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tarbrush posted:In fairness, he of all people has experienced the implications of ignoring mass protests. what, getting re-elected and retiring to make millions as an advisor to the world's most successful torturers?
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Spangly A posted:the british had a constitutional crisis over the concept of taxes last century and the king completely eradicated the concept of the house of lords mattering in retaliation at least taxes matter, who gives a gently caress about who edward the 8th was loving other than a bunch of lords spiritual
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galenanorth posted:Part of me wants to see how far a right-wing democracy can go toward dictatorship before liberals in other countries start calling for regime change (they never would) are there any liberals calling for regime change in russia iran is also a "right wing" "democracy" in that it is a democracy that is explicitly managed by a fundamentally conservative executive-judiciary Mackers posted:yeah given the bloodthirsty electorate that W had I'm pretty sure the entire world (rather than like a big brown chunk of it) would be a smoking ruin right now, probably through sheer retardedness if trump had that power obama didn't pardon them, he granted them the even more grotesque super-pardon where the powerful are not even accused of a crime. giving and receiving a pardon is an admission that a wrong was done. skipping that step is a statement that the person is above the law. the fact that the uk parliament produced reports that officially stated that the iraq and libyan invasion were based on lies and should not have been done is more than the US has done, yet still the perpetrators of those wrongs are treated as outside the reach of the law or even political censure
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Raskolnikov38 posted:at least taxes matter, who gives a gently caress about who edward the 8th was loving other than a bunch of lords spiritual he was a fascist sympathiser and very popular, they were looking for a reason to shove him out because he actually constituted a real threat to british democracy if the worst were to happen
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Der Meister posted:I’m glad the brexit thread gets overrun with Americans as it’s a nice lil practice run for what we are about to do to your economy british friends Tbh it's one of the things I really like about this thread compared to UKMT cause it makes it way less likely UK posters can do their whole "the Queen is actually very good" or "parliament actually makes a lot of sense" without being lmaod at by foreigners
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Hentai Jihadist posted:When obvs any self respecting leftist is a republican who wants to abolish parliament are you like a marxist-leninist or something
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MikeCrotch posted:are you like a marxist-leninist or something so whats your spaghetti bolognese recipe
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V. Illych L. posted:he was a fascist sympathiser and very popular i thought most of that came after he abdicated V. Illych L. posted:british democracy lmao
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Hentai Jihadist posted:Tbh it's one of the things I really like about this thread compared to UKMT cause it makes it way less likely UK posters can do their whole "the Queen is actually very good" or "parliament actually makes a lot of sense" without being lmaod at by foreigners I don't think more than one poster has ever said either of those things in the UKMT.
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MikeCrotch posted:are you like a marxist-leninist or something lol if you're not like a marxist-leninist or something
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Hentai Jihadist is anti-Yang so can we even trust him? Who knows I personally think a UBI would help the working class regroup and organiseRegarde Aduck posted:I don't think more than one poster has ever said either of those things in the UKMT. There are some of us that think uk parliament is basically a decent system relatively speaking and we do occasionally kick up a wee fuss about it. There are more than just me in the UKMT that think the literal mother of parliaments is basically quite good.
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Daily Mail 2021: Is Corbyn a Marxist-Obamunist?
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Yuli Ban posted:Daily Mail 2021: Is Corbyn a Marxist-Obamunist? ISLAMIC COMMUNAZI NOW WELCOMED TO MAYS NEGOTIATIONS?
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fuckin hell, is there any silver lining to any of this bullshit going on? Is there any reason to keep on going?
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Ball Cupper posted:fuckin hell, is there any silver lining to any of this bullshit going on? Is there any reason to keep on going? If the UK collapses after a no-deal Brexit, the Beatles will reunite and lead a Lennonist revolution.
