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Should be a wild four years.

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WelperHelper99 said:
That deal is economic rape to the UK. They're taking our meat, our grain, our machines- and a 10% tarrif. Lmao.
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TBF, a 10% tariff on nothing is still nothing.

I'd normally figure the UK wants first dibs on US energy exports, now that we've got that all tooled up, but apparently they don't like energy and want to freeze to death in the dark or some such thing?
 
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Pig Cups said:
The question to ask, is not ‘why did she direct a racial slur at a 5yo black child?’ but rather ‘why is said black child stealing?/why is a childless man recording at a playground?’
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We know why that particular childless man was filming at a playground.

But yeah everyone around me including myself, upon hearing that story, first asked "Where were the adults in charge of that 5 year old? Why weren't they watching him to prevent him bothering others?"
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
We should invade China

With self driving trucks full of food, so when they shoot them, people freak the fuck out

In other news
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At least he didn’t fuck them, bill
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He's upset he can't fuck them first?

Come on billy, you should know better by now that exposing yourself like this won't help

Edit; In case people missed it, we got new pope. Here's hoping for a conservative, instead of a heretical faggot like frank
 
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pwnest injun said:
TBF, a 10% tariff on nothing is still nothing.

I'd normally figure the UK wants first dibs on US energy exports, now that we've got that all tooled up, but apparently they don't like energy and want to freeze to death in the dark or some such thing?
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They are paying for Ethanol, so we are exporting some energy it seems
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
That deal is economic rape to the UK. They're taking our meat, our grain, our machines- and a 10% tarrif. Lmao.
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Overall I think the primary objective of the deal was diplomatic in nature. The UK rushed to get in first with negotiating something and show a willingness to play ball.

That said however, the UK's largest exports to America are engines and cars, the former of which we won't have to pay a tariff on at all apparently, alongside steel and aluminium. Cars will be charged a 10% tariff for the first 100k before rising up to match the level of everybody else at 25%. Not everything has been agreed on yet, such as pharmaceuticals (the UK's 3rd biggest export to America) or the digital service tax (which I'm sure Elon would be interested in seeing gone). Certain exports from America to the UK, such as beef, will see no tariffs up to the first 13k tons, which is likewise for UK agricultural/meat exports into America. It also still has to meet our food safety standards, so no corn syrup in soft drinks and whatnot.

If this enables local farmers in the UK to sell shit abroad easier and cut down on the costs of feed and fertiliser, then the outcome of this deal doesn't need to be contentious or viewed as an 'own' necessarily. A big issue with farmers in the UK is that it was always cheaper for foreigners to sell here than for us to sell elsewhere, if this lack of tariff on agricultural products up to a certain tonnage enables farmers to make a living again by allowing them to sell in American markets, then there's no reason for this to be contentious. It could be a win for the UK and the USA.

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HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS said:
Let's not forget another insane deal that UK signed with India just a week ago.

Any Indian nationals working in UK will no longer have to pay separately into NHS.
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Tiny correction: They won't have to pay any National Insurance tax for the first 3 years of living in the UK on a Visa. They'll benefit from our services whilst not paying anything into it. This goes both ways, but who's moving to go work as a chef or be a student in India? The America deal was better.
 
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Gregis said:
Uh...weren't the police black?
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Yeah, that one I'm honestly conflicted about. The police group were actually a group of gangs that were the police. Nichols slept with the leader's fiance. So when he got busted for whatever he did, the leader realized it and the gang helped the leader wail on him. P sure there's an impressive haymaker on video iirc. But tbf according to my local contact no one in the community cared about it either bc they all knew why Nichols got beat. Only people that cared were white people and non locals.
 
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Karl Jobst's Asian Wife said:
Total Boomer Death.
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I personally don't like the anti boomer sentiment. What they're doing and saying is retarded yes, but for the average boomer it's really not their fault.

They grew up in a world that made sense. They're simply not equipped to understand the current one. This happens to all people who age, but i think it's particularly bad with boomers due to the internet split and the fact that they still assume the news has any incentive to be objective because it did when they were our age.

I've actually had success getting my very left wing parents to understand things. You have to do one issue at a time very gradually but it is possible.
 
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obsdj said:
The last season of The Boys -- and Sausage Party come to think of it -- they were pretty explicitly "Fuck Trump" seasons.
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That is pretty awful. I guess the people that want stuff like that will eat it up. But a show becomes less and less (re)watchable the further away you get from whatever current event it is referencing.

Anti-Trump shit is going to be Leviathan-tier cringe in the future.
 
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