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Still waiting for that announcement.
It got lost in Heathrow terminal 5, two very important announcements may have been inadvertently flushed into the river, and must be located at either Henley or Canary Wharf - whichever way the current is flowing.
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I think we need another 500,000 Avansies threads this week.
- Sorry to the Americans that don't understand that.
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Shush please!
Face it, you're just not relevant. Can you leave the constant cycle of wars between two sides to the bigger people, because at least we have a few months between our wars which actually make dents in the globe, rather than two micros trying to be relevant.You can't sit with us!
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Are you still here?Peace!
I John X, former leader of "Mosquitoes" surrendered to TKR and Arrgh. They've both graciously accepted my surrender despite my original statements. My surrender followed the realisation that the attacks on me were just that....despite the coincidental timing and LoEG was not involved. That many nations exceed their "nuke cap" suggests they really don't exist as a force at all.
It should also be known that TKR (whom I directed most of my efforts against) was a most impressive opponent...never failing to note me logging on and building a nuke just to spy it away in the 5 seconds available before I could launch it. Standard attacks and blockades made any resistance impossible. Well done.
There should be a ban on one person alliances creating threads here.
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It's a Microsoft Edge only bug. If you press send on any message the page refreshes and asks to resubmit the data, its avoided on desktop by swapping to Opera/firefox etc but more difficult on mobile.Could you take a screenshot? I'm not sure I can imagine what the problem you're having is exactly.
Messages still send, but Edge pulls up a refresh error anyway. Error only applies to sending a reply
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The left is regaining in strength. Ever since Brexit multiple campaigns has been working to crush the media spreading hate and fuelling the Trump/BNP/BF movements. once and for all.
https://www.facebook.com/stopfundinghate/videos/356313188039351/
And the campaign just reached yet another breakthrough with Lego ending all Daily Mail advertising, this follows Specsavers and the Co-Op group reviewing where they are advertising.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37962425
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You are not better than me or any of the working class you look down on. When will your type learn that insulting the people and ignoring their very real concerns will be met with them rightly despising you lot. The Sun and Mail are not good things by any means but you're being selective for outside the rags the large majority of the media is firmly pro-EU, ever watch TV lad?
"Mostly". What they were right on was the obvious such as the pound dropping an such, something I always said would happen as this may shock you but when a big change hits... thats just what happens. Here is the thing though, I and a great many don't care. Pound dropping and some other things are well worth reversing the path we've been on and getting well away from ever being part of that vile European Superstate the EU fanatics want.
Also lol at you defending the Guardian. You really Labour or a New Labour Red Tory like Spite instead? Corbyn was treated basically like Trump by the Guardian who attacked him with such strength that you could sort of say the Sun and Mail were treating him fairer. I mean you expect it from those two so their attacks mean little. In the end though be it Corbyn, Brexit, or Trump the Guardian failed and only became more reviled. Being supported by the Guardian is like the kiss of death.
Being ageist is progressive now? So these people live their lives, they pay in a great deal, and then runts who by the large know nothing of the world and believe the propaganda of the globalists say they should not have a say? Show some respect. The fact the old, the poor, and others rejected your cause is not because they are these twisted evil creatures... your cause just sucks badly.
I'm sorry but what is that London and Scotland stuff supposed to be in relation to myself? I am against the devolved parliaments and at this point London even continuing to be the capital.
Really now? The left which Tony Blair and his Red Tory scum lot took over and began the process of converting people to their vile ideology? The left that while valiantly you could say revived itself lately behind Corbyn is in massive trouble as it appears they and the Red Tories will both suicide into each other? That left is strong? I hate to imagine what you see as weak.
Trump who wants to be friends with Russia is the war choice compared to "No fly zone im Syria" Clinton? Very odd. Who is Trump going to fight this world war with exactly? Mexico?
Visible cracks? Trump has not made those cracks or showed them, people have talked of it for ages. The Democrats like their counterparts in Europe have taken advantage of minorities for votes and put themselves down as their champions, which they hope the minorities will never learn is a sham.
Don't be so sure on that as Trump not only became President but the Senate and House were both won also which the "experts" said were going to go down to Trump. The message is clear to the Republicans... adopt Trump's views for the old brand is finished. The American people want a politics that is distinct from the Democrats, one that rejects the Democrats globalism, immigration policy, trade policy, and more. The Democrats being the "left" should mean they are the populist party but they ain't, they're the corporate party. The Republican party has been the corporate party but with Trump it seems we may get a massive shift as they morph into the populist party.
