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In: Brexit  — view comment
How would you characterise the Soros funded campaign by the elites to undermine democracy?
January 19, 2019 at 12:57
In: Brexit  — view comment
How do you think Brexit might be stopped?
January 18, 2019 at 22:44
In: Brexit  — view comment
Under UK Law, a no-deal Brexit is the default, and will happen, unless something better is agreed. 700,000 German jobs depend on selling goods to UK.
January 18, 2019 at 22:22
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Hysterical claptrap. UK trades profitably with the rest of the world under WTO, and many countries lining up for a trade deal, including USA, Japan, a...
January 18, 2019 at 22:20
In: Brexit  — view comment
There is provision for extending the A50 notice in the Withdrawal Act. But how long would the EU be willing to grant the extension for? And, as far as...
January 18, 2019 at 19:55
In: Brexit  — view comment
How can Brexit be stopped? By law, EU treaties cease to apply to UK on 29th March.
January 18, 2019 at 19:20
In: Brexit  — view comment
Brexit can be delayed with EU permission, but there are mixed signals from EU whether they would give permission and for how long. They have already a...
January 18, 2019 at 14:35
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I also find it deeply amusing that UK is forced to be a member of WTO by the EU, yet still manages to have more representation on WTO than the EU Comm...
January 18, 2019 at 12:23
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I find it rather amusing that the UK has more representation on the WTO than it does on the EU Commission.
January 18, 2019 at 12:04
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UK is only managing a net immigration from EU of 74,000 per anum at the moment. The 248,000 from elsewhere will help take up the slack. I don't think ...
January 18, 2019 at 11:40
In: Brexit  — view comment
UK citizens already have to register their residence in Finland, and demonstrate they have sufficient funds to support themselves and their family. Sa...
January 18, 2019 at 10:59
In: Brexit  — view comment
As I said, UK already trades under WTO (where the EU will allow). In fact, Germany's single largest trading partner is China, with which it trades mos...
January 18, 2019 at 10:49
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UK is a signatory to WTO, and trades with the rest of the world on those terms. UK actually runs a trade surplus under WTO. According to WTO rules, tr...
January 18, 2019 at 09:56
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This is strange, because paying £13billion in fees annually, £4billion in fish, £4billion in benefits to EU citizens, to maintain a £95billion deficit...
January 18, 2019 at 09:38
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Democracy is a catastrophe for those whose plans don't support it.
January 17, 2019 at 22:03
Just Google it. Christianity is 600 years older than Islam. They may pay the jizya.
January 17, 2019 at 22:02
Millennia? 400 million doesn't matter to you because they are Indian? Don't mention the Yazidi either. Christians are being genocided in the Middle Ea...
January 17, 2019 at 21:46
Mexico has one, and no one is calling them racist for constructing it.
January 17, 2019 at 18:06
How about let's not cast baseless smears just because we don't like secure borders?
January 17, 2019 at 18:01
I provided a link to a study that the annual cost of illegals is £135 billion. There was a study in 2013 that put the cost at $54 billion. A lot will ...
January 17, 2019 at 14:03
The Quran is pretty successful at inciting violence. Where shall we begin, the greatest genocide in human history, or perhaps a more recent genocide? ...
January 17, 2019 at 12:55
The figure is $18billion a year on healthcare for illegals. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2018/02/26/how-american-citizens-finance-health...
January 17, 2019 at 12:47
Sure, everyone who wishes to promote illegal immigration will rely on their favourite fallacy, but the problem could be much bigger than official figu...
January 17, 2019 at 12:45
It's not a secret, and there are many sources. The number of illegals is 10 million: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/28/5-facts-about-ill...
January 17, 2019 at 11:40
Welfare provision acts as a magnet for poorly educated, low IQ migrants, and if they are illegal immigrants, they by definition don't respect the law....
January 17, 2019 at 10:26
Maybe it was Obama's other scandals, failures, debt, and wars that the *White* evangelicals disapproved of? Perhaps when their children are brought ba...
January 17, 2019 at 09:58
Absolutely, and that is why James Watson was stripped of his titles and had his Twitter account restricted, because he is those things. And one of tho...
January 17, 2019 at 07:55
Sure, because they give the Ellis Island Medal to racists.
January 16, 2019 at 21:38
So, you think questioning loyalty in general, is racist?
January 16, 2019 at 21:30
Do in-group preferences exist?
January 16, 2019 at 21:18
Why is it racist to observe that in-group preferences exist?
January 16, 2019 at 18:55
The universe is completely stationary, just like the block-universe of general relativity, except this one (probably best to give it a more appropriat...
January 15, 2019 at 20:46
No, I can't explain how models like the Wheeler-DeWitt equation are come by, but I can point our a rather beautiful feature of such models. In the Whe...
January 15, 2019 at 08:45
Time is like that. Clock-like objects exist, and we can measure the passing of time using them, but time itself is not an observable - there is no tim...
January 14, 2019 at 14:57
I don't think the definition is circular, but if you seek a re-formulation, you could express the same idea by stating that the universe is a static 4...
January 14, 2019 at 09:30
Realist no-collapse theories are Many Worlds theories and are objectively deterministic but subjectively indeterministic. Copenhagen is an anti-realis...
January 14, 2019 at 08:08
Not quite. QM without collapse is a fully deterministic theory. A coin might not provide the probabilities you seek, but a quantum bit generator would...
January 14, 2019 at 07:38
Despite it being refuted, and impossible to relativise. Your attitude is isomorphic to those who adhere to geocentricism and the flat Earth.
January 13, 2019 at 14:56
Bohmian mechanics has been refuted so many times, it is getting boring. Physicists don't even mention wavefunction collapse anymore anyway. For the Co...
January 13, 2019 at 14:11
If it's a substance, won't it just be subsumed into physics, and become part of material reality? In De Broglie-Bohm, the hidden variables are the par...
January 13, 2019 at 13:34
Except it doesn't when there is nothing in the way. Looking out to sea, or across a desert, the Earth looks curved. Then of course there is the phenom...
January 13, 2019 at 11:09
I think you might be underestimating the situation in England, where hate-crimes are defined by the criterion that someone perceives your motivation t...
January 13, 2019 at 09:18
While I think it very clever of philosophers to discover and take a "stance" on these matters, there simply is no choice but to be a B-theorist since ...
January 13, 2019 at 09:00
It's a shame Lysenko rarely gets a mention, though.
January 12, 2019 at 16:51
Well, both the Church of England and the Catholic Church have declared evolution and big-bang to be compatible with their beliefs. Also it is instruct...
January 12, 2019 at 16:31
It is true that Communism's approach to apostasy is similar to some religions, but in a European context, there are no religions like that. There are ...
January 12, 2019 at 15:51
Sure, Communism sought to destroy religion and commit genocide on an unimaginable scale, because it was religious in nature. Is the sort of absurd pos...
January 12, 2019 at 15:24
The flow of time is not a feature of Newtonian mechanics, quantum mechanics, relativity, or biology. Despite Newton being an A-theorist. Can you point...
January 12, 2019 at 14:40
I don't think our understanding relies on the flow of time though. This flow didn't even appear in Newton's theories, despite the fact that he claimed...
January 12, 2019 at 13:33
This is known as the B-Theory of space.
January 12, 2019 at 12:59