Um, that's not Tyrant Fashister or Murdoch Murdoch.

But really putting "lol" as your reasoning to ban someone is pretty unprofessional and stupid, like bnet

Before he was ousted as Conservative leader in 2003, Iain Duncan Smith was dubbed "the quiet man". But there was nothing subdued or understated about the manner of his departure last night.

Instead, a zinger of a resignation letter, designed to inflict maximum damage on Chancellor George Osborne; a relationship that had long been testy, tested to destruction by this week's Budget.

By questioning, as the Conservatives' critics have long done, the Tory slogan to justify cuts - "We are all in this together" - Mr Duncan Smith knowingly provided the government's opponents with ammunition.

For a man with ambitions to lead his party, these have been difficult days for George Osborne.

This morning David Cameron woke to a vacancy in his cabinet and a wound inflicted on his government.
'Step too far'

Baroness Stroud, who worked with Mr Duncan Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and now heads the Centre for Social Justice think tank, which he founded, told the BBC: "He always used to say to me, 'I'm here in order to deliver reform and to protect the poorest'.

"Yesterday he felt that he could no longer protect the poorest... This is a step too far."

Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin, an ally of Mr Duncan Smith, said: "A lot of colleagues will be extremely annoyed at this explosion but they will not be surprised.

Jeremy Corbyn: "He's suddenly found a conscience now... I wonder where it has been hiding for six years"

"I think the high-handed and short-termist political approach that the chancellor has tended to take to the management of other departmental budgets has tested the patience of more than one minister."

But Conservative MP Stephen McPartland, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Disability, said he welcomed the resignation and saw it as a "real opportunity to get these welfare reforms right".

He said he was "not the chancellor's biggest supporter" but believed "aggressive reforms" and an "evangelical point of view" at the Department for Work and Pensions under Mr Duncan Smith "have consistently failed disabled people".

Commons Leader Chris Grayling told the BBC Mr Duncan Smith had done "some really good work" on welfare reform and he was "surprised" and "very sorry" to see him go.

Asked if this was really about Europe, Mr Grayling - who like Mr Duncan Smith is campaigning for the UK to quit the EU, in opposition to the prime minister - said: "I don't think this makes any difference at all to the referendum campaign."

Sources close to Mr Duncan Smith also say his resignation was not about Europe.

Labour MP Frank Field, who chairs the Commons work and pensions committee, said: "Behind this is a much, much bigger drama... What he crucially cared about was the balance of resources going to families and children and older people.

"The pensioner element, the biggest part of the Budget, was safeguarded and in fact increased... all these cuts were on people of working age and it's this point that Iain thinks the social contract between generations is being broken."

In his resignation letter, Mr Duncan Smith said: "I have for some time and rather reluctantly come to believe that the latest changes to benefits to the disabled and the context in which they've been made are a compromise too far.

"While they are defensible in narrow terms, given the continuing deficit, they are not defensible in the way they were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers."

Replying to Mr Duncan Smith, Mr Cameron said there had been collective agreement between "you, No 10 and the Treasury" that "the increased resources being spent on disabled people should be properly managed and focused on those who need it most".

"[On Friday] we agreed not to proceed with the policies in their current form and instead to work together to get these policies right over the coming months.

"In the light of this, I am puzzled and disappointed that you have chosen to resign."

Guto Bebb becomes under secretary of state at the Wales office, replacing Mr Cairns, the MP for Vale of Glamorgan.

Jeremy Corbyn: "He's suddenly found a conscience now... I wonder where it has been hiding for six years"

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on March 17, 2016, 03:37:23 PM

The picture I linked was just supposed to be one of the Tau and Imperium working together. You'd think the playerbase  for IoM would be happy to have at least one faction that isn't out to gut them like a fish.

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Reminder that the Imperium of Man is the one that gives no shits about it's citizens and regularly uses them as cannon fodder when they aren't subjecting everyone who isn't in the upper echelons of society into abject poverty.

Reminder that humans are offered a meaningful place in the Tau Empire and their lives are valued as they're allowed to pursue their own interests and are free to worship the emperor if they so choose so long as it doesn't negatively impact the rest of society.

Reminder that more worlds are joining the Tau Empire every day due to being disillusioned with the Empire of Man and wanting to be part of a system that actually values them.

Reminder that the tau are communist space weebs.

Reminder that the tau will wipe your world clean of life if you refuse to join.

Reminder that the tau will put you into a concentration camp if they think it's for their Greater Good.

Reminder that the tau are implied to mind-control their citizens into obedience.

Reminder that the tau are communist space weebs.

Capitalism clearly exists in the Tau Empire due to the presence of the Water Caste.

Not true, there are many worlds that brought into Tau septs via conquering and didn't have their world cleansed of life.

The sterilization and concentration camp shit is from a non-canon ending of Dark Crusade

IoM propaganda with nothing actually supporting it as fact in fluff.

Capitalism clearly exists in the Tau Empire due to the presence of the Water Caste.

literal kike caste

ayy lmao
Join us or we kill you.

okay noelle, read your ciaphas you silly gook

Nicassar, read your fluff you silly gook

literal kike caste

The Nicassar used only as space fairing scouts for the Tau and have fuck all to do with the daily operations of the Empire. They were literally made for the Battlefleet Gothic game so that the Tau could have more ships. Implications of mind control of the Vespid and Saturday morning cartoon villian antics from the Ethereal were only done after spehs mahrine fanboys got butthurt over the existence of the tau.

The Tau have also had peaceful and willing worlds joins via request after receiving more help and benefits from the Tau Empire than they have the IoM and unlike the IoM the Tau Empire almost always requests a peaceful end to hostilities before actually engaging in combat. Almost always referring to things not written by matt ward and species have been deemed as beyond saving, ie the greenskins. And even if that sterilization camp shit was canon, it's still better than what would have happened to humans that rebelled against the Imperium.

Niggas just mad that the Tau Empire has been the least shitty place to live in the 40k universe since their introduction.


Regardless though.

Spoiler

Reminder of what we can do when we work together.

requests a peaceful end to hostilities before actually engaging in combat.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 17, 2016, 11:21:04 AM

It isn't, but just for laughs imagine it is, and the best treatment was through hormone therapy or surgery; how is that any different than correcting chemical imbalances in depressed people with medication?

analogy is slightly flawed because depression isnt caused by an imbalance, or more specifically, low serotonin.

 there is no evidence that depression is caused by low serotonin. that's something thats just used in the culture of psychiatry, but it completely unfounded. the only way to test serotonin levels would be to do a spinal tap, which would be pointless because the amount of serotonin in the brain isn't relevant to depression.

all anti-depressant medications do is stop the reuptake of serotonin, so that you have more available. they don't correct any percieved "imbalance" because there isn't one.

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[for you]

Bane?

You don't get to bring friends.

She'll be all over you like a hot pocket.

The abomination that is Halo 4
Their armor designs are complete garbage
Halo 5's story is ridiculously underwhelming

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on March 16, 2016, 07:52:25 PM

Most things i'm fairly indifferent towards, but the one thing that I will never forgive them for is the Reach TU.

Motherfuckers killed my favourite game to pander to forum crybabies, who promptly left it anyway and the people who were happy playing it dropped down into the ~1000 players online mark.

They actually made Reach semi-bearable; Vanilla Reach is easily the worst thing to happen to Halo.  That's nice if you like bloom, punishment-free armor lock, more OP camo, sword-block, bleedthrough-free damage models, etc... but you're just objectively wrong if you do, that's all.