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« Reply #8041 on: January 24, 2020, 03:15:35 AM »
https://twitter.com/natansachs/status/1220396171228864513

Just one more week until the concept of prospective Palestine will become null and void, if it wasn't already.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8042 on: January 24, 2020, 09:48:46 AM »
https://twitter.com/TheEIU/status/1220035654916149248

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8043 on: January 24, 2020, 12:35:00 PM »
Full democracy vs authoritarian Chad.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8044 on: January 24, 2020, 01:09:26 PM »
https://twitter.com/isaby/status/1220111448183115779

itshappening.jpg? Did they ever fix the Irish Border issue?

Yes. By doing what they said was utterly unacceptable when May was PM, which is to have the de facto border down the Irish Sea :marimo

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8045 on: January 24, 2020, 01:38:41 PM »
https://twitter.com/TheEIU/status/1220035654916149248

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8048 on: January 24, 2020, 02:58:36 PM »
QUESTION TIME WITH NO10

"Right copyright law...
*PM grabs pen and makes a stabbing motion*
actually when you write...
*writes upside down and messes up hair*
and you write what someone else already wrote
that is not ok
Such an event is known as a COPYRIGHT VIOLATION which is in my opinion a terrible crime
*larry poops on table in the background*
BUT I BELIEVE
we don't need a 'law' to tell us this right?
I mean what would be next with these bureaucrats?
Laws that tell us we can't drink and drive?
*passerby shouts wanker in the distance*
Laws that tell us we can't have a merry good brawl at the pub?
Laws that tell us we can't bring our mistresses to a party we haven't told our wives about?
I told you we'd get Brexit done
and protect our country from these type of crazy laws that interfere with our lives
and by blocking these radical ideas the conservative government has delivered on those promises"
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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8049 on: January 24, 2020, 04:15:11 PM »
wtf, they escaped their quarantine zone (thread)

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8050 on: January 25, 2020, 02:37:34 AM »
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1220759425868275712

look at his hair in the photo versus his hair in the avatar :lol


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« Reply #8051 on: January 25, 2020, 06:25:37 PM »
was the hair always like that or is it from implants?  :doge
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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8054 on: January 27, 2020, 10:45:29 AM »
Elizabeth Warren is like  :hyper :hyper :hyper
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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8056 on: January 27, 2020, 03:51:02 PM »
It's estimated that up to 2 million Ukrainians work in Poland, which is kind of ironic since Poland itself suffered from considerable migration  to Western Europe over the past 25 years.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8057 on: January 27, 2020, 03:57:46 PM »
Isn't that the point of the EU? For people to move to where the jobs are?

Ukraine isn't a part of the EU, but sure. The brain drain that Poland (and now Ukraine) suffered from is still a huge problem for a society.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8058 on: January 27, 2020, 04:01:07 PM »
Our people go to them? Freedom. Their people come to us? Invasion.

Forget it, shoshy. It's monkey town.

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« Reply #8059 on: January 27, 2020, 06:49:02 PM »
On the part of Ukraine it's probably also a bunch of people living in the east that moved over to Russia.
Why stay in fake Russia if you can move to the real thing. Especially if there's a war going on.
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« Reply #8060 on: January 27, 2020, 10:46:16 PM »
Isn't that the point of the EU? For people to move to where the jobs are?

Ukraine isn't a part of the EU, but sure. The brain drain that Poland (and now Ukraine) suffered from is still a huge problem for a society.

Counterpoint: cdprojektred

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« Reply #8061 on: January 28, 2020, 07:12:57 AM »
Saw some scattered posting about this on Twitter but yikes, etc.
It was called The Holodomor, let me show you some pictures...

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8062 on: January 28, 2020, 03:10:48 PM »
Saw some scattered posting about this on Twitter but yikes, etc.
It was called The Holodomor, let me show you some pictures...

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8063 on: January 28, 2020, 06:10:43 PM »
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Facing economic collapse and painful sanctions, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has proposed giving majority shares and control of its oil industry to big international corporations, a move that would forsake decades of state monopoly.
only took a year
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Venezuela reported to OPEC an average crude production of about 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2019, its lowest level in almost 75 years amid sanctions imposed by the United States to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro, lack of investment capital and staff, and mismanagement.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8064 on: January 29, 2020, 12:43:52 PM »
https://twitter.com/brexitparty_uk/status/1222570396068827136

Skip to the end. As Farage says goodbye he starts waving the UK flag. Then gets cut off because country flags are now VERBOTEN in the EU parliament.

