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OwlFancier posted:I hope all the students convince their parents to vote labour for them. I couldn't convince mine to. They'll happily vote me into an early grave because of lead-poisoning and false memories of the 70s. Fortunately, it also revealed my mum as a climate change denier. She used to be a teacher, and I've used this to start political conversations with ex students of hers that I'm friends with. At least two of them will be voting Labour as a result (yay), and they're in marginals. TIGFJC e: 
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Communist Thoughts posted:its loving terrifyingly close though, look at that tory swing in 2017, what are the scots doing??? What's your constituency? Was it a "Leave" one?
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Tarnop posted:I couldn't convince mine to. They'll happily vote me into an early grave because of lead-poisoning and false memories of the 70s. Same to be honest but my mum's older and married to someone earning more than 80k. She really does validate the idea of "politics is how people would treat you if they didn't know you" though because she's always been extremely personally isolationist, obsessive about blocking out windows and poo poo in the house. She covered half the house in that horrible stick on window frosting and fits blackout curtains everywhere. Hates the idea of beggars, doesn't like other people generally, hates public transport, doesn't socialise really. She's gotten worse with age. It's a strange contrast with me because while I'm solitary I quite like being in proximity to other people, I like feeling like there are other people around. I like the bus and I find her obsession with turning the house into a fortress really weird.
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UK Election Night Bingo 2019 now randomises (F5 to reroll). https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/743265 Gonna add a few more potential losses tomorrow, but otherwise unless anyone has any ideas for tweaks (sa.xaintrailles@gmail.com) that's it done. Looking forward to that red x on Boris Johnson's smug loving face. And the inevitable Labour government finally unfucking everything. It's been a long 10 years.
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Bundy posted:What's your constituency? Was it a "Leave" one? I'd be very surprised if edinburgh anything voted leave.
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Another depressing tory performance in a Scottish constituency.
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Bundy posted:What's your constituency? Was it a "Leave" one? 78% remain lol i think the snp just endlessly banging on about inderef can only be so popular, and everyone else looks around for someone to vote for and well... scottish labour... basically an old boys club failures. i still want to vote for them to try to give corbo a seat but this is a lot trickier to call. dont want the loving tories in
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OwlFancier posted:I could have sworn up and down charlie kennedy was dead before the 2015 election. He died like two weeks after he lost his seat
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OwlFancier posted:I could have sworn up and down charlie kennedy was dead before the 2015 election. nope, it was a joke (by forums user Blacknose) after he passed that his epitaph would say "This is all your fault, Nick" and I laughed so hard I never forgot it
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OwlFancier posted:Same to be honest but my mum's older and married to someone earning more than 80k. I think without being especially politically conscious, a privilege afforded to boomers (and my parents are very much that), your politics just end up being this incomprehensible mix of weird habituated thoughts you've built up over the years. My mum's politics in particular just make no sense. A retired science teacher, who was a senior union rep, and a lifelong Tory voter. Just ignoring reality and thinking what the Mail tells you to think. Christmas is going to be weird this year
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I'm about to hit the sack but just wanted to post and say: I'm thinking of you all, and everyone else under the Tory boot right now, especially those that would love to be able to shitpost in a dead comedy forum. I've no idea what the anxiety and pressure of this election must feel like for those at the sharp edge of Tory policy, but I imagine it must at least fit around "immense" and I get how much hope is riding on this election. I am with you, all the way. Friends, I've seen an upswell in hope as well as anger and determination for change. Even if this week is not our time, our time is coming. That said, our time is within our grasp, for those that cannot wait any longer, those that have disenfranchised us so harshly for a decade. We have many reasons to remain hopeful for another couple of days. The last time the Tories were ousted, little by little, election by election, their majority was reduced as their support bled away to nothing but their core base. We are at that point again, with a huge potential for a youthquake to make 2017 look like a tremor. They're predicting a hung parliament with plenty of time still to go, when last time they were shrugging off still a Tory landslide. They're shook and I strongly believe actual elbows-off-scales polling has got them loving bricking it. Solidarity, comrades. All is to play for and a place in number 10 is very much Corbyn's to fumble.
