@ericweinstein Snip taken from the Guardian article below; keep in mind that this current wave of articles appears to be driven primarily by second hand witness accounts.
@jimma54@MarkmacDC It’s not just the far left that think the language being used by elected officials discussing immigration is dangerous. You’re trying to deflect attention and it’s a pretty weak.
@SwishFibre please have a word with the door 2 door sales people out and about in South northants, outrageous pressure selling tactics from them a few minutes ago when my wife said "can't talk right now as the dinner is cooking", they replied "we'll cut you off then!". Shoddy
@ABlokeWhoCares@StokesAj@thecarolemalone No doubt some pissed up loudmouth would try and shout him down, but what Lineker said was very specific and quite accurate. If pressed, I imagine his solution would be to offer safe legal routes for people to claim asylum as this appears to be about stopping the boats?
@Soupdaddy00@MickWest Blanket dismissal? Not at all, but there's got to be something to analyse beyond the initial story otherwise it will never go anywhere. The lack of genuinely compelling evidence is damning; witness testimony isn't enough, prosaic explanations will always be more likely.
@Soupdaddy00@MickWest You seem to be saying that people who deny ETI on earth are dismissing the possibility anywhere in the universe? Which is plainly nonsense.
@chriswillmore@andrealeadsom It's such an obvious solution that you'd be for given for thinking that they dont really give a fuck about human trafficking.
@Losianka1@OzKaterji I don't disagree, my actual point was around the framing of a genuine left wing activist as a Trump analogue; ridiculous hyperbole and symptomatic of the degradation in civil discourse.
@Losianka1@OzKaterji I don't agree with her, but I understand where she's coming from. Comparing the Russian invasion to 1938 Germany is a false equivalence too, there were no nuclear weapons in 1938 for starters.
@Losianka1@OzKaterji Completely ignoring my question Losianka; she's a left wing activist, I very much doubt that there are other similarities with Trump which is why I asked Oz to qualify his comment.