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Part of the Outrage economy... Media companies love the clicks.

Unfortunately the outrage doesn't extend to the number of people using food banks.

Just shows how Farage drives the media agenda, hardly surprising with a press as right-wing as ours, and how the Tory party are so scared of him, given the immediate intervention of various ministers.

Unfortunately it doesn't extend to the number of people using food banks.

Indeed. But addressing this would involve having to admit the whole system is rigged.

I will fund your Patreon.

Brexir?

irregular French verb for 'to Brexit'?

Not my point.

I'm absolutely no one but I'm happy to pass judgement on people who support horrendous abuse of animals.

Who are you?

Who are you?

Someone who hasn't lived a blameless life.

Have you?

Absolutely not but I know bullfighting is wrong and anyone going to watch it in this day and age should be ashamed.

Farage casually admitted he'd been refused an account by ten other banks which suggests ummmmmmm..... something

I like the photo the beeb have used of him though...

edit they've changed it already! 😂

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Someone who hasn't lived a blameless life.

Have you?

This isn't really a great way of thinking It's fine to call out something shitty, even if you've done shitty stuff yourself, I'd want to be called out on shitty stuff I do, even if it's from a person who's done shitty things.

was it catalonia that banned bull fighting. i had thought it was now an ex thing in spain.
used to holiday in spain every summer in the 80's and there were bars in the small andalucian town we stayed in that had pictures and souvenirs from bull fights in ronda malaga and granada decorating the walls and bull fighting on the tele. all the old men used to go in for an afternoon of aperitifs and tapas. saw it once and was pretty horrified by it all. it was a big thing back in the day but not so much these days .... hopefully.

it was considered an art form by the older spanish generations like flamenco

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Regular -ir verb. N'est ce pas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting#/media/File:Bullfighting_laws_world_map.svg

Catalonia banned it in 2012 but that was overturned in 2016.
Banned in Mallorca in 2017 but overturned in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting#Spain_2

Driver admits killing charity cyclist then burying body

A drink-driver has admitted killing charity cyclist Tony Parsons and hiding his body in a grave.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66256705

WA(pair of)C

That'll be a £200 fine and a driving awareness course probably

This is the Greenhell school of self-unaware, finger-pointing: pick everyone else apart and shout them down, while ignoring the cunt in your own kitchen.

We're not talking about Tatchell going toe-to-toe with Mugabe, or Iranian women squaring-up against the "mortality police"; it's just more entirely ineffectual, likely counter-productive, finger-wagging, point scoring.

Joe le Brexit

I hope they are fined at least £50, and banned from driving for 6 months. Unless of course they can't live without a car, in which case they should attend a short 1 hour course on why it's wrong to killl people with your car and hide the body.

Not really, someone said they did something shitty (they gave the impression they thought it was possibly shitty), someone pointed out it was shitty, you come out with some bollocks about how shitty behaviour caller is nobody to judge and you can't call out shitty behaviour unless you are without sin, there's not really been any shouting down or point scoring, there was a little finger wagging.

I'm in Gandia - we take our Valencian very seriously here. I understand the south is a bit different. I live in a barrio where the older inhabitants don't speak Castilian (I was politely but firmly corrected when I called it Spanish).

Also, out of loyalty to my adopted city, I have to point out that "bulls in the street" is not the same as bullfighting. The bulls are not killed. And the vast majority of Spaniards do not support bullfighting.

And you confront people who abuse their pets?

The people who dress them up in outfits, or feed them human food, or breed them to destruction, or make them run alongside their bike/skateboard/mobility scooter?

Or is it just through the anomnity of the internet, that you feel incensed enough to speak-up?

My dog is getting a hotdog outfit for Halloween because he doesn't like the cold and for absolutely no other reason.

"Why do you only point out the shittiness of supporting full on animal torture on this discussion forum where people are discussing things? Doing so isn't valid unless you chase people in the street who give a dog a bit of sausage roll."
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