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https://twitter.com/dentristcad/status/1076779094879158272?s=21 Chuck C Johnson goes East.
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So, I've only been vaguely following Brexit. Were there any laws in particular that the British found so onerous that they had to leave the EU?
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Dec 23, 2018 19:49
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Dec 23, 2018 19:50
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SimonCat posted:So, I've only been vaguely following Brexit. Were there any laws in particular that the British found so onerous that they had to leave the EU? EU banned memes or something?
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Dec 23, 2018 19:54
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the eu banned bendy bananas , if you can believe it
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Dec 23, 2018 19:59
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SimonCat posted:So, I've only been vaguely following Brexit. Were there any laws in particular that the British found so onerous that they had to leave the EU? They had to let brown people in.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:04
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It was mainly about hearing people talk foreign in public places.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:05
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MODS CURE JOKES posted:It's amazing how well right-wing media leads dipshits like hamprince by the nose. My dude, the only way it will ever matter is if credulous pantywaists like yourself allow it to matter. Oh wow, yeah, everyone in the universe cares a so much about Munich half a century later. You definitely won't sound like a loving wackjob if you go around talking about poo poo that didn't happen last week. when you've bought so hard into the jam man that you're yelling about how the guardian and independent are tory smear machines quote:A man and woman arrested in connection with drone sightings that grounded flights at Gatwick Airport have been released without charge. 
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Dec 23, 2018 20:10
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SimonCat posted:So, I've only been vaguely following Brexit. Were there any laws in particular that the British found so onerous that they had to leave the EU? The real kneejerking began late 90's/early 2000's with refugees of the Balkan wars and then Polish immigration. When that got boring the papers started going on about EU banning bendy bananas and back then even non-gammon people used it as a talking point (about silly bureaucracy). A rogue press, Tory government and Iraq/Afganistan/Libya wars and corresponding refugees drove the gammons into a mad-dog state. The Tories then acted surprised when the mad-dogs bit them. Regarde Aduck has issued a correction as of 20:15 on Dec 23, 2018 |
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Dec 23, 2018 20:12
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SimonCat posted:So, I've only been vaguely following Brexit. Were there any laws in particular that the British found so onerous that they had to leave the EU? combination of increasing anti-refugee sentiment in the wake of the middle east refugee crisis + free trade agreements and decades of patient dismantling of the welfare state requiring a convenient scapegoat to explain why everyone is living in misery
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Dec 23, 2018 20:14
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I recall a running tiff with the European Court of Justice where the UK tried to extradite a Salafist cleric named Abu Qatada to Jordan, but the courts wouldn't let them because the Jordanians might use evidence obtained using torture in his trial. Eventually the Jordanians agreed to omit such evidence and Qatada got extradited, but the right-wing press got a lot of "TERROR CLERIC FREED BY BRUSSELS" millage out of it. lots of little things like that in addition to the real motivating factor for brexit, the migrants coming to take your white van man jobs. Fallen Hamprince has issued a correction as of 20:21 on Dec 23, 2018 |
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Dec 23, 2018 20:18
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SimonCat posted:So, I've only been vaguely following Brexit. Were there any laws in particular that the British found so onerous that they had to leave the EU? The "Polish are people" law.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:23
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Grape posted:The "forrins are people" law. It's this op The main deal though is the EU and immigrants got scapegoated for all the obvious effects of neoliberalism since Thatcher. People call brexiteers stupid (they are) but literally the whole political/media consensus was agreed on this for decades: "the eu is barmy beauracracy and immigrants are making you poorer"
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Dec 23, 2018 20:34
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Regarde Aduck posted:The real kneejerking began late 90's/early 2000's with refugees of the Balkan wars and then Polish immigration. When that got boring the papers started going on about EU banning bendy bananas and back then even non-gammon people used it as a talking point (about silly bureaucracy). A rogue press, Tory government and Iraq/Afganistan/Libya wars and corresponding refugees drove the gammons into a mad-dog state. The Tories then acted surprised when the mad-dogs bit them. I'm doing a little reading on "bendy bananas" and a couple of things pop up. 1. Why the gently caress do the English have such lovely little cutesy names for things? "Brexit" "Bendy Bananas." 2. Why would anyone be against a standard applied to wholesalers regarding how they classify their produce so that the retailer who orders from them can be reasonably assured that the produce they are buying is of a visual quality that matches the consumer's expectations of what the produce should be?
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Dec 23, 2018 20:36
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Fallen Hamprince posted:I recall a running tiff with the European Court of Justice where the UK tried to extradite a Salafist cleric named Abu Qatada to Jordan, but the courts wouldn't let them because the Jordanians might use evidence obtained using torture in his trial. Eventually the Jordanians agreed to omit such evidence and Qatada got extradited, but the right-wing press got a lot of "TERROR CLERIC FREED BY BRUSSELS" millage out of it. In a nice repetition of history this was Theresa May as home secretary making a big show of Standing Up To Brussels to which the ECJ politely and firmly said "no" until she did what they suggested and she tried to paint it as a huge victory and not a massive waste of time and money.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:50
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The "there was never actually a drone after all" thing is still blowing my mind
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Dec 23, 2018 20:58
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Fallen Hamprince posted:The "there was never actually a drone after all" thing is still blowing my mind Please let it be true, it'll be the funniest thing I've heard all year. 100000 people have their holidays destroyed because nobody thought it might be a plastic bag.
