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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Your actual point is correct and I agree with it but:

    The terms “left” and “right” first appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the Ancien Regime to the president’s right and supporters of the revolution to his left.[6][7][8] One deputy, the Baron de Gauville, explained: “We began to recognise each other: those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp”.

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  • Yeah, if there were proper consequences to them not paying up and not a toothless regulatory entity then I could go along with that, it’s not got as much schadenfreude but it’ll do.

    7000 is a lot but we’re talking about multiple countries being displaced here. If you’re old enough to remember, there was that whole Palestinians in Jordan thing where they were actually planning a coup and very possibly had a chance of pulling it off and then the King of Jordan (who turned out to be a CIA asset because of course it was the CIA) expelled them all from the country in Black September and then they ended up in the Lebanon.






  • The fuck you talking about about, ‘Evil West’? I’m nothing to do with those corrupt fucks and neither are pretty much anyone I know. The ‘security services’ are a faction to themselves working for a certain sector of corporate interest and a peoples and their governments are often not in alignment.

    You on the other hand, I’ve seen you several times and several places talking out of your arse, so much so that you’re one of the handful of users that I now recognise. You can fucking do one.





  • I think that it is fair to name her because it is a very good example of how people that committed what we would now think of as crimes have passed that systemic advantage on to all of their descendants. The descendants may feel blameless themselves but I feel like confronting that in some way is a small price to pay for their privileged position.

    There was a study done about a decade ago now that showed that all of the descendants of large landowners in the Domesday Book were still continuing to live very comfortably, thank you.

    Even, to push the point further, as a recipient of various social welfare benefits at various points in my life I have to acknowledge that the ability to form the welfare state was due to the systemic advantage of the UK as a whole that was built up during the days of empire and colonialism.