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TopicVideo: Trump calls CNN fake news at press conference with Theresa May
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 12:13:10 PM
#27
rikasa posted...
If the fox News guy had balls he wouldn't let Trump skip the question

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TopicThink of a video game character.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 12:10:33 PM
#14
ShotgunSilencer posted...
Pikachu. Uhh....

I wonder if your daughter shouts "I Choose you!"

I wonder if he is Super Effective

I wonder if she taught him Bullet Seed or Play Rough
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TopicThink of a video game character.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 12:02:32 PM
#12
frozenshock posted...
Yuna from FFX

Hmm...

oMxLu66
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TopicDo you have a good relationship with your father?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:52:51 AM
#2
Well maybe if you stopped treating Laguna like a punk he would be nicer to you
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TopicThink of a video game character.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:51:41 AM
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ThatMuttGuy posted...
Zikten posted...
I shake Lara Crofts hand and say "I am proud that you have been doing my daughter"

This is peak zikten

wut
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TopicLibs are mad because Trump didn't bow to the queen.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:48:45 AM
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ITT: People believe the fucking queen of England funded the Trump balloon
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TopicWhy can we say the c word for penis, but not the c word for vagina?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:46:04 AM
#41
P4wn4g3 posted...

Only by feminists. Never met anyone else that thought it was offensive.

You're either Australian or sheltered
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TopicFrance vs. Croatia
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:45:05 AM
#65
ManOfAlpha posted...
what's with the pin icon on this topic? Does it mean it's sticky topic?

Yes

This topic will always be at the top of the board
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TopicTrump: I think the European Union is an enemy of the USA
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:40:13 AM
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Yeah! what has France ever done for the US?
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TopicSecrets about Papa John's pizza from a stadium worker(me)
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:21:14 AM
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sigless user topic
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TopicFrance vs. Croatia
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:19:52 AM
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If France lose this game I will eat a pair of socks
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TopicThink of a video game character.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 11:18:27 AM
#1
You come home early from work one day unexpectly because you forgot the keys to Jefferson's office and when you enter you find your teenage libertarian daughter suddenly jump up while wearing too much of not enough. She then leans across a wall trying (and failing) to subtly block your vision.

She says "Oh! H-hi dad. I didn't think you'd be back so early...So ermm.. hey can I show you something over there quick. Behind you.. There's a... you know th-"

Then you hear a bump from behind the couch and go over to see the video game character poorly improvising hiding behind it and discover they have been secretly dating your daughter behind your back.

30Zj43g

Your daughter says ".... Okay... daddy... this is [Character's name] and we.. well... we may need to talk."

How do you react?
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 10:49:29 AM
#78
Sativa_Rose posted...
Look at what happened to Tommy Robinson. He's behind bars now for something that would be protected by the First Amendment in the US.

It really wouldn't
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 10:44:59 AM
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luigi13579 posted...

1. Knife crime is an issue (a very specific one), but if you look the murder rate and violent crime generally, the UK has nothing on the US.

That's not a defense of the UK being dystopian.

Bldhaven has a worse crime rate than Gotham.

luigi13579 posted...

3. Technically true, but it's never been used since 1707. It's effectively useless.


https://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-lords-faqs/lords-govtdefeats/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-live-updates-eu-withdrawal-bill-lords-vote-tory-rebels-theresa-may-latest-a8404016.html

House of Lords has blocked and delayed every proposed Brexit Bill over 12 times now.

And that's just recently. House of Lords and Monarchy does not gel with democracy. Calling "Checks and balances cuz I like it" is just saying you like dstyopia because it advantages you.

5. The US doesn't even have UHC, so the UK can't really be worse in this regard (your assumption seems to be that UHC is desirable, which I agree with). I'm not going to downplay the Tory attempts to privatize it through the back door. Fuck them.


Doesn't matter which you like, you can't hold out your left hand and then slap with the right. The UK's healthcare system is corrupt.

