Re: Another day another police killing

Who is antifa? I'd like the names of everyone on their board of directors please. Just the ones at the top, you don't need too much detail. Any more than a dozen or so names is unnecessary, but please, tell us who is at the top levels of their power structure. Just because they don't have a formal ...

Re: Reparations

It is apparent that another piece of systematic racism in this country is the economic inequality and discrimination that blacks have faced. They have had to sacrifice so much economically for whites. What is the best way to set up reparations to Mitigate this form of systematic racism? Should it b...

Re: Will Donald Trump get a second term?

Trump and the GOP have been going towards fascism ever since they got in bed with right wing news, where they work to lie every day. There is no dissenting opinion allowed because they control the content, and lable everything else as "fake". The issue most affecting the GOP is that they ...

Re: Will Donald Trump get a second term?

Stick with Facism, racism,misogyny and lies, or try to move back towards family values. Nothing wrong with moving back to family values. But case In Point as to how polarized, extreme and poisonous the political discourse has become in the US (happily fueled by an equally polarized media). One can ...

Re: Another day another police killing

So you are saying that just because there is another problem, we can't try and fix a different problem? Black-on-black crime is a thing, however so is police brutality. Why do you get to decide which one is being attempted to be solved? Police brutality can only be fixed once black-on-black crime i...

Re: Another day another police killing

Because there are more Whites in this country and more Whites who tend to own weapons and will fire back how does that justify Blacks and Latinos being given longer and harsher sentences and being killed on the streets for selling cigarettes illegally and trying to pass a fake $20 and sitting in a ...

Re: 38-year-old deputy killed, 2 officers injured after ambush in Santa Cruz County

99.9% of protesters aren’t “lynching” anyone. When some media sources paint all protesters as violent it is a deliberate smear job to obfuscate their message Yeah right, like the completely unfounded claim that the US policeforce is racist, hunting and killing unarmed blacks because of racial bias....

Re: Racism in the World

Why do everybody now think, that racism is the no 1 problem in the world, and that any difference in between arbitrary selection of groups is mainly due to racism? Is there anyone here who has read some of Thomas Sowells books this matter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7hmTRT8tb4 One of the bigge...

Re: Gen. Mattis Says POTUS is ‘Making a Mockery of the Constitution’

whats devisive about that? I didn´t say they all are, just that they are part of Trumps base, which just happens to be a fact. If you can't see that is devisive rhetoric, I can't help you. I'm sure the majority of the antifa terrorists voted for Obama, so what's your point. While I agree with Matti...

Re: Gen. Mattis Says POTUS is ‘Making a Mockery of the Constitution’

tommy1808 wrote:

add fascists and white supremacists

Re: Another day another police killing

Yes, I did in fact. The point I was making was that was not what the protests etc. were about. Tugg I'm not sure anyone knows what's it all about at the moment. I'm just responding to the frequent claims in this thread about systemic racism in the US police force. This study very strongly indicates...

Re: Another day another police killing

Tugger wrote:

Well duh!

The data show that it’s not racial bias on behalf of white officers relative to black officers when it comes to fatal shootings,

Re: Another day another police killing

someone actually made a study where they looked into racial disparities in fatal police shootings. https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2019/the-truth-behind-racial-disparities-in-fatal-police-shootings/ Quote from the article “We found that the race of the officer doesn’t matter when it comes to predictin...

Re: Another day another police killing

The systemic issues is the lack of two parent households. Pop quiz, hotshot: poverty is or is not stressful? Among white families, do you think more broken homes are seen in La Jolla, CA, or Monroe, LA? The statement is just far too absolutist to allow for any of the nuance that touches these issue...

Re: Another day another police killing

I am sorry, but using data to support conclusions is clearly unacceptable in this day and age. Actually, another poster concluded from some statistic, that the reason blacks are overrepresented in cop killings, is due to systemic racism in the police force. I was only responding to that rather stro...

Re: Another day another police killing

Does anyone have any FACTS with regard to how many blacks are killed by white cops as compared to other cop killings, when you factor in crime rates etc? Episodes where innocent people are killed by unproferssional cops are always sad. But to claim that systemic racism is the biggest problem and the...

Re: Laudamotion closing its VIE base May 29th.

You all seem to forget that Ryanair is a thriving business exactly because a vast majority of Europeans simply don't care about unions, salaries, work conditions... as long as they can get access to those cheap Ryanair fares.Why are you constantly attacking FR when they are merely a product of cons...

Re: Laudamotion closing its VIE base May 29th.

seahawk wrote:

What people miss, is that the slots will now be filled by Malta Air crews working for Irish contractors and earning even less.

Re: Laudamotion closing its VIE base May 29th.

Another sad spin-exercise from Ryanair. They probably had no intentions of keeping their VIE-base anyway, so now they get publicity and can put the blame on someone else. Very smart, and very sad at the same time. But they know their customers only care about their own wallets, even if it means supp...

Re: FT: Investors bet AA will file for BK

In other words, Boeing's CEO will be shown to have been correct. Yes, he is probably right, but statements like that can also start a poisonous downward spiral on their own. Just like when an airline CEO publicly speculates about the possible demise of a competing airline. One should be very carefu...

Re: Ryanair back to all Boeing, cancelling leases for Airbus A320s.

Just the usual Ryanair bullying negotiation tactics to scr@w their employees just a little bit more.

Who is surprised.

Re: Ryanair Threatens EU Over State Aid to Airlines

Has it Occurred to anyone that Mike O'Leary is Huffing and Puffing like the Big Bad Wolf? It Ryanair folded tomorrow? Would Europe be worse OFF? If Ryanair folded today? Who Exactly would not get where they need to GO? And If Ryanair quit today? Who would be stranded in Europe with actually NO Way ...

Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

After an agreement with the bondholders was reached during the weekend, they got approval from the leasing companies early this morning, and today the shareholders have voted yes for both the debt to equity transfer and the issues of new share. Thus Norwegian then should be approved to get the plan...

Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

Very close as in just a few percentage points in one of the bonds. If it had been 25% or so it would have been a lot worse. But it is certainly a mess and I'm glad it's not my job to solve it. It is now reported, that Norwegian has reached an agreement with it's creditors about converting debt to e...

Re: Ryanair Threatens EU Over State Aid to Airlines

I think not lying is pretty ethical and Ryanair is really doing that. They are very upfront and open about who they are and what they do. There's a difference in being upfront/open and ethical. What is revolutionary about Ryanair is, that they looked at airtravel, took out everything that was nice ...

Re: Ryanair Threatens EU Over State Aid to Airlines

governments want to protect their own doesn't mean they don't consider FR as an essential business If you want to look at it objectively, you can take into consideration if an airline tend to pay local taxes and employ people locally, or they use forein contracts, tax havens and try to avoid local ...

Re: BA may not reopen at Gatwick