The rise in suicide in women means important people might actually give a shit. Male suicide is our own fault for not smashing the patriarchy or something.
You can't fault them for selling debts on and pretending that those debts would never have to be paid? You're either very forgiving of such dangerous stupidity or so wedded to the "free" market that you think that businesses that nearly brought down the world economy should be allowed to continue doing stupid stuff.
France paid more to the EU than we did last year and Italy weren't far behind either. It's not just us and Germany, and even if it was, our 12 billion Euros wouldn't keep Greece going for more than a couple of months so I've no idea where you're going with that one.
I agree that no bank should be too big to fail and I didn't agree with my government propping up private companies. There is a regulatory barrier to entry, but then banks have proven time and again that they can't be trusted with other people's money? What's your plan. No regulation at all? I'm sure that wouldn't result in anyone being robbed. In any case we don't exactly have a shortage of banks and building societies in the UK despite the barriers to entry. There are even new entrants into the financial sector. I've borrowed money twice from Zopa and there are new banks such as Atom and Metro.
The French privatised their publicly owned banks and deregulated the rest in 1987 and this led, as did the conversion of building societies to banks in the UK, to more reckless lending. It would be far better to force a break up of the bailed out banks to "avoid too big to fail" but that's communism apparently.
What citation did you provide to back up your European arguments? All I saw was a badly edited video talking about how the Democrats destroyed America.
I'm sure if he'd been talking about the sovereign debt crisis he would've used the words sovereign and debt instead of banking. What he's clearly referring to is the financial crash that started in the US and George Osborn's intervention to prevent the Europe-wide cap on banking bonuses which is seen as a way to discourage the worst insanities of the early 21st century.
As to the causes of the crash, the left blames the banks, the right blames the government but if you look at it, everyone involved was at fault: the banks creating their exotic financial instruments; the government first forcing banks to lend to those who couldn't afford to pay it back and then repealing the Glass Steagal Act; and the people who decided to have a mortgage when they had no hope of paying it back. In the case of the UK banks, they didn't have any legislation requiring them to lend to bad risks but they fell over themselves to do so anyway.
From what I can see, it was government deregulation that allowed the German (and French) banks to make riskier investments. French banks were privatised to that end. Again, it was the fault of everyone involved that this escalated.
I'm mystified as to why you think the UK bailed everyone out. As far as I know we were in for 7 billion under our obligations to the IMF. How much money do you think we've actually handed over, and do you have some evidence for this?
If he was talking about the sovereign debt crisis then I'm sure he would have used the words sovereign and debt instead of banking. What he's clearly referring to is the financial crash that started in the US and the efforts of George Osborn to prevent a Europe-wide cap on bonuses to discourage the most insane forms of financial speculation. As to the causes of the financial crash, the left blames the banks, the right blames the government but as far as I can tell it was the fault of everyone involved, including those people who were stupid enough to take out a mortgage they couldn't repay.
So the banking crisis that began in the US with sub prime loans and credit default swaps was caused by German banks lending money to Greece? Let's try again. [Citation (not your conspiracy theories) needed]
That's why it should really be called universal health care. Insurance also requires you to pay for other people's treatment but gives you less coverage and requires a copay as well.
Pretty little leftist projects like the internet or universal education for example? I'm sure capitalists don't get any advantage from those Commie wastes of money.
Government funding led to nuclear power and space technology. Hardly risk averse. It's the private sector, especially publicly traded ones that are usually risk averse because risk causes the share price to fall.
Where did you work where that mentality didn't exist? I worked for quite a few very large organisations back in the day and "put it live, we'll fix the bugs as we go" was the order of the day, usually after 2 years of shambolic waterfall development and ever-changing requirements.
You think 100 million dollars will build all the infrastructure necessary for that? What are you going to do about the local warlords blowing it up? How are you going to stop corrupt officials denying water to people who can't afford to bribe them?
