Toby Black

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Toby Black

Toby Black

@PracticalLibSoc

Full-time Cymro 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Part-Time Brit 🇬🇧, He/Him Not one or multiple Chicken Wings.

Katılım Mart 2019
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Toby Black
Toby Black@PracticalLibSoc·
@stane203 @Dusty1832 @EsotericStarmer There's no reason to be capable of using a sword and a net to kill a polar bear if I'm never going to need to do that in my life, and certainly no reason to spend 3% of my yearly income to learn how to do that.
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Kalingrad
Kalingrad@Kalingrad1·
@PracticalLibSoc @EsotericStarmer Ok but defence spending goes to replacing the older nuclear submarines with newer ones. And ships to support those submarines and other endeavours
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Orlando J. Pérez
Orlando J. Pérez@Perez1oj·
The Cuba that "was born free in 1902." It seems @RepMariaSalazar, a Cuban, has forgotten Cuban history! Cuban "independence" from Spain was a function of a US protectorate through the Platt Amendment! That codified the US's right to intervene anytime the US deemed necessary to "preserve the independence" of the island.
Rep. María Elvira Salazar@RepMariaSalazar

Today is a glorious day. Not only for the Cubans on the island, but for every Cuban in exile, for every family torn apart, for every neighbor, every friend, every loved one who spent their life waiting to go home. For 67 years, a group of gangsters seized a nation and turned it into their business. But today, is the beginning of the end. The forces of freedom are coming, and the Cuba that was born free in 1902 is finding its way back.

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fasdfsfd fasdf@Jamesmcisswaggy·
@PracticalLibSoc @EsotericStarmer I mean im sure hes alright just if its already going alright with starmer i dont think changing it is wise. Never know what could happen. I Agree maybe its time after starmer's term but i dont see why the rush to get rid of starmer when its seemingly working
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Guayabito
Guayabito@yo_soy_un_pingu·
@Perez1oj @RepMariaSalazar All gaslighting. When Cuba was a supposed protectorate of the US it was totally free and had free elections and even socialist dictators like Batista.
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Toby Black@PracticalLibSoc·
@Perez1oj Also, I wouldn't describe its relationship with Russia or Venezuela as subservient either, in Russias case because the relationship is so distant and in Venezelas case because the relationship was so lopsided in Cubas favour.
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Toby Black@PracticalLibSoc·
@Perez1oj and Cuba openly and explicitly rebuked the demands for reform and openness by Gorbachev in the late 80s to early 90s.
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Toby Black
Toby Black@PracticalLibSoc·
@stane203 @Dusty1832 @EsotericStarmer Also, the British state has no defence agreement with Taiwan. We very clearly recognise the PRC as the sole government of China and would not get involved if the island was invaded, so increased funding to the British armed forces wouldn't do any good for deterrence.
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Toby Black@PracticalLibSoc·
@Dusty1832 @EsotericStarmer Better to spend that money elsewhere, reduce the deficit or pull a US-Israel strategy for Ukraine and hand them billions of dollars in government backed grants to aquire UK Weapons/training to actually use that funding on a military battlefield against Russia instead.
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Toby Black
Toby Black@PracticalLibSoc·
@Dusty1832 @EsotericStarmer As such, UK defence spending will almost certainly be going towards shiny toys which won't be deployed on any meaningful battlefield (maybe in Yemen or Iran, but in both cases the returns are slim to nill) and will cost us billions to aquire.
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Toby Black
Toby Black@PracticalLibSoc·
@EsotericStarmer He's managed to oversee Manchester during which it was one of the best cities in the UK for GDP, productivity and wealth growth, so unless we have actually substantive evidence beyond "just trust me, markets hate him that much", I'm fine with trusting him.
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