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Yeah I heard that one too but I genuinely didn't realise it was a play on his name's pronunciation rather than just, y'know, his name is butt lol.
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I called him Butty-gig until I learned it properly. Bloody Maltese  e; If you want to know how impressive he isn't, consider that he came third in Iowa among queer voters. Imagine being a high profile gay man and, at least putatively, realistic chance at Presidential nominee. And imagine the gays don't even like you nearly as much as Bernie or even Warren.
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Feb 6, 2020 21:17
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Nationwide Platinum does the same thing too except it's Visa. You don't even really need it for travel, if you just happen to buy stuff online from the US semi-frequently it's handy because the exchange rate is *way* better than Paypal. mastcard rates are consistently better than visa though if you care about saving penny shavings
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Buttigieg is less qualified to be President than I am and I'm neither a US citizen nor 35
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Julio Cruz posted:Buttigieg is less qualified to be President than I am and I'm neither a US citizen nor 35 When I was a kid I was like "35?! That's so unfair! That's so OLD!" and now I'm turning 35 in a few months and I'm like "Christ alive there's no way someone my age should be put in charge of anything."
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I really hope the yanks manage to pull together a coalition of people who are just so loving sick of all their societal bullshit. Sanders doing really well with minority voters is heartening, hopefully they can get some decent healthcare and they can catapult it into some real scouring of the loving ghouls that run that hellhole of a country.
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OwlFancier posted:I really hope the yanks manage to pull together a coalition of people who are just so loving sick of all their societal bullshit. Sanders doing really well with minority voters is heartening, hopefully they can get some decent healthcare and they can catapult it into some real scouring of the loving ghouls that run that hellhole of a country. Big same but we're gonna look like real assholes if the yanks manage to elect someone who actually wants to fix poo poo while we continue tripping over our own dicks by voting for Brexit and electing the tories over and over 
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That's what internationalism is for though right, living vicariously through the successes of other people?
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Guavanaut posted:Butt Gregg's Gregg's beans boiled my butt
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quote:The figures, published by Deltapoll, highlights that 60 per cent of UK adults are in favour of further police powers to prevent and limit protests, due largely to the perceived disruptive effects. Maybe you dipshits should be mad at the people being protested, not the protestors trying to improve things  loving hell.
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Come on you can't expect the british public to have basic inductive reasoning.
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Edinburgh Central nominates RLB on seconds, and Butler on fourths. Kerr for Scottish deputy.  Get hosed, Murray. North & Leith is sounding like it’s gone sour, though, which is a bad sign.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Paypal's not, actually, a friend. And if it were, why'd it want to manage my monetary transactions? Suspect imo I've actually had a better rate from paypal than visa credit card yesterday when buying a computer, albeit I paid with the card for potential chargeback (it was less than a 50p difference). e: Also gently caress me is this website, which is the first result when googling information about chargebacks, whiny: chargebacks911 posted:What is a Chargeback on a Credit Card? Is There a Reason Why We Say “Don’t File Chargebacks”? My heart bleeds for poor shady businesses worldwide. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Private Speech posted:I've actually had a better rate from paypal than visa credit card recently when buying a computer, albeit I paid with the card for potential chargeback (it was less than a 50p difference).  wowzers, those 'murcans are legit crazy.
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Laura Pidcock is cancelled. https://twitter.com/ofthesparrows/status/1225517310284308485
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Consumer this and consumer that. Who will protect the corporations?? Maybe this should be solved by a portmanteau, the american's favourite linguistic crime. How about corp-sumers? Sounds great imo
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Edinburgh Central nominates RLB on seconds, and Butler on fourths. Kerr for Scottish deputy. Matt Kerr is cool and good and I hope he wins.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:
You left out the best bit from Sunshine there: Sunshine Compua posted:The problem is that MERCHANTS HAVE TO START SUING THE CREDIT CARD BRANDS for what they know is aiding and abedding buyers to steal. PayPal gets sued every year but the problem is that people settle and nothing gets put into law. Business owners are to credit card's is no different than slavery to africian americans, they wanted equal rights well they faught for it, instead of just sitting around and complaining about it. Buyers are idiots to see how easily they get talked into using credit cards for everything buying a 50 cent postage stamp.
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Those africians, from africia. It's a great sentence, it's like it's challenging you to add or remove punctuation to make it less poo poo.
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How many businesses can you abduct and cram into a credit card side by side for a many weeks long journey through the legal process.
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WhatEvil posted:Laura Pidcock is cancelled. Welp, looks like the concerns she might be a bit terfy were all too right. Shame, I had really hoped given how good she was on other matters that it was just some ill-chosen words or the like, and I wasn't as ready to cancel her as some.  Also a lad I went to uni with was called Matt Kerr and was pretty lefty, was hopeful he was the one under discussion but sadly just the same name.
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It's really weird that people can be right on and then just loving do that drifting up the offramp meme into single issue shittiness. Like what makes you think that these weirdos funded by US evangelicals are on the right side of history here? Has there ever been any instance where the people going "hey we need to slow down and think about whether these people clamouring for protections and rights really deserve them you know" have been correct?
