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Captain_Maclaine posted:Yeah, thread is going entirely off the rails. How's about we try to move the discussion back toward the actual upcoming British elections, rather than flogging on about whether the Soviet Union or Victorian colonialism were greater evils? i believe in soviety steampunk britain
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deadgoon posted:i believe in soviety steampunk britain read Perdido Street Station by China Milville its not soviety but it is steampunk britian seen through a marxist lens
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Baloogan posted:read Perdido Street Station by China Milville yeah i read that & the scar a little while ago and i was gonna read iron council (which is steampunk rosa luxemburg the internet told me) however i took a break to read the quantum thief trilogy and got bored halfway through and stalled out on reading books like some kind of NERD
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the only true fictional communism is that of the strugatsky brothers noon universe series
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:the only true fictional communism is that of the strugatsky brothers noon universe series Roadside Picnic is better than Stalker (the film) imo
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Baloogan posted:read Perdido Street Station by China Milville
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iron council is the best book of that trilogy
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jBrereton posted:"We never had these problems at British Leyland" claims Corbyn wrt NHS hacks. lol
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i don't get why people are mystified the press isn't attacking May. She's going to be the next PM and to try and change that is
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Nonsense posted:i don't get why people are mystified the press isn't attacking May. She's going to be the next PM and to try and change that is I thought the press loved the idea of may stepping on their balls with high heels tho.
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Nanomashoes posted:I thought the press loved the idea of may stepping on their balls with high heels tho. That's her MPs The press are just terrified of an actual socialist because that's a much bigger threat to them than naked nationalism
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MikeCrotch posted:That's her MPs Do these socialists plan to clamp down on freedom of the press?
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hakimashou posted:Do these socialists plan to clamp down on freedom of the press? Worse; they might raise taxes.
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Theresa May will be written about as the most popular Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher.
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why the gently caress to british people care about fox hunting
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it fucks up the countryside, is brutal and only rich people do it
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Fallen Hamprince posted:why the gently caress to british people care about fox hunting culture war
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How bad is it compared to golf?
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im naughty i like doing bad things to mother nature
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Did another hogshead get hosed
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Lolol this is the UK thread I don't even need to ask
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Baloogan posted:How bad is it compared to golf? you need horses and to break onto peoples property illegally to chase the fox
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Jose posted:you need horses and to break onto peoples property illegally to chase the fox 2nd amendment and castle laws prob sound p good about now lol
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Jose posted:you need horses and to break onto peoples property illegally to chase the fox Don't you also need hounds to tear the fox apart, or do Tories enjoy the thrill of getting their hands bloody?
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Do they eat the fox?
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Don't you also need hounds to tear the fox apart, or do Tories enjoy the thrill of getting their hands bloody? you do
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Fallen Hamprince posted:why the gently caress to british people care about fox hunting I tried to figure that out in the DnD thread but the new mod wouldn't let me talk about it anymore  Best I can figure its something only "rich people" do so it its banned out of spite.
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Baloogan posted:Do they eat the fox? Not, but they smear it's blood on the face of first time hunters to initiate them into the cult.
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Anyway after May wins she's gonna legalize it again it looks like.
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Lobster God posted:Not, but they smear it's blood on the face of first time hunters to initiate them into the cult. thats kinda cool I guess
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hakimashou posted:Anyway after May wins she's gonna legalize it again it looks like. oh noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEKB7pi1mbc
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It's a free vote and public opinion is still pretty overwhelming against it so I can see a lot of Tories abstaining It's a way to try and shore up rural voters (especially those who might be concerned about losing EU farming subsidies), nothing more
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Party Boat posted:
lol that they all voted for this
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May 16, 2017 09:14
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what's wrong with kicking out your liberal overlords and then taking their money
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that just makes a new set of overlords, the guys who took the first guys money. Its not a new concept. Its been tried. Open a history book lol.
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