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Jose posted:lmao the brain worms going on here It's almost as if the main purpose of the whole Russia thing isn't actually to prevent interference in elections but rather to manufacture an excuse to punch left.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 10:58 |
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Guavanaut posted:
Kinda feel like this setup is too easy
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 10:58 |
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Miftan posted:That's an unfair standard to hold them to considering that it's what our entire journalistic industry is based on. Barry Foster posted:That is not what the orangutan says
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:00 |
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I've not seen the Iceland advert but I don't know how it could be more political than the new World Wildlife one.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:02 |
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Lol the government is literally funded by Russian oligarchs but no it is Corbyn who is blocking an investigation
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:06 |
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Barry Foster posted:That is not what the orangutan says It's what The Librarian, a *magical* orangutan, says.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:08 |
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Jose posted:seriously why is he still at the BBC lol He has to be drunk, right? HJB posted:I've not seen the Iceland advert but I don't know how it could be more political than the new World Wildlife one. quote:Clearcast is the body responsible for clearing ads on behalf of the four major UK commercial broadcasters. Seems pretty clearcut to me
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:11 |
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a supermarket that specialises in frozen meals called iceland is pretty loving lol
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:14 |
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TheRat posted:Seems pretty clearcut to me loving lol I knew it had to be deliberate. Everyone came out of that looking good except Clearcast.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:17 |
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Guavanaut posted:What even is the supposed connection? Boomers are too stupid to realise that the USSR hasn't existed for the past 30 years.
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Beefeater1980 posted:
And this is exactly why Leavers can dismiss everything bad about Brexit as Project Fear. Nissan also made a huge fuss about leaving the UK if we didn't join the Euro. Why should workers put any trust in their claims that no, this time they'll really do it, pinkie promise? And if Nissan actually does leave, or any other large company that's been pulling this kind of stunt for years, a good proportion of the workers will deny it has anything to do with Brexit and they've been half-expecting this for years.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:19 |
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Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articlesquote:Academics who are frightened to explore controversial topics, in case it provokes a backlash, will soon have a safer route to publish such work. Missed opportunity to call it the Journal of Hot Takes imo
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:26 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles It's one of those things that could be good in theory but will just be immediately coöpted by fash to mainstream their ideas
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:27 |
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Jose posted:seriously why is he still at the BBC lol Lol, he deleted it. This was the "mad cat lady Codswallop" tweet right?
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's one of those things that could be good in theory but will just be immediately coöpted by fash to mainstream their ideas its going to be race science all the time
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:28 |
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TheRat posted:Lol, he deleted it. This was the "mad cat lady Codswallop" tweet right? Since I still have twitter open with it visible its this yeah
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This is all really good https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1062287442319958018
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:35 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's one of those things that could be good in theory but will just be immediately coöpted by fash to mainstream their ideas There's this poo poo for example, and Prevent is more of a threat to the left than the right, but the submissions at least will probably have a thousand "An Analysis Of Female Insubordination In Academia by J. Gordan Peckleton" Jose posted:its going to be race science all the time
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:36 |
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https://twitter.com/mrchriswilkins/status/1062286813488992256?s=21 https://twitter.com/samcoatestimes/status/1062287058834804737?s=21 Wilkins, for the record, is the former Number Ten Director of Strategy.
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bump_fn posted:a supermarket that specialises in frozen meals called iceland is pretty loving lol Some of us are old enough to remember when it was called Bejams
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Guavanaut posted:I suppose it depends on what you can't say in academia at the moment and how well peer reviewed it is. Can't believe your favouritism for BAR Honda right here.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles But gbs already exists???
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:38 |
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Jose posted:Since I still have twitter open with it visible its this yeah I'll be very disappointed in Twitter unless he deleted it because of the hundreds of people telling him her name is Eleanor Abernathy.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:42 |
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Guavanaut posted:It wouldn't surprise me if the regulators got some encouragement. Or Iceland took legal advice on how to get the tamest possible advert that wouldn't put off their bread and butter shoppers while still getting that sweet internet counterculture Banned in Britain cred. I mean this is the weird thing; it's not that much of a counterculture and it's completely not political to advocate for the environment. Environment is and should be THE bipartisan issue if there ever is one. I cannot fathom what checklist the regulatory bodies have that they must've checked through to ban this advert. Was it literally "Cut down less trees? POLITICAL!"