Triggered by flags

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Re: International Politics Thread - Iraq N' Roll
« Reply #8065 on: January 29, 2020, 02:30:17 PM »
https://twitter.com/brexitparty_uk/status/1222570396068827136

Skip to the end. As Farage says goodbye he starts waving the UK flag. Then gets cut off because country flags are now VERBOTEN in the EU parliament.

Triggered by flags

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That was always a thing you moron. It's the parliament of the EU, not a place for each country to wave their little flags like a bunch of 5yo.

Have a look a the House of Commons, let me know if you spot some English, N. Irish, Welsh or Scottish flags around.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8066 on: January 29, 2020, 03:50:16 PM »
Changes in Global Dissatisfaction with democracy (1990 - present)

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« Reply #8067 on: January 29, 2020, 05:38:22 PM »


Sad day for the UK, good day for the EU, which now has a chance to grow stronger.
A common defense initiative should come next.
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« Reply #8068 on: January 29, 2020, 05:39:21 PM »
https://twitter.com/brexitparty_uk/status/1222570396068827136

Skip to the end. As Farage says goodbye he starts waving the UK flag. Then gets cut off because country flags are now VERBOTEN in the EU parliament.

Triggered by flags

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You are a moron.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8069 on: January 29, 2020, 05:41:09 PM »
triggered by the dutch

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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8070 on: January 29, 2020, 06:28:47 PM »
A common defense initiative should come next.
It exists, it's called NATO and few of the EU countries spend the money on defense needed for its upkeep.
That's why a European defense initiative is a pipe dream. They can hardly keep it up with America footing more than half the bill and they couldn't get it done when Cameron was on board.
Countries like Germany and the Netherlands practically have all sorts of shortages in vehicles, planes and men. Our allies refer to the Dutch army as the 'beggars army'.
Von der Leyen is mostly known for neglecting and mismanaging Germany's armed forces when she was defense minister and she now leads the EU commission.

The only EU country spending generously on defense is Poland because they don't want to get sandwiched ever again.
For the others it's a very low priority. I imagine the French will hang Macron from the Eiffel tower if he cuts all their pensions so they can buy tanks to fight a Russian invasion that will never happen.

You will get your EU green deal, more women in the workplace quota's and additional refugee centers among the outer borders.
Because that's the platform these people have invested their political capital in. The EU has made itself mostly irrelevant when it comes to geopolitics and defense.
The right wing parties focus on new toys (F35's, aircraft carriers, missile systems). While the left wing party prefer pacifism. The Christians have always been in the middle of that divide.
The Netherlands already has a common defense with Germany. We've sold all the Leopards and rent our tanks from the Germans for exercises. :lol

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Sad day for the UK, good day for the EU, which now has a chance to grow stronger.
It's a good day for both. The UK can finally stop moaning that everything is unfair to them and completely deregulate their banking sector like they always wanted.
The EU can move on as well. This divorce could've been settled right after the Brexit vote but the remain camp were just sore losers.
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« Reply #8071 on: January 30, 2020, 09:50:35 AM »
Ha yes, it couldn't be settled because of the "remain camp", not at all because of the Tory infighting with a large bunch of them finding May's deal totally unacceptable.

Only to then support Johnson when he changed absolutely nothing - in particular the "no fucking way we're not putting a border down the irish sea" sore point, which is now somehow A-OK. Not that they had any other option, mind you.

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« Reply #8072 on: January 30, 2020, 12:27:44 PM »
Ha yes, it couldn't be settled because of the "remain camp", not at all because of the Tory infighting with a large bunch of them finding May's deal totally unacceptable.

Only to then support Johnson when he changed absolutely nothing - in particular the "no fucking way we're not putting a border down the irish sea" sore point, which is now somehow A-OK. Not that they had any other option, mind you.
That's because part of the remain camp were the Tories who voted in parliament to carry out the result of the referendum but then backed out when they realized what it meant.
Boris basically had to purge the party top to bottom to get this over the finish line.

