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UK has less than 1/3rd of the ships the US Navy has. The UK could never provide the coverage the U.S. does.

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

As the last Super Power in the World, maybe the rest of the World (our supposed Allies) should be a bit more appreciative and less hostile in the business sector.

 TalonZahn wrote:
UK has less than 1/3rd of the ships the US Navy has. The UK could never provide the coverage the U.S. does.

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

As the last Super Power in the World, maybe the rest of the World (our supposed Allies) should be a bit more appreciative and less hostile in the business sector.

Overrun by who? You seem to think that countries are getting overrun a lot.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
UK has less than 1/3rd of the ships the US Navy has. The UK could never provide the coverage the U.S. does.

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

As the last Super Power in the World, maybe the rest of the World (our supposed Allies) should be a bit more appreciative and less hostile in the business sector.

Overrun by who?

The people that hang out in your " No Go " zones.

 TalonZahn wrote:

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

Better than being disappeared in an unmarked van for having the wrong skin color

 TalonZahn wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
UK has less than 1/3rd of the ships the US Navy has. The UK could never provide the coverage the U.S. does.

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

As the last Super Power in the World, maybe the rest of the World (our supposed Allies) should be a bit more appreciative and less hostile in the business sector.

Overrun by who?

The people that hang out in your " No Go " zones.

Who are they? And where are these zones you speak of? Come on, say it out loud.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

Better than being disappeared in an unmarked van for having the wrong skin color

You'll have to educate me on that as I have no clue what you're talking about.

Who are they? And where are these zones you speak of? Come on, say it out loud.

The fact you said this means you already know, and I'm right.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

Better than being disappeared in an unmarked van for having the wrong skin color

You'll have to educate me on that as I have no clue what you're talking about.

That didn't stop you from commenting on anything else in the thread

If I wanted to read insane made-up **** about my country from Twitter I would have a Twitter account.

 techsoldaten wrote:


People in the United States live under these conditions:

- The average family cannot afford to buy a starter home in the place they live until they are in their 50s.

- The average US household carries over $100k in debt.

- The average US household has about $6k in savings.

That is 100% caused by Wall Street and the President for most of the 1980s. Wages haven't kept up with productivity due to greedy billionaires and companies tying success to dividends to shareholders, among other reasons.




For more information, please read: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

 TalonZahn wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

Better than being disappeared in an unmarked van for having the wrong skin color

You'll have to educate me on that as I have no clue what you're talking about.

Who are they? And where are these zones you speak of? Come on, say it out loud.

The fact you said this means you already know, and I'm right.

I've never heard of these "no go zones". Educate me.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

Better than being disappeared in an unmarked van for having the wrong skin color

You'll have to educate me on that as I have no clue what you're talking about.

You don't seem to have a clue about a lot of things but you sure talks a lot...

Here comes the army of Brits claiming to be blind to what's going on in their Country.

Quick, if you have the little UK flag pile on denying about news and stories from your own media outlets.

All after some Brit claimed it was the fault of the U.S. for Mexico allowing illegal immigrants and illegal drugs in the THEIR country to flow into the U.S. because they knew that's where it was headed.


Cool, now a Frenchie, who's Country has the same problems, jumps in.

You seem to be awfully well informed for someone on the other side of the planet.

 TalonZahn wrote:
UK has less than 1/3rd of the ships the US Navy has. The UK could never provide the coverage the U.S. does.

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

As the last Super Power in the World, maybe the rest of the World (our supposed Allies) should be a bit more appreciative and less hostile in the business sector.

Maybe it should be a joint effort, maybe there could be some joining of powerful nations to enact in joint interests and defense against the pirates etc.

Maybe the world's last Super Power who just complained about sneaky Mexicans shouldn't be trying to poke fun at other countries migration situations. Maybe the nation who houses the majority of social networks and many World news outlets, should be more concerned with oligarchs restricting free speech. Maybe you could work on dragging your education system up and stop selling assault rifles to people, you know cut back on those school shootings, rather than mocking knife crime (which is still higher in the US).

