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By:
lux
When: 22 May 26 08:49
But identity is individual. You have a sexual identity. And yet you probably share your home with someone of a different sexual identity. It is in our very nature to shed our individuality and live with others.

I was obviously talking about ethnic identity, immutable, not who you'd like to s h a g. It is not "in our very nature" to shed that specific individuality and live with others, every multicult from history on this scale has ended in balkanisation, ethnic conflict, and authoritarian coercion to hold it together.

So, essentially all you and O'Brien *donk donk donk are left with is some fanciful utopianist abstraction, somewhere over the horizon that will never exist.
By:
saddo
When: 22 May 26 09:03
PorcupineorPineapple 21 May 26 14:10 
Ahh, strawman

A word you only ever get from social media, not the real world. Lovely.

......................................

I suspect you, and your pal, have used that word, and 'gaslighting' more than
any other pair on this forum. I've never conversed with a single person and
heard them used in real life, I agree with you there.
By:
PorcupineorPineapple
When: 22 May 26 09:05
god, you write really weirdly. Such a pseud.



Just pointing out that "identity" means lots of things. So much so, you don't actually mean identity at all. You simply mean ethnicity. And your ethnicity is only a teensy weensy part of your identity in reality. But that's all you mean. That teensy weensy part. Cos you wanna stop when you see someone with a bit more melanin and run to your safe space. Would have saved yourself so much time if you'd simply said skin colour at the start and not tie yourself in knots trying to intellectually justify it. And the point is, people of different ethnicities have lived side by side and in the same homes for centuries. Just the same as people of all different kinds of other identities have too. It is - to use your own word - an immutable characteristic of our species.


The weirdo above pointing out China and Russia not having much diversity made me laugh. Why not point out Nazi Germany too? That regime really wasn't into it. It's almost like there's a connection between barbaric, repressive regimes and diversity and you guys are pointing at the baddies and saying "hey, it hasn't worked for them. No, it never does. But maybe it would work for us... Let's be more like Russia".


Literally. Arf!
By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 09:15
People don't realise what it is saddo. For me gaslighting is a form of lying, but it is structural and evil. Just look what they did with covid and lockdowns. Vast swathes of the country were gaslit into feeling like their life was genuinely at risk. It's standard practice now, for example trying to make out yesterday that immigration id falling rapidly by gaslighting (lying), using net figures.

Just because your everyday person doesn't use the specific term gaslighting for instance, doesn't mean that a lot of them now don't recognise it. They do, in my opinion. And that has only happened since labour took office, and made the Tories look competent.
By:
PorcupineorPineapple
When: 22 May 26 09:17
God, you write weird. Such a pseud.

I was merely pointing out that identity is a multi-faceted thing. You should have just come out and said ethnicity if that's what you meant. Would have saved so much time. Just say that more melanin terrifies you and not dress it up in some pseudo-intellectual claptrap. But - to use your own word - our species is designed to live with others of different identities, it's an immutable characteristic. We have moved and settled and lived with other people for centuries. The only difference now is the affordances of being able to move around are so much bigger than before. It's not some change in our chemicals or a grand conspiracy by "them". Europeans and Americans took over half the world, taught them English and Spanish, told them how great our homelands were, and now fill their homes with films and tv shows that paint our societies as lands of opportunity, and hey guess what! Some people think that they'd like those opportunities too. You are (deliberately?) confusing a non-exisitent desire to be separate with the manipulations and power plays of warlords who will force or coerce a population to do its bidding. That's the tale as old as time.

The weirdo above going on about China and Russia as models of non-diversity made me laugh. China and Russia. Why not point out that N@zi Germany was too. That regime was really anti-diversity. I have the vision of you guys lying awake at night thinking "hey it didn't work for them, but maybe it'll work for us. Let's be more Russia". Dunno man, maybe there's some kind of link between incredibly repressive and murderous regimes and diversity.
By:
PorcupineorPineapple
When: 22 May 26 09:17
jesus, took 3 goes to get that through.



