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Spangly A
May 14, 2009

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall

Alertrelic posted:

The recent Twitter suspensions are genuinely shite.

Can't help but feel that certain elements of the online left (some from our very own dead subforums) share a bit of the blame here. Constantly pushing for harsher moderation, strengthening the report system and making out that trolling is some kind of major social problem. Maybe fighting video game culture wars and banning anime avatars isn't actually praxis?

yeah I can't believe big businesses clamp down on leftists when threatened. They'd absolutely have allowed themselves to be threatened by an emboldened left if only we'd not interfered with their policy of hosting the world's largest fascist community

Come on, their interests were always going to drag them here. Wanting rid of fash is the reason you even have left wingers to ban

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

gh0stpinballa posted:

this further supports my theory that gnasher, oz, riley, melt pundits etc are a twitter version of stay behind networks

What left while they stayed behind, though?

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012



Seems more like he’s blaming Fergie for not restraining a literal prince from noncing. Truly the real villain here.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT


now this is shitposting

Oh dear me
Aug 14, 2012

I have burned numerous saucepans, sometimes right through the metal

thespaceinvader posted:

Honestly, this is one of my preferred solutions for MP corruption.

I don't know how you can live in a world that has billionaires in and think people will stop wanting money if only you give them enough.

The more well paid you make a job, the more it will attract people who want a lot of money. You won't solve corruption, you'll encourage it.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Thats a good manifesto.


Also lmao at the LK thing. Thats got to sting.

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


Bit of a stretch to call Laura K a journalist though.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Also have some good old fashioned met police racism.

https://road.cc/content/news/268911-black-cyclists-network-founder-stop-and-search-ride-incident-reflects-negative

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Riley needs to be hammered on her past comments, particularly how she had nothing to say over Jimmy Carr being pulled up for an anti-Semitic joke. She wants to sow division then she can loving reap it.
Oh absolutely, she's got a hell of a pair of balls on her to be talking about who Corbyn shared a stage with, when she regularly appears on TV bantering with her co host who has multiple examples of rape jokes, as well as one very notable joke about ethiopians which looks very bad in light of her apartheid denial.

I don't want to see Jimmy Carr dragged down with her because I think he actually is popular enough to awaken the "pc gone mad, can't say nuffink no more" crowd. However it would be nice to see her have to deal with exactly the same kind of manufactured harrassment* she's been trying to create around Corbyn.

* I'm trying to think of another way of saying witch hunt' that idiots aren't going to turn round and say I'm calling her a witch.


Love the implied 'even the poo poo ones' there.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Love Fiona Hill’s “Prince Andrew accent:


E: For reference:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1197587102046806018

Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Nov 21, 2019

RockyB
Mar 8, 2007


Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good
I'm just catching up with the doomsday economics thread and got a topical one two punch.

One: https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1195035918291222529

£2,400 each in extra taxes or you can't see Santa :byodood:

Two: https://twitter.com/InactionNever/status/1194462402420584448

HUMANITY AT IT'S BEST :byodame:

Those kind hearted capitalists, letting this poor misbegotten pauper do basic poo poo every child has to do. What, pay my santa tax towards free broadband? Never!

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3826121&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1747

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Mr Phillby posted:

God twitter is exhausting. Currently wasting my loving life doing a praxis by arguing with an insane Rabbi over AS. Never going to change his mind but I did manage to wrangke the conversation to the point where he's arguing that Boris Johnson isn't a racist, which is wild considering he thinks Corbyns comments about liking pigeons more than people shows genocidal intent.

Not many people know this, but Poisoning Pigeons in the Park was written about Corbyn.

Jo Swinson is hard at work on a version called Poisoning Squirrels in the Everywhere (Die Die Die).

She'll be launching her solo career after the election.

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

Darth Walrus posted:

What left while they stayed behind, though?

gently caress knows, all i mean is i think they deliberately post poo poo to draw leftists into their mentions so they can then doxx them or get them banned, these people are extremely petty and psychotic

CGI Stardust
Nov 7, 2010


Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back
^^^ they're terrified of Ocado vans and that influences their politics

quote:

Channel 4 News has called on Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to participate in a debate on climate change ahead of the general election.

While the leaders of Labour, the Lib Dems, the Green Party and the SNP have all agreed to take part, the broadcaster said it is still waiting for responses from the leaders of both the Conservative and Brexit Party.
https://twitter.com/bendepear/status/1197607893387874304

*extremely long "hmmm" sound* i wonder if the two party leaders who think climate change isn't happening or is overblown want to do this debate

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/1197608055527104514?s=20

CGI Stardust
Nov 7, 2010


Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back
who keeps parking their Ocado van on my lawn, show yourself

https://twitter.com/molono/status/1197599249468403712

(Spooner and friends taking credit for the bannings)

TTerrible
Jul 15, 2005

That's the deal you've done? I thought there categorically was not a deal?

Duckula
Aug 31, 2001

do not resuscitate

gently caress me man, this election has broken my brain.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets
Wooo. 5% pay rise for civil servants. That would go a way to us not having an above inflation pay rise in a decade.

Match that one Boris!

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

Duckula posted:

gently caress me man, this election has broken my brain.

Which part of it?

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Why's farage still being platformed? I still don't know if it's overall good or bad for labour but he's still gonna be on TV saying a load of shite and racisms

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Bundy posted:

Tory bus breaks down

You love to see it.

Quick Boris! Use your bus-building skills to save the day!

*Bus explodes*

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

baka kaba posted:

Why's farage still being platformed? I still don't know if it's overall good or bad for labour but he's still gonna be on TV saying a load of shite and racisms

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


CGI Stardust posted:

who keeps parking their Ocado van on my lawn, show yourself

https://twitter.com/molono/status/1197599249468403712

(Spooner and friends taking credit for the bannings)

What does Ocado have to do with any of it?