6. It's not as if this is purely a negative thing, plus it's supported by the public,


And the public supported not having equal rights for women or homosexuals for most of human history. In Saudi Arabia the public is narky that women can now drive cars.

'Hey people like it!" isn't a defense of a thing. Like it or not, it's less freedom for people and more power towards a government state. A government influenced by the unelected and known to be corrupt.

That's viewed as dystopia.

7. Yeah, there is an issue with going after people posting on social media (although how many have actually been jailed for their opinions I'm not sure). Tommy Robinson's is a poo-poo


I'm not talking about Tommy Robinson. Social media is one thing but you're also forgetting issues like when people were arrested and held for 3 weeks because the police suspected they might be planning to protest/riot. During this time they had no contact with the outside world.

Commited no crime.

I'm not sure it's the dystopian nightmare it's being made out as. I can see the downsides, absolutely.

It's not about being a nightmare, it's about Quotas being a bad thing.

the US does similar or worse.

Not a defense

11. Some hardline Brexiters want this, but they're a minority in government, thankfully. If it comes to pass, then you can hold it over us. Also, the UK was instrumental in drafting these rights, which is why I find it funny when Brexiters argue that we can have our own, better Great British rights (as if)!


"You can't point out why people view our society as dystopian until it's too late."

Ok good luck with that.
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TopicTrump: I hadn't thought of asking Putin to extradite indicted Russians
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 10:20:13 AM
#11
Thompson posted...
ledbowman posted...
Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/884016887692234753

That's like discussing how to improve home security with a burglar.

That tweet is a year old
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TopicJoke: A prostitute is in a motorcycle crash.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 10:18:26 AM
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Th3HonestTruth posted...
The only joke you've made that isn't well known and easily searchable by google and you don't answer it. What's the answer?

Its not a riddle, its a joke
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TopicScenario: Your hear your girlfriend calling to you outside your home at night.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 10:18:05 AM
#5
C_Pain posted...
humans can lick too

wut
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TopicWhy can we say the c word for penis, but not the c word for vagina?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 10:13:56 AM
#33
Raikuro posted...

You could replace cock with the other c word and it would still mean the same thing.

Only in Australia
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TopicWhy can we say the c word for penis, but not the c word for vagina?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:57:22 AM
#26
CanuckCowboy posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."


So in your life "morning Steve, your fat cock looks lovely this morning" is a thing people say?

LightningAce11 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."

But do people say "Morning Jimmy, your cock is looking fine!"

UnfairRepresent posted...
Hey don't finish my cereal you cock"


you can really tell which users read posts and which read snippets
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TopicWoman who beat old Hispanic man with brick declared not racist
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:55:06 AM
#180
VectorChaos posted...
"She was yelling at him, 'Go back to your country,' or 'Go back to Mexico,'"


this is not a hate-related incident."


D779kdP

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TopicHypothetical: Peaceful aliens with no concept of violence or warfare land
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:12:44 AM
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frozenshock posted...
Well I hope they don't land in the US because they'd be shot and their bodies and spaceship used for research into military technology


They landed at your home

Then after that the whole pissed off fleet comes to invade us because we murdered their peaceful ambassadors

They have no conept of violence
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:11:44 AM
#45
scar the 1 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
But if somehow you got a dog sandwich from China and brought it into the UK, it would not be illegal to eat it.

To my knowledge, this is the same in the Indian states where cow slaughter is illegal.

Difference is in India it's a religious thing.

You get girls beaten up at Train Stations in India for carrying beef
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TopicHypothetical: Peaceful aliens with no concept of violence or warfare land
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:07:46 AM
#20
ssj-kenobi posted...
fuck that I would still kill them

But why?

They come in peace with food and medical supplies.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:04:51 AM
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Crepes posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
ROBANN_88 posted...

Is that odd?
Based on the previous sentence i got the impression you were saying that you can't do that in Germany

Try eating a ham sandwich in Saudi Arabia

Or a beef burger in India.


Or dog and cat in the US!