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Dec 23, 2018 21:03
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That has to be some kind of cover up but I don't begin to know what for.
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Dec 23, 2018 21:08
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Modus Pwnens posted:That has to be some kind of cover up but I don't begin to know what for. You're underestimating how dumb humans are.
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Dec 23, 2018 21:11
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The lesson of 2016 is absolutely not "HMMMM, WHAT IS THE SECRET CABAL'S MOTIVE HERE??", it is "People are loving stupid as hell."
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Dec 23, 2018 21:14
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Mass hysteria causing people to hallucinate drones is pretty great sendoff to 2018
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Dec 23, 2018 21:14
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Fallen Hamprince posted:The "there was never actually a drone after all" thing is still blowing my mind Cao Ni Ma posted:Mass hysteria causing people to hallucinate drones is pretty great sendoff to 2018
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Dec 23, 2018 21:42
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Fallen Hamprince posted:I recall a running tiff with the European Court of Justice where the UK tried to extradite a Salafist cleric named Abu Qatada to Jordan, but the courts wouldn't let them because the Jordanians might use evidence obtained using torture in his trial. I believe that was the European Court of Human Rights which isn't an EU body.
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Dec 23, 2018 21:43
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Bryter posted:I believe that was the European Court of Human Rights which isn't an EU body. you're right did not stop the sun from blaming europe
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Dec 23, 2018 21:45
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hahaha “there was no drone” is perfect. it is the perfect metaphor. not a metaphor for anything, just a pure metaphor, untethered to any signifier and adrift in the sea of its own meaning
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Dec 23, 2018 21:57
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Hentai Jihadist posted:It's this op the uk also got a ton of special concessions for joining and repaid this favor by only sending the most belligerent and anti-eu people as ambassadors they do not like playing second-fiddle to anyone ever
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Dec 23, 2018 22:17
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Hentai Jihadist posted:It's this op and the EU was an important element of said neoliberalism since thatcher.
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Dec 23, 2018 22:19
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The Lobotomy Kid posted:https://twitter.com/dentristcad/status/1076779094879158272?s=21 https://twitter.com/kayjay_official/status/1076876100515627013
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Dec 23, 2018 22:19
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:and the EU was an important element of said neoliberalism since thatcher. the uk basically laser-focused on the good things about the eu and blamed those exclusively
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Dec 23, 2018 22:20
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SimonCat posted:1. Why the gently caress do the English have such lovely little cutesy names for things? "Brexit" "Bendy Bananas." our political discourse is still largely determined by tabloid newspapers that are written at a patronising reading level. I don't know if it's actually a difference or just what I've seen of standard american hate campaigns, but while both seem to run on a combination of mockery, hate, and fear, the British right wing seems to lean further toward the mockery. Like, the British line of attack is often "BARMY: stupid loons say crazy lefty nonsense" while the American stuff I've seen goes more to the "These evil monsters want to destroy america and turn your kids communist" or whatever. In this case coming up with the right silly singsong phrase to sum up your positions allows you to seem chummy and avin a 'larf while sneaking in your horrible views through the back door.
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Dec 23, 2018 22:22
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Angepain posted:our political discourse is still largely determined by tabloid newspapers that are written at a patronising reading level. American right wing media is genuinely afraid of smart people, intelligence, and so on in general. So demonizing the left as being koo koo idiots doesn't quite work the same. Instead it's "good simple common sense folks VS elitist college intellectual
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Dec 23, 2018 22:58
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Mass hysteria causing people to hallucinate drones is pretty great sendoff to 2018 2016 was creepy clowns, 2018 is ghost drones
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Dec 23, 2018 23:26
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2016 was disbelief, 2017 was despair, 2018 was deflection. Here's hoping for decapitation.
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Dec 23, 2018 23:32
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Dec 24, 2018 00:14
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2016: Enter the Brexit 2017: The Brexit pt. 2: Disaster 2018: The Brexit pt. 3: Destruction 2918: The Brexit pt. 4: Default
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Dec 24, 2018 00:27
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Dec 24, 2018 00:32
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SimonCat posted:So, I've only been vaguely following Brexit. Were there any laws in particular that the British found so onerous that they had to leave the EU? I've never been to the UK but I understand that passports being brown instead of blue was some sort of breaking point.
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Dec 24, 2018 00:46
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:and the EU was an important element of said neoliberalism since thatcher. Even in the Thatcher years the UK was a regressive shithole that needed to negotiate an opt out out of the Social Charter of Maastricht. In other words, in a congregation of neolibs, the UK was a neolib freak that got in the way of everybody else.
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Dec 24, 2018 00:49
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Zeroisanumber posted:I've never been to the UK but I understand that passports being brown instead of blue was some sort of breaking point. They're maroon but it's boomers boomering and we need to kill them
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Dec 24, 2018 00:57
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Jose posted:They're maroon but it's boomers boomering and we need to kill them Easy, make it so you have to contribute for NHS treatment in proportion to the assets you hold. With that being 0 at say sub 250k.
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