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Tesseraction posted:Comically enough technically he isn't. He was born a citizen of the United States of America. In New York, to be precise. He holds dual citizenship but his whole "guilt by country association" is pretty funny given he's half a citizen of a colony that fought a revolution to get out of Britain. And they didn't keep him; just another of America's many crimes.
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So an American immigrant that is best buds with an Australian immigrant that is responsible for an awful lot of decision-making in this country, usually objectively for the worse, doesn't like it when an American-Kenyan makes a suggestion about what he thinks is best for the future of the country.
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Tesseraction posted:I think the problem is suggesting that someone born in the US and having only visited post-colonial Kenya probably doesn't have some melanin-carried hatred for the perfidious Churchill. I'd guess an awareness of/interest in his ancestry is probably likely to make him aware of how criminally the British behaved in Kenya. That's definitely a good thing tho.
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Apr 22, 2016 13:28
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Tesseraction posted:Comically enough technically he isn't. He was born a citizen of the United States of America. In New York, to be precise. He holds dual citizenship but his whole "guilt by country association" is pretty funny given he's half a citizen of a colony that fought a revolution to get out of Britain. He doesn't hold duel citizenship any more, he dropped his American one for tax reasons. You're the only person here who thinks the Liberal Democrats aren't a poo poo parody of a political party
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Miftan posted:I've seen foreign PMs fly into Luton before. What a depressing first impression of the UK.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:He doesn't hold duel citizenship any more, he dropped his American one for tax reasons. Ahhhh I was wondering how he got out of that kerfuffle. MrL_JaKiri posted:You're the only person here who thinks the Liberal Democrats aren't a poo poo parody of a political party I was going to change this to *former until I realised you said 'parody of'
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Looks like Fartrage is weighing in, and for once he's being somewhat reasona-Nigel Farage posted:Look, I know his family’s background. Kenya. Colonialism. There is clearly something going on there. It’s just that you know people emerge from colonialism with different views of the Britsh. Some thought that they were really rather benign and rather good, and others saw them as foreign invaders.Obama’s family come from that second school of thought and it hasn’t quite left him yet. Oh.
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Barry Foster posted:Looks like Fartrage is weighing in, and for once he's being somewhat reasona- The fact there are british people that know what colonialism is and still respond with "what's the problem" is amazing
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Barry Foster posted:Looks like Fartrage is weighing in, and for once he's being somewhat reasona- Only one of these groups were correct though.
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Spangly A posted:The fact there are british people that know what colonialism is and still respond with "what's the problem" is amazing The number of people I've met who start unironically quoting back the 'What have the romans ever done for us?' bit from Life of Brian when the subject comes up makes me want to be buried alive
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Barry Foster posted:makes me want to be buried alive In solidarity with the colonial victims who literally had that happen?
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Tesseraction posted:In solidarity with the colonial victims who literally had that happen? Some of those buried alive, tortured, robbed and shot might have wanted it to happen and considered it benign and good actually.
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Puntification posted:Some of those buried alive, tortured, robbed and shot might have wanted it to happen and considered it benign and good actually. Well, yeah. Don't kinkshame.
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I wonder if he will say that since Sadiq Khan was born into a family of Pakistani immigrants he will naturally hold grudges against Glorious Albion for the partition or something. By his logic the hysterical foreign-borns with their grudges shouldn't go about offering their opinions on things. That's for important chaps like Boris and Big Nige.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:He doesn't hold duel citizenship any more, he dropped his American one for tax reasons. He hasn't yet - he keeps on threatening to, but the Americans are very disaproving of people who drop citizenship for tax reasons, and it looks like he'd have to pay all the taxes he owes to even be considered being allowed to. Besides, BoJo is of partially Turkish descent - something he used to be really proud of until he decided he needed to lurch to the right to attract the Tory voters who may be upset by some of the left-ish noises he needed to make to be electorally viable in London.
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Boris really thinks he is churchill e: thats why hes so mad about the bust Phoon fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Darth Walrus posted:Well, yeah. I suppose if colonialism was just a munch that got out of hand it does explain the uniforms.
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Phoon posted:Boris really thinks he is churchill they do have similarly ridiculous jowls
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Phoon posted:Boris really thinks he is churchill he'd be more entertaining if he was also a massive alcoholic imo
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Apr 22, 2016 14:35
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Tesseraction posted:who says he isn't? hard to maintain a habit on £300 bottles of claret
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maybe that's where the London budget is going instead of improving the Underground
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac28Uc01T6I I don't know what else to say about this other than bravo Sirs, bravo.
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J_RBG posted:hard to maintain a habit on £300 bottles of claret Maybe for your average pleb but this is a Tory you're talking about. He can take baths in the stuff.
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Ddraig posted:Maybe for your average pleb but this is a Tory you're talking about. He can take baths in the stuff. I'd written that before I learnt he's raking it in off a Telegraph column In a just world a Telegraph column would earn you a stick of liquorice and a pat on the head
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In a just world it'd just earn you stick.
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J_RBG posted:I'd written that before I learnt he's raking it in off a Telegraph column He's called that "chicken feed" in the past, rescale your expectations of how much money the wealthy have
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J_RBG posted:hard to maintain a habit on £300 bottles of claret At that much a hit you don't have a 'habit' you have a 'characterful eccentricity'.
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J_RBG posted:I wonder if he will say that since Sadiq Khan was born into a family of Pakistani immigrants he will naturally hold grudges against Glorious Albion for the partition or something. By his logic the hysterical foreign-borns with their grudges shouldn't go about offering their opinions on things. That's for important chaps like Boris and Big Nige. Nige, with the very definitely salt of the earth English surname Farage. Guy's got some skeletons in closets of his own.
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ookiimarukochan posted:He hasn't yet - he keeps on threatening to, but the Americans are very disaproving of people who drop citizenship for tax reasons, and it looks like he'd have to pay all the taxes he owes to even be considered being allowed to. Not just turkish, he's got swiss and french in there somewhere as well. But also a king of Britain (George II) apparently, I was looking it up earlier. He's magnificently loving hypocritical.
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Nige, with the very definitely salt of the earth English surname Farage. Guy's got some skeletons in closets of his own. Weirdly he's changed the pronunciation over the years. He used to introduce himself rhyming his name with carriage
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XMNN posted:or garage I worried over that one. We have a lot of toffs in here who don't say garage properly.
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I had a lot of trouble when the thread title was nigel farage barrage garage because it fits neither my pronunciation of garage or farage.
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nigel farej barej garaaaaarge surely?!
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Nigel Garbage.
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