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  • Look rather than dunk on you, I'm going to recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast, because it gives a fair overview of what the liberal revolutions were about, why socialism grew out of that moment, and how there came to be this irreconciliable beef between liberalism and socialism. The whole thing is great, but 1848 is the real crisis point if all you care about is the schism.

  • Do you know what the word 'liberal' actually means

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  • Ok I'm not sure why but I'm pml over here, so well done for that

  • I'm blaming Germany, actually. Keep up.

  • It's because the USSR used to outsource a lot of their dirtiest industry to Poland, and now the EU do it

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  • I would honestly recommend moving somewhere that federates with both lib and tankie servers because the tone/level of debate otherwise is pretty grim imho

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  • Or, more realistically:

    • 3 vote to drive off the cliff
    • 2 vote for ice-cream
    • 4 vote to drive off the cliff at a slightly reduced speed, having been assured that they might get to look at a picture of some ice-cream, but only after democracy has been saved
  • And letting the greater evil in at the local level???!!!!1?!! Just admit you love Putin smdh smhmh

  • What kind of sole-less monster would do this

  • Lmao at all the nerds in here like "excuse me sir, this meme is computalogically incorrect"

  • I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory, right?

    But, just in case: it's basically impossible to save for a deposit when your income is getting gobbled up by rent. If you are lucky enough that a family member can help you out with the deposit, then not only do your monthly outgoings go down (mortgage payments + taxes, maintenance costs etc are always going to be less than rent in an equivalent abode), but most of that money is going directly into your property i.e. it's still yours.

    So, obviously, anyone would choose owning over renting, apart from in some very specific circumstances. It's not that people are too stupid to come up with the genius idea of buying a house. You're flushing money down the toilet every time you pay a rent cheque, and everyone knows this. But that constant haemorrhaging of money is what makes renting a trap.

    P.S. I can be more condescending than this if you still aren't getting it

  • Weren't the episodes like two hours long? I remember it feeling like half an hour's worth of story spread way waaay too thin. Maybe it just seemed that way compared to Moffat era Who though...

  • Oh man I tried to watch The Ministry of Time when it aired in Spain and it is sooooooo slow moving!

  • Have you ever heard of a little thing called 'the rent trap'

  • It was a siege though, just as the siege of Gaza is a siege

  • The siege of Ceuta lasted for more than thirty years.

  • Yeah tbf the siege has only been going on for twenty years

  • I myself have often wondered this — it's hard to believe the racket that galleries have going