Chris Hughes

I think you might have scored a point there, Baden. Good shot!

The chatbot is heavily armoured. He just keeps going.

Careful. If you carry on like that, shining the sunlight of reason, the vampire chatbot will explode. (I'm hoping the pieces don't fall on me.)

— Terrapin Station Think instead of Star Trek’s United Earth government, which ended poverty, disease and war within fifty years.

As for Labour’s Brexit policy, it guarantees a second referendum, which would produce a more informed decision, and would therefore move the national ...

The Corbynite far Left is, at least nominally, openly on the side of the people. The Johnson/Cummings far Right is secretly on the side of the super-r...

A vampire? Trolls don't oppose opinion, they distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory messages with the intent of normalizing tangential discu...

Blanket cynicism is understandable but is ultimately the philososphy of despair. Informed optimism lets us see a way through the mess.

No, I meant that the Count prescribes no race-based social engineering at all because, supposedly, it's based on a false distinction. (Hence, supposed...

According to the OP, it's to be colourblind, meaning (according to the OP) not being racist. I suppose the OP has a point, whatever suspicion of alt-r...

If the manifestation of DNA has meaning, what might it mean? That life is an experiment? A gift?

Perhaps the OP is a chatbot.

Nosferatu's a clever alt-right troll. Posing as anti-racist to argue against identity politics and "racial" affirmative action. Very calm, though. Lik...

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He's gone quiet...

Re "NOS4A2", nosferatu is a word used in Bram Stoker's Dracula for the blood-sucking undead humans better known as vampires. It's also the title of a ...

I think the original post is an alt-right troll bomb. Good discussion, though.

Don't feed the troll.

Clever.

It quacks like a duck. It smells like alt-right white supremacism mischievously disguised as confused liberalism.

He's not the OP.

Given the history of slavery, yes.

Re Labour’s planned deal: customs union, probably: single market, definately not (unless you count "close alignment").

That sounds remarkably like alt-rightism.

That's true. However, googling produces many articles about conservatives misusing King's "Dream" speech to justify ignoring racism. Eg: https://www.t...

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King said he didn't want his children judged by the colour of their skin. He never said he wanted the colour of their skin to be ignored.

Are you being ironic or genuine? Presumably one or the other. If genuine, I apologise. I think we humans are all racist. Or rather, we're all instinct...

Don't you think Labour's six-month plan - get a new deal, followed by a second referendum - would take a significant amount of heat out of the dichoto...

You should be ashamed of yourself. To be racist is to indulge in bullying, based on a redundant anti-stranger instinct. Pseudo-scientific racism is ev...

Oh, yes. How about: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/the-myth-of-trumps-colorblindness/594124/

No.

It's easy for you - you're colour-blind! ;-)

I came to the same conclusion myself - but it's difficult to practise. The scenario is that you're describing a person of colour to a third party, and...

I wouldn't say Corbyn is a master strategist or a great leader, but somehow he stays upright, like that toy.

Hey! I'll take that.

A swing to the left is perhaps inevitable in the face of ever-increasing inequity. Corbyn says: His "anger" explanation for the leave vote is wrong, b...

Good question by the OP. My answer is: we're back-pedalling on being "colour-blind" because "colour-blindness" has been co-opted by racists. White ant...

Yes, back to Brexit. (Except there is a connection between Brexit and the climate crisis: the super-rich, who benefit from neo-liberalism and presumab...

I don't despair about the populist right. It appeals to the neglected precariat. They could be rescued from neglect, and the means is practical rather...

Farage has been an elected member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England since 1999. Gut feelings exist on both sides and can't be di...

Exaggerated claims and counter-claims have been made by both sides. There's a lot of uncertainty concealed on both sides by unwaranted confidence. The...

Unicorn.... Its hard to drop the tropes of oppositional discourse, isnt it?

Perhaps it's possible to argue that leaving is "something worse" without hostility and "othering".

O'Brien seems fair and well informed. However, proving leave arguments "wrong" only increases national disunity. The reason for remaining is that all ...

In the 2015 general election UK premier David Cameron expected to need another coalition with the Liberal Democrats and he expected them to block his ...

There's no future in the dichotomy.

My point is that in the interest of national unity, those who, like me, hope to remain must acknowledge the validity of the criticism of the EU made b...

However, in the interests of harmony, Farage shouldn't be demonised. He should be acknowledged as representing the valid views of Eurosceptics. Some o...

The allegorical aligator being US corporations...