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JFairfax posted:I dunno she's been charged with 11 criminal felonies
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A Sun article written by a shill for a non-Brit talking about hypocrisies...
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Mar 22, 2019 02:55
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Gorn Myson posted:She was born rich, she'll die rich. Madoff ended up in prison. as a rich person the best way to end up in jail is to rip off people richer than you.
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Mar 22, 2019 02:56
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Mar 22, 2019 02:56
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baka kaba posted:When David Cameron quit he went "doo do doo do doo" which is the T2 music Actually it's, "Doo do doo, doo doo doo. THUMP THUMP"
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Mar 22, 2019 02:58
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I've been reading about Brexit tonight... as I do every night, it seems. But tonight, the pages from 23 to 27 from Watchmen's last part come to mind, very strongly, especially with the extension talk.
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Mar 22, 2019 03:04
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endlessmonotony posted:I've been reading about Brexit tonight... as I do every night, it seems. My copy of watchmen is in the closet and I don't want to move my desk. Is that the bit where Rorschach screams do it or is it the part where Dr manhattan is like "nothing matters lol"?
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Mar 22, 2019 03:09
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MrFlibble posted:My copy of watchmen is in the closet and I don't want to move my desk. Is that the bit where Rorschach screams do it or is it the part where Dr manhattan is like "nothing matters lol"? The word are "In the end?", but yes. Both of those parts.
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Mar 22, 2019 03:10
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JFairfax posted:Madoff ended up in prison.
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endlessmonotony posted:The word are "In the end?", but yes. Both of those parts. I feel like my summation of his meaning was accurate and fair.
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Mar 22, 2019 03:11
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Gorn Myson posted:Madoff was some old oval office. Shes 35, she'll get a nothing sentence, she'll waltz it and then she'll rehabilitate herself and get back to making money. Billy McFarland will do the same too. well whatever happens the trial should be entertaining
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Mar 22, 2019 03:12
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've probably seen T2 about 300 times, ever since the You Could Be Mine video blew my mind as an 8yo GnR fan. Try to suggest a better movie - that's right, you can't, shut the gently caress up. Have you seen the live show at Universal Studios? It's pretty great and I recommend it. Fun fact: The 12 minutes of film they made for the live show was for a time the most expensive movie per minute ever produced. Thinking about it, maybe it still is? It cost $5m/minute to make.
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MrFlibble posted:I feel like my summation of his meaning was accurate and fair. Yeah but that's the implied part about him stating none of the misery and strife will ever end.
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WhatEvil posted:Have you seen the live show at Universal Studios? I have indeed. The guy playing Arnold looked like Joey Tribbiani, and it was thoroughly enjoyable
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endlessmonotony posted:Yeah but that's the implied part about him stating none of the misery and strife will ever end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNX_kmb4jo&t=113s
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Mar 22, 2019 03:23
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Lol I'm supposed to be transiting through frankfurt airport at the end of April, this is going to be great
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ThomasPaine posted:Lol I'm supposed to be transiting through frankfurt airport at the end of April, this is going to be great "supposed to" might prove more prescient than you'd like.
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Ratjaculation posted:i'm sad that climate change is slow and painful, like dehydrating to death in a climate refugee camp rather than being wiped out by a mile high tsunami like in Day after Tomorrow hmmm how about neither??
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JFairfax posted:But for an absurdly over-the-top view of Britain launched from across the Atlantic, nothing beats that of Tendayi Achiume, the UN Special Rapporteur on racism, who last May described Britain as suffering a rise in “explicit racial, ethnic and religious intolerance”, all thanks, of course, to Brexit. lol this is the best part, "gently caress the US media who concocted this nonsense report by the United Nations, headed by a Law Professor originally from Zambia! Also, Los Angeles bad, so how can Britain be bad?"
