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Peggotty posted:If it only applies to uninhabited islands, what should, in your opinion, happen to all the very inhabited non-islands the British also conquered? I agree, we should all just revert to the ancient and from this moment on eternal borders just before the Finno-Korean Hyperwar kicked off.
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Albino Squirrel posted:Nothing explains Gotland. Vacationing stockholmers do a lot of genetic damage as well.
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Count Roland posted:"This might be Ukraine's 'Chernobyl'" for thread title? 
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Darkest Auer posted:I agree, we should all just revert to the ancient and from this moment on eternal borders just before the Finno-Korean Hyperwar kicked off. the decolonization proposal here seems to be that everybody lines up, we determine their racial category via standard blood quanta and phrenological methods, and then everybody gets a personalized "invisible fence"-style dog collar based on the results that gives the wearer light to moderate electric shocks if they violate the geofencing
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Jun 13, 2023 18:31
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You could set mine to keep me north of york and I'd be happier for it.
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*looks at wrist* *does some bloodletting* well I'll have Palestine, Alsace-Moselle, and south-side Chicago. This is definitely mine by blood. congrats to owlfancier, the gruff northern sort of english has always been my fave
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Tree Goat posted:the decolonization proposal here seems to be that everybody lines up, we determine their racial category via standard blood quanta and phrenological methods, and then everybody gets a personalized "invisible fence"-style dog collar based on the results that gives the wearer light to moderate electric shocks if they violate the geofencing Since the Falklands were uninhabited we should just let the current residents starve so we can give the islands back to the penguins.
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Historically I think that has led to people just eating the penguins.
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Can we apply retrophrenology in some cases?
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Grape posted:Are you trying to twist yourself into enough logic pretzels that you can tell your own prostate how progressive you are? Lol @ the progressive ideology of allocating people to allowed geographical regions based on their ancestry without regarding the living individuals Wipfmetz fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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lol @ the progressive ideology of having a colonial outpost that costs tens of millions per year to defend & maintain for the sole purpose of allowing a bunch of tories to LARP loving Emmerdale in the south atlantic. the UK government hems, haws and handwrings over funding trivialities like healthcare and energy infrastructure, but god forbid the Flaklands and its military base don't get their precious pennies I'm from Britain and I say relocate them all, just shove them in the Cotswolds or somewhere and they won't know the difference. god forbid some Brits find out what it's like to be displaced from their place of birth by forces beyond their control, eh? it's not like that's the behaviour which defined our country for the best part of a few centuries, not at all!
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dadrips posted:lol @ the progressive ideology of having a colonial outpost that costs tens of millions per year to defend & maintain for the sole purpose of allowing a bunch of tories to LARP loving Emmerdale in the south atlantic. the UK government hems, haws and handwrings over funding trivialities like healthcare and energy infrastructure, but god forbid the Flaklands and its military base don't get their precious pennies You sound like a lot of fun.
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Look, i'm completly fine with "Gott strafe England", too. But it's not the same if _you're_ the one blaming current brits for the countries' former crimes, you spoilsport. [Edit:] And, to have a picture again. So many names for "England". 
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Jun 14, 2023 10:55
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Letting the English decide unilaterally who gets deported where for cost saving reasons is how the Windrush Scandal happened. Keep the Falklands precisely because it costs those people money and also irks the Peronistas. Build a second Falklands next door as a public works program. Build a third one and give it to the Dutch. 
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lol @ the progressive ideology of mapping the points on an oblate sphere to a two dimensional manifold even though there’s no way of doing so without singularities and then using that “map” to “navigate” the surface of this sphere like a loving idiot
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Tree Goat posted:lol @ the progressive ideology of mapping the points on an oblate sphere to a two dimensional manifold even though there’s no way of doing so without singularities and then using that “map” to “navigate” the surface of this sphere like a loving idiot They have taken us for absolute fools
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Tenebrais posted:They have taken us for absolute fools “I do some trigonometry based on the beeps I hear from space to figure out which of a set of totally imaginary parallel lines I am standing on. This helps the pizza guy find my apartment” “A couple guys in the 18th century tried to walk west in a straight line as best as they could and that’s what some places in America serve sweet tea and some don’t”
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Wipfmetz posted:Look, i'm completly fine with "Gott strafe England", too. But it's not the same if _you're_ the one blaming current brits for the countries' former crimes, you spoilsport. If Scotland did succeed would that mean it would no longer be the United Kingdom?
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In that case, we all wish Scotland much success
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NI also needs to leave for the name to fully change I think
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Count Roland posted:If Scotland did succeed would that mean it would no longer be the United Kingdom? Based on that taxonomy, you'd need to fission off Northern Ireland, thus reducing the United Kingdom back to the Kingdom of Great Britain. If you instead split off the Scots, you'd end up with the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland, I'd guess? Wales still gets ignored, as is tradition.