Maybe the worlds last Super Power should lead by example, with respect and humility instead of having temper tantrums and demanding fealty.

Today I learned that a post consisting solely of "inb4lock" is auto-disabled. And also, you get a warning if its all lower-case.

Kind of neat!

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
You seem to be awfully well informed for someone on the other side of the planet.

And who also isn't even aware enough of the own goings on in their own country to know about ICE sending people to prison in El Salvador without due process despite said person being a legal resident of the USA.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
You seem to be awfully well informed for someone on the other side of the planet.

Fox News neuralink, baby!

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
You seem to be awfully well informed for someone on the other side of the planet.

And who also isn't even aware enough of the own goings on in their own country to know about ICE sending people to prison in El Salvador without due process despite said person being a legal resident of the USA.

Naturally. Doesn't fit the narrative, so of course glanced over.


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 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
You seem to be awfully well informed for someone on the other side of the planet.

Fox News neuralink, baby!

I was going to make a fox news joke, but kudos for getting there first.

No Go zones are a right-wing, xenophobic concoction.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/how-no-go-zone-myth-spread-from-fringes-to-mainstream-uk-politics

It's a rare day when I agree with David Cameron, but I put Steven Emerson and yourself (TalonZahn) is the same category. See paragraph 8.

Dudeface wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
UK has less than 1/3rd of the ships the US Navy has. The UK could never provide the coverage the U.S. does.

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

As the last Super Power in the World, maybe the rest of the World (our supposed Allies) should be a bit more appreciative and less hostile in the business sector.

Maybe it should be a joint effort, maybe there could be some joining of powerful nations to enact in joint interests and defense against the pirates etc.

Maybe the world's last Super Power who just complained about sneaky Mexicans shouldn't be trying to poke fun at other countries migration situations. Maybe the nation who houses the majority of social networks and many World news outlets, should be more concerned with oligarchs restricting free speech. Maybe you could work on dragging your education system up and stop selling assault rifles to people, you know cut back on those school shootings, rather than mocking knife crime (which is still higher in the US).

Maybe the worlds last Super Power should lead by example, with respect and humility instead of having temper tantrums and demanding fealty.

If you knew anything about "sneaky Mexicans" you'd know it's not "sneaky Mexicans" it's bad actors from all over the World illegally entering Mexico, Mexico not doing anything but guiding them to the border.

There are MORE oligarchs on the Left side of the spectrum than on the Right. Those are the ones clamoring for restricting free speech, mass migration, leaving borders open, etc.

If telling the World to step up, do their job, and pay their share is demanding fealty, then so be it.

Maybe we should go back to being isolationist and see what happens.

Since the pile is on, and now I'm some Far Right Kook in a Bluesky Thread, I guess I'm out of the thread then.

[ 1 dude out of hundreds of criminals, gak happens, not a bad rate]

Have fun Libbies, you've done what you always do!

MarkNorfolk wrote:
No Go zones are a right-wing, xenophobic concoction.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/how-no-go-zone-myth-spread-from-fringes-to-mainstream-uk-politics

It's a rare day when I agree with David Cameron, but I put Steven Emerson and yourself (TalonZahn) is the same category. See paragraph 8.

The UK and German governments recently issues advisory notices on travel to the USA, is that what they mean?

 TalonZahn wrote:
I guess I'm out of the thread then.

No please, come back. You clearly know more about Grand Britane than we do.

When I leave the bar later, do I need to go left or right to avoid the no go zone? Are there signposts?!

 TalonZahn wrote:

Dudeface wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
UK has less than 1/3rd of the ships the US Navy has. The UK could never provide the coverage the U.S. does.

Speaking of dealing with "your problems" maybe you should stick to your Country being overrun, online censorship, and banning "ninja swords". Be careful what you say, you don't want to end up in jail.