And yes also a bunch of people figured that it would be better to have no deal at all. But those were actually the minority until it went on for so long that more people moved to their "get this over with" column.
Including the President of France.  :lol
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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8073 on: January 30, 2020, 01:42:41 PM »
Aren't you ever tired of talking out of your ass?

Am I going to need to slap you around again, like I did with your "we don't grow flowers in greenhouses lolz" bullshit?

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« Reply #8074 on: January 30, 2020, 01:50:35 PM »
Aren't you ever tired of talking out of your ass?

Am I going to need to slap you around again, like I did with your "we don't grow flowers in greenhouses lolz" bullshit?
Depends do you want to win the baited award 2020?
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« Reply #8076 on: January 30, 2020, 01:59:19 PM »
Ho sorry, I thought threads like this one or others were supposed to contain factual information and stuff, not a pile of "hurr durr baited you with my dumb shite lololz".

But sure why not, sounds great. Proceed.

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« Reply #8077 on: January 30, 2020, 02:01:45 PM »
Getting pretty close to altering Nintex's account so he can only post in one thread dedicated to his political hot takes and nowhere else
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« Reply #8078 on: January 30, 2020, 02:03:40 PM »
can you alter raist to not be such a whiny ho? imagine thinking a single thread here is to be taken seriously :lol

i enjoy nintex's historical fiction writings

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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8079 on: January 30, 2020, 02:05:11 PM »
can you alter raist to not be such a whiny ho?

The irony :lol

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« Reply #8080 on: January 30, 2020, 02:06:42 PM »
i apologize for not being 100% serious at all time like yourself on the board with such important and serious topics as "Favorite Frank" and "What's the best way to illegally import hundreds of birds from a remote island?"

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« Reply #8081 on: January 30, 2020, 02:07:48 PM »
I still agree to disagree.

There were remainers in the Tory party just as there were radical leavers.
The remainers tried for years to get a second referendum because they didn't like the outcome of the vote and some EU commission members favored that outcome as well.
In the end it was stalling that made Boris Prime Minister. Even though at some point he drove the knife in Theresa by himself by voting against her deal.  :lol

In any case the main argument was that leaving is super terrible for the UK, which I highly doubt given the fact that they spend most of their time holding back the EU train for the past 5 - 10 years.
That one comedy bit in which the Prime Minister explained that the Brits were only in the EU to stop the French and Germans from liking each-other is pretty much right on the money.
Not to mention the first course of action for the Germans and French was to take all if not most top EU jobs away from countries like The Netherlands. Which will bite them in the ass soon enough.

Anyway all of this could've been avoided. Literally the only thing the governments of most western nations needed to do, was to come together and hand out massive tax breaks and incentives to the middle classes.
But instead after they bailed out the banks they all went full climate and open borders to score woke points and merely angered the 'dumb' working classes. Who, as I said in the other thread could still vote.

And last but not least, I'm willing to debate things seriously and explain my point of view. And you may or may not agree. That is fine we don't all have to agree.
But you can also give your arguments for how you think things are instead of yelling I'm a liar.
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« Reply #8083 on: January 30, 2020, 02:09:26 PM »
why is it always a secret right wing plot? maybe it's just that macron is kind of a moron?

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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8084 on: January 30, 2020, 02:17:31 PM »
i apologize for not being 100% serious at all time like yourself on the board with such important and serious topics as "Favorite Frank" and "What's the best way to illegally import hundreds of birds from a remote island?"


Yeah, cause I only post super-seeriouz stuff at all times ::)

90% of the forum is shooting the shit, tongue in cheek, random lolz and whatnot.

Is it really impossible to have just a couple threads remain relatively free of random shite, ranging from "lolz baiiiited" to flat out disinformation?
If that doesn't bother you, then I'm not sure why you're complaining about me "being serious" either in any case dude.

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« Reply #8085 on: January 30, 2020, 02:19:30 PM »
why is it always a secret right wing plot? maybe it's just that macron is kind of a moron?
I feel like at the bilderberg groups or the epstein islands whatever, the neo liberals just sit together in a room and brainstorm ideas of how to make people pissed at their governments with new insane policies that their friends in the press have to defend.
It's the only way I can explain most EU policy making from the last decade.

