mpk

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[–] mpk@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

If you want more crazy, that political party is actually a limited company in which the leader is also the majority shareholder and the bylaws permit him to fire and appoint a majority of directors at will. I’m not sold on whether all those candidates were actually fake, but journalists from more credible outlets than Byline Times are no doubt working on physically tracking down every one off these candidates as we speak to verify their existence or otherwise.

[–] mpk@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I vaguely remember his original car crash on Wogan after he went loopy and it was barely veiled antisemitism even then - lizard people and the like

[–] mpk@awful.systems 0 points 5 months ago (9 children)

(without reading article) The answer presumably boils down to "the Tories".

[–] mpk@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's just in European. it's an entirely reasonable assumption that people in this continent with even a passing interest in the world will know what an NGO is (that's not even European-specific) as well as what the GDPR is. Your argument suggests that people from the US, for instance, should be forbidden from talking about IRAs and the IRS and their 401(k)s and the DMV because those terms mean very little to nothing over here.

[–] mpk@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Pedants being wrong on the Internet is exactly why I have an OED subscription. :) "Beg the question" in the sense of "to assume without proof" doesn't have a supporting quote newer than 1870, which suggests to me that... yeah, it can be considered obsolete.

[–] mpk@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

Romania is putting Andrew Tate on trial. Elmo probably wouldn't dare show his face there.

[–] mpk@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's really hard not to draw parallels between Musk's attitude to protesters and the attitude so many white South Africans had to protesting black (and progressive white) people in the 70s and 80s -- just replace "left-wing" with "communist" and you're there. Maybe he grew up seeing the cops beating the shit out of people for protesting on the TV news so often that he thinks that's the norm.

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