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Marshal Prolapse posted:Yeah, it’s kind of fun in a tourist in history dork Way, but as an American I never want to actually have to live under that, just on principal. That said it’s hard to admit that’s it’s not a good tourist racket. Let's not forget the UK has an entire legislative body made of hereditary nobles and people appointed by the crown.
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In Canada we call that the senate. It’s also completely useless and has no practical decision making ability. Getting rid of it comes up on progressive parties’ platforms all the time but it never goes anywhere.
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If we abolish all nobility how will I be acknowledged when I win the lotto and also am awarded a peerage for saving the world? I am a temporarily embarrassed James bond you know? If we tax the rich what happens when I'm one of the rich!?
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Mar 23, 2022 14:27
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M_Gargantua posted:If we abolish all nobility how will I be acknowledged when I win the lotto and also am awarded a peerage for saving the world? I am a temporarily embarrassed James bond you know? If we tax the rich what happens when I'm one of the rich!? With coke and hookers like normal people, and bad financial planning like Lowtax.
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Mar 23, 2022 14:30
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Let's not forget the UK has an entire legislative body made of hereditary nobles and people appointed by the crown. Now, that's not entirely fair. There are a bunch of bishops as well
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Mar 23, 2022 14:43
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I think ceremony is important in movement as a way for people to take the poo poo seriously. So I propose that the Royal Family keep on, but just as idols. Literal decorated golden idols. They can get wheeled out on trucks to important events to add the necessary gravitas, continue to create jobs by needing drivers and polishers, and still have the money saved. Turn the palace into a council estate. Bing bong I'm having the good ideas today
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Mar 23, 2022 15:41
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How about instead we make them actual kpop style idols?
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I mean we can underpay and exploit them but that's the only difference I think
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Mar 23, 2022 16:02
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M_Gargantua posted:How about instead we make them actual kpop style idols? Do we have to listen to charles sing?
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Mar 23, 2022 16:10
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M_Gargantua posted:How about instead we make them actual kpop style idols? That's even worse!
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Mar 23, 2022 16:14
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Let's not forget the UK has an entire legislative body made of hereditary nobles and people appointed by the crown. Quite true. I have no clue why I always found these vestiges of non democratic rule neat and cool as a kid. I suspect it’s mostly from not having to live there and being a history nerd. Related https://twitter.com/aruproytweets/status/1506280871749464079?s=21
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Quite true. I have no clue why I always found these vestiges of non democratic rule neat and cool as a kid. I suspect it’s mostly from not having to live there and being a history nerd. Is the average Brit aware that they are the definition of evil empire to the rest of the world? Like, we rewrote the definition to fit Britain, much as I sure everyone else is rewriting it to fit America in there
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Mar 23, 2022 16:37
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M_Gargantua posted:How about instead we make them actual kpop style idols? Oopa London Style
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Mar 23, 2022 18:06
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Current event: Charli XCX is a great artist to follow cause instead of years between bespoke projects, she’s gonna drop 30-45 minutes of good music every 12 months or so.
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If y'all haven't seen yet, the SCOTUS continues to gently caress everything up by reversing the Wisconsin supreme court via the shadow docket and tossed the congressional maps that everyone agreed to use.
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Mar 23, 2022 18:08
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RFC2324 posted:Is the average Brit aware that they are the definition of evil empire to the rest of the world? It’s interesting how the US public and FDR and other leaders, were very not keen on helping England retain its colonies as most Americans found it extremely gross and against their values. Defeat German, yes, ensure they kept India after the war, no. Yes, I know I know…but it’s interesting that was the US view.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:It’s interesting how the US public and FDR and other leaders, were very not keen on helping England retain its colonies as most Americans found it extremely gross and against their values. Defeat German, yes, ensure they kept India after the war, no. I mean, we are obviously anti-colonialist here, and if you could get us holdings like Guam popularly described as colonies I betcha they would become either states or independent real quick. Semantics rule the world
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RFC2324 posted:I mean, we are obviously anti-colonialist here, and if you could get us holdings like Guam popularly described as colonies I betcha they would become either states or independent real quick. True, I know the US hates that they’re on a UN list on countries controlled by other countries ( I forget the exact name), and they have a point as “US colonies” are self governing (now) and among other things, not like traditional British, French, or other European colonies (or hell even those fake countries South Africa made up during Apartheid) in tons of respects. That said I fully favor them having the ability to make a choice on status quo, state, or say a compact like Micronesia has, or being fully independent…well with the proviso of us keeping those bases, and paying a fair leasing price.
