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Also, this whole matter really didn't start with the BLM movement and definitely didn't end with it either. Those consequences spoken of have been there for centuries, not years. It's only really been recently that the big power imbalances between various groups has even begun to be discussed, much less actually addressed.

And that's entirely understandable given what's been said and shown. It does show though how easy it is for decent people to be driven to anger to do indecent things by information that isn't necessarily 100% accurate, and perhaps more folks should keep that in mind. I think the plot is actually quite well-advertised and planned. They want to incite a race war with the goal of an ethnostate at the end of it.

If this is verbatim, I'm a little surprised. Perhaps a little self-preservation and fear does exist beneath all those layers of orange.

Fair points well made. I guess we'll see what happens.

Bashir over Ahmed for the first Test. Hmmmm...

Don't forget inconsistent Test cricket performances, usually weather-interrupted.

On the topic of consequences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-54f4e985-a7fb-48b2-8246-f3be0d699402 A new phase of the natural El Niño weather pattern could begin in a matter of weeks, the UN has warned, boosting temperatures on a planet already under strain from climate change. The World Meteorological Organization said this El Niño is likely to strengthen over the rest of 2026, driving more extreme weather around much of the globe. Several forecasts from national weather agencies suggest it could end up as one of the strongest ever recorded - a possible so-called “super” El Niño. Welcome to the future, people. Arriving ahead of schedule.

It's not even ironic IMO - it's the exact intent. Division, leading to conflict and eventual "victory" in the form of an ethnostate.

As long as there are those who want and advocate for enclaved ethnostates and they have enough power to make themselves heard and drive both people and policy, it won't, sadly.

This. It's straight out of the playbook of his master.

Absolutely, but I don't think anyone should pretend the system hasn't needed changing in this regard given events in the past in the UK alone.

I strongly doubt that Floyd was the sole or even biggest influence there. The murder of Stephen Lawrence shone a light on the behaviour of police towards minority groups, but there are many other examples in the past as well. Don't get me wrong, the procedure clearly went horribly wrong here, but as I said before, balance is both difficult and imperative on this matter and there are far too many voices apparently clamouring for the pendulum to swing way back in the opposite direction.

... which was likewise derived from political manipulation in the past which meant those minority groups got little to no protection at all. The whole thing goes back a long time and finding a balance is bloody difficult.

First rule of Internet news browsing on practically any story: Don't read the comments. Of course, a lot of places keep comments open for the sake of farming outrage for clicks. Sadly, that was inevitable in this case.

Key two sentences, there.

It's unfortunate, but the wider, sane world knows the score, and knows who has blood on their hands from ignoring that score for their own self interested ends. Of course, more unfortunately there appears to be a gap between knowing responsibility and actually being able to hold those responsible accountable for that blood.

If that's true, then the second outcome given above appears inevitable.

I think there's only two ways things can really end up on this topic. Either someone somehow develops a system to detect AI digital output with accuracy as close to perfect as possible that can be applied in every necessary situation, or all such digital evidence will end up being seen as unusable or inadmissible as evidence for anything, with all the consequences that entails. Seems like the debate about "Correction" in The Capture is only the start of it.

Or any other party whos policy platform plays to that 28.5% on this matter.

Yep, and the primary driver of those extreme swings is the increased overall average temperature. And the consequences of those have barely even begun to be felt. That sounds about right. And, as said above, such consequences have barely begun to be truly felt. I should also point out now that the poll we have here is roughly in line with general UK polling on the matter. The problem - and the fatal mistake - would be a government making policy in the name of the 28.5% on this matter, rather than the 71.5%.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v2yv5207xo More record breaking! Growth is good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9we24n4lgvo When this actually has to be stated and "proven", you wonder whether scientific decision and policymaking really should be left up to the democratic process.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye34k7yejo More "Might Makes Right" bollocks from Kegsbreath, dressed up in more weasel word platitudes than normal.

Absolutely no disagreement whatsoever there. I fear it's not just the judiciary who are stuck in those dark ages or seek to return to them, either.

Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller. Again.

I'm not sure, given even a cursory look at history, that is in any way a new phenomenon.