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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Oct 4, 2021 9:13:37 GMT
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Post by technoish on Oct 4, 2021 9:30:10 GMT
At least the stamp duty loophole has been plugged.
I think stamp duty is a stupid tax and should be reformed to make it more like a property tax. I don't mind paying it (well I do, but if I have to..) but I don't want it to influence my decisions on moving.
As it stands it would stop me from selling my house to move, given I paid the stamp duty 2 years ago, and I would need to save up longer to pay it again!
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Post by nexus6 on Oct 4, 2021 11:37:58 GMT
We all know the super rich live in another world but when you have a government proposing tax increases on the poorest people in our society whilst blatantly ignoring the vast wealth being hoarded through tax evasion it wears you down. The only solice I take is that for all that wealth I don't think many of the super super rich are particularly happy. Don't get me wrong, I'm still buying lottery tickets but I recall seeing mega yachts parked in Hvar blasting shitty top ten hits with on-board discos and a load of brasses and it all just seemed a bit pathetic. Is 'brasses' another term for a slapper?  |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 4, 2021 11:45:24 GMT
I think user Rodimus would concur.
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Post by Reviewer on Oct 9, 2021 6:53:51 GMT
Lol (this is genuine):
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Post by Danno on Oct 9, 2021 18:27:26 GMT
I would be surprised. Australia, Japan, the Phillipines, India and more are all pissed at China and have indicated that they would tell them to fuck off in the event of an invasion. They have virtually no allies in the region. Militarily China was a few years off of being able to reclaim Taiwan unilaterally but the US has started to throw its weight behind the South China Sea and Taiwan disputes, so make that 10 years even if they try to outspend the States
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 9, 2021 19:16:22 GMT
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Post by Tonka (π,πͺ€) on Oct 12, 2021 14:12:48 GMT
Militarily China was a few years off of being able to reclaim Taiwan unilaterally but the US has started to throw its weight behind the South China Sea and Taiwan disputes, so make that 10 years even if they try to outspend the States Given the US track record of fighting abroad I honestly don't think ccp are that worried. |
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Post by technoish on Oct 12, 2021 14:20:02 GMT
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Post by khanivor on Oct 13, 2021 1:50:34 GMT
Militarily China was a few years off of being able to reclaim Taiwan unilaterally but the US has started to throw its weight behind the South China Sea and Taiwan disputes, so make that 10 years even if they try to outspend the States Given the US track record of fighting abroad I honestly don't think ccp are that worried.Β Thatβll be a war fought on the sea and in the air. The USAβs many war fighting weaknesses all derive from interacting with the poor cunts who happened to be living on the land before the war. Not a problem in the ocean |
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Post by pizzacrunch on Oct 13, 2021 2:13:48 GMT
Given the US track record of fighting abroad I honestly don't think ccp are that worried.Β Thatβll be a war fought on the sea and in the air. The USAβs many war fighting weaknesses all derive from interacting with the poor cunts who happened to be living on the land before the war. Not a problem in the ocean I look forward to all the fish terrorist attacks after the US bomb all their schools. |
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Post by khanivor on Oct 13, 2021 11:52:29 GMT
/applause
The octopuses best be putting up concrete barriers around their gardens
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Post by lukasz on Oct 13, 2021 13:40:17 GMT
Given the US track record of fighting abroad I honestly don't think ccp are that worried. American war record from Korean to Afghanistan/Iraq is really good. The efficiency in which American military operated is second to none. Keeping the areas under control without mass genocide and willing local population is completely different thing. China might try to outspend USA, but they will still lack experience in actually fighting the war and they seriously lack in allies to assist with any military endeavours overseas. Currently, any military conflict between USA and China results in Chinese government, not the country, failing. In few more decades it might change of course. unless nukes. then it is game over for all of us. |
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Post by γΉγ³γγγ©γ³γ on Oct 13, 2021 14:17:00 GMT
I imagine if the CCP went to forcibly take Taiwan, fuck all would happen, just like nothing happened with Hong Kong, nothing happened with Uighur genocide,Russian annexing of Crimea etc.
American public wouldn't want to go to war over Taiwan and there's a strong chance that China would win, although lacking in experience, they overwhelming have the numbers, supply lines etc. and more importantly, crazy brainwashed nationalist fervour.
