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[Yodean]

Personally, I don't think sports mixes well with politics.

Most watch sports as an escape, a distraction, from the "serious" business of life, including politics; part of the modern "bread and circuses."

I don't need Lebron to tell me how to interpret the Hong Kong crackdown by the CCP in '20 - I just want to see what he can do on the court.

Some would say the severe drop in NBA viewership in '20/'21 was in large part due to the BLM stuff.

With that said, I felt extreme admiration for Djokovic's pro-independent thinking, anti-vax. stance in early-mid. 2020 - but then again, I was a Novak fan long before that. The Neo-Marxist pendulum smashed him down after that, naturally - he's been fairly quiet publicly, since.

On the other hand, major sports figures are often great contrarian indicators when it comes to financial assets: ageless Tom Brady went bullish publicly on BTC a few weeks before the now infamous "May Day" crash:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/tom-bra ... trade.html

But boy, can the guy throw a pigskin . . .

[stefk]

Soccer is definitely finished for me, anyway I prefer rugby, they have more balls under the hood.....

https://youtu.be/kgTx3x87D3I

[stefk]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... d-cup-2022

These brainless soccer players, what gesture will they find to denounce the slavery in qatar.!!!????

These brainless little poodles will say nothing, they only follow the orders of their masters, bunch of hypocrits. And these brainless crowds, will they applaud these bastards in the mass graves stadiums?

[Budge]

beautiful ascending channel. The lower trendline seems to be solid.

Yes, but more importantly, may the Belgium futbol team stop Ronaldo today?

I completely boycot this belgian team, these muppets of the system set always a knee on the ground, stupid guys. What has belgium to do with blm? A multi recidivist, culprit of violence against women, who doesnt want to follow the orders of american cops, died at 8000 km of Belgium, what Have I to do with this american martyr ? And these stupid guys dont realize that a knee on the ground is the movement of the us cop on the neck of this martyr?

Stefk, If the Belgians were to show contrition they should be on their bellies and crawling in the mud rather than take a knee. In colonial times, under King Leopold II, the Belgians were monsters in the Belgian Congo. Estimates of 10 million Congolese murdered and countless mutilated. Belgians (and most of the colonial powers) should remember their history and atone for what they did rather than co-opt some empty gesture to prove they are more superior than non-kneelers.

As my old man used to say: "There's only one 'um': 'fuck um'"!

[Yodean]

Stefk, If the Belgians were to show contrition they should be on their bellies and crawling in the mud rather than take a knee. In colonial times, under King Leopold II, the Belgians were monsters in the Belgian Congo. Estimates of 10 million Congolese murdered and countless mutilated. Belgians (and most of the colonial powers) should remember their history and atone for what they did rather than co-opt some empty gesture to prove they are more superior than non-kneelers.

@Budge: lol, you were kinda quiet on the forums for a bit, I thought maybe the Deep State "John McAfee'd" you or somesuch ... good to have you back.

[stefk]

@Budge

King Leopold II was in the 19th century.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/106 ... istorical/

Do you see the estimated population of Congo in the 19th century? could you explain me how is it possible to genocide 10 millions people with a population of approximately 7 millions? Could you explain me how is it possible that the congolese population has risen from 5 millions in 1800 to 16 millions in 1961, under the awful genocidaire colonisation of the belgian monsters, these awful belgians who have done more victims than the nazis in ww2? or the figures are lying, or you are a liar, or you are brainwashed by the leftists?

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""Throughout the 19th century, this number would slowly but steadily rise, reaching over 8.7 million by the beginning of the 20th century. Like many countries in Africa, the DRC experienced a significant population boom, as rapid modernization, expansive economic growth and extensive vaccination campaigns led to a reduction in child mortality and an increase in life expectancy. ""

These fucking nazis belgians vaccinated and modernized the country during their occupation. Yes you are right, these Belgians are real basterds !!!!!!!!

[stefk]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/107 ... 1800-2020/

The same with the french genocide in Algeria. Algerian population in 1815 was 3millions. In 1961, 11 millions. I would like to have a scientific answer, is it possible to genocide a population by multiplying this population by 4 ?

