Can you provide a link to that forum?
Ukraine Crisis
Well, nowadays the only time you're going to have an intelligent conversation with someone is when you talk to yourselfGalilee66 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:36 amKai,
I have no problem with controversy - in fact, i would welcome rational discourse on topics of interest. My comment was not directed at you - my concerns centre on the meaningless exchanges and posts that are probably better suited to the "Twitterverse" than this forum. When I started trading in 2007 BA did not have a forum, so I read the forum on a rival trading app. Unfortunately, that forum descended into vitriolic and bitter exchanges, and then sunk even lower when posts of pornographic material appeared. I am far from prudish, but I fail to see why a post on a forum has to begin with an expletive. Some 10 years ago it was possible to engage in interesting and respectful discussion on many topics - even with the legendary Jeff.I would have thought that there would be enough intelligent people on this forum to be able to discuss topics at a more elevated level than has appeared recently.
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The answer is simple on most forms of social media and that is just to ignore the stuff you dislike or don't want to participate in.Galilee66 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:36 amKai,
I have no problem with controversy - in fact, i would welcome rational discourse on topics of interest. My comment was not directed at you - my concerns centre on the meaningless exchanges and posts that are probably better suited to the "Twitterverse" than this forum. When I started trading in 2007 BA did not have a forum, so I read the forum on a rival trading app. Unfortunately, that forum descended into vitriolic and bitter exchanges, and then sunk even lower when posts of pornographic material appeared. I am far from prudish, but I fail to see why a post on a forum has to begin with an expletive. Some 10 years ago it was possible to engage in interesting and respectful discussion on many topics - even with the legendary Jeff.
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I chat on threads I want to engage in and ignore others. I see a whole load of rubbish on twitter, but just ignore it.
I've come to the conclusion that you can't change peoples minds, so you just let them fall into the echo chamber of dispair while you get on with real life.
I wasn't really posting, but was keeping an eye on thread for exactly this to happen.
Anybody who is somehow proposing an acceptable reason for this war is completely out of touch with reality and the general mood. Though, that people do this is interesting in itself. It's probably a reflection on previous times in history this sort of thing has happened.
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I wonder how far the FTSE100 will drop this week?
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Was at the supermarket this morning and after the cashier told me the cost of my groceries she asked if I wanted to donate €2 to the Irish Red Cross appeal for Ukraine. I wonder if some of those who posted comments overnight would have had the courage of their convictions in the same situation. Would they have head butted the cashier and started to sing the Russian National Anthem? Or even say no thanks and walk away? I doubt it. More likely they would have just said "yes of course", then complained to themselves and any captive audience they might have elsewhere before going on an internet forum and venting their spleen.
Why did that start off like an episode of Derek
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I think some credit is due to the forum, there seems to be an improvement in that people are slightly less emotive about the planned war than the plandemic. The CGI and actors may be losing their effectiveness on the propaganda news.
It's difficult to rationalise with an emotional trader because they will just keep clicking to back the 3.0 crossover no matter what you say, more red pills are needed and the crossover-laying red pill coach has enough to go around on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ONdI2fZ6s
It's difficult to rationalise with an emotional trader because they will just keep clicking to back the 3.0 crossover no matter what you say, more red pills are needed and the crossover-laying red pill coach has enough to go around on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ONdI2fZ6s
After days of trying to understand why Putin has done this.
This morning I had exactly the same thought you expressed there.
What Putin has done is nuts. No gain for anybody and in fact everybody loses. Utterly pointless and damaging. It's such a massive regression in world politics.
Like most things in history, the ordinary people lose but the leaders have a lot to gain.greenmark wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:09 pmAfter days of trying to understand why Putin has done this.
This morning I had exactly the same thought you expressed there.
What Putin has done is nuts. No gain for anybody and in fact everybody loses. Utterly pointless and damaging. It's such a massive regression in world politics.
Good for:
Politicians so they can blame someone else to avoid backlash for the rising cost of living.
Politicians defence contracts and weapon company shares.
Making people forget the partygate saga and restoring faith in government.
Making people forget the callous policies of the last 2 years such as those which saw many of the elderly die alone, and the knockon effects of the lockdowns e.g. mental health crisis and small business destruction.
Covering up the collapse of the NHS and failures of the test & jab programs, which people spent their whole life paying towards.
Making people forgot about Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell's shenanigans.
Further destabilising the western economies and supply chains so that more people have to rely on government.
Misdirection from the many authoritarian laws about to be put in place such as the Online Safety Bill.
Basically using fear to profit from and change society to the way the globalists want.
Remember that Putin has ties to the west and they have recently declared they will be working together to tackle issues at the global level
https://forumspb.com/en/news/news/russi ... us-schwab/
https://www.weforum.org/press/2021/10/r ... n-network/