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Ditto..

Come on Gusmac, you’ve got to admit. Your argument for independence is banal at best. Oh and as for taxi drivers and especially Ph, drivers, they are pretty thick, and you don’t have to be an intellectual zealot to notice it.

Actually, I don't have to admit anything of the sort.


No, but for some people it seems to help

The trade attracts all sorts who, for various reasons, don't take too well to normal employment.
Some are very intelligent, others as thick as shit in a bottle.
Some are well educated, others can barely read or count without help.
But don't confuse education with intelligence - they are not the same.
This country's finest educational establishments routinely turn out some of the best educated idiots on the planet.

Still, as an intellectual pigmy, why should it matter what I or any of Jim's supposed intellectual inferiors think?
We're just not important to him and, as long as you sing from the same hymn sheet, we are equally unimportant to you.

You say you seek open and accountable government. Your friend does not, and you won't get it from him.
He seeks a darker, more sinister system where the most intelligent rule and the rest simply do as they are told.
He also imagines that he should be in charge, since he doesn't accept that anyone is even his equal, let alone his superior - and that includes you.

It's intellectual fascism Gary and it's no prettier than it's political equivalent.

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Gusmac writes:

Agreed.


Agreed.

True.


I would say, don't confuse intelligence with intellect - they are not the same.


And that would be my point also.



I would disagree on that point. It’s not about singing from the same hymn sheet. It's about knowing when you have an inferior argument, in support of what you want to believe but fail to improve your argument or to change your mind set, but prefer to remain wilfully ignorant.



You are wrong; Jim does seek an open and accountable government, but also knows that as long as people remain wilfully ignorant, it will never happen.



No, he sees a system based on deception but is not deceived by it.



I would say, with regarding the vast majority that frequent this taxi forum, you could be right.



I don’t know about intellectual fascism, but it’s very frustrating, trying to debate with people who only seek approval or reassurance for what they already believe.

Some might say, people that are incapable of critical thought.

And you know this how? Because he says so?



What he sees is irrelevant, it's what he seeks to replace it with that matters.
He wants to replace the fat cats with the smart ones and he fancies himself as being the smartest.




Then I would say you share his delusions.
You will see his true colours one day, when you disagree with him on a public forum. And it will happen.



Touché. What do you think makes you two any different?
You and he also have entrenched positions. It is impossible to debate with someone who only wants to publicise his views and insult or belittle anyone who disagrees.

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Gusmac, you seem to subscribe to a belief system of some sort. Like most people in this country, whereas we prefer to question everything, until we have reason to do otherwise. Which is rare?

I am of no particular, socio-political religious persuasion. It doesn’t even enter my head. I am, however, interested in how people can be controlled and manipulated into believing that a system based on deception, represents their best interests, especially when it lacks the checks and balances to hold those who run the system, on their behalf, to account. Although, they would have you believe differently.

Oh and don’t you see Gusmac. This is not my opinion; you and I are the living proof of what we are talking about.
I think we can dispense with a debate about bankers, politician’s expenses, illegal Wars and tax avoiding multinational companies. You obviously get the flavour of where I am coming from.

Yet you believe you are voting for something different, a new beginning perhaps?

Gusmac, what you believe is not only naïve. It’s laughable and ridiculous in the extreme.

Now Gusmac, tell me again about critical thought, entrenched positions and what makes us different?

Spare us the bullshit Skull.

Your message and that of your intellectually superior friend is the same. Details are not important.
Change must be the way you want it, or it's not change.
Anyone who doesn't agree is a window licking drooler, end of.

What that really means in practice...No change..because it's not going to happen.
Not now and not any time soon. You know it, I know it, he knows it. So does anyone else who hasn't actually lost the will to live by now.......

Oh, and whether it's by accident or design, that's still NO.

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Now where's that proclaimers video you both liked so much..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u3KeIsi ... e=youtu.be

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So you have no argument to speak of. No way to tell us, where we have it wrong, and what it is to want answers to relevant questions regarding why nothing really changes. And why numpties like you, just keep on voting, hoping in vain for something to happen. What is it Gusmac, a hunch, an instinct or perhaps someone living on a cloud is going to answer your prayers?

Way-to-go, Gusmac, you are proving my point better than I ever could.


Oh and Gusmac, I don't think Jim, and I, being intellectually superior was never the issue. It's just a hard reality of life and a cross we shall have to bear.

Oh and your wee videos are a little childish, don't you think?

You see how hard you are making it for us, to treat you as an equal, when you’re obviously an idiot?

Oh and mind and give yourself a pat on the back, for your youtube video.

Incidentally gusmac, I hate to admit it, but the lyrics in the Proclaimers video, make a valid point. If we actually had people we could trust and could hold them to account.

Sadly, until you can change the system, by putting in the checks and balances required. It’s business as usual. I only wish it were not the case.

I do love the way you two think you can put forward any old cockeyed theory, without a shread of evidence to back it up.
Sorry boys, its bullshit.

Now its my turn.

You want the union but can't come up with much of a reason to vote for it.
I have to admit, its more inventive than anything the bitter together mob have come up with.
Still bullshit though.
Prove otherwise.

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What we are putting forward is not a theory, you retard, it’s a fact. There is no independent arbiter to handle complaints and no way to hold politicians directly accountable, to the electorate. Once in power they can do what they like. You’ve witnessed this time and time again, from the poll tax to politician's expenses, fighting illegal wars to allowing multinational companies to escape paying their taxes.

Oh and the closest thing we have to a transparent government, is the Freedom of Information Act.

What you are proposing is to vote in is another political class boy's club to work for the wealthy elite both north and south of the border.

Gusmac, you truly are a naive fool and a dreamer.

And you think we want the Union, unfortunately Gusmac, there isn't any real alternative.

Oh and Gusmac, Jim's right, you are an intellectual pygmy.

What the fu*k is this?


"Without a shred of evidence" have you been living on another planet for the past thirty years? Imagine even believing your comment to be clever. What a fu*king Muppet.

Tell me one place in this world that is as you describe.

And don't forget to call me a retard again.

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