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by connorgurney5 hours ago |
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upvoteby walthamstow3 hours ago|
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The hostility is rife across social media. I don't see much of it day to day.
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upvoteby frereubu58 minutes ago|
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Reminds me of the Bill Hicks bit during the early days of CNN and 24-hour news channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjuPJskNRE
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upvoteby andrepd3 hours ago|
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Unfortunately, for a few years now, social media is real life...
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upvoteby qsera2 hours ago|
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As the persons said, they are not observing it in real life.

This is what I also have observed in various contexts as well. Social media is not a representation of what real people think. Most people in real life does not comment in social media, or they comment on inconsequential or trivial things....

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upvoteby SuddsMcDuff1 hours ago|
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I know exactly what you mean. But for me there's an even greater emotion here... relief. At a time when everything feels so utterly divided, it's such a relief to see a positive story that everyone can celebrate and feel proud of, regardless of their stance. Better, it's a story that can't be politicised one way or the other, it has a purity about it. I think if we had more positive stories like this, our political & ideological differences wouldn't seem so all consuming.
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upvoteby tomjen35 hours ago|
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It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?
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upvoteby argsnd5 hours ago|
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Probably not that many. You underestimate how expensive either of those things are.

We have obligations to provide services like this to the people living in our overseas territories, and you won’t find many people who’ll oppose that.

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upvoteby Arnt3 hours ago|
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This is a classic. It occurs in two forms:

Wow, logistics to <remote place> are very expensive! We could spend that money better in the cities!

Wow, logistics in <city> is expensive! We could spend that money better in rural areas!

I read about a new road tunnel in London last year, a ten-digit price tag for about 1km of road IIRC. I'm 100% sure some people suggested that that money could have been better spent in rural areas.

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upvoteby bcjdjsndon2 hours ago|
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We shouldn't be wasting a penny on colonies, this isn't the age of Napoleon anymore, get the English out of any country that isn't England.
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upvoteby loloquwowndueo51 minutes ago|
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The one thing you seem to be missing in your anticolonialist tirades is the fact that Tristan was uninhabited. It’s not like native peoples were displaced by the British colonists, right?
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upvoteby SuddsMcDuff45 minutes ago|
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This guys comment history is absolutely wild! So utterly full of hate and ignorance. Amazing how often those two things go hand in hand.
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upvoteby shermantanktop4 hours ago|
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People respond to inspiring stories that show what is possible. Inevitably that means choices that might not match what a perfect allocation looks like.

Quiet, bland execution in government will get you voted out. Technocrats tend to come in after corruption, but they don’t usually last.

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upvoteby ninalanyon4 hours ago|
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You'd rather we ignored our overseas compatriots?
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upvoteby bcjdjsndon2 hours ago|
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Colonists you mean.
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upvoteby petterroea2 hours ago|
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It's a small price to pay to keep political control. Probably not the entire motivation here, but generally countries like keeping their remote islands and settlements lived in because it represents a claim of the land by proxy.
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upvoteby benj1114 hours ago|
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True, but this is military expenditure. So would you rather they spend this on an exercise or on actually saving people?
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upvoteby fiftyacorn3 hours ago|
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Yeah and helps demonstrate thst Tristan is strategically important
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upvoteby bcjdjsndon2 hours ago|
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I think it's rich the English dont like foreigners given how many countries they think they're entitled to posses
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