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mrmcd posted:Fun fact: Scotland lost it's independence because they hosed up at colonialism so bad and all their colonists died of malaria. The rich then basically sold the country back to the English in exchange for a bailout of debts rather than face consequences for being lovely at business and brutal resource extraction. This deal took place in secret whilst the Edinburgh mob searched around with lengths of rope at various rich people's houses. Subsequently Scotand continued its tradition of exporting mercenaries to every lovely conflict going, by subjugating colonies and sponsoring the slave trade. Moral: all nations are based in racism, street mobs are often right. First post tax https://www.facebook.com/faslanepea...js-7Q&__tn__=-R Juliet Whisky has issued a correction as of 20:27 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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mrmcd posted:Fun fact: Scotland lost it's independence because they hosed up at colonialism so bad and all their colonists died of malaria. The rich then basically sold the country back to the English in exchange for a bailout of debts rather than face consequences for being lovely at business and brutal resource extraction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykrZCtlwyL4 8 minutes in, well really 9 he starts going over the inventory of the ships
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Animal-Mother posted:I'm American. It's my understanding that the "Tories" are blatantly a very old school "the Lords and Dukes and Nobility should still rule everything but we'll have elections just so the peasants can feel like they're involved" party. Outside of London and a couple other major urban areas, England is dying at almost the same pace as the rust belt and the Tories are going to restore the might and glory of the empire etc etc (and make the weird gross immigrants and scary EU bureaucrats go away) Old white people who watch TV news are the ultimate suckers for this sort of rhetoric and they make up an even bigger portion of the UK electorate than they do of the US electorate
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Animal-Mother posted:I'm American. It's my understanding that the "Tories" are blatantly a very old school "the Lords and Dukes and Nobility should still rule everything but we'll have elections just so the peasants can feel like they're involved" party. pretty much any tory supporter will tell you labour will put up taxes and gently caress the economy.
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I'm slightly annoyed to just find out now that Corbyn was the least popular opposition leader in decades. Up to the election all I heard was that the Tories and the BBC were so desperate all they could do was spin up the antisemitism smear, this was gonna be really close, he might do it, whatever the gently caress "Dinner Boy going to eat his eggs" meant. And then Corbyn eats poo poo, historically eats poo poo, eats poo poo to the point that yesterday's election will be used as a reference point for eating poo poo in future elections. And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because he was a boring vegetarian substitute teacher.
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https://twitter.com/LukePagarani/status/1205489156761309184?s=20 https://twitter.com/LukePagarani/status/1205489467563360262?s=20 good thread
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Vox Nihili posted:Outside of London and a couple other major urban areas, England is dying at almost the same pace as the rust belt and the Tories are going to restore the might and glory of the empire etc etc (and make the weird gross immigrants and scary EU bureaucrats go away) Idiot Election on Chud Island
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Vox Nihili posted:Outside of London and a couple other major urban areas, England is dying at almost the same pace as the rust belt and the Tories are going to restore the might and glory of the empire etc etc (and make the weird gross immigrants and scary EU bureaucrats go away) Faster. If you exclude London, then England's GDP per capita is lower than any US state. Yes even West Virginia and Mississippi. "Real England" is poorer than Mississippi
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they need to go all in on John McDonnell and get people angry about how hard they are going to get reamed up the rear end. they have no loving clue just how bad it’s going to get
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Gripweed posted:I'm slightly annoyed to just find out now that Corbyn was the least popular opposition leader in decades. Up to the election all I heard was that the Tories and the BBC were so desperate all they could do was spin up the antisemitism smear, this was gonna be really close, he might do it, whatever the gently caress "Dinner Boy going to eat his eggs" meant. And then Corbyn eats poo poo, historically eats poo poo, eats poo poo to the point that yesterday's election will be used as a reference point for eating poo poo in future elections. And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because he was a boring vegetarian substitute teacher. I don't think he had any positive media coverage given how the UK really doesn't have any leftist newspaper and the Guardian is basically the equivalent of the US centrist corporation cheerleading (Washington Post)
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Faster. If you exclude London, then England's GDP per capita is lower than any US state. Yes even West Virginia and Mississippi. "Real England" is poorer than Mississippi LOL!
