Benguin

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When you say recently do you mean in the last 4 weeks? If your job role changes as a result of a restructure, you should be given a trial period in the new role, 4 weeks I believe. If the job is not sufficiently similar to your old role, you have a legal claim for redundancy. Sounds like if you’re out of your depth it’s not sufficiently similar.

The Trump effect

I will make a provocative post this time because I feel this situation warrants it. If you experience this with a lot of people have you considered that you do not know the difference between disagreement and ignorance. Again more than open for any examples (via PM mind to avoid continued thread derailment)

Can I at least ask you why you bother ever posting a viewpoint or engaging in debate if thats your attitude? It seems to me like you’re suggesting that dissenting views are not welcome which would make debate futile. I know people don’t like some of my views but none of my views are uncommon or unpopular in the wider world. You’re the first to quote me with a scoffing comment but always seem to take this approach, particularly when asked for examples or evidence. Maybe you should consider just using a laughing emoji to my posts like the others who want their view heard but aren’t open to debate.

In your last post. You said: How can someone who prefers Trump say no need for name calling 🤣

Whine? My post was a happy one, I’m glad Kamala lost. Im responding to people whining about my posts

When did I say I support Trump’s name calling?

Can you give 1 example of something I persistently and intentionally ignored? I may well have not replied to everyone that was engaging me, I have a life and am not able to commit lots of time on here and given pro Trump was the dissenting view, there was a lot of posts to respond too.

Dissenting views are obviously unpopular, no need to name call though, that’s more of a reason for a ban imo.

Can’t post in the elections thread as I’m banned for whatever reason but pleased to see Kamala lost!

Although I use it a lot i actually really hate the terms left/right as I think it’s wrong to base your view on one thing as a determined for what your view should be on another. I have some views that I wont post because it will cause uproar that would be deemed very right wing and I have some that would be deemed very left wing. I find the most black and white people to be those who blindly latch on to every view that falls within their wider political camp and won’t stray from them so as to avoid straying from the whole camp.

Don’t have any data on this and you might well be right but i think you’re conflating a belief that it is a problem but not the biggest decision making issue of their voting choices to a complete disregard of the issue. Having said what I said, there are lots of issues that are higher on my list for deciding who to vote for than climate change and that is largely down to the fact that I am responsible for my own carbon footprint (of which I’m convinced is lower than Greta Thunberg’s), an unbelief that we live in a country big enough to matter when we have the Asia problem and an innate selfishness that I think is prevalent in most if not all people.

Got a few Matt Haig books recently as was recommended to me. Read The midnight library which I enjoyed, read the Life impossible which was all right and just started How to stop time. I really like subtle fantasy/sci fi so these are right up my street in terms of concept but not the best delivery imo. Any other recommendations welcome, for guidance one of my fave books was Jonathan strange and mr Norrel

Don’t think you are digging at me personally but I would love to know if you are, what argument I haven’t accepted when provided with proof. That is fundamentally the definition of stupidity and I may not be the smartest in the room but I will always believe what the truth reveals. I would be willing to claim I have probably changed my views directly because of this at least at an above average rate and certainly considerably more than what can reasonably be inferred by some posters on here. I have gone full circle on a number of political and societal issues as an example: originally believing immigration, particularly illegal is a cancer and now subscribing to a view on immigration that would be left of the likes of James Obrian I have believed that religion is the biggest plague to society and that belief in God is the stupidest thing you can do to believing in God and realising the folly of not. I have believed that Labour are the only party that should ever be trusted to run the country to believing they are the same as all the others, liars. I have believed that climate change is a false flag and will change regardless of what we do to realising that it is a serious issue and will continue to create new challenges in our immediate future and be a significant problem for future generations. My worldview, particularly with politics is more fickle than the average Leicester fans belief in some of the players.

There’s no point to anything in your worldview so not concerned by your attack.

It doesn’t matter how many times I say I din’t think Trump is good, all people hear is that I love everything about him and am starting a Trump cult.

I think the evidence that the left wing media and politicians incited the assassination attempts in Trump are stronger than the evidence Trump incited violence on January 6th. That said I don’t think either were incitement and my bar for what constitutes incitement is probably very different to yours. Nit sure what you mean by the second point? Forgive my ignorance but do you mean climate change? If so, its important but relatively futile until we have a globalist world. Until Asia are playing ball we are just fumbling in the dark on climate change.

Firstly you don’t seem to understand the word bold. Below would be an example of bold: I am voting for Trump because I love him and think he is amazing and I vehemently support him. That’s not what I said, I said I would vote Trump because the alternative option is incompetence and his first presidency wasn’t as bad as people predicted. I caveated that by saying its amazing how the USA has been incapable of nominating decent candidates in recent years. The implication being, as you well know, that I don’t think Trump is great. It’s interesting you talk about religion as that is one of the predominant reasons I dislike Trump. I feel a leader should be above reproach and Trump is very immoral in many reasons. Voting in todays day and age where immoral, incompetent, deceitful candidates tend to get top if the list is far less about voting because you support someone and far more about voting for the lesser of two evils. my post is more about why this shouldn’t happen and we shouldn’t cultishly follow a candidate in the way the right do for Trump and the left do for Kamala. We should stand up and call out the bad in both of them. So there is no filing anything away thank you very much!

I agree, it forces to people to chose between incompetence and a meme and then when you chose the meme people point out that you are choosing a meme and its like, yeah I know, he’s not great - I don’t like him but I like her less and then they are like why do you like him so much and then you’re like I don’t and on and on it goes.

It’s crazy how people can read something and then immediately seize to remember what they read.

I disagree that I should not be permitted to frame a debate when I am making a claim, no point debating for something I don’t actually think. This is not debate club. I will frame the debate to avoid “dumping” from the other side. I assume you have no problem with my first claim that Donald trump is utterly ridiculous, so let’s start with my second claim that Kamala is incompetent. By this I am implying to be president, I am sure she has competence at some aspects of life. To determine her competency to be in office we should look at the following: What is her track record? How has her campaign been? Kamala should have ran her campaign by doubling down on what’s worked these last 4 years and being critical of what hasn’t and making a point that once she is in office she will address that. She should have been brave and answered hard questions. She should have done more interviews. Instead she ran a campaign on deception, DEI and parroting others. Trump is winning in the polls not because of his competence but because his Kamala vs Kamala campaign is effective! Looking at very left leaning articles to find tangible achievements from her Vice Presidency has proved really difficult. I don’t believe she has demonstrated that she will be effective in office. Keen to hear why you think she will be?

Foxestalk poster logic in response to dissenting view: Step 1: Ignore at least 50% of the post in question. Step 2: Construct a straw man to argue with Step 3: Link response to known but irrelevant opinions of poster to try and make them seem hypocritical. Step 4: double down so that any chance of reasonable engagement is out of the question. If you are expecting an appologetic for Donald Trump from me then you didn’t read my post. I made four claims: 1. Donald Trump is ridiculous 2. Kamala is incompetent 3. Donald Trumps first term wasn’t as disastrous as predicted when compared to KPI’s I care about. (Important to note that doesn’t mean it was good, or free from problems) 4. The USA has had a bad track record in recent years of fielding terrible candidates for presidency. now thats out there - which one do you want to engage on?

Trump is utterly ridiculous but he’d get my vote for the following reasons: 1. Kamala is incompetent 2. The line - “you are going to put that cartoon in charge of the nuclear weapons” doesn’t really have credibility since he has already had a term and seemed to do all right. Shame that the USA has been incapable of nominating decent candidates in recent history though.