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SuperJail Warden wrote:

I advocated before for being welcoming of Russians who wanted out. More human resources for the U.S. and less for Russia.

I've kinda grappled with that, but it is a net benefit for ukraine since the smarter/capable ones left, and only left the rest to get sent to the meat grinder.

Shoiguuuuuuuuu

LONDON — Nigel Farage, one of the biggest advocates of Britain’s departure from the European Union, reckons Brexit has failed.

Speaking on the BBC’s Newsnight program Monday night, the former Brexit Party leader — one of the most famous figureheads of the Brexit cause — admitted the U.K. had not benefited economically from leaving the bloc.

“What Brexit has proved, I’m afraid, is that our politicians are about as useless as the commissioners in Brussels. We’ve mismanaged this totally,” Farage said, responding to a raft of data suggesting there had been a negative economic impact of Brexit.

Its a shame uziq isn't here, having expired from having his essence drained over and over, I could have told him "I told you so"

-50 votes in 2 minutes in /r/worldnews when I pointed out that things aren't going great for Ukraine at the moment.

It reminds me of the post-9/11 echo chamber.

imo upvotes and downvotes don't really do the "filtering" job they're ostensibly for. Bunch of empty comments still hit top, bunch of reasonable arguments get buried or hidden. Adds nothing to the discussion, and everything to internet point trophy cases (that said, it was still useful for uploaded content, such as youtube where there's like 80 fake movie trailers per actual).

I can think of very little reason why I'd want to engage in political discussion on e-peen social media. Even just observing boomers get bot-banned for taking bait doesn't sound terribly exciting.

Scottish National Party and Boris Johnson are having a bad weekend.

Chou wrote:

globefish23 wrote:

I think that the current build-up of Russian troops on the Crimea is mainly a backup plan to save Russia's only Black Sea/Mediterranean access.
They have made contracts with Ukraine under Yanukovych to have exclusive access to their seaports and airfields there.
But that is something that could easily change, especially since the new government was formed with parties from the Western regions only, is EU focused and intends to join NATO.

I dare to say that ANY Russian government would make that move.
Just like the USA under Obama would protect Guantamo Bay, should the Cubans try to invade, or any of their foreign military bases.

Pretty much.
The EU is nothing but a glorified gay parade trying to be the new nazis.
Fuck the world police.

Go Russia!

I wonder what Chou's up to these days.

they forgot ‘losing uzi’ on their front page spread but i understand journalism today isn’t what it once was.

(in all seriousness the brain drain is very real. young brits today who want to work in europe very much resemble irish graduates in the 1990s and early 2000s. very large emigre group.)

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-05 04:55:23)

uziq wrote:

Literally no-one could have predicted this.

they forgot ‘losing uzi’ on their front page spread but i understand journalism today isn’t what it once was.

LMAO

The British voted for this, its bad for the species to interfere in natural selection.
What can you do about stupid, nothing.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2025-01-06 01:07:30)

I'm still a citizen but don't pay tax. Marginal on getting a state pension.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr … olitics-uk

yeuch

i think a lot of western economies that went all-in on the tertiary/quarternary sectors, and imagined they could turn their formerly industrial workbase into a new model army of university graduates working in financial services, servicing clients or countries that do still produce things -- a lot of them are wondering the same fucking thing today.

creating value out of nothing? but the costs of all three of those things are considerable, lol. the film industry is a properly industrial production. hence why all those franchise movies you love are so carefully designed and calculated to turn profits. most books lose money. contemporary AAA video games require about 400 people to make within a 3-4 year turnaround. and, with the exception of contemporary hollywood films pandering to the vast chinese market, it's not as if any of those industries are particularly affected by the needs of 'finding someone foreign to buy it'. anglophone publishing isn't exactly scrabbling around for spanish or mandarin readers.

using the cultural industries as examples really isn't that illuminating. that is actually one area in which the UK still punches far above its weight, internationally, in terms of income and soft power influence.

it's the transition to a financial services-based economy that just shuffles 0s and 1s around on a screen that is really causing us the issues. the vision of britain as 'singapore-on-thames'.

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-07 02:47:11)