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> A 50,000 home new town in Kent is blocked because they found nests full of agitated Chupacabras following the government's 'reintroduction' of the cryptid to British arable land. Your deposit requirement increases by £5000.
This is too real...
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Most of Africa which mostly hasn't been bombed by the West. Billions of charity investment.
Charity? I mean, it's an open secret that both sides understand that the bulk of the money sent to African countries isn't supposed to be spent on the people. It's a subsidy/bribe to their developing-world elites to keep them pliable and obedient to basically everything they're told. It's almost immediately laundered back into London & Paris real estate and Swiss bank accounts. Wait, you thought Western countries wer…
How are people supposed to get things right when they are constantly misled by both their governments and intuitions?
I had to stop, it has some fairly nasty content in it (e.g. making jokes about LGBT people or not, taxes being spent on second generation immigrants).
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I do not find the average person holds these views. I certainly don't want to play a game that assumes I agree with them.
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Most of Africa which mostly hasn't been bombed by the West. Billions of charity investment.
The west and the east are still gutting African resources to this day via a bunch of carrots and sticks that rarely include direct bombing by a Western country or China. Plenty of western mercenary groups supporting traditional land takeover by corporations, funding radical groups to destabilize effective governments forming or growing in strength is still ongoing.
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Western politicians and their capitalist economy required colonialism and imperialism. To this day, Westerners can't stay where they are without meddling in the affairs of others, and then they complain about it. But worry not, the economic development of Africa and Asia will soon render Europe and Amerika into very isolated and uninteresting parts of the world.
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Over the past 30-80 years, Western countries collected social security contributions from workers but instead of investing/saving them, spent it all like tax. To fund pensions for that now-aged generation, you need fresh, warm bodies to pay taxes.
Sadly, that generation (boomers) had q modest fertility rate. They also live significantly longer than when social security became a norm in the West. 20-30 years more. So you need to tax their kids aggressively for longer to fund pensions & benefits for the boomers. Oh, and since the boomers' kids are having even fewer kids, it's a vicious cycle.
One way to remedy this is to suck in taxpayers from other countries & put them to work paying for the comfort of the boomers until they shuffle off the mortal coil.
So, here are your options:
1. Cut off the boomers and let them starve. But, it's untenable since their votes are a huge bloc and they'd revolt.
2. Expel every single immigrant and tax receipts will plummet. Your indig. young people will pay even more taxes to fund the boomers, unless you revert back to No. 1. Again, not tenable unless you abolish your democracy and establish a dictatorial state.
3. Maintain the current model and let it drag on.
It did not have to be like this. You could have taken Singapore's path of accumulating massive reserves ($2.5 trillion for 6 million people), but you didn't. I hope you figure it out, but I don't think anything drastic will happen.
Just like in Greece, when European lenders told them to impose austerity, leftist parties claimed they'd get into power and maintain all the benefits they'd promised the people. Fuck the globalists.
But, they got into power and realized their finances were well and truly fucked and they had to quietly undergo restructuring despite all their huffing and puffing.
Many immigrants commit crimes, yes, and I believe they need to be repressed. But, many others gratefully work and pay taxes. If you want to expel them, you need to be ready for the options above. Even if you are, many of your countrymen are not.
I live in the East Midlands in the UK. You can grab a reasonable first house here for less than £150k quite easily. So you'll need a 5% deposit, £7,500 for one of those. One person on an average salary for the area would be able to afford a mortgage for a house like this on their own. But Nick has a girlfriend, who can hopefully work, so should be able to afford it easily. But half of people earn less than the mean s…
Start pressing buttons and you'll see even more weird claims that most sane Brits won't recognise. This is a weird website that probably shouldn't be given much time.
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I missed that bit. What did it say?
Overblown dog whistles about "celebrate hijab day" or some such made-up nonsense I only hear about in conservative self victimisation fantasies.
In fact something like this sounds like it comes straight out of office space.
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Most of Africa which mostly hasn't been bombed by the West. Billions of charity investment.
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Actually, no, by an immigrant from Poland.
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1. I don't believe your framing 2. What's wrong with celebrating Diwali? 3. Why should anyone care? Did anyone stop you from celebrating Christmas with your friends and family? P.s. according to your post history you have based anti capitalist positioning on the pointlessness of most white collar labor, what happened to make you participate on the wrong side in a meaningless culture war that's just a distraction from…
Well of course you don’t believe me, it goes against your narrative. But I’m sure someone living in Taiwan knows better than someone British currently in the UK. Also that is quite an overreach on basic observations that are generally agreed upon and weren't anti-capitalist.
Tell me you seriously didn't notice this.
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I wish conservative humor was actually funny. I got a question that was about extinction rebellion blocking my bus. I chose "move them out of the way." The result: > You and another guy chuck them off the road. The bus drives through and you run after it and jump back on. The protestors are crying. Eugh. And everyone clapped. The other guy? Albert Einstein.
It literally happened, though? Bus and everything? More than once, in fact:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/09/watch-motorists-...
https://news.sky.com/story/furious-commuters-drag-extinction...