I was laughed at for saying since the start Trump would win and no doubt people will laugh at this too. However if Trump does his main policies then once he is gone they are going to put him on the level of Ronald Reagan, the man who saved and changed the Republican party.
Oh and no, Britain First did not assassinate that woman. I dislike Britain First for polluting what is a good cause (Nationalism) but do you really think the eve of them getting a vote they wanted they would really go kill some no name party drone? If anything you'll find the people you hate so much were on their best behaviour to not distract from the vote and damage their chances.
Firstly, I don't look down on the "working class", It's the fault of successive centerist/tory governments failures to invest in high quality state operated free at POU education. I'm from the North East, the SINGLE most neglected region, we're the closest collectively to the description. Britain should be moving to a classless society, but the factor I'm referring to is education and there is a good reason for this. Humans like to follow crowds, plain and simple. Now in a political sense we can see this where the posh ones vote Tory and those who have been neglected by society as a whole vote Labour. Now those of a higher standard of education - which yes varies on location/income/government at the time - are statistically more likely to research their choices more carefully. There is also a clear connection between intelligence and the choice to seek multiple opinions, again this is statistical and it can't speak for everyone.
As for the pound that was obvious, companies like certanty and they'll move their money around to try to maximise cash flow. Market shocks happen and crashes are accelerated by the fact most of the top 100 companies by revenue use computers to automatically buy and sell currency, commodities and shares. The EU however, does have it's benefits, for starters free movement of people let's companies put anyone any ware in the EU at short notice, secondly the Regional Development Fund puts money into the regions, the Tories wouldn't spend a penny of this in the North East if it was down to them. Thirdly, the EU allowed co-operation to increase, we have seen Airbus grow from a small challenger to Boeing to a market leader, and that co-operation has been crucial to us competing with US companies.
And no, I'm not Labour - I'm Green. There's a big difference between Corbyn and Lucas.
Also devolution has great benefits - the Scottish get everything because they have a devolved parliament and the North East Combined Authority (NECA, styled as neca) have reached a deal giving us so much money we can start to begin patching up our region from the damage the last coalition did - the single good decision Osborne ever made.
Donald Trump's attitude has already formed cracks. Protests in California are turning violent and the number of protestors shows cracks. His attitude to China is also very very dangerous. In addition, Donald Trump's mere remarks are helping evil radical orginksations like Isis recruit members - he needs to stamp out hate in order to secure peace.
I would post more but on mobile so typing is unbearable.
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Opera checking in to say I have none of these problems.
Opera and Vivaldi are problem free.
But yeah the Edge bug is real, really irritating actually becease there are few Win Phone alternatives.
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To be honest, I don't think trump is actually an extremist. He is a populist saying extremist statements to gain popular support but I think we will see a toning down of the rhetoric now that he is in a position of influence. I've been informed that the banning of Muslims coming to the US has already been removed as an actual policy from his agenda as an example.
It's simply what populists do at the end of the day. Once everything calms down it should be readily apparent that a few of the irrational policies coming from trump are precisely that. Irrational. No modern democratic leader constrained by a representative government could possibly dream of enacting some of the policies trump has spoken of after all.
In my own view, he is extreme in his head, but he knows that he'll never get these things through the process of Congress.
In addition, he has reacted to the global condemnation of his ideas, such as the petition to ban him from UK entry and having honours degrees stripped. By most standards, Trump is far - if not extreme right, with his rhetoric matching groups like "Britain First", which was wound up in the killing of a democratically elected MP a few months back*. When you have groups like this backing him, he is categorised between far and extreme.
* The group denied involvement and the media was confused weather the killer shouted "Britain first" or "put Britain first", either way, it's six and two threes.
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What the damn hell? that was one of the best parts of living in London, looking at boobs in the tube while commuting to work. I find this more depressing news than Trump actually winning the election.
It's in the Daily Star now.
For Americans, the Mail is if Fox news did a paper,the Sun is a fox election special and the Star is borderline satire
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... So much wrong. Let me clue you in on something, when you do this act of "better than you" elitist and insult the common decent people of a country than you better get what you say right. To start with the Sun doesn't do page 3 anymore. Second I read the Guardian online so yes I saw how they handled it and it was not "project fact", it was indeed "project fear" and yes not every reader doesn't educate themselves... as shown by their comment sections which are often fall of scorn for the Guardian itself and whatever they are pushing.
LOL! Cameron the chief of remain, you voted against him during the EU vote did you? Lol.
