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Interesting: https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1247808798162591744 https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1247810066515984385 https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1247811425466269696 I would not draw the same conclusions though ("we can't offer it all at once" is a possible reading and one that is likely to be made explicit as the post-Corbyn left ruminates, but more likely in the immediate term is "people have inchoate desires which lead to contradictory wants when polled this way") The membership in the Miliband period were also not much more left-wing. Rather, immigration was a higher priority which forced everything else off the table... polls of support for nationalization amongst membership in the early tens still saw v high support ronya fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Apr 9, 2020 05:19
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Lol ronya follows capx ghouls
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Apr 9, 2020 05:43
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I have @MattSingh_ favourite'd so I periodically check his twitter I have sufficient distrust of the twitter algorithm that I just browse individual twitters whilst not logged in...
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Apr 9, 2020 05:57
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OwlFancier posted:Ultimately for all the platitudes about how people didn't realise what was really essential, I don't think it's going to change. Because people don't want to grapple with actually understanding what essential work means. They don't want to think the world is maintained by people who work for basic subsistence, they certainly don't want to deal with any of the consequences of empowering or even rewarding those people appropriately. Even the stuff that is pointing out "Uh hey some people we're treating like garbo are actually really important" are serving to divert the ire from where it should be. Freedland's article is a prime example: He's banging on about how we don't "need" sports and movie stars. Well, yeah, not many people are going to say they're really in need of all that money and stuff, but hardly anyone in the entertainment world at large is commanding that kind of money, relatively speaking. Sure, you've got a tiny cadre of people like Neymar or Messi or Tom Cruise or RDJ - but they're a very small group in comparison to the huge numbers of people in the lower leagues, or the people who can't pick and choose their acting roles, and so on. Which isn't to say something oughtn't to be done about massive pay for that elite cadre but talking about them in this context is to redirect people's discontent away from the people who command true wealth and power - the government, the corporations, and the billionaires, people who can lose Messi's annual pay packet and not even be aware of it, people like Mike Bloomberg who can piss away orders of magnitude more money than the average celeb will ever see on a vanity Presidential bid and not have it impact his wealth because it's such a pissant sum next to his investments and interest. Even if he spent that amount every year for the rest of his life, and had no further income whatsoever, he'd run out of life decades before he ran out of money. (Jeff Bezos has well over twice as much money as Bloomberg does lmao)
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Apr 9, 2020 07:12
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I wonder what happens if Bezos or Bloomberg die of Covid?
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Apr 9, 2020 08:11
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Sulphagnist posted:I have probably gone off the deep end because my theory is that he never was ill and the whole thing has been staged to make him more popular and to immunize him against any criticism over his coronavirus response. Because that was my first thought when he was said to have tested positive. It's not like his carers can go to the press and say he doesn't have coronavirus, that would be illegal. I agree this is the sort of thing they would do, but I'm not sure they'd be able to keep it from leaking. Like if he's just sitting in Downing Street, then surely it's not illegal for someone at St Thomas' to say "nope, no PM here". And if he is sitting in the hospital playing his gameboy, it would still get out.
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Bobstar posted:I agree this is the sort of thing they would do, but I'm not sure they'd be able to keep it from leaking. Like if he's just sitting in Downing Street, then surely it's not illegal for someone at St Thomas' to say "nope, no PM here". And if he is sitting in the hospital playing his gameboy, it would still get out. I would not put it past him to have deliberately got himself infected in the belief that he would only get a mild case and could say "See, no big deal, back to work". It's consistent with people saying he's Big Strong Man Who Has Never Been Sick.
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Apr 9, 2020 08:14
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Josef bugman posted:I wonder what happens if Bezos or Bloomberg die of Covid? Bezos? An enormous party the likes of which has never been seen on this earth
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Apr 9, 2020 08:18
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Josef bugman posted:I wonder what happens if Bezos or Bloomberg die of Covid? I'm certain Bezos went full bubble boy at some point in January, dude really strikes me as a germophobe (based on absolutely nothing but an impression).