CGI Stardust
Nov 7, 2010


Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back

Comrade Fakename posted:

What does Ocado have to do with any of it?
the spoon man got incredibly mad because someone parked an Ocado van outside his driveway and he thought it was a leftist conspiracy spying on him, iirc

ed: for reference this is the same guy who claimed that leftists saying "salt the slugs" meant they were going to acid-attack centrists. this is how he sees the world

CGI Stardust fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Nov 21, 2019

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

https://twitter.com/zacksabrejr/status/1194966397207695365

Well this has made my day

Chuff McNothing fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Nov 21, 2019

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007



I know we hate Laura K here, and with good reason

but booing her IRL is dumb and just makes the left look petty and vindictative, not like kinder gentler politics.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Not So Fast posted:

I know we hate Laura K here, and with good reason

but booing her IRL is dumb and just makes the left look petty and vindictative, not like kinder gentler politics.
No sir, they're saying boo-B-C

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Not So Fast posted:

I know we hate Laura K here, and with good reason

but booing her IRL is dumb and just makes the left look petty and vindictative, not like kinder gentler politics.

I just liked her standing there like a lemon while corbs took the high road

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Not So Fast posted:

kinder gentler politics.

I wish they'd never come up with that phrase, I've never pretended to want to be kind or gentle to the people actively making the planet worse and I'm pretty sick of people smugly making out they've found a big gotcha point when I've actually consistently wanted to throw them into a volcano from the start.

E: to be less flippant, it was a bad choice because politics can't be this nice mutually respectful hugbox in tyool 2019, the stakes are just too high. It's socialism or barbarism, not socialism or, you know, :decorum: :downswords: a position I can respect based on legitimate concerns, but one with which I must take issue on the following points but of course I accept your opinion and understand why you would have it :downswords: :decorum:

ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Nov 21, 2019

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
So much for the ThomasPaine left.

winegums
Dec 21, 2012


Yeah. My dream was that Corbyn could be kind and gentle whilst Watson broke people's thumbs. Unfortunately Corbyn is soft to a fault and Watson just hosed around and briefed against us for years.

Need to unleash McDonell...

brian
Sep 11, 2001
I obtained this title through beard tax.

it's good to boo and it's good for corbyn to say not to boo

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

ThomasPaine posted:

I wish they'd never come up with that phrase, I've never pretended to want to be kind or gentle to the people actively making the planet worse and I'm pretty sick of people smugly making out they've found a big gotcha point when I've actually consistently wanted to throw them into a volcano from the start.

E: to be less flippant, it was a bad choice because politics can't be this nice mutually respectful hugbox in tyool 2019, the stakes are just too high. It's socialism or barbarism, not socialism or, you know, :decorum: :downswords: a position I can respect based on legitimate concerns, but one with which I must take issue on the following points but of course I accept your opinion and understand why you would have it :downswords: :decorum:

I'm pretty sure they started with it pre Brexit, it made more sense as an "angle" in 2015, now it just feels like a sad appeal to an age before the fascist part of the population really got emboldened

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
https://twitter.com/_MichaelOswell_/status/1197505002257965059

pablo gbscobar
Nov 24, 2007

oh shit i got the snype

:wom:
Lipstick Apathy
My Twitter account just got locked too without any stated reason given. I don't even have that many followers or post a huge amount, I'm just in the same general posting sphere as Bane, Wario, RP etc and most of you lot that are active in Twitter.

I'll admit I probably wasn't doing myself any favours by changing my username to 'TORYSTOMPER666' but I'm surprised that I managed to even appear on the radar of whoever is responsible for this. Some real dark forces are at play on Twitter, makes sense that they'd eventually come for leftist shitposters like this seems as we've been among the most vocal and effective vanguards of the movement online for quite some time now.

E: probably not a coincidence that this all happened on the day of the manifesto launch either

pablo gbscobar fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Nov 21, 2019

CGI Stardust
Nov 7, 2010


Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back
statement from Labour on the T portion of LGBT+, which is good (I think? any trans posters confirm?)
https://twitter.com/MissEllieMae/status/1197632658806845444?s=19

pablo gbscobar posted:

E: probably not a coincidence that this all happened on the day of the manifesto launch either
it is deeply suspicious that this happened on the manifesto day. it'd be a good idea for left communities to have multiple spaces of contact, so a mass banning catching one of them doesn't wreck everything; especially since these spaces are almost all privately owned with no accountability

ed: not a lot can be done about the reduction in communication ability these bans inflict in the short term, especially on important days like today - maybe have multiple accounts from different IP addresses? these bans do prevent messages being spread by the central accounts which we kind of depend on

CGI Stardust fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Nov 21, 2019

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

pablo gbscobar posted:

My Twitter account just got locked too without any stated reason given. I don't even have that many followers or post a huge amount, I'm just in the same general posting sphere as Bane, Wario, RP etc and most of you lot that are active in Twitter.

I'll admit I probably wasn't doing myself any favours by changing my username to 'TORYSTOMPER666' but I'm surprised that I managed to even appear on the radar of whoever is responsible for this. Some real dark forces are at play on Twitter, makes sense that they'd eventually come for leftist shitposters like this seems as we've been among the most vocal and effective vanguards of the movement online for quite some time now.

E: probably not a coincidence that this all happened on the day of the manifesto launch either

Well look at mr famous on twitter over here.

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

I had this bouncing around my brain so now you have to see it too:

https://twitter.com/rantingauthor/status/1197639408696135682?s=19



I have been reliably informed that this is the correct Japanese but the person translating said she "wasn't happy with it," but it's as close as she could get to the original phrase

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serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Nani?????????

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