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@BowTiedYanqui @jomickane The issue is to assume everyone can be like you. It is practically possible to go in and remove the worst elements if their cultures. The question is "do you want to be stuck running them?"

@jomickane I think he's right. But I guess the U.S. did try to make the world "safe for democracy" but that was a disaster. So maybe he's wrong from that point of view.

He tells her kids are getting sexually assaulted and her response is "they'll recover" 😯🤬

@timdavies_uk But his self image is based arround his having a PhD. But that obviously counts for nothing when discussing war, your qualifications intimidate him.

Oh, I got blocked. Weird - I thought I was being quite fair?

@needscookies007 @washghost1 It is interesting those mist likley to defend cheating in others are cheaters themselves.

@washghost1 Look she should have just left and divorced him instead of cheating on him. I got no doubt he probably was ignoring what she was going thru for a year. You dont get to treat your spouse like shit then act surprised. Either way she should have left him before it got to that.

She got caught cheating, threw a fit and really tried turning it around on him

@HazelAppleyard Better to say "it is cow brain." It is actually free since it is illigal to sell since they found it was how mad cow disease can be passed on... but I'm sure the farmer who gives me his is sure his cows are fine...

She convinced the food thieves that they ate pig brains 🧠

@Timothy13775774 @DrChrisParry @Jigger639 That is weathering not crash damage. Could well be decades old.

@DrChrisParry @Jigger639 When they blew up the helicopter ,It may have been damaged

Not from any aircraft that has flown in the past 15 years.

@Sargon_of_Akkad The issue is most of his opponent's want to be vibes based and are not rooted in reality.

Zack Polanski is going to learn that, like Nigel Farage, you can't run a vibes-based campaign forever. His opponents would do well do actually nail him on the details and reveal the paucity of thought behind the facade.

@MaxiMindGames @nativistconcern @Sargon_of_Akkad The economy was doing well from the 90s market reforms. He then gradually loaded it with regulation, when 2008 hit we stagnated.

@nativistconcern @Sargon_of_Akkad The economy was humming during Blair's premiership, so much so that people were willing to overlook the uptick in Eastern European immigration and later getting into the Iraq War.

@GreaterBritann1 @nativistconcern @Sargon_of_Akkad Literally promising to copy them verbatim.

@nativistconcern @Sargon_of_Akkad Tony Blair literally ran on keeping the Tory economic policies during his first time. And his whole campaign ran on getting rid of the Labour policies that put normal people off Labour during the eighties.

@VollBird @Kingbingo_ Our current govt are completely mental, but that doesn't make this action any more sane. Of all intended outcomes there would be better routes to achieve them. The denial by anyone of the obvious insanity by governments suggests people are responding emotionally not logically.

@VollBird @Kingbingo_ The issue here is the way the US conducted this one. It is a bonkers conflict with no proper planning, win conditions or exit strategy. Not learning the lessons of recent decades. No prep with allies. Now UK govt were bonkers to make any block on the US action. But it was nuts.

Should Britain start charging US, Iranian & Israeli ships £2m for passage through the English channel & Straits of Gibraltar?

@TheBrancaShow Why can't you understand why Switzerland would refuse. It has been neutral for centuries. They will not give permission for any overflight for a war of aggression. The other European countries are dumb for blocking use of bases and air space for what is a dumb war, not the Swis

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@Devon_Eriksen_ This weird child like take on history is popular on X but it really isn't very useful. The Americans who refuse to see criticisms of their own errors as a chance to learn are similar to Europeans who don't he same. If your view is "me goodie, them baddie" you will fail.

