[worry]

Congrats!

[Aptorian]

worry, on 05 June 2019 - 06:41 PM, said:

Congrats!

We'll see what the next few months bring. There were a lot of ultimatums during the election. Normally the post-election negotiations are civil but we might get a re-election if the left wing get angry. Immigration is a very sore issue.

[Primateus]

It's actually endlessly amusing to me that Liberal Alliance, which is as Apt said it is and also an actual government party, might get less seats in Parliament than Alternativet, a party that is pretty much their exact opposite and often disregarded as crazy potheads.

[Aptorian]

Oh yes. Even better, Samuelsen, LAs party leader, didn't get in. That puts a smile on my face. Shame about Joachim B Olsen ( the guy from the pornhub commercial) I think he's a very good politician, though I hate his values).

Happy that Alternativet are still around. I voted for then last election.

They've been too stupid these past few years for me to vote for them this time around but I do like their crazy ideas.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 06 June 2019 - 03:04 AM

[Tsundoku]

Well, it's official - Boris Johnson is the UK PM.

Now we have yet another fucking buffoon with a bad haircut as a leader of an important country.

Is this another sign of the End Times or what?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 23 July 2019 - 11:33 AM

[QuickTidal]

Tsundoku, on 23 July 2019 - 11:32 AM, said:

Well, it's official - Boris Johnson is the UK PM.

Now we have yet another fucking buffoon with a bad haircut as a leader of an important country.

Is this another sign of the End Times or what?

Prepare yourself, without a miracle at our Federal election, in Canada we will get Andrew Scheer (Conservative, anti-climate change, anti-abortion, anti-liberal things) fuckwad as our new Prime minster because of SNC Lavalin scandal and a bunch of things Trudeau promised to do that he didn't.

Funnily enough that miracle might be how badly Doug Ford has alienated Ontario cons and Libs alike...making a possible Liberal win at least in the realm of possible...still, my faith in that is LOW.

So there is very likely to be THREE of these idiots running major world governments. Maybe it's time to move to Norway.

[Silencer]

Well, John Kennedy (GOP Senator) DID just call the 'squad' the four horsewomen of the apocalypse. So I mean, the end should be nigh, right? XD

Also, surprisingly progressive of him to assign the traditionally male role of God's apocalyptic heralds to women. Also hilariously wrong about the bible, unsurprisingly. So I guess the surprise evens out.

[Illuyankas]

Genuinely surprised we haven't had more Jo Cox's yet.

[Maark Abbott]

Illuyankas, on 23 July 2019 - 07:24 PM, said:

Genuinely surprised we haven't had more Jo Cox's yet.

Oddly, no one who's raised the 'muh tolerant left' argument with me has had any comeback to that name being mentioned.

Same though, civil unrest is almost a given at this stage and I feel like violence against left wing politicians coupled with idiot right wingers realising that Brexit fucks them will be what sets the keg to detonate.

[Primateus]

Maark Abbott, on 24 July 2019 - 07:29 AM, said:

Illuyankas, on 23 July 2019 - 07:24 PM, said:

Genuinely surprised we haven't had more Jo Cox's yet.

Oddly, no one who's raised the 'muh tolerant left' argument with me has had any comeback to that name being mentioned.

Same though, civil unrest is almost a given at this stage and I feel like violence against left wing politicians coupled with idiot right wingers realising that Brexit fucks them will be what sets the keg to detonate.

I know she was a politician who was murdered, but I don't get the context about what either of you are trying to say?

[Aptorian]

More murdered politicians in the wake of populist fear mongering about evil socialists or what ever.

[Maark Abbott]

Primateus, on 24 July 2019 - 09:18 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 24 July 2019 - 07:29 AM, said:

Illuyankas, on 23 July 2019 - 07:24 PM, said:

Genuinely surprised we haven't had more Jo Cox's yet.

Oddly, no one who's raised the 'muh tolerant left' argument with me has had any comeback to that name being mentioned.

Same though, civil unrest is almost a given at this stage and I feel like violence against left wing politicians coupled with idiot right wingers realising that Brexit fucks them will be what sets the keg to detonate.

I know she was a politician who was murdered, but I don't get the context about what either of you are trying to say?

Aptorian, on 24 July 2019 - 10:28 AM, said:

More murdered politicians in the wake of populist fear mongering about evil socialists or what ever.

She was murdered by someone who'd gone to the far right because she voted against jingoistic nationalism.

And yeah, pretty much what Apt said.

[Tsundoku]

So ... China, huh? Slowly becoming the elephant in the room - Hong Kong, Taiwan, South China Sea, Belt and Road etc etc etc ...

https://www.news.com...2539bb2dec91f7e

I wonder what that Beijing shill we had ages ago would say about all this? What was his name? Was it Bottle?
Actually, I can imagine what he would say and it would just be the Party line.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 25 August 2019 - 04:03 AM

[Cause]

Tsundoku, on 25 August 2019 - 04:02 AM, said:

So ... China, huh? Slowly becoming the elephant in the room - Hong Kong, Taiwan, South China Sea, Belt and Road etc etc etc ...

https://www.news.com...2539bb2dec91f7e

I wonder what that Beijing shill we had ages ago would say about all this? What was his name? Was it Bottle?
Actually, I can imagine what he would say and it would just be the Party line.

I miss botttle! Never forget that the japanese dont have souls

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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[Tiste Simeon]

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[Malankazooie]

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[Morgoth]

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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