(04-07-2017 05:35 PM)TigerMandingo Wrote: (04-07-2017 08:19 AM)H1N1 Wrote: I can't in good conscience use the word 'elites' in the way many here use it. I am from a background whereby I went to school with, and count as friends, many of those you would label as being part of the 'elite'. From a life time of staying at their houses, sharing institutions with them, and being considered a part of that world, I do consider a lot of the wackier stuff about 'elites' and their conspiracies to be fundamentally removed from reality, and divorced from reason.
Like any other group, there are some good ones, some bad ones, and some that probably go either way depending on whether you're in their strata or not.
You will notice, as will any fair minded audience, that I have not been the one to call any names, or cast any aspersions, though one or two have been cast my way in response. I have provided my thoughts, and my reasons for them. They have been substantiated by argument and reference to history, and are there to judge on their own merits.
If there are reasoned objections to the points I have made, then I have yet to hear them. 'Globalist shill' or the implication thereof, is about as close as you, or the others, have come to any kind of meaningful refutation. I'm quite open to debate, quite averse to being silenced by cheap slurs.
You went to school with elites? Well, why didn't you say so before?!
This changes everything! I'll be more than happy to notify respected journalist F. William Engdahl, the deceased Carroll Quigley, or Gary Allen and countless other brave souls who spent decades studying the inner workings and machinations of: ruling classes, Bilderberg conferences, and the Trilateral commission.
Fuck, now it's all null and void due to esteemed RVF member H1N1's groundbreaking revelation that not only did he attend school with elites but that "some of them are good people."

Hold on a minute. Don't piss a golden opportunity down the drain.
If esteemed RVF member H1N1 says he went to school with the elites, then I believe him, and good for him. We should be embracing him, not shooing him away.
He didn't say what his level was at. It might be superfluous or he might be king of the free world. I tend to think that he is just sharing with us a certain sphere of influence that he might have enjoyed. He's not the enemy.
Stuff like this is Gold to us downtrodden Brits. We never get to speak to these people. It's pretty obvious that H1N1 is a cut above, and I mean that in a genuine way. Not snarky, not obsequious.
I know that H1N1 doesn't need idiots like me fighting his corner, but steady on!
He was just giving a glimpse in to life as he saw it. We might not even have to agree with him, but to just have a go at him for sharing his world with us? Not on.
It's really hard to fight the corner of someone like H1N1, because he will never look for outside influence to help him in his cause. So I'm not fighting his corner.
He certainly doesn't need me to help fight his battles. I'm not trying to. But I would like to hear what he has to say about current affairs if he can spare the time.
Don't get all knotted up by words like 'elites' or whatever. Everything is relative. I'm pretty sure his upbringing was 'elite' compared to mine. But he has shown me nothing but true respect in his dealings with me.
If he chooses to share a little bit of his world with us, then I say we should not scare him away. It sounds silly me saying this about a much more high post high rep high iq member. H1N1 is a rare gem on this forum. Maybe you need to be a Brit to understand that. Please don't take his words at such surface value.
I've got a lot of things that I would like to ask him, and he says a lot of things I do not understand. But I already agree with most of you. I want H1N1 to explain his position if he can, because I believe it will enrich me.
We don't need safe spaces here, but I just want to say I'm all ears for H1N1 to just elucidate on some of the points he has made. If he didn't make those points earlier for whatever reason, well I can understand that. But I like to be able to hear what a man has to say. H1N1 does not mince his words and does not shirk his position on things.
And if he is really 'elite' and comes from a good family, then so what? As long as he has the interest of his peers in mind, then that is all good. Nothing he has said or done makes me think this is not the case. We need interfaces with other worlds and strata of society.
We must not turn on each other. Every man here has a 'common purpose' and aim. We must be able to communicate. And then we will be able to judge upon the facts presented, or just the general 'feel' of things presented.
We are all brothers here. Until proven different.
I really take exception to several things he has said, but I will wait for him to answer himself. And I am sure he will, in good time.