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gh0stpinballa posted:i think the mistake people are making is assuming that britain is "a country" or a "nation state" anymore. it isn't. it is a bunch of land that surrounds london, and london itself is not a city, it is a gigantic washing machine for billions of dollars of blood money that flows into it from gulf states and various oligarchs and organized crime groups all around the world. it is a ghost land where ghost acts stand in for real change. brexit, like the gulf war, did not really happen. this is why i am struggling to engage with the labour leadership race - until they recognize these facts about "the united kingdom", there is no hope. Lol okay boomer
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twoday posted:Imagine being some EU bureaucrat having to negotiate any kind of deal with Britain in the coming year I'd go to work with a smile on my face every day, if it weren't for the grueling hours. Telling dumb British snobs to stick it where the sun don't shine as a job is great. Dance Officer has issued a correction as of 13:48 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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Civilized Fishbot posted:Theoretically, sure, Americans might be more supportive than the average person if asked about it, but American voters will never vote or donate a dollar based on Scotland trying to secede from the UK. We barely care about our own wars, the Scotland-UK stuff is too distant and small to make a blip. We didn't give a poo poo about Brexit and Scotland seceding from the UK is smaller than that. Did you miss the *checks notes* $1.5b the US gave Ukraine in aid, in order to fight the Russians? Very few in the general US public cared about that.
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Feb 2, 2020 17:20
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Civilized Fishbot posted:This is all 100% true but seems irrelevant to the point I was making that American voters don't care about Scottish independence The point I'm making is that the US will send aid regardless of voters actually caring.
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Feb 2, 2020 17:45
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A US-EU proxy war in the British civil war would be a hell of a thing.
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Feb 2, 2020 18:01
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An insane mind posted:I meant Geert Wilders (Ridiculous peroxide look) and Thierry Baudet (Pretend intellectual, making the right wing hip again) We're Dutch, nobody cares about our politics.
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Feb 6, 2020 14:30
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Darth Walrus posted:Point out that harsher immigration restrictions aren't actually about kicking out foreigners, but undermining workers' rights. Companies still want them, and the government will still let them in on 'temporary' visas that they're tacitly encouraged to overstay, but if their presence here is illegal, they have no legal redress to abuse and exploitation by employers (because the police will just deport them). End result, you get a slave underclass who have zero political representation and are dehumanised by the media, and are used to undercut wages and destroy collective bargaining. You know, exactly like how things are in the US. This was the line the PvdA took in the Netherlands, and it didn't give them a landslide. Yes, I know they have a history of working together with a right-wing party on a right-wing agenda.
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Feb 25, 2020 07:47
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drat, leave it to the tories to use a global pandemic as an excuse to slash teacher's worker's protections, and poo poo up schools even more.
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Feb 29, 2020 14:15
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Watch stock markets continue to crash as Boris' cabinet of failures and creeps makes things worse.
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Kinda shocked that the UK isn't worse than that.
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