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Jun 14, 2023 13:29
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2050: United Kingdom of Essex and Sussex
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Count Roland posted:If Scotland did succeed would that mean it would no longer be the United Kingdom? Maybe "United Kingdom of Global Britain and Ireland"?
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Petite Britain is in France though.
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Platystemon posted:Petite Britain is in France though. "United Kingdom of Midsized Britain, Ireland and the Falkland Islands"?
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Unfortunately, although the theoretical output of kingdom fusion is orders of magnitude greater, sustainable fusion has proven to be impractical given the tremendous forces that must be generated to contain the reaction without a great deal of collateral damage. Until researchers discover a more efficient method, we must rely on the relatively inefficient but well-studied approach of splitting apart United Kingdoms to generate power by means of one of the reaction's main byproduct particles: gammons.
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Wipfmetz posted:Good call. Let's try another definition of "great" to invert: "The United Kingdom of lovely Britain and the Falkland Islands"
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All British people are the same. Find strength in your unity, bland food, and using hard H's when pronouncing "Herb."
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:All British people are the same. I have it on good authority from cartoons that many British people do not use hard hs for any word whatsoever
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Unless it’s a French word then it has to sound as un-French as possible
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'on 'on 'on
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:using hard H's when pronouncing "Herb." extremely niche thing to be mad about. nice
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Wipfmetz posted:Look, i'm completly fine with "Gott strafe England", too. But it's not the same if _you're_ the one blaming current brits for the countries' former crimes, you spoilsport. The problem I have with current Brits, English people in particular, is that they have never had any kind reckoning with their history. The British Empire was the most evil country that has ever existed and the consequences of their evil actions resonate today, and will for a long time. The English don't in any way engage with those facts, they have their stupid monarchy and they venerate Victoria and they still somehow believe that they matter in any way. They don't, they're awful, and they should really engage with the things their forbears did.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The problem I have with current Brits, English people in particular, is that they have never had any kind reckoning with their history. The British Empire was the most evil country that has ever existed and the consequences of their evil actions resonate today, and will for a long time. The English don't in any way engage with those facts, they have their stupid monarchy and they venerate Victoria and they still somehow believe that they matter in any way. They don't, they're awful, and they should really engage with the things their forbears did. Lmao source your quotes
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The problem I have with current Brits, English people in particular, is that they have never had any kind reckoning with their history. The British Empire was the most evil country that has ever existed and the consequences of their evil actions resonate today, and will for a long time. The English don't in any way engage with those facts, they have their stupid monarchy and they venerate Victoria and they still somehow believe that they matter in any way. They don't, they're awful, and they should really engage with the things their forbears did.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The problem I have with current Brits, English people in particular, is that they have never had any kind reckoning with their history. The British Empire was the most evil country that has ever existed and the consequences of their evil actions resonate today, and will for a long time. The English don't in any way engage with those facts, they have their stupid monarchy and they venerate Victoria and they still somehow believe that they matter in any way. They don't, they're awful, and they should really engage with the things their forbears did. Wait are you posting this poo poo for real? Wtf is wrong with you. I thought you were making dumb jokes, not being an actual absolute shithead. You can hate Charles for this stuff, that’s fine, but hating some random Falklands sheep farmer or some dude with a pub in Chesterhamshireville for this stuff just makes you a piece of poo poo yourself.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The problem I have with current Brits, English people in particular, is that they have never had any kind reckoning with their history. The British Empire was the most evil country that has ever existed and the consequences of their evil actions resonate today, and will for a long time. The English don't in any way engage with those facts, they have their stupid monarchy and they venerate Victoria and they still somehow believe that they matter in any way. They don't, they're awful, and they should really engage with the things their forbears did. I'm not so much looking at the isolated UK but comparing it to other current actors on the stage. Please also consider that engaging with the things one's forbears did is a really hard thing to do _right_. If you do it wrong, you won't actually help anybody _today_ or you won't actually be prepared for the same mistakes as long as they look just _slightly_ different. Wipfmetz fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Jun 15, 2023 |
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I think more it is annoying when english people go on their (justified) anti American rants but fail to realize everything they hate America for england either did too (Iraq war) or did their own little version of. That's more of disliking stupid people.
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These days it's usually Russian sources bringing up Iraq as a reason why they get to do whatever they want geopolitically, and the only Brits who are still hung up on it get all their news from RT. (Or they're people who want both Putin and Blair imprisoned for war crimes, which is fair.)
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