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Apr 9, 2020 08:21
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Jedit posted:I would not put it past him to have deliberately got himself infected in the belief that he would only get a mild case and could say "See, no big deal, back to work". It's consistent with people saying he's Big Strong Man Who Has Never Been Sick. That's a level of forward planning that he's not demonstrated anywhere else. After all we have an indeterminate amount of walking, talking proofs that he both doesn't take sensible precautions and doesn't give a poo poo about consequences scattered around the country.
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https://twitter.com/Lexialex/status/1246990432501772288?s=19 Yes hahaha yes but it's the coronavirus looking in through the window
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Apr 9, 2020 08:31
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's a level of forward planning that he's not demonstrated anywhere else. After all we have an indeterminate amount of walking, talking proofs that he both doesn't take sensible precautions and doesn't give a poo poo about consequences scattered around the country. Boris 3 weeks ago: [guzzles Coronavirus samples] .... "Come on, come on, this is taking forever, why am I not ill yet? Ugh this stuff doesn't work" Boris 1 week ago: 
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Apr 9, 2020 08:36
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:https://twitter.com/Lexialex/status/1246990432501772288?s=19 That's got a lot more to do with the FAA making realtime air traffic data available, with the rest of the world relying on turbonerds running transponder receivers - if you look at Flightradar24, which probably has the largest amount of turbonerds supplying it with data (and filters out small private aircraft in the zoomed-out views), you'll see that traffic is still pretty busy across Europe. e: If anything the US looks pretty quiet compared to Europe right now, but that's because it's early-mid morning in Europe and the middle of the night in the US.
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Apr 9, 2020 08:41
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They must be smug as gently caress right now. https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1247933676874334208
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Apr 9, 2020 08:41
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I wonder why Boris hasn't put out a statement from hospital thanking everyone for their good wishes now that he's apparently doing better. Bit rude.
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Apr 9, 2020 08:43
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Necrothatcher posted:I wonder why Boris hasn't put out a statement from hospital thanking everyone for their good wishes now that he's apparently doing better. Bit rude. This whole thing does have shades of Konstantin Chernenko. Later on today we'll get a video of Raab propping up a visibly ill Boris at the door of Number 10 as he struggles to clap for the NHS and then he'll be dead by Sunday.
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Apr 9, 2020 08:50
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's got a lot more to do with the FAA making realtime air traffic data available, with the rest of the world relying on turbonerds running transponder receivers - if you look at Flightradar24, which probably has the largest amount of turbonerds supplying it with data (and filters out small private aircraft in the zoomed-out views), you'll see that traffic is still pretty busy across Europe. I'm also told that a lot of those flights are because airlines are flying empty planes and much of the rest is freight anyway. So i guess the graphic isn't telling us a whole lot, and we'd probably need passenger statistics from the usual places to really see any contrasts.
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Apr 9, 2020 08:52
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The brave noble boris is now not only sitting up, he’s walking around shaking everyone’s hand, and later he’s even leading the ward round [insert photo of bojo in white coat with doctors looking adoringly at him from behind]
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Apr 9, 2020 08:54
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I'm also told that a lot of those flights are because airlines are flying empty planes and much of the rest is freight anyway. So i guess the graphic isn't telling us a whole lot, and we'd probably need passenger statistics from the usual places to really see any contrasts. The empty planes stuff was the EU having a use-it-or-lose-it policy for takeoff and landing slots (to stop airlines just buying up slots to stop competitors getting them), which they suspended in mid-March. I suppose there's still a bit of shuffling around going on - stuff like maintenance still has to happen - but the level of traffic is spectacularly low.
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Apr 9, 2020 08:58
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I'm glad your beloved prime minister is sitting upright again, Brits. Here's what I immediately thought of when I read the good news of him sitting upright:  Now you too can imagine your prime minister bravely sitting upright on his CSM fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Apr 9, 2020 09:10
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Apr 9, 2020 09:18
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A guy in work says he's looking forward to the weather getting hotter because it will raise our body temperature and kill off any COVID-19 as it can't tolerate temperatures much higher than body temp.
