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Try not to be unintentionally provocative

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@mikitaposts I’m not sure that “banks should be allowed to keep employing criminals” is the right hill to die on tbh

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@Dr_Kate_Newey I mean - they can *say* that - but isn’t part of your job as an academic to interrogate reality? To understand what’s true? There has to be some fundamental rationale behind their commitment to keep on paying you to do what you’re doing?

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@carlgomb YIMBY fixes this.

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@ma_sabba Counterpoint - young academics got screwed by older academics who groomed them into thinking the Ponzi scheme could continue.

The correction will take some time, and be painful, but at some point we’ll have the number of academics we need.

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@BanjaraSushant Every english person understands this innately. It’s why the Conservative Party selected Rishi Sunak to lead them.

Woke was a conspiracy by rich Americans to maintain their privilege by admitting a small number of brown and lgbtq into their midst.

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@hayesstw @SebMilbank Opposition to genocide in general != fixating on one particular thing that happens to be done by Jews

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@LilMsSocialist @admiral_byng I mean what he told you - and you can see for yourself - is that your lot are in fact much viler to him than the right wing scumbags. I think you’re being deliberately obtuse at this stage

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“I never hit him, and anyway he deserved it”

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@Philenose @kamilkazani And also in violent ways.

The modern use of the word “terrorist” comes from Sufragettes describing what they were going to keep on doing until they got what they wanted.

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@2331_tom @ShinMarginalScr No-one alive was “complicit”. Moral cowardice just isn’t relevant here. Asinine grievance politics, however….

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@geografiaumana @s8mb Presumably to sort out the delusionals who just *think* they are capable of doing this. Who are surely orders of magnitude more numerous than those who actually are.

There are easily enough underemployed published journos to fill a hundred magazines…

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This but unironically

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@RO5A7INA If the Irish were complicit then so were India, Pakistan and Bangladesh if you mean citizens participated in colonialism out of opportunitism.

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@Ikol_98 @DeptfordWife1 Intriguing proposition! I would love to see some examples. FWIW I think that English and Scottish nationalists suffer from mirrors of the same delusion. English nationalist thugs think their empire was the peak of civilization, and they were responsible for it.

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@SeanK117 @alz_zyd_ @AdamLake Ok - but have you actually been to the median French gas station? Because I’ve been to both and…this ain’t true.

One challenge is that - for soft cheese in particular - it’s all about supply chain velocity. And the American palate has very little tolerance of funk…

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@alz_zyd_ @AdamLake With respect - this is entirely inaccurate. The very best cheese at the bougiest dairy in Marin county is as nice as the median cheese in a French gas station. OP right about everything else tho

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@StopCityAirport The people who lived in soho before the nightlife? Surely they’re all dead by now?

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@Y_U_ASK @NationOfEldia Ah - so you were saying a thing uneducated racists day to prove that someone *else* was being an uneducated racist?

And if you’re expanding “Arab” to mean “Muslim” - in a discussion about demographics - how can you miss out Indonesia? That sounds…racist?

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@Y_U_ASK @NationOfEldia You don’t officially consider Iranians and Turks…Arabs? Until just now, literally the only people who called Iranians Arabs were uneducated racists. And, in fairness, it is almost certainly still the case.

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@SuperiorElliot5 @LinkofSunshine Right but what you mean is “the British people could vote to abolish their country and the rules of a previous generation won’t stop them”. This seems….reasonable. And unlikely.