pound takes a shit from the day’s frustrations, mps vote for june 30 extension, pound starts to pick up

eu agrees!!

Another day to ponder on careful what you wish for.

oh shot REJECTED after all

To me it's like, you want to look cocky and arrogant. Bring it. Let's see how it goes.

there was a funny article in the guardian that explained it as “basil fawlty”

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-towers-sitcom

lmao roger scruton

i once read his book about the aesthetics of music and it was mostly shit

fucking macron being a hardass

In the space of 25 years, the Australian state of Tasmania has gone from 'homosexuality is illegal' to 'gender is no longer required on birth certificates'. I'm proud of them.

nice, very sci-fi

did you ever read... wassername... leguin... left hand of darkness?

A good interview with pro-Leave trade-unionist Paul Embery

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/0...working-class/

it was a good read, thanks for posting.

he's very articulate. makes several good points. and it's unfortunate how he was character-assassinated with the antisemitic shit. this is a typical leftist tactic these days. every opponent a racist. (there are racists of course, but not everyone is one).

but i'd have to say to this guy... the past is the past. the saxons and the britons already merged. wessex and mercia and northumbria already merged. scotland and england already merged. and now you have the uk. that's how history moves and how it will keep moving. except this time hopefully without long knives and bombs and shit. the spice must flow.

now if that is too fast for everyone's tastes, i saw this morning in the guardian a reply to that sort of dualism. it's a bit wishy-washy and i don't espouse it because i don't make apologies for embracing the future, but it speaks more to the present:

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...harmful-cliche

Nonsense. Consider that it's the labour party who are constantly being called anti-Semitic right now.

If you're talking about a cultural drift then I tend to agree and I'm not particularly opposed to it but I see globalism (which is what we're really talking about here) as an essentially economic credo that has clearly inspired a backlash. Large swathes of people in countries at the forefront of globalism (who you'd therefore expect to be most on board) are rejecting those institutions (political, media, corporate) that they feel most embody it and finding alternatives. Maybe it'll all end up just a brief and ultimately impotent spasm of discontent but I can only see it growing now.

well yes, the idea of the patriotic homeland used to be a village, and fuck the neighbors, let’s kill them and take their cattle. unifications happen. over and over and over. everton vs liverpool or west ham vs spurs is fortunately just a sports rivalry now. let it stay there, no passport required.

and globalism, yes, tell it to the east india company, and queen victoria. it’s not so much a credo but a fact of history though. it began when we all left africa, it has never stopped. best achieved in a peaceful manner. you can now go from essex to east anglia without being murdered. or more relevantly these days, from belfast to dublin and back. isn’t irish butter great?

i like the idea that the eu is a peace project. then of course you might have war between the big blocks—eurasia, oceania, eastasia, ha ha haha. but we’ll have to see then.

not to get too hegelian or make mixed science metaphors, but for every action there is a reaction, and of course there will be spasms. humans are a mixture of cooperation and independence. the individual and the species always struggle for a balance. it’s part of the process, but integration is inevitable.

but yeah, maybe in the end you’re more oceania than eurasia haa haaa haaa. airstrip one.

ableist! i’m feeling oppressed! :D

former vw ceo winterkorn charged with fraud

yes, it’s about the diesel emissions

Yes and Ilhan Omar. symbol man stopped using critical thinking skills a few years back I guess.

oh, you guess. that just makes you a guesser. how critical!

but no, really.

chant me more chants, see if i get hypnotized

Fully Automated Luxury Communism!! Fully Automated Luxury Communism!!

holy shit (literally) notre dame is on fire

I never thought this (the fire) could ever happen. It was a bit part of the image of Paris (a nice one, plus lots of stuff, the great Victor Hugo).
Really odd...

Notre Dame is burning, which to me means that the Vatican decided finally to get rid of their 400 million volume collection of child pornography. They probably kept their pedo servers there too.

This is just awful.

Watching it live online.


Awful!

is it still going? holy fuck.

just got a live feed from reuters. damn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIXxTrAa9nc

NBC has visual and audio-feed

what's the... will it collapse? what's going on???

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fucking shit i had not realized the...

daaaaaaamn

the French authorities expect the entire wooden interior to burn. it is already up in flames. They have tried to remove artworks, but so much will be destroyed...

i never went in, and having seen only the stone exterior from the side of the towers, i never imagined it could burn like this... fuuuuccccc

oh thanks, finally an explanation

the sun and the reuters feed looked the same, just enviro-noise

BBC live-feed:

The deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, says the cathedral has suffered “colossal damages”, while a cathedral spokesman says the entire wooden interior is burning and likely to be destroyed.

i finally got this one

https://www.france24.com/en/live

it’s pretty good

This is a perfect way to destroy the Vatican's collected child porn library, and all records of pedo/rapist priests, monks, nuns, and fucking POPES.

es un edificio que le pertenece a francia...

built by Louis XV, took 100 years. Nearly destroyed in french revolution where it was renamed after the Cult of Enlightenment. Napoleon gave it back to the Church (to suck their fetid balls). It was essentially a ruin until Hunchback of Notre Dame was published by Victor Hugo. Only then did Parisians seek to rebuild and restore the cathedral.

at least the people who were raped by priests and nuns and monks working at Notre Dame for the past 800 years can rejoice huh?

#burnitalldown

If the cathedral of Notre Dame is burning it is because your omnipotent god wants it to.