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So, since just before the election was called, I have been volunteering basically full-time at the Momentum campaign office. Most of my time there has been helping to organise this: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kz44yw/labour-legends-momentum-canvassing-scheme I’ve spoken to so many people on this over the past weeks, and almost universally they’ve all been thoroughly decent and friendly people. It’s really been a privilege to order them up and down the country. I was pretty reticent about getting involved with Momentum. I didn’t believe the “far-left Momentum thug” stuff, but I thought it would be a pretty miserly scene, kind of like what I heard the SWP was like, without the sexual assault but with the mandatory jazz concerts. But really they’ve just been mainly a lovely group of people who are earnestly trying to make the country, and the world, a better place. It makes the “thug” stuff seem even more ludicrous. Here’s a heartwarming story. Last week at the office, a bunch of “Vote Labour” badges and stickers were given out. Since then I’ve been embroiled in a silent war against a mystery Tory as I would stick the sticker on a pelican crossing post on my way home, and the next day someone would have torn it down. I would then replace it. Tonight I approached the pelican crossing and there was a woman waiting there. I wasn’t super-keen about essentially committing vandalism in front a person, but I didn’t want to lose this war, so I though “gently caress it,” stuck the sticker in front of her and looked away and avoided eye-contact to try and stave off a potential argument. I feel a tugging at my elbow and I brace my self for a conflict, only for her to ask “can I have some of those stickers?” Unfortunately it was my last one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkf0fLU2Ao
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Chuka Umana posted:He died like two weeks after he lost his seat It was pretty sad actually because despite being a lib dem he seemed alright and I don't think was a big orange booker, and after losing his seat he pretty obviously drank himself to death in despair, being a raging alkie. Tarnop posted:I think without being especially politically conscious, a privilege afforded to boomers (and my parents are very much that), your politics just end up being this incomprehensible mix of weird habituated thoughts you've built up over the years. My mum's politics in particular just make no sense. A retired science teacher, who was a senior union rep, and a lifelong Tory voter. Just ignoring reality and thinking what the Mail tells you to think. My mum is a genuinely caring warm person who wants the best for everyone despite developing some pretty unfortunate habits (i.e. she's not capital R racist and is fine when she actually meets people but definitely without saying it just automatically believes standard right wing pearl clutching poo poo like black people are more violent etc). I've had to work real hard to get her to see through the pervasive bullshit and understand that papers have agendas and some people deliberately argue things they know are bullshit, but I think she's going to vote labour. My dad I can see going lib dem or green because he's a total lib despite thinking he's left wing, but I've given up arguing with him usually because he won't argue in good faith and just tries to wind you up then acts like he's won when you get annoyed and leave, which I guess in a way he has. He won't go Tory though, pretty sure of that. They're both in a super safe labour seat so not that it matters much, which tbh is I think a lot of the cause of my dad going small party all the time. I don't think he's had a single GE in his life where his vote has mattered because the seat has been red since probably when labour started getting elected. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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Good posts Bundy and Fakename, and thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone working for a Labour government
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That 'non-political, pro-civility' group that won't reveal anything about who funds it and has spent hundreds of thousands pounds solely on anti-Labour facebook ads got Joan Ryan to do a video, and it's hilarious:  JERMY CROBYN BAD! WHY BAD? BECAUSE BAD!
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To add to my earlier post https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1204460519278563328 Watch that again. gently caress me. Puts me in a state every time. 
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Bundy posted:To add to my earlier post It's really loving good. It's been a tearful week tbh.
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Apraxin posted:That 'non-political, pro-civility' group that won't reveal anything about who funds it and has spent hundreds of thousands pounds solely on anti-Labour facebook ads got Joan Ryan to do a video, and it's hilarious: Y’all are just missing the silent asterisks. “It’s not safe* to have him as our Prime Minister.” “It’s too much of a risk.**” “If he does to our country what he’s done*** to the Labour Party” “Then we’re all going to be in a really serious situation.****” [*] for billionaires [**] to our rich bank accounts [***] good grief can you imagine if he gets people interested in democracy [****] A Really Serious Situation is the ACME-branded line of guillotines
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ThomasPaine posted:I think we're going to do this And rest assured that even if tomorrow it turns out that Labour needs one more small revolution to take place, it will take place and we will take this country and the means of production back from those that milk it. Comrades that fall on the way will be picked up and carried because if these cunts don't look after us we will look after each other. Irrelevant though because 10:01pm tomorrow, Red Flag is going on blast in my neighbourhood.
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Sharrow posted:The entire run has been good but y'all have been absolutely crushing it lately, esp. the last three episodes. <3 I can’t thank all of you enough for all of the support with the pod. It’s taken up so much of my time that I’ve got barely anything done in the way of canvassing, so I hope the pod was able to, if not outright change the mind of someone directly, help one of you out in a jam with a bit of knowledge while you were canvassing. I don’t know that we’re really in a position to say we’re actually making successful agitprop but I’d say that this is the closest thing we’ve managed to it yet. Sanitary Naptime fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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You can do it, Comrades.
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The bees struck again. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1204561434249592832?s=19
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Dan Didio posted:How many hours until exit poll, like 30? 10PM GMT: 42 hours and 33 minutes from this post
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Azza Bamboo posted:10PM GMT: 42 hours and 33 minutes from this post Ah, much appreciated.
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We're almost there babes!! e; Everyone who has been able to work for a Labour victory directly, thank you so much. All I can do is throw money at Labour and Momentum, which I have been doing.
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I really hope labour wins. If only to shock, horrify and trounce those disgusting lying snakes in the fake news media. It’s a loving cancer on our society. If it were up to me I’d have them all imprisoned and banned from ever participating in journalism again.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The bees struck again. What if they need to pee?
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Maugrim posted:^^^ I'm gonna say Javid I wouldn't. Just enjoy your son having fun
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Communist Thoughts posted:its loving terrifyingly close though, look at that tory swing in 2017, what are the scots doing??? I know it's me and everything but I'd say given that every indication seems to have the snp gaining votes this time round and Scotlab... well, not, I'd posit the safest bet is vote SNP. Also shaun lawson did a thread on tactical voting, so you can get a second opinion. https://twitter.com/shaunjlawson/status/1204593916424511488?s=19
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kingturnip posted:I've said it before and I'll mention it again. Tell that to Witham. Those bastards were all over her, and explaining away why she didn't show at her hustings ' she's dealing with the terrorist threat! It's a national emergency!'
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