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Faster. If you exclude London, then England's GDP per capita is lower than any US state. Yes even West Virginia and Mississippi. "Real England" is poorer than Mississippi Translation for Euros: Parts of Mississippi are on par with third world countries.
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Gripweed posted:I'm slightly annoyed to just find out now that Corbyn was the least popular opposition leader in decades. Up to the election all I heard was that the Tories and the BBC were so desperate all they could do was spin up the antisemitism smear, this was gonna be really close, he might do it, whatever the gently caress "Dinner Boy going to eat his eggs" meant. And then Corbyn eats poo poo, historically eats poo poo, eats poo poo to the point that yesterday's election will be used as a reference point for eating poo poo in future elections. And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because he was a boring vegetarian substitute teacher. I mean, all the polls were posted in the thread? And how many Brit people over 50 post in C-Spam, do you think?
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What the gently caress did "Dinner Boy going to eat his egg!" even mean? How was that a rallying cry for a political movement?
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Gripweed posted:What the gently caress did "Dinner Boy going to eat his egg!" even mean? How was that a rallying cry for a political movement? i never even heard that before?
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Gripweed posted:And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because the entire media and shitlibs poo poo on him non-stop for half a decade and he was politically trapped in a no-win situation
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Faster. If you exclude London, then England's GDP per capita is lower than any US state. Yes even West Virginia and Mississippi. "Real England" is poorer than Mississippi holy loving poo poo
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Faster. If you exclude London, then England's GDP per capita is lower than any US state. Yes even West Virginia and Mississippi. "Real England" is poorer than Mississippi Literally a third world country.
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Zurakara posted:Literally a third world country. no by definition it's second-world
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/LukePagarani/status/1205489156761309184?s=20 It is really too bad about 19th-century concepts of 'false consciousness' being rejected by the working class, might have to do with the party-affiliated workers' movement getting wrecked nearly forty years ago by a Conservative government enacting Labour policies. Meanwhile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uSSRcn7UE
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FAUXTON posted:no by definition it's second-world The second world was the communist states
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gradenko_2000 posted:Idiot Election on Chud Island I support renaming the UK to Chud Island. A lot of people call it Paedo Island, but nowadays it gets confusing if that name refers to Britain or Little St. James, and both of these unfairly take the title away from the original Paedo Island, Pitcairn
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Gripweed posted:I'm slightly annoyed to just find out now that Corbyn was the least popular opposition leader in decades. Up to the election all I heard was that the Tories and the BBC were so desperate all they could do was spin up the antisemitism smear, this was gonna be really close, he might do it, whatever the gently caress "Dinner Boy going to eat his eggs" meant. And then Corbyn eats poo poo, historically eats poo poo, eats poo poo to the point that yesterday's election will be used as a reference point for eating poo poo in future elections. And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because he was a boring vegetarian substitute teacher. Yeah he was extremely unpopular. Lot of people figured if they liked him 50x as much as normal, it was the same as 50x as many people liking him. Nick Cohen was right. edit: dont tell him he didnt warn you!! 
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:The second world was the communist states the joke was that they were russia-aligned but thanks for ruining it!
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Gripweed posted:What the gently caress did "Dinner Boy going to eat his egg!" even mean? How was that a rallying cry for a political movement? It wasn't. No one won or lost due to stupid memes.
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FAUXTON posted:the joke was that they were russia-aligned but thanks for ruining it! Im sorry. The sheer number of people who forget that first and third world referred to cold war alignment makes it impossible for me to detect when someone actually got it right
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Vox Nihili posted:It wasn't. No one won or lost due to stupid memes. ok boomer
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Zurakara posted:Literally a third world country. I feel like it's not really that surprising? Outside of, like, Norway, the US has a comically high GDP per capita compared to economically advanced European states. We account for something like a quarter of world GDP.
