Michael Hawkins

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@grassbycow @Guru_Cultural Indeed, but Charles is also King of Australia, but he isn't Australian.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@BenGrahamUK Duh! Are you saying you don't want poor people to have access to lawyers? Or do you want it only for people you like?

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@BruvverEccles @Guru_Cultural This is a nonsense idea propagated by sites like Wikipedia (US-owned) possibly because it increases the credibility they receive from their immigrant population.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@BruvverEccles @Guru_Cultural He was still German. I've lived in Slovakia for 22 years and could easily become a Slovak citizen but it wouldn't make me Slovak. My relatives and friends would laugh at the idea - especially considering the level of my Slovak.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@David__Osland What don't you get? They paid what they were asked to pay. If you think they should have paid more, blame the government, not the company.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@zatzi Are you sure it's not because of technological advances made over those 21 years? How did you distinguish between the benefits of privatisation (if any) and those of technological progress?

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@Martina I was reading the latest book by David Sedaris, The Land and Its People, last week, a day or two before this article was published, and in it he says exactly the same thing. Recommended reading; you'll love it. As also is everything else he has ever written.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@zatzi @DanielPriestley It would really help if you actually made a point.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@Hamza_a96 Almost makes me want to vote Labour.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@ghostinttown @memeinvestdog It's also great in practice. In Slovakia, people manage to do it.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@AmirAminiMD Slovakia manages to do it.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@clashreport This is already the law in Slovakia.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@_jaylawrence @erikvanvelzen OK. If you're so keen on absolute equality, then you must ban private education and private healthcare and anything else that gives the not-poor an advantage (housing, for ex.), otherwise you're saying "I want a 100m. race where I start 80m ahead of you."

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@JacobAShell With an attitude like yours, your whole life is going to be boring. Me, waking up simply signals the beginning of another day of wonderment. It's arrant nonsense to think that the interest lies in the thing observed. I told my child, "Never tell me you're bored!"

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@ethanagarwal "Adapt or die" 😂😂😂, he says. You do understand that soccer is the most popular sport in the world, don't you?

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@LeeGregoryPeck @fiona_lali But your way means that a society where someone has 100 x Musk's wealth and a million have absolutely fuck all and are starving is ok if the average "shows" most people can afford minimum food/accomodation/health care.

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@fiona_lali What is the rate? How is it calculated? Who did the study?

[Michael Hawkins @Michael73299790]

@Norbert_Thaler @DerGanesha we can't see the right arm of the German player so we can't make a decision

[Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus) @_Credible_Hulk]

Time for a thread! Let's go through this claim by claim.