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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > UKMT February 2017 - Welcome to Tiny Train World
 
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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


 why does britain care so much about russia? isn't theresa may one of the dreaded Right-Wing Populists herself? are you guys just really mad they're bidding up housing prices in london? or maybe the liberal internationalist warhawk impulse is so strong even something as trifling as a far-right government can't touch it?

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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008

Oberleutnant posted:

Shut your loving face

it's a real question though. does may have significant neocon impulses?

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Jul 1, 2008


 okay so i read the New Statesman instead of the guardian to keep the lib stuff to a minimum, but today i'm presented with this

http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/02/furred-reich-truth-about-nazi-furries-and-alt-right

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The Furred Reich: The truth about Nazi furries and the alt-right

People who dress up as animals are adopting Nazi-style iconography and calling themselves “alt-furry”. What’s behind it?

is literally the entirety of the british press terrible?

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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008

JFairfax posted:

lol goddamn furry's ahahah

i mean, at least have the decency to make it about anime nazis. not furries. come on

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Jul 1, 2008

quote:

“It’s obviously not a swastika,” claims Foxler – who also insists his furry name is a portmanteau of “Fox” and his real surname, “Miller”, not “Hitler”, as many online argue. Foxler says he first began wearing the armband – which features a paw print in place of a swastika – after he dropped out of high school and started playing the online role-playing game Second Life, in which the band was available as a character accessory.

y'all country is messed up

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Jul 1, 2008


 So I looked at the Wikipedia history of The Guardian on a whim and holy poo poo what an absolutely horrific goldmine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

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The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called the Manchester Guardian "the foul prostitute and dirty parasite of the worst portion of the mill-owners".[20] The Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labour's claims. Of the 1832 Ten Hours Bill, the paper doubted whether in view of the foreign competition "the passing of a law positively enacting a gradual destruction of the cotton manufacture in this kingdom would be a much less rational procedure."[21] The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators – "... if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. They live on strife ..."[22]

The Manchester Guardian was highly critical of Abraham Lincoln's conduct during the American Civil War, writing on the news that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated: "Of his rule, we can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent to every true notion of constitutional right and human liberty ..."[23]

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The paper so loathed Labour's left-wing champion Aneurin Bevan "and the hate-gospellers of his entourage" that it called for Attlee's post-war Labour government to be voted out of office.[28] The newspaper opposed the creation of the National Health Service as it feared the state provision of healthcare would "eliminate selective elimination" and lead to an increase of congenitally deformed and feckless people.[29]

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Many Irish people believed that the Widgery Tribunal's ruling on the killings was a whitewash,[32] a view that was later supported with the publication of the Saville inquiry in 2010,[33] but in 1972 The Guardian declared that "Widgery's report is not one-sided" (20 April 1972).[34] At the time the paper also supported internment without trial in Northern Ireland: "Internment without trial is hateful, repressive and undemocratic. In the existing Irish situation, most regrettably, it is also inevitable... .To remove the ringleaders, in the hope that the atmosphere might calm down, is a step to which there is no obvious alternative."[35] Before then, The Guardian had called for British troops to be sent to the region: British soldiers could "present a more disinterested face of law and order,"[36] but only on condition that "Britain takes charge."[37]

They literally opposed the NHS because it would impede the natural process of eugenic selection of the disabled :stare:

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