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The UK is the biggest risk to the EU, are you serious?
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The UK's system is independent of US control, this idea that the US have to approve 'pushing the button' is simply false. What is true is that the maintenance of the missiles (Not the sub's or warheads) is done by the US, which would create a medium term issue if they pulled support
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This keeps on coming up, but the US has no control over a UK decision to launch. Our dependency to the US is on the mid/long term maintenance of the Trident missiles (Not warheads) which could be mitigated if needed through joint development of a replacement with France
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While procurement is the primary focus, given Trumps posturing I would say relying on NATO going forwards might be a little optimistic.. if trump leaves, there is no NATO
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That's not what I am saying. Here's it put better than I can bsky.app/profile/colu...
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So back to my original attempt at an honest question, why is a defence pact not seen as Mutually beneficial, but as a UK demand?
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The literal article says the EU wants a fish deal and mobility in return for a defence pact...
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Ok, this I get, so why bother at all from either side? My question of why the UK would want a security pact enough to negotiate away other asks, which is how a negotiation works. Someone else has responded it's to do with joint procurement which makes sense.
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TBH I don't, the given that the majority of the respondents to my query seem to view as some 3rd world cesspit. I had understood it was to stop us agreeing individual mobility deals with member states.
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Thank you for a constructive reply, appreciated. So the primary ask is around joint defense procurement. On point 1, my simple ask was why that outcome isn't viewed as mutually beneficial, but instead something that the article details as requiring the UK to meet additional "demands"
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That's not what I said. I simply asked why a defence pact is seen as an ask from us, rather than something that is mutually beneficial
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The post I responded to directly quotes "demands ... for an EU mobility deal", and that this and fishing rights need to be given for a security pact to be agreed. If mobility was a gift and not an ask they wouldn't be demanding it would they... I simply asked why defence was seen as an ask from us
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So no fish, fine
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Ok, so what do we get for the fish? I can't see why it's more in our interest than the EU's for a security pact
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Ok, so let's take it off the table, what are they willing to give us for the fish? Your not actually answering my actual question
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Ok, so let's not bother with the defence pact, withdraw from NATO, and see what they are then willing to offer for the fish and youth mobility they want... You haven't answered the question at all, why should we want a security pact.
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Whether you think we bring much to the table is slightly irrelevant, I asked why this is more in our interest than the EU's given geography. The UK also brings the only other nuclear deterrent in European hands, which isn't nothing.
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Genuine question, given the EU has the border with Russia and not us, why is a security deal seen as doing us a 'favour'? Surely this is something they should want given the increasing question mark over the reliability of the US?
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Curious on how this would explain why this is only being seen in younger Gen Z men, and not millennials? If this is societal expectations and 'nurture', surely we would expect Gen Z's parents to be more right wing, which is not what these stats show at all.
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Some people do seem relaxed though about the idea that lower educational outcomes for boys isn't something that needs to be addressed, as it's a correction for the past and current sins of their elders. It should be possible to focus on broader issues around the patriarchy while not ignoring this
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Patriarchy is the key problem, and I genuinely believe addressing it isn't just a zero sum game, it benefits everyone! I responded a little too quickly, but it's hard as a parent trying to raise feminist boys not to react sometimes to language that seems to view them as legitimate collateral damage
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I definitely appreciate that traditional norms have - and continue - to cause huge problems, and that people who have suffered are rightly fed up.
Trying to raise feminist boys, it's however getting hard to ignore views like this, which appears to view their future as legitimate collateral damage
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I don't disagree on most of the article or your points, masculinity needs work, but it's a big ask for Men to see ourselves as allies to someone who likes this comment under their article
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Changing the definition of masculinity is critical, but it's hard to see people like this as allies in that. Men need to drive this conversation rather than let more radical feminists drive the narrative
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It's an interesting article on an element of why men might be shifting away, and agree that politics is a key factor in this. But it's hard to see how men are supposed to view articles like this when the author likes posts like this
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Here's the latest emigration stats, the devil is in the detail here, but it doesn't imply a massive shift to the young emigrating
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It actually seems to come originally from here, which was published back in July. Headline is different, but content is v.similar, www.thecollegefix.com/white-suprem...
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There is a way to bypass the paywall and yes it's broadly that it's primarily around mineral extraction. Surely quotes like this don't help win friends though, "also suggested palaeontology, the study of prehistoric life through fossils, was partly to blame for racism, labelling it “pale-ontology”
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Cake and Cobra Kai, classic combination 😀
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Screw it, going back to bed...
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I hope so! I was using this as a benchmark as it felt less likely the odds are being driven by heavy pro trump betting.
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Odds now... Seriously hovering over placing quite a large bet here, I still think this is 50/50?
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These are the betting odds on UK site Ladbrokes, is this easy money on Kamalaz or time to worry!
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The numbers seem quite different to those here (16% in the UK), has anyone seen the methodology? yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Here's an IPSOS Poll, Trump at 21% www.ipsos.com/en-uk/briton...
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You're aware there are Decathlon's in the UK (albeit not in Bristol). They are two very different shops...