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Comrade Cheggorsky posted:are you calling Thomas Paine a shithead? Paine outgrew "common sense" by writing The Rights of Man so I guess redemption is always possible.
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 19:30 |
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Fallen Hamprince posted:oh wow Britain is super hosed lol
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 19:33 |
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jBrereton posted:If you replaced "Britain" with "Scotland", the last two would definitely apply to a lot of the nationalists there. Oh hey it's the SNP is basically the BNP but Scottish opinion that pops up every time English peeps discuss Scotland.
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 19:49 |
nopantsjack posted:Oh hey it's the SNP is basically the BNP but Scottish opinion that pops up every time English peeps discuss Scotland.
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 20:35 |
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Dunno myself but the Parti Québécois is a good example of a left-wing [edit: social democratic really] nationalist party easily absorbing (or revealing) ethnic nationalist stuff that wouldn't be out of place at a Front National rally. The problem with nationalism is that it can flip like that on a dime and I don't see why the SNP would be immune, even if it's only latent right now. Give it time.
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and i must meme posted:
description of the "common sense" segment owns
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 21:05 |
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I guess this counts as good news.Reuters posted:Opposition gains in British polls, but May's party keeps strong lead At this rate the Labour party will just suffer a catastrophic loss rather than outright annihilation.
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 21:10 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Dunno myself but the Parti Québécois is a good example of a left-wing [edit: social democratic really] nationalist party easily absorbing (or revealing) ethnic nationalist stuff that wouldn't be out of place at a Front National rally. The problem with nationalism is that it can flip like that on a dime and I don't see why the SNP would be immune, even if it's only latent right now. Give it time. The PQ is pretty much the FN lite now, they haven't been left-wing for a while.
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 21:10 |
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Helsing posted:I guess this counts as good news. Labour are polling basically the same as they did in 2015, the problem is that the Tories are hoovering up all of UKIPs votes now that Farage has hosed off and the party has no reason to exist after Leave. See the graph above where half the country are either open ethnic nationalists or just in the closet about it.
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# ? Apr 30, 2017 23:10 |
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If only the Blairites were in charge. Then Labour could win with racism-lite.
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:20 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:If only the Blairites were in charge. Then Labour could win with racism-lite. also a platform of sucking finance sectors dicks and engaging in US style real estate speculation
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:36 |
*remembering decade of steady growth of wages and opportunities in general* yeah what shite days those were... things are better now for sure
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:52 |
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and i must meme posted:
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# ? May 1, 2017 01:02 |
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jBrereton posted:*remembering decade of steady growth of wages and opportunities in general* yeah what shite days those were... things are better now for sure Remember the Iraq War?
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# ? May 1, 2017 02:34 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Remember the Iraq War? The thing that occurred after all that ended? Had you said Vietnam you might be in the right ballpark.
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# ? May 1, 2017 02:57 |
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I worry for britain since it seems as though it may be becoming a racist and anti-immigrant country. If this is true, then the labour party and all progressive forces will have to make a hard choice between on the one hand giving up some level of righteous purity, and on the other, giving the tories, the racists, and the nativists a blank check to run the country any way they want, without reservations.
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# ? May 1, 2017 03:09 |
hakimashou posted:I worry for britain since it seems as though it may be becoming a racist and anti-immigrant country. Is it not already?
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# ? May 1, 2017 03:10 |
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whomupclicklike posted:Is it not already? It probably is but it's too early to tell. If it's true, then labour will have to become an anti-immigrant party if it wants to accomplish anything. If they aren't willing to make that sort of compromise with themselves, then the NHS, workers' rights, and all that they cherish could be lost. It's not an enviable position to be in.
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# ? May 1, 2017 03:14 |
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hakimashou posted:I worry for britain since it seems as though it may be becoming a racist and anti-immigrant country. lol
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# ? May 1, 2017 04:02 |
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i lust for boomer death
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# ? May 1, 2017 07:59 |
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https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552 giant 30 tweet thread on a leak regarding brexit negotiations, you should really read the whole thing (it's pretty hillarious) but long story short May has literally no idea what she is doing and the most likely outcome is increasingly 'rock-hard brexit with no trade deal or condom'
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:06 |
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lol at blair promising to get involved in the election after telling people to vote May. He needs expelling from the labour party
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:11 |
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Jose posted:lol at blair promising to get involved in the election after telling people to vote May. He needs expelling from the labour party well no, if he tells people to vote May, good chance that they'll do the opposite.
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:15 |
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Fallen Hamprince posted:'rock-hard brexit'
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:34 |
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it would be cool to get some left wing wins but i'm not exactly holding my breath for the monarchic cradle of imperialism to do it
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:38 |
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good news, the SNP is expected to do quite well!
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:40 |
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the snp aren't left wing you idiot
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:56 |
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um i have it on good authority that only turkeys have left wings.
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# ? May 1, 2017 08:59 |
Pener Kropoopkin posted:Remember the Iraq War?
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# ? May 1, 2017 11:30 |
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jBrereton posted:Yeah I marched against it and was fairly disappointed with the whole situation. Current government would be on it like a dog on chips, too, though, given Boris Johnson explicitly said last week "well if the US asks for help I think I'd fire the missiles without talking to parliament". good luck in your election btw mate its just a shame you're a tory
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# ? May 1, 2017 11:32 |
Jose posted:good luck in your election btw mate its just a shame you're a tory
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# ? May 1, 2017 11:42 |
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jBrereton posted:Hey, in the words of Tim Farron, we're all sinners. don't you have to like, sacrifice babies under a new moon or something to be a tory though?
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# ? May 1, 2017 11:46 |
Hodgepodge posted:don't you have to like, sacrifice babies under a new moon or something to be a tory though? Some American UKMT poster has it in his head that I am in fact Jack Brereton, candidate for the Stoke By-Election, and that my posting in UKMT at the end of last year was me running some kind of hustings/intelligence-gathering on the British left, because he is 100% hosed in the head.
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# ? May 1, 2017 11:51 |
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jBrereton posted:*in stage whisper before this gets even more out of hand* that's probably for the best since i'm not sure sa posting culture is down with having sex with dead pigs between that and your red text you sure do seem to attract the notice of weird goons though Hodgepodge has issued a correction as of 12:01 on May 1, 2017 |
# ? May 1, 2017 11:59 |
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Jose posted:good luck in your election btw mate its just a shame you're a tory well he's british so yeah
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# ? May 1, 2017 12:05 |
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Jose posted:i lust for boomer death
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# ? May 2, 2017 02:03 |
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get that OUT of my face posted:lol if you think that the death of the olds will heal any society Healing society is out of the question, but I'll settle for "get rid of the monarchy."
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# ? May 2, 2017 02:08 |
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and i must meme posted:
looks like the nation is fully 2/3 fuckwads, could be a problem
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# ? May 2, 2017 09:02 |
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get that OUT of my face posted:lol if you think that the death of the olds will heal any society One of the cool things about Corbyn is that Labour & Momentum are now full of cool socialist grandpas and grandmas My grandpas not a socialist but he did once tell me stories about hanging out in Devonport dockyards with Michael Foot and communists. "It was the 40's" was his explanation
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# ? May 2, 2017 09:44 |
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and i must meme posted:
Within living memory we ran an empire spanning half the world based explicitly on white supremacists and killed a few million people. Unlike the Germans we never had to deal with it and we don't teach it in schools whatsoever, so here we are.
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