Tory infighting is not at Labour's level, especially now that May will be able to point at Trump to say that they simply must do Brexit now especially with a British friendly and Anti-EU American President at the helm.
The left is weak and supports many of the globalist positions. They will not lead you to the promised land.
??? The only British newspaper I read is the Guardian lad and I'm no Tory.
1) This "better than you" logic is simply fact - again I live in Sunderland, part of the North East, THE single most deprived region. Now to put it politely, there are quite a few people in the deprived schools who through no fault of their own are essencially sheep. I'm lucky to have been to one of the top regional schools (state-run), but at the same time I know people who went to the rest, and they're thick Sun/Star readers.
And look at the sections for any paper, the Daily Mail is the best example here, I've become a kind of expert on the Mail because we annotate their articles for English to point out the technical errors, and the wacky ideas.
"Project Fear" was mostly factual, as much as I hate Cameron he was right, jobs are at risk (Come on, May and the Tories payed Nissan a fortune, but she won't admit it. Take it from the person next to the factory.) Moreover the pound plummeted so prices are increasing, leaving the single market in a hard brexit will cement that. The Guardian did refer to some aspects as PF but others it agreed with the benifits.
Also, I didn't vote because unlike some people who are at the end of their lives, I am 16, and therefore cannot vote in a decision that will ruin MY life, not some old person who won't live to see A50 activated. Up here we wanted to see Cameron resign, or to just disagree with the crooked Tories. You CANNOT get any worse in Britain than it is up here, the Tories can't put Newcastle on a map, let alone invest a single penny here. The government is all "London, London, Scotland, Scotland, oh Sturgon's kicking off again, more Scotland, London, tiny bit of Wales. What? the North?, ok Manchester then, before a bit more London.". People voted in desperation to get Cameron to resign - we know he was a very weak leader, it was stretigic, even though I myself and about 3/4 of young people would have voted in.
The left isn't "weak", the left is being smeared by a right wing media. The movements to get the toxic, biased hateful press out of business is building and it is doing so quickly. The left will invest in the REAL north, not the middle of the country. The right will look after themselves, cripple our NHS and bring the country back to its knees. The North East has to be heard and if the right grows more powerful, you'll see operations like HMRC brought to their knees as the region downs tools in frequent strikes. When the drift to the right grows, we start demanding devolution - calls growing by the day.
In other news, Canada's immigration website crashed with a surge of people with brains wanting to move out of the US before Trump starts WW3, and California has started Calexit rumblings, a movement which won't succeed, but sends a strong warning that the devisions growing in society are forming visible cracks.
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Murdoch had everything to do with Brexit. The fact is his media didn't say a single good thing about the EU, the Mirror, Independent and Guardian, the more civilised side of the press (well the Mirror is still a Tabloid, but a more intelligent one) were less negative. Murdoch's media said things like "we want British judges deciding on British issues", weeks later "ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE". Tabloids are aimed at those lf lower intelligence weather you like it or not, the Sun and Daily Star are at the lowest end, with topless women on page 3. Do you really think Guardian readers are of low enough intelligence not to read unbiased sources to make informed decisions, project fear was actually project fact. In referendums like this Dumb people vote like sheep. Proven time and time again the dumb swing elections to a poor choice, weather that'd voting UKIP or Tory to leaving the EEC, while some with brains do note to leave because they weighed up cause and effect, the sheep don't do that - or in Sunderland's case, Leave was a tactical vote to get Cameron out, unfortunately we got Mrs May.??? Where exactly does that address what I said. The inconvient truth for you is the Remain side was all liars and even if the Brexit side was too... at least the appealed to people, Remain who were supporting a rotting entity like the EU could not appeal. The people of Brexit said "Love your Nation!", a concept not yet foreign to everyone though people like you are certainly trying. The Remainers said instead "Love the EU!" and people looked at the pathetic entity before them and said no thank you.
What the hell does Murdoch have to do with the British people? You still don't see why you lost and you and your political lords are so despised do you? "Stupid people", those are the working class, the ordinary people. The Remain camp was seen as elitist, the "I'm better than you pond scum" crowd, and shocker I know but people don't like elites especially ones who live in Ivory Towers.
The voters aren't the problem, his own party is. When it'll approach election time they'll try to random their Neo-Liberal policies in which Corbyn will likely reject and then they'll split into the Neo-SDP and Labour's vote will be split allowing the Tories to annihilate both.
Wow, fat lot thats done isn't it. Green party is full of weaklings who'll never achieve anything. Oh and no I'm not some anti-environment Tory before you start, in fact I support investing serious money in green energy.
