Sanford posted:

Yeah that's as far as I got with it. Racism is normally very on the nose; for all the many reasons you can criticise it, "difficult to understand" is rare.

baka kaba posted:

Not UK but still

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1091003635125927936


doges

Dead Goon posted:

Jeremy Corbyn wants to eat dogs, this is bad for Jeremy Corbyn.

Sanford should have posted:

Yeah that's as far as I got with it. Racism written on the back of a van is normally very on the nose; for all the many reasons you can criticise it, "difficult to understand" is rare.

ThomasPaine posted:

Wrt Fischer I skimmed the vampire castle again and while I agree that he's a bit much with brand and it's not his best work, I maintain that it's unreasonable to blame him for others misreading it to attack minorities, which clearly isn't his argument. Here's the link for anyone interested:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/mark-fisher/exiting-vampire-castle

One pertinent section that does a good job of summarising his position:

Sanford posted:

Can anyone decipher this weird maybe-racism? It says "don't look kike that" and the picture was an Islamic moon & star but the star was a Star of David with a trail of little stars coming off it. I just don't get it.

Ratjaculation posted:

It says CLEAN ME

Catboy Autonomist posted:

I love the part in Vampire's Castle where he claims that anyone from a minority who criticizes something is actually an Academic Upper-Middle Class Cosmopolitan Neo-Anarchist Elite, actually because some people were mean to Russell Brand on Twitter in 2013 or something

Mr.Tophat posted:

I am one.

I'm saying a great deal of stress would be free from my life if I could just be like, "Yup, here's hard evidence that my brain is different." As it stands, I have to use the words, "On my worst day, I am unable to do X Y and Z."

I went to a fitness assessment this month. I recommend you listen to the people speaking.

Guavanaut posted:

-snip-

Indeterminacy posted:

Not to poke at the homogeneity of the English Landed Gentry, but is Rich Rural Dark a sustained class of people in the UK?

Jollity Farm posted:

Same for me here. I'm still waiting for the results of my fitness assessment, which was on the 11th. It would, as you say, be easier to say "here is a picture of what's wrong" than trying to adequately perform my depression and anxiety for a complete stranger. Of course, as Poison Jam says, they do deny benefits to people with easily proven physical conditions often, so it might not make much practical difference after all.

Also: it is disagreeable, when you're waiting for your assessment results, to hear something come through the door and look to find it's that ridiculous Wetherspoons magazine. It must have wasted good resources to put such a thing through everyone's door, regardless of whether they've visited a Wetherspoons in the last fifteen years or not.

Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s former co-chief of staff, has a solution to the backstop problem in his Telegraph column. posted:

If even an invisible Irish border is unacceptable to the EU, another option is available: a customs territory comprising the UK and Ireland. The republic could remain in the EU but leave its customs union, agreeing instead a common commercial policy including matching tariffs with the UK. This would protect Irish consumers and businesses: the republic imports more from the UK than from any EU country, and the UK is its second biggest European export market. It would also support Irish exports: 85 per cent of its freight trade to the continent uses British ports.

Charles Moore in the Spectator is not worried about the threat of food shortages. posted:

What to do about the coming shortage of green groceries of which several supermarkets warned yet again this week if there is a no-deal Brexit on 29 March? I am just old enough to remember when fresh fruit and veg were in short supply at this time of year. People used to know how to store things to mitigate the problem: apples would be carefully laid out on straw-strewn shelves. We ate lots of root vegetables and not much greenery. If ever you saw a strawberry out of season it came, for some reason, from Israel. Perhaps it is time for a Brexit recipe book, like those comforting wartime rationing ones full of bright ideas for dull things. In our part of the south coast we have racier ideas. We have a centuries-old tradition of smuggling (‘brandy for the parson, baccy for the clerk’), and are ready to set out in our little ships to Dunkirk or wherever and bring back luscious black-market lettuces and French beans, oranges and lemons. Our Sussex and Kent smugglers used to be known as ‘free traders’, which is interesting and — if we have to sneak over an EU tariff wall — entirely appropriate for today.

JFairfax posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDndqf5U2cM

MikeCrotch posted:

That is a prime example of the logical result of the "pivot to video", which just eventually resulted in text articles being turned into video slideshows in an attempt to get more views

baka kaba posted:

Smart man Nick Timothy posted:

If ever you saw a strawberry out of season it came, for some reason, from Israel.

Fans posted:

What.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Yes, these ideas are perfectly sane suggestions from perfectly sane people.

Fans posted:

What.

Margaret Thatcher statue ‘will need a 10-foot plinth to deter vandals posted:

A £300,000 statue of Margaret Thatcher will need to a high plinth to deter ‘politically-motivated vandals’, police have said. Plans to install the figure on a 10-foot platform in the former Prime Minister’s home town of Grantham, Lincolnshire, will be voted on next week.

The police report said: ‘In general there remains a motivated far-left movement across the UK (though not so much in Lincolnshire) who may be committed to public activism.

‘Margaret Thatcher does however maintain an element of emblematic significance to many on the left and the passage of time does seem to have diminished that intensity of feeling.’ The statue has so-far had 17 objections and seven people writing in support.

Last year, plans to erect the statue in Westminster were rejected by the Westminster Council, with a report saying it could have attracted ‘potential vandalism and civil disorder’. The report to the South Kesteven District Council’s Development Management Committee said these issues were also present in this case.

‘The divisive nature of Baroness Thatcher due to her political career and policy legacy and the potential for this to result in vandalism has been raised as a concern,’ it read. ‘A threat assessment has been carried out by Lincolnshire Police who consider there is a possibility any public statue of Baroness Thatcher could be a target for politically motivated vandals.

Lincolnshire Police’s Crime Prevention Officer has not objected to the proposal but they have recommended the statue is placed on a sufficiently high plinth and is sited in a location that benefits from good natural surveillance as well as lighting and CCTV.’

Letters in support of the statue have declared that its proposed location on St Peter’s Hill was suitable to ‘commemorate the first female Prime Minister’.

But objections have declared Baroness Thatcher a ‘divisive figure to due to political career and policies’. The committee will vote on the proposals next Tuesday.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Yes, these ideas are perfectly sane suggestions from perfectly sane people.

Bardeh posted:

These are the kinds of people that are running this country. Arrogant, clueless fucktards, and they have all the power. Jesus christ it's enough to make you loving despair

sudo rm -rf posted:

what sizes?

sudo rm -rf posted:

what sizes?