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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

bad as in i wanted to hit the director after i saw it? eyes wide shut, prestige.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Chinese In Africa

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C I A

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OH NO!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

i dont understand why it's a problem when another nation helps to get one or the other of the two excellent american candidates elected.

they're not trying to elect a foreigner after all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

ours was into human poo, available under any bush because of capitalism

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

for that, you want dogs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

by that logic, everything is fine, Xi speaks english so china is subordinate to the US. why's the US panicking?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

they were basically right, no? the US barely got scratched in ww2 and emerged as the world power. if anything, the nazis were good for the US.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

accidentally, eh

why cant i hold all these prisoners?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yes. the west has been trying to do that in various ways since probably 1930

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

ahhh, https://xkcd.com/927/

but yeah, norway seems to be functioning with two different standard orthographies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

they're probably a pedo club. they have "protect kids" in their name, that's a sure sign of epsteingelion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

standard spellings will always privilege one dialect over the others. usually the dialect of the ruling elite.

the only way out of this is to not reform the spelling. letting it rot will eventually get you to something like english spelling, which is often so far from the pronunciation that it's just equally bad for everyone. and STILL standard english spelling privileges the prestige dialects, just not as much as a more recent, more phonetic orthography.

 

seriously. where are all these masses coming from who think a cat's coloring affects their personality? what the fuck?

even though we're also super racist, this at least is not a thing here. it's never been a thing.

what the fuck.

 

pls help.

 

dude's the heir of the earl of fucking sandwich and they're pretending they're youtuber homesteaders.

just what. barbara-pit

 

incredible brain melting slop.

all the great hits of liberalism revisited.

democracy under attack equally from the right and the left!

some masturbation about post ww2 hegemony being for the good of all mankind.

remember to vote for genocide joe, i guess.

 

the first few pages have things like this:

Thus may I mention, not by way of excuse but by way of explanation, that on this occasion, apart from my accursed adventurous spirit, it was the protection of Great Britain and Christian civilization that prompted me to travel anew. And I ask the educated Reader whether there is a more worthy calling for a British subject than to serve under the Royal flag the elevated ideas of mankind and Christianity against their sworn enemies.

Mankind, redeemed of his sins, was writing "one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five" when the government of His Majesty came to the conclusion that, in all probability, we should have to wage war with Italy.

At the same time we willingly recognized the heroic feats of the Italian soldiers whose death-defying courage and other honourable virtues might well be followed as an example by every loyal British subject of character, naturally under the Union Jack, and against the Italians. I repeat that as regards the how of the matter there was no discord between my country and Italy; it was merely the why of it which provided a basis for disagreement.

As their motive for the Ethiopian action, the Italians put forward their desire to liberate the Ethiopians from the yoke of the Amharas and to spread culture. The obvious untruthfulness of this — with all due respect — must prompt every sober-minded and better educated person to laughter if he has even but a passing knowledge of the diplomatic phrases customary in other countries when they wish to gloss over the essence of things and thereby mislead the uninitiated observer.

I have no wish to slip into the error of partiality in the way of travellers who are not above a disproportionately ostentatious display of the glory of their country in the guise of scientific description; I believe, however, that with all modesty and due respect to foreign states I might mention that adoption of such a perspective is an error a British subject would never commit. In my country it is well known even to the less educated that the devoted but noble work of liberating the peoples of the tropics has always been a heartfelt duty of Great Britain. Sufficient proof may, I feel, be found in the many colonies from South-East India to the Boers, whose peoples were set free from oppression at the cost of heavy battles.

And, much as an English gentleman is left cold by the material aspect, I cannot conceal my opinion that, apart from the cause of culture and freedom, Italy, in making her decision, may have been influenced, possibly unconsciously, by Ethiopian coffee and oil-fields.

This is why the government of His Majesty, having made sanctions against the Italians, came to the decision to launch a defensive war against Italy.

AND THIS IS JUST THE FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE FIRST CHAPTER

 

riddle me this, @[email protected]

 

It's a challenging time, not only for our industry but [...]

our industry

industry

 

brought it home unharmed, let it go and watched me chase it.

fucker has actually taught me to catch mice (you just grab them with a thick towel so they cant bite you). i guess i wont starve now :)

 

oh wait never mind, it's france.

anyway, china bad, good thing the west is accountable to its citizens at least.

 

amazing.

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