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Ms Adequate posted:if eugenics doesn't work how come animal husbandry, check and mate non-fascists I confess I didn't expect this post to quite so perfectly anticipate some Dick Dorkins nonsense just a few hours later. e; Historical documentary Red Faction II takes place in 2075. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Angepain posted:also is it too late to say nice things about Ms Adequate's clothes experience. My first time out in women's clothes I was wearing a dress under a large jacket in a foreign country to the corner shop with a friend at 10pm, where I would never see anyone else who saw me ever again in my life, and I was still spending the entire time afraid to even accidentally look anyone in the eye for fear i would see what they were thinking of me. that was about a year ago, and months of very gradual small steps later i'm now able to amble around town and go to work in skirts while only being moderately self-conscious. i've been lucky in that I haven't got any proper abuse yet but at least in my experience it does get easier, gradually. be trans do crimes. Hell yeah girl!! I was scared AF but if someone wants to abuse me for being trans they're going to have to try pretty loving hard to outdo the stick I got in school, lol i will take your final advice to heart. <3
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Congrats(?) on the positive vibes Ms A!  The storm has battered around here (Rhondda), some heavy flooding and has completely hosed my car door when the wind caught it. 
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Job seekers ITT: I've been self-employed for more than a decade but am now starting to look for some part-time paid admin work for an employer (for a mixed bag of reasons, I won't bore you with the details suffice to say 'national insurance' probably covers most of it!). Anyway, while I have a pocketful of testimonials relating to 1-1 work, I don't have any recent employers' references, just about everyone I worked for has retired now, companies have folded, HQs moved etc. In search of a suitable work-type referee, I approached my CLP chair and she's more than happy to give me a reference for the assorted admin etc work I have done for the party over the past 4 years (even though she knows I'm still planning to quit). If you have a party position (or can get one) and are sadly lacking in work-place references, this might be worth considering. (Now to fill in that dratted form! Why oh Why can't they accept cvs?) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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RLB Leader and Dawn Butler deputy would be pretty awesome to be honest. Just been reading as much as I can about the deputies as honestly it didn't even cross my mind until I got a text from Rayner.
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I'm still very confused why the candidate who so strongly resembles the managerial wing of the party is the frontrunner when the party has had such an influx of new member after Corbyn - the antithesis of the tory-light wing personified - became leader. Like where does the voting preference of all those new members go?
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Miftan posted:I was gonna go Butler Burgon,but Butler's stupid "no anonymity on the Internet" plan is really making me question that  I'm not sure why it's so hard to convey "the mathematics that enables nonces to trade CAI is the same mathematics that stops them from perving on your internet baby monitor, and if the law bans it then only one of those two groups will obey it" but they've decided that you can selectively turn off maths for the police, who will always use that in the interest of child welfare.
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double nine posted:I'm still very confused why the candidate who so strongly resembles the managerial wing of the party is the frontrunner when the party has had such an influx of new member after Corbyn - the antithesis of the tory-light wing personified - became leader. Like where does the voting preference of all those new members go? Round here most of the new members are going Starmer. (Approx 200 "new" members - some rejoins whose names I recognize) in a CLP of about 900 members pre-election).
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double nine posted:I'm still very confused why the candidate who so strongly resembles the managerial wing of the party is the frontrunner when the party has had such an influx of new member after Corbyn - the antithesis of the tory-light wing personified - became leader. Like where does the voting preference of all those new members go? hope is dead
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I think it is just people going "well that didn't work" and falling back on old truisms about managers. It happens some times, but I am still hoping that we get a good result long term. If not -shrug- we are all dead anyway, may as well make sure we did as much good as possible. Ratjaculation posted:hope is dead Also this, at least in part. I agree that there does need to be a way of approaching the electorate that you have, rather than the one you wish you had. I think one of the things that will break it is if the Tories continue to go down the "like Trump but even less competent" direction and then we get another financial crash. It's at that point that some bright spark in the Tories will go "why don't we just make the homeowners suffer, not the landowners" and you'll end up with a lot of very angry gammons. Josef bugman fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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double nine posted:I'm still very confused why the candidate who so strongly resembles the managerial wing of the party is the frontrunner when the party has had such an influx of new member after Corbyn - the antithesis of the tory-light wing personified - became leader. Like where does the voting preference of all those new members go? The press never bothered to find out what the views of all those new members were, preferring instead to just go off on one about Corbynite hordes. Most likely what appealed to people and got them to join the party was the sense of momentum and impending success more than a specifically left-wing surge. There are plenty of folks who are tedious centrists at heart who are nontheless not aligned with the Westminster lobby or people who write opinion columns in the Guardian. e: which is to say, even if you're Numbers Fuckstein and all you want is technocratic solutions forever, that doesn't mean you have the brain-melting condition that makes you think Owen Smith is a good idea. josh04 fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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It'll swing right and left over the next 25 years, with a lot of centrists desperately trying to claw relevance sabotaging the left swing for their own personal gain. It'll either stick left eventually or we'll all drown/burn or both. It only takes us getting someone like RLB with mandatory reselection in once and all the while we're pushing hard the Overton window is shifting. Yeah it's loving grim but even if we'd won the landslide it'd still be an insane uphill battle. Capitalism is not going quietly into the night. Keep up the fight goons. We're not done yet.
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feedmegin posted:Mate I've known I was a nerd since I was about 12 years old (and, as it happens, running a Dragonlance game on my lunchbreak at school) Nerdiest school stories time imo. Mine is when I was 11/12 taking some dice into school to play chinchirorin from Suikoden. A literal minigame. I expanded it into real gambling the next day when everyone was super into it and wanted to gamble. (They were also impressed by my honesty when I later realized I'd got an outcome wrong and given someone less than their winnings, when even they hadn't noticed it because they were new to the rules, so I found them and gave him his dosh.) A couple more days later the teacher told us to stop literally gambling on our break and that was the end of my brief popularity.
