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"Weird how Italy has ethnic Italians representing them... but in the UK we're increasingly being ruled by foreigners without a cultural stake in the country."

What is that all about?
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I assure the Age of the Shit-Gurgling Moron is coming to a close.
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@Jens_Rasmussen @dave @parker higher interest rate = debts have to be paid faster

a lot of global debt is denominated in USD so if you want to pay your bills you have to buy dollars, thus dollar goes up

or something to that effect

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@vriska i got into having smoothies recently; blueberries, banana, nuts, high fat yoghurt and milk blended together

takes 5 mins to make and drink and hits all the calorie/protein/antioxidant buttons

@vriska i try to avoid morning digestion altogether but tht's me

@vriska i don't like eating rich foods early in the day but curry always got a pass for some reason

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@MK2boogaloo @fluffy @sim @skells @tarperfume

I think that the Cambridge translation I posted in the OP (and I'm gonna repost now) is the best one.
The book is divided into eight parts (or books), perhaps going for just one is too little. But going for all eight in just two weeks might be a little too much for everyone. Perhaps lets say Parts(books) 1 and 2 (around 160 pages) and whoever wants to can keep going.

These three “modern” tendencies—distrust of individual initiative, exacerbated nationalism (called chauvinism after the ultranationalist French Bonapartist Chauvin), and socialism—were, for all practical purposes, combined, at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, in neomercantilism.

This began in the Germany of Bismarck and in the United States, spread by reaction to England, France, and other countries, produced the two world wars, and destroyed the international division of labor.

Christened in Germany in 1920 the “planned economy” (Planwirtschaft) and later everywhere called the “controlled economy,” under the pretext of defending national interests against foreign competition and the humbler classes against domestic oppression, it has enthroned the omnipotent state wherever it has gained a foothold and has forced democracy and liberty, whose universal victory was once thought to have been finally assured, into retreat.

@laurel @MK2boogaloo @tarperfume @sim @fluffy looks good, maybe 2 weeks makes sense, with work etc. one week is a little short

Problematics Anonymous

if i find time I'll write a blurb

@average_random_joe @Jagahati agreed, even if we successfully invaded Russia without getting nuked what are we going to do, carry out the gas in trucks?

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