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Mr. Nice! posted:If y'all haven't seen yet, the SCOTUS continues to gently caress everything up by reversing the Wisconsin supreme court via the shadow docket and tossed the congressional maps that everyone agreed to use. JusT voTe
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Mar 23, 2022 18:36
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Let me tell you a story about US support for a little colony called French Indochina
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legendary girlboss madeline albright is dead 'Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it. —60 Minutes (5/12/96)'
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WHY CAN'T IT BE KISSINGER?! Every god drat time. E: Looking at her wiki it seems her list of war crimes grew in 2010 with public support of Herbalife  get hosed and rest in piss you ghoul
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Mar 23, 2022 20:38
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Look it would be great if Kissinger died but I'll take whatever infanticidal maniac that helped to destabilize the world and gently caress us over for good that happens to die at this point
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Mar 23, 2022 20:41
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The only issue is they're dying of old age
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maffew buildings posted:legendary girlboss madeline albright is dead Why the gently caress is Kissenger still alive? Better yet, how?
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Soul Dentist posted:The only issue is they're dying of old age lol yup
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Why the gently caress is Kissenger still alive? Better yet, how?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Why the gently caress is Kissenger still alive? Better yet, how? No one has found the phylactery.
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maffew buildings posted:legendary girlboss madeline albright is dead I like how her death is listed under her "Controversies" section of Wikipedia.
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maffew buildings posted:legendary girlboss madeline albright is dead lol legendary girlboss! Zing! Beyond the fact that she did not independently develop that sanction's regime and its existence predated her appointment to the UN by 3 years AND she subsequently worked to correct the record about her actual position there is also the fact that recent studies suggest that the half a million number is totally bogus. Here is a transcript from when DEMOCRACY NOW heroically confronted her sometime in 2004: AMY GOODMAN: Secretary Albright, the question I have always wanted to ask: Do you regret having said, when asked do you think the price was worth it— MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: I have said 5,000 times that I regret it. It was a stupid statement. I never should have made it, and if everybody else that has ever made a statement they regret would stand up, there would be a lot of people standing. I have many, many times said it, and I wish that people would report that I have said it. I wrote it in my book that it was a stupid statement. AMY GOODMAN: Do you think it laid the groundwork for later being able to target Iraq and make it more acceptable on the part of the Bush administration? MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: What? You’ve got to be kidding. AMY GOODMAN: The sanctions against Iraq. MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: The sanctions against Iraq were put on because Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. But there never were sanctions against food and medicine. And you people need to know there never were sanctions against food and medicine, and I was responsible for getting food in there and getting Saddam Hussein to pump oil.
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no one gives a poo poo about her hollow regrets
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Dam4real? Can you correct me on all the other times American policy makers killed hundreds of thousands of people and it was actually tight?
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maffew buildings posted:Dam4real? Can you correct me on all the other times American policy makers killed hundreds of thousands of people and it was actually tight? This little thing you might have heard of, happened a while back the French revolution
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And yet in 2012 she was all "Disgusting Serbs!" which is how you can tell some rear end in a top hat has changed their tune about thinking poor people are worthless!
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maffew buildings posted:Dam4real? Can you correct me on all the other times American policy makers killed hundreds of thousands of people and it was actually tight? She didn't enact policies that killed hundreds of thousands of people? Did you read what I wrote?
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drat I hadn't thought of it that way, being the face of policy that kills innocent people IS tight good point
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RFC2324 posted:Is the average Brit aware that they are the definition of evil empire to the rest of the world? No more than the average American 
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Grip it and rip it posted:lol legendary girlboss! Zing! You can’t import food and medicine with dollars if you’re not allowed to export anything for dollars. Food not being included in sanctions is a very disingenuous argument that is often used to justify broad sanction regimes that collapse a country’s economy which then results in mass hunger.
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hobbesmaster posted:You can’t import food and medicine with dollars if you’re not allowed to export anything for dollars. Food not being included in sanctions is a very disingenuous argument that is often used to justify broad sanction regimes that collapse a country’s economy which then results in mass hunger. The sanctions predate her appointment to be ambassador to the UN by 3 years. It's a policy she inherited. That she attempted to modify the sanctions doesn't make her responsible for them in the first place. Though again the half-a-million number has been called into question by recent studies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717930/ Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Grip it and rip it posted:The sanctions predate her appointment to be ambassador to the UN by 3 years. It's a policy she inherited. And then supported and defended.
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