Ash Crimson posted:

a minor disagreement

Ash Crimson posted:

What else could explain the disparity? Why is England getting hit the hardest in terms of total deaths?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Per-capita infections, and deaths, correlate with population density in/on Great Britain, differences between the nations are within the margin of error once you account for the time lag of infections moving out from the cities.

Ash Crimson posted:

What else could explain the disparity? Why is England getting hit the hardest in terms of total deaths?

OwlFancier posted:

I mean it's sort of true, the right's base is horrible megaboomers who are all on pensions and own their former council house and get free everything and basically exist on massive amounts of state subsidy throughout their entire lives, and in return for being given flags to clap at like loving seals they want everyone else to have all of that taken away because they are absolutely loving convinced they achieved everything they have by their own hands, rather than having it given to them on a plate.

So they aren't hurt by it, because they get everything they want either way, the cuts only ever hurt us.

Noxville posted:

Someone enjoying writing this press release.

https://twitter.com/jaarreaza/status/1346941567374774275?s=21

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I'll be honest if you actually *do* believe nations are unitary organisms then it would explain quite a lot of your apparent worldview.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Is this the first shitcommunique in international diplomatic history?

kingturnip posted:

Ash Crimson is a loving idiot. Just ignore and move on

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Is this the first shitcommunique in international diplomatic history?

kingturnip posted:

I think Venezuela have sent a bunch of those; usually whenever the USA does something stupid.
Iran also seems to employ a few shitposters in their Foreign Office (or whatever it's called).

Ash Crimson posted:

So is Scotland the head or maybe the shoulders of the uk? What about the left elbow

Dogatron posted:

Not all megaboomers are like this. I write this in defence of my father, born in 1944. He lives in a former council house with two other members of my family. His NHS pension is only slightly less than my monthly wage and he gets a state pension, a bus pass and all sorts of free poo poo. He also told me that for a short while, during the 50s to early 70s England was almost a socialist society and the only nostalgia he has is for that brief economic period.

Then OPEC.

He marched with CND, tried to storm the American Embassy in 1968 and then settled down and had kids. I write this to refute a blanket condemnation of working class boomers in council houses. Some of my uncles you would also write off as boomers in former council houses with their old National Coal Board pensions and memories of picket lines. They did achieve everything they have by their own hands and the miners before them.

I believe not one of them has ever voted Tory in their life and they are all despairing of the way this country is going. So you can gently caress off with your blanket condemnation of an entire generation.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Oh yeah, Ahmadinejad was doing shitposting on Twitter even during the Obama years, wasn't he?

Spangly A posted:

the yank threads mentioned rumours that the secretary of the army had a word with the trump-loyalist secretary of defence and suddenly the NG can be deployed and the police decided to do their loving job

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Have you got a carbon monoxide detector in your house? Have you checked the batteries in it lately?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Didn't FKTIG turn down Ian Austin's application?

https://twitter.com/TheFabledAesop/status/1346960453302448134?s=20

Ash Crimson posted:

What have I done or said to deserve your ire?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

This isn't ire, this is genuine concern for someone apparently unable to grasp the concept of "per capita".

goddamnedtwisto posted:

this is genuine concern

therattle posted:

He’s right, the SWP ran amok after the last election. Have we already forgotten the death and destruction they caused our sacred land?

quote:

Turkey's foreign ministry also condemned Wednesday's siege of the US Capitol building, calling for calm and urging for 'common sense' to resolve the 'political crisis' in the US after protesters broke into the United States Capitol aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Foreign Ministry called the events 'worrying', saying 'we believe that the US will overcome this domestic crisis calmly,' with Turkish citizens in the US being urged to stay away from crowded places where demonstrations are held.

'We follow the events in the USA with concern and invite the parties to calmness. We believe that problems will always be solved within law and democracy,' Turkey's Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop said on Twitter.

'As Turkey, we have always been in favour of the law and democracy and we recommend it to everyone,' he added.

c0burn posted:

a little fracas

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Is this the first shitcommunique in international diplomatic history?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Twitter has deleted Trump's last two tweets now (after making it not possible to retweet or share them directly by a link only by copying the URL).

Failed Imagineer posted:

quote:

Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil’s kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, f##k thy mother.
Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fu##er of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig’s snout, mare’s arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won’t even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we’ll conclude, for we don’t know the date and don’t own a calendar; the moon’s in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day’s the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
– Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.

quote:

Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks:
As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians – I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2019/05/the-irreverent-letter-the-cossacks-wrote-to-the-ottoman-sultan-in-1676/


That was in reply to:

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/vppresssec/status/1346972967817924608?s=21

Pence's media guys are indirectly suggesting that he invoked the 25th on Trump. The Vice President isn't usually supposed to be able to command the National Guard.

Red Oktober posted:

This is one of the most worrying pictures to me, as it clearly shows this guy is intending to take hostages with those zip-tie handcuffs.

I don't buy that he's police because of the lack of badge, proper camera, etc etc - but who the gently caress knows nowdays.