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Apr 9, 2020 09:19
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All these manufacturing companies (including mine) seem to have started making medical visors. I guess because they're fairly simple. Presumably these are only really useful in combination with the good sort of mask? E: Incidentally, without too much detail as my sector is small and I'm quite easy to doxx, my company's always been very confident in being recession-proof, and proud of not laying anyone off in 2008 - it's been both amusing and unsettling watching the executive go "oh poo poo, this wasn't part of the plan!" Bobstar fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Apr 9, 2020 09:20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's got a lot more to do with the FAA making realtime air traffic data available, with the rest of the world relying on turbonerds running transponder receivers - if you look at Flightradar24, which probably has the largest amount of turbonerds supplying it with data (and filters out small private aircraft in the zoomed-out views), you'll see that traffic is still pretty busy across Europe. Fun fact, Aberdeen airport was the busiest airport in the whole of the UK on Monday due to all the helicopters to the offshore oil platforms.
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Apr 9, 2020 09:20
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CSM posted:I'm glad your beloved prime minister is sitting upright again, Brits.
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Apr 9, 2020 09:21
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Working from which home? Their first or second?
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Apr 9, 2020 09:22
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bessantj posted:A guy in work says he's looking forward to the weather getting hotter because it will raise our body temperature and kill off any COVID-19 as it can't tolerate temperatures much higher than body temp. Have you asked him why Florida is having a huge outbreak right now? Or why fever is the number one symptom of COVID and yet people die regardless? Or asked where he got the idea that people are warmer in the summer? I know this would all be pointless, but still
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Apr 9, 2020 09:23
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Tell him to go boil his head OP
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Apr 9, 2020 09:26
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I liked the "positively responding" line about bojo which ranges anywhere from giving a bleary thumbs up to his eye twitching as nurses shout at him
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Apr 9, 2020 09:29
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Communist Thoughts posted:I liked the "positively responding" line about bojo which ranges anywhere from giving a bleary thumbs up to his eye twitching as nurses shout at him https://youtu.be/UdWK490JJms
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Apr 9, 2020 09:32
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Before Sunak came on last night, Sky news reported that Johnson was "clinically stable". Then Sunak came on and said he was sitting up in bed and smiling (or something like that) - if so, why was he in ICU taking up a place which a proper person could have? I think 'clinically stable' is more likely and a careful phrasing.
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Apr 9, 2020 09:35
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Jippa posted:They must be smug as gently caress right now. Six Scottish football clubs have this including my team Dundee who until very recently have had a long history of being run by dreamers and schiesters. Smug right now but can't see it being much fun playing Celtic seven times a season.
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Apr 9, 2020 09:37
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Turns out Boris is far more popular as an insensate block of flesh kept alive by machines than he ever was as a walking talking person. Something for his spin doctors to consider if he survives this.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Before Sunak came on last night, Sky news reported that Johnson was "clinically stable". Then Sunak came on and said he was sitting up in bed and smiling (or something like that) - if so, why was he in ICU taking up a place which a proper person could have? Sitting up and positively responding. Aka propped up so he can breath and still responding to stimulus lol
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Apr 9, 2020 09:38
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bessantj posted:A guy in work says he's looking forward to the weather getting hotter because it will raise our body temperature and kill off any COVID-19 as it can't tolerate temperatures much higher than body temp. Are they so close to taking over the world that they're just being open about it now? Can you ask him if it's true the queen's a reptilian too.
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Apr 9, 2020 09:38
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They just need something to say because it could be ages before anything happens either way. I've heard of people dying 10 days into their stay and of people walking out after a whole month. Clinically stable could well be the polite way to say he's idling along just like anyone else in that hospital.
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Apr 9, 2020 09:39
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"Clinically stable", as in, "chemically inert", as in, "dead".
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Re community support initiatives: I think this is a difficult area. Many of our local labour party members are involved in all manner of community initiatives (and have been for years) along with people from all political parties and none. Local feeling is definitely that political parties should be kept out