This is a good example. I am not to blame for rapists. Rapists are to blame for rapists. I have no influence over the behaviour of people I don't know. I am not some asshole frat boy or rape apologist and I have zero influence over those who are. Those are the kind of people who used to bully me at school and equating me with them is incredibly insulting.
Here's another one. I'm not a murderer or a rapist. I don't harass women on the internet. I have no interest in Gamergate. But because I share the same genitalia with bad people it's my fault too.
Dismissal of male suicide. A small amount of men are rich and powerful so those of us who aren't and that suffer from mental illnesses don't deserve any sympathy. Four times as many men as women kill themselves every year but meh it's their fault for not embracing feminism and not a lot more complicated than that.
More white men have all the power. No I don't. I'm not even a manager, never mind a CEO.
There's plenty more bollocks like this about and this isn't the rantings of Twitter trolls but mainstream media journalists.
If your plan is to rebut me by trotting out some shit from the Daily Mail, then I'm not interested. Just because they're a bunch of tossers doesn't mean Jessica Valenti et al get a free pass to be sexist and racist towards people that have done nothing wrong and actually would rather be supporters and an allies. Telling us that our problems are irrelevant and that everything that's wrong in the world is our fault is a good way to get us to stick two fingers up and walk away.
I'm on the left but I find it deeply offensive that I as a white heterosexual male am considered guilty of other people's crimes. When certain loud obnoxious people stop doing that and even worse dismissing men's problems as irrelevant we'll all get along a lot better.
Why is it a white people problem? I am no more responsible for all the assholes that happen to have the same skin pigmentation as me than all Muslims are responsible for the assholes that happen to share the same religion as them.
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Ordinary Americans can't get heart transplants? Really?
Are you telling me you’ve been playing the prat version of Rimmer for all that time?
The rise in suicide in women means important people might actually give a shit. Male suicide is our own fault for not smashing the patriarchy or something.
Moat!!
You've clearly not read 1984.
You can't fault them for selling debts on and pretending that those debts would never have to be paid? You're either very forgiving of such dangerous stupidity or so wedded to the "free" market that you think that businesses that nearly brought down the world economy should be allowed to continue doing stupid stuff.
France paid more to the EU than we did last year and Italy weren't far behind either. It's not just us and Germany, and even if it was, our 12 billion Euros wouldn't keep Greece going for more than a couple of months so I've no idea where you're going with that one.
I agree that no bank should be too big to fail and I didn't agree with my government propping up private companies. There is a regulatory barrier to entry, but then banks have proven time and again that they can't be trusted with other people's money? What's your plan. No regulation at all? I'm sure that wouldn't result in anyone being robbed. In any case we don't exactly have a shortage of banks and building societies in the UK despite the barriers to entry. There are even new entrants into the financial sector. I've borrowed money twice from Zopa and there are new banks such as Atom and Metro.
The French privatised their publicly owned banks and deregulated the rest in 1987 and this led, as did the conversion of building societies to banks in the UK, to more reckless lending. It would be far better to force a break up of the bailed out banks to "avoid too big to fail" but that's communism apparently.
What citation did you provide to back up your European arguments? All I saw was a badly edited video talking about how the Democrats destroyed America.
I'm sure if he'd been talking about the sovereign debt crisis he would've used the words sovereign and debt instead of banking. What he's clearly referring to is the financial crash that started in the US and George Osborn's intervention to prevent the Europe-wide cap on banking bonuses which is seen as a way to discourage the worst insanities of the early 21st century.
As to the causes of the crash, the left blames the banks, the right blames the government but if you look at it, everyone involved was at fault: the banks creating their exotic financial instruments; the government first forcing banks to lend to those who couldn't afford to pay it back and then repealing the Glass Steagal Act; and the people who decided to have a mortgage when they had no hope of paying it back. In the case of the UK banks, they didn't have any legislation requiring them to lend to bad risks but they fell over themselves to do so anyway.
From what I can see, it was government deregulation that allowed the German (and French) banks to make riskier investments. French banks were privatised to that end. Again, it was the fault of everyone involved that this escalated.