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's one of those things that could be good in theory but will just be immediately coöpted by fash to mainstream their ideas Kinda hard to be coopted when the people involved are a bunch of fash apologists to begin with.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:44 |
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Julio Cruz posted:Arron Banks is being investigated for allegedly* spending Russian money to win the referendum, but sure it's Corbyn who the Russians are really in bed with Yeah but Corbyn bent over Nandos and Brexited into it so he's secretly in league with Arron Banks and the evil communist Russians, you see, he's coming for your BINS, Mabel! He's going to nationalise your bins!
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:45 |
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Rakosi posted:I cannot fathom what checklist the regulatory bodies have that they must've checked through to ban this advert. Because it's Greenpeace. I consider Greenpeace actively harmful to the environment, so anything that keeps them off TV is a good thing in my book.
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:46 |
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Why did they call their lovely sea division Rainbow Warrior and not the more logical Codpeace?
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:48 |
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Has this shambling corpse of a government seriously not collapsed yet?
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 11:49 |
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Jose posted:This is all really good Is there actually any point to an elected House of Lords? Its entire purpose is to be an advisory body comprised of people with diverse areas of expertise and no fear of the government of the day getting rid of them. Now, you can argue that's elitist, but if you want to ditch it, why not just abolish the institution altogether? What purpose does a second elected body with advisory power serve?
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Jose posted:who loving knows Andrew neil having a successful career is a mystery to me. He's such a talentless, smug sack of poo poo.
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There's no way you can call The Spectator a journal
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TheRat posted:Because it's Greenpeace. I consider Greenpeace actively harmful to the environment, so anything that keeps them off TV is a good thing in my book.
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Rakosi posted:I cannot fathom what checklist the regulatory bodies have that they must've checked through to ban this advert.
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jBrereton posted:Greenpeace FTW. Don't come at us with your anti green pish from a state that is only rich because of its oil ty. Their stance on nuclear energy is anti-vaxx level bullshit, and includes the same amount of lying and propaganda. Greenpeace and others like them are actively killing the planet by making sure clean energy infrastructure is not being built.
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Jose posted:its going to be race science all the time Guest starring Toby Young! (lol Toby Young can't write academic papers but it will 100% be peso bs)
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Darth Walrus posted:Is there actually any point to an elected House of Lords? Its entire purpose is to be an advisory body comprised of people with diverse areas of expertise and no fear of the government of the day getting rid of them. Now, you can argue that's elitist, but if you want to ditch it, why not just abolish the institution altogether? What purpose does a second elected body with advisory power serve? It actually does a pretty good job of making sure laws aren’t just rammed through in a week. With our system as it is it’d be a bad idea to remove the one thing that stops legislation being rushed through before any public dissent can really build up.
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TheRat posted:Their stance on nuclear energy is anti-vaxx level bullshit, and includes the same amount of lying and propaganda. Greenpeace and others like them are actively killing the planet by making sure clean energy infrastructure is not being built. Except sustainable energy sources have developed to the point where they are now a viable alternative; they just need the investment. Ten years ago I'd have agreed with you, but I think "nuclear or nothing" is an outdated argument. I used to have the same beef with the Green Party but I genuinely believe the science has caught up to their hard-line stance.
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Darth Walrus posted:Is there actually any point to an elected House of Lords? Its entire purpose is to be an advisory body comprised of people with diverse areas of expertise and no fear of the government of the day getting rid of them. Now, you can argue that's elitist, but if you want to ditch it, why not just abolish the institution altogether? What purpose does a second elected body with advisory power serve? That way Scotland and Yorkshire etc. get guaranteed representation in the upper house. You could also require a certain charter or qualification in law, philosophy, statistics, etc. to preserve the technocratic element. Too much power risks US style gridlock so you could keep them as the advisory review house that they are, just with say 240 members, 20 from each region, instead of 791 seats lmao. TheRat posted:Their stance on nuclear energy is anti-vaxx level bullshit, and includes the same amount of lying and propaganda. Greenpeace and others like them are actively killing the planet by making sure clean energy infrastructure is not being built. Which would be a workable position if there were any buses.
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TheRat posted:Their stance on nuclear energy is anti-vaxx level bullshit, and includes the same amount of lying and propaganda. Greenpeace and others like them are actively killing the planet by making sure clean energy infrastructure is not being built.
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