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There are signed copies of JessPhips “truth to power” in the Waterstones by Victoria station, if anyone wants a momento.
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^^^ is there like 3 and a bit pages of text before she gets bored?forkboy84 posted:More like pier harmer, the disgraceful vandal more like steer alarmer... wait no that was the other guy, the cows see everything
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Skull Servant posted:The only reason we haven't had an election sooner was because of Brexit. The last three years of government here have been FG being supported in confidence and supply by FF. Both parties have their origins in the Civil War, traditionally being bitterly opposed. They have taken turns governing the country since the foundation of the State. Completely agree. Sorry, I mistyped, and you beat me before my edit lmao. I don't expect things to get better for Britain because of this, at all. I fully expect things to get better for Ireland though.
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Isomermaid posted:Might have to read this to find how you spin "look at what people with actual beliefs think and aim wherever in the middle affects me the least" into 200 pages Oh ye of little faith https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1219582898837258247
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Guavanaut posted:Jess Phillips takes off their head. It's Chuka Umunna. 
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biscuits and crazy posted:
Some real "The prophecy can't fail, it can only be failed" poo poo going down around the latest victim of over hype. https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1219653934538743811 Genuinely confused as to what "Truth to power" she ever spoke. As far as I can tell everything she ever put out was "We are losing, but if I were in charge I'd simply change that to winning" and sucking up to the tories. She's catchphrase over. He might as well be lamenting that we didn't smell what the Rock was cooking and we did in fact have a cow. The barest touch of people looking into her dodgy dealings giving her husband an over inflated salary to "Run her office", the amount of cash she took for media appearances and the "Donations" she took from property developers months before she handed them massive contracts and she ran for the hills. Can't wait for her to flounce off and start the Justice Patriots party and get 0% of the vote.
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The Star Wars sequels are cargo-cult film making. They imitate the shape and form of what they think a Star Wars is in order to make money appear. Jess Philips is a cargo-cult politician. She imitates the shape and form of a straight talking, honest politician in order to make power appear.
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Jan 21, 2020 18:26
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It's so satisfying watching people twist from 'the election proves the left is wrong' to 'the election proves the electorate are wrong'
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Jan 21, 2020 18:38
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oh another thing I hate about star wars, the new ones are exactly the same plot as the original trilogy. oh boy what bold new direction will we take the franchise??? remember the death star? that was cool, but imagine a death star even bigger, how much cooler would that be??? e: I'm sorry, I hate Star Wars almost as much as I secretly love Frances Weetman
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A shame that Phil Ochs already wrote the definitive work on the subject
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Chuff McNothing posted:It's so satisfying watching people twist from 'the election proves the left is wrong' to 'the election proves the electorate are wrong' Eh it's not like they'll actually self reflect or learn anything, they'll just continue to be annoying in newspapers until the left gets in power and shuts them down.
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ThomasPaine posted:oh another thing I hate about star wars, the new ones are exactly the same plot as the original trilogy. If they'd actually made it a dyson sphere and that was what powered the laser that'd be interesting.
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Guavanaut posted:The death 'star' is barely even the size of a large asteroid anyway. It doesn't even qualify as a death moon. oh my god i don't care!!!!
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Oh ye of little faith loving lol nothing says "how to be a liberal" like designing the front cover before you've even finished the loving book
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Sorry I won't be posting for the next three days because I am all booked up to be rolling on the floor howling like a shot wolf at the fate of Jess Phlaps.
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Chuff McNothing posted:It's so satisfying watching people twist from 'the election proves the left is wrong' to 'the election proves the electorate are wrong' I mean the electorate is wrong though
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Venomous posted:so I just found out there's an Irish election coming up next month and lmaoooo. Couldn't be happening at a better time. Whoever wins, they're laughing at Britain all the way to the bank. The main issues in the election are the horrible unstructured lack of health reforms, the housing crisis and protests from farmers over beef prices squeezing their bottom line - Brexit barely features in it tbh outside of Varadkar desperately waving at it to show something he's done vaguely right. edit: And my enthusiasm for the return of FF is pretty low
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Darth Walrus posted:Starmer, same as usual. as if on cue https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1219686995913584641?s=20 (also we can't talk about the Irish election without one of the main trigger events being Leo Varadkar having a memorial celebration for the RIC and the Black and Tans, which actually put "Come Out Ye Black And Tans" as #1 on the Irish charts)
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kustomkarkommando posted:The main issues in the election are the horrible unstructured lack of health reforms, the housing crisis and protests from farmers over beef prices squeezing their bottom line - Brexit barely features in it tbh outside of Varadkar desperately waving at it to show something he's done vaguely right. The choice the Irish have between FG & FF is about as depressing as Yanks usually have between Reps & Dems in years when Bernie isn't running.
