Lungboy posted:

I'm surprised by all the love for Burgeon in here. I know he's a lefty but whenever I've seen him talk he comes across as dumber than a box of particularly dumb rocks, like a claystone or greywacke or something. I'm not hugely thrilled by any of the candidates in either race really.

Sanitary Naptime posted:

We won’t, Scottish exceptionalism is a myth.

forkboy84 posted:

Independent Scotland won't be a paradise and certainly has it's own problems but in my life time Scotland has gotten the government it voted for in 97, 01?(forget the exact date but it was when I was still in High School) and 05 and if you don't find that a tiny bit aggravating then fair enough but clearly lots of people do. Just shy half the voting public as of 2014 and we've had 3 more general elections where the party Scotland voted for didn't win. Which will take us to 14 and a half years Tory government as of thr next scheduled general election.

The rest of the country clearly doesn't give a gently caress about what Scotland thinks so I think it's not unreasonable to say gently caress 'em back. Sure, it could be a loving disaster but at some point I don't think I care. At least a newly independent country could start from scratch with a less bad electoral system, leading to a broadening of the political debate. Because hey, we tried entryism in a FPTP system and it failed. And it isn't as if electoral reform is going to be on the agenda in this parliament, is it?

I put my Yes vote behind me for the Corbyn years, I gave Britain a chance and all I got for it was a 50 seat Tory majority and Labour people talking about giving up and just voting Starmer because a Blairite is better than nothing. If they can give up why the gently caress can't I?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Can't change my 1950, it's greyed out. Can't see any option to run as administrator! Maybe I'm being dim.

Bundy posted:

Guavanaut posted:

The Seinfeld sequel.

quote:

Critics are slamming the popular sitcom Seinfeld as offensive, calling many of its jokes tone-deaf and distasteful.

However, several show fans are hitting right back, arguing that today's culture is overly politically correct and times have changed since the show aired from 1989 to 1998.

Some points of controversy include using offensive slurs like Nazi and Indian Giver or racist jokes against people who can’t speak English and poking fun at homosexuals.

The controversy follows attacks on other long-running shows like Friends and All In The Family.

Comrade Fakename posted:

I think this eugenicist business is actually kind of a big deal. This is the first just absolutely unacceptable thing the Tories have done since the election. So this is a test of what they can get away with. I think the Tories (or Cummings anyway) want to play the Trump game of just not caring about criticism over awful poo poo and just waiting for the news cycle to move on.

So the real question is whether the news media will keep criticism of this up, or let them get away with it.

I'm not optimistic.

Private Speech posted:

This is a tech support shitpost and I have no idea if it might help, but: it could be a group policy setting maybe? If your computer is gpo managed (i.e. corporate).

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

No - just me, personal laptop. MInd you I bought it in Cairo so maybe they did something there. (Have had it 4 years now and this is the first time I haven't been able to fiddle with something).

Qwertycoatl posted:

I think in a few years the media orthodoxy will be that anyone opposed to measuring the shape of skulls is a wild-eyed lunatic.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Heavily brexit supporting

Luxury Tent Carpet posted:

WhatEvil posted:

Yeah thinking more and more it's got to be Burgon 1st pref for me now, Dawn 2nd:

https://twitter.com/johnmcdonnellMP/status/1229374992598650880?s=20

Coohoolin posted:

"Scottish exceptionalism is a myth" for a lot of people seems to mean "so we might as well not even bother trying to improve things".

thespaceinvader posted:

The words are good and sound, the delivery is dull as ditchwater unfortunately.

Tesseraction posted:

What do you mean by exceptionalism in this regard?

Tesseraction posted:

Although tbh I would argue that without the English to blame for the problems, it's still pretty likely that austerity will start coming in thick and fast - ask Ireland.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Wales is no kind of socialist utopia contrary to what seems to be popular belief around here.

Heavily brexit supporting (and no, it's not all English pensioners - huge areas of Wales where no English person will be buying retirement homes voted Leave including the valleys, Torfaen, Merthyr, Rhondda - school friends of mine whose parents worked down the pits and who themselves had jobs in the steel works and live on the side of aging coal tips just along from Abervan), and approx a third of Assembly Members being UKIP or Tory.

Coohoolin posted:

i'm referring to the earlier point made, unionists like to accuse independence supporters of being misty eyed about some inherent magical scottish characteristic that will usher in a millenium of socialism once freed from the Hated English Yoke (TM) because a lot of people look at the voting trends and make the relatively safe assumption that the lack of tory votes, massive support for universalist healthcare and education policies, and overwhelming pro immigration views might indicate that an independent scotland would probably have a better average government than the UK (not that that's a high bar).

There is no magical scottish socialist gene, sure. But no one's arguing that, not seriously, and pretending that's a big facet of the independence argument is disingenuous. It also doesn't matter, because the question for socialists isn't "would an independent scotland magically fix everything", but "is a socialist society more achievable in an independent scotland or a british scotland", and I think that's becoming an easier and easier question to answer. Just because it won't usher in a thousand year socialist era with a finger snap is absolutely no reason to not support it.

Tesseraction posted:

Although tbh I would argue that without the English to blame for the problems, it's still pretty likely that austerity will start coming in thick and fast - ask Ireland.

quote:

Although often cast by his political opponents as a revolutionary, de Valera disliked the term and was anxious to emphasise his moderation: to offset the effects of those of his critics in 1917-18 who likened his followers to the Bolsheviks, de Valera stated that 'they were called by certain people the Revolutionary Party. Were they called the Conservative Party they would be more correctly named. They would conserve the spirit of true Irish nationality.

Cerv posted:

24% of votes, making the the second largest party in parliament doesn’t say “lack of Tory votes” to me

crispix posted:

John Snow just said your eugenics weirdo resigned

Private Speech posted:

Rewatching Seinfeld you get surprised by how occasionally racist it is. The sequel's just homophobic (oh Ross you married a lesbian and Chandler you're seen as gay and have a gay father, how funny).

bessantj posted:

Also does the UK leave the EU on Dec 31st no matter the state of negotiations?