Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

mansplaining a thing

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

forkboy84 posted:

That time Propagandhi wrote a song mocking Fat Mike's weak piss liberalism was fun. And also took shots at Lars Frederiksen being really silly.

Incidentally, Propagandhi are a much better band than NOFX too.

Miftan posted:

What song is that, by the way?
Propagandhi are great, and so are nofx. It's important to remember that fat Mike was an absolute shithead until around.. 2008? Stickin' in my eye is the first song I ever liked.

Irony Be My Shield posted:

It's also nowhere near as big an election issue as it is in the states. There's been very little of it in the campaign, other than Farron's bizarre homophobia being brought forward a few times.

staberind posted:

I have seen american imports of ferverently anti abortion loonies trying to gain a foothold tho.

coffeetable posted:

more generally: yes, there exist people in the ~social justice sphere~ who persecute people who voice opinions they don't like. the reason that this thread is laughing at you is because that's exactly what happens to women and minorities whenever they voice their own opinion, but on a much more damaging scale. you've just never noticed it because your (my) group weren't subject to anything like it until very, very recently.

MikeCrotch posted:

He wants to say Cultural Marxism but the keksters are avoiding that term after people pointed out it was invented by the real life nazis

forkboy84 posted:

That time Propagandhi wrote a song mocking Fat Mike's weak piss liberalism was fun. And also took shots at Lars Frederiksen being really silly.

Incidentally, Propagandhi are a much better band than NOFX too.

Igiari posted:

Jesus Christ can't you summarise this in five words or fewer, I don't have the patience to read all this

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Considering that I've had a BNP member threaten my family due to my sisters being mixed race and being autistic myself I'd say you are wrong

Guavanaut posted:

And then him supporting going out and voting for the Democrats instead of smashing the state, which prompted a rebuke.

Pochoclo posted:

Nah I'm joining the roving EU gangs, wearing all leather and raiding old pensioner tory scum, what's not to love

coffeetable posted:

mansplaining is definitely a thing. i am a man and i do it all the time (though less often than i used to. i think)

ask your girlfriend/wife/sister/female friend whether you do it. expect them to say 'god yes' and then probably 'but everyone else does it too so don't worry!!!!'

Tesseraction posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUA49BMSbw

quote:

Theresa May, while she was home secretary, and even when she was a candidate in last summer’s leadership election, seemed an unlikely figure to call forth these essentially visceral, irrational responses.

Why unlikely? Because the emotions I am describing are not sensible and she is patently very sensible. The extravagant collection of shoes, and the controversial leather trousers — so often derided by political commentators and fashion editors — could be seen as attempts to dispel, or at best modify, her sensible image, though I think that judgment overlooks something which we are sometimes too delicate to spell out. This is that — in contrast to some of the other women who have dominated British public life in the last half century — she exudes erotic appeal. Sex appeal is not quite the same as the big mythological draw which was summoned up by, say, Golda Meir or Queen Victoria, but the two are in some way connected.

The Muse of History descends from Heaven and transforms public figures, like a fresco painter turning events into allegory. Had the Labour party had its wits about it, and elected Yvette Cooper as its leader, even she — brisk Balliol graduate of the cropped hair as she may be — could have been in the running for such a transformation. As it was, Destiny chose to touch with its finger the commonsense St Hugh’s geographer. Once this had happened, it became clear that Theresa had ‘It’. You might disagree with much of what she says, but you would be peculiarly insensitive not to have noticed that her voice, the skin, the eyes are all sending signals — whether it is done voluntarily or not does not matter. You can’t invent this quality — she simply has it. This is one of the reasons why the cartoonists who depict her as a beaky-nosed harridan completely fail to capture her essence.

Mrs May will have struck very many pundits, when she came forward as the successor to David Cameron, as a dull person. Her speeches often sound wooden and repetitive. As well as having sex appeal, however, she has been blessed with enemies which a politician could only dream of. As if it was not enough for her to be pitted in the hustings against the hopeless Corbyn, Jean-Claude Juncker lurched, belching over the threshold of Downing Street to transform this busy suburban woman into the Virgin Queen addressing the troops at Tilbury as the Spanish Armada enters the Channel.

Mrs May must have found it hard to believe her luck. Here was a Galtieri moment, in which she could step forward as the British warrior queen — without the painful necessity of committing a war crime by sinking a Belgrano full of Argentinian teenagers.

Theresa May, who is a politician to her fingertips, can add five marginal seats to her list of Labour scalps every time Juncker opens his mouth to insist on the rights of ‘the 27 member states’. His baiting of her is so clumsy that even those such as myself who voted Remain find ourselves responding strangely to her replies. Our ears hear her repeating the same slightly stilted speech she made on 50 previous news bulletins. Some inner force, however, has turned down the volume, and we find we are listening to Elizabeth at Tilbury.

‘Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that under God I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects.’ That famous speech in the summer of the Armada has found echoes in many of May’s speeches, from the first as Prime Minister, in which she promised to look after the interests of those who were just getting by, to the repeated election promises to be strong and stable. She is quite definitely one who would ‘think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my Realm’.

Some historians think that Elizabeth knew, even as she made this speech, that the Armada had already been blown off course, and the danger of invasion was nil. This resembles Mrs May’s telling her supporters that they must regard the likelihood of a Corbyn victory as a serious threat.

Juncker will have plenty of fun in the next two years putting a spanner in the works, but for the time being Mummy sweeps onwards, borne in heavenly chariots, floating above painted clouds.

namesake posted:

Join the Corboys instead, they ride the M4 all jammy and chrome.

namesake posted:

Okay I laughed as soon as the video started and closed it after 1 second.

namesake posted:

^^^I think that's the sensible approach most of the time, but just give them poo poo before and afterwards. Also during if possible.

Tesseraction posted:

And you hang on the words of Carlgon of Sad, who uses autism as his go-to term for people who should be shunned and ignored?

namesake posted:

Okay I laughed as soon as the video started and closed it after 1 second.

Miftan posted:

A lot of anarchists I talk to are of the opinion that you should still vote for the lesser evil.

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Sargon is borderline anyway

quote:

The number of people who have watched the film is similar to a televised party election broadcast audience, but because it is on Facebook it is not regulated by Ofcom, which can only consider complaints about “unjust or unfair treatment of individuals or organisations” in TV party broadcasts.

Tesseraction posted:

Being fair it's a parody of RockingMrE, a Welsh MRA who thinks Karl Marx is trying to steal mens rights beyond the grave. He copies all the bizarre mannerisms that MrE has including the habit of really obviously reading from an off-screen script while pretending to talk naturally, randomly having his video cut to black and white, and explaining simple things he doesn't need to and failing to clarify his leaps of logic.

Regarde Aduck posted:

Sargons can't look up.

OwlFancier posted:

He hasn't quite go the soul gazing stare right.

Tesseraction posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUA49BMSbw

TheRat posted:

https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/870673372908224512

Miftan posted:

What song is that, by the way?
Propagandhi are great, and so are nofx. It's important to remember that fat Mike was an absolute shithead until around.. 2008? Stickin' in my eye is the first song I ever liked.

TheRat posted:

https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/870673372908224512

Tesseraction posted:

I knew his son was but hot drat.

OwlFancier posted:

God I can't imagine trying to wear any leather in this weather.