This is actually a bit of a dog and pony show in the UK, same as their prostitution laws.

It's actually legal to eat dog and cat in the UK.

It's just not legal to slaughter destroy dogs or cats for any reason (beyond putting down old/sick creatures) including for food.

But if somehow you got a dog sandwich from China and brought it into the UK, it would not be illegal to eat it.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 9:02:30 AM
#37
Crepes posted...


Not at all. I just want to know what we're arguing

UnfairRepresent posted...


It is the most distopian first world country in the world.

Leader in the world in knife crime.
Has over 35% of the world's security cameras. If you are on a British Street (inside a town or city) you are more likely to being recorded than not being recorded.
Literal Monarchy with veto powers.
Literal House of Lords that can overrule democratic government decisions and does so regularly.
Universial Healthcare that is being sold off and privatized to pocket the rich while the poor suffer.
Strong gun control.
Strong language control and literal thought crime where you can be arrested or fined for the wrong opinions or statements.
Literal race/sex/minority quotas in government divisions.
Can be arrested and held for over 30 days without cause, charge or ability to contact anyone outside of your confinment.
Strict (and increasing) internet censorship and controls.
Giving up on the accepted European Rights to make up their own Rights which are the same except don't value privacy

Yeah there's some freedoms. It's not like Germany where you can be arrested for holocaust denial. And you can go into a store and buy a cheese sandwich or a ham one. But those don't add up to the rest of the western world as a whole.

Sure you might be happy and enjoy your life, a lot of people in the UK do. I did too. But don't mistake your own happy experience as evidence of the entire nation being pristine. That's literally part of a distopian society. That's like the Inner-party in 1984 musing on blowing up the plebs


Crepes posted...

EDIT: The house of lords are meant to be a checks and balances type of thing. Generally they will either pass a law or return it with some amendments for house of commons to sign off. I can't think of many occasions where the house of laws have outright refused a law.

Mechanisms are in place so that if the government want to pass something they can force it through. This is to stop the same bill ping ponging between the house of commons and the house of lords indefinitely. If the same bill is passed three times in the house of commons then it bypasses the house of lords on the third attempt so like I said they can't indefinitely block something.


Doesn't matter.

You're esstentially going "Hey it's not so bad!" which ironically is moving the goalposts like a hypocrite.

You go "Why do people view this nation as Dystopian and facist." and then downplay an unelected group of "appointed" men having the power to block and hinder democractically determined policies. As well as a monarchy with veto power. "Oh it's just checks and balances to our democracy. We need appointed people to decide that for us"

You're not arguing that the UK isn't dystopian here, you're just arguing that you don't really care.

Which is fine, but make no mistake that's what you're doing.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:56:49 AM
#33
pegusus123456 posted...
Add "lived and traveled across most of England" to the list of stuff Unfair has supposedly done to support his arguments.

And you'd be lying as usual.

I never said I traveled across most of England. I also directly listed most of the places I lived in.

But whatever fuels your obsession with me, I guess it's the only way you can masturbate now.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
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07/15/18 8:52:05 AM
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ROBANN_88 posted...

Is that odd?
Based on the previous sentence i got the impression you were saying that you can't do that in Germany

Try eating a ham sandwich in Saudi Arabia

Or a beef burger in India.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:51:14 AM
#28
scar the 1 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
It means "IT's true but I want to bash America so I will pretend it's false."

No, it means that there are good arguments on both sides.

"Fine people, both sides"

Crepes posted...
so you can't move the goal posts like you usually do.

Already preparing damage control.

Says it all right there.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:45:44 AM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Yeah there's some freedoms. It's not like Germany where you can be arrested for holocaust denial. And you can go into a store and buy a cheese sandwich or a ham one.


What's that thing about sanwiches?

You can go into a store in the UK and buy whatever sandwich you like.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:45:11 AM
#22
Crepes posted...


I'm happy to debate you on each and every one of those points once you provide a respectable source for each one.