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Shear Modulus posted:are there any liberals calling for regime change in russia I was excluding Russia because it has nukes, seeing as how they might be overlooking those for the sake of pragmatism of avoiding nuclear war, but I wasn't thinking about it hard enough to realize that by those rules I'd also have to exclude the United Kingdom. While writing the post, I also forgot that not every right-wing democracy or dictatorship is aligned with U.S. right-wing and/or business interests and different sets of religious conservatives or rival groups of billionaires are sometimes at odds galenanorth has issued a correction as of 00:47 on Apr 1, 2019 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i thought most of that came after he abdicated most of it, yeah, because he didn't have to hide it after he was forced out. there was a non-zero probability that he could've colluded with a fascist movement in a coup, and that's the real reason they kicked him out on a flimsy pretext also as an american you're rather in glass houses on this one
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V. Illych L. posted:also as an american you're rather in glass houses on this one we dont have a monarchy
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laffo at loving blair chastising a moderately leftist labour platform as "revolutionary" just gently caress off
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Raskolnikov38 posted:we dont have a monarchy We do have an aristocracy tho
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This is exactly the same self-justifying poo poo Bill Clinton and Joe Biden have been doing for years All of you, just go away forever, please
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Regarde Aduck posted:I don't think more than one poster has ever said either of those things in the UKMT. lol the guy who tried to minimize Britain's imperial colonialist past is now saying there's like, maybe one royalist in UKMT what's the fuss guys
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MikeCrotch posted:are you like a marxist-leninist or something I just don't see how you solve any of the UKs problems while leaving even a single current MP in their job or parliament in the same form it is now. It's totally unfit for purpose and filled with uniquely unqualified people for the job of running the country. Id probably replace it with a democracy before communist dictatorship though
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Hentai Jihadist posted:I just don't see how you solve any of the UKs problems while leaving even a single current MP in their job or parliament in the same form it is now. You guys tried direct democracy 3 times in the last decade and in each instance it went badly. Time to let the queen have a try IMO. She can make that enormous man that runs her favorite hotel her PM. If she fucks it up you can get rid of the monarchy, if it fixes things, then the monarchy is good after all. Win-win. hakimashou has issued a correction as of 01:52 on Apr 1, 2019 |
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Vitamin P posted:Hentai Jihadist is anti-Yang so can we even trust him? Who knows I personally think a UBI would help the working class regroup and organise Yeah this attitude is more or less what I'm talking about. Received wisdom and respect for the aristocracy. "The mother of parliaments" lol Basically national propaganda and apologia that filters down from the ruling class and takes up shop in people's brains. It's old therefore it's good, just for God's sake don't pay attention to the total utter state its been in for decades if not centuries. Not to mention being enough of a rube to back Yang. An anti immigration tech millionaire who is quite up front that his UBI scheme is a wealth transfer to debt holders and a replacement for benefits. Tut tut.
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hakimashou posted:You guys tried direct democracy 3 times in the last decade and in each instance it went badly. democracy doesnt really work when you've got a oval office screaming "MURDER THE BROWNS gently caress THE POOR" in your face all day every day. We are loving stupid and just eventually internalize that without even noticing it happening
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Grape posted:Yes, somehow George W Bush is worse than any current world leaders in spite of there being various dictators and strongmen waging wars in other countries. You sound very aware of the world. lol
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Hentai Jihadist posted:Yeah this attitude is more or less what I'm talking about. Received wisdom and respect for the aristocracy. "The mother of parliaments" lol Yang is also a proponent of UK style austerity measures in the name of making government more efficient just like the private sector.
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etalian posted:Yang is also a proponent of UK style austerity measures in the name of making government more efficient just like the private sector. Haha did he actually mention UK austerity or is that just shorthand for "radical self destructive objectivism"?
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BioMe posted:laffo at loving blair chastising a moderately leftist labour platform as "revolutionary" he's concerned about being held account for his war crimes, Corbyn really would relish the opportunity to prosecute Blair for Iraq - and Blair knows it.
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Nonsense posted:Just call me mr brexit
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shirts and skins posted:This is exactly the same self-justifying poo poo Bill Clinton and Joe Biden have been doing for years It says a lot about how much I've changed in a few years that seeing the recent news of Biden accusers popping up actually made me lightly happy.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:we dont have a monarchy But goddamn if their loving picture on all the money isn't fit for royalty.
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JFairfax posted:he's concerned about being held account for his war crimes, Corbyn really would relish the opportunity to prosecute Blair for Iraq - and Blair knows it. That and Leveson, give that poo poo to me. It'd do so much good to hold people to account, just for once
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Some fresh gammon for you all https://twitter.com/pointlesslettrs/status/1112356806490312705
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