KevinC
5394
I wish I could shake my head and tut-tut over the Brexit situation, but I’m not throwing any stones in this glass house. Is English the leaded gasoline of the linguistics world or something?
Pointing out that an empire was founded on blood and loot makes someone Stalin?*
*To be fair, that’s probably all empires. International politics is at best, amoral. Of course, the “rules” tend to be imposed by the strong so that’s convenient.
in a thread littered with posts about race and the rise of white supremacy the only description of me he uses is “organism”
which is of note.
This is an example of the far-left with much in comparison to Stalin/Lenin etc. When people like him claim power then they will be the ones building the concentration camps and calling them re-education centres which is what the Chinese are doing to the Uighur in Xinjiang. There is ultimately very little difference between the far-left and the far-right being both totalitarian and dictatorial.
…far… left?
I guess I wouldn’t to expect you to scroll back through a rather epic thread but if you did you might meet the most outspoken critic of the far left on this thread, but it does wave some rather large red flags about your tone and talking points.
EUSSR ‘friends’
“EUSSR” - a red flag in a big way. UKIP’ers (or worse) on this forum. Urgh. I need to wash now.
You’re such a Corbynite, @playingwithknives.
They’ll call the movie “The Corbynite Maneuver”
You should try being middle-class in the US. Real middle-class - not whatever fantasy land you imagine middle-class americans live in.
Thanks @Juan_Raigada for saving me the bother of finding numbers.
Heh, the past 12 hours of discussion have been interesting. But pretty much a retread of everything we’ve gone over many times already in this thread. Give it up - they’re not going to believe the plain facts before their noses until it happens.
Brexiters continue harping on about sovereignty - the fact that that any post-Brexit trading is going to be entirely on EU terms and will put half of British industry pretty much at the mercy of EU regulations with no effective influence on how the rules are created - isn’t relevant. It’s the feeling that matters, not the facts.
The economy will boom - even though many companies have already made clear their plans to leave the UK. The services industry - representing 80% of the UK economy - is going to lose passporting rights into the EU, but that’s not an issue. It’s all just scare tactics, you know.
We’re an anti-Brexit echo chamber, you know.
See - we can’t prove that bad stuff will happen in the future. And if it does, then it’s because the EU is a big bad meanie (we’ve already had prototypes of that discussion in earlier rounds when discussing sovereignty).
Half the country wants to drag the other half into the abyss with it.
A commentary on human nature I suppose.
WAIT!
Did someone say ‘EUSSR’ without irony and NOT get laughed out of the room?
If so, they need to read up on the EU. And also the USSR because… these are not the same thing.
Yeah, this chart kinda makes me think most Americans would happily swap places.
Maybe that chart will finally answer the question, “When has the use of the word picaninnie not been racist?”
KevinC
5405
My prolonged eyeroll prevented me from typing a response on my phone.
wavey
5406
That did stand out to me, but I must confess it struck me as such an odd choice of word I just wondered what it had autocorrected from. If it was intentional, then 1) yikes, and 2) the original poster should at least apologize and explain what they intended to mean by it to the moderators.
jpinard
5407
I’m still waiting for the Brexiters to come back and admit how incredibly wrong they are about how great things are in the U.S vs. the E.U. More-so, need to admit how the EU has protected workers, the environment, healthcare, housing etc much better than the U.S.
I admit when I’m wrong and way off-base. Why don’t Brexiters? Especially when they blatantly make stuff up (hello @M_Wolf and your comparative wages fluff). And I guess that’s a hallmark of Brexiters. It’s mostly lies, deception, and deflection.
I will bet you dollars to donuts it was intentional. He won’t be posting here anymore, at least from that account.
-Tom
Just wait til they tell you it’s a good thing because it will inspire investment in your country. Except it won’t because the pound will be way too volatile for that kind of long-term planning and your ability to buy goods produced outside the UK will be limited.
Bear in mind that Incindiary Lemon is a Russophile, who is pushing Russian propaganda, which is generally directed at the goal of damaging the EU (and western countries in general), as a means of elevating Russia on the international stage.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/almost-war-russian-and-chinese-planes-violated-south-korean-airsp
This is what our Russia policy has wrought.
We have been led by profoundly stupid people with no understanding of the outside world. And we have clapped the whole way.
Russia and China are natural rivals. We’ve made them allies. We will regret this.
Yeah, that time the US forced Putin to place a series of bombs in Moscow apartment blocks in order for his siloviki to consolidate power.
I’m broadly in agreement with the US expansion around Russia are a factor in Putin’s actions but the key drivers are his internal power and wealth, not defending the motherland. I’m a finance/trade due diligence professional specialising in Russia and CIS countries but I’m behind some NDAs or i’d love to fill the thread with hair raising anecdotes about the kleptocracy.