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Prince John posted:I think I've seen various talk about lots of new members joining since the election, presumably from less lefty sources this time around. Genuinely hard to tell to be honest. At this point I'm tempted to just go RLB or bust to minimise the counts in the 2nd and 3rd round.
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Starmer pals around with some very, very scary people in the Trilateral Commission. On the other hand, Nandy is associated with a faction who literally call themselves Blue Labour and aren't always as smart about filing the serial numbers off Nazi slogans as they think they are. I'd say they're both pretty worrying news, but in quite different ways.
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People complaining about lovely spam texts from Labour, I feel you. No idea how that's seen as acceptable in this day and age, seems far more intrusive than junkmail or emails. I did take pleasure in screaming STOP in all caps at Starmer though. Anyway, apropos of nothing but the impending climate apocalypse and fleeing the country I recently realised I can afford to fulfil the dreams of my 13 year old self and get a private pilots licence. Possibly with a float plane rating tagged on so I can just gently caress off to a lake in the middle of Canada or something. SA has all kinds of weird little niche communities, anyone got any experience or knows a thread about taking a PPL in the UK? (For reference it's probably about £10k for a PPL, about the same a decent ex-lease hire car or 1/50th of a house near London. It's nice to dream about cocking about about in one of these https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012891/electric-airplane-first-flight-magnix-harbor-air some time in the next decade rather than another 40 years of desk jockeying in IT)
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Darth Walrus posted:Starmer pals around with some very, very scary people in the Trilateral Commission. On the other hand, Nandy is associated with a faction who literally call themselves Blue Labour and aren't always as smart about filing the serial numbers off Nazi slogans as they think they are. I'd say they're both pretty worrying news, but in quite different ways. Ooo, spooky people from the Trilateral Commission, has he been wearing an owl head at the Bilderberg meeting too?
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I mean they have a website and everything, they're not really secret, just another lovely hard right think tank. The US branch being chaired by the manager of the iraq occupation under bush is sort of comically evil though.
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The internet has kinda ruined this sort of stuff. Used to be you'd have to go through newspaper articles and microfiche archives, building a case with push pins and twine on your conspiracy board. Now it's just "oh yeah, Starmer was at the meeting with General Murder and the Assetgrab Boys, it's on our website" and nobody cares.
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At least it isn't Grab Boy Assets.
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He's in the secret church group. And the Scouts. And the BBC.
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Guavanaut posted:Speaking of which, the NSPCC is going hard against end to end encryption "In the interest of public safety, every household must leave a key under a brick by their front door, so that the authorities can quickly gain access to their home if it's required. Don't worry, only the emergency services will be permitted to access the keys and it will be a criminal offence for anyone else to do so!"
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Brick in a sock is more like what you want. These Americans who ask incredulously how a whole country of people can get by without being able to buy assault rifles at the supermarket along with their pasta sauce have evidently never encountered someone wielding a brick in a sock imo. Like a council estate morningstar.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean they have a website and everything, they're not really secret, just another lovely hard right think tank. I mean, the other two heads are the guy who blackmailed Greece and Ireland into austerity measures and the guy who covered up that the world's most popular diabetes medication caused bladder cancer.
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Darth Walrus posted:I mean, the other two heads are the guy who blackmailed Greece and Ireland into austerity measures and the guy who covered up that the world's most popular diabetes medication caused bladder cancer. True there's good competition 
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Ratjaculation posted:hope is dead I was at a party recently & was very surprised to hear that a couple of friends who defected from Green in 2015 will be giving Starmer their first pref. Then I thought back over our recent conversations, and it makes sense - they're pretty much just tired of fighting, tired of the endless austerity deaths, and they think maybe the New Labour guy can win again & at least be better than all the poo poo we've seen this last decade, so have decided to lick the boot. Better things aren't possible, basically. gently caress that, obviously. But these are actual leftists, who joined specifically because Labour was socialist again. There's probably a lot more where that came from.
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happyhippy posted:Hey peeps, did you hear that Starmer was at some meeting recently with General Murder and the Assetgrab Boys there as well? Is that a band
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crispix posted:Like a council estate morningstar. I don't know if this was an extant phrase or you just invented it but I'm never going to call a brick in a sock anything else from now on 
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My advice to any motorist who has niggling concerns about the collapse of civilisation and/or zombie stuff is to keep a pair of football socks in your boot (car boot, that is!!). Anything kicks off, stick the car jack in one of the socks and you have a serviceable substitute for a brick in a sock.
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Ms Adequate posted:I don't know if this was an extant phrase or you just invented it but I'm never going to call a brick in a sock anything else from now on Alright Jess Phillips calm down (I'm sorry)
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Miftan posted:Alright Jess Phillips calm down (I'm sorry) That's both a big oof and a very good hit, lmao
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I watched an episode of Monk where the victim beat themselves with a sock filled with batteries attached to a ceiling fan before they were stabbed on a ferris wheel. That's my story.
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I think you're all outing yourselves as poseurs when it comes to the traditional martial arts of the British working class here. Even a half-brick in a sock will just get you a torn sock, we won't even talk about fitting a whole scissor jack in there (a bottle jack *maybe*, but if you have a bottle jack you also have a very serviceable 2-foot steel pole sitting right next to it). The correct filling for a sock-based improvised weapon is of course a snooker ball, or a handful of batteries or enough sand to half-fill the foot at a pinch.
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