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Ms Adequate posted:When I was a kid I was like "35?! That's so unfair! That's so OLD!" and now I'm turning 35 in a few months and I'm like "Christ alive there's no way someone my age should be put in charge of anything." *sadly crumples up Ms Adequate For Prime Minister poster*
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e; ^^^  Obviously I'm the exception, I might not get out of my pajamas half the time but I could definitely command a military and make those barmy Brussels bureaucrats toe our line!I can't honestly fathom being against the radical expansion of rights and protections as a core personal matter as well as foremost political beliefs. Like, I can't wrap my head around how we live in a world where we've not already settled all extant matters and are now discussing how to protect the rights of clones and androids and aliens so we're ready if/when those issues arise.
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I mean it makes perfect sense if you're just a miserable old twat who is perfectly happy with society as it is because it suits you fine and gently caress everyone else. But it seems wildly incongruous with a general thrust to overturn the current order for being unjust.
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OwlFancier posted:Like what makes you think that these weirdos funded by US evangelicals are on the right side of history here? Has there ever been any instance where the people going "hey we need to slow down and think about whether these people clamouring for protections and rights really deserve them you know" have been correct? Like half of the religious right were against them because they marched with gay lib groups and the other half were against them performatively to cover for their own noncing, but there was a time when pedophile rights were a thing that were being discussed in the public protest sphere. I suspect that part of the success of the terves is that they've latched onto the bit that mattered there (opposing pedophile rights is good because they wanted the right to nonce kids) to try to turn trans rights into a threat to the safety of natal* women. That's not new either though, that's been around since Mary Whitehouse tried to turn the idea of telling kids it's okay to be gay into a secret recruitment plan for homosexualists. *KZN since 1994
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Guavanaut posted:PIE/NAMBLA. I loving knew someone was gonna say PIE and I had like a 70% guess it was gonna be you lol.
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ThomasPaine posted:Bernie definitely will at least win the popular vote during the primaries overall but given the democratic party is even less democratic (lol) than Labour was in 2015 and probably on the whole hates him even more than they hated Corbyn, I'm wondering if there's some roundabout procedural way they can rules-lawyer his defeat which will probably destroy the party in the long run because oh my god people will be so pissed. If no candidate gets an outright majority in the first round at the convention, then superdelegates are allowed to vote So if bernie gets 40 percent and butt gets 20, the DNC members are allowed to jump behind butt for the ratfuck A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Ms Adequate posted:
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Edinburgh Central nominates RLB on seconds, and Butler on fourths. Kerr for Scottish deputy. Congrats on attaining the result I almost certainly won’t get in Paisley tomorrow night  WhatEvil posted:Laura Pidcock is cancelled. gently caress I hate being hopeful sometimes.
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FairyNuff posted:Lack of empathy/selfishness. Yeah, I guess I just don't get how that's such a widespread condition...
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The problem is that TERFs are incredibly ingrained in the British liberal press and political circles... Like Pidcock is 32, she's not some old fogey getting her views from back in the day, but she's probably getting it from a figure who is an original 2nd wave Greer-reading TERF.
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Ms Adequate posted:When I was a kid I was like "35?! That's so unfair! That's so OLD!" and now I'm turning 35 in a few months and I'm like "Christ alive there's no way someone my age should be put in charge of anything." Have you considered that in fact the concept of people being in charge is what is in fact bad?
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Indeed, and that's why I should be in charge, so I can get rid of the idea of people being in charge.
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Ms Adequate posted:Yeah, I guess I just don't get how that's such a widespread condition... I dunno, probably due to constant messaging through media/peers, it is poo poo either way.
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OwlFancier posted:I really hope the yanks manage to pull together a coalition of people who are just so loving sick of all their societal bullshit. Sanders doing really well with minority voters is heartening, hopefully they can get some decent healthcare and they can catapult it into some real scouring of the loving ghouls that run that hellhole of a country. Sanders big problem in '16 (apart from the obvious one) was a lack of appeal with minority voters, and that was supposed to be Joe Biden's biggest asset. Unfortunately the Brain Geniuses at the DNC assumed that "Used to stand near Barack Obama for a living" was all the qualification he needed to keep that vote which says a *lot* about how they really think about people of colour.
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Ms Adequate posted:Yeah, I guess I just don't get how that's such a widespread condition... I think a lot of it stems from fear. It serves the ruling elite to keep people worrying about homes, jobs, security, where the next meal is coming from and also 'thank god I'm alright'. It's about keeping people mired in the bottom 2 layers of the Maslow pyramid. Keep people unsettled down there and they won't have energy to look further up. This is also why the tories were so keen on offering multiple choices for people for schools, hospitals and so forth, instead of ensuring all schools provide a decent education for all kids. If you're spending all your time worrying about what choices to make for your kids' schools you won't have the energy to pay too much attention to the nefarious activities of the government.  Maslow might not be perfect, but I think it's a fairly simple and reasonable model. 
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