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JFairfax posted:Achiume, who comes from Zambia, is assistant Professor of Law at the University of Los Angeles. that's the university of california, los angeles you loving hacks
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Mar 22, 2019 05:38
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I don't understand the (mock?) outrage that Britain is not allowed to participate in the EU27's discussions about what to do about Brexit. There's a reason this was included in the treaty, it's because otherwise the withdrawing member could just sabotage and leak everything and make the whole process an utter slow-moving nightmare. I mean, even worse than it is right now, because the UK would be screwing it up from both ends and not just the one.
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Mar 22, 2019 06:36
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Sulphagnist posted:I don't understand the (mock?) outrage that Britain is not allowed to participate in the EU27's discussions about what to do about Brexit. Leave means you've got to leave the room, because you're leaving us
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I think much of that outrage is real, not mock. Remember Brexit was fuelled in part by imperial nostalgia and the resultant anger that the world doesn't bow to us as the pre-eminent power on the planet. By their logic, of course we should be in the room - the rest of them should be grateful we ever bothered with the European Project for as long as we did, and should just give us the Rainbow Unicorn Brexit we want and deserve.
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Mar 22, 2019 06:46
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Gorn Myson posted:Elizabeth Holmes will never walk into a jail cell but I'm okay with that because she deprived a lot of very wealthy investors of money For a lot of them the entire loss will be absorbed through tax write offs. They can probably spread the loss out over multiple years so that they don't pay any taxes for a while, if they were at all.
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Ms Adequate posted:I think much of that outrage is real, not mock. Remember Brexit was fuelled in part by imperial nostalgia and the resultant anger that the world doesn't bow to us as the pre-eminent power on the planet. By their logic, of course we should be in the room - the rest of them should be grateful we ever bothered with the European Project for as long as we did, and should just give us the Rainbow Unicorn Brexit we want and deserve. Legit my British answer to these people.
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Help me out here.. I'm trying to explain the current shambles to my friends on another board, but I want to make sure that I get this right, because A) I'm a yank, and I don't have to live with this bullshit 24/7/365, so I may miss something, and B) My disdain for the Mayfly may color my viewpoint: Basically, May has been playing "My Deal or No Deal", but Parliament has rejected it twice. The main problem is there's a majority to reject May's Deal, but there's no majority for an ACTUAL way forward (No Deal, Softer Brexit, Remain, etcetera) May's tactic (and somewhat the EU) has been "This is the deal on offer. It's this or nothing", and she's been trying to run out the clock to make it literally THIS or nothing. She's refused to modify her stance, refused to countenance anything BUT her deal. So Right now, the only thing that everyone in Parliament can agree on is that May sucks (her own party can't get rid of her because they tried once previously, and they can't try again for like a year, but they don't vote for no confidence because that would likely trigger a new election, and they prefer things as they are. May tried to publicly pressure the MPs, trying to rile up the nation's Brexiteers, but it's backfired as May is now getting blamed for the threats people are making, and rather hardened the MP's stance that "gently caress no, we're not going to vote for your deal". So, right now, here are the UK's options 1) May has said that she will bring the withdrawal agreement again to the Commons next week. If it goes through, a technical delay will be necessary because well, they can't put everything through Parliament in a week. 2) If it fails, then the UK has until the 12th of april to indicate how they're going to move forward (They will have to hold euro elections, for example). If they don't, then no-deal happens and the UK crashes and burns. 3) For all of the Parliament that wants the withdrawal agreement modified to suit their needs, this is "gently caress no, that ain't going to happen. Stop dreaming". So options (in order of what I think is most likely to happen) Long Delay: I consider this most likely, because no one really can figure out what would get through Parliament. Meaningful Vote 3 (Ie, the third attempt to pass May's deal) fails. Brexit continues for a year or so while everyone tries to untie this gordian knot. What the outcome would be afterwards is still unclear. No Deal: There are enough hardcore Euroskeptics in Parliament that I honestly can't think of a deal that would get past the Euroskeptics AND the Remainers AND the Soft Brexiteers. The UK crashes out, and trade takes a major hit because all those trade agreements are no longer in force. (I think they have post-trade agreements with only two of the EU27 nations, and one if them is Lichenstein for god's sake). So trade no longer happens "normally", and all kinds of shenanigans are on the table. Meaningful Vote 3 gets approved, and passes. This is a hail mary play by May, but it's really the only move they keep trying. In this case, the Withdrawal Agreement comes into effect, and trade between the rest of the EU and the UK goes through under its terms.
