be difficult.
Emails and working together with lots of other people and working on problem is great. Wearing a suit and making big decision seemed really interesting.
Work in general sucks but it beats the alternatives. Everyone on this website comes across as somewhat autistic. Dealing with people isn't the end of the world.
And no, the hypothetical of the robot skyscrapers is not "meaningless."
It's not meaningless in itself. Its meaningless to the conversation. It's literally a hypothetical you invented for no reason. You're just rambling.
Are you actually trying to claim that if the population was much smaller than it is today total resource use across the globe would be the same?
Because if not my point stands.
A lot of people think rockets can be very profitable. Its just a long term bet and you lack imagination. I would need to check but I'm pretty certain spacex is profitable.
14% of the vote from a brand new party, with signs that's increasing. It not insignificant