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Absolving some people of responsibility because 'what do you expect?' and treating others as completely free & responsible moral agents is pretty much involved in any kind of moral system. Not sure where relativism comes into it; it does feel like a snarl word here and little else. Who here is...

P.J. O'Rourke put it pretty succinctly; "The Democrats say, 'We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it.' The Republicans say, 'There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that.'" The social democratic left has never really managed to deal with the fact that politicians...

The fanfare of the Night Tube has been pretty funny: although it will help people get to and from Shoreditch/Bethnal Green, it doesn't feel like much of a revolution. One suspects more late night restaurants like Duck & fucking Waffle are on the way, rather than a nightclub resurgence. Though...

How is application of basic 0 decimal place rounding remotely bizarre? And if calling it bizarre is the least, what do you actually think is going on there? I am inferring a belief that you think bias, or maybe even a conspiracy, is in play here. I am going to politely suggest pulling back from...

There was a lot of noise on Twitter about this poll; it hasn't been adjusted to factor in those who won't/never vote. Once you do that, Conservatives lead Labour 36-35. https://twitter.com/benatipsosmori the source on that.

Hillingdon voted for Brexit too, as did Sutton. Yeah, slightly more of a tendency in East London suburbia but wouldn't get too carried away.

Er, not so much - there was a link, I pointed it out. But no, I don't think you're important honey.

I was dealing with a recruitment agent a few months ago who I found out wrote for Breitbart on the side. I lost a friend to Stefan Molyneux and his cultish nonsense a few months ago. Moly's arguments do sometimes hold a passing resemblance to Mr Tea's (I think specifically of a discussion...

1. Saying 'Your argument is shit' may not ad hominem, but it remains pretty fallacious and uncivil. 2. When you are questioning someone's motives for making an argument, as you have clearly done, then many would consider this an ad hominem (see the wikipedia entry). Others might prefer to list...

Interesting. It all sounds pretty culty when you put it like that. I'm not convinced 'hipsters' make particularly personal choices though.

Neither do I particularly. They're not really doing anything that people in the food trade aren't doing - I mean even Beigel Bake charge quite a lot to slather Nutella on a 25p beigel. I actually walked past the Camden one the other day and saw one of the grey haired twins. It's actually quite...

The thing is that it was a pretty good target - they got loads of publicity and mostly got away with it. Except it wasn't really targeted in any planned way apparently. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/29/cereal-killer-cafe-class-war-anti-gentrification-protest-independent-businesses

What about the Cereal Killer demo though?

It's still you. The above treats these things as all essentially equal, which aligns perfectly well with the point droid was making.

The thing is, in the actual issue at hand none of this happened. The Cereal Killer cafe has continued to trade perfectly well, so you're the one conflating people losing their homes with minor property damage.

You're either with Tea, or you're with the terrorists eh? Just because somebody does not deserve to be a victim of crime, does not necessarily make the explicit perpetrator wholly and morally responsible for the effects. The effects are contextualised by social structures, as are the underlying...

Owning any property in London makes you privileged now. I don't think I'm on record as supporting the riots. I thought they were an interesting pheomenon, but I was near enough some of them that I slept with my baseball bat. Clearly some shitty things happened to people and people's stuff and...

All of them? Have you asked them? ;-D It's not about you making vague talk about deploring 'economic violence' when pushed, it's about the broad-brush generalisations you make. And here we are with the HARDWORKINGFAMILIES~!. Owning a house that's worth ten or more times what you paid for it is...

It's just common sense godamit!!!! The truth is that I think context has changed enough that being a liberal in the trad sense just isn't really a real position now.