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Well if nothing else they're consistant in immediately pivoting to the next great Beige Centrist Hope, after a dozen puff pieces on how the previous chosen one would be the new BCH and hosed up spectacularly. https://twitter.com/TheTrashiesUK/status/1219692798137503745 Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jan 21, 2020 |
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forkboy84 posted:The choice the Irish have between FG & FF is about as depressing as Yanks usually have between Reps & Dems in years when Bernie isn't running. remember when the vanguard publication of the revolution (by which I mean Teen Vogue) posted an article saying that Leo Varadkar was their favorite world leader because he's brown, gay, and a non-Catholic leading Ireland out of its dark papist shell? i do, and the reaction to it was hilarious.
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Purple Prince posted:I mean the electorate is wrong though the electorate is right in that centrism is dead
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thespaceinvader posted:I'm SO pissed I missed the Star Wars pod, I have so much semi-informed wild lefty bullshit to spout about the politics of pop culture. I think I have a major problem with discord and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe i'm misunderstanding how it works, but having voice or text chat going sort of feels like being on the phone, and it feels sort of rude with what little time I get with my wife. Also autism probably factors into it a lot, but I don't want to seem like i'm pulling the disability card. I just don't get on with it, but it seems like it's embedding itself into everything. Happened in the Destiny thread and a bunch of other games I've played where 'oh we do that in the discord' seems to be happening more and more. Debbie Does Dagon posted:Wasn't KoTOR II an unplayable buggy piece of poo poo? Which is a shame because KOTOR2 was trying to make a really interesting point about the force and morality and had the potential to be incredible. If it came out now I'm sure it would have just been patched and it would be GOTY forever, but unfortunately it came out before the post-release patch cycle became commonplace. Instead you got a game where the scripting stops dead and traps you in an ice cave with a bunch of people who can only say [placeholder], and that's after it was patched. Rogue 1 was good, fight me. baka kaba posted:more like fear farmer
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I think I have a major problem with discord and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe i'm misunderstanding how it works, but having voice or text chat going sort of feels like being on the phone, and it feels sort of rude with what little time I get with my wife. It's definitely got a Web 2.0 Everything's a Telephone vibe going on, and I bet that's tenfold for doing it in an app based environment, and I can see why that might be an issue for many people, and it's not as good as forums for following multiple chains of discussion at once. Now the radio telegraph, that was a discussion platform... 
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Guavanaut posted:It's because it's bad, op. Telegraphs run down wires, you loving 19th millennials with your spark gaps and your kites and your Oil of Macassar will never convince me otherwise.
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Become a coward and march toward the right, gotcha. Good communication.
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I don't understand the open selection thing. Its just getting rid of the trigger ballot vote which should go in your favour if you have the numbers to beat the incumbent anyway, no?
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Miftan posted:I don't understand the open selection thing. Its just getting rid of the trigger ballot vote which should go in your favour if you have the numbers to beat the incumbent anyway, no? Trigger ballots are bad because they necessitate a negative campaign to get everyone to ditch a sitting MP. Open selection means you have to make a positive case for a candidate.
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Miftan posted:I don't understand the open selection thing. Its just getting rid of the trigger ballot vote which should go in your favour if you have the numbers to beat the incumbent anyway, no? It's much easier to run a "hey, vote for me, not the other guy" campaign if you don't first have to do a "hey, this guy is pretty poo poo, how about we boot him", whilst the incumbent has access to the full constituency Labour party details, and you have poo poo all.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I wouldn't say pissed but I'm definitely kicking myself for not being on the disco early enough to hear about it. I don't know if announcing the themes in advance in the thread would help, or if it means Tom Watson is going to steal all your talking points. FWIW I'm not a big fan of Discord either. It's partly the live thing - I like having time to organise my thoughts - and it's p[artly the audio thing, I interact much better via text, and I don't especailly like the idea of giving the internent another microphone into my home...
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https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1219715962536103944?s=20 Planned obsolesce is my favourite feature of capitalism.
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kustomkarkommando posted:The main issues in the election are the horrible unstructured lack of health reforms, the housing crisis and protests from farmers over beef prices squeezing their bottom line - Brexit barely features in it tbh outside of Varadkar desperately waving at it to show something he's done vaguely right. I'm predicting a FF/Green/Independent coalition. It's 2007 again hell yeah!!!
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Telegraphs run down wires, you loving 19th millennials with your spark gaps and your kites and your Oil of Macassar will never convince me otherwise.
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