What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

Surely it would have nothing to do with the fact that their idea of patriotism usually aligns with their opinions.

Just on the recent Aer Lingus Pilot strike fiasco, I'm really not that bothered that Mom/Dad and 2.4 children can't go on their hollibobs to Benidorm or similar climbs, lol.

Another excuse for parents to cry about how unfair it is on them. Ignoring the fact they weren't forced into having kids in the first place.

The media would never in a million years follow every move of this family if they were Muslims but evangelicals are even more ok to lampoon than Catholics

Not disagreeing with you, but they'd still be a serious pain in the arse even without the nedia

Honestly that just sounds like a nonsensical conspiracy theory

Yeah I thought the Jews were behind every real and imagined conspiracy. Or is it immigrants?

In any case, the English haven't been behind a conspiracy for a while. It's like they say, everything comes back into fashion eventually

C’mon El_D, it’s the NGOs now.

Soros and the Jews are so last year. But, of course, you already know that.

Are parents forced into having kids?

True, and he'd probably purge his contempt and slip out of jail unnoticed.

The late Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo who won the Nobel peace prize back in 2010 there is one particular quote attributed to him He’d written that it would take “300 years of colonialism” for China to become as civilized as Hong Kong,"

https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/death-dissident-chinafile-liu-xiaobo

What I'm gonna say next some may find controversial and I hope my post won't be removed or flagged as any sort of so called hate speech. But looking at it from a longer term point of view Liu Xiaobo was right I 100 % agree with the quote attributed to him. Hypothetical speaking if it could of been possible for all of China to of been colonized it would of been a necessary evil in the longer term. Presently in mainland China take human rights abuses / persecution of religious minorities / organised organ harvesting / forced brainwashing in camps under the guise of re education plus other cultural backwardness . Also take the Hong Kong protests before the outbreak of covid part of the reason why they protested for universal suffrage is they were exposed to enlightenment ideas vs most those in the mainland had not hypothetical speaking If all of China had of been colonized like Hong Kong in the longer term the mainland would be different to what it is today. Liu Xiaobo was 100 % right in his assessment may he rest in peace.

Actually China is more civilised than the west. If you want to see the future for the west, look at China.

Came here to post about here.

She's lapping it all up.

You can see her setting up a charity of some sort and drawing a tasty salary. Ironically….she could benefit a lot from this.

What happened to her was dreadful. The guy should be in prison.

I was assulted…..reported it, guy arrested, admitted the assault but nothing happened

I've had 2 bikes stolen and 1 bike damaged beyond repair from an attempted theft……all reported and nothing came from them.

I think there's a strange contradiction in criticising people on benefits having children and also knowing we need more children to run the country as the population ages.

If you're on benefits with a big family of 3 or 4 children, then you must have a very low expectation for your quality of life. And maybe they're right...

I'm in a 2 income house, careful with money, finally saved enough to buy a house. Have one child and weighing whether we can afford to have another child if we also want to live what my parents generation would consider any kind of middle class lifestyle. By which I mean having enough to do nice things as a family, buy groceries, pay the mortgage and probably have a family holiday most years, save some money for school and uni for the child and have a pension to fall back on in later life.

But I'm wondering if my expectations are wrong and people on benefits are more realistic. The era of normal people working on median income and owning a house, having a big family of 3 or 4 children and living comfortably, are coming to the end