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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I expect that her real problem with these present day overlords is that they're neither posh nor English.

If they had the kind of "proper" manners, soft discourse, cultivated look of detachment and posh dress sense that are taught at the "right" schools, they would be alright.

This is pure fiction. It sounds like an american projecting an accurate understanding of the NYT onto the guardian without having read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

Since I'm an European, lived as an immigrant in the UK for over a decade and was a regular reader of The Guardian for most of that time and even for some time afterwards, your ad hominem missed the target by a huge distance.

Your post says a lot more about you given that you've jumped to such a conclusion about me from what you read and chose an ad hominem as "counter-argument" than it says about me.