Oh come on, you live in the UK and see the same news I do for the past 20 years. I'm not going to find and post sources for each one. That's a lazy evasion and you know it.

I mean christ if you do a google search right now you'll see a top story about there being 1,296 stabbings in London in the first 4 months of 2018.

And I don't even know WTF you mean when you say you want a "source" on the House of Lords... so here's a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords

EDIT: Where did you live when you came to the UK and how long were you here for?


I travel a lot so I've been to a few places London, Bedford, Plymouth, Leeds, High Wycombe.

Longest was when I lived in Uxbridge for a couple of years and worked at the Daily Telegraph routinely seeing these stories you claim don't exist.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:38:31 AM
#17
Crepes posted...
0TiamaT0 posted...
I dont know about dystopian, but your countrys willingness to arrest people over Facebook posts they disagree with is pretty fucked up...


I don't think this is as wide spread as the media in the US claim it is.

I don't think the issue is whether or not is it widespread, the issue is that it happens at all and most people are okay with it.

Hence distopian
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:33:45 AM
#13
ROBANN_88 posted...
Whatever happened with that giant child sex abuse "grooming circle" thing?

Is that finished and dealt with, or is it still ongoing?

It's still going

Child Sex Trafficking in the UK has been going on for the best part of a century.

But it's not an issue that effects the average joe.
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:32:55 AM
#12
ROBANN_88 posted...
scar the 1 posted...
Which is arguably true. And arguably false.


I don't get it, how can it be true and false at the same time?

It means "IT's true but I want to bash America so I will pretend it's false."

He hasn't learned the advanced lesson that most people master when they are 7, which is you can criticize something and still accept it's not 100% awful or 100% perfect
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TopicI'm a Brit. Asks me anything. Why do people shit on the UK being distopian?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:31:41 AM
#10
I've lived in the UK.

It is the most distopian first world country in the world.

Leader in the world in knife crime.
Has over 35% of the world's security cameras. If you are on a British Street (inside a town or city) you are more likely to being recorded than not being recorded.
Literal Monarchy with veto powers.
Literal House of Lords that can overrule democratic government decisions and does so regularly.
Universial Healthcare that is being sold off and privatized to pocket the rich while the poor suffer.
Strong gun control.
Strong language control and literal thought crime where you can be arrested or fined for the wrong opinions or statements.
Literal race/sex/minority quotas in government divisions.
Can be arrested and held for over 30 days without cause, charge or ability to contact anyone outside of your confinment.
Strict (and increasing) internet censorship and controls.
Giving up on the accepted European Rights to make up their own Rights which are the same except don't value privacy

Yeah there's some freedoms. It's not like Germany where you can be arrested for holocaust denial. And you can go into a store and buy a cheese sandwich or a ham one. But those don't add up to the rest of the western world as a whole.

Sure you might be happy and enjoy your life, a lot of people in the UK do. I did too. But don't mistake your own happy experience as evidence of the entire nation being pristine. That's literally part of a distopian society. That's like the Inner-party in 1984 musing on blowing up the plebs
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TopicDenmark's agressive double punishment ghetto plan unlikely to solve any problems
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:24:15 AM
#4
scar the 1 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
But I really do not get how people can be cool with "The punishment for this crime is twice as bad for you because you did it down this street while those guys did it a mile away down that street so the punishment is standard."

Small technicality, but my understanding is that the punishment for the crime is different depending on where you live, not where you committed the crime? Could be wrong

Nope

https://www.thelocal.dk/20180226/danish-government-wants-double-punishments-for-crimes-in-underprivileged-areas

its where the crime takes place.

If you rob a store in the Ghetto your fine/jail time will be doubled.

And keep in mind if you live in a Ghetto, odds are you are poorer than the average citizen
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TopicTrump: You have different names you can say England, you can say UK, you can say
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07/15/18 8:19:30 AM
#14
I can't remember, did Trump says "Did you know China doesn't have a king?"