As the last Super Power in the World, maybe the rest of the World (our supposed Allies) should be a bit more appreciative and less hostile in the business sector.

Maybe it should be a joint effort, maybe there could be some joining of powerful nations to enact in joint interests and defense against the pirates etc.

Maybe the world's last Super Power who just complained about sneaky Mexicans shouldn't be trying to poke fun at other countries migration situations. Maybe the nation who houses the majority of social networks and many World news outlets, should be more concerned with oligarchs restricting free speech. Maybe you could work on dragging your education system up and stop selling assault rifles to people, you know cut back on those school shootings, rather than mocking knife crime (which is still higher in the US).

Maybe the worlds last Super Power should lead by example, with respect and humility instead of having temper tantrums and demanding fealty.

If you knew anything about "sneaky Mexicans" you'd know it's not "sneaky Mexicans" it's bad actors from all over the World illegally entering Mexico, Mexico not doing anything but guiding them to the border.

There are MORE oligarchs on the Left side of the spectrum than on the Right. Those are the ones clamoring for restricting free speech, mass migration, leaving borders open, etc.

If telling the World to step up, do their job, and pay their share is demanding fealty, then so be it.

Maybe we should go back to being isolationist and see what happens.

Since the pile is on, and now I'm some Far Right Kook in a Bluesky Thread, I guess I'm out of the thread then.

[ 1 dude out of hundreds of criminals, gak happens, not a bad rate]

Have fun Libbies, you've done what you always do!

Oh dear, you really are a depressingly perfect example.

Reading this thread has made me dumber because of all the insane BS in it.

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On a personal note, I glanced at my miniature collection, and I would say about 90%+ of it comes from outside the US. That makes me wonder how wargaming is going to expand in the US in the next few years, especially non-GW and historical wargaming?

I am not even sure I will be able to stay in.

MarkNorfolk wrote:
No Go zones are a right-wing, xenophobic concoction.

And socialist worker utopias are figments of weak minds who dream of authoritarian power... but it hasn't stopped all the folks who suddenly graduated overnight from the Dakkadakkastan People's University with a degree in ironic international business (you'd think that wouldn't exist in the utopia!) from chiming in.

 Easy E wrote:
Reading this thread has made me dumber because of all the insane BS in it.

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On a personal note, I glanced at my miniature collection, and I would say about 90%+ of it comes from outside the US. That makes me wonder how wargaming is going to expand in the US in the next few years, especially non-GW and historical wargaming?

I am not even sure I will be able to stay in.

My general lack of faith in large corporations tells me that the knock of this will be higher than average price increases for everyone to compensate. So we all might be out of it soon.

 TalonZahn wrote:

[ 1 dude out of hundreds of criminals, gak happens, not a bad rate]

1 person out of hundreds of people with no criminal convictions, and no due process, you mean.

 warboss wrote:

MarkNorfolk wrote:
No Go zones are a right-wing, xenophobic concoction.

And socialist worker utopias are figments of weak minds who dream of authoritarian power... but it hasn't stopped all the folks who suddenly graduated overnight from the Dakkadakkastan People's University with a degree in ironic international business (you'd think that wouldn't exist in the utopia!) from chiming in.

It's like watching Team America in real time

Dudeface wrote:

The UK and German governments recently issues advisory notices on travel to the USA, is that what they mean?

Possibly. They only really apply to urban areas run by friendly comrades without any real political opposition so as long as you stay away from those big cities (basically anything that has had an "Escape from..." franchise movie set in it plus Chicago, Portland, and Seattle) you should be fine.


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Dudeface wrote:

It's like watching Team America in real time

On that we actually agree; the North Korean comparison is indeed apt. And Alec Baldwin is a villain in real life so...

Most Americans are cool, but there seems to be is a certain type of very online American that loves to slate European countries on a range of issue, then cries when it’s pointed out their country is worse on every possible metric on the issues they are slating Europe for.

They seem to be curious left overs from the early/mid 2000s ‘freedom fries’ era.

Funny.