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Do you approve of the United Kingdom?

I approve of the United Kingdom
168
63%
I disapprove of the United Kingdom
38
14%
I have neutral opinions on the United Kingdom
23
9%
I disapprove of their recent actions, but not their government
8
3%
I approve of their recent actions, but not their government
11
4%
I think Britain is arrogant, but regardless I like them.
20
7%
 
Total votes : 268

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Postby Normandy and Picardy » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:00 am

Chucky Arla wrote:They have some good aspects but I struggle to look past the better part of a century they spent fucking over my home.


Yes, at times our history hasn't been the greatest and if you look it has had dark moments but here we are today, still sort of going strong, stillbpart of the international community and still a good old constitutional parliamentary monarchy.
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Postby Western-Ukraine » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:06 am

Edgy Opinions wrote:
Western-Ukraine wrote:So you want to see Britain descend to some perverted leftist morality? People then had some respect for stuff, they had some manners and they were more moral than today.

I want full communism worldwide, hun.

I see. Some people just are obsessed with communism and the shit.
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The Nihilistic view
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Postby The Nihilistic view » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:07 am

Edgy Opinions wrote:
Western-Ukraine wrote:Sadly the best era of Britain, the Victorianian era is over and the morality and culture is degrading

Bourgeois morality needs to die you like it or not, and we are going to destroy what tries to destroy us. Bourgeois culture is inherently degrading.


*Yawns*
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Postby Edgy Opinions » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:11 am

The Nihilistic view wrote:
Edgy Opinions wrote:Bourgeois morality needs to die you like it or not, and we are going to destroy what tries to destroy us. Bourgeois culture is inherently degrading.

*Yawns*

No need to be surly.

Morality is relative and individual. It shouldn't dictate people's lives. Current bourgeois culture depends on power hierarchies and a system that eats itself. Said morality allied to culture creates hell for those who are most out of place in the whole logic of things, and takes away their humanity at times.

What else do you think a person advocating for the return to the 19th century would be asking for?
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Postby Western-Ukraine » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:14 am

Edgy Opinions wrote:
The Nihilistic view wrote:*Yawns*

No need to be surly.

Morality is relative and individual. It shouldn't dictate people's lives. Current bourgeois culture depends on power hierarchies and a system that eats itself. Said morality allied to culture creates hell for those who are most out of place in the whole logic of things, and takes away their humanity at times.

What else do you think a person advocating for the return to the 19th century would be asking for?

Do you really think modern morality is so tolerant for us Bourgeois? Those who suffer because of the morality of today are the rich, the conservative. The Victorian era is more friendly to me.
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Postby Imperializt Russia » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:15 am

Western-Ukraine wrote:
Edgy Opinions wrote:No need to be surly.

Morality is relative and individual. It shouldn't dictate people's lives. Current bourgeois culture depends on power hierarchies and a system that eats itself. Said morality allied to culture creates hell for those who are most out of place in the whole logic of things, and takes away their humanity at times.

What else do you think a person advocating for the return to the 19th century would be asking for?

Do you really think modern morality is so tolerant for us Bourgeois? Those who suffer because of the morality of today are the rich, the conservative. The Victorian era is more friendly to me.

This has a lot to do with the fact that the rich and the conservative are shit.
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Postby Western-Ukraine » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:19 am

Imperializt Russia wrote:
Western-Ukraine wrote:Do you really think modern morality is so tolerant for us Bourgeois? Those who suffer because of the morality of today are the rich, the conservative. The Victorian era is more friendly to me.

This has a lot to do with the fact that the rich and the conservative are shit.

So you think people who make their fortune with hard work and a good vision are just shit? A new rich person is obviously more diligent and worthy than a lazy labourer.
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Postby The Nihilistic view » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:19 am

Edgy Opinions wrote:
The Nihilistic view wrote:*Yawns*

No need to be surly.

