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Jean-Paul Surtr
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@TonklinDiary @ManuelMCruz2 However communist Britain becomes, they remain committed to the Falkland Islands being a quasi-ancapistan #2 in the world for civilian firearms (as under sacred international law such territories must have maximum self governance). Can Argentina offer the same guarantees?
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@TonklinDiary @ManuelMCruz2 "Not doing as much retarded socialism as 20th-21st century Britain" should be an easy task. And yet...
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@ManuelMCruz2 Argentina spent the entire 20th century cutting its own dick off with retarded Peronism. Somehow managed to make itself suffer even worse than Britain. Why should any sane person living in the Falkland Islands today want to join Argentina? What does Argentina have to offer?
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@ManuelMCruz2 The British government possesses the Falkland Islands _now_, for >70% of the time since the islands were first settled they have been a __British possession__, why should anyone give a flying fuck about Argentina's technical legal argument?
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@Rolibertario93 @MutsuAnjin The Falkland Islands have been economically self-sufficient since the 1990s. The only responsibilities of the UK government are defence and foreign policy.
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@MutsuAnjin Da risa porque hablas de un gobierno independiente cuando dependen exclusivamente del gobierno britanico. O no pagan impuestos para mantener las islas? No destinan subsidios? Da gracia. Son tan independientes como los gobiernos de Gales, Escocia e Irlanda verdad?
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What’s telling about the Falklands issue is the Argentinians keep asking to negotiate with the British government, as if it’s up to the British government to just unilaterally decide to hand over what is effectively a self governing polity separate from the UK.
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@SquibbleDeeBop Tenacity despite seemingly impossible odds is triumph of the spirit
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The message of WH40K is "the human spirit will triumph despite everything", arguing about whether the Imperium is good or bad completely misses the point.
Rock Solid@ShitpostRock
I will ALWAYS stand by the fact that Imperium are the good guys and they are not cruel by choice but by circumstances they were forced into They are good becouse they're the only ones still fighting for humanity's right to exist at all. Everyone else is either actively trying to end us, feed on us, or turn us into something worse than dead. The Imperium isn't some shining beacon of virtue it's a brutal, unforgiving and a strict nightmare... but it's our nightmare to endure, and it's the only thing standing between mankind and total annihilation If a faction is surrounded by enemies who literally want to eat, enslave, corrupt, or erase them, then extreme measures arent a choice. Not to mention that many factions would become more hostile if the Imperium became less brutal. Fear in this universe is a important tool Maintaining psychic discipline in a galaxy where psychic mistakes get whole planets eaten is pretty important, harshness keeps worlds producing food, weapons for soldiers and new troops and religious fanaticism stabilizes morale when people face literal gods of insanity The Imperium isnt cruel by choice its cruel because any attempt at softness leads to daemonic possession, planetary rebellion, or species-level extinction within months. Other factions cchoose cruelty because it benefits them. The Imperium inflicts cruelty becouse the galaxy punishes any attempt at mercy
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@SPOREH0 @plebiansdotnet @travis_1558 @FrenlyOfficer @xwanyex Also depends on the country, nobody goes to jail over child support in Britain, it's entirely a civil matter, almost always handled administratively outside of the court system
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@plebiansdotnet @travis_1558 @FrenlyOfficer @xwanyex Generally courts don't do all that to fathers trying to attend higher education
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Every single young person with super strong progressive commitments believes 50 things like, “19-year-olds don’t have to pay child support” that make no sense at all, because they’re just young and don’t know anything
Reddit Lies@reddit_lies
They didn't realize this was already the case.
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They kill your livestock and if you are a subsistence pastoralist your livestock being killed means your family starves
Virileth@VirilethDerg
Why did anyone think these guys are evil
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The original "good guy" faction based on the USA-NATO was the Tau, who were later retconned into "space socialism with Chinese characteristics and mind control".
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Lucas's defining feature as a filmmaker has always been pushing the limits of the latest technology? This is not a surprise if you know anything about George Lucas.
Star Wars Holocron@sw_holocron
George Lucas says AI “means it’s much easier for us to make movies.” “It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it, That’s progress, it’s the future…If you want AI that tells you when something is fake and where it came from, AI can do that. Humans can’t, we’re not that smart. The whole idea is you’re a human being, you’re responsible for what you say and what you do, and if you’re doing something that’s illegal you should be punished for that. Whatever you do, you should be recognised. It’s just like real life.” (Source: a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/conf…)
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@Morgan_Anastasi Get whatever crappy retail or dishwasher job you can tbh. Get entry level certs in AI, project management, whatever business stuff is in fashion right now. Save money and look to move somewhere with better opportunities.
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@MischievousCur Surprisingly, businesses do not actually want to pay for drug tests if they can avoid it.
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Yes but it's not because of local elections. It's because forcing actually unpopular policies results in MPs refusing to cooperate with party whips, pushing the Prime Minister to resign, or forcing a general election.
For example: Margaret Thatcher being forced to resign by her cabinet in the wake of the poll tax riots.
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@miltonfann @AphexColthorpe @landvaluetax The problem with this logic is you very much do get destroyed and it's why the UK is flopped administrations what it's worse than America
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The UK is interesting because the voters simply don't support the policies necessary to restore growth, and also hate the reality of governance under ~0 real per-capita growth.
Therefore, any incumbent party will lose the next election, regardless of ideology.
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@miltonfann @landvaluetax MPs of the party of government can do a "backbench rebellion" and collapse the government at any time. If the PM loses the confidence of the House then Parliament is dissolved automatically: "just don't call an election" doesn't guarantee no election will happen.
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@landvaluetax Surely you just ignore the voters and don't call an election until results are showing.
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Overall I think England's system of a large number of commoner nuclear families, stratified predominantly by economic status, with a tiny number of landowning nobles at the top, was not exactly a "caste system".
Caste system implies strict occupational segregation, commoners being divided into endogamous tribes each with a particular economic function.
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@seld_on "Nobility" can be used expansively to include baronets and armigerous gentlemen. But as far as I know the right to be tried by the House of Lords only ever applied to peers, not baronets or armigerous gentry?
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"Most cultures were rigid caste systems"
Until 1948, members of the British peerage who were charged with a felony crime could only be tried within the House of Lords. Of course that totally wasn't like a caste system at all.
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
No, every large culture did not have something similar to the golden rule. Most cultures were rigid cast systems right until western colonial powers broke them.
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