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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1h

Someone should tell him that! And he’s the most powerful man on Earth what he thinks does actually matter quite a bit

Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1h

I’m to clear arguing the precise opposite of what the people you’re subtweeting think - they’re not trolling him they’re desperately trying to mollify him

Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not suggesting the decision not to give it to him came more than a second after he started campaigning for it.

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1h

That’s not how it works it’s a lifetime achievement award the EU didn’t do anything particularly in 2012. And I’m not suggesting they thought about giving it to him for more than a millisecond but you do have to deal with what he might do when you don’t give it to him

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 2h

(i don’t think it’s spite or moral seriousness I think they decided they couldn’t give it to him and then picked a Venezuelan right winger as the plausible candidate who he’d *least* be able to pick a fight or blow up the peace deal in revenge over. But that’s diplomacy not trolling)

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah it’s supposed to be like a court ruling, Islamic doctrine being rather more legalistic than most religions

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 2h

The only fatwa anyone western non-Muslim’s heard of came from Ayatollah Khomeini, so less Pope Francis more Javier Milei

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 16h

Look it’s only 10 minutes at this rate it’ll only be 18-0 😇

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 16h

Teehee #ENGvWAL

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 17h

My family aren’t really the kind of Sikh that go in for the little swords but cannot emphasise enough that even the ones that have them don’t go round pointing them at people

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 18h

There’s references to fuck as in sex back to 1310 and in 1528 a monk wrote “the d’ fucking abbot” but he might have meant a non-celibate one (also clearly he thought “damn” needed censoring much more. So maybe tbf bigthink.com/the-past/his...

A very short history of the F-word

The first use of the F-word comes from a monk in 1528. It's just one part of the weird, mysterious history of this infamous four-letter word.

bigthink.com

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 18h

It is funny what throws you off though. Obviously on some level I accept that dialogue in wolf hall is not in accurate Tudor English but Cromwell using “fucking” in the metaphorical expletive sense just sounds inherently modern to an immersion-breaking extent

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 18h

Hell, it for obvious reasons doesn’t matter much but *spoken* English until arguably the 1400s would now be incomprehensible

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 19h

All I’d say is English GCSE results are vastly higher than they were in Paul’s generation and they definitely don’t involve reading just extracts so unless this is a US-specific phenomenon (maybe?) it’s not just thought terminating cliches or anecdotes that make people question his thesis

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 19h

Ngl I’m becoming Chancellor Torsten pilled purely bc everyone yelling about him specifically seems so unhinged

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a bit unfair tbf because it’s actually 3-1 - Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are clearly good at their jobs

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20h

Tbf the other minister this experienced is Yvette Cooper and they had a whole reshuffle just to get her out of a politically important department

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20h

The tragedy of Ed is if his brother wins in 2010 probably nothing else much about history changes except he’s PM by the end of next year

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 23h

I mean sure but the point is, if you’re arguing for the proposition that it’s rose tinted glasses to say we had better politicians then - exhibit 1. Anyone writing that poem now would be mocked for it till the end of time

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 23h

He wouldn’t put his knighthood in a list of his achievements on the same tier as being PM!

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 23h

(Also no vaguely left of centre politician would now admit to giving a shit about getting medals from the king and I would argue that’s a good thing)

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 23h

I mean that makes the point itself, if Keir Starmer wrote poetry about how great he is it would absolutely be cited as evidence of how shallow and self-obsessed our politicians are

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 23h

Four Lions!

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah like not meaning this as a dig but the plastic bag tax was you guys’ idea 😂 it’s not necessarily an in-LD policy

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

(Not just alcohol, I don’t want to exclude the Muslim community from national life lol. But I have come around to pubs and clubs being a net social benefit)

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