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RockyB posted:If you're looking to leave, where are you proposing to go? I'm not sure there's many places you can actually justify in the Anglosphere. Certainly not the US, Aussies are racist as gently caress, even Canada is going politely fashy. Ireland, maybe? I would go to somewhere like Sweden or Finland if I could. I like europe and one thing I especially love is cold weather and heck I think I can get quite a lot over there 
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Tesseraction posted:Conspicuously absent in that list was New Zealand, which is seeing something of a progressive revival. Although it's not entirely sunshine it's still a drat sight better than here.
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Guavanaut posted:With the disadvantage of being a million miles away from everywhere Acting like goons think this is a bad thing.
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Gisela Stuart urging "real Labour voters" to vote for Boris Johnson.
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Please can we not do the thing where we all catastrophise into a mass panic? I know the Tories winning would be poo poo and I know that many of us struggle with mental health because of the poo poo that capitalism puts us through. The signs are good, everything we're seeing in this election indicates that the Tories are on the back foot and that Labour are gaining ground. There is no way that the Tories will win more seats than they did in 2017.
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Tesseraction posted:Conspicuously absent in that list was New Zealand, which is seeing something of a progressive revival. Although it's not entirely sunshine it's still a drat sight better than here. The land of billionaire hobbit holes where all the rich have an escape hatch. Give it ten years and it'll be a more rural version of London. Knew a kiwi lad who said there were some absolutely massive weed farms over there though, so I guess it's not all bad. E: His parents ran a sheep farm, got on well with the Maori guys running the weed plantation next door. Did sound like a nice place to grow up. RockyB fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Rarity posted:Please can we not do the thing where we all catastrophise into a mass panic? I know the Tories winning would be poo poo and I know that many of us struggle with mental health because of the poo poo that capitalism puts us through. The signs are good, everything we're seeing in this election indicates that the Tories are on the back foot and that Labour are gaining ground. There is no way that the Tories will win more seats than they did in 2017.
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Cuntson is currently doing his press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOCIWSQbYNI opened with Gisela Stuart saying that voting for him doesn't make her a Tory correct she has always been a Tory
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i know i just said not to fall for this stuff but loving hell lol https://twitter.com/robpowellnews/status/1200364358930489344?s=19 politics on cheat mode, never mind easy!
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So much for the Independent/i, then. drat shame, because quite often it seemed to skew a bit more to the left than the sensible centrism of the Graun. It's weird, because apparently the i was turning a profit in the millions. Why sell it off? But then, publishing can be a bizarre business. The company I worked for a couple of decades back was a successful independent - so successful it was bought from its founders by a venture capital firm for about £14m. Their goal was openly to grow it so they could sell it to someone else for a profit. They did - for about £40m. The PLC that bought it was apparently run by complete loving morons, because their plan was to use this profitable consumer publishing company to prop up their loss-making business-to-business, er, business. In less than three years, the entire thing had gone down the toilet (and a lot of my friends lost their jobs).
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gh0stpinballa posted:every minute we waste talking about these "dead cat" stunts we're just playing their silly games, amazing we keep falling for it tbh Doesn't the dead cat strategy kind of lose its value when you keep having to pile on new cats to distract from the previous cat?
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a campaign of scorn isn't it, the point is to show they don't take any of it seriously and they're untouchable anyway, so lick our piss you filthy hogs
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Johnson is ranting that we need to leave the EU to take bus companies into public ownership. 
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Payndz posted:So much for the Independent/i, then. drat shame, because quite often it seemed to skew a bit more to the left than the sensible centrism of the Graun. I think the i is separate from The Independent now.
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Johnson now saying that his deal is a great and Corbyn's deal isn't. Thanks for that clarity.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think the i is separate from The Independent now. Yep. The i is their pared down paper rag.
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Tesseraction posted:Yep. The i is their pared down paper rag. It's owned by Johnston Press (according to Professor Google).
