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Britain is still in Europe last I checked - I don’t think we’ve gone full Noah’s Island and fucked off into the north sea on our own tectonic plate yet…

Additionally - That asset stripping and profiteering are “efficient”. It’s a bit of a euphemism at this point I think.

Most companies I’ve worked for have cut their resources to the bone in search of efficiencies which are more accurately described as shareholder profit maximisations, but are pitched as “just in time” operation. Why hire two people when one can do a good enough job at half the pay. Why fabricate something locally when we can get a third party in SE Asia to make the same thing for peanuts and then charge EU pricing in our market.

Neither maximise efficient operations, just the efficient extraction of profit.

In-group suoremacy isn’t restricted to conservatism though, sadly.

They’re not banned. I live in the country and there’s a lot of Dodge Rams, Ford Rangers (and the odd Fx50 imports round here.

UK is also the spiritual home of the Land Rover, and those fuckers are insanely big now. The ionos grenadier is a beast also…

The argument is almost always “I need it to tow”/drive it over field a hill but it’s typically some farm lad running it on red diesel and claiming it’s for farm purposes (on his way to or from the pub)…

In many ways. I remember reading an argument against the monarchy on the grounds that it’s cruel to the people who are born into it, and the environment lends itself to creating absolute arseholes who then perpetuate the whole thing.

Depends - there will be a lot of local things around the place; in Oxford a choir sing from Magdalen College Tower to a crowd below.

There’s lots of local things like the 'Obby 'Oss, maypole dances and so on.

But it’s not really a big thing nationally over here.

I guess so - better something than nothing?

If you have a functioning example of democracy I have a bridge to sell you.

There’s a lot of worse options out there but western democracy on the whole doesn’t really represent the “demos” in any real sense - that’s both good and bad of course, but it’s also not democracy.

I genuinely don’t get this stance - are you as okay with far right marches as pro-worker strikes and pickets?

I’ve thought about changing mine to a spelling I prefer but honestly the paperwork involved after changing it seems like a total headache.

It doesn’t serve ads if you pay for it - I used it for Reddit and moved over during the API debacle and I haven’t had any issues with it personally.

Who the hell is paying 90EUR for switch games?

They’re not wusses, they were just biding their time to unveil their true selves.