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[–] 126 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh man, it gets even better! From the article:

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What are they talking about that's just what he looks like

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Geez, have some compassion for the guy. He’s nowhere near that thin.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is this what having a strong social safety net looks like where you don't risk losing your job and being homeless and destitute for taking a moral stand?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago*

    No. The "benefits system" or "safety net" or whatever is really quite basic and not fit for supporting a modern family, contrary to what the Daily Fail would have people believe. Losing a job is devastating financially and emotionally, as it would be elsewhere. The main positive is healthcare is still free regardless of whether you're drawing a giro or £250k a year.

    It still takes massive balls to stand together like that and fuck him off. Good effort.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    You don't risk losing your job because your boss isn't an immoral shill for some capitalist corporation, so he's actually in on the protest and thus won't fire you.

    Solidarity (and also labour laws Europe has less fire at will policies)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's likely more down to social cohesion. Smaller villages all know each other (or at least passingly aware). They also don't have a huge pool of workers to draw upon.

    If all your staff agree it's an issue, then finding replacement staff won't be trivial. Also, a large chunk of your customer base likely agrees. Finally, a small pub is unlikely to be run by a big shot CEO. They will have a lot more empathy than the average middle manager.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    And the American Secret Service knocking on people’s doors and asking about their Facebook profiles

    Fuck that entirely

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Then they put coke on the plate of drinks and arrest you for having illegal drugs.

    Best thing is always just to ignore them until they go away. Never answer the door.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The jurisdiction of there being more of them than there are of you, and probably some form of restraints.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Residents in Charlbury and the tiny hamlet of Dean, where the manor house is situated, quickly grew weary of Vance and his entourage of vehicles and Secret Service agents.

    Wow, overzealous much? No one wants to kill Vance, what's the point!? 😂 He's like wasps or mosquitoes, people just want him to go away...

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    Charlbury couches can breathe a sigh of relief

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The only way JD belongs in a pub, is if his head is mounted on a wall as a conversation piece. "...so we rounded up the bastards, and introduced them to French cutlery..."

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wonder how often his food gets the same treatment as a that scene in "Waiting"

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    I imagine any of these assholes can't eat out anywhere. It's probably why they eat so much fast food from drive throughs.

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    James Donald Bowman is the epitome of a bellend and an insult to humanity.

    And I will deadname him in every thread till the day he dies.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (35 children)

    So much for the tolerant left.

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Tolerance requires rejecting intolerant people.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Being a dipshit is not a protected class.

    It's wrong to turn people away based on things they can't change. Race, gender, sexuality

    It's completely okay to turn someone away for their shit beliefs. I will tolerate you being a shit person. I will not be nice to you.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Don’t be intolerant of our intolerance

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I’m not a tolerant person I fucking hate everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'm not a tolerant person either. I'm intolerant of intolerance. I will fight for tolerance of marginalized individuals but I won't stand for marginalizing anybody... Except those who marginalize people for who they are.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    maybe don’t act like a little bitch and then whine when people call you on it

    why should we continue treating this trash with respect and decency?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Don't expect a good faith argument from a propaganda shill. Just saying. Look at his profile.

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    How do you feel about Putin having an arrest warrant out for him by the ICC for his warcrimes for his illegal war of aggression in Ukraine and the countless crimes against humanity like trafficking Ukrainian children?

    Or perhaps you can't discuss it, for fear of accidentally falling out of a window? ;>

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    I think what Russia is doing to Ukraine is not only horrible but it’s also straight up war crimes.

    I think they should start up the courthouses in Nuremberg to handle both Russia’s and Israel’s crimes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    And Putin, personally?

    Is he "just as bad as other world leaders", or perhaps we can admit Zelensky is nowhere near the immorality and criminality of Putler. Or, would you disagree?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    I think Putin is very good looking for a war criminal.

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    I’m trying to figure out what you’re trying to prove and why I should care.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wrong.

    I pointed out, to another person, that they will never get a good faith answer from you. You interjected with a childish "yeah, look at his profile". Seriously though, you couldn't come up with something that my 4-year old niece couldn't; repeating something in a childish tone?

    Eugh.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I was agreeing with you how can you tell tone from text?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    From any text? I can't. What I can do is tell tone from context and what is said. I've seen you around a long time, but you're still acting like it's your first day on the internet?

    See before; "see before; bad faith".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The vice president had reportedly attempted to dine at The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, an early 16th-century countryside pub with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, a prestigious award from the Michelin Guide that highlights restaurants offering excellent food at moderate prices.

    “It’s been the talk of the village-it’s the most exciting thing that’s happened here for a very long time,” one local told British tabloid The Sun of Harris’s visit to the venue, where a steak will set diners back $98.

    Uh...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you look at the image of the menu in the article, most of the stuff costs far less than that. It's a bit deceptive to mention it the way they did.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean... it's sirloin. Not Wagyu premium beef from the royal herd, adorned with gold leaf and truffle butter... It's just cow.

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