[gnosis12]

@stflek
I think cooler minds should prevail and I agree with the other guy who stated that politics should not be introduced into this forum if one can't be cool about it. Calling someone a liar (budge) is a bit overhanded. As Sol states everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as they don't force it on others. I have noticed you have introduced several topics that could create fire. This is fine as long as everyone can keep cool. I suggest no more topics that have the option to turn explosive. We don't need to discuss politics, sports, and other subjects unless everyone is going to be calm about it.

Otherwise, I suspect Sol will be forced to have some members from his Team serve as moderators. I appreciate the freedom we have in this forum. Once again as Sol always states we should be observers and understand that others will have viewpoints that differ from us. Our response should be neutral and not laced with emotion otherwise we are embracing the mass mindset, where emotions do the talking and logic does the walking (another thing I remember Sol stating)

Let cool minds prevail

[stefk]

Budge says that Belgium committed a genocide, yes its cool. France committed genocide, cool, Portugal also. All europeans are genocidairs, thats what he says, ok, its a cool guy, a good observer.....

On this forum, we are real people, real men, its normal not always to stay neutral.

[bpcw]

Hope this helps, the scousers (Liverpool, UK)!

https://youtu.be/Si60-uxolNE

[bpcw]

I think the problem is overly identifying with a nation instead of seeing yourself and others as individuals separate from their nationality and nations history. Every nation has performed atrocities, looking at the past and letting it effect you negatively means you'll probably repeat the same mistakes, learning from them and using them to form more productive outcomes will lead to a more peaceful and content life. Bitterness is the cancer of the soul, the remedy is forgiveness (letting go of hurt).

And don't forget, the US is made up of people who can trace their roots back to many parts of the world, including much of Europe, what in fact is a nation that we so identify with?

[stefk]

I repeat the words of Budge :"" the Belgians were monsters in the Belgian Congo. Estimates of 10 million Congolese murdered and countless mutilated. Belgians (and most of the colonial powers) should remember""

Who is bitter? I regret but Im not an ethno masochist, nowadays, its cool, its modern to be ethno masochist, but I will never be an ethno masochist. These figures of 10 millions are false, its a british manipulation.

If you really want to know a part of the history of belgian colonisation, learn french and read Bernard Lugan

http://bernardlugan.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... u-roi.html

[George1010]

I repeat the words of Budge :"" the Belgians were monsters in the Belgian Congo. Estimates of 10 million Congolese murdered and countless mutilated. Belgians (and most of the colonial powers) should remember""

Who is bitter? I regret but Im not an ethno masochist, nowadays, its cool, its modern to be ethno masochist, but I will never be an ethno masochist. These figures of 10 millions are false, its a british manipulation.

If you really want to know a part of the history of belgian colonisation, learn french and read Bernard Lugan

http://bernardlugan.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... u-roi.html

This thread was supposed to be about this stock FYI.AX and then all unnecessary stuff was discussed. Politics like religion is a very dangerous topic to discuss and taking a Knee falls under politics and there are strong emotions surrounding this topic. For the record I disagree with the whole Knee Stand issue, but I am not going to rock the boat as I understand this is a highly porlarizing topic and at the end of the day it comes down to ego. if I win the argument my investments won't do better, I won't become a better person and if lose the argument the outcome is the same. So I choose not to engage in topics that have the potential to trigger an explosive outcome.

I think it is possible to be neutral almost all the time. When I lose my patience I take a step back and wait to cool down for I know that if start talking during that period when my temper is ready to flare things can go out of control.

