Or someone could post left wing positions to balance the thread out, but saying that it should be about the position not the political stance of person making it.
Never heard of Kotaku, do you have a link of the brexit post in question? I might want to pay them a visit
kotaku is (meant to be) a blog on anime, toys, vidya that kind of stuff, and it used to be, but during brexit and the election their left wing was showing, the post that got me banned from comments was an extreme doomsaying baitey post saying those who voted brexit have shot the country in the foot, with no thought of the interests of those who voted to remain, you know, the typical dressing brexiteers as bogeymen turned up to 11.Never heard of Kotaku, do you have a link of the brexit post in question? I might want to pay them a visit
It occurs to me that might be more down to the lack of posters and therefore the lack of divergent opinions. I mean I'd rather this thread didn't become the AUKN equivalent of the "I Say/You Say" radio show from GTA San Andreas with the majority of it being me and Ken, but I can't make other people post their opinions as much as I might like to hear them.
And this might be why there aren't so many posters. I know people on AUKN are capable of reasonable and intelligent discussion on serious topics, but for whatever reason less people seem inclined to share them now than in times gone by. I'll admit the fear of being flamed or insulted doesn't really enter into my decision whether to post or not because I really don't care very much what people say to (or about) me, though I appreciate others do. However the scope of discussion with so few posters does make me less inclined to attempt to discuss things in any depth. So often I just won't even try because I don't think the discussion is going to go anywhere.
There's the saying "friends who want to stay friends don't discuss religion or politics" but I'd say friends who can't disagree about those things and still remain friends aren't very good friends. The one caveat to that though is that friends should also treat each other's opinions with respect. And I hope (as Teapot mentioned) that we are friends here because we know each other better than say, faceless commentators on news articles who flame and antagonise each other all day long.
It is incredibly dodgy for the Home Office to do this now, especially to people who arrived as children and who've never known any other country than the UK as their home. If they'd pursued people for breaking immigration law at the time they might have had a point, but to leave it for 50-60 years and then start trying to prosecute or deport people is mad. What on earth can doing this possibly hope to achieve other than to possibly make black people feel unwelcome? Is there any kind of thought process that goes into this at all, or is it just box-ticking bureaucracy at its finest? There should definitely be a statute of limitations on something like this - We certainly shouldn't be targeting middle-aged to elderly people who've lived their entire lives here.
Funnily enough his antagonistic and derisive attitude towards the media is one of the few things I like about him. That and all this recent talk about undermining the "rules-based international economic order" and the WTO and diminishing America's role in the world, those all sound like things I'd specifically put in a manifesto
Never!!Wow, my post got moved to this thread fairly quickly, and now it's completely out of context, like a post out of nowhere, lol... oh well! Enjoy it anyway!
