Queen Elizabeth II

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I like the Queen. I suspect that climate change is a load of bollocks though. I put that with "the jab" and cloth face masks to save others and other things promoted by nutters.

 

[websaway]

The World is f*cked because everyone's an expert based on the last article they read, written by a journalist, based on a press release, from a PR firm working for a scientist, funded by a corporation that wants a big chunk of government money. Here's a wake-up call, nobody in power gives a shit about the climate, the only people that care are a percentage of the public who have been convinced - rightly or wrongly - that we're 50 years away from the end of the World. The fact the message is coming from the same people sending Billions of Dollars of arms to prolong a war that has the potential to become a nuclear confrontation beggars belief.

Part of the problem must be how quickly we can put our opinions out there, we all have a platform easily reached to express what we want to say, and career activists are having a field day while the majority tend to stay silent, this can distort the reality of things."Strange days indeed".

 

[CreativeMix]

Agreed. It feels like there are intentionally antagonistic trolls for every subject, at every turn.
It is very much OK not to express your negative thoughts and opinions publicly. Honestly!

I also think it's a shame that the old mantra of "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing" isn't used as much as it probably should these days

What you're saying is people should shut up if you don't like what they say? Do you not think it's arrogant to assume that what you read and choose to believe is the truth and anything that is at odds with, questions or contradicts that narrative is trolling?

 

[CreativeMix]

I'm not looking to argue and I'm certainly not viewing this as some kind of challenge. I suppose I've come to realise that due to the open nature of the web, we can't pick and choose what is acceptable without creating a totalitarian World where we're told what to think/believe and any deviation from that narrative will be censored/punished. You find it distasteful for someone to say the monarchy should be abolished - so do I has it happens - but I'm arguing that they're just as entitled to that view as we are to ours.

It seems to me that you're searching for a Eutopia where everyone is kind to each other but with respect, as admirable as the idea is, it's naive.

I'd suggest the only solution is to remove yourself from the problem by cutting the web out of your life which is something I've considered.

 

[LCHappy]

In this context, it was nice of @websaway to start a new thread to congratulate somebody on doing a job they didn't apply for, and doing it for 70 years. That's a positive thing.

I didn't respond or comment on that OP congratulating the Queen, so I think you are mis-remembering something that didn't happen.

I don't believe I have told anyone their opinion was wrong, just that I had an opposing one. 30+ posts of polite debate afterwards and everyone is still alive, nobody has been injured, forum looks like it has a touch of life about it when otherwise it's a morgue 99% of the time.

Have your forum back then, I'll leave you to it.