What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

The Current Affairs forum here. Honestly I think it’s heavily populated by government annd NGO employees whose sole job is to post on online discussion forums pushing their employer’s agenda. You have the same usernames posting several times all day getting embroiled in convoluted arguments and counter arguments. Do these people have nothing better to be doing?

I was thinking similar with regard to one particular thread.

One very prolific poster seems to have taken a backseat recently at the same time another poster seems to have joined and playing a similar role.

See also the 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Samoa_measles_outbreak

It seems like he just doesn't believe in germ theory. Sorry I tried to put the below videos in a spoiler section. The first one looks at his attitude to the rotavirus vaccine and shows how he just makes stuff up and his rejection of germ theory, and the second has a look at one of his claims that the Spanish flu may have started from vaccine research. Also in the last couple days he has publicly gone chemtrail.

I think you are being a little dishonest with that comparison.

Yeah no doubt they're an improvement on what has one before; the 80's prefabs were the solution then but were problematic after a few years.

I don't see modular homes as the solution to the housing issue that they are being touted as. We need more choice and modular can be part of that along with apartments/retirement villages/housing estates that offer variety rather than the same cookie cut stuff. A solution that challenges the cost would be good, but the longevity and sustainability needs to be assured.

…wouldnt be overly worrying about it folks, what needs to be done, wont be done, for a very long time, so we ll still be talking about this in 10 years time, only difference being, the problem will be much much worse then!!

I agree with the issues you've listed, there's no easy answer. The skilled labour has been a known issue for five to ten years that's not been addressed. Immigration is therefore a requirement; that's a topic in itself.

In relation to modular homes, I foresee them being installed en-masse in suburban gardens to solve peoples immediate and warranted housing needs/desires, but being a hangover in the future. I've seen enough modular builds on paper/brochure; what landed on site was largely a disappointment.

im not convinced much of anything is gonna happen anytime soon, theres simply no political momentum there to try truly resolve the problem, and the opposition are also truly awful, so, its very likely we ll maintain the status quo, and keep voting back in the same government over and over, yielding the same outcome…..

I was focusing on the "not normal" part there. It's a loaded term, so I wanted to draw attention to it. Also left-handedness isn't something that needs to be cured. Why should autism?

As for autism in particular, the issue is more complicated than he makes out. There are generally three levels of support (as per the DSM 5) with 1 the lowest. RFK jr refuses to acknowledge that, referring to "full-blown" autism, which isn't a term used by anyone else. Support levels can vary for a given person over time, which also complicates things.

Just last year, Kemi Badenoch published a pamphlet which claimed that autistic people get better treatment, which led to criticism from a range of people: autistic people and family members of people with autism:

Here's the reply from the National Autistic Society in the UK:

So there's a tendency to use people as a political football. Understandably people are wary of that.

As for Jack Daw - well, he seems to want to define who is autistic or not, but what criteria he's using. I don't know what qualifications he has in the area. I'm wary, though.