You imply like I'm some Gove supporter. Man is an embarrassment and the fact he "headed the Brexit" campaign was seen by me like taking a gunshot to the head. However in that comment he made which he was laughed at for (why don't people laugh at his other stupid crap that is completely wrong?) he was completely right. Even a complete fool can be correct now and then, even a broken clock is right twice a day and all that.
Do you really think Sunderland wanted to leave the EEC, no. We wanted to vote against the Tory scum that was Cameron.
Labour has in-fighting but so do the Tories. It's like playing resignation bingo for the shadow cabinet and Tory mps.
As for the Greens, they were weak under the previous leader but never under-estimate Caroline Lucas. She is the single-most non cabinet influencial MP and a well respected politition. Lucas will gain more of the left-leaning support which is growing by the day.
Sit down and go back to reading the Tory-graph, well seeing as you're advocatong "normal" news, the Daily Star. If you don't mind I'm back off to GuardianLand.
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You talk as if the Remainers weren't saying the sky was going to fall if Brexit happened. Also because Murdoch is a bad man and is for Brexit... so we should support the EU... like the neo-liberal elite want. Wow. Let me ask you, when there was a prime opportunity to castrate Murdoch where were your lot? Fully behind the so called "freedom of the press". Murdoch is scum that much is true but the fact the neo-liberals got you concentrating on him and supporting them is pretty funny. Classic.
Corbyn is in a weak spot mate, wake up. Stop believing the bloody propaganda also. Right from the beginning with the google and regretting stuff they turned it on. Its nonsense so just stop please.
... You're wrong and misunderstood Gove who for once even though he was laughed at was on the money. What he said was that people are tired of "experts". People get screwed by Globalism and then these out of touch londoncentric psudo-intellectuals in their Ivory Towers come down and tell them they know nothing and its all dandy. People are sick of having what they say ignored and then talked down to by these so called experts who as we've seen are by the large nothing but Jamokes.
Source on him taking advice from Palin right now please. She likely won't even get a post but that won't stop you I'm sure.
Well for starters, it wasn't the remain campaign that cried out against the poisonous scum that is Katie Hopkins amd the media - she called migrants "cockroaches" - justify that.
Murdoch wanted Brexit because the EU aren't cowards and because there is little he can do to dispose of foreign officials stopping him he minipulated the idiotic readers of The Sun to leave. Now the reason people are jumping on the media now is the headlines like "enemies of the people", now its obvious no-one with a brain reads the Daily Mail, but this was building up, that headline was essentially the last straw, in fact last year there was a petition to swap Hopkins for 50,000 Syrian refugees.
Now as for Corbyn, he is in a weak spot for some voters, but at the same time he is popular with young voters who have to sort out the mess when you lot are long gone. I'm a Green supporter, and actually it is the more idealistic views that become powerful as the political establishment starts to fail - the difference from the US is we have open debates, so we KNOW about alternatives' who get more votes.
I'm not even going to address Gove, come to the North East and ask anyone about him. In five words, incompetent backstabbing fat tory pig.
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I saw them mention it not that long ago. Trump will be the most powerful (don't remember if R or overall) President since 1928 I think it was. Also breaking the glass ceiling as he has never held office before.
Being against Globalism doesn't mean you're against trading. It means you're against this quasi-slave labour force they've built, against the immigration they have to push, the PC culture they build to protect it from attack, and all the other aspects of their vile system. People are not against trade, they're not against minorities, they're not against other countries, or whatever else. What they want is for it to be fair, for their views to be respected and not attacked as racist and whatever else, and for the jobs to be in their country.
As I always tell you, the talk that all rich people are these evil monsters is quite droll. This is why your views will never win anything. Guess what. I have certain views that don't change if I became rich, do I then magically become the enemy to myself? Do I have to be some mug and give my newly made money away or become the enemy? No. Judge people on their wealth like that if you wish instead of on what matters if you like but people admire wealth and when they see you hit the rich unfairly they will turn away from you.
You are aware Trump will have an army of guys to advise him yes?
The SNP are a joke who constantly bark about magic powers they don't have. Corbyn is nothing as New Labour when it comes time for election will stab him in the back to prove that he can't win, by making them all losers. May will overcome such a vote if it happens and if blocked she'll be very happy. These SNP fools representing a fraction of Scotland's low population see fit to block the wishes of a great deal of voters do they? You have any idea how well that sells? Enjoy the overwhelming Tory victory if you were to manage it. Not that it matters because if France and Netherlands follow this wave started by Brexit that Trump has empowered further than its game over for the EU anyway.
