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Not to mention that if the loan maximum is set at a certain amount then socially rented accommodations in the private sector would set a deposit at that amount, purely for market reasons of course. E: cat  His name is Bagheera and he likes to play with reeds/pieces of tall grass if you dangle them near him. Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:Revoke money? Over Jo's face please.
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lol remember when they said that obviously all universities wouldn't instantly raise their tuition fees to the highest possible level because of *competition* gently caress the pus tories, I hope nick clegg spends eternity getting chewed on by satan in the great lake of ice not sure what circle of hell squirrel torturers end up in?
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Robot Mil posted:No I believe her about not voting Lib Dems but she now sees herself as politically homeless even though I think her political views are in line with Labour policies. You could tell her that, in terms of pure numbers:
Tell her that for the criticism of Corbyn, ever since he became Labour leader it's basically been a relentless ongoing smear attempt from various interested parties. (There's an article/analysis out there about the media bias around him), and for that some people get tetchy because (as Divine Shadow said) he's managed to push the overton window leftward, leaving the Tories dashing to catch up, despite being "unelectable" and "useless", and they're sick of hearing it. Hell, even show her the various Anti/Never Corbyn brainworm tweet crowd as example of the constant endless barrage of poo poo flung at him. Like that Charles Dickens Rabbi or Riley or whoever. Bringing it round to policy is prob the best option though, if you can't sway her otherwise - I'm having a similar thing with my old man atm, so I'm resorting to emotional blackmail; "Do you want to live in a society where your grandson, etc, etc - well this is what Labour are saying." "And so on. Rational arguments work against few. Emotional arguments work against many. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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XMNN posted:
Oh no I'm flushing I'm flushing! Who would have thought that a good little squirrel would destroy my beautiful clegginess?
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We will only accept the Remain bonus if Jeremy Corbyn resigns. Otherwise it's No Deal Brexit 
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XMNN posted:lol remember when they said that obviously all universities wouldn't instantly raise their tuition fees to the highest possible level because of *competition* +++HUMILIATION FOR DAMNED SOUL CLEGG+++ Edit: But it's Swinson who hates squirrels! Please leave my nuts alone! IT'S NOT IRONIC IF YOU'RE DOING IT TO THE WRONG PERSON! 
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Sulphagnist posted:Who knew that in the land of Jimmy Savile the local version of Qanon would actually be about how Corbyn is a secret racist? Only if he pronounces it as "Sha-veel".
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I think the Rachel Riley stuff may have gone too far for folks. I've seen Americans laughing at her in the "idiots on social media" thread and that never happens!
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The Libdems are such a seething mess of contradictions  XMNN posted:lol remember when they said that obviously all universities wouldn't instantly raise their tuition fees to the highest possible level because of *competition* Third ring of the Seventh circle: violence against God, Art, and Nature.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Who was the melt who was *boasting* in a book/interview about lying to Corbyn about them spending money on Facebook ads designed to encourage people to register to vote? Tom Baldwin? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-hq-used-facebook-ads-to-deceive-jeremy-corbyn-during-election-campaign-grlx75c27 quote:...
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TheRat posted:SHOW US YOUR MAP I don't remember exactly which thread it was that had that long OP along those lines but it should go down in forums history as a warning against political hubris Trump not winning in 2020 would be pretty nice, though. I wonder if I'll have enough hope left to believe it might happen.
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jaete posted:The -stein name I've heard the most often is Einstein and I've never heard it pronounced with an sh in there, it's always been Eye-n-st-eye-n. Didn't even occur to me really that -stein could be also pronounced -shtein. Why are names so hard It's pronounced that way in Hebrew!  (including Einstein)
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MrFlibble posted:Fairly sure Trumps going to get reelected. Not if Bernie wins! Which is looking surprisingly likely atm. I very much feel the opposite, to be honest.
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Josef bugman posted:I think the Rachel Riley stuff may have gone too far for folks. There's madness in her eyes in that photo. I think she's trying to look sincere, but she didn't manage it.
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Riley is fuckin nuts. Like absolutely unhinged the poo poo she comes out with. I'm not even sure she believes it.
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Barry Foster posted:Not if Bernie wins! Which is looking surprisingly likely atm. I'm so scared for Bernie's health.
