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@marksconway

Interested in - International Security - Human Development - History of Western Civilisation - Space Travel - Beautiful Towns & Wild Spaces.

United Kingdom Katılım Aralık 2011
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marksconway@marksconway·
You may not like it, but there is a growing unease about the effects that mass Islamic migration has had on the West, including terrorism, social cohesion, freedom of speech, rejection of Western liberal values, let alone what are considered British social norms, lack of integration, and disproportionate use of welfare. This is not fascism or extremism but a sense that elites won’t address these issues in a considered way and only scold and scream “conspiracy” when these concerns are valid and supported by evidence. All you actually end up doing is push people towards parties like Reform, not away from them.
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marksconway@marksconway·
May I ask: 457 British soldiers died in Afghanistan in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a more stable government and reduce oppression. Did you personally take part in defending your own country, or did you flee, as many others did, overwhelmingly young men like you, while women and children remain under Taliban rule, and you now live safely within an other society?
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marksconway@marksconway·
This data will not change the minds of those who support the current mass migration multicultural model. Firstly, even if they accept the data as valid, which many will not, they will say the reason certain immigrant demographics commit crime disproportionately is because of structural racism and other extraneous factors. Secondly, to admit that the reason there is disproportionate crime in some immigrant communities is due to internal cultural issues undermines the ideological framework of multiculturalism, which is now a foundational principle of establishment ideology. Admitting the mistake means that the slowing mass immigration from cultures has been a mistake and this opens up the possibility that something will have to be done about this, which could range from the suppression of religious and cultural beliefs to mass deportation. This is not a justification for anything; it is just a reality of how people think and the concept of the sunk cost fallacy and ideological commitment that goes beyond what the data informs.
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Mark W.@DurhamWASP·
Evelyn Waugh chatting with Elizabeth Jane Howard about being old [he was 60 at the time].
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Historyland@HistorylandHQ·
Oldest photograph of Paris in 1837. Taken from a lab window of the inventor. No people was captured because the exposure was 5-10 mins so all the people and traffic got fused and disappeared into the backdrop. Except one man that have a shoes cleaned on bottom right corner
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marksconway@marksconway·
The reality is that a significant number of British people, not wholly irrationally, nor solely out of racism (though racism does nevertheless exist, believe that Islam poses a significant threat to social cohesion and to what might be described as British social and cultural norms. That may be deeply uncomfortable for many liberal-minded people, but it is an issue that needs to be addressed.
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(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges·
If you want to argue public spaces should not be used for worship - because that’s exclusionary - fine. But condemning just one religious group, in this case Muslims, is bigotry. I’m not sure what the debate is.
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marksconway@marksconway·
I think this is a slightly different issue from projections of the Muslim population in Germany; it appears to refer more broadly to the share of people from all immigrant backgrounds. It seems that Indians, and likely other Europeans, and Muslim immigrants are all included within this projection.
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Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
Britain is 6% Muslim. Germany 5%. France 10%. Sweden 9%. Belgium 7%. At this rate of Islamic conquest, Europe will be majority Muslim sometime around the year 2847. I’d pencil in some mild concern for around 2600 and see how things look then. Now. The refugees. Since someone asked who’s paying for all this. Let’s follow the money back a bit further. America invaded Afghanistan, spent 20 years there achieving absolutely nothing, then left in such breathtaking chaos that people were literally hanging off aircraft. It then invaded Iraq over weapons that turned out not to exist, killed somewhere between 150,000 and a million people, and converted a functioning country into a sectarian hellscape. This is before we even get to the drones over Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. The people washing up on European shores are, in very large part, the direct human wreckage of American foreign policy. America created the disaster. Europe is housing the survivors. And America is on the internet asking why Europe keeps letting people in. Remarkable cheek, really. As for eliminating indigenous culture: the United States actually eliminated its indigenous people. Deliberately. With rifles and government paperwork. Europe took in Syrian doctors. These are not comparable situations, and pretending they are requires a truly heroic indifference to history. The culture is fine. France still has the cheese. The Louvre is still there. Bach is still there. Nothing has been eliminated except, apparently, the ability to read a percentage.
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav

Britain, Germany, Belgium, France and Sweden are in a race for which becomes the first Islamic country in Europe. They just keep importing more and more fake refugees every chance they get. Who is paying for this intentional elimination of the indigenous people and culture?

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Itō@ItoIian·
@grok @marksconway @Microinteracti1 Grok isn't factoring the median (old) age of the native population and the median (young) age of the muslim population. So that's how it gets the middle of the road projection.
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marksconway@marksconway·
@FuriousManiati You are making my exact point: with one carrier requiring regular refits, and no second carrier to provide cover, availability is inherently part-time. 🤷‍♂️
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marksconway@marksconway·
@FuriousManiati Charming. OK, does my 11 years service in the Royal Marines and several deployments on UK carriers and amphibious assault ships count?
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marksconway@marksconway·
@FuriousManiati I have not seen it, to be honest; I am basing my assessment on what I learned during my postgraduate degree in international security.
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Simon Kuestenmacher
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600·
Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…
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marksconway@marksconway·
@nicholadrummond I can see a meeting of France’s enemies. Their aircraft carrier is a real threat to us if we attack now. However, it is due to enter an 18-month refit next month, and they have no replacement. In that case, we are all agreed: we should wait a month before attacking.
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Nicholas Drummond
Nicholas Drummond@nicholadrummond·
France's Porte-Avions Nouvelle Génération (PANG) or New Generation Aircraft Carrier is formidable: • Displaces 75,000 tonnes • Nuclear powered • 2,000 crew • 30 fixed-wing aircraft - Rafale, SCAF, & E2 Hawkeye • 6-8 ASW helicopters. • Expected cost: €10 billion. As impressive as the "France Libre" will be, I worry that it puts too many eggs in one basket. In a world of naval drones and hypersonic missiles, three smaller vessels might be preferable to one big one.
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marksconway@marksconway·
Actually it’s was first the Norse who founded Dublin, then the Anglo-French Normans, then lastly the English, Scottish and Welsh Protestants who colonized Ireland and like all the preceding groups became Irish over the centuries. You may not like it but Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and recognized in international law as such. A million plus people live there who see themselves as British but also as Irish as you are. Only a sectarian bigot would say they are not Irish.
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Conan@CoeyUTV·
@marksconway @babyjan99813012 @RoryStewartUK @FennellJW What?? Theres nothing internal about it you fucking piece of shit Also, i never they were a NATO member when they did. The English took our fucking Island, its not internal you fucking dickhead, its not their fucking land You sound like a protestant loyalist piece of shit
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marksconway@marksconway·
That’s not true, the UK as a NATO member has never attacked the Rupblic of Ireland. NATO was formed in 1949 and the Irish War of Independence ended in 1921. Whether you agree or not with Irish unification, the Troubles were an internal UK conflict and the Irish government worked extensively with the UK to combat republican paramilitary groups like the Provisional IRA.
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Philip Oldfield
Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall·
London has built lots of flats…but few people want to buy them Since 2014, some 20,000 flats have been completed in Wandsworth. But nearly 40% of modern flats there have sold at a loss in the last 5 years archive.is/A3rfy
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