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Post by dogbot on Oct 13, 2021 14:53:25 GMT
American war record from Korean to Afghanistan/Iraq is really good. The efficiency in which American military operated is second to none. Keeping the areas under control without mass genocide and willing local population is completely different thing. Errr. IIRC, Only Korea, Vietnam and Iraq actually count as wars during that period (and one of those is realistically a dead loss) and of the rest, many of the US military operations and police actions were shitshows. The era of the US fighting man being second to none is long gone and much of their "global policeman" enforcement efforts in the post-Cold War World was backed up by the threat of nuclear retaliation - which does not work against someone who has nukes of their own or by leverage of great economic power and the threat or imposition of sanctions, which as a certain recent president amply demonstrated, doesn't work with China because they are also a financial superpower and not remotely scared of that. Also, really not sure if there's any way the US actually goes to war with China in conventional terms. They don't have the manpower or the presence in that part of the world that they had 30 years ago and nor do their allies. If the CCP decided to annex Taiwan, there'd be a lot of gnashing of teeth and lengthy discussions in the UN and probably some minor financial sanctions, then it'd all blow over in a few years and new lines would be drawn on the maps. They don't have enough oil to make full scale conflict between superpowers financially viable. |
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Post by γΉγ³γγγ©γ³γ on Oct 21, 2021 9:29:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2021 5:54:28 GMT
Carry on folks, nothing to see here
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Post by cubby on Nov 4, 2021 7:20:57 GMT
"We meant to kill them"
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Post by dam on Nov 4, 2021 12:04:17 GMT
I reckon they could probably negotiate to let China have Taiwan if they go Net Zero by 2050. It's probably being bashed out in a meeting room a few miles from me right now!
I can't see the US entering a war with China if they invade. It won't be a straight-forward invasion, they'll engineer something like the Russians do. If they did go in with no retaliation, would the Russians take advantage too?
It's nukes or nothing. So probably nothing.
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Post by Zyrr on Nov 4, 2021 12:12:00 GMT
If the Chinese start threatening Taiwan I'd half expect Russian tanks to start crossing the Ukrainian border at roughly the same time. Who'd be in a position to stop them?
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Post by Techno Hippy on Nov 4, 2021 15:53:00 GMT
Listen to the raptor!
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Post by γΉγ³γγγ©γ³γ on Nov 20, 2021 0:12:45 GMT
Is Peng Shuai dead or just being tortured?
Not really surprising how brazen the CCP are, if Putin and the Saudis can do it, why not them, eh.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2021 0:34:27 GMT
Probably for the best... and yet still feels really shitty.
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Post by dogbot on Nov 22, 2021 11:07:02 GMT
It's for the best that the fighting is over, IF it's over. The whole thing has been an absolute shitshow, though. Didn't stabilse the country or the wider area, didn't stop terrorist attacks, didn't help the people in the end.
It's hard to know that despite your best efforts, things are likely worse now than if you'd never been involved at all.
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Post by skalpadda on Nov 25, 2021 4:49:06 GMT
We just got our first female PM, and then she resigned after 7 hours because our parliamentary situation be whack, yo. She'll probably get elected again in a few days and we'll be enjoying an extremely weak minority government until the general election next year. That election seems likely to be decided by which of several weak parties manage to stay above the 4% parliament threshold. Might get another broadly centre-left coalition that'll keep bickering about tiny details without doing much, or we might get a coalition of Ayn-Randian capitalists and christian nutters supported by closeted nazis. Fun times.
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Post by Tonka (π,πͺ€) on Nov 25, 2021 6:10:25 GMT
Yeah, the parliamentary situation in Sweden is shaky to say the least. But I prefer a bunch of bickering parties to having just two.
I think the bigger problem is all the hate and harassment of politicians (coming mostly from the right) and journalists writing about politics.
I'm sure it's a turnoff for some people who would have made excellent politicians.
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Post by skalpadda on Nov 25, 2021 7:17:45 GMT
But I prefer a bunch of bickering parties to having just two. Yeah definitely, it's just the things they decide to bicker about that tend to drive me spare. In this case the Centre party torpedoing the budget because S talked to V (they didn't object to the actual budget, just that V had had any influence at all), and then MP torpedoing the government because the budget that did pass had influence from SD, but of course sinking the government won't change the budget. V launching a vote of no confidence earlier this year at least made sense in that they did achieve something they wanted and stopped an unpopular policy, but I don't see anything of value to anyone coming out of this. |
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Post by Resident Knievel on Jan 14, 2022 20:52:12 GMT
Not like they need an excuse, but this invasion is looking inevitable.
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