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TheRat posted:A major upside of Trump winning (what a sentence to type out, lmao) was watching all the loving twats in CSPAM who'd been spamming "SHOW US YOUR MAP 4HEAD" for months break down as the result became clear, and then get banned, I remember posting something in the USPOL thread after the Brexit referendum and having poster after poster condescendingly explain to me that maybe we were dumb crazy fuckers but the US definitely wasn't going to elect Trump, no way, was never going to happen no sirree. Lol.
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Orange Devil posted:I'm so scared for Bernie's health. He's doing a lot better now that he's had that surgery. And all he has to do is win, he was always only ever gonna be the vanguard at this point
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Barry Foster posted:He's doing a lot better now that he's had that surgery. And all he has to do is win, he was always only ever gonna be the vanguard at this point As long as he avoids the pressure to "balance the ticket" by putting some melt in as VP if he gets the nomination. If he does, and then wins the election, expect his health to have a sudden downturn.
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feedmegin posted:I remember posting something in the USPOL thread after the Brexit referendum and having poster after poster condescendingly explain to me that maybe we were dumb crazy fuckers but the US definitely wasn't going to elect Trump, no way, was never going to happen no sirree. I had this exact same conversation with two older gents in the top deck of Comerica Park in Detroit about ten days before the referendum and the three of us were exactly the same: we would never vote for Brexit and they would never vote for Trump
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Did anyone post this yet? https://twitter.com/bruculino/status/1197279082876198912?s=20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As long as he avoids the pressure to "balance the ticket" by putting some melt in as VP if he gets the nomination. If he does, and then wins the election, expect his health to have a sudden downturn. Warren's done the melt pivot hardcore recently (to the surprise of no one actually paying attention) but I really don't see that being in Bernie's wheelhouse.
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big scary monsters posted:With Riley, from what she's said previously, she didn't feel a strong Jewish identity until around the time she got involved in the anti-Corbyn stuff.  That feels enormously loving appropriative to me. Like I know people code-switch all the time, and increasing antisemitism from the alt-right has caused people to think "well I've never thought of myself as Jewish, but the Nuremberg Race Laws would, so maybe I should talk to some people that do in solidarity before these other cunts tell me whether I'm a Jew or not", but some sort of perverse making Aliyah to anti-Corbynism seems really... off.  Jaeluni Asjil posted:Did anyone post this yet? 
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teacup posted:polls Lol Britain is looking like an outback full of really dry bush on a scorching day in november, the billabong's dry and Boris has just popped down the servo for some matches and a can of guzzolene
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Barry Foster posted:He's doing a lot better now that he's had that surgery. And all he has to do is win, he was always only ever gonna be the vanguard at this point Part of my worry is for his actual health, part is that he'll lose votes because of it. He really loving needs to win though. Barry Foster posted:Warren's done the melt pivot hardcore recently (to the surprise of no one actually paying attention) but I really don't see that being in Bernie's wheelhouse. Warren, for all her positive points, used to be a Republican back when she was teaching at Harvard and before that. People can change, but she was always a rather unlikely great progressive hope. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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I just went past a Salvation Army charity shop and saw an interesting thing in the window. I debated for a moment whether to go inside, but decided that it didn't mean that I was endorsing them. I looked at the thing, and while I was doing so I decided I might mention my view of the Salvation Army's view of me. Two staff members came out and said hello, so in a friendly tone I responded: "Hello. I don't normally come in here because I'm gay, but you had an interesting thing in the window." One of them chuckled and nodded, and the other one huffily said, "I'm not allowed to comment." I smiled and left.
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teacup posted:Aussie here. What are the polls looking like? Is there any chance of you guys not having a brexit? Once you read past the bullshit weightings in the polls I'd give it about a 70% chance of Brexit happening if the election were held right now, of which 40% Johnson's hard Brexit, 10% No Deal and 20% a soft Labour Brexit with customs union. Other UKMTers will vehemently disagree of course. Fortunately the polls are mostly heading in Labour's favour and we have 3 more weeks of campaigning to go...
