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• #80152
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NN5visIo9PQS9ZZ2EC5qLcle9c2pHU8a-j8LUE6gV-s/edit
Interesting read, thanks for the link
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• #80153
I think we're violently in agreement, there. My point is simply that the simplistic view of the capitalist market, so often used to excuse malign political or commercial decisions,is a fairy story.
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• #80154
By the same token, pointing to things you don’t like, saying “bloody capitalism” and assuming centralised planning could fix it has elements of a fairy story too!
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• #80155
Where did I do that?
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• #80156
I don't think you did, I was just pointing out the common argument you hear from the other end of the political spectrum!
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• #80157
I think you need to be careful with those exclamation marks. Before your second response, I was wondering what a "fairy story tool" was. And, frankly, that was a better place.
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• #80158
hahaha. I use exclamation marks to a gauche and liberal degree in written forms of communication because I have learnt over the years that I have a blunt writing style that comes across as rude without tone cues.
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• #80159
Fair enough, but you're only feeding @snottyotter straight lines.
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• #80160
he is incorrigible
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• #80161
I've been off the straight lines all year.
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• #80162
Even in Wry January?
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• #80163
Don't encourage him, he's encourageable, not incorrigible.
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• #80164
Riding a motorbike, possibly often over the legal speed limit, I got used to spotting the unmarked vehicles on my old commute (CB23 to SW18).
After a few weeks of smashing down the A10/A505/A1M/A41/A406/A205 I learned most/some of the regnos of the unmarked cars, but for the few weeks before that it was a general game of spot the:
- high spec car missing the badges that pointed it out as the higher spec
- many extra aerials
- hi vis on parcel shelf or back seat
- light cluster with very slightly blue tinted lenses on some lights (almost the last resort)
- white shirt and epaulettes visible (often only seen when effectively stoppying from 100mph+ down to 70mph along side them and then giving them a cheery wave)
- high spec car missing the badges that pointed it out as the higher spec
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• #80165
Edward Snowden has an interesting take on the current trend for overturning elections.
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• #80166
Interesting as in its interesting that a Russian spouts Russian takes?
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• #80167
Does rhat mean its not true?.
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• #80168
Forget rescue attempt, where’s the harpoon gun.. this bugger is eating thousands of pounds of stock. Imagine his postcards ‘wish you were here’ ‘living the dream’ and ‘ five star all you can eat dining’ tripadvisor posts to his fellows seals. the reservoir remains closed.
All the R4 broadcasters can ask, does he have a name? Yeah but not possible to mention on air..
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• #80169
The Washington Post reckon ‘merica had a go at overthrowing governments they didn’t like 72 times during the Cold War.
My mum tried it in 1990.
Plus ca change.
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• #80170
This slagging of Harry is historic. "He's not as bad as Hitler". https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1612814182340268033
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• #80171
With out a doubt the answer is to bring in a shark to eat the seal.
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• #80172
Is it clearly true, and hardly a hot take, that the CIA has a history of overthrowing governments and generally fucking up countries and the US relationship with them.
Is it true to represent all the Colour Revolutions as being solely CIA-manufactured and deny any agency on the part of the people in those countries who risked (and many gave) their lives to try to create a world where there were free and fair elections? Less so.
The Colour Revolutions were mainly popular movements in what Russia likes to claim as its sphere of influence. It very much suits Putin to have a US-defector pushing a line that all their ills are the work of US spies, and that the Ukraine invasion was the result of that interference, rather than just failed imperialist hubris. If Biden was Putin, Snowden would be having a Nakatomi Plaza moment round about now.
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• #80173
Is it true to represent all the Colour Revolutions as being solely CIA-manufactured and deny any agency on the part of the people in those countries who risked (and many gave) their lives to try to create a world where there were free and fair elections? Less so.
I didn't get this from the tweet at all, but fair enough.
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• #80174
Forget rescue attempt, where’s the harpoon gun.. this bugger is eating thousands of pounds of stock.
You're kidding, no?
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• #80175
After the last couple years, hard to ignore the feeling that the CIA's Color Revolutions are coming home.
I saw this bit as squarely aimed at Ukraine - painting it as a US operation on Russia's doorstep. Also, written by Putin for a Russian (and western pro-Russian Fox/GB News types) audience, to demonstrate that an American spook admits to it.
Not sure when it changed but they don't anymore. Apparently it was to do with advertising over here not anything to do with anti-terrorism.
Our local CID used escorts mainly, the ones with plain number plates were almost always fuzz.