Witnessing a formerly pre-eminent nation decline in real time. Burning books, really?

Feb 21, 2023 10:32 PM

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...Britain, we need to talk.

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Some fruits and vegetables are now limited to a max of 3 per person in the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64729317

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Don't worry. We know the real plan. Let them die.

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We need to burn Tories to keep warm. Improve the environment and the economy too.

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Just…WOW.

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It’s fine now, yesterday a conservative politician said “if you’re poor, just work more hours” so we’re actually all good now

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This is all happening because some people are so greedy and can never be satisfied. There is enough for us all, they will not share.

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They could burn Bibles, have the holy word save them from freezing, right?

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Yeah what do you think this is early 1900s or republicans in the south right now come

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I mean in America we’ve got folks ready to burn books and it’s not even to keep warm, soooooo…..

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They're going to be raising the cost of electricity here in Newfoundland when the Muskrat Falls Project (that no one wanted and is insanely>

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"i dont give a fuck, hungry? dont eat. cold? burn a book. just give me your damn money." our current government.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

hey hey, as long as they're burning british paper, they should be happy,like their fish.Isn't that why they escaped bruxelles "tyranny"?

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destroys stoves and lungs

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"Libertarian and Austrian economist" Yeeeaah. that explains a lot.

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"idiot" would be much more succinct.

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Von Mises was in favor of legalized child prostitution and the selling of children. He also didn't think it was wrong to starve them.

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I thought this had to be an exaggeration, and boy was I disappointed to find it is not.

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"A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, . . ."

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Did he also beat his dog to death as a child and fail to get into art class?

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Saw his head off.

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Oh cool a horrible idea they didn't see in the US first and think "Yup we can make this work".

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They COULD burn like…. Out of date textbooks and old dictionaries. Technically….

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Copies of Harry potter

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Gotta keep the orphan crushing machine going somehow

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You really don't want to breathe in the exhaust from burning ink.

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Doesn't seem a long term strategy to me.

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Or heck, odds are guys like him have written books about "how things should be done" and they must have loads of unsold copies.

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Most discarded books get torched. As pissy as people get over the basic concept that’s just the fate of most books. If it doesn’t get sold

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It gets recycled or burned. And for the inevitable ‘But donate!’ people: Have you ever been to a used bookstore overstock sale? Great fun,

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But the several thousand copies of Twilight(Or whatever the current flavor of the month is) have nowhere to go but the pyre. They are left

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Behind because nobody wants them and there’s really no reason to save them.

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Sadly 50 shades wasn’t made with the usual glue or something, so those books can’t get torched.

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50 shade's

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They could also burn Tories....

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Or Tories

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And what about on the second night?

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yes... they could... but that would indicative of a failing country would it not

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Then we wouldn't have any textbooks left

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Rhonda Santis approves!

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Or bibles...torahs .. Korans are quite flamable i hear... any religious tesxt really

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Pretty much any school grade history book too, since it's all washed bullshit propaganda to make the government of the region look better.

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My high school geography text book had a feature story about Howard Hughes building a ship to mine magnese nodules. 1/2

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Another claimed the "shepherd tribes" of Iran loved the Shah for bringing peace and stability to their region. 2/2. I'd burn that.?

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Lol that's an actual interesting story. It was a cover up by the us government to recover a Russian submarine. So it was history

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Yes. Both stories were CIA fake news disguised as history and geography. And during the Carter ministration.

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You can burn a lot of stuff. Books are shit for practical burning, though. It's a ridiculous notion and just bringing it up, even if we (1)

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assume the best of him and pretend he meant outdated, useless books, it still shows how fucking ignorant he is.(2)

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I spent a winter in Afghanistan and they burned all sorts of shit to heat their houses. And let me tell you, the air quality suuuuuuuuuucked

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Yea this is the real reason. That tweet is nonsense.

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yup husband saw the same thing. He saw people cooking food over burning plastics and other toxic materials.

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I've seen stupid people doing that at festivals...

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I remember something like that happenings in mongolia.

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(laughs in genghis kahn)

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Damn must be freezing what does it drop down to during the day like 52, lol jk I know it’s probably below freezing at night

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Dude during the summer the temp change from day to night was so drastic we had to have our poncho liner and sweats on

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It was just a joke about deserts being cold (which I know they are even not being in the mountains)

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They're in the friggin' west end of the Himalayas, dude

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It was bitterly cold most of the time. It was one of those weird kinds of cold where the temp isn't that low but still bone chilling.

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and it still was consistently below freezing in the coldest months.

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Dude, it actually got STUPID cold, wet, snowy, and the wind was always whipping.

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Especially sticking your head out the sunroof doing 60 on highway 1

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Daily temp is ~49°F & drops below freezing at night during the winter. Have you ever lived in a home without heat during freezing temps?

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You basically just said what I said was off by 3 degrees. But no, only places that don’t have air conditioning because theres no need.

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The way you frased it sounds like you are joking that Its +52 because you think Its superhot

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Yes. Do I win?

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