What has that comment got to do with eugenics?
All we’re doing is buying time so there aren’t people left to die right now.
let me guess, you are a muldoon and you love GGA?
I think he has confused eugenics with Darwinism
It’s actually far worse than mere eugenics. It’s reminiscent of the Nazi’s Aktion T4 programme in its ideology. “Cleansing” the “race” of the weak. Eugenics and Aktion T4 were indivisible.
When you strip far right politics down to its bare bones, it’s always about holocausts and the next holocaust.
The likes of @ironmoth and @labane1917 are true believers in that not just demonstrably insane but objectively evil ideology.
And it permeates the right-wing regimes we see in place today and their attitudes to human life and dealing with this crisis.
The Spanish Workers party are well ahead on the social Darwinism scale.
Scratch a socialist and you find a Nazi lurking underneath.
Scratch a nazi and he’ll wipe out your demographic
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With such spectacularly self-unaware stupidity, and on such a grand scale, you should take care you don’t end up as one of @ironmoth’s chosen weak to be sacrificed.
@labane1917 and @ironmoth were initially called the Galway Nazi clique as a joke.
Who could have guessed the nickname would turn out to be so eerily accurate.
Of course. I’m not arguing that it’s not necessary. But there will come a point where decisions will have to be made and anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves
Political leadership will have to be strong as the social media calls to lockdown wont ease up in my view.
Its not going to be easy to open up countries again within the next 6 months.
@Dziekanowski - agreed the likes of the ECB can print money all they want but we’ll have to pay it back with interest.
Covid-19 will be alongside the USC on peoples payslips potentially.
That’s not the case. It’s only the case if it’s mishandled. Inflation is badly needed anyway.
Central banks now have very limited ability to do anything worthwhile. They can print money but that will lead to massive inflation, especially as we may have food shortages. The stimulus actions taken last week in the US are not funded by the Federal Reserve, they are from the Treasury. They are borrowing $6T to fund it and yes it will have to be paid back. By our kids and grandkids, and their grandkids.
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A real Nazi or a pretend Nazi?
Some sort of inflation is needed, negative interest rates are mad. Quantitive easing wont keep working longterm especially with this lockdown. Needs to be measured though. Mortgage holders here would be crippled as most of us are already carrying the tracker fuck up.
Good podcast this.
Mark Blyth’s on Second Captains is worth listening to as well. Far from Central Banks having little power to do anything worthwhile, they have a massive amount of power to right the system.
Inflation would be a godsend for mortgage holders. Inflation is how debt gets paid back.
McWilliams says that with the firepower the ECB can unleash, mortgage interest rates could go down and everybody transferred onto that low rate, as banks would be effectively paid to lend. And transferring mortgage holders onto that low rate would be a massive PR victory for whichever bank/s did it.
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In an ideal world that would be great. Unfortunately though we’re dealing with banks that are for the most part government owned and still charge 1-2% higher than our EU neighbours. I can’t see them passing on that. Be great if they did of course.
So why didn’t you say that in the first place. Ya loon. Anyway back to quickly scrolling past your posts. I got caught out by the short length of that post truth be told. Carry on.
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It generally doesn’t take long to catch you out.