Or was that made up?
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TopicYou know I'm not part of the LGBTs but the games industry needs more gay people.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:16:59 AM
#1
Just because of all the inane response to TLOU2.

Not even controversy of making a character gay, but instead one of a character who was already gay.... still being gay in the sequel and not being "Fixed" forcibly by great cock?

Wut.

Reminds me of when people got mad at Target and Kellogs for having gay and/or interracial families in their commercials. And they responded by just doing more of it.

Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and the other companies like Activision and Blizzard whatever should get together and just go wild with this.

Not ones who it'd ruin the plot as they are established like Nathan Drake

But all the ones who they could wing it and it not effect anything. Pull a few Dumbledores.

Lara Croft, Samus, Alloy, Leon Kennedy, Solid Snake, Faith, Sepiroth, Ryu etc

I mean Kratos is ancient greek right? He could be bi.

Does Ganon have a wife?

HWl538P

Just have them like randomly be established as a gay in a way that doesn't get in the way of the gameplay at all but is so blatant the homophobes can't miss it.
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TopicMan defaces 92 graves with a company's name after they refused to hire him.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:02:53 AM
#7
Zikten posted...
was he trying to frame the company and get them in trouble?

Unlikely.

Who would believe a capitalist country would deface graves with their own name

Would be like the Simpsons where Homer is like "Hello Mr Burns, this is your mother!"
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TopicI wish Cell was a good guy
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 8:01:59 AM
#9
Kurumiee posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
If Cell turned good then like Freeza and Raditz would be the only villains in DBZ who didn't turn good

Someone has to say a dick


Um, Nappa??

Nappa wasn't a major villain, he was a sidekick.

Zarbon and Jeice didn't turn good either but no one cares
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TopicWhy can we say the c word for penis, but not the c word for vagina?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:59:57 AM
#14
Because of context.

Cock is both an animal and generally a more comical word.

"Hey don't finish my cereal you cock"

C*** is nothing but an insult in every nation except Australia.

No one says "Morning Sarah, your fat c*** looks lovely today."

Same reason you can say buttface but you can't say n*****
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TopicDenmark's agressive double punishment ghetto plan unlikely to solve any problems
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07/15/18 7:56:45 AM
#2


The governments proposal of the ghetto plan states that 12 billion Danish kroner (about 1.6 billion Euros) will be dedicated for the demolition and conversion of some buildings in the ghettos. According to the governments website, converting the ghetto will be done by selling units on the general housing market.

This allows private investors and homeowners with new housing types to help change the housing composition in the area. This must be done either by private investors buying a part of the current general housing or by building new private housing in the ghetto areas, the governments website states.

John Andersen, a professor at Roskilde University's Department of People and Technology, said that this part of the ghetto plan would have an impact on the Danish social housing system.

There are some interesting contradictions. The government says they want to make sure that we have mixed neighbourhoods, but they want to reduce social housing, which will lead to more segregation, he said.

The ghetto plan reinforced anti-immigrant and anti-inclusive rhetoric and it is an attempt against the unique social housing model in Denmark that is part of the welfare system and this is not that first time, right wing parties attacked the social housing system in the 80s as well, Andersen added.

According to Carsten Jensen, a professor at Aarhus University's Department of Political Science, politicians do not see the existence of the ghetto plan within a welfare system as a dilemma because it [the welfare system] only achieves equality for the native group, so they dont see a problem with the ghetto plan.

The goal of the welfare state is not to legally achieve equality, so there is no conceptual reason why the ghetto plan shouldnt exist within the welfare state and they are also two very different political domains, Jensen said.

The goal of the ghetto plan is to ensure equality and integration, but so far it seems like the extreme way to do it, he added.

The ghetto plan is a result of a political discourse which has existed for the past decade, according to Andersen.

We have had populist pressure that to some extended affected other political parties, he said, the growth of the Danish People Party promoted anti-immigration stances to other parties.

In the ghetto problem, the word ghetto is a problem, Andersen said, citing that it reinforced discrimination.

