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(and these are here so you can get mad and screenshot when you're losing the argument: he/him 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 )

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@Digdeep1976 @MournAnglo @metarkee @BenMclaine As political as any other assertion of human rights

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@MournAnglo @metarkee @BenMclaine @Digdeep1976 A statement on death, in wars, you know the things where you try your hardest to kill people.

A donut is not inherently political, but if that donut is given to me at a political rally and has the party leader's face on it, it is political.

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@Kordell43106375 @kingbobomb72 @wotancore And until that issue is "innovated out of" we keep things as they are.

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@MournAnglo @metarkee @BenMclaine @Digdeep1976 A donut is not political. A statement on war is. It's not "everything is political", it's "war is, always has been and always will be political".

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@FriedrichB8 @leepers500 @PotatoMcWhiskey I'm anti war, but to be so needs credible deterrence. The state of the German military (as with many european militaries) is that it is functionally useless without US intervention. An increase in spending is a necessary first step to be more independent from US foreign policy.

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@Colemagoo @zanyfen A child in a city can already be independent enough to use public transit on their own at around 10-12 years old. Children as young as 7 or 8 can commute on bikes in supervised groups, in safe roads/cycle lanes.

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@dreamonworship @okiikia @choralclock Men are also victims of the patriarchy =/= men are just as much victims. The latter is nonesense, the former is true. The patriarchy oppresses all who don't fit the ideal, the difference is it also oppresses the women who do.

[kia @okiikia]

Something a lot of people don’t realise is “men are inherently evil” is literally just “boys will be boys” but make it ✨feminist✨ It takes away the responsibility men have when they terrorise women by painting it as nature instead of it being a CHOICE.

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@PeterDMayr @MutsuAnjin I'm not saying that it's not unnecessarily complex, but any student can learn english phonetics, given enough time.

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@PeterDMayr @MutsuAnjin This is what I'm referring to specifically.

Yes English is in dire need of a spelling reform (that likely won't come any time soon). However, there is still some equivalence between letters and phonemes.

Further, 200 is small compared to say, chinese.

https://t.co/rAsfRnUbCp

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@walquear @MutsuAnjin I'm fine with substituting sounds that you can't pronounce. I understand how, especially for CV language speakers, one might struggle with some consonant clusters.

What annoys me is how english speakers will have a close approximate for the same sound and refuse to use it.

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@walquear @MutsuAnjin /eɪ/ is much closer than /i/ in all the cases in which I find it annoying

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@Hec248117183825 @MutsuAnjin I went to an Italian school after moving to the country as a fluent English speaker. I have endured many a bad Italian accent and they somehow became more grating over time. I still stand by my assessment that English speakers do worse things to Italian than vice versa.

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@PeterDMayr @MutsuAnjin When I say don't know phonics, I mean they will just guess what an entire word sounds like, rather than slow down and read each syllable.

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@Carskn9 @seledka_vodka It'll be a lot easier to figure out how much to pay someone by looking for people hiring for similar roles, though. If anything, you benefit from more transparency than a larger company.

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@TrashKingMadax @iveseenbigfoot @CrappyFumes I personally do not want to know and will judge if you ever tell me you're into that shit, but as long as you're not actually fucking your children, feel free to do so in the privacy of your bedroom.

Pro-kinkshaming, anti-kinkprohibiting.

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@Mond112233 @TetraspaceWest 2008 definitely did significant damage to the UK, but not much more significant than the damage dealt to the rest of Europe (especially the eurozone), which had similar austerity. What's worth highlighting too is the damage of deindustrialisation and brexit.

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@Willibee64 @SkipMcQueen They have a 2% margin to maintain

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@MutsuAnjin Worse still are those who don't know English phonics and will just guess based on the general shape of the word

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@MutsuAnjin No they kind if are, and it's specifically when they insist on applying English's fucky spelling system to other languages. E.g. pronouncing a word that ends with "e" with an "ee" sound, or misreading consonants that have an English equivalent because they're spelled different