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  • in reply to: Russian Tensions #233040
    Bijou Drains
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    TS, well just for starters there is the speech Putin made in February 2022:

    “they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature. This is not going to happen.” Do you, TS, believe that homosexuality is contrary to human nature and that it leads to degradation and degeneration?

    in 2013 The Russian state passed a “gay propaganda” (Their quote) ban arguing that promotion of LGBT rights was harmful to children. (Do you think that the promotion of LGBT rights is harmful to children?)

    The Russian Justice Ministry retorted that the “anti-gay propaganda” laws “have the sole purpose of protecting morals and health of children.” Cleary this conflates homosexuality with child abuse.

    Do you agree with Putin that children can be “taught that a boy can become a girl and vice versa” is monstrous and “on the verge of a crime against humanity.” Quoted and backed up with video footage by the FT.

    in 2015 Russia also introduced a driving ban prohibiting people with “sexual disorders” including people who were transexual or transgender. Do you approve those bans TS?

    Do you, TS, agree with the statement of Yelena Mizulina Chairman of The Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, that “Traditional sexual relations are relations between a man and a woman. These relations need special protection”.

    Perhaps you also agree with her stance on decriminalising Domestic Violence catagorised as “first assaults which cause less serious injuries”

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    in reply to: Russian Tensions #233035
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    So, Just to check TS, do you approve of Putin’s discriminatory stance towards non heterosexual people or not? Pretty straight question, should provide a pretty straight answer (no pun intended)

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #232973
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    During both the first period of the 1940 agreement (February 11, 1940, to February 11, 1941) and the second (February 11, 1941, until the Pact was broken), Germany received:

    1,600,000 tons of grain
    900,000 tons of oil
    200,000 tons of cotton
    140,000 tons of manganese
    200,000 tons of phosphates
    20,000 tons of chrome ore
    18,000 tons of rubber
    100,000 tons of soybeans
    500,000 tons of iron ore
    300,000 tons of scrap metal and pig iron
    2,000 kilograms of platinum

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #232948
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    No doubt the Putin loving True Scotsman would have at least supported Hitler’s oppression of gay people.

    in reply to: Cost of living crisis #232921
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    “I don’t profess to have a “permanent” solution to this or any other problem of capitalism and neither do you”

    The Socialist Party have never proposed a solution to the problems of capitalism, because they don’t exist.

    Our planet and it’s people are on the edge of obliteration through pollution, global warming, nuclear war, not to mention international and civil way, a global food and energy crisis and ongoing poverty, whilst the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, yet you believe that it’s worthwhile to come up with a put forward but futile adjustments to the condition of things.

    Socialism is based on a underpinning knowledge of the nature of capitalistic society, a practical analysis of the reasons why we are on the edge of obliteration and reasonable and well argued solutions to crisis we face. If you don’t want to face up to the hard miles that are needed to help the working class break free from their ideological blinkers, that’s your choice. But to impugn those of us who are working hard to take on that difficult task makes you complicit in the crisis that we face.

    The “cost of living crisis” you speak about is actually a “likelihood of existence crisis”. If we don’t (you included) start acting to change the economic system that has produced the crisis, then we may as well kiss our lives and our children and our children’s children’s lives away.

    The fact that you have engaged with us and have considered some of the arguments we have put forward, indicates that you have an interest in being part of the solution. We need active and considered people like you to join us in the struggle, why not be part of that work, rather than criticise us?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #232908
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    Our Caledonian correspondent appears to be very interested in figures of authority, men in uniform and masturbation. I’m not suggesting that there is a link, but………………

    in reply to: Queen is dead #232779
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    No Doubt the unions have taken the view that the right wing press would have a field day if they didn’t postpone the strikes. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour

    in reply to: Queen is dead #232772
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    Thank god for Netflix.

    in reply to: Why our approach fails to appeal. #232721
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    To be fair, ex comrade Marratty put loads of work into youtube sites and other audio visual activities and got stymied on lots of occasions.

    in reply to: Why our approach fails to appeal. #232711
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    I think that a coordinated approach such as a campaigns week where members can work together across electronic media in a cooperative way would be a better approach to this.

    I often use the Have Your Say section of the BBC News site, which often stimulates decent discussion, but wich often gets swamped because I am the only one supporting Socialism.

    Having three or four members (or more) agreeing to come on line at the same time and concentrate on an agreed group of forums, news sites, social media sites all at the same time, supporting each others comments, adding to the comments, giving each other up votes etc. could be a very succefful strategy.

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    in reply to: 26th August // Day of Action #232557
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    Bye bye, man cub

    in reply to: Cost of living crisis #232555
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    Thank you so much for your insightful political discourse, your delightful bons mots and for sharing your sparkling intellect (sarcasm alert, sarcasm alert)

    in reply to: 26th August // Day of Action #232551
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    I’ll take that as meaning you have no answers then.

    in reply to: 26th August // Day of Action #232549
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    Perhaps you should invest some money on a rail ticket that takes you further north than Watford.

    Or even more challenging answer the political arguments that challenge your reformist agenda

    in reply to: Cost of living crisis #232548
    Bijou Drains
    Participant

    You clearly don’t “know nothing about me” to quote a phrase, if you think that your puerile comments hit a nerve.

    I’m just thrilled to see that you’re as ignorant about culture and geography as you are about politics.

    But I suppose it’s better for you to take the Boris Johnson “throw a dead cat on the table” and distract the discussion, rather than discuss your increasingly exposed political position.

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