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Calico Heart posted:Getting serious pre-election depression here. Can't bring myself to feel hope. Send help. Get out there and knock on some doors. It helps, people are surprisingly nice.
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Lt. Danger posted:rees-mogg is dead catting again. that's basically what he's for The point of throwing a dead cat on the table is to distract people from something your side has done. What was the scandal so big that he had to do this and it be less abhorrent than what he just said? No, this is just Moggs being so insulated and ignorant about how much of a horrible oval office him and his circle are that he didn't see the toxicity of what he was saying and is so used to people not calling him on it that he's probably genuinely surprised at the pushback. This is a man who was photographed as a guest of honour for a group that demanded that non-whites be forcefully removed from the country and the press don't even bring it up. In other news the Conservatives have spent £174 million on building 200,000 affordable homes and four years on have built exactly zero new affordable homes. https://twitter.com/JohnHealey_MP/status/1191615742132785152 Gonzo McFee fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Nov 5, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1190661666029146112 I'm days behind on this thread but mathematical sans-serif bold j mathematical sans-serif bold c shouldn't be doing this ableist crap. At least make your god drat political outreach accessible. https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856
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Vlex posted:What the gently caress are you talking about? I meant the speculation on Fry/Stewart/Bailey/Attenborough/whoever.
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mrpwase posted:I used to live near Stratford-upon-Avon, and Patrick Stewart was starring in a Shakespeare play at the RST. Driving to work one day, as I was pulling out of a junction in a small village, he came roaring past at 20+ over the limit in a Range Rover and almost sideswiped me. So I have a bit of an issue with his road safety record. Never encounter your heroes. In school we visited a film studio once. The class spotted reasonable famous actor from various child friendly comedy shows and we ran up to him to say hi. He sneered at us like loving Golum and shouted "gently caress off you little shits!" I will never forget that.
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Threep posted:https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1190661666029146112  I copy-pasted it into the assistive reader that we use to check content is accessible and it made perfect sense of it, are there a bunch of them that would parse it as "The Tories have announced they'll bold-t bold-e bold-m bold-p..."? That sounds like bad software if it can't parse bold type.
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Lt. Danger posted:rees-mogg is dead catting again. that's basically what he's for The point of throwing a dead cat on the table is to distract people from something your side has done. What was the scandal so big that he had to do this and it be less abhorrent than what he just said? No, this is just Moggs being so insulated and ignorant about how much of a horrible oval office him and his circle are that he didn't see the toxicity of what he was saying and is so used to people not calling him on it that he's probably genuinely surprised at the pushback. This is a man who was photographed as a guest of honour for a group that demanded that non-whites be forcefully removed from the country and the press don't even bring it up. In other news the Conservatives have spent £172 million on building 200,000 affordable homes and four years on have built exactly zero new affordable homes. https://twitter.com/JohnHealey_MP/status/1191615742132785152
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Threep posted:https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1190661666029146112 Holy poo poo that's annoying, I had no idea about this. Thanks for cluing me in!
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Calico Heart posted:Getting serious pre-election depression here. Can't bring myself to feel hope. Send help. We can win and there's a lot of us doing our best to make that happen!
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Rarity posted:Oof, Keir handled that terribly. How hard is it to say "US regulations deem a maggot in your orange juice acceptable"? Indeed. Let's have a go. "Yes, you can find a maggot in your orange juice, and if you do, legally you can't complain about it unless you find at least 2. And who wants to be counting the maggots in their orange juice?" I'm unemployed Keir you can give me money if you'd like
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Jesus, how safe must Mogg's seat be for him to confidently come out with this poo poo pre-election?
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Steve2911 posted:Jesus, how safe must Mogg's seat be for him to confidently come out with this poo poo pre-election? Even wearing red gets you strung up.
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Steve2911 posted:Jesus, how safe must Mogg's seat be for him to confidently come out with this poo poo pre-election? Not as safe as you'd expect
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Guavanaut posted:
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Steve2911 posted:Jesus, how safe must Mogg's seat be for him to confidently come out with this poo poo pre-election? 10k majority.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Jesus loving Christ I'd forgotten about this. One place I worked, I was a fire marshall for the top 3 floors (approx 100 people at least) of the 15-storey building. The fire escape was complicated as it involved going down to a lower floor of the building occupied by a different organisation, through their floor then out onto the roof of an adjoining building. So every year, I would arrange 3 walk-throughs of the fire escape route (different days different times to accommodate those who had regular weekly fixed appointments). The first time I did it, we had got to the third (and last) arranged walk-throughs and a quantity of the senior directors/managers had not done it, not enough time, too busy. Anyway, the Chief Exec overheard me trying to get them to come out (with my cajoling noises of 'a fire isn't going to stop and ask you if you're too important or busy to be burned to death') and he put his coat on and went round to each and every refusenik, pointed at them within 2 inch of their noses and said 'Do you know how to get out of this building in the event of a fire? No. Get your coats on.' Seeing as he and I had 'bad vibes' I was surprised and grateful for his support!
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Nov 5, 2019 12:19
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c0burn posted:Swindon is live on sky news and is being a right bastard Her main thing seems to be trying to paint Johnson and Corbyn as the same which is... interesting.
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Nov 5, 2019 12:19
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Hey, if you guys are doing your election podcast, can you please mention the Momentum digital volunteers thing that I have inadvertently become the thread ambassador for? Here’s a radio-friendly URL for the sign-up form: https://tinyurl.com/momentumvol.
