The General Political Thread

[HaroldW]

I, for one, hope that India bloodies Pakistan once again

Was getting caught part of their plan?

In other news: https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-seal-who-outed-nathan-phillips-military-record-in-wake-of-covington-incident-claims-youtube-banned-him-in-retaliation

[William]

The Onion is a gem.

[StevenChilton]

Excellent news. Hopefully the Dutch will take one for the team.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/isis-bride-shamima-begums-jihadi-husband-yago-riedijk-says-he-wants-them-to-return-to-netherlands-to-a4081236.html

[UniversitasMetal]

I thought the husband was dead lol wtf.

[HaroldW]

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/28/young-muslims-britain-radical-progressive

I love UK journalism

[StevenChilton]

Lol, that piece.

Muslims of my generation, growing up in the 70s and 80s, were inspired by radical ideas derived from secular humanism.

My brain hurts after reading that.

[Duuring]

So the same Brexit deal has just been put forward with the EU and the UK again claiming different things and all of this is being presented as some sort of change. Terrific. Can the UK please vote to accept the same deal they voted down months ago and fuck off now?

[Furrnox]

But now we got our bordaaaaaass with Ireland guaranteed.

[Duuring]

Brexit means what the fuck we don't know fuck everything

[StevenChilton]

Even if there's a delay we're still leaving. Good luck without us.

[Duuring]

Even if there are good reasons to leave the EU, it took you guys two years to achieve absolutely nothing. This is only the departure deal, let alone the agreement on the future relationship. There is no majority support for any of the alternatives to membership.

[Ted]

Even if there's a delay we're still leaving. Good luck without us.

What exactly are you trying to demonstrate with that diagram?

[StevenChilton]

That the EU tech industry is minuscule compared to international rivals, has been totally fucked over by successive bouts of EU policy (the latest being GDPR), and will be even smaller once Britain leaves (that graph also includes Russia's Yandex). The EU is poorly prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and hasn't even learned any of the lessons as to why it's so far behind.

[Duuring]

once Britain leaves

If.

[MrTiki]

I genuinely don't understand your point with the graph. Do you think that those companies only operate in the country/continent they originate from? Besides that, the graph just shows growth in Asia at the cost of the US market.
Not that any of that will change post-Brexit anyway, they'll still need to comply with EU regulations and there are still cheaper places to operate from than the UK.

But obviously muh oppressive EU overlords stop me accessing Google, I'll be so grateful to leave the EU and have more personal data stripped.