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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

since people mentioned UKMT and how much it sucks, can somebody tell me who that person in pissflaps's avatar is supposed to be? some soccer coach right? also i'm not calling him "football manager" gently caress off

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Feb 10, 2007

hakimashou posted:

Hopefully britain can learn some lessons from france:

"Macron’s ascendency could encourage those in Britain who would like to see another path open up. One that would help counter the kind of narrative deployed by May; one that could soften Brexit. A left-leaning Labour offers little solace in that regard. The best antidote seems to be a confident centre, one built on pragmatic, moral, optimistic beliefs, and, as we see in France, rich in potential. If Macron prevails on 7 May, the immediate effect of his centre revolution will probably be felt in France. But its most important effect should be to galvanise like minds abroad, and certainly here."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/28/macron-rise-extremism-not-inevitable-le-pen-france
the guardian calls that section "comment is free" because when it comes to the opinion pieces there, you get what you pay for

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Feb 10, 2007

isn't netanyahu in the midst of some corruption row or is he just gonna slide out of that as well

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Feb 10, 2007

Top City Homo posted:

they are all going to get gulenized if they keep this up.
only fitting for a political system that's already parallel to turkey's or russia's

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Feb 10, 2007

Jose posted:

i lust for boomer death
lol if you think that the death of the olds will heal any society

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Feb 10, 2007

Fullhouse posted:

Dinesh D'Souza is proudly pro-colonialist and spends a big portion of his weird movie about Obama's Dad arguing that much of Asia was better off under the British Empire (including India, where he is from). I'm sure this isn't terribly uncommon among Anglo neocons, theyre still all about the white man's burden
is d'souza's family from goa? that was never british, it's easy for him to say "the british empire was good" if he were on the outside looking in

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Feb 10, 2007

Mycroft Holmes posted:

there's one thing that gives me solace in these trump filled times, and that's that no matter how bad it is here in the us, it's worse in the uk. schadenfreude sustains me.
we're constantly one-upping each other in stupidity. god has truly blessed the anglo-american alliance

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Feb 10, 2007

Kurtofan posted:

someone found the last horcrux
no harry potter references on star wars day please

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Feb 10, 2007

corbyn seems like a lovely leader but so would any blairite trash that will be stepping in after labour gets thrashed

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Feb 10, 2007

i'm confused as to why they use the word "murdered" for jo cox instead of the spot-on word "assassinated"

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Feb 10, 2007

syriza was headed towards leaving the euro until they met with germany and their creditors. something hosed up must have been said because immediately after that meeting they said they wanted to stay

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Feb 10, 2007

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

Ultra right-wig nationalists have underperformed polling in the last 5 or 6 European elections in a row so I'm calling it for Corbyn "cheers" "mates"
someone in a different thread made a good post about how wilders didn't really underperform that much and the political situation in the netherlands sucks more now

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

was labour all that visible in brexit campaigning? because if they weren't, that's the best thing that they could have done. hide behind the bickering, split tories and let them slug each other

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Feb 10, 2007

27 Prosecutions is my favorite britpop band

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Feb 10, 2007

what the gently caress is with british people in positions of power and pedophilia? this former soccer coach has over 40 cases of child rape, that shouldn't be possible

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Feb 10, 2007

Homeless Friend posted:

He's the Bill Cosby of pedophilia drat
he certainly looks like a pedo

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Feb 10, 2007

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's because English people love death.
the british empire was nothing if not a well-oiled machine that ran on the blood of "savages," in due time the british turned it on themselves

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

"threat to kill" is my favorite ac/dc song

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Feb 10, 2007

Jose posted:

Thatcher knew that peolpe who worked for her were pedo's and she didn't care because she knew it meant she could control them
ah yes, the mafia school of management

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Feb 10, 2007

Baloogan posted:

canadian politics is lame but mostly sane :/
i was listening to a hockey podcast and apparently there's a journo up there who said that in canadian politics, the most boring result always happens

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Feb 10, 2007

Hodgepodge posted:

better fire up the troubles again, we need a wedge issue against commies
i remember after the brexit vote happened, there was analysis that said that the Good Friday agreement could be in trouble because of it. has anything come of that?

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Feb 10, 2007

Baloogan posted:

the british empire was 'bad' (but not exceptionally so, and english law is the basis for the world's law) but it gets serious points for being so cool and paving the way for global civilization overall I'd say the british empire was great.

just look at the ex-british colonies and compare them to spanish/etc colonies.
not touching this one

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Feb 10, 2007

good dogs

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Feb 10, 2007

pretty sure you're talking about automation and not robots, jose

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Feb 10, 2007

i'm seeing double here, two wieners

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Feb 10, 2007

part of me wants the tories to win because if they don't, i'll be in the only failing democracy in the western world. this is also why part of me wanted le pen to win. i'm a piece of poo poo

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Feb 10, 2007

rudatron posted:

Mentally, the guy's just going to be an islamic version of a /pol/ retard.
that's every single isis inspired attack ever

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Feb 10, 2007

i saw the pissflaps avatar and got scared that he learned of the existence of this thread

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Feb 10, 2007

the british press is going to have an absolute field day with that

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Feb 10, 2007

financially racist posted:

because trump showed the world that you can say whatever idiot poo poo you want and still win the election
that's increasingly becoming an "america only" phenomenon

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Feb 10, 2007

i wanna say that i'll never become a tankie, but if it comes down to trump vs. zuckerberg, that might do it

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Feb 10, 2007

Venom Snake posted:

The universe where Corbyn master of the Orbyn becomes PM isn't the one where the democratic party swings back to the right imo
you'd think, but i grow more and more convinced that america is permanently loving stupid and beyond help every day

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Feb 10, 2007

hakimashou posted:

The American people were wise, millions more voted for hillary than for trump.

The Brexit on the other hand...
if jez corbyn and labour snatch victory from theresa may's maw, we won't have that leg to stand on anymore

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Feb 10, 2007

Jose posted:

the editor who was in charge of this only got sacked a month or so ago


wasn't it because he wrote some thinly-veiled racist column about a player?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Is that about the Hillsborough disaster?
yep, it's the cover that started the whole "Liverpool fans were drunk and got what they deserved" line of thought

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Feb 10, 2007

while we're on the subject, the ESPN/BBC joint documentary "Hillsborough" is a must-watch

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Feb 10, 2007

who was former obama campaign aide who worked for labour and miliband in the last election? i remember him saying afterward that he was floored at how hand-in-hand politics and the media are over in the uk

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Feb 10, 2007

i believe









in unending hell

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Feb 10, 2007

they're not gonna vote in numbers as big as everyone else to begin with, no need to resort to cartoonish bullshit

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Feb 10, 2007

would "this political situation reminds me of harry potter" essays be anywhere near as commonplace if jk rowling didn't actively encourage them?

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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

good article about poo poo ownership in English soccer/football, but i particularly liked this nugget of info about how poo poo the libdems are

quote:

Clubs such as Blackpool, Coventry, Leyton Orient and Charlton, to name a few, have experienced owners that neglect, mismanage and disrupt, often with no consequence. The increasing commercialisation of football has made such haphazard, experimental ownership a growing issue, particularly when those taking control of clubs have little to no interest or knowledge of the game. Put simply, far more must be done to prevent the exploitation, and in some cases, destruction of historic footballing institutions, whether it be from the FA or at a governmental level.

That is how fans of Blackburn feel. One supporter, Duncan Miller, has gone as far as to stand for the upcoming general election on an anti-Venky’s platform. If it wasn’t already clear how much the club means to locals, Miller has been handed better odds of winning in the constituency (100-1) than the Liberal Democrats (200-1).

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