Morality is relative and individual. It shouldn't dictate people's lives. Current bourgeois culture depends on power hierarchies and a system that eats itself. Said morality allied to culture creates hell for those who are most out of place in the whole logic of things, and takes away their humanity at times.

What else do you think a person advocating for the return to the 19th century would be asking for?


*Yawn*
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Postby Gabralia » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:21 am

I'm just a neutral.

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Postby Nazi Flower Power » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:26 am

Old Tyrannia wrote:
Glasgia wrote:Costa, you're better than that - Since when has "Nope." been an acceptable way to refute a point?

I advanced counter-arguments for every one of Socialist Tera's points a few pages back. No one has attempted to counter my counter-arguments yet.
Norfolk and Suffolk wrote:I think the UK is far too diverse of an island to be one nation.

China has managed to be one nation for hundreds of years, and yet it is far larger and more culturally diverse than Great Britain.


China's borders have changed over the years, they have had civil wars in the past, and they have ongoing secessionist movements now. Their size and diversity cause a lot of trouble.
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Postby Imperializt Russia » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:32 am

Western-Ukraine wrote:
Imperializt Russia wrote:This has a lot to do with the fact that the rich and the conservative are shit.

So you think people who make their fortune with hard work and a good vision are just shit? A new rich person is obviously more diligent and worthy than a lazy labourer.

You've proved my point with your idle classism.
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Postby Hungariaa » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:33 am

I think most of the Anti-UK arguments come from this lady. :lol2:

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Postby Kenora County » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:34 am

Hungariaa wrote:I think most of the Anti-UK arguments come from this lady. :lol2:

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The two arch rivals.


God, I didn't know Davey was that pale...I also didn't know Cristina was that tanned...
"Nowadays everybody's got to go to shrinks and counselors, and go on Sally Jesse Raphael and talk about their problems. Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong, silent type? That was an American. He wasn't in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do. See, what they didn't know is once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings, that they wouldn't be able to shut him up. And then it's dysfunction this and dysfunction that and dysfunction vaffanculo!"

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Postby H-Alba » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:35 am

I approve of the United Kingdom very much. So much so, I serve my Queen and Country in it's army.
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Postby Western-Ukraine » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:36 am

Imperializt Russia wrote:
Western-Ukraine wrote:So you think people who make their fortune with hard work and a good vision are just shit? A new rich person is obviously more diligent and worthy than a lazy labourer.

You've proved my point with your idle classism.

I can be classist without being shit. I just think that I deserve what I have because of my hard work.
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Postby Hungariaa » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:37 am

Kenora County wrote:
Hungariaa wrote:I think most of the Anti-UK arguments come from this lady. :lol2:

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God, I didn't know Davey was that pale...I also didn't know Cristina was that tanned...


Yeahh, David is quite pale.. Cristina doesn't look all that bad to be honest. :p (She is 61)
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Postby The Nihilistic view » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:37 am

Hungariaa wrote:I think most of the Anti-UK arguments come from this lady. :lol2:

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Ew hideous, take that screeching woman out of my sight.
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Postby Old Tyrannia » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:38 am

Nazi Flower Power wrote:
Old Tyrannia wrote:I advanced counter-arguments for every one of Socialist Tera's points a few pages back. No one has attempted to counter my counter-arguments yet.

China has managed to be one nation for hundreds of years, and yet it is far larger and more culturally diverse than Great Britain.


China's borders have changed over the years, they have had civil wars in the past, and they have ongoing secessionist movements now. Their size and diversity cause a lot of trouble.

I never said China was without its problems with ethnic tensions, but it has survived for a very long time as a political and cultural entity despite its diversity. The argument that diversity makes it impossible for a nation to survive as one unit is nonsense. The Roman Empire survived for 1,480 years despite its multi-ethnic, multicultural make-up for much of that time. Italy, Germany and Spain are all made up of smaller formerly sovereign or semi-sovereign states with distinct cultures and identities. Norfolk and Suffolk seems to think that cultural diversity makes it impossible for a nation to survive and thrive, a notion which I reject categorically.
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Postby Imperializt Russia » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:39 am

Western-Ukraine wrote:
Imperializt Russia wrote:You've proved my point with your idle classism.

