Message from @Crafty

Discord ID: 647009831110049802


2019-11-21 09:10:17 UTC  

> “Hostile state actors are targeting UK universities to steal personal data, research data and intellectual property, and this could be used for their own military, commercial and authoritarian interests.

2019-11-21 09:10:36 UTC  

``The worries follow an explosion in the number of Chinese studying in Britain. At 106,000, the figure has doubled in a decade. Three institutions — Manchester, Liverpool and University College London — have Chinese cohorts of nearly 5,000 each. On some postgraduate courses, Chinese students outnumber those from Britain. At Liverpool, almost one in five of its 27,000 students is Chinese.``

2019-11-21 09:11:04 UTC  

``Critics say that professors reliant on foreign funding to prop up their departments and jobs have come under pressure from Chinese state officials to censor debate on subjects such as democracy in Hong Kong, the movement for independence in China’s far west province of Xinjiang — where China is believed to have detained 1m people from mostly Muslim ethnic minorities since 2017 — and the status of Tibet and Taiwan.``

2019-11-21 09:14:32 UTC  

also get aggressive pro-CCP chinese students behaving aggressively towards pro-HK /anti CCP students

2019-11-21 09:14:49 UTC  

Imagine my shocked surprise

2019-11-21 09:15:19 UTC  

chinese nationals trying that shit in the UK can fuck right off

2019-11-21 09:15:25 UTC  

eject them

2019-11-21 09:15:49 UTC  

Yee

2019-11-21 09:16:10 UTC  

Merit based immigration *from countries that are not breaking human rights* <:smugon:512048583806025739>

2019-11-21 09:17:21 UTC  

this isn't even about immigration necessarily

2019-11-21 09:27:13 UTC  

Well, student visas in this case, true

2019-11-21 09:31:44 UTC  

<:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

2019-11-21 09:31:49 UTC  

the way this is put together

2019-11-21 09:32:42 UTC  

*easy read*

2019-11-21 09:33:13 UTC  

TFW you get elected based solely on meme value

2019-11-21 09:37:09 UTC  

``1. Spend £100bn a year to cut emissions
2. Invest £6bn in the NHS
3. Remove fossil fuels from the economy
4. Plant 700 million trees by 2030
5. Build 100,000 zero-carbon homes
6. Scrap tuition fees
7. Fund a basic income of £89 for everyone
8. Improve energy efficiency in millions of homes
9. Ban single-use plastic
10. Invest £4.5bn-a-year in social care
11. Spend £2.5bn on cycle routes
12. Scrap first-past-the-post``

2019-11-21 09:37:58 UTC  

trees =/= magic money trees

2019-11-21 09:40:07 UTC  

where are they going to plant 700 million trees

2019-11-21 09:46:04 UTC  

> Give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote and have a say on their future. We will also allow people to stand for Parliament and all other elected offices from the age of 16

2019-11-21 09:47:55 UTC  

> Make misogyny a hate crime across the UK and increase the police’s capacity to deal with domestic violence and misogynistic hate crimes. Funding to support the prevention and prosecution of all hate crimes will be increased, and police officers will be given further training in this area. We need an intersectional approach to hate crime, which recognises the groups of women who are most at risk.

2019-11-21 09:50:01 UTC  

I agree with an educational limit. Anyone with a pointless degree such as history should shut up and let those with a real education behind them speak.

2019-11-21 09:51:22 UTC  

History is still useful

2019-11-21 09:51:56 UTC  

As long as it's not infected by gender studies

2019-11-21 09:52:03 UTC  

Because it'll get you a job like PEP when historically you didn't need one? <:hypersmugon:544638648721604608>

2019-11-21 09:52:27 UTC  

History helps you know that Germans taking over Europe is bad, for example <:Veemote:501103628883591188>

2019-11-21 09:52:38 UTC  

Clearly not <:smugon:512048583806025739>

2019-11-21 10:00:21 UTC  

can't get over Green wanting 16 year olds in Parliament

2019-11-21 10:00:50 UTC  

Once again I notice that PEP immediately goes on the "Brexit voters are retards". Why do you even engage with someone who argues with such bad faith. Especially when, the Google charts showing that the question "what is the EU" doesn't show who googled it only when. There's no possible way for anyone to know why it was googled or by who.

2019-11-21 10:02:28 UTC  

I would take him more seriously on the education to vote thing if I didn't know he considers those unaligned with him politically to be braindead retards

2019-11-21 10:03:22 UTC  

He's just here in bad faith, there's literally no reason to engage if you want any kind of honest discussion. He fills the chat, then can't back himself up before fucking off.

2019-11-21 10:04:13 UTC  

He's got a history degree, hardly the stuff of geniuses or anyone who really performed above average in school.

2019-11-21 10:15:56 UTC  

@Crafty what is the point in the greens making a manifesto

2019-11-21 10:16:03 UTC  

We all know what they want

2019-11-21 10:17:26 UTC  

For everyone to wear green

2019-11-21 10:18:41 UTC  

Pretty much

2019-11-21 10:23:28 UTC  

My mum's friend is a green member.

2019-11-21 10:23:48 UTC  

Her husband would have been doing the campaigning and mp shit, but he has a criminal record

2019-11-21 10:49:37 UTC  

Green have some ok policies

2019-11-21 10:49:41 UTC  

And some retarded ones