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fuck you bitch

ive been to auschwitz

you haven't

fuck you

seven pages here we come

My politics teacher has me drawing up questions for them.

1. Surely the solution to future economic crises is to have stable government policy to increase long-term confidence, and higher capital requirements for banks so they can respond more efficiently the next time a financial crisis strikes. Why do politicians seem to think complex and potentially damaging policies like excessive regulation and financial transaction taxes are the right way to go, when they will probably end up making a recovery more difficult by strangling the banking system?
 
2. Anti-scientific attitudes are far too common among all of the parties. Advocacy of things like homeopathy, opposition to nuclear energy, xenotransplantation, genetically modified foods and denial of the very existence of anthropogenic global warming cut across party lines and reaches even the ministerial level. Why are our current and potential representatives from all of the parties so scientifically illiterate, and why is nobody doing anything about it?
 
3. Tolerance is an important cultural and moral value for Britain, but why do politicians seem to be willing to sacrifice the truth in order to not offend people?
 
4. Government surveillance is growing and the rights of citizens are being eroded. The length of potential detention without trial has grown since the '80s, extra-legal collection of metadata and co-operation with agencies like the NSA is widespread and Scotland Yard has collected the medical information of certain journalists and their families. While some of these measures are necessary for security, when will we say enough is enough?
 
5. Are you willing to admit that multiculturalism--by promoting competing value systems among a single population--has led to various problems such as tension with the Islamic community and inefficiency in combating the child abuse scandals in Rochdale and Oxfordshire? Ethnicity, of course, is not the problem; the problem is the existence of incompatible ideas of morality.
 
6. The NHS is dying. We ought to be looking to the systems of the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Singapore for inspiration in how to revitalise the healthcare system; why do politicians encourage this religious attitude towards the NHS by promising to do things like ring-fence funding and raise taxes? Aren't we just prolonging the inevitable death of an inefficient system?
 
7. Brain drain, capital flight and low levels of high-skilled immigration have led to an under-supply of skilled labour, driving up wages at the top faster than wages at the bottom. Even if you're not in favour of broadly open borders, will you admit that more high-skilled immigration would be massively beneficial for both the economy and remedying inequality?

I know most of you are yanks but you can surely help me come up with some general questions.

feel that blood boil

Should I know anything?

Like, culture shock-wise? What's different?

Like, at all.

I don't get it.

It was pretty good.

If I had to pick the single best thing Obama has done during his presidency, it'd easily be his protection of illegal immigrants via executive order.

The American Action Forum, which is ostensibly on the right-of-centre in political terms, has calculated the cost of fully enforcing the current law--that is, the deportation of all current illegals and the prevention of another wave crossing the border.

The costs are huge. The deportation of the 11.2 million illegal immigrants would take 20 years and cost the government $400-600 billion and would cause rGDP to drop by $1.6 trillion. It would wipe 5.7pc off economic growth. These are also fairly conservative estimates, as they don't factor in the infrastructure (like detention centres and courts) which may be necessary to carry out the whole procedure.

Obama will probably be remembered as a mediocre president overall, but this single decision is probably one of the greatest a president has made.

If not, why not?

Pretty boss name for a drug, if you ask me.

By one goddamn point on the hazard perception

Fuck the DVLA

autism is an illness

an impairment

it needs to be treated, and compassion out to be extended toward the people who suffer from it

its not a case of neurotypical people oppressing the diverse

fucking retards

The gook who was trying to hide.

Looks like some amok is being run.

And when your buttcrack gets all sweaty, and the shit stain is re-moistened, that's when he's posting.

Fuck you, Elegiac.

Like, any mail at all. It's just exciting.

I got a letter today from the Conservative Party asking for a donation.

I love the moment between reading your name on the front, and then discovering the content.

Discuss mail.