Forum: The Real World
07-22-2018, 03:31 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 33,844
Re: Brexit
It was always going to be a clusterfuck. The brexiteers used the notion of British exceptionalism to convince the people they could somehow be better off without the EU. No surprise the EU is not...
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Forum: The Real World
04-01-2018, 12:39 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,169
Re: The Irish Abortion Question
I can think of another obsolete amendment that needs abolishing :v:
But this is great progress for Ireland, first the gay marriage referendum and now this. I'm glad to see my old home taking such...
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Forum: Legion Lounge
12-23-2017, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 140
Views: 33,422
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Forum: The Real World
12-15-2017, 06:22 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,021
Re: net neutrality
83% of the US population is wrong? It's possible, it'd certainly be an awfully big coincidence. Even if this amount of people have rejected all reason, shouldn't they still be heard in a democracy?...
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Forum: The Real World
12-15-2017, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,021
Re: net neutrality
It would be beneficial for you to diversify sources of information and news in general. Easy to do with a free internet, but perhaps you don't know what you got till it's gone
:v:
It might...
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Forum: The Real World
11-06-2017, 01:30 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,094
Re: Another day another attack
https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1820163660?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing
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Forum: Legion Lounge
10-13-2017, 10:18 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,549
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Forum: The Real World
10-04-2017, 02:07 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 4,021
Re: The worst mass shooting in US history
The second amendment came into effect in 1791, a few years after the war of independence ended. Since then, a lot has changed. The US is the oldest democracy in its current form, which while it has...
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Forum: The Real World
09-07-2017, 02:56 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,084
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Forum: The Real World
08-20-2017, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
I don't think anyone would seriously consider bombing a hiking path, they generally want to maximize victims and terror.
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Forum: The Real World
08-20-2017, 05:49 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
Lol if Poland is so great why have 1/3 of the population emigrated? Poles seem to be doing okay on their own when it comes to ruining their country. Speaking as someone of Polish ancestry living...
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Forum: The Real World
08-20-2017, 04:02 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
https://youtu.be/40hhc0cjYyg
Polish minister says so, so it must be true. Really Poland should receive more EU funding for education. It would be a good investment if it can prevent them from...
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Forum: The Real World
08-20-2017, 12:37 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,823
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Forum: The Real World
08-19-2017, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
Because people are scared and filthy politicians know they can manipulate them with their populist rhetoric. They build these walls and send masses of police to their borders, drive away the refugees...
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Forum: The Real World
08-19-2017, 05:31 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
The above is false and easily debunked if you talk to any Swede who knows their own country or if you travel there yourself. Don't believe everything you read
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Forum: The Real World
08-19-2017, 02:52 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
Sweden isn't, Poland is objectively not. Well maybe all the Polish car thieves are in Germany :v:
Stop reading that trash, none of it is true. I live in Europe and I can tell you first hand it's...
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Forum: The Real World
08-19-2017, 01:56 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
That was the point, but I felt that seeing these people as traumatised veterans of war zones may help to humanise them in the eyes of those who would scapegoat refugees as islamists, criminals and...
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Forum: The Real World
08-18-2017, 09:16 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
The opposite is true, migrants are less likely to commit crime than residents. If you want to get the truth though, you're going to have to read sources other than rags and fascist propaganda, like...
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Forum: The Real World
08-18-2017, 02:21 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
No. International law may not mean much in America these days but here in Europe we still try to uphold it. They are in violation of Schengen, UDHR and the 1951 convention on the status of refugees....
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Forum: The Real World
08-18-2017, 10:31 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
On the contrary. I am not familiar with any other religious attacks in Barcelona. Unless you consider Franco or the Republicans particularly religious. I guess the Spanish Inquisition was, and before...
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Forum: The Real World
08-18-2017, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,381
Re: Barcelona Spain attacks
Polands gov is walking a very fine line, not just with their refugee stance but with the EU at large and their own political system. Personally I find their stance disgusting as do most Polish people...
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Forum: The Real World
08-16-2017, 12:43 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,616
Re: Gun control
Well I love standup, having lived in Melbourne for a few years.
Jim Jeffries on Gun Control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0
I'm not going to bother debating the issue. Tried it on...
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Forum: The Real World
08-15-2017, 12:20 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,451
Re: Nuclear War maybe
No way is NK shooting. They've been making empty threats for decades. Only difference now is that Trump is making empty threats back.
Contrary to popular belief, Kim is not crazy, just trying to...
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Forum: The Real World
08-05-2017, 12:13 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,607
Re: Ex Machina: thought experiment
Generally my first thought in the morning is how much more sleep can I feasibly squeeze in before work.
Who am I? The sum of my parts. Stardust and shit. Generally at least 1% shit but usually...
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Forum: Contests
07-16-2017, 02:17 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,530
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