Europe's disease is not a disease of America. It is a disease of World War 2. In 1946, after we rescued them from themselves and each other, Europeans crawled out of the rubble they had made of their continent, looked around at their mess, wept for a bit, and then formed the wrong conclusions. They decided that ethnic nations are bad. That patriotism is bad. That supporting your tribe, in preference to random strangers, is bad. They decided that these things had led to the horrors of global war and genocide in Europe itself, and so all vestiges of loyalty to one's own people must be stamped out. Nations were, forever afterward, to be post-ethnic, post-cultural legal and economic units filled with... well, anyone, really. A bunch of people who didn't, in fact shouldn't, share values, goals, morals, customs, or even a common language. Nations were to be mere fiefs, their boundaries determined by which set of political elites controlled them. America, having not been smashed to rubble in WW2, did not share this view. We saw WW2 as an expensive adventure in bailing out Europe, which we spent our treasure and our blood on (including my own grandfather's life, and his chance to ever see his grandson) precisely because we shared cultural and ethical values with the people we were rescuing. But they hate us for it. They see our patriotism as fascism precisely because they see all patriotism as fascism. Psychologists have long understood that humans respond to favors with gratitude only up until those favors become so great that they have no hope of repaying them. At that point, their gratitude turns to resentment. How dare we believe we did them a favor? How dare I believe that my father gave up his father so Europe could be safe, peaceful, and free? Don't we know that, because ${ELABORATE MENTAL GYMNASTICS}, we didn't do them any favors by fighting that war? Don't we know that, because ${ANY PATRIOTISM = HITLER}, our love of our country and favoring of its interests makes us fascist and problematic? Well, no. I don't know that. I don't think any European nation is our ally any more. Certainly, we have shared interests, but how much does that really matter, when they refuse to act in those shared interests, because they have come to believe that acting in your people's interest is bad? They hate us too much to work with us. They resent every ounce of the burden which they are asked to share. Our support has made Europe into a pack of idle welfare recipients, complete with sense of entitlement and self-destructive behavior. But if we didn't defend them... who would? Their native populations have been purged of all patriotism, and who would blame them if they didn't fight for ruling elites that hate them? Their imported third-world barbarians won't fight for them. The very idea is laughable. What's left? And what will make them wake up and think about these questions? Perhaps they need to dig themselves out of the rubble of another war.

@SimonPartridge @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur You have no skin in the game but you dived in to argue your personal definition is the definitive one so Conor is wrong... By your standard two students study at Westminster and one is a "public school boy" and one is not...

@simonpatkins @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur Both your questions. BTW I have no skin in this game. Imo Gove's comment is out of order but not for the reason Connor gave.

Never underestimate how much of British politics is public schoolboys playing out their fetish for being dominated by black and brown women.

@BrianAtlas Good outcome for her. Being honest early means he doesn't dump her 3 or 4 years down the line when this comes out. She managed to not get her time wasted.

BRUTAL RED PILL...

@SimonPartridge @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur To what?

@simonpatkins @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur No. Yes.

@SimonPartridge @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur So we have 2 new criteria. People David Cameron wasn't a knob to at uni. Attended a boarding school. Is any boarding school sufficient? Does the student have to board?

@simonpatkins @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur Please: this has nothing to do with Scotland. The 1868 Act only names the 7 leading schools of the day. The substantive issue is whether they are "boarding" schools, not simply private. In fact Osborne wasn't considered "one of us"...

@SimonPartridge @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur Who else isn't named in the commission or the act as well as RG: Fettes, Glenalmond, Loretto. And why? Because they are Scottish. So is everything one who was educated in a Scottish independent school never a "Public School boy?"

@simonpatkins @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur As I understand, Gove started his education in the state sector. It was only latterly when his adopting father was wealthier he went to Robert Gordon's. His educational profile is not like Osborne's. St Paul's was included in the Clarendon Commission's list if not in the Act.

@gmdoogan @Con_Tomlinson There is a reason on Spectator podcasts with @Madz_Grant it is like her explaining things to a LibDem.

@Con_Tomlinson Latest interviews of ex Tory MPs, Simon Clarke, Hunt and now Gove, exposes them for not being Conservative, in its original form,at all. They are Labour Party dolts and it explains why the country is in the mess it is in.

@MattCon90191238 @Con_Tomlinson And went to the main private school in Aberdeen.

@Con_Tomlinson Leaving aside the fact that Gove was adopted by a couple who ran a chip shop in Scotland... This seems an overreaction to an obviously light-hearted comment.

@SimonPartridge @Con_Tomlinson @TimPendry @Landeur Do you quibble over people calling Osborne a public school boy, because St Pauls isn't named in either act? Robert Gordon's is a major private school for Aberdeen.

@Con_Tomlinson A small problem: Gove didn't go to public school. In fact he was a militant member of the NUJ in his youth. Most of us do strange things in our youth Connor - some never grow up😉 @TimPendry @Landeur