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Tesseraction posted:Yep. The i is their pared down paper rag. I think Jaeluni means the i was sold off from the independent before this
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TheRat posted:Doesn't the dead cat strategy kind of lose its value when you keep having to pile on new cats to distract from the previous cat? Honestly at this point it's more like they keep having to throw live cats onto the pile and then shoot them, before standing over the corpses beaming like Trump. No, I'm not holding this smoking gun behind my back! It's just that my pants are on fire! 
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gh0stpinballa posted:i know i just said not to fall for this stuff but loving hell lol
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VideoGames posted:I would go to somewhere like Sweden or Finland if I could. I like europe and one thing I especially love is cold weather and heck I think I can get quite a lot over there Well obviously you don't want to go to sweden because they put pickled red onion and dill on everything and if you go to finland you'll never have a normal conversation face to face again. Meanwhile, Norway has absolutely stellar fish and chips (as we're all about quality fish and potatoes), robust socialism (so far), a recent explosion in craft beers in terms of quality and selection, all the nature you could possibly want (seen my cabin thread?) and you can afford it all on a norwegian wage. Incidentally, you'd be popular. Even our racists consider english-speakers "the good ones". All you'd need is booze and you'd make friends. Just my 0,02 NOK on the subject.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's owned by Johnston Press (according to Professor Google). Ah yes, acquired in 2016.
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The i was sold off when the independent went purely digital and the group that's owns it now, who also own The Scotmans and a couple of other regionals (like The Newsletter here in NI), is getting sold off completely - seems like as the i was a different kind of paper and more profitable it was spun off from the rest of their portfolio to be sold as a stand alone asset
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Nice piece of fish posted:Well obviously you don't want to go to sweden because they put pickled red onion and dill on everything and if you go to finland you'll never have a normal conversation face to face again. *sighs and polishes off my Norwegian Duolingo*
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the internet society have sold the .org domain to a private equity firm only founded in may https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/hri/private-equity-firm-procures-org-internet-society-or-how-public-interest-got-sold-out-again/
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Here is something utterly baffling that appears to have happened: Tory candidate gradually defacing his sign over a number of years to get in the news. https://twitter.com/Rees4Neath/status/1200375089134522368?s=19
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Boris, Boris, what do you say to accusations that you're a misogynistic twat who hates single mothers? Oh well uhm Get Brexit done so... so we can get rid of the tampon tax. Yes, aha.
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Jose posted:the internet society have sold the .org domain to a private equity firm only founded in may The Register have been tracking this and other UK based domain registry fuckery (funnily if you let incumbents set the rules for new tld’s the rules favour incumbents?) and I think the .org sale is going to end in a fraud investigation.
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Lol Lexit wins another supporter!
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Tesseraction posted:*sighs and polishes off my Norwegian Duolingo* Tøft, kompis. Snakkes.
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Just curious, is the "Tories being on the back foot" line potentially astro turfing to stop people feeling the need to vote? I admit I could be wrong, just saying it's a tactic...
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Yeah but I paid £10 for a pint at a norwegian apres ski once so gently caress that
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Just curious, is the "Tories being on the back foot" line potentially astro turfing to stop people feeling the need to vote? Mmm. Both sides have been said to have been on the back foot this election. To be honest until you start seeing papers screaming LABOUR 1 POINT AHEAD IN NEWEST POLL GET OUT AND VOTE BEFORE HE STEALS YOUR JEWS then I wouldn't worry about framing of day to day headlines.
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Overminty posted:Yeah but I paid £10 for a pint at a norwegian apres ski once so gently caress that Socialism costs money, who knew?
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RockyB posted:Boris, Boris, what do you say to accusations that you're a misogynistic twat who hates single mothers? Yes, get Brexit done! It's an affectionate nickname. I can't remember the names of all the single mothers so that's what I always shout in bed!  I also refer to it as "collecting the tampon tax".
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