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smith is shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which is one of shittiest cabinet positions
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Jun 21, 2017 22:19
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Zikan posted:smith is shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which is one of shittiest cabinet positions haha owned
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Jun 21, 2017 22:19
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He will shock and awe them with his tremendous peenas.
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Jun 21, 2017 22:23
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:"Austerity and inequities are choices, they are NOT necessities" 
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Jun 21, 2017 22:26
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Anta posted:Not actual luxury flats, just luxury-adjacent: speaking of which~ 
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Jun 21, 2017 23:02
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Vox Nihili posted:speaking of which~ 
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Jun 21, 2017 23:07
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Shear Modulus posted:haha owned In fairness, he's one of the few MPs that could actually be said to give a poo poo about Northern Ireland, which in turn makes him one of the few ministers on either side of the aisle that actually understands their brief.
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Jun 21, 2017 23:08
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Vox Nihili posted:speaking of which~ (apartment complex burns down, is homeless lost all possessions and maybe even lost family members) (gets given new housing) lucky ducky!!!!!!!! 
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Jun 21, 2017 23:18
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Fast Luck posted:this is a lucky ducky cartoon made real 
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Jun 21, 2017 23:42
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They should let people do switcheroos, like trade their house to one of the displaced victims in exchange for getting to live in the fancy new flats.
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Jun 21, 2017 23:51
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Vox Nihili posted:speaking of which~ lol why would you say this out loud
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Jun 21, 2017 23:54
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those people who lost everything in a fire get allll the benefits!
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Jun 21, 2017 23:55
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Karl Barks posted:lol why would you say this out loud rich people
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Anta posted:Not actual luxury flats, just luxury-adjacent: oh, so these ones are fitted with flammable cladding? wouldn't want those poors to think they can live in non-kindlebox housing
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Karl Barks posted:those people who lost everything in a fire get allll the benefits! lucky ducky!
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Jun 22, 2017 00:12
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Karl Barks posted:lol why would you say this out loud london is a disease
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Jun 22, 2017 06:39
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Karl Barks posted:lol why would you say this out loud That's not even the most infuriating comment from that article, that would go to quote:I’m very sad that people have lost their homes, but there are a lot of people here who have bought flats and will now see the values drop. It will degrade things. And it opens up a can of worms in the housing market  My property values!
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Jun 22, 2017 07:57
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Jun 22, 2017 09:54
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liberals are loving terrified of left wing people getting in charge lol
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Jun 22, 2017 09:56
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Jose posted:liberals are loving terrified of left wing people getting in charge lol afaik Yglesias's critique of Ossof is that he wasn't willing to outline any policy plans, which meant people would have no idea what they're even voting for. Libs are terrified of having to explain what they want.
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Jun 22, 2017 09:59
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The replies to Matt Yglesias on twitter were absolutely insane. There's this bizarre notion cultivated by the centrists for years now, that outlining your political intentions equates to a promise of action in government, and that not fulfilling those intentions due to an obstructionist opposition would be breaking that promise. Therefore, you should just aim low and only campaign on what you can actually expect to get done in legislature, which is gonna be some idiotic half-measure like the ACA or raising the retirement age for social security. Centrist libs just don't get politics at all.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The replies to Matt Yglesias on twitter were absolutely insane. There's this bizarre notion cultivated by the centrists for years now, that outlining your political intentions equates to a promise of action in government, and that not fulfilling those intentions due to an obstructionist opposition would be breaking that promise. Therefore, you should just aim low and only campaign on what you can actually expect to get done in legislature, which is gonna be some idiotic half-measure like the ACA or raising the retirement age for social security. Centrist libs just don't get politics at all.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:08
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there were pieces in the right wing papers here about how corbyn was offering bribes to young people to get them to vote for him and young people can't be trusted with voting
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Jun 22, 2017 10:08
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quote:We've come to a point where every four years this national fever rises up — this hunger for the Saviour, the White Knight, the Man on Horseback — and whoever wins becomes so immensely powerful, like Nixon is now, that when you vote for President today you're talking about giving a man dictatorial power for four years. I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England — or the Queen — and have the real business of the presidency conducted by... a City Manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years. The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:10
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i don't know if the british system is preferable but that's what hunter s. thompson thought and also the brits have the NHS and i don't so
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Jun 22, 2017 10:11
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Finally, the future we all want: competent, sharp-elbowed management of a system designed to streamline wealth into the pockets of a few.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:12
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someone should resurrect hunter s thompson so he can see what he's missing
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Jun 22, 2017 10:13
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i don't know if the british system is preferable but that's what hunter s. thompson thought and also the brits have the NHS and i don't so
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Jun 22, 2017 10:15
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Jose posted:there were pieces in the right wing papers here about how corbyn was offering bribes to young people to get them to vote for him and young people can't be trusted with voting Tax cuts aren't a bribe though because uh... um... *does the pulling finger off magic trick only for the skin to slide off from Hapsburg's Hyperhydrosis* BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i don't know if the british system is preferable but that's what hunter s. thompson thought and also the brits have the NHS and i don't so Parliamentary systems have their issues, but they're way better than having a senate and imperial presidency like we do. The fact that so many presidential republics turned into presidential dictatorships says it all. The one compelling thing I've heard about how parliamentary systems are bad is the threat of not being able to form a government. Well uh, good. If politics are so dysfunctional that the voting public can't even empower a winning coalition, then any government that's forced upon them wouldn't represent the public will. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 10:22 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Jun 22, 2017 10:16
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To be fair the US used to be more parliamentary until congress decided it was a much better idea to let successive presidents steal more and more power so they didn't have to make any hard decisions
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Jun 22, 2017 10:39
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Power has shifted massively towards the executive in the Westminster system as well tbf
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Jun 22, 2017 10:52
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Zikan posted:Jeremy Corbyn Helldumps The Tories
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The replies to Matt Yglesias on twitter were absolutely insane. There's this bizarre notion cultivated by the centrists for years now, that outlining your political intentions equates to a promise of action in government, and that not fulfilling those intentions due to an obstructionist opposition would be breaking that promise. Therefore, you should just aim low and only campaign on what you can actually expect to get done in legislature, which is gonna be some idiotic half-measure like the ACA or raising the retirement age for social security. Centrist libs just don't get politics at all. Obama had to compromise on healthcare so that he could continue to charge up his political capital and unleash an even more progressive kamehameha.
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this is the most damning thing about the ossoff election: https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/877697647645040642 if the democrats managed a similar swing to any of the other elections, places all over the country, they'd have an extra seat right now. instead the perfectly smooth featureless centrist with millions of dollars of backing achieved less than everyone else evidence is looking pretty good 'articulate a clear policy difference and go left' as a strategy so far, in both UK and US
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Jun 22, 2017 11:23
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yglesias has been pretty okay recently for a guy who once wrote a pro-sweatshop article (tbf he repudiated it later)
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Jun 22, 2017 11:24
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lol the democrats are so loving incompetent
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Jun 22, 2017 11:26
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the dems could literally just pay people to vote for them and get a better roi EDIT: hello england
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Jose posted:someone should resurrect hunter s thompson so he can see what he's missing He'd take one look around and blow his brains out all over again. Edit: although before he did, he would write an amazing teardown of all those recent 'maybe Nixon want so bad?' think pieces that have been floating around.
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