Spendrill

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Forbidden raspberries.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

If you look at the dietary laws, the injunctions to monotheism, and the laws concerning sexuality and marriage it suggests that the prime concern was with providing the numbers to outcompete other nations, and I am using the word in its original meaning of an alliance of closely related tribes or clans. Israelite Nation, who are the people we have to thank for the Abrahamic religions, could see that it was a pure numbers game. If you could prevent food poisoning and other biological hazards and could also provide an extensive system of laws to adjudicate disputes without the need for violence within the tribes, then you could get everyone faced the same way. You had a growing population so that once the warriors killed the neighbours you could then quickly settle and colonise with the civilian contingent who could then produce more supplies for ever bigger military campaigns.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Edit: Almost complete list here.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

https://archive.is/H6lVf

Site has got a shitty cookie control page that has no means of saving your decisions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

"I'd like to give them some fucking stimulus."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you want to insure yourself against capital flight go for a Land Value Tax. Let 'em shove a hectare of land in their luggage.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (12 children)

OK so it's time to say the quiet part out loud: the reason that governments have so far held off on taxing billionaires at 1% or 2% is the fear that they might spend 2% or 3% against those governments in revenge.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

General Zod: I like the globe...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

What ever happened to him?

Well, he pulled it on Rorschach, and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft.

 

Seriously, did they just go down the Westminster Jobcentre?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

What happens when a Tory learns about empathy?

Cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Only way I can imagine Suella chasing a trans voter is with a cricket bat.

 

This gave me a big belly laugh:

Another Conservative said: “The answer is we need to find a way to appeal to voters we lost to all parties. I don’t know how you do that on policy, but Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious. But I don’t know if any of the candidates we have at the moment can do that.”

 

Turns out they're capitalists too...

 

To them it's hilarious that all of our suffering was caused by someone else praying for it.

 

A former Conservative MP has asked to be removed from an award-winning academic's research presented in a TEDx Talk that connects her to a slave-owning ancestor

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