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by gadders 2y ago
I think he cancelled that law because other nations weren't applying similar laws. Anti-corruption is OK, but you lose out if you're the only one complying.
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by gadders 2y ago
>> The US pressure was widely viewed in the UK as having an economic purpose disguised as security. I live in the UK. This may have been part of it, but to think that a communist dictatorship that (to pick a random example) harvests o
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by gadders 2y ago
The TL may be right - better to deliver the right product late rather than something broken on time. However - I would document everything. "TL - just make a our note of our conversation earlier. You want us to pause API approach A, wh
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by gadders 2y ago
Because people will stop buying products imported from those countries, and buy from their competitors instead.
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by gadders 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittances_to_India
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by gadders 2y ago
Makes sense. I hope we stop that and the disguised aid by offering preferential terms on work visas etc.
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by gadders 2y ago
I'd rather taxes were spent on people in the home nations, rather than ex-colonies or other 3rd world countries. I also don't think countries should be spending on a space programme if they are still accepting aid.
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by gadders 2y ago
You mean that didn't exist in India before the British? Or it is a British thing that we imported to India?
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by gadders 2y ago
Native Americans in the US also practised cannibalism. Evidence has been found in coprolites.
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by gadders 2y ago
It was also mostly already conquered by the Mughals.
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by gadders 2y ago
The Scots pretty much ran the British empire.
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by gadders 2y ago
>>the effects still linger on in their former colonies. The rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the English language, ending Sati etc. The empire wasn't all good, but was more benevolent than a lot of colonial empires. See the
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by gadders 2y ago
I think giving your enemy money is beyond stupid.
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by gadders 2y ago
The only reason Germany are that dependent is because they turned off their nuclear power plants. It's an unforced error caused by stupidity. If you don't think funding your enemy isn't a bad move i don't know what to t
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by gadders 2y ago
The tariffs are for different purposes. Canada's tariffs were to prop up their automotive industry. America's tariffs are to encourage nations to so more to stop importing illegal drugs into the US.
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by gadders 2y ago
I think it undermines their moral arguments when they are still buying gas off their "enemy". It's not optics, it's hypocrisy.
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by gadders 2y ago
And Germany and other European countries, despite all their tough talk, are spending more on Russian gas than they are on aid to Ukraine: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more... &q
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by gadders 2y ago
This site is living proof of that.
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by gadders 2y ago
I mean in theory you could maybe argue that free trade economically makes the the country as a whole better off, but it could still be worse off strategically (EG by not being able to produce weapons or the necessary components to defend i
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by gadders 2y ago
>>35% government hiring in the last 3 years. Keynsian economics 101. “The government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up." except in this case it's government non jobs rather than asking people
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by gadders 2y ago
Canada imposed tariffs on China last year [1]. Is that incompetence as well? [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/08/can...
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by gadders 2y ago
..which did more to boost the economy than the New Deal.
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by gadders 2y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn850jj44mjo
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by gadders 2y ago
Is this ancient lore I am unaware of?
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by gadders 2y ago
Do you think most gun violence is done by law-abiding hobbyists that collect guns, or gang members in the inner cities?
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by gadders 2y ago
Jan 6th had loads of FBI informants as well.
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by gadders 2y ago
Yep. See also Al Sharpton.
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by gadders 2y ago
It is quite funny on 4chan and similar places watching everyone accuse everyone else that protests in some way of being a fed. Which I guess is job done for the security services.
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by gadders 2y ago
"And the OBR's other working assumption" - Assumptions no more weight than forecasts.
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by gadders 2y ago
"Everyone". Everyone said there would be a run on the pound as well. Stay delusional.

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