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LONDON (REUTERS) - Deutsche Bank on Thursday hiked its expectation of a no-deal Brexit to 20 percent - the highest level ever - from 10 percent as the third attempt to get UK parliamentary approval for the nation's exit from the European Union looms. "The risks of a last-minute accident have increased," said Oliver Harvey, head of Brexit research at the German bank, adding that "government strategy appears to be being made off the hoof". Deutsche Bank's new call on a no-deal Brexit came after JP Morgan also upped its chances of an exit without a deal to 15 percent from 10 percent. The deadline for an agreement on Brexit is next Friday. Deutsche Bank cut its estimated chances of UK Prime Minister May winning the next parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal to 25 percent, from 35 percent previously.
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Mar 22, 2019 07:21
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We've got two minutes until Brexit, I have the instinctual urge to dig a trench.
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Mar 22, 2019 07:24
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JFairfax posted:Oliver Harvey, head of Brexit research Talk about a joke of a job
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JFairfax posted:LONDON (REUTERS) - Deutsche Bank on Thursday hiked its expectation of a no-deal Brexit to 20 percent - the highest level ever - from 10 percent as the third attempt to get UK parliamentary approval for the nation's exit from the European Union looms. I hate when allegedly serious news organisations can't tell the difference between risk, probability and chance.
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kingturnip posted:Talk about a joke of a job It's a practical joke Qvark posted:I hate when allegedly serious news organisations can't tell the difference between risk, probability and chance. Mystic Meg should do countdown
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https://twitter.com/nathestevens/status/1108071160254746625?s=21 Lmao did this get posted because it’s amazing, a Muslim refugee converts to Christianity saying it is a more peaceful religion than Islam and the home office case worker actually goes and digs up violent bits of the bible purely to cast doubt on the claim
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Mar 22, 2019 08:29
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"Checkmate, theists" - Sajid Javid, presumably.
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/nathestevens/status/1108071160254746625?s=21 Give someone a horseshit quota like, "Decline 100 refugees requests a week, just get it done, don't bother me about the details" and this poo poo will happen.
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SirFozzie posted:Help me out here.. I'm trying to explain the current shambles to my friends on another board, but I want to make sure that I get this right, because A) I'm a yank, and I don't have to live with this bullshit 24/7/365, so I may miss something, and B) My disdain for the Mayfly may color my viewpoint: It's worse than that: Parliament was never even given a chance to discuss, let alone vote, on any alternatives to May's Deal because May hijacked the whole process. Parliament probably would have agreed on a slightly softer Brexit deal months ago if she'd been willing to compromise even slightly.
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i remain confident that she's going to try to stall again and this will give the remainers the cover they need to get the kyle-wilson amendment through, which should trigger a further extension the tory whip is broken, remember, prominent tory remainers may very well just decide to stick the knife in
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OwlFancier posted:The thing I like about this is that you see the wealthy obviously should have absolute control of their wealth because they wouldn't have it if they weren't sound investors worthy of managing the products of our labour. They are clearly more efficient at directing their wealth for good and progress than a government could ever be. I mean, why else would noted supergenius Bill Gates keep making that argument?
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BizarroAzrael posted:How do we feel about the People's Vote march on Saturday? I'm sort of conflicted about it, but maybe just want to do something? Well I’m going, the one back in October was a lot of fun. I am aware it might not acomplish much on its own though. If anything we end up going No Deal, at least I can say I tried to my children in 10 years time (I’ve done other things as well such canvassing for Labour multiple times).
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