Let's examine your claim about Budge. I am taking a neutral stance. You can't accuse Budge of lying because I just did a quick random search on Google and almost every result states that King Leopold slaughtered 10 million Congolese. Now let's assume that information is false. No one that is not from Belgium is going to want to spend hours finding out if it's valid or not. I certainly would not think to do so, unless the topic was of paramount importance to me. For you, this topic is of paramount importance so logically speaking you would take the time to weed the facts from the junk. Here are two screenshots from my google search and pay attention to the search I conducted. I am going to post the search term below

the truth about king Leopold and the Congolese genocide

I am going to post two screenshots




As you can see from the screenshots the top 5 results all seem to indicate that several million Congolese were killed. In fact, if scrolled through the top 10 and they all seemed to indicate that millions were killed by King Leopold. Again, this might not be true. I don't know I have not researched this topic deeply. Most individuals will not take the time to research a topic deeply, so based on the data available one could conclude that Budge made the statement based on the research that was available to him.

Here is the result 7 based on the search I conducted

King of Belgium 'regrets' crimes against Congolese. But is that enough?

King Philippe of Belgium sent a letter on Tuesday to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expressing his "deepest regret" over the atrocities committed by his ancestor Leopold II during the height of Belgium's colonial rule over the African country.

Although the letter was a watershed moment for DRC, which celebrated the 60th anniversary of its independence day on June 30, it fell short of a formal apology.

In his letter, the monarch wrote: “I would like to express my deepest regrets for these wounds of the past, the pain of which is now revived by the discrimination still too present in our societies”.

“I will continue to fight all forms of racism. I encourage the reflection that has been initiated by our parliament so that our memory is definitively pacified"

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/king- ... ough-37782

Those are the words from your own Monarch. If we take a full observer view, then one can conclude on the information that was available his analysis is not faulty and was not made with intent to cause problems. Now you conducted deeper research and once again I submit that very few people would dig as deep as you did.

My feeling is that you are both smart individuals and that we should do our best to avoid topics that are not necessary and can elicit strong emotional reactions. I think other than looking at the trend of polarization increasing, topics such as BLM, ANTIFA, Taking a Knee, Religion should be avoided as they don't bring much to the table and the odds of a spark exploding into a raging fire are quite high

[Budge]

Stefk, If the Belgians were to show contrition they should be on their bellies and crawling in the mud rather than take a knee. In colonial times, under King Leopold II, the Belgians were monsters in the Belgian Congo. Estimates of 10 million Congolese murdered and countless mutilated. Belgians (and most of the colonial powers) should remember their history and atone for what they did rather than co-opt some empty gesture to prove they are more superior than non-kneelers.

@Budge: lol, you were kinda quiet on the forums for a bit, I thought maybe the Deep State "John McAfee'd" you or somesuch ... good to have you back.

Hi Yodean, my sister in Calgary says it's been a bit warm up there - or is that just out west?

Son bought a 1992 home that's a wee bit neglected (undereffinstatement). Just finished renovating a bathroom but much more to do. Then I get back to my home on the beach and the hinges on the outside shower have rusted through..no good deed etc.

I have been on the sites daily, reading all the new posts.

[Budge]

I repeat the words of Budge :"" the Belgians were monsters in the Belgian Congo. Estimates of 10 million Congolese murdered and countless mutilated. Belgians (and most of the colonial powers) should remember""

Who is bitter? I regret but Im not an ethno masochist, nowadays, its cool, its modern to be ethno masochist, but I will never be an ethno masochist. These figures of 10 millions are false, its a british manipulation.

If you really want to know a part of the history of belgian colonisation, learn french and read Bernard Lugan

http://bernardlugan.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... u-roi.html

So it was all British "fake news". All those missionaries going in there and taking photos of Congolese missing limbs. And the disappearing population was down to the Zanzibar slave traders? According to Lugan the enlightened Belgians moved into the Congo to stop the slave trade and never plundered the Congo. Fuck off. All the colonial powers were at it and it comes to something when the rest of these powers combine to condemn Belgium's excesses. Or was that more British fake news?

'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.' (George Santayana)

The reason that the teaching of history is so abysmal is so lessons are not learned and if perchance they are they are easily forgotten or overwritten. Stanley Milgrim's experiments ("Behavioral Study of Obedience", et al) show how easy it is to revert to an automaton. Why is this critical? We are moving into another era of totalitarian rule. Unless we know what comes next, we have a problem opposing it.