Also it's not like these policies caused the riots. They already had protests and riots and then they decided to reform the pensions as well because everyone was already pissed off anyway.
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« Reply #8086 on: January 30, 2020, 02:35:40 PM »
Yeah, cause I only post super-seeriouz stuff at all times ::)

90% of the forum is shooting the shit, tongue in cheek, random lolz and whatnot.

Is it really impossible to have just a couple threads remain relatively free of random shite, ranging from "lolz baiiiited" to flat out disinformation?
If that doesn't bother you, then I'm not sure why you're complaining about me "being serious" either in any case dude.
cause you'll respond 100% of the time :lol

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« Reply #8087 on: January 30, 2020, 02:37:50 PM »
There were remainers in the Tory party just as there were radical leavers.
There were 75 conservatives who voted against May's deal the second (or maybe third) time. If you look at those people I think you'll find that very few of them were Remainers. Only 3 Conservatives voted against Johnson's deal. The issue with May was that it wasn't a strong enough Brexit and she wasn't allowed to leave NI in the customs union (even though this was offered by the EU).
It wasn't strong enough for some and not soft enough for others so it had no chance. Not to mention the guy who negotiated most of it dropped his support  :lol
Boris changed it every so slightly but enough to get it over the finish line but he still needed to replace a bunch of MP's with a new election and defeat the more liberal wing of his party to do it.

Anyway that's thankfully all behind us now and the EU tax payer won't have to pay Farage's MEP salary for another 20 years.  :yuck
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« Reply #8088 on: January 30, 2020, 03:02:48 PM »
I was wondering why "#Greece" was trending but apparently some MP tore up the Turkish flag and now the Ottomans want to drown all the Greeks.
https://twitter.com/milliyet/status/1222875093287809024
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« Reply #8091 on: January 30, 2020, 03:32:00 PM »
I was wondering why "#Greece" was trending but apparently some MP tore up the Turkish flag and now the Ottomans want to drown all the Greeks.
https://twitter.com/milliyet/status/1222875093287809024

#Yunanistan ? I like Final Fantasy X-2 as much as the next guy, but naming a state after its protagonist is a little bit much. :rodney

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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8092 on: January 30, 2020, 03:39:52 PM »
What if they change the Y to a P?

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Re: International Politics Thread - Brexit Ratified
« Reply #8093 on: January 30, 2020, 03:40:37 PM »
I can't support a state that stans Yuna over Lulu (the best girl). :camby


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« Reply #8094 on: January 30, 2020, 03:49:36 PM »
 :thinking yuna+lulu=lula  :thinking
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« Reply #8095 on: January 30, 2020, 05:57:40 PM »
Has Macron responded at all?

He usually makes a snide remark like they need to find jobs or something and flies to some other continent for a meeting.

I feel like the UN should do a 'swap world leader' day or something like those 'house wife swap' TV shows.
Make Macron the President of the US for a day, Merkel the President of China, Xi the President of Germany, Putin the leader of Belgium, Trump the President of France etc. .
Maybe people would better appreciate the leader that they have or realize they're all shit.
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« Reply #8096 on: January 30, 2020, 06:28:23 PM »
There's no "media blackout" of the French strikes, American news just completely ignores international news. I hear about it on The World.

I mean its more this is just the french being the french.  Like when are they not protesting shit?

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« Reply #8097 on: January 31, 2020, 01:54:33 AM »
I remember reading some things about Macron early on pointing out that he was roughly as popular in France  as Trump was in the US, I.e. not very.

He basically just failed up by running against a crazy person, and somehow thought that gave home a strong mandate.

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« Reply #8098 on: January 31, 2020, 03:18:10 AM »
I remember reading some things about Macron early on pointing out that he was roughly as popular in France  as Trump was in the US, I.e. not very.

He basically just failed up by running against a crazy person, and somehow thought that gave home a strong mandate.

You're basically saying that Hillary Clinton should have had a dick.

Happy Brexit.

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« Reply #8099 on: January 31, 2020, 06:48:18 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/30/brexit-730000-britons-acquired-non-uk-eu-irish-passports-since-2016
Most are applying for Irish citizenship, followed by Germany, followed by Sweden and then France. Interestingly, only a handful are applying for Spanish passports despite 600,000 British people living there.
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