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What exactly did this man do to deserve praise? His economic policies were naively statist in the manner fashionable among the left-wing following WWII. The welfare state he created is unsustainable and potentially the cause of the next Depression along with its equivalents in Europe and North America. Decolonialisation seems positive in the abstract, but Attlee didn't really have a choice but to engage in that policy and the actual execution was so dreadful that we're still dealing with problems like Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan to this day. Is this man of extremely modest abilities and accomplishments really the gold standard of post-war English Prime Ministers?
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If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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I thought you were happy with your life?Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostEnglish colonialism Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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10/10Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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I am. I'd very upset if we were still an English colony, like our northern neighbors. Elizabeth IIOriginally posted by Lorizael View Post
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Queen Elizabeth II is a treasure.
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Really? Why's that?If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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She's a class act and the gold standard for constitutional monarchs.Comment
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My sarcasm detector just exploded.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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How dare he figure out a way to deliver health care to all using a much more efficient method than the US.
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The fact that American governance is also **** doesn't make Attlee's record any better.Comment
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Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
We've got both kindsComment
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Inherited a nation that was largely bomb craters. Finished off winning WW2, set up the modern welfare state, turned Britain into a nuclear power, pulled off holding an Olympics against the odds, and increased Labour's vote to its highest ever level at the time. In six years.
You can disagree with the politics, but he sure as hell got **** done.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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If we're going by "getting **** done", then Lyndon Johnson was a great president because he pushed through medicare, medicaid, great society, fought the vietnam war, and did the civil rights act. But only the last of these was actually good, so he was a terrible president.
Now I'm going to hide in my trollproof bunker for criticising medicaid/medicare...If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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