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Miftan posted:10k majority. Doable. Hopefully local campaigners rub this in his face relentlessly. Utter scumbag.
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Steve2911 posted:Jesus, how safe must Mogg's seat be for him to confidently come out with this poo poo pre-election?  I think the smarter of the plebs will understand that it is to their benefit to support their betters. And by smarter plebs I mean in the sense that my border collie is smarter than my Ethiopian Flappenpoodle! 
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Nov 5, 2019 12:21
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the problem with Mogg's constituency is you've got the lib dems heavily focused on splitting the remain vote even though they only got 4k in 2017quote:North East Somerset
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Nov 5, 2019 12:23
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c0burn posted:Swindon is live on sky news and is being a right bastard quote:Q: What is your message to leave voters? How would you bring the country together if a Lib Dem government revoked article 50? "What will you do about the people who aren't happy?" *waves hand dismissively* "we'll solve that" "Yes but how?" *waves hand faster*
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Nov 5, 2019 12:24
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Gonzo McFee posted:The point of throwing a dead cat on the table is to distract people from something your side has done. What was the scandal so big that he had to do this and it be less abhorrent than what he just said? have u visited the united kingdom in 2019?? the point of a dead cat is to rechannel public discourse. now everyone's talking about that silly old caricature jacob rees-mogg, honourable gentleman for the 19th century, gosh isn't he rude, should he be censured or does he have a right etc. etc. rather than, say, systemic conservative party failings that caused Grenfell or johnson's failure to brexit or farage's attack on the tory flank or everything else. just like that time he laid down in the house of commons and people starting talking about decorum
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c0burn posted:Swindon is live on sky news and is being a right bastard Now they have Jeremy, and he's making hers sound as energetic as a funeral wake.
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Barry Foster posted:It does seem to be memory holed that posh cunts coated the pov building in loving napalm because it looked nicer this!
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Nov 5, 2019 12:27
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https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1191678374999146503?s=20 Jo Swinson just confirming what we all already knew, she's a Tory.
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Nov 5, 2019 12:32
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Gonzo McFee posted:Clarkson was best friends with David Cameron and was invited to Thatcher's funeral where he wept like an infected bellend. They're all tories. The standard that Grenfell was built to was that fire (and smoke) could not spread between flats for an hour, even every other flat in the building was on fire. LPS has its issues but the degree of compartmentalisation it offers is *amazing*. The reason for remain-in-place as policy is because the designers knew that evacuation of a high-rise residential building - no matter how generous the size of escape routes, etc - is impossible because a) there's literally no way of telling how many people are in the building at any given moment and if they're all out, b) not everyone will be able to hear an evacuation alarm, c) of those that can not all are able to respond to it due to disability or even temporary injury, and d) of those that hear it and are able to respond, many are not willing to evacuate for all sorts of reasons. People evacuating are also of course going to be in the way of rescuers trying to do their jobs - not just on the stairwells but milling around outside because where else are they going to go?
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Eschenique posted:I did at a job at a rental complex once and they had this huge steel firedoor that couldn't be locked. It opened with hand cranked "bars" So the landlord installed a smaller metal/plexiglass door inside the frame with the steel door just permanently open ajar. And then put a lock on the smaller door. What the hell? Why would you even do this unless the intention is to create a deathtrap?
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Lt. Danger posted:have u visited the united kingdom in 2019?? Nah, throwing a dead cat on the table will be when he parades his dumb kid in front of protesters to distract from the heinous poo poo he's said. Anyway the BBC are already describing it as a gaff rather than him being candid about what he actually believes for once so it'll be memory holed soon.
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Nov 5, 2019 12:35
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I don't think it matters too much on whether this latest mogg turd is technically a dead cat or not when the entire mass media essentially serves as a 24/7 animatronic pet cemetery themed revue
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Comrade Fakename posted:Hey, if you guys are doing your election podcast, can you please mention the Momentum digital volunteers thing that I have inadvertently become the thread ambassador for? Here’s a radio-friendly URL for the sign-up form: https://tinyurl.com/momentumvol. that poo poo is perfect. like, I’m coming into this as a listener totally uninformed - presume you are spreading this to as wide an uninformed audience as possible
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Nov 5, 2019 12:40
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our union local had a vote on strike action but we didn’t hit the 50% turnout threshold sad
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Purple Prince posted:What the hell? Why would you even do this unless the intention is to create a deathtrap? I assume because the bigger door (like 1,5 x 2 meter opening) Couldn't be locked in any way. And he probably got the smaller door on the cheap
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Rarity posted:Oof, Keir handled that terribly. How hard is it to say "US regulations deem a maggot in your orange juice acceptable"? I guess he just didn't know the US regulations (and maybe thought it was hyperbole)
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Gonzo McFee posted:Nah, throwing a dead cat on the table will be when he parades his dumb kid in front of protesters to distract from the heinous poo poo he's said.
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Nice piece of fish posted:Yeah... Not to be a debbie downer but you might want to check with the climate change thread for a perspective on if that's still in the cards. The tl;dr is that it really isn't. Oh don't worry. I live in deliberate ignorance of that, because I am already enough of an anxious mess!
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Qwertycoatl posted:Guardian liveblog headings writer getting opinionated Yeah I tweeted to Sparrow about that lmao
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Qwertycoatl posted:Guardian liveblog headings writer getting opinionated Did Corbyn say that or is she pinocchioing again? Just off to a medical appointment so can't check right now.
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