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Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 03:06:10


[AOE] JaiBharat909
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........LOL. I am dying right now. You think we are the epitome of evil in football? Really? Liverpool? How about PSG and Man City who are literally ruled by the money poured into their sorry excuse of a club by their rich oil sheik? How about Bayern Munich who has the scandalous and abhorrent policy of buying any and all good rival players in the Budesliga so that they can sit them on the bench and watch them rot. How about Real Madrid and Barcelona who have monopolized La Liga so its now one of the most noncompetitive leagues in the world. Your a disgrace to football to accuse Liverpool of being the most evil. I'm American, but I know more about football then you do (and that's really really really ironic).
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 03:26:55


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I never understood how one can be a fan of football club. I mean, for me its just stupid kicking of ball and one time teams kicks more goals, sometimes the other. I think playing football is 100 times better than watching football.

Can you explain what you like about some football companys which are called clubs?
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 03:31:01


[AOE] JaiBharat909
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@berdan - I'll agree 100% that playing football is still more fun than watching, but there's something (I'm not exactly sure how to describe it) in supporting a football club. Why do people care so much about the country they're born in? They're 100s of countries why do we treat our native country (or the one we assimilate into) with such fervent love and nationalistic interest? Its hard to describe. I grew up on the game because my grandpa loved it so much, so it just naturally grow in me.
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 03:37:54


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You live near them and therefore have personal support.

I support a football club, but one that kicks balls of this shape:
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 03:47:57


[AOE] JaiBharat909
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Rugby?! Way more respect for that sport over american football. People who play rugby are real men.
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 03:54:53


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exept that's an american football ball, not a rugby one
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 04:11:50


[AOE] JaiBharat909
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wait what? oh shit yeah. Dang that's my bad did not even see that. It kind of looks like a rugby ball. I didn't know they played "American" football in Australia. Interesting.
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 04:19:27


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I believe Australians have their own version of football different from both rugby and the football the rest of the world plays... Although i'm not sure which is most popular, i suspect rugby, followed by football followed by Australian rules football....
But then of course cricket is more important than all??
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 06:23:51


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First off the political theorists and economists have no definitely concluded that mass immigration is a positive. Anyone who says that something is absolutely clear and a 100% correct is dangerous and obviously a non-realist. Nothing in political and economic theory is a 100% correct or proven correct. Just as you showed studies that "correlated" immigration with favorable changes in a country there are many studies that prove the strains placed by immigrants on housing, land, schools, hospitals, water supply, and transport systems make mass immigration on the scale seen by UK and Germany as very harmful to a country's long-term economic sustainability and social stability.


My documents noted that there was a lack in experiments done on this, but the few that have been are 90% reported net positive effect for immigration.

Not in one country: the whole OECD. Your documents:

Taking into account the children born to future migrants, with net migration at the rate envisaged under the ONS high migration scenario, the UK population would increase by a projected 20 million over the next 50 years and by 29 million over the next 75 years. This growth would be almost entirely due to migration.

So the only thing that is keeping Britain's population growing at all is immigrants?

Assuming the extra workers were productively employed, the result would be an appreciably faster growth in total GDP than would otherwise be the case. The effect on GDP per capita would be marginal.

As happens on set with natural workers, give or take 0.5%, they are "productively employed". And as the country gets bigger and more powerful, it is harder to hold a good GDP by each head: more folk to share the limited money. But what's better, to lower population and have everyone get relatively richer?

Net migration at the current rate would also have a rejuvenating effect on the national population and increase the share of this population who are of working age. However, these benefits would be modest and once achieved they could only be maintained through further net migration into the indefinite future.

The goods' effectiveness depends on how much (and what kind) immigration there is. At Britain's current policies, anything under 500k immigrants is "modest", and obviously the good from immigration will fade out if immigration is stopped.

The economic gains from large-scale immigration come mainly from its impact on the age-structure of the population. Most of these gains could be achieved with a much lower rate of net migration, and hence a much lower rate of population growth, than the UK is currently experiencing.

How's that? By having Britain shrivel up into pureblood nobles by low fertility rate?

The age-structure is conveniently summarised by the dependency ratio (number persons aged 65+ per 100 persons aged 15-64). With net migration of 225,000 p.a. the ONS projects that the dependency ratio would increase to 50.5 per cent by 2087 and population would reach 92.9 million. With net migration of 50,000 p.a., the dependency ration in 2087 would be 54.0 per cent and the population 74.2 million. Comparing the two scenarios, the extra migration required to reduce the 2087 dependency ratio by 3.5 percentage points (from 54.0 per cent to 50.5 per cent) adds an extra 18.7 million to the national population. To maintain this minor benefit requires continued net migration at the higher rate in perpetuity.

To maintain it for 70 years? Yes, the effects are not going to be that long; as I said before, the goods from immigration will fade away if immigration is cut (probably much sooner than 70 years).

This is how I see it though. Even if the UK and Germany want to destroy and implode their own nation by the forced influx of muslim-islamic immigrants from 3rd World Countries...let them.