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As long as he avoids the pressure to "balance the ticket" by putting some melt in as VP if he gets the nomination. If he does, and then wins the election, expect his health to have a sudden downturn. Common theory is he'll pick Nina turner who is a black woman socialist to really melt brains
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Guavanaut posted:Wait what? W-loving-hat? I never considered myself Jewish because I grew up secular in Israel where Jews are the majority and the oppressors. I didn't even when I first moved here, but I definitely do now because of these neonazi clowns running around. If Riley genuinely thinks Corbyn is Hitler then it's a reasonable pivot even if it's a crazy wild reach.
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Miftan posted:I never considered myself Jewish because I grew up secular in Israel where Jews are the majority and the oppressors. I didn't even when I first moved here, but I definitely do now because of these neonazi clowns running around. Yeah this was what I thought. I think she and some others are genuinely terrified, as impossible as that is for us to understand, and the Nazis didn't care if those they identified as Jews self-identified as such, so it's a reasonable defensive shift to find solidarity with others you think are going to be targets. I truly hope she can be rehabilitated once Corbyn ushers in socialism and fucks up the hatemongering press.
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XMNN posted:lol remember when they said that obviously all universities wouldn't instantly raise their tuition fees to the highest possible level because of *competition* I suspect that depends a lot on squirrel species, at least on ur island There are lots of squirrels about here. I'd never noticed they get winter coats, but I saw one on the way to work this morning, with a fetching gray coat like this  Urban animals are cool. I had a hedgehog living in the bushes outside my front door this spring, so I bought it a couple of bowls for water and cat food, which smelled nasty as gently caress but it just gulped it down. Then the bowls disappeared one day, likely stolen by some municipal gardener or something, and I thought the hedgehog was gone for good. But a few weeks later, I got back home to see this:  A litter of six little miracles, curiously exploring their neighborhood in typical juvenile mammal fashion, e.g extremely cute. The life of young hedgehogs is a perilous one, but I hope to see more hogs next spring
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Spangly A posted:the tories lasted 5 years as a coalition because lib dems are phenominal bootlickers. They hosed up the brexit vote and had their last competent politician moonwalk away whistling the theme from the west wing. They lasted another 2 years on their own, then the most popular politician in UK history became completely paralyzed for another two years after another incredible self-own, all while racking up record defeats and sackings, totally held hostage by a bunch of colonialist savages. Their new PM lasted months as one of the few politicians with cross-party popularity they had left, all while the entirety of British media staged several uncoordinated multi-year propaganda campaigns, which have destroyed what remains of the public faith in media impartiality. We are witnessing, for the 2nd time in two years, a remarkably similar shift in public opinion caused by the opposition simply being allowed to speak to the wider public through a hysterically partisan media. All this while the world literally burns and anti-capitalist sentiment reaches heights not seen in a century. We in the UK must remember that the left is lucky to have an uneasy coalition around the platonic ideal of a social democratic party and leader - we are ahead of the fash here, and we must cherish and use that. Any glorious victories by the conservative party will be like the dying of the egyptian monarchies - announced at ever shorter intervals, ever closer to capital, until suddenly; silence. Thanks, I needed that. Was feeling a bit gloomy yesterday but I'm back to win mode. - Boris is a bell end, people voted Theresa because she wore nice shoes and appeared sort of boring, so that will swing some - He has lost almost every vote in Parliament and every Cummings plan has backfired - The Tories already had a majority of -40 so need to do a lot more for a majority - They also removed the whip from a bunch of their own MPs and will have a bunch of new ones - The Brexit Party is collapsing before it even started, and this doesn't necessarily mean more Tory votes - Jo; is totally mangling the LD campaign and pushes more voters away everytime she speaks - LD have said they'd never work with Corbyn, but other parties would - think Green might do well - Trump is visiting the UK just days before the election - The usual smears against Corbyn are getting more convoluted and ridiculous to the point of failure - Even things that 'should' have had an impact last election (terrorist attacks, weighted media campaign) didn't so much, and a lot has changed since then - Labour have great policies and Momentum is running a great campaign, many more people I know are campaigning for Labour than last time - By not talking only about Brexit, other issues are getting air that are more human rather than bureaucratic - Corbyn We'll win.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I suspect that depends a lot on squirrel species, at least on ur island Thank you for posting wholesome hog justcola posted:Thanks, I needed that. Was feeling a bit gloomy yesterday but I'm back to win mode. gently caress yes we will. Also, echoing the thanks to Spangly A for a Good Post. Looking forward to this manifesto drop today 
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