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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    Never heard of them, Googled it and aka FOTL

    Not sure he whO Shall not be named is the singing holding hands type

    It’s great that you are though <cheers>
     
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  2. LincolnSaint

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    They piss me off even more than Sports Republic. I could rant for an entire thread on the whole FOTL/Sov Cit ideology. It gives me the absolute rage
     
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  3. Archers Road

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    They sound like a 1970s folk rock group?
     
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  4. Schrodinger's Cat

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    I can't imagine anything more annoying than some clown trying to use either bit of pseudo-legal bullshit as a reason why someone is violating their "rights" to ignore any legislation that they don't like. Half my family are or have been police officers and some of the stories I've heard just fill me with admiration that they didn't take said Sovereign citizen round the back of the police station for some education. That's probably why I was not really suited to the police, or at least one of the many reasons :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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  5. Osvaldorama

    Osvaldorama Well-Known Member

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    You guys are such snowflakes, honestly

    People are allowed different opinions. I have to read your terrible left wing takes and I don’t complain half as much as you lot.

    I assure you that I think your views are just as ridiculous as you find mine. It’s just I try and discuss politics whereas you guys always try to play the poster instead of the post.
     
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  6. Ian Thumwood

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    The big issue for me at the moment within politics is that traditional positions have become polarised to the extent that the Right have lost their credibility. It is as if the Culture War element has robbed the Right of being able to present a position from a sane and understandable view point. There no longer seem to be politicians on the Right you can respect even if you do not agree with them

    I read an article from a Left Wing website this week which made a salient comment that the debate between Left and Right no longer relates to class. The working class no longer have on party that represents them as Labour has moved too far towards cosying up to business. This is what Reform have exploited though their motives are not honourable as they want to manipulate the working class towards deregulation so as to further benefit business. Reform are cynical in exploiting the workers.
     
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  7. LincolnSaint

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    For me it's the bullshit they peddle to the genuinely vulnerable, especially around financial stuff. Choose to believe you can opt out of laws all you want but charging desperate people £20 for a letter template which apparently allows you to never pay council tax ever again is ****ing disgusting. Absolutely pricks
     
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  8. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Bit of a weird flex, coming from a fat bloke working for a really fat bloke. But here we are.
     
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    You literally called me out on things which I never even said in a conversation I wasn’t in. You are the absolute king of talking about the poster and not the post.
     
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    Recruitment crisis? I wonder why....

     
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  12. Archers Road

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    Yeah, don’t think the Old Bill do that anymore tbh <laugh>

    Is that a good or a bad thing? You decide… I could not do their job btw.
     
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  13. Schrodinger's Cat

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    It was half in jest Archers.
    The old joke about how many coppers does it take to break an egg? None, it fell down the stairs was always only half funny, depending on whether you were the egg or not.
     
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  14. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Good to see that Musk and Trump Jnr retweeted this, which has been shown to be fake and Russian propaganda, generated in one of their bot farms via the Matryoshka network.

    Now, being fair, with Twitter now being a free-for-all bin fire these days, you can see if you're an over-excited manchild, you might make a genuine mistake.

    But no. Despite all this, he hasn't bothered deleting his retweet to his 200m gullible followers, because the truth doesn't matter any more.

     
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    I honestly love how upset this audit is making everyone.

    The corrupt politicians and legacy media are making themselves look so stupid <laugh>
     
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    It is a good thing the damn legacy media isn’t ruining news by fact-checking things anymore now Emperor Musk is President!
     
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    I wrote this before Os’s post appeared. Wow, I was accurate <laugh>
     
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  19. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Os, I'm not upset by the audit. Some of it, if it were being done properly, is absolutely needed.

    I'm concerned that people are being fed lies, and when corrected aren't even interested or concerned enough about the truth to bother acknowledging or correcting the lie. Now that's one thing when it happens here, another thing entirely when it's someone who has a huge amount of influence.

    Putin must be pissing himself laughing.

    And what's more, if you give the first **** about the truth, accuracy etc it really should concern you - I mean you bang on enough, usually in a misinformed manner, about the legacy media and it being influenced by x and y, and it's "lies" - but seem entirely unbothered that people like Musk and Trump are doing it constantly and openly. So which one is it?
     
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