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Jerry Manderbilt
May 31, 2012

No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.

quote:

Nigel Farage is set to lose in South Thanet, according to Labour sources.

:pray:

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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

zoux posted:

The Right Honourable Gentlemen from Stains Mr. Glasscock.

Sir Peter Bottomley, Member of Parliament for Worthing West

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013

Berke Negri posted:

someone explain to me why deflation is good

it is unequivocally bad unless you're like an accelerationist

Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

Jagchosis posted:

the funny thing about the uk is they have their own monetary policy and they're STILL doing austerity! just to shoot themselves in the dick! and the re-elected the guy who pulled the trigger!

karmic payback for colonialism imo

:agreed: I guess the NHS was just a fluke or something

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Jagchosis posted:

it is unequivocally bad unless you're like an accelerationist

thank you this was the right answer

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

V. Illych L. posted:

if you look at their loving crap houses, they cost more per square meter than norwegian houses do, and norwegian houses are better in basically every way

They also put carpet floors in the bathrooms.

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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Optimus Subprime posted:

:agreed: I guess the NHS was just a fluke or something

it was a product of the most radical and unequivocally best government the british had during the last century and this, the Attlee gov't of 1945-1950

that's right, in the ruin of world war 2 they managed to build the welfare state that every administration that followed them has chipped away at

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
has anyone considered using the money the BBC spends on outdoor tile maps to fund the NHS?

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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Joementum posted:

has anyone considered using the money the BBC spends on outdoor tile maps to fund the NHS?

the bbc is licence funded, so that would actually be extremely illegal

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Are the uk Canada Australia and the U.S. All run by right wing governments now?

Good job anglos

Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

V. Illych L. posted:

it was a product of the most radical and unequivocally best government the british had during the last century and this, the Attlee gov't of 1945-1950

that's right, in the ruin of world war 2 they managed to build the welfare state that every administration that followed them has chipped away at

ya beat hitler and feel pretty good about yourself and maybe ya give yourself a treat

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

V. Illych L. posted:

the bbc is licence funded, so that would actually be extremely illegal

maybe the UK should consider Health Licenses


(i'm angling for a position in government. how am i doing?)

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Optimus Subprime posted:

ya beat hitler and feel pretty good about yourself and maybe ya give yourself a treat

today is actually the 70th anniversary of Germany's surrender :bravo:

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


smh at all you deflationistas who responded

Jerry Manderbilt
May 31, 2012

No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.

Joementum posted:

today is actually the 70th anniversary of Germany's surrender :bravo:

and today fascism is slowly creeping back into the west :tinfoil:

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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euphronius posted:

Are the uk Canada Australia and the U.S. All run by right wing governments now?

Good job anglos

the uk has had their shite government for five years and just re-elected them

you people still have obama. that's right, america, shining bastion of leftism in the anglosphere, every other is either a complete idiot musclebrain, an inbred posh git, a vampire or a ponytail fetishist good heavens


Joementum posted:

maybe the UK should consider Health Licenses


(i'm angling for a position in government. how am i doing?)

cameron got some yankee health executive to run the nhs actually, so i'm sure you're well on your way

Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

new hardcore history episode is pretty :laffo: with carlin constantly using a disease analogy for communism

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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Berke Negri posted:

smh at all you deflationistas who responded

it's true, though, the moment the housing bubble bursts the british are even more hosed

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013

euphronius posted:

Are the uk Canada Australia and the U.S. All run by right wing governments now?

Good job anglos

+ new zealand

though we'll always have obama <3

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Optimus Subprime posted:

new hardcore history episode is pretty :laffo: with carlin constantly using a disease analogy for communism

in that using antibiotics to fight it also kills healthy cells and makes the disease harder to fight in the future?? :ussr:

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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V. Illych L. posted:

it's true, though, the moment the housing bubble bursts the british are even more hosed

like, without their militant fear of inflation the bubble might have burst already

of course, what they're doing now is pushing more and more air into the bubble, so lol

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Lol Obama is like the only thing holding back complete right wing orthodoxy in the anglosphere

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013

V. Illych L. posted:

the uk has had their shite government for five years and just re-elected them

you people still have obama. that's right, america, shining bastion of leftism in the anglosphere, every other is either a complete idiot musclebrain, an inbred posh git, a vampire or a ponytail fetishist good heavens


cameron got some yankee health executive to run the nhs actually, so i'm sure you're well on your way

i'm a D&Der who's unironically supported obama the entire time AMA

Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

Joementum posted:

in that using antibiotics to fight it also kills healthy cells and makes the disease harder to fight in the future?? :ussr:

we can only hope

also it owns that Arabs and other wealthy foreigners from former imperial vassal nations are a major driving force for the UK housing bubble

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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euphronius posted:

Lol Obama is like the only thing holding back complete right wing orthodoxy in the anglosphere

even worse: Hollande is going to lose in France (maybe even to loving Sarko), Merkel is sitting like a dragon on the chancellorship in Germany, Italy is being Italian, Podemos is failing to realise its potential, hungary has literal fascists and putin is invincible as always ah AHA AHHHHh

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

V. Illych L. posted:

even worse: Hollande is going to lose in France (maybe even to loving Sarko), Merkel is sitting like a dragon on the chancellorship in Germany, Italy is being Italian, Podemos is failing to realise its potential, hungary has literal fascists and putin is invincible as always ah AHA AHHHHh

also: Israel

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


dems would probably have cleaned up real nicely if McCain had won and ruined the country over two years

but we would never have obamacare

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I guess I didn't include India in the anglosphere

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

euphronius posted:

I guess I didn't include India in the anglosphere

:dogbutton:

Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

euphronius posted:

I guess I didn't include India in the anglosphere

conservative too! learned well from their former masters.

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Jagchosis posted:

i'm a D&Der who's unironically supported obama the entire time AMA

he's great

Mecca-Benghazi
Mar 31, 2012


Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

world war 3 is going to be fought between a whole bunch of conservative/fascist states gonna be a nice throwback to the imperial era

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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nahrendra modi is unironically the worst of the bunch, though, so hey

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013

though is a genocidal murderer really left?

woops answered my own question ^_^

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Optimus Subprime posted:

world war 3 is going to be fought between a whole bunch of conservative/fascist states gonna be a nice throwback to the imperial era

how do you think WW2 went down

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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even up in scandinavia everything is getting hosed - elections are around the corner, the Danish blairite PM is likely to get tossed out, the swedish social democrats are governing in a fragile-as-all-hell situation and norway has the most right-wing government we've had since we were occupied by nazis

breaagh

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Optimus Subprime posted:

world war 3 is going to be fought between a whole bunch of conservative/fascist states gonna be a nice throwback to the imperial era

Homura and Sickle
Apr 21, 2013

V. Illych L. posted:

even up in scandinavia everything is getting hosed - elections are around the corner, the Danish blairite PM is likely to get tossed out, the swedish social democrats are governing in a fragile-as-all-hell situation and norway has the most right-wing government we've had since we were occupied by nazis

breaagh

protracted times of economic crisis empowers subhuman rightwingers :eyepop:

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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
:lol: at the socialist candidate taking selfies before the count

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