mlungu.bsky.social
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Mate, Jesus wouldn’t even visit America.
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Let me guess, the real winner was Reform, eh? 🙃
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You know what’s funny? As a South African, I’ve always believed that our country was several decades behind developed countries like the US. It’s the strangest thing to wake up one morning and realise, no, South Africa is several decades ahead of the USA.
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The wealthy always prefer rule by the few over rule by the many.
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That’s complete bullshit, dude. US and UK not even in the top 100 most unequal countries. Inequality is a problem, but when you start claiming that it’s worse in the US than in South Africa, or Zimbabwe, you’re clearly high on something.
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Mate, it’s so weird, as a South African, to grow up thinking our culture is a few decades behind the developed world, then to wake up one morning and realise, no, South Africa is decades ahead.
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It’s all sales pitch, because there is very little value in AI at the moment. Investment comes in because of promises about the future.
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“Asimbonanga…” ✊
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When are we going to stop acting surprised? Yes, owners of capital will always choose rule by the few over rule by the many. This is a law of capitalism. So what are we going to do about it? I’m so bored of hearing what victims we are.
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In other words, I am intimately aware of what the England stole from the rest of the world, who they tested the first concentration camps on, and all the rest. That still isn’t an argument that either country can exist independently. After all, the SNP were relying on keeping £, and that was …
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I’m not English, sweetie. We were raised to hate them more than you do, so insulting them is nothing to me.
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Fair point!! When you live in the shit, it’s often too close to identify.
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Well done to your great grandfather for being exceptional, and I thank you for his kindness.
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Not with regards to colonisation. They don’t pretend to have been colonised, unlike the Scots.
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And?
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Ah, James VI of Scotland was Irish, eh?
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Which part was that? The part where James VI of Scotland initiated the Union, or all those memorials across the country citing the dead Scots who fucked the South Africans, the Indians, the Kenyans, etc., etc?
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I’m South African, buddy, so don’t care about the unity of the United Kingdom. Like I said to your mate, at least the English don’t pretend to be victims. You guys initiated the Union and played a central role in Empire. Be grateful to Mel Gibson for convincing the world otherwise.
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Because they believe in Britain, for some historic reason. 🤷♂️
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I’m not English, mate, so no better together from me. I’m South African and have been raised to hate the English, too. Thing is, the English at least don’t pretend to be victims. You guys like to pretend you were colonised, when in fact you initiated the union and played a central role in Empire.
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Absolutely! The problem is that the classics that children are expected to read at school aren’t read for pleasure, they’re read for work, because they’re not instantly accessible by the layperson. You’ve got to read secondary texts to get joy from Shakespeare, Joyce and the like.
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Just trying to help, buddy. Please, leave. We’ll help pack your bags.
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You guys should push for the English to vote on independence. You would’ve won last time.
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Like I say, whatever helps you sleep at night, laddie. Good luck with independence. Would much prefer more of London’s money comes down to Cornwall anyway.
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Whatever helps you sleep at night, laddie.
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Which government website is highlighted in red in the picture below?
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You guys really waste your free university education. “Expenditure” is day to day spending, ie, what it costs to offer free university, etc.
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“Total expenditure for Scotland…”
That free university education is clearly being wasted.
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I doubt we have different ideas on the obsolescence of the kit.
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Only the end of a myth. Major difference is that the Americans have brought authoritarianism home, whereas before they simply exercised it on the periphery.
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Well done for answering. I make all unknown numbers leave a message.
I also thank all the fates that telesales never made an appearance in my employment history. I would rather clean latrines in Kibera.
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£300 is equivalent to $400 USD. Plus, you tend to buy a professional camera once, whereas a gamer PC is obsolete after five years, and most gamers will want upgrades every two years.
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Scotland generated £88.5 billion in tax revenue last year. London generated £216 billion.
In the same year, it cost Scotland £112 billion to run its public services.
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“Draught” from the old English word meaning to pull.
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Dude, you’re completely misunderstanding where the Green vote is. The reason that we constantly get stories about Green councillors opposing renewable energy and housing is because a significant portion of the Green vote is Cameronian Tories and Lib Dems with a passing interest in the environment.
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Difficult to pay for all this stuff when you remove rich Londoners from your tax take.
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Well, no, humans have been trying to escape this since the dawn of time, because there are no vaccines here, child mortality is exceptionally high, food is seasonal and can kill you if it isn’t cooked to buggery, and parasites infest every nook and cranny of your body.
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Because restaurants tend to break even on the food and make all their profit on drinks and, in particular, wine.
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Serious gamers use PCs, though, and upgrade every two years. A mid range gaming PC costs £1200.
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A mid-range gaming PC costs £1200. A mid range professional camera costs £300.
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It is kinda like going on about climate change when California is burning and people’s homes are being destroyed. It’s not whataboutism, but no one fixes systemic issues in an emergency. You just fight the fire, then have these discussions afterwards.
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No, they’re not. Our electoral system forces voters to vote for the PPC/party they hate the least, which doesn’t get picked up in polls 4yrs out from a GE. Furthermore, Farage loses in a head-to-head against all the other party leaders. Reform will have a spectacular night if they triple their MPs.
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Neither Reform or Lib Dems are English nationalists. Reform are British nationalists
The reason Reform gets boosted over everyone else is that the owners of the media prefer fascism to anything that can be confused with socialism or social democracy. This has been the case since the first fascists.
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And those of us outside of the States are gladdened to see that the American national founding myth still rings true in some corners of your beleaguered country. Solidarity. ✊
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Conversely, the reason a domesticated animal’s meat is light is because it lives in the equivalent of paradise: abundance of food, shelter, and complete lack of predators.
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Animals eating animals is not cruelty, particularly the way in which the human animal does it. After all, the reason a wild animal has dark meat is because of a lifetime of cortisol, ie, a lifetime suspended between fight and flight.
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I don’t know about that. Arguably, the reason that young women are tending left while young men are tending right is because social media algorithms feeds the two groups different content, to name only one. I think we’ll be picking through the enduring social change for decades to come.