I can be classist without being shit. I just think that I deserve what I have because of my hard work.

So why don't hard-working members of the lower classes deserve an equal quantity?
I called "you" (technically, your opinions, generalised to the class of society you claim to belong) "shit", because many wealthy persons and members of the upper classes did not get to that position through "hard work". Much of their wealth comes from inheritances. Which makes it incredibly galling when they demonise what they perceive as a "something for nothing" culture in the UK benefits system - when their own wealth is "something for nothing". They received it through being born. That is the definition of "something for nothing".

Hard-working is an appallingly shit buzzword, by the way.
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Postby Kenora County » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:39 am

Hungariaa wrote:
Kenora County wrote:
God, I didn't know Davey was that pale...I also didn't know Cristina was that tanned...


Yeahh, David is quite pale.. Cristina doesn't look all that bad to be honest. :p (She is 61)


She does look better than my grandma who's about her age, even though I disagree with her on the Falklands issue...
"Nowadays everybody's got to go to shrinks and counselors, and go on Sally Jesse Raphael and talk about their problems. Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong, silent type? That was an American. He wasn't in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do. See, what they didn't know is once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings, that they wouldn't be able to shut him up. And then it's dysfunction this and dysfunction that and dysfunction vaffanculo!"

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Postby Calimera II » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:41 am

Hungariaa wrote:I think most of the Anti-UK arguments come from this lady. :lol2:

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The two arch rivals.


It's la Criiiiiiis! And.... Cameron.

The Nihilistic view wrote:
Hungariaa wrote:I think most of the Anti-UK arguments come from this lady. :lol2:

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The two arch rivals.


Ew hideous, take that screeching woman out of my sight.

She is ~60 years old, and to be fair, she doesn't look that old at all.
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Postby Archegnum » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:42 am

Well, I'm British, so I definitely approve of the UK :)

Although not Milliband. No way. And not much of UKIP either - to xenophobic for my tastes.
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Postby Imperializt Russia » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:43 am

Calimera II wrote:
The Nihilistic view wrote:
Ew hideous, take that screeching woman out of my sight.

She is ~60 years old, and to be fair, she doesn't look that old at all.

I don't believe he made any comment of, or even alluding to, her age.

More a caricature of how we in Britain see Argentinian foreign policy.
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Postby Kenora County » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:44 am

Calimera II wrote:She is ~60 years old, and to be fair, she doesn't look that old at all.


True, she looks like a woman in her late 40's
"Nowadays everybody's got to go to shrinks and counselors, and go on Sally Jesse Raphael and talk about their problems. Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong, silent type? That was an American. He wasn't in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do. See, what they didn't know is once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings, that they wouldn't be able to shut him up. And then it's dysfunction this and dysfunction that and dysfunction vaffanculo!"

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Postby Western-Ukraine » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:45 am

Imperializt Russia wrote:
Western-Ukraine wrote:I can be classist without being shit. I just think that I deserve what I have because of my hard work.

So why don't hard-working members of the lower classes deserve an equal quantity?
I called "you" (technically, your opinions, generalised to the class of society you claim to belong) "shit", because many wealthy persons and members of the upper classes did not get to that position through "hard work". Much of their wealth comes from inheritances. Which makes it incredibly galling when they demonise what they perceive as a "something for nothing" culture in the UK benefits system - when their own wealth is "something for nothing". They received it through being born. That is the definition of "something for nothing".

Hard-working is an appallingly shit buzzword, by the way.

The lower classes don't deserve equal quantity because they don't have the responsibility and the ambition that for example the businessmen need to succeed. They could go for business if they wanted to. It's about choice.
The difference with something for nothing system and inheritance is the fact that when the government "helps" the lower class they take from others while in inheritance money is given out of your free will.
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