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      It’s honestly a little hilarious how everyone to the left of hitler needs to kiss the rings of all the prejudices of the normies before expressing their opinion or else they’re called “elitist” or “sanctimonious”.

      But chuds are literally the idea of “everyone is worthless except me and the world would be better off without everyone except me.” and they never get flak for screeching “we are omniscient! All our opinions are facts!” 24/7.

      I deadass feel like just doubling down on the “elitist” angle just to let them know the feeling’s mutual.

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        ”The elitists” sure sounds like a dog whistle.

        What are the chances they don’t know what that word means and think it’s a synonym for ”the elites”?

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          What are the chances they don’t know what that word means and think it’s a synonym for ”the elites”?

          It also comes from the fact that they think the only leftists that exist nowadays comes from universities and to them, universities are the center of “elitism” and only exist to spread communism.

          I wish I was making this up

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      https://nonpol.com/manifesto-the-economy/

      Somehow with a worse economic policy:

      • Every business in the UK will be open 24/7, like hospitals.

      • Providing full employment with all the new job listings, 4 day workweek

      • “Technology will be a major factor here. One benefit from the pandemic was the flexibility to work from home. Going forward all wheelchair and home bound people can have a full career working from home. With the growth of AI, quantum computing and robots. A lot of mundane, repetitive, difficult and dangerous work can be carried out through technology. NONPOL is a technology party and will use technology to support workers and the economy. Machines are reliable, don’t take sickies, are consistent, accurate and don’t strike for a pay rise. For those frightened of AI, we would enforce the Asimov rules of Robotics, so, no fear of Terminators.” - Replacing all of those workers with machines that don’t take sickies or strike for a pay raise.

      • Banning phones, history, and geography courses in schools

      • Nationalising all basic industries, but not like British Rail. This allows banning strikes and paying workers based on productivity

      • Remove all social benefits, require their repayment when you die

      • Tax all Chinese students for COVID.

      • bitcoin

      At least Andrew Yang’s platform boiled down to “we’re going to bribe you to not shoot CEOs in the street.”

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        Banning phones, history, and geography courses in schools

        lol not even a white washed history, just fuck it all. the past? never happened. critical support for this party in getting an entire state to wholeheartedly embrace Last Thursdayism.

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          1. Control of Fiat and digital currencies

          As a technology party, NONPOL embraces technological advancements, such as AI, Quantum Computing, Blockchain and Bitcoin if they are used intelligently. In particular a countries currency is critical to its economic health. The UK has successfully managed to keep the pound and it is one of the most respected currencies on the planet; however now that the gold reserve no longer exists, as a fiat currency it is still fragile. We have no contingency should our currency become devalued or affected by external market forces. We expect this not to happen if we have built a solid and growing economy. However, we should have a contingency. Currently most countries are opposed to Bitcoin, as they have no control over it and do not like its anonymity. This is narrowmindedness. It is the flexibility and anonymity that makes it an attractive investment. If the UK builds a car, does it matter if it is bought with fiat currency or Bitcoin? It is still a sale and Bitcoin is highly fungible. The blockchain concept is a great technological advancement, for many reasons. In order to embrace this technology, NONPOL would start a GB bitcoin, which would be very different to the Bank of England digital pound currently being planned. The digital pound is still controlled by the bank, our GB bitcoin would use the same bitcoin technology as other crypto currencies and remain anonymous. This would give the economy 2 currencies that can provide growth, contingency and promote global trade with the UK. Also, there are major benefits in the crypto currency secondary markets, which trade like any other commodity. We would set up a UK GB Bitcoin trading platform for anyone to trade our crypto currency anonymously. There would be huge revenues from such a platform. Furthermore, if international customers bought British goods with our crypto currency, we would earn money on the export duty. More avenues to bolster the economy.

          They’ve written this whole ass five dollar paragraph to say “oi, wot if bitcoin.” It has the same exact vibe to me as Trump’s crypto shit where he doesn’t bother to pretend he knows what any of it means.

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        For those frightened of AI, we would enforce the Asimov rules of Robotics

        It comes as little surprise but this simply is not how an LLM works or could ever work

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        I’ll give Yang this: although it’s a shame to see what appears to be a sincere guy fully sold on capitalism. At least he’s one of the few capitalists that acknowledges that for the system’s own good: porky cannot have too good of a deal.

        Plus I liked his policy of trying to get children away from online echo chambers like 8chan. He’s about as far-right as I’ll actually get out and vote for.

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    Who decides what the “Good ideas across the spectrum” are mf honk-commie

    Also “Unite the kingdom” sounds like a threat to everyone that isn’t England

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    Ahh shit -

    1. Replace all bad ideas with good ideas

    How did we not think of that? Because until now we’ve been trying to just have more bad ideas as nobody thought of using good ideas.

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    ‘Okay, Ideas from across the spectrum. What ideas are you taking from the communists?’

    smuglord “Uh…drab jumpsuits for everyone?”

    ‘Okay…what ideas are you taking from the fascists?’

    smuglord “Oh, pretty much everything else”

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    I kind of hate that Dugin pointed this out, but this is true for both liberals and chuds.

    They like to paint themselves not as politics, but the absence of politics. Notice how of course they claim they support free speech but “wokeness” is considered too unacceptable of an idea to be allowed and must be made illegal to support.

    Not me in 2028 being arrested because I DIDN’T commit any hate crimes.