And I am not being a racist here...it doesn't matter the religion or ethnicity of the immigrants.

And also, what does muslim-islamic mean? Is there Christian-islamic? Muslim-Christian? Muslim-atheist?

What I have such a problem with is the EU forcing member states (Poland, Hungary, Croatia) to take in migrants against their own wishes and the members of their nation. This is an abhorrent violation of self-determination.


Well, for one, the EU is not forcing anybody, it strongly asks them to do it, but they're not. Do you know how many Syrian refugees Poland has pledged to accept from 2016 to 2020? 100. That's 100 times smaller than Britain's 10,000; even by relativity, 50 times. In English relativity, that's powerful tiny; the northernmost, most isolated island in the British Isles, Unst, in the Shetland, has 6 times more than that. And the others are often favouring Christian migrants over Muslims on purpose, for "cultural preservation". That's awful.

Self-determination is a controversial topic, but I don't see much grounds for it, at the rate it's at. It's just divisory desk muckers; supposedly you get to determine your own fate more. Well, let me ask you, will you rule your country, or even be a politician of any kind? Will your vote even count for something? Probably not.

The EU should be a capitalist free-market union of states and not a globalized-internationalist political empire meant to rule over the continent as if they are one people and one culture. Croatia is not the UK, and certainly Belarus is not France. Laws should be country and culture-specific.


What is "one people and one culture"? What is culture? You don't even have to throw away your culture. Look at Switzerland: you can say the same thing, Genève is not Bärn, Bärn is not Zürich, Zürich is not Bellinzona, and Bellinzona is not Grischun. They are all different cultures, but what's wrong with having one law? With that kind of thinking, you better be supporting Russia with its reuniting its culture in Crimea, for Scottish and Welsh independence, and Irish unification.

I never understood how one can be a fan of football club. I mean, for me its just stupid kicking of ball and one time teams kicks more goals, sometimes the other. I think playing football is 100 times better than watching football.

Can you explain what you like about some football companys which are called clubs?


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I'll agree 100% that playing football is still more fun than watching, but there's something (I'm not exactly sure how to describe it) in supporting a football club. Why do people care so much about the country they're born in? They're 100s of countries why do we treat our native country (or the one we assimilate into) with such fervent love and nationalistic interest? Its hard to describe. I grew up on the game because my grandpa loved it so much, so it just naturally grow in me.


It's very easy to describe. Nationalism is a tool grown by native, imbedded propaganda: To believe your country is the greatest, to be brainwashed, to be ready to die "in freeing" folk from dictatorship. And I'm not talking about football (though this and sports in general are sometimes used in propaganda as well).
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 11:04:05

Pulsey
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The quality of content on this thread was still good when I posted, now its to the dogs. Amazing how fast these things go.
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 11:14:38


Riveath
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^ indeed

Jai. Your critique isn't a very diplomatic move. Especially as it's clearly not accomplishing anything. I strongly advise you calm down and breathe deeply a couple of times before posting in this thread again.
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 11:59:15


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Jai I think Liverpool fans over the last 30 years have been disgusting, the methods they used against other fans was awful but was always the first to complain that they was being targeted. They used to spike balls and throw them at the away fans.....scum. You can't say you know more than me about football as you are taking it out of context I was talking about the fans not how rich the club is obviously I know that money is poured into the big clubs just so they can buy for no reason apart from a rival wanted that player. Bayern don't stick players on the bench they use pretty much every player, from robben to badstuber. But like I was saying you took it out of context, I'd call you a scouser but then again, your American.
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 12:45:59


Ox
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Those comments against Frenchmen were way out of line.
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 13:45:50

MrHymen
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Country: The United Kingdom
Party in office : The Conservatives
Opinion: I hate them and I hate Cameron.
Next election: I will vote for labor
Most dangerous party : UKIP


Well that sums it up for me also.

Economic Left/Right: -6.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51

Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 14:01:46


Riveath
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I know, right, Ox
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 14:19:36


125ch209 
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Hahaha i just came across this. I'm sorry, i promise this is the last time i make fun of Carson (on this thread).

Ben Carson's house tour: hanging out with his buddy Jesus



http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2015/nov/07/ben-carson-house-homage-to-himself-in-pictures
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 14:29:20


Angry Panda
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Truth be told, never heard of Ben Carson until I read this thread ahah
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 16:01:42


Eklipse
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Say whatever you want about Ben Carson,he's still a better option than Trump (And Hillary).

Edited 11/8/2015 16:01:53
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 16:28:12


125ch209 
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personnaly if i were an US citizen i'd chose Hillary over any republican candidate (even if i don't particularly like her). But if i had to chose a republican candidate, i'd probably go with Kasich, he seems to be the less crazy of all. Ted Cruz is probably the most dangerous one, followed by Trump.

Edited 11/8/2015 16:28:37
Polictical Views: 11/8/2015 17:22:52


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