Have a look at yourselves mods
By:
PorcupineorPineapple
When: 22 May 26 09:17
And that has only happened since labour took office



LaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 09:22
Burnham is a great example imo, there is a mammoth gaslighting operation, trying to convince the public, specifically Wigan, that he is the new messiah. The one person who can save us from Nigel Farage. Originally I didn't think it would work this time, but I underestimated the scale of the effort that they would use. My hunch is that Makersfield peeps are the type that can smell sh11t, a bit like the miners in Chernobyl who know everything as they work in the dark. Certainly not as pliable as other parts of the country. But I now feel there is still a chance that the establishment wins again, sadly.
By:
Stringvest
When: 22 May 26 09:23
F  I  L  T  H
By:
sageform
When: 22 May 26 10:30
Agree with a Dixiedean post that it is the rates of change in demographics that alarm people. In my view there is too much focus on migrants at the lower end of the economic scale and not enough at the top. How many Middle Eastern billionaires own large properties in UK and consume 20 times more public services and goods than those on minimum wage. They bring in a plane load of family and servants of course. It is the total number of people that matters. They all need housing, they all need medical care, they all need food and water. Who ever they are they just increase the presuure on all of these resources. There is relatively little sign of migrants in rural Somerset but new homes are still going up in every small village and town. No new schools, new roads or new leisure facilities of course.
By:
Jumper45
When: 22 May 26 11:04

May 21, 2026 -- 1:27PM, the old nanny ;-) wrote:


Also seems plenty are coming here and then Heading to Ireland

By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 11:08
You are attributing well intentioned aims, but it has nothing to do with improving the country and everything to do with eradicating Western culture. It's not just the UK of course, but right across the west. Obviously this nonsense about bringing in students, care workers, NHS or whatever is just cover for the purpose.
By:
Jumper45
When: 22 May 26 11:10
Certainly the majority. That appears to be the consensus here in Ireland now. It was because our civil servants started to see applicants turning up to claim asylum etc in their offices in Dublin, from people who had not applied at a ferry port or airport.


The word on the street here was that had been the case for sometime. Our very liberal mainstream media made no mention of it.


You guys in the UK should count yourselves lucky you have a much more complete media landscape from left to right. We certainly don’t.
By:
PorcupineorPineapple
When: 22 May 26 11:10
I'm not sure how you're supposed to have a conversation, never mind argue a point when some people have so clearly lost the plot entirely (11.08)
By:
Escapee
When: 22 May 26 11:24
Thought this thread would be full of Refuk supporters cheering on Starmer, saying well done, he's
got the numbers down.
By:
rothko
When: 22 May 26 11:31
down to the size of 2 wembley stadiums at a time when unemployment is rising and resident doctors are striking because there are no jobs for them

i havent an issue with immigration if there are jobs and a skills gap but its been and still is too high

Lets build more houses on green belt but not in my back yard obviouisy
By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 11:40
The provisional estimate for total long-term immigration YE December 2025 is 813000.

yes, well done Starmer Plain
By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 11:41
These are the legal estimates, so it will actually be over 1 million.
By:
lapsy pa
When: 22 May 26 12:40
Straight question, what is it people want? No argument with those on free gaffs and straight on benefits but what about the rest? None? Deport all migrants? Some people will have different goals but what are the predominant ones?
By:
----you-have-to-laugh---
When: 22 May 26 13:12
Cider crying, and getting loopier as the days go by.

Lost his position at work, spammed forum for clients,
now spending more and more time diving down the koolaid mine
By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 18:09
Lots of new arrivals today, enjoying the nice weather.
By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 18:25
Straight question, what is it people want?

It's very simple, stop importing people.

At the same time we need to give training places to UK born people instead of foreigners. Especially in the medical space.

At the same time we need to pull the plus on non sensical 'in work' benefits that have the impact of incentivising people to work less.
By:
Cider
When: 22 May 26 18:26
This fekking forum, pull the plug
By:
lux
When: 22 May 26 19:17
Just say that more melanin terrifies you and not dress it up in some pseudo-intellectual claptrap.

Yea, I mean the only meaningful difference that would occur between genetically distinct populations inhabiting completely different environments, experiencing completely different selection pressures for thousands of years is skin colour.  Laugh

And the point is, people of different ethnicities have lived side by side and in the same homes for centuries.

Name one large-scale multicultural society in history — with real regional and civilisational diversity — that sustained itself for over 100 years without eventually balkanising, falling into serious ethnic conflict, or relying on authoritarian coercion to hold it together.

I’ll give you a clue there isn’t one.
By:
tobermory
When: 23 May 26 21:46
People aren't concerned with 'net migration' but with massive immigration from the third world.

Which continues relentlessly (though probably down on the Boris-Sunak peak).
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