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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Our Cabinet League Tab... · 0 replies · +1 points

They're equipped with "type 1 and type 2" chargers which means limited to 3.7 or 7kW output.

Charge rates are something around 5 miles per kWh, so you're looking at 30 mins or so to get a 10 mile rescue charge off a 3.7kW, 15 off a 7.

Or they can just tow you if it's not safe like they do every other car, of course!

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Invictus: Is it time t... · 0 replies · +1 points

Great. Glad you agree that you were talking nonsense.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Invictus: Is it time t... · 1 reply · +1 points

That's a completely different issue to "they're complaining about stuff in this country but they don't care about stuff in Africa"

Can I take it that you agree that what you originally posted was tosh?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Invictus: Is it time t... · 2 replies · +1 points

>As for BLM, it seems curiously blind to the loss of black lives in present day Africa. For this reason alone we should not take BLM seriously.

That's a load of tosh and whataboutery. On a par with saying "we shouldn't have food banks in the UK when there are starving people elsewhere in the world" - the prevailing attitude on this site is "we should be dealing with the problems at home before dealing with problems abroad" vis foreign aid, etc.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Vaccines. The United K... · 1 reply · +1 points

>The Conservatives have room for broad ranges of opinions.

Hah! If only that were true.

The modern Tory party has no place for anyone who thinks that Brexit has downsides and that the EU has sometimes done something worthwhile. The amount of abuse that I, a Tory who spent 24 years voting for the Conservatives, have had because my view was "I can see the good bits and the bad bits of the EU but on balance I think we were better off in with a voice rather than out with none" has driven me away from the modern Tory party.

Well, it'd be more accurate to say that my political views have stayed the same but the modern Tory party has moved away from me.

So; small government, fiscally conservative, low tax, socially conservative, supporting equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome, all of that means nothing compared to the fact that I don't think the EU is irredeemably evil.

C'est la vie.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ben Roback: What do Bi... · 1 reply · +1 points

>The President could not have incited the incursion into the Capitol in his speech at the Ellipse, because he was still speaking to the very orderly rally there of half a million, at 1.17. The Capitol was a mile away, and the incursion began at 12.52..

You are factually incorrect.

While people started pressing the capitol police and walking up to the Capitol at about 12:52 EST there was no incursion into the Capitol building proper until about 14:00 EST.

Trump exhorted people to fight - "if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country any more" - and he directed people to the Capitol specifically. His speech stopped at 13:10 EST (not 13:17 EST) and that's more than enough time for those listening to him to make it the just 1.6 miles to the Capitol building by 14:00 when the incursion into the Capitol buildings actually started.

Trump told people to fight 20 times in the speech and told them he was going to walk with them to the Capitol (a lie, unsurprisingly)

And all this is without considering that Trump's words were broadcast across the media and available to the people at the Capitol building just as much as they were to the people in the ellipse.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ben Roback: What do Bi... · 1 reply · +1 points

The side with the burden of proof (the accusers) showing zero evidence on any of the counts is not "throwing out the case on technicalities"

It was incumbent on the Trump legal team to provide any proof of their allegations other than hearsay. They failed to do so, time and time and time again.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - More restrictions cons... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm not saying you're a flat earther or an antivaxxer. I'm saying you have the same attitude - that you know better than the scientists.

And, I mean, you can't argue with that, can you? I've given you 90+ scientific studies (each of which show their methodology, their data and their conclusions) showing that masks work and you still choose to believe your own narrative rather than the science.

>obviously it doesn't work there

Except, it does? No-one says that lockdowns will make the virus go away, they've always said they will bring the number of cases down - which they do. Each and every time.

It's not experimental when it's a proven mitigation.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ben Roback: Will Trump... · 0 replies · +1 points

So, you're conceding that this is not "writing a new law" but instead using one which exists already?

And given the law in question has been on the books for at least 150 years if not more than 200 (first president impeached was Andrew Johnson...) it's odd that you're suddenly against the house and senate using it. I assume you complained just as much when they impeached Clinton?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ben Roback: Will Trump... · 2 replies · +1 points

You mean using the existing laws to ban someone who's shown he's unfit for public office from public office? Not sure that counts as "literally writing a law" there. More "the system works".

Trump motivated record numbers to vote against him.

Despite two months of one of the biggest investigations of all times the sum total of voter fraud which has been discovered is two. Both fraudulently voting for Trump.

It's either a perfect conspiracy (hint such a thing doesn't exist), and the largest conspiracy of all time... or Trump lost. Occam's razor applies.

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