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My geography is shite but loving hell surely you have heard of the DRC at some point in your life?
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Apr 25, 2024 22:35
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A graduate of the Kemi Badenoch "I definitely read the Africa book, honest" school of international relations.forkboy84 posted:Build railways. Pretty much the ideal environment to move as much onto electrified rail as possible.
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Apr 25, 2024 22:39
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Made me laugh anyway. Sir Brylcreemed Walking Algorithm. 
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Apr 25, 2024 22:40
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fuctifino posted:This clip is rather special Oh loving christ
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Apr 25, 2024 22:40
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fuctifino posted:This clip is rather special I can't even laugh. It just exemplifies the Little Englander cancer that has run the country into the ground
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Apr 25, 2024 22:48
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OwlFancier posted:My geography is shite but loving hell surely you have heard of the DRC at some point in your life? Dude probably heard "Dr Congo" and immediately registered with a private GP
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Apr 25, 2024 22:52
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Wes cashing in https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1783608864115491291
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Apr 25, 2024 22:52
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Wes' brain rebooting in shock at not being the biggest oval office in the room.
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Apr 25, 2024 22:59
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forkboy84 posted:I can't even laugh. It just exemplifies the Little Englander cancer that has run the country into the ground Black people land innit.
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Apr 25, 2024 23:06
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Private Speech posted:Black people land innit. All these ex-Belgian colonies look the same to me
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Apr 25, 2024 23:16
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THIS is a pro watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdTkNz2KgcI
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Apr 25, 2024 23:18
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Ah, thats where they drink Um Bongo!
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Apr 25, 2024 23:19
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"Her resignation uncorked the pent-up opposition to her radicalism within the SNP, leading inexorably to Thursday’s snap decision by Humza Yousaf to rip the agreement up." This is from a Graun article that's trying to be a primer for Sassenach's on what the Bute House Agreement was and what it means now it's binned. The her in question, with all her radicalism, is not Rosa Luxemburg or Alexandra Kollontai, it's Nicola Sturgeon. Who is about as radical as Tim Farron
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Apr 25, 2024 23:43
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fuctifino posted:This clip is rather special replaying the couple seconds at 0:37 where the audience realises he isn't just unable to process a sentence but also isn't entirely sure that Congo is a different country is well recommended. great faces all round
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Apr 26, 2024 00:10
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The thing that gets me about the video of the st George's day racists is that the main bloke they interview is so close to getting it. He's aware that we're surrounded by corruption, incompetence and institutional apathy, but then chooses to rail against immigrants rather than direct his anger at the people and institutions in charge of the whole loving thing
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Apr 26, 2024 00:13
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Appalled at the corruption of the colonial elite, he instead supports the national elite, unaware that they are one and the same.
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Apr 26, 2024 00:41
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fuctifino posted:This clip is rather special Thats loving amazing & I love the way the audience just crack up laughing.
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Apr 26, 2024 00:45
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But Africa's just one big country, isn't it? Isn't it? I say out there....? Meanwhile, Habib tries to say he didn't say what he said that was so outrageous even Hartley Teabag was shocked: 
Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Apr 26, 2024 00:45
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OwlFancier posted:My geography is shite but loving hell surely you have heard of the DRC at some point in your life? Maybe I've just spent far too long procrastinating on jetpunk, but it's really genuinely astounding to me how bad at basic geography so many Brits are. We take the piss out of Americans for this but honestly we're just as bad. Knowing different countries exist and roughly where they are isn't really even geography, it's just being aware of the world we live in, and I think I'd get stressed out hearing the names of places on the news and not having a single clue whether that's nearby or miles away or whatever. Knowing that some people go on holiday and get on the plane and wander around a place and they have no idea where in the world they've landed and can't even place it on a map once they get back is baffling to me, like actually incomprehensible. With that in mind, obviously people should know that the DRC and Rwanda are different countries, but I could almost forgive your average dumbass for not because it's not like a knowledge of African geography and politics is ever really taught here, and it's not something 99% of people have any reason to learn beyond personal interest, and god knows I've met too many people who are just pathologically uncurious and a fair few who weirdly wear that ignorance as a badge of pride. That said if you're literally a government minister and you're actively defending a plan involving an African country I feel like that should be a pretty major essential criteria for the job! Speaking of this, where did this all come from anyway. Why loving Rwanda of all places? What do they get out of it? Are they planning on granting citizenship to arrivals? Is there any infrastructure to support any of this or are they just going to be thrown on the street in Kigali and told good luck? It's such an utterly bizarre deal and I've still not really been able to make any sense of it at all. Also, obligatory point that I'm sure a million people have already made, but gently caress me I'm disgusted at the way all the discourse about this is framing it as 'would it/would it not be good value for money', like what the gently caress, I'm so tired of neoliberal brainworm saturation and singing the coca cola song. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Apr 26, 2024 04:08
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Rwanda is politically stable (don't ask how) and has made a effort to be approachable and workable with by the West from their government. Combined with Rwanda getting cash and money for building out of the deal, I can see why they'd respond when the Foreign office was shopping around for a country to send all our migrants to.
Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Apr 26, 2024 06:22
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Basically as above. Their government has been working hard to rebrand over the last decade. There still seeming to be internal ethnic issues and the whole UK deal isn't exactly helping, I feel.
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Apr 26, 2024 06:27
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forkboy84 posted:Yeah, it doesn't solve every problem but an improved service from Inverness to the central belt is at least a start. It gets goods off the A9 & onto the rails too. Absolutely dual the Highland Main Line. Electrify it. Run more trains. Prioritize that over the A9. But dual the A9 as well. They serve different roles. Somewhere as spread out as the Highlands will always have cars they are a necessity. The best that can be achieved is that most rural people transition to electric cars. The A9 is a major route for everyone in the Highlands and it should be a decent modern road.
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Apr 26, 2024 07:59
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Apr 26, 2024 07:59
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fuctifino posted:This clip is rather special A product of both Oxford and the grammar school system, everyone!
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Apr 26, 2024 08:03
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Apr 26, 2024 08:06
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forkboy84 posted:Who is about as radical as Tim Farron Rather unfair to ol' Sturgy to compare her to the homophobic milk pervert.
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Apr 26, 2024 08:08
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https://twitter.com/gdnpolitics/status/1783551336321282536
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Apr 26, 2024 09:01
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In the grim darkness of the second millennium, there is only war, and if you don't like it gently caress off and leave
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Apr 26, 2024 09:03
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ThomasPaine posted:it's not like a knowledge of African geography and politics is ever really taught here, and it's not something 99% of people have any reason to learn beyond personal interest Even from a beep boop ThomasPaine posted:neoliberal brainworm saturation and singing the coca cola song
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Apr 26, 2024 09:04
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OwlFancier posted:In the grim darkness of the second millennium, there is only war, and if you don't like it gently caress off and leave I did, now I'm in the 3rd millennium
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Apr 26, 2024 09:10
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I vaguely recall having covered Mali a little bit when I was at school. I couldn't tell you where it is or even what shape it is, but I do know it had a big old empire for a while.
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Apr 26, 2024 09:10
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Is there by any chance a thread somewhere on SA Mart for people selling games within the UK?
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Apr 26, 2024 09:12
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ah Paul Mason I do partially agree with him that arming Ukraine is good but otherwise a continuing downward trend from his output
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Apr 26, 2024 09:15
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Guavanaut posted:It's pathetic really, you'd think that the country that owned half of Africa would have at least a year of school history/geography on it. Even racist clownshoes apartheid "we could have tanks in Cairo by Wednesday" humanities (inhumanities?) had to acknowledge which direction Cairo was in. Hell, just from context you could tell he was talking about a different country. Twat wasn't even bothering to listen.
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Apr 26, 2024 09:18
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OwlFancier posted:In the grim darkness of the second millennium, there is only war, and if you don't like it gently caress off and leave Star Trek Original episode - in this episode people get told to report to the disintegrator as the deaths from the perpetual war simulation. And the weird thing is, people get told 'your turn for the distintegrator' and go willingly to their doom! quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
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Apr 26, 2024 09:28
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this is despicable slander of the honorable member for Burnistoun West. if she had his level of focus on transport issues she wouldn't have time to also be a massive terf
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Apr 26, 2024 09:34
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Angepain posted:this is despicable slander of the honorable member for Burnistoun West. if she had his level of focus on transport issues she wouldn't have time to also be a massive terf Tbf a lot of terfs are obsessed with trans sport issues.
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Apr 26, 2024 09:39
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Keep booing, you're only making me stronger.
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Apr 26, 2024 09:40
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This is a great bit from last night's QT https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1783582275059220868
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Apr 26, 2024 09:47
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Dabir posted:I vaguely recall having covered Mali a little bit when I was at school. I couldn't tell you where it is or even what shape it is, but I do know it had a big old empire for a while. Obviously everybody just needs to play more mapgames. Mali is where Mansa Musa came from when he brought All The Gold on his hajj and crashed the Egyptian economy on his way through
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Apr 26, 2024 10:08
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