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Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


im not reading that but how many times do they subtly drop hints to their readers that hes a jew?

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MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
Enough times that Theresa May has a list drawn up of "prominent Jews in the UK". You know, just in case.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


A friend of mine whose life is a total mess and he rapidly got terminal irony poisoning after having to move back in with his mum, he was telling me that Alex Jones was different from most insane fash because he didn't blame everything on Jews just this evil guy called George Soros.

Having never heard of Soros before I asked him if Soros was Jewish.

The amount of loving hem and hawwing that followed "uhh well he's actually more of a race traitor and sold fellow Jews out to the Nazis"

My friend is now a bit better, instead of blindly believing it all he just asks me what I think about various things I've never heard that only neonazis are concerned about or asks me, seemingly genuinely, whether trump is actually good or not.

I dunno what happened to that guy tbh, he's pretty incel I suppose but he used to be very smart and lefty, he seemed to lose like 50 IQ points at some point, I blame lack of sex, being in a trash racist county and too much "ironic" YouTube

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
is may the weakest ever british PM?

https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/961371633108901888

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Love 2 denounce socialism at the Black and White Ball

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


Chamberlain was a better leader

UrbicaMortis
Feb 16, 2012

Hmm, how shall I post today?


It's weird because she's incredibly weak but could potentially limp along for years since the conservatives don't have any obvious replacement to coalesce behind and it's a lot harder to bring down minority governments nowadays.

Fans
Jun 27, 2013

A reptile dysfunction
I don't think limping through Brexit being humiliated at every turn is going to save her, but she's certainly desperate enough to try.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Fans posted:

I don't think limping through Brexit being humiliated at every turn is going to save her, but she's certainly desperate enough to try.

Save her from what? A huge wage, a huge pension and a directorship at the end of it? And a bookdeal if she can be bothered to find a ghost writer

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


if the tories were smart they'd hold an election and accept 5 years out of power (with a narrow labour government most likely) where all the consequences of brexit can be blamed on labour.

instead theyre insanely dumb and after May fails enough they'll replace her with the Lord Paedo Isle Reese Mogg Man to lose hilariously

Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 01:42 on Feb 9, 2018

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

UrbicaMortis posted:

It's weird because she's incredibly weak but could potentially limp along for years since the conservatives don't have any obvious replacement to coalesce behind and it's a lot harder to bring down minority governments nowadays.

She will probably get to be PM until the tories decide they arent scared of jeremy corbyn being PM

Fans
Jun 27, 2013

A reptile dysfunction

nopantsjack posted:

Save her from what? A huge wage, a huge pension and a directorship at the end of it? And a bookdeal if she can be bothered to find a ghost writer

Her legacy. She's a Tory she's already got money, all she cares about is being remembered fondly.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016



Theresa May in Rock-Hard Irish Border Jam

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

if the tories were smart they'd hold an election and accept 5 years out of power (with a narrow labour government most likely) where all the consequences of brexit can be blamed on labour.

instead theyre insanely dumb and after May fails enough they'll replace her with the Lord Paedo Isle Reese Mogg Man to lose hilariously

You're forgetting that corbyn is an insane stalinist who will turn the UK into maoist China.

This is what tories really beleive
My only tory mate is like "I want to like corbyn but I'm worried cause I read books about Stalin and mao" and it's like... Okay?

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

nopantsjack posted:

You're forgetting that corbyn is an insane stalinist who will turn the UK into maoist China.

tbf half his supporters also believe he will turn the UK into maoist china.

they're wrong, of course. the best he can do is turn the uk into moist china

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
why would an insane stalinist be participating in electoral politics at all? Wouldn't he just be firebombing parliament?

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


gradenko_2000 posted:

why would an insane stalinist be participating in electoral politics at all? Wouldn't he just be firebombing parliament?

Plenty Stalinists have participated in electoral politics though. The German Communists were the 3rd biggest party by the end of the Weimar Republic. The Italian Communists got more than 30% in the Italian Republic's first election, the French Communists were also a fairly strong electoral force during Stalin's life.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

gradenko_2000 posted:

why would an insane stalinist be participating in electoral politics at all? Wouldn't he just be firebombing parliament?

Shh, stop with your words, sentences and thoughts. They're not relevant anymore

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Fallen Hamprince posted:



Theresa May in Rock-Hard Irish Border Jam

Ireland is still gonna force the U.K. to soft brexit isn't it? Wasn't that the deal they reached to make the northern Irish and proper Irish both happy.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

gradenko_2000 posted:

why would an insane stalinist be participating in electoral politics at all? Wouldn't he just be firebombing parliament?

the typical route for eastern european communist takeovers post WWII was

-form governing coalition with social democrats in which you get control of the security services
-use security services to murder social democrats + all the other parties
-worker's state baybee

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Rees mogg crashing the UK out of the EU and breaking the good friday agreement and starting up terrorism again would be entertaining to watch were i not in the UK

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
You guys are going to be the Cuba of Europe

Firos
Apr 30, 2007

Staying abreast of the latest developments in jam communism



twoday posted:

You guys are going to be the Cuba of Europe

Not a chance. Cuba is actually socialist.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

gradenko_2000 posted:

why would an insane stalinist be participating in electoral politics at all? Wouldn't he just be firebombing parliament?
The strong and stable leadership of Mrs. May has ensured that every one of Corbyn's terrorist plots have been thwarted.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

The strong and stable leadership of Mrs. May has ensured that every one of Corbyn's terrorist plots have been thwarted.

