An insane mind posted:

What the gently caress, excuse my French, is a Lexiteer

Glenn Quebec posted:

@ all this never thought I'd see one in the wild


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE8CJwXSPRs

tarbrush posted:

Which don't actually conflict with anything on the labour manifesto, and are pretty effective at preventing companies ransoming counties for hand outs to prevent them leaving.

Surprise Giraffe posted:

The closer Brexit get, the more obvious the garbage Lexiteers get. Labour's really got to split to get away from them at this point.

Gum posted:

Harry Potter being an aristocrat with unlimited money is a major part of the books

Elman posted:

My favourite part was how the reason wizards hid themselves was that if they didn't, "everyone would want magic solutions to their problems".

It was never explained why this would be a bad thing.

Avirosb posted:

Wasn't the reason that regular people had guns?

quote:

UK faces prospect of no Brexit if May's deal rejected, says Hunt

Fried Watermelon posted:

Wizards don't even know how electricity works

They probably think cancer was a demon or something

Jose posted:

america has a rather large noncing problem

https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1083705016689614850

prefect posted:

I did not know that. There's not a list of the 17 states, is there?



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“A review of some 50,000 marriage licenses shows how Missouri’s lax law has for years turned the state into a destination wedding spot for 15-year-old child brides, often rushing to get married,” the Star reported. “Some traveled up to 1,800 miles to Missouri, from as far off as Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Florida and every other state in the region: Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee.”

tarbrush posted:

Which don't actually conflict with anything on the labour manifesto, and are pretty effective at preventing companies ransoming counties for hand outs to prevent them leaving.

Jose posted:

america has a rather large noncing problem

https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1083705016689614850

Fried Watermelon posted:

Wizards don't even know how electricity works

They probably think cancer was a demon or something

alphabettitouretti posted:

Surely that posh oval office can afford a properly fitted suit. He looks like a 10 year old playing dress up in dad's wardrobe.

oliwan posted:

forkboy84 posted:

The idea is popular with tankies because the EU is inherently liberal in orientation and therefore leaving it is good.

They basically just ignore that tanking the economy is going to be awful for poor people and the Tories will probably stay in power until 2022 and will just sign lots of free trade deals which strip back worker rights and consumer protections. Because if they were smart they'd not be tankies.

Avirosb posted:

forkboy84 posted:

The idea is popular with tankies because the EU is inherently liberal in orientation and therefore leaving it is good.

They basically just ignore that tanking the economy is going to be awful for poor people and the Tories will probably stay in power until 2022 and will just sign lots of free trade deals which strip back worker rights and consumer protections. Because if they were smart they'd not be tankies.

An insane mind posted:

J.K. Rowling literally wrote her book while on the dole, and now she's literally calling the people who want to keep it going far left populists not unlike Trump.

Wealth really does break brains

tarbrush posted:

Which don't actually conflict with anything on the labour manifesto, and are pretty effective at preventing companies ransoming counties for hand outs to prevent them leaving.

FMguru posted:

Just another reminder that There Are No Good Zillionaires.

oliwan posted:

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1083754302131355649

quote:

As Bolton and Pitts observe, the result is a highly personalised and moralistic politics, a thousand miles away from rigorous economic and class analysis. The hook-nosed “Rothschild” is the left’s version of the Polish plumber or layabout scrounger. The symmetry with the Trump and the Brexit movement is close to perfect. All oppose the EU. All admire Putin, and in the case of Arron Banks and Seumas Milne pay homage to the Russian state. We should not be surprised. If you believe that liberal democracy is a sham – a conspiracy that hides the machinations of the real rulers of the world – any attack on the liberal order is better than none.

In their best passage, the authors describe why a dim, unprepossessing man with no noticeable characteristics beyond obstinacy and self-righteousness can inspire the level of devotion as a Trump or a Putin. The true face of the 21st century far left in Britain is George Galloway. Say what you will about him, and I have said much, he is honest in his own way. He was not just against war in Iraq but for Saddam Hussein. Corbyn produced propaganda for the Iranian state but was he for its oppression of women, gays and religious and ethnic minorities? Unlike Galloway he is too slippery to say. The trick of his supporters has been to alchemise his slyness into modesty. They have elevated the leader’s personal goodness and placed him ‘in a higher realm above the tainted institutions and processes of liberal democracy’. If you support him, you too are good. And if you are good you cannot possibly be an antisemite or misogynist or a supporter of barbaric dictators – even though to outsiders you give every appearance of being all of these things.

[...]

The illiberalism of Labour is ignored, however, by Labour members because the myth of the leader’s unimpeachable integrity means that as ‘a lifelong anti-racist’ he cannot be judged by the same standards as the Labour politicians who preceded him. Indeed, his transparent goodness means that anyone who says otherwise must be prompted by a malign desire to promote greed and oppression. The personality cult thus creates the conspiracy theory: for who except the wicked would attack a saint? For a left that once prided itself on its scepticism and intelligence, the disgrace of this combination of credulity and viciousness will take a generation to live down.