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[Dorsidwarf]

Apparently the queens speech recently announced that we're getting a spaceport.

This will presumably be important for the launch of a pair of LW-grade sides to LEO when the referendum is a perfect 50/50 to the last man.

[Reelya]

I dont get, how calling someone pedophile and goatficker is elegant satire.
Germany has different meaning for satire?

The point is that it was about someone who is an extremely awful person, and it's extremely sensitive to criticism. To satirize that you need to come up with the most ridiculous and offensive accusations you can. The offensive claims are both a metaphor for how awful that person actually is, and make a point about how they silence their critics.

So in other words, the joke isn't the specific claims, but the context.

[mainiac]

Apparently the queens speech recently announced that we're getting a spaceport.

That's not good.

[smjjames]

Egypt isn't Europe, but the plane came from Paris and well, Mediterranean and all that jazz...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/middleeast/egyptair-flight-disappears/index.html

It happened not long ago, extremely little info right now.

[sprinkled chariot]

Ugh, who cares of its satire or not.


Just admit that Erdogan deserves to be insulted.

Insulting him does not improve situation in any way. There is  medieval religious dictator right next to europe, who can do whatever he wants, and only thing europe can do about this is throw refined elegance of german humour in him. Meanwhile he holds his hand on the valve controlling refugee flow and gets paid by europe for not making everything worse.

[Loud Whispers]

Apparently the queens speech recently announced that we're getting a spaceport.

This will presumably be important for the launch of a pair of LW-grade sides to LEO when the referendum is a perfect 50/50 to the last man.

From current year-1:

The emphasis will be on the expected emergence of a new breed of low-cost rocket planes that can launch fare-paying passengers to sub-orbital altitudes and also satellites into orbit.

Most of potential vehicles are still quite some time away from flying, but ministers believe that if the UK gets its act together now, the nation can catch the first wave when it arrives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31711083

It's a spaceport without spaceships, least until Virgin spaceairlines or their competitors find a way to make a commercially viable spacefleet

Either that or:

New laws regulating the use of drones are being drawn up to help British companies champion the technology, and ministers want to make driverless cars a feature of roads by the end of the decade.

The government has been considering a commercial spaceport for some time, with a site in Newquay, Cornwall, regarded as a frontrunner for the £150 million development that could become a hub for space tourism.

Few details were disclosed about the proposals
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spaceport-given-lift-off-to-help-britain-drive-transports-future-2wbncddnw

Top sekrit information that will not be disclosed, lest the Chinese reverse engineer mein sides

Insulting him does not improve situation in any way. There is  medieval religious dictator right next to europe, who can do whatever he wants, and only thing europe can do about this is throw refined elegance of german humour in him. Meanwhile he holds his hand on the valve controlling refugee flow and gets paid by europe for not making everything worse.

If he's supposed to be controlling the flow he's not doing a good job, so what are German comedians even paying him for?

[martinuzz]

The Turkish minister of transport, Binali Yildirim, has been selected to become the sole candidate for the position of chairman of Erdogan's AK party. As soon as he will be elected by the party congress next sunday, he will automatically also be granted the position of prime minister of Turkey, replacing Davutoglu, who was forced to resign.

In a speech after accepting his candidacy, he said that he "will do everything within his power to work in complete harmony and cooperation with our founder and leader, and with all the colleagues from the AK party, to reach the goals of our great Turkey". He continued to promise that he will exterminate every single last PKK member.

[TheDarkStar]

turkey for police state when

[smjjames]

Kurdish state when?

[Vilanat]

The Kurds are not against Israel/Jews, so it doesn't matter that they already had an actual state in the past, are an actual antique ethnicity and have gone under an actual genocide, since it probably won't get them a state. That's why the first debated issue in the Syrian-Russia-Iran-Rebels "peace talks" was giving the Israeli Golan Heights to Syria.

Half a million people dead, whole religions are being driven out of the Middle East, millions of refugees pouring into Europe, millions will die by the effects of this war on Iraq's, Lebanon's, Jordan's and Syria's economy and more importantly, lack of ability to address the pressing issue of Desertification and depleting of water sources and the incompetent U.N, EU and Obama's administration waste time with BS about an extremely small region (compare it to the Western Sahara, or Crimea, for example) which even if Israel decides to give this little piece of land (which was, btw, purchased by Rotchshild and declared as part of the Jewish State in the Balfur declaration and the League of nations which the U.N promised to uphold upon its creation), who Israel is supposed to give it to? Assad, Hezbollah, Jhabat Al Nusra, Al Yarmuc brigades, Islamic State or the FSA? with this kind of mentality, the Kurds will not be getting a formal state. at best they might get a semi autonomy and maybe another semi genocide.

Back to that Egyptian Airliner, There are concerns that it was a terror attack which brought it down, which is both surprising and frightening because it means a bomb managed to slip under De Gaul's airport security checks.

[smjjames]

Back to that Egyptian Airliner, There are concerns that it was a terror attack which brought it down, which is both surprising and frightening because it means a bomb managed to slip under De Gaul's airport security checks.

Yeah, if there was a bomb, it has massive implications. I don't know if some passengers and bags stayed onboard after another stop or what though. Actually, it was going back to Cairo after a trip from it, so, most likely not.

Also, apparently the 'wreckage' that they found wasn't actually from the plane, or even A plane. So, looks like junk in the Mediterranean (which is FAR smaller than the Indian) is going to complicate the search....

The plane had also done some strange swerves and maneuvers including a sudden drop in altitude and a 360 turn, so, something happened.

[martinuzz]

Yeah, finding that plane and the remains of it's passengers between the thousands of refugee corpses and sunken boats would be like searching for a needle in a stack of needles.

[smjjames]

Not to mention all the ships that have sunk in the Mediterranean over the last, what, 6,000 years at least....

[Loud Whispers]

Tfw the dead sea is literal

[scriver]

The Dead Sea already was literal.