Socialists, retreat! Retreat!

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Cuba also has lovely weather and friendly, welcoming people.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

marktheando posted:

Cuba also has lovely weather and friendly, welcoming people.
but also a decrepit rail network and janky internet
thread priorities pls

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Inescapable Duck posted:

Socialists, retreat! Retreat!

*transforms into hammer and sickle festooned train and inexplicably flies away*

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

twoday posted:

You guys are going to be the Cuba of Europe

No, because Cuba has a good healthcare system while ARE BRITAINE is destroying theirs.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

MonsieurChoc posted:

No, because Cuba has a good healthcare system while ARE BRITAINE is destroying theirs.
if you're paying in CUC or have seniority enough to get into one of the "foreigner's hospitals" sure

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
cuba does not have lovely weather imo. its too loving hot and humid

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
The UK is to Europe what Sri Lanka is to India.

Or something. I'm just whiffing it.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



Cerv posted:

but also a decrepit rail network and janky internet
thread priorities pls

So you mean the groundwork is already here...

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Lexit when?

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




barkeep ill have a scotia libre

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/piercepenniless/status/962278212989542400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.somethingawful.com%2F

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
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jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

twoday posted:

You guys are going to be the Cuba of Europe
Interesting way to spell Thailand

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/962277710822301697

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oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo



The Guardian posted:

I bought my 17-year-old daughter driving lessons for her birthday. It was always assumed she would have my partner’s six-year-old car when she passed her test and that he would get a new, bigger car.

But she has decided she doesn’t want this car: it’s not cool enough, it’s the wrong colour and the pattern on the seats is embarrassing. She feels we should buy her a different car. I think she is being ungrateful; she’s lucky to be given a good car. 

However, many of her friends have been given “better” cars. One has a brand-new Mini; another was going to have her mum’s car but didn’t like it, so they sold it to buy her a new one, leaving her parents to share a car. Others have been bought used cars that are not embarrassing.

My daughter doesn’t need a car – her sixth form school is two minutes’ walk away and we have good public transport. We can afford to buy her a car, but I don’t think that’s the best thing to do. She has some money from a savings plan, which she’s suggested using, but she is supposed to be saving for university. Also, if she did spend that money, it would mean an older car than the one she is being offered, which I don’t think is sensible. 

Am I being stubborn, or out of touch? I appreciate teenagers today have different expectations and more pressure through social media than I did. But I am struggling with this. 


You’re not being any more stubborn than your daughter. And you’re not out of touch. It’s extremely generous of you to give her driving lessons and a car. But.

We all want our children to know their own minds and show independence, but the moment they do – usually about things we may not agree with – some parents don’t like it. I want you to imagine your daughter at a work meeting (or similar) in a few years from now. She is offered a substandard contract or, at least, one she doesn’t like. And she digs in her heels and asks for a better one. You’d be proud, wouldn’t you?

It’s easy to say your daughter is spoiled and being bratty but in her mind she’s doing something similar now. It does not mean that you should just buy her another car. You shouldn’t. You have offered her the car and you should let her do what she wants with it. Give her the option of selling it and buying another car of her choice with the money. Let her learn about commerce and that to make something happen, she needs to have some input.

Tell her you will answer any questions about car-buying/selling and be there for any prospective buyers with her (if it gets to that), but she has to do the work. Your offer is the car, for her to do with what she wants, but she has to sell it. This shows you are listening to her but the onus is on her to get what she wants. She will probably realise it’s a huge pain and easier to keep the uncool car. But let her come to that conclusion.

The savings fund is a difficult prospect. I don’t know if it’s in her name or yours; if she has sole control over it, there’s little you can do if she decides to spend it, and the harder you push or threaten, the more determined she will be to prove you wrong. When teenagers want something, they do so with a desire and tenacity that is immensely powerful. It’s not a good idea to get in the way of it. Instead, you need to approach it as you would a rip-tide at sea – don’t swim against it, but go alongside it until the pull subsides and you can swim to shore.

It’s very, very hard to watch your child learn at the bitter hand of experience; but at some point you have to trust her – and your parenting – and let her make her own decisions. If you have control over the money, then obviously you can exert it – and I would at this stage, because you have a long view and she doesn’t.

To help you process this, I would also ponder what this means for you. Don’t feel rejected by her not wanting the “embarrassing” car. This has nothing to do with you. Teenage behaviour can shine a light into areas of a parent’s life that may need work: if there is anything you feel insecure about, they will find it. Try to unravel what this means for you beyond the car.

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