I'm mystified as to why you think the UK bailed everyone out. As far as I know we were in for 7 billion under our obligations to the IMF. How much money do you think we've actually handed over, and do you have some evidence for this?
If he was talking about the sovereign debt crisis then I'm sure he would have used the words sovereign and debt instead of banking. What he's clearly referring to is the financial crash that started in the US and the efforts of George Osborn to prevent a Europe-wide cap on bonuses to discourage the most insane forms of financial speculation. As to the causes of the financial crash, the left blames the banks, the right blames the government but as far as I can tell it was the fault of everyone involved, including those people who were stupid enough to take out a mortgage they couldn't repay.
Ah yes the good old "avoiding the question" fallacy strikes again. You're clearly the greatest expert in the field so let's see your proof.
So the banking crisis that began in the US with sub prime loans and credit default swaps was caused by German banks lending money to Greece? Let's try again. [Citation (not your conspiracy theories) needed]
So you've recreated this experiment and proved this? Have you published your results to spare everyone the waste of time of further environments?
[citation most definitely needed]
That's why it should really be called universal health care. Insurance also requires you to pay for other people's treatment but gives you less coverage and requires a copay as well.
Pretty little leftist projects like the internet or universal education for example? I'm sure capitalists don't get any advantage from those Commie wastes of money.
Yeah who needs satellites, GPS, nuclear power or the internet.
Government funding led to nuclear power and space technology. Hardly risk averse. It's the private sector, especially publicly traded ones that are usually risk averse because risk causes the share price to fall.
How dare anyone expect the wealthy to pay towards the developed world societies they benefit hugely from! Damn commies!
Being cramped in a plane for two hours instead of 10 sounds like an improvement to me.
Where did you work where that mentality didn't exist? I worked for quite a few very large organisations back in the day and "put it live, we'll fix the bugs as we go" was the order of the day, usually after 2 years of shambolic waterfall development and ever-changing requirements.
You think 100 million dollars will build all the infrastructure necessary for that? What are you going to do about the local warlords blowing it up? How are you going to stop corrupt officials denying water to people who can't afford to bribe them?
This is a good example. I am not to blame for rapists. Rapists are to blame for rapists. I have no influence over the behaviour of people I don't know. I am not some asshole frat boy or rape apologist and I have zero influence over those who are. Those are the kind of people who used to bully me at school and equating me with them is incredibly insulting.
Here's another one. I'm not a murderer or a rapist. I don't harass women on the internet. I have no interest in Gamergate. But because I share the same genitalia with bad people it's my fault too.
Dismissal of male suicide. A small amount of men are rich and powerful so those of us who aren't and that suffer from mental illnesses don't deserve any sympathy. Four times as many men as women kill themselves every year but meh it's their fault for not embracing feminism and not a lot more complicated than that.
More white men have all the power. No I don't. I'm not even a manager, never mind a CEO.
There's plenty more bollocks like this about and this isn't the rantings of Twitter trolls but mainstream media journalists.
If your plan is to rebut me by trotting out some shit from the Daily Mail, then I'm not interested. Just because they're a bunch of tossers doesn't mean Jessica Valenti et al get a free pass to be sexist and racist towards people that have done nothing wrong and actually would rather be supporters and an allies. Telling us that our problems are irrelevant and that everything that's wrong in the world is our fault is a good way to get us to stick two fingers up and walk away.
I'm on the left but I find it deeply offensive that I as a white heterosexual male am considered guilty of other people's crimes. When certain loud obnoxious people stop doing that and even worse dismissing men's problems as irrelevant we'll all get along a lot better.
So much wrong in one short paragraph.
Guns of course are magic wands you wave and the crime disappears. That's why widespread gun ownership in South Africa has made it such a paradise.
I'd imagine that the real reason Finnish cities are so safe is because they don't take a shit on people for being poor.
Why is it a white people problem? I am no more responsible for all the assholes that happen to have the same skin pigmentation as me than all Muslims are responsible for the assholes that happen to share the same religion as them.