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The Politics Thread

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by Wandering Yid, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Hey kids! Do you remember Milo Yiannopoulos? Well he's back, and he's trying to start a civil war on Gab!

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    However his revolution has got off to a shaky start as Gab users have reason to disagree with anything he says...

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  2. The RDBD

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    Milo, like many Jews involved in the political sphere, is going to find it very
    difficult to shake association with fellow Jew Karl Marx (whose political ideology
    when applied in the last century led to deaths by genocide + political dogma in
    the 10-100 million scale) .
     
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  3. humanbeingincroydon

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    Since he's posting on Gab, he has no problem with association with those who felt sending Jews to the gas chambers was a reasonable use of time and resources
     
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  4. The RDBD

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    Perhaps he has done a genocide "numbers game" regarding the Internet
    forums that allow morons to spout the ideology that has killed the least.
     
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  5. NSIS

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    What a smug prick!...
     
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  6. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    The same ideology that had that failed gameshow contestant and her brainless lemmings blurting all over Twitter the other day that ITV should have axed Love Island because The Jeremy Kyle Show had "only" one suicide attributed to it instead of Love Island's two

    Either that or Top Trumps has got really, really dark since I was a kid...
     
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  7. The RDBD

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    Or genocide counts are now measured (since I last looked) using the logarithmic scale.
     
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  8. humanbeingincroydon

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    But not using Arabic numbers, those are bad...
     
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  9. The RDBD

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    I have used the Hindu number system all my life, so perhaps you can explain the Arabic one to me ...
     
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  10. humanbeingincroydon

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    Arabic numerals are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The term often implies a number written in the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (where the position of a digit indicates the power of 10 to multiply it by), the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today. However, it can also refer to the digits themselves, such as in the statement "octal numbers are written using Arabic numerals."

    The Hindu-Arabic numeral system was developed by Indian mathematicians around AD 500 using quite different forms of the numerals. From India, the system was adopted by Arabic mathematicians in Baghdad and passed on to the Arabs farther west. The current form of the numerals developed in North Africa. It was in the North African city of Bejaia that the Italian scholar Fibonacci first encountered the numerals; his work was crucial in making them known throughout Europe. European trade, books and colonialism helped popularization the adoption of Arabic numerals around the world.

    The term Arabic numerals is ambiguous, it may also be intended to mean the numerals used by Arabs, in which case it generally refers to the Eastern Arabic numerals. Although the phrase "Arabic numeral" is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance in its entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, which helps to distinguish it from "Arabic numerals" as the Eastern Arabic numerals.
     
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  11. humanbeingincroydon

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  12. The RDBD

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    Hindu-Arabic numerals, set of 10 symbols—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0—that represent numbers in the decimal number system. They originated in India in the 6th or 7th century and were introduced to Europe through the writings of Middle Eastern mathematicians, especially al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi, about the 12th century.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindu-Arabic-numerals

    And the symbols used to represent the digits of the decimal system :

    https://www.britannica.com/science/numeral#ref797079

    It appears the Hindi symbols most closely resemble the modern symbols
    by image analysis.

    So I assume you are mocking the Twitter user for saying "Arabic numerals"
    when he should have said "Hindu numerals" .
     
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  13. humanbeingincroydon

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    No, but I am mocking somebody who made an odd choice of which hill to die on...
     
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  15. humanbeingincroydon

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    Terrible news for those playing tragedy Top Trumps: it's now come out that a further two suicides have been attributed to The Jeremy Kyle Show, so comparisons to Love Island's bodycount are now moot
    It's almost sad in a way to see Milo screaming "Revolution!" to an almost apathetic response form his 70,000+ Gab followers but it does serve to underline the point at how disposable social media commentators are, because back in 2016-17 Milo was the leading light of the alt-right with not only a large and vocal following dramatically raising his profile, but he also had the backing of Steve Bannon to keep him centre stage - but these days he's not only lost his crown to the likes of Ben Shapiro, but Paul Joseph Watson's replaced him as the English bloke pandering to them, and it has to be said that at least Milo was capable of engaging in an actual discussion while both Watson and Shapiro have repeatedly shown they fall to pieces as soon as they are outside their Twitter bubble
     
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  16. The RDBD

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    #metoo

    Specifically, mocking the person who thinks that comparing the numbers 1 and 2
    is like comparing the numbers 1-10 million and 10-100 million,

    But in that persons' defence, it could be attempted if they use a logarithmic scale.
     
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  17. humanbeingincroydon

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    Has anyone told the SFA their new coach looks uncannily like George Galloway?
     
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  18. SpursDisciple

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    I doubt very much Karl Marx would have recognised very much of what Russia did in the 20s and 30s as Marxist. Nor would he have recognised much of what happened in China in the 50s as Marxist.
     
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  19. humanbeingincroydon

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    Meanwhile, in Newcastle...

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  20. deedub93

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    He did talk about shaking up the political system.
     
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