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Gripweed posted:I'm slightly annoyed to just find out now that Corbyn was the least popular opposition leader in decades. Up to the election all I heard was that the Tories and the BBC were so desperate all they could do was spin up the antisemitism smear, this was gonna be really close, he might do it, whatever the gently caress "Dinner Boy going to eat his eggs" meant. And then Corbyn eats poo poo, historically eats poo poo, eats poo poo to the point that yesterday's election will be used as a reference point for eating poo poo in future elections. And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because he was a boring vegetarian substitute teacher. lol that you thought C-Spam was in any way indicative of the rest of the world.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Im sorry. The sheer number of people who forget that first and third world referred to cold war alignment makes it impossible for me to detect when someone actually got it right no worries, it's a bit stale anyway since I'm pretty sure everything since 2016 has been entirely of your own doing even if the likely goal is to turn Britain into another Cyprus regarding laundered Russian kleptobux.
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Avynte posted:lol that you thought C-Spam was in any way indicative of the rest of the world. i'm not sure what forum he was reading but it wasn't this one
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Faster. If you exclude London, then England's GDP per capita is lower than any US state. Yes even West Virginia and Mississippi. "Real England" is poorer than Mississippi Wait what is this true?
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spacemang_spliff posted:Wait what is this true? the collapse of industrial capitalism and the rise of finance/rentiers capitalism hasn't been kind
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Everybody knows Prince Andrew raped teenagers as a pastime and yet Jeremy Corbyn is the most hated man in England.
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Gripweed posted:I'm slightly annoyed to just find out now that Corbyn was the least popular opposition leader in decades. Up to the election all I heard was that the Tories and the BBC were so desperate all they could do was spin up the antisemitism smear, this was gonna be really close, he might do it, whatever the gently caress "Dinner Boy going to eat his eggs" meant. And then Corbyn eats poo poo, historically eats poo poo, eats poo poo to the point that yesterday's election will be used as a reference point for eating poo poo in future elections. And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because he was a boring vegetarian substitute teacher. that's why its funny, same hillary energy Avynte posted:lol that you thought C-Spam was in any way indicative of the rest of the world. sighing, putting my fedora with a press pass on, and going to interview the posters that swung it: the pink heartland
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spacemang_spliff posted:Wait what is this true? england's two biggest industries are banking and pedophilia
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Faster. If you exclude London, then England's GDP per capita is lower than any US state. Yes even West Virginia and Mississippi. "Real England" is poorer than Mississippi Gonna own when there are TV ads in New Delhi that are like "For just 70 rupees a day you can support an impoverished English family."
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Taintrunner posted:they need to go all in on John McDonnell and get people angry about how hard they are going to get reamed up the rear end. they have no loving clue just how bad it’s going to get yeah I think anger is the answer, honestly. Bernard's channeling it a bit now, but honestly someone young and angry would probably do a lot better than the current slew of leftist leaders.
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Gripweed posted:I'm slightly annoyed to just find out now that Corbyn was the least popular opposition leader in decades. Up to the election all I heard was that the Tories and the BBC were so desperate all they could do was spin up the antisemitism smear, this was gonna be really close, he might do it, whatever the gently caress "Dinner Boy going to eat his eggs" meant. And then Corbyn eats poo poo, historically eats poo poo, eats poo poo to the point that yesterday's election will be used as a reference point for eating poo poo in future elections. And then suddenly oh yeah it turns out everyone in Britain hated Corbyn because he was a boring vegetarian substitute teacher. it was just a online leftist version of the mania libs went for hillary in 2016. at least corbyn had good politics to justify the cult though
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Everybody knows Prince Andrew raped teenagers as a pastime and yet Jeremy Corbyn is the most hated man in England. that's what you get when you try to put more funding into everyone's healthcare
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