@marxmalong @TrueSlazac 19th century Britiain was not historically conservative.
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@InPlaceofStrife @TrueSlazac using the term "historically conservative" implies that it's a negation of "historically progressive", which would then imply that his opponents we're more evil because they didn't have that quality.
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The Minions (2015) is reactionary propaganda depicting Napoleon as the most evil man of his time and not his historically conservative opponents
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@Joe___Allen Not totally unsympathetic insofar as they just wanted to touch it and go back down, which I can imagine would be frustrating if people are taking forever to take a photograph.
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Referring to a queue as "purely free will" is very funny.
BBC Wales News@BBCWalesNews
Charity hikers 'really angry' at being booed for dodging queues at Yr Wyddfa summit bbc.in/4uII2UU
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@marxmalong @TrueSlazac He didnt use the phrase progressive
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@InPlaceofStrife @TrueSlazac progressive doesn't mean more liberal by the way
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@Kaijuwonk @GSpellchecker Ok but why lie then. I agree the quote isnt great as it actually was, but I despise this idea that lying is ok as long you are "directionally correct" or whatever.
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@GSpellchecker She said it was wrong
*BUT*
"it was JUST the EXTRAORDINARY MAGICAL energy of a country just beginning to put it's roots in the ground.
The full quote isn't any better.
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Why be so dishonest? It's so sinister.
The full quote starts:
"I witnessed things that were wrong. I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem".
Falafel Enjoyer 🧆@Kaijuwonk
@GSpellchecker Whilst I don't really agree with yelling at people in the street, she is pretty evil
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@KingHamster81 @welsh_pain Beeching did have a couple of howlers but most of his closures were basically justifiable. BR was hemorrhaging money from rural branch lines which was preventing investment in profitable areas like freightlining. Some of the lines he shut had single digit daily passengers.
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@welsh_pain Totally agree but we can blame Beeching in the 1960’s and his report that closed perfectly good railway lines that weren’t profitable.
Exactly why today no government, including Plaid, would throw money at it to build one.
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It's kinda ridiculous that Aberystwyth is isolated from the north and the south of Wales.
It's one of the major cultural hubs of Wales and it's only rail connection is eastward (like most of Wales)
King Hamster@KingHamster81
@JonnyValleyBoy Can I ask for what reason. There’s no demand for a North / South railway. Northern Wales go to Manchester and Liverpool. South go to Cardiff and Bristol
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@Rongwrong_ Almost anything to do with culture is Gramscian, and anything to do with discourse norms Foucauldian.
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• Don’t say antagonistic, say Schmittian.
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@BenRamanauskas Eh. We need more developers, who earn their profits through productive activity - landlords mostly just leech off the general prosperity. Of course sometimes they are the same person.
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No, this is the ideal, actually. We should want a situation where there are far more landlords - competing with each other to attract tenants.
We need more landlords!
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS
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@WB_Baskerville Sure but not being willing to take the metro in a bit of a wierdo indicator - also self-infantilising and asking for that should really be beneath her dignity
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This is one where I think it’s kind of silly for her to expect the uber but, once she asks for it, I think the guy really should just get it.
Yea it’s a little request that’s unnecessary. She gets to make those, and if you refuse she gets to read into it.
#3 sisterwife but #1 in his heart@prettycritical
857 comments. DELICIOUS😈
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@yttriumlove This isnt really it - even people who can well afford it don't have it, its just considered declasse
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Brits are so poor they view 500 dollars to not die from heat stroke as something unaffordable and a luxury good
Tristan@Tenzur_
@twrIdd Yeah it's an expensive thing to purchase to endure 12 days of hot weather per year
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@thomasforth It is - might have to go find relief by riding on our latest air-conditioned light rail line
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@hodge_stick @Republicplease The War in Ireland is very a much a separate event to the Glorious Revolution
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doing a british citizen test and currently failing because i refuse to accept "there was no fighting" in the glorious revolution.
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@hodge_stick There wasnt of any substance. The williamite war in Ireland is a separate event to the Glorious Revolution
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@Republicplease @hodge_stick Yeah that really was a fierce battle, a second Naseby in many ways
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@hodge_stick Where did this whole "it was a peaceful takeover" kind of thing even come from? Literally there's the battle of reading
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@stinkycatboyf @STLD98 @SaadInCyber Inflation is absolutely not at an all time high. I can only conclude that if you had lived in the 70s you would have gone insane.
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@STLD98 @SaadInCyber Nice immediate sniping while disregarding the point instantly. Inflation and price gouging in this country is at an all time high. The simple fact is that while we may get paid more the buying power of the dollar is down 30% and inflation is outpacing wages.
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All you need to know about the great power competition bw US and China is that working age adult Americans are competing on who can eat most like a medieval peasant while China is essentially serving the equivalent of a 3 course meal to every middle school kid.
constans@constans
Ok, kids: 1 lb chicken breast 1 bell pepper 1 onion 1 cup soy sauce 1 tbsp curry powder 1pkg microwaveable rice Dice chicken, pepper, & onion Stir fry chicken & onion until brown Add bell pepper After a few mins, add mix of soy sauce & curry powder With rice, that’s 3 meals
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@akeliuseviction @anti_socialform Why would investors want to 'park' capital. Parked capital doesnt generated returns.
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Quite taken aback by the abstract and decontextualised arguments for why more of these need to be built
Benedict J Smith@BenedictSm55625
The people of Peckham didn’t want this and @lb_southwark protected their interests over those of a US multinational. This isn’t Nimbyism - people just want more humane homes.
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@TheLiarbility @onlyslightlybsd @ka8895 True but the margin on essentials is very likely lower than average - expensive items like premium alcohol are where the big margins area.
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@onlyslightlybsd @ka8895 But that isn’t right. The headline profit margin is across all products and categories. Some products will make far more than 4% some less. You can’t say that a company’s profit margin is 4% then apply that to a load of bread and realistically assume it is accurate.
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Right now the cheapest loaf in Tesco is 55p for 800g (W. H. Neville white or brown, 22 slices).
Tesco retains 4% of that as profit. 2p
Cheapest eggs? 6 for £1. Obvs that is 4p profit or 0.6p per egg.
2 slices toast, 2 scrambled eggs, Tesco makes 1.3p
Scottish Greens@scottishgreens
This is one of the richest countries in the history of the world. Yet we have thousands of children going to school hungry each morning while supermarkets rake in obscene profits. #bbcqt
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Extraordinary stats via @hwallop over on LinkedIn:
"On average, people said pubs make a profit margin of 40%. Last year, JD Wetherspoon made 3.8 per cent.
They thought supermarkets made 50% profit margins. Tesco’s margin last year was 4.3%, the highest in the industry.
Aldi and Lidl run at 0.7%, according to the UK competition watchdog."
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