/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>782851
the idea that the rich find it harder to fuck over workers in a big state than in a small one is fallacious. generally speaking, you can assume the level of exploitation remains equal but that more localized control will allow technocratic issues to be administered better. (e.g. edinburgh is more qualified to decide on scottish education than london is.) i draw on the UK example purposefully: the UK is the best example of why centralization is a mistake. despite some superficial devolution to its constituent nations, it is the most centralized country in europe. even with devolution, the sub-nations themselves tend to centralize power in the capital too. (e.g. edinburgh makes decisions better made in inverness, a council in inverness makes decisions better made on skye… and that's the lowest level of local government there is!)

local authorities have basically no power in their local area because the national government (a) only allows them to raise revenue from a single, badly valued property tax with rates set based on what a guy looking out a car window thought the houses were worth in 1991, plus central subsidy, and (b) dictates that councils must spend the majority of their budget on a series of statutory obligations, particularly around elderly care. the central subsidy hasn't kept up with rising costs, so drawing up a council budget is basically always just an exercise in deciding what services to cut to avoid breaking the law. local authorities also have no incentive to allow local development, since any development will inevitably create more costs than revenue with the tax powers they currently have.
not surprisingly, most UK areas are declining shitholes and Britain has undergone a 20 year wage stagnation and massive productivity stagnation. it is a country of massive exploitation entirely for the benefit of the richest people in a single area of the country. an independent scotland or wales or a unified ireland or a more devolved england would still be exploited by the bourgeoisie, but at least the library hours wouldn't be kafkaesque anymore, at least bin collections could go back to being weekly, at least leeds (the largest city in europe without a mass transit system) could build a tram without the treasury spending literally 30 years nitpicking their plans because they're not allowed to do it without centPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>782778
tsarists are owned by BBC (big bolshevik cock)

amateur high fantasy writing thread

>NOOOOOO I'M TOO PURE TO FUCK PEOPLE WITH OTHER BELIFS
Why are MLs suck betacucks
>>782787
>bolshevik
>ML
Choose one

Grace sisters….Grace royalties….why are we like this..why do we love the rebellious peasants?

>>782823
tbf, most anons prefer to ship with nazis or fascists rather than monarchists.

omg meeee

non-vegans

Thats half of leftypol gone

>>782774
Foids too.

generational identity politics

>>782631
It’s an autistic take actually
Or rather a more sincere cynical autist take
Allistic would be bitter cynical take

>>782626
WW3 will fix this problem when one tribe rules over the ruins of what is left.

>>782626
>It is every tribe for itself
yeah, that's the stereotype of indigenous people, they NEVER kidnap random folks from another tribe and intermingle in complex dialectical ways like the movement of dye in water

>>782626
You made it sound stupid, but yes it is pretty much self evident, for the same reason a union that goes on strike is harmed by scabs

westoids be like "might makes right" then lose

What do you want to say?

Fuck Bob Dylan and fuck you :)

>>781658
The racist stereotype plays with the conservative obsession about contamination by "unclean" people. To me its just an annoying meme but conservatives obsess and consume hundreds of videos of unhygienic cherry pick videos from Indian slums. They generalize this to 1.4 billion people without any material understanding about local conditions.

>>782394
>In terms of things I've noticed about Indians that I actually don't like, I'd say that it's probably the accent that is most irritating
It's funny because I think my sister recently called customer service to cancel our satellite subscription and she specifically called the Spanish line because the English one gave you Indians whose accent is harder to understand. I also taking my dad to I think a colonoscopy and the Indian doctor had a very hard to understand accent. I was already trying to translate to Spanish which is hard enough for medical stuff but now I can't even understand the doctors accent. I just told my dad that everything's fine which is what he more or less said.

>>782379
Have you ever spoken with a human in your life or what

Cultures tier list:
S: Germany, India, Netherlands, Switzerland
A: Italy, Iran, Turkey, Hungary, Norway
B: Japan, Russia, Indonesia
C: China, France, Thailand, Finland
D: Portugal, Spain, Serbia
F: Philippines, Poland, Vietnam, Korea

>>782784
be less obvious saar

wanting to co-opt a kkk meme invented by sub-literate toothless seppos is one thing. being too incompetent to photoshop the cheap amazon red star cap so it's not floating two inches off the truncated head of a maccas mascot is yet another.

>>782720
Anon this isn't real. It's a shooop, you can tell by the pixels.

moonman's tankie brother is spoonman, named after stalin's giant spoon

Guys can we stop trying to parody alt right aesthetics for your political mascots?

It just shows that you haven’t moved on from 4chan

>>782772
>we
i never do this and just like you i cannot stop other anons from being retarded

>>782449
He's relatively inoffensive/non-threatening.

>>782505
Legitimally hillarious.

>>782505
That shit is funny tho because there are actual jokes and punchlines. The shit in OP is just some guy doing a goofy dance. If you wanna compare it to something like the Ministry of Silly Walks from Monty Python, the actual funny part of that bit is less the silly walks and more the idea of having a government ministry for them.

Boomers thought this was the funniest shit ever

>>782543
yeah but you will resent being lumped in