Ah the Hard Right media, utter tosh. They are simply right wing like the Television media, they're simply smart enough to realise that the common man on the street despises the EU.
The EU referendum was fought on lies a d backstabbing - all "hate" of the EU os exagerated, the Sun newspaper (hard right), and the Daily Mail have been inciting hatred for years - they're not that 'smart', Murdoch's approach has been to put power into UK hands because he can stomp all over the UK government, but if he tells the EU ti do something to benefit him and him alone they don't bat an eyelid. The right wing aligned media know this.
Corby is in power for a reason, the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru have formed an alliance and May is so scared about Brexit she created a fictitious cabinet minister just to take the blame when it goes horribly wrong. Recent polls conducted around last week actually showed many who voted leave regretted their decisions, or voted to go against the Tories (in the North East's case a anyway. I live in Sunderland btw.)
Now as for Trump's so-called Advisors - dl you really think a man with an ego bigger than the bottles of fake tan he uses really listen's to people? Just look at Michael Gove and Boris Johnson - they hated experts but look where it got them after Cameron went, so poor even the Tories rejected them.
Trump will Simply get into bed with Putin until his party falls to pieces, he's taking advice from Sarah Palin for gods sake.
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The SNP are going to help the supreme court legal challenge. Theresa May is a weak leader who would lose an election to Corbyn (that is how poor she is). Brexit must pass a vote by MPs, the SNP will try to block it, as will many mps from stronghold constituencies, for example Tyne and Wear wanted Brexit but as a Labour stronghold they could safely vote to block it. A "hard" brexit won't be passed whatsoever.Also you a Remainer? Hehehe, enjoy this then because Trump has just helped Brexit and is a firm ally. Its HAPPENING!
In addition our hard right media (especially the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Express) are facing a backlash and advertisers are beginning to pull out, effectively crippling their revenue.
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There is nothing to fight. The GOP has the House, Senate, White House, and shortly, the Supreme Court. This is a total rout for Democrats and a total win for Republicans. Pretending anything else is a waste of time. The only "fight" will be for 2018, when the party out of power typically gets a big win in both legislative chambers.
Really, its time to go back to work and hope they don't !@#$ things up too badly and try and win next time.
There's plenty to fight - it is the job of those that are disappointed in the result to fight individual policies - stalling if not stopping them until the next election. Trump isn't experienced and can't win legal challenges to policies.
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Sorry America, you elected an far right leader who will topple at the first challenge.
And who'll have to sort you out - well it won't be Britain because sometimes children have to go on holiday without their parents and that means learning to take some responsibility. Where's the Clinton supporters fight, Remain stalled Brexit - those who hate Trump can stall the wall.
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Are Avansies relevant yet?
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Opera port please - for like the two people on earth that still use it.
Good news is - Opera and chrome plugins are 99% cross-compatible (after renaming .crx to .nex and vice versa) and opera's validation process is simpler.
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We don't need new people to swing to our side. We'll win every !@#$in war from here on out.
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tbh it would look fishy when people on opposite sides start spying on one another, it just makes it hard to see which is and which is not league activity.
but for the sake of new nations who don't have alliance banks storing loads of food, this is needed.
Yay or Nay? Teaching Sexism, Homophobia, and Racism to young kids
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British interruption here since the sources were about the UK, US law does not apply etc etc.
Teaching that sexism, homophobia and racism are acceptable is not just wrong, in some cases it is illegal.
"Protected speech" comes with attached exceptions, for example in England and Wales there are active laws against hate speech (defined as speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnicity, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation). This does not just include specific words, but is context bound.
The simple fact is, some of the content is in violation of equality and anti-discrimination laws. In addition to this, actively promoting sexism, racism and homophobia can cause violent acts to happen. Words can have real consequences from all sides.
I'm extremely fortunate to live in the UK, in one of the top 50 state run schools and under the protection provided by UK law which the LGBT community has had to fight consistently for. The legal protection given to us is extremely important. Only just recently, after many attempts the Greens proposed compulsory education on relationships which also include ending violence towards women (which also has further implications to said teaching) which has now been passed, which will now force all institutions to follow the curriculum set by the DoE and other bodies. Laws dictate the right to free speech (sadly Katie Hopkins seems to be exempt from this) - the concern here is not if it is acceptable, but why Ofsted, the DoE and Ofqual (the relevant UK bodies) are not doing enough about this in other areas of the UK.