The plan could have been good and does have valid points, while other points are discriminatory, such as the double punishment, which results in lack of social justice, he said.

But Andersen said he doubts that the plan will actually have as strong an impact as intended.

Municipalities have (such) a great power in Denmark, that they could counteract national policies. What I hope is that there will be a gap between the national level and the local level in implementation, he said.


FUll Article: https://www.thelocal.dk/20180712/denmarks-ghetto-plan-unlikely-to-solve-problems-faced-by-underprivileged-areas-residents

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I know CE has some weird views on foreigners, refugees, other religions and the poor.

But I really do not get how people can be cool with "The punishment for this crime is twice as bad for you because you did it down this street while those guys did it a mile away down that street so the punishment is standard for them."

To me, that's literal madness.
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TopicDenmark's agressive double punishment ghetto plan unlikely to solve any problems
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:56:39 AM
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Denmark's so-called ghetto plan, which has received broad coverage in domestic and international media, is unlikely to to have any real effect on social challenges in underprivileged areas, residents, representatives and experts told The Local.

The plan, which was passed in part by parliament last month with further consultations due in the autumn, comprises 22 initiatives to integrate the ghettos. These include including demolition of housing units, double punishment for certain crimes in certain areas, stricter rules regarding social welfare benefits, mandatory day-care for children to learn Danish, easier access for municipalities to residents data and financial incentive for municipalities to achieve high levels of integration.

Prime Minister Lars Lkke Rasmussen and seven ministers presented the ghetto plan in Mjlnerparken, one of the so-called ghettos in Copenhagen, in March this year.

The Danish Ministry of Transport and Housing classifies 27 underprivileged areas around Denmark as ghettos, based on criteria including residents heritage, levels of education, employment rate and crime rate.

We need a more precise effort, whereby we do not inconvenience Danes all over Denmark. Action must be taken where the problems are greatest, and there only, as Rasmussen said in his New Year's speech.

While the government dismisses criticisms that the ghetto plan is specifically targeting people with certain ethnicities or religions, residents of the areas in question have disputed this, primarily because of the criterion that labels an area as a ghetto if more than 50 percent of its residents have non-Western origins.

Aslam recalled the day when the plan was presented in Mjlnerparken, with the high-profile political announcement met by demonstrations calling for equality of the law, to which the minister of integration Inger Stjberg, writing on her Facebook page, rhetorically asked which law, in reference to Islamic Sharia law.

[The government] doesnt say it directly, but indirectly they just want to split Muslims from living together. And now they blame all problems on Muslims, Aslam told The Local. His four children, who were born in Mjlnerparken are enrolled in higher education, are still considered to be ghetto because they live in a certain neighbourhood.

What they [the government] are saying is that if you come from Africa or Asia or the Middle East then you cannot be Danish, Aslam said on what the ghetto plan meant to him, adding integration comes from both sides, not just one side.

In Aarhus, residents of Gellerupparken, another of the areas designated as 'ghettos', also feel discriminated against because of the plan, according to Maher Taha, a Palestinian who lived for 16 years in Gellerupparken and offers legal consultations to residents.

Taha admitted that Gellerupparken has a lot of crime-related problems, but disagreed on the governments approach to solving them.

The situation in Mjlnerparken is arguably different to that in Gellerupparken. Of the two neighbourhoods, the latter has higher proportional figures for unemployment (52.9 percent vs. 43.5 percent in Mjlnerparken), as well as for criminal convictions (3.43 vs 2.52 percent respectively), according to official figures. For Mjlnerparken, those crime figures actually fall outside the 'ghetto' threshold, but the area qualifies on other categories.

Of course, people in a way feel discriminated against, because where is democracy? They decided without asking the residents. So we think democracy in this case was limited, just as it is in the countries we came from, Taha said.

Aslam shared the same concern as Taha.

(The government) hasnt discussed anything with us, they did not ask what we needed, they are just sitting in the parliament, discussing with people who have the same ideas like them, he said.

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TopicNotice how most of the creeps use the age of consent to justify their attraction
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:44:52 AM
#12
Meh.

I think people can care too much about this kind of thing.

If a 17 year old is fully developed, through puberty, masturbating regularly and a week away from his 18th birthday, why is it horrific to fuck him but then fine 8 days later?

The line is arbitrary because we need something to protect youth and there is no clear "Cut off date" where things go from creepy to normal.

Some say 18, some say 16 some say 21.

18 makes sense to me since we consider it adulthood for most things but I'm not losing sleep over a 24 year old fucking a 17 year old.
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TopicBreadfacing
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:40:47 AM
#5
Every time I see things like this I'm reminded of when 4Chan made it a meme to have girls pee themselves and share photos of it online.

Can't help but wonder if this is just some asshole intentionally making an embarrasing "trend" just to get people mainly girls to humiliate themselves online for attention.
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TopicMan defaces 92 graves with a company's name after they refused to hire him.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:36:44 AM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Only in America

it wasn't in America
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TopicMan defaces 92 graves with a company's name after they refused to hire him.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:29:28 AM
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Police in the town of Drammen near Oslo are looking for a suspect after red paint was used to vandalise 92 gravestones during Monday night.

In addition to the graves, paint was also used to mark the towns ssiden Church, newspaper VG reports.

Police were made aware of the offence at 10:15am on Tuesday and are now looking for an adult man they think may be connected to the incident.

The name of a company has been tagged on to all of the headstones unit leader Marianne Mrk of the Sr-st

Mrk said that the man in quesion had previously been turned down for a job with the company named in the paint tags.

Local newspaper Drammens Tidende was first to report the incident.

Polcie said that the type of paint used on the headstones on the church is likely to be expensive to remove. Numbers were also tagged on some of the headstones, according to the report.

I have not seen such comprehensive damage of this kind before, Mrk told VG.

The churchyard was closed while police carried out investigations but has since been reopened.

ssiden Churchyard manager Stig Indregrd spoke of his despair at the incident.

It is awful that somebody has done this to a churchyard, Indregrd told Drammens Tidende.

We must start be seeing what the extent of the damage is and how we can remove it, whether it can be removed on site or whether the gravestones must be removed to be repaired, he added.


Full Article: https://www.thelocal.no/20180710/police-search-for-vandal-after-92-gravestones-defaced-in-norwegian-town

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Sad
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Topic5 women armed with a shotgun arrested after going on shopflifting spree.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 7:24:11 AM
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MakoReizei posted...
DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...
...Those two are between 40 and 45?

Holy fuck.

TC just posted a random pic of two women. It's not them

Prove it's not them

And he was never seen again
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Topic5 women armed with a shotgun arrested after going on shopflifting spree.
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 6:37:09 AM
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GNR police have announced that they have arrested five women on suspicion of committing a series of burglaries across the country.

The group, aged between 40 and 45, are believed to have been responsible for at least 20 separate robberies in recent months.

The members of the group were arrested in the central city of Viseu, and were found in possession of large amounts of jewellery, electronic items and a shotgun.

All the women have criminal records.


Full Article: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/gnr-arrest-five-women-for-burglaries/46234
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This reminds me of those lame superhero stories were all the women form a trope and go out and commit crimes.

They had one with Ivy, HarelyQuinn and Catwoman and one with Batgirl, Black Canary and some other chick no one cared about.

And X-men did it too, they did a whole episode where all the girls formed a group and then nearly got themselves killed and cyclops saved them and went "They must never know I saved them, their ego needs to think they did it all themselves."

Which seemed like a weird moral to me.
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TopicYou have to play video games with Donald Trump, what games would you play?
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 6:01:54 AM
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gunplagirl posted...
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6211376

This

But y tho
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TopicMan gropes woman, chases her down the street to forcibly kiss her
UnfairRepresent
07/15/18 5:58:35 AM
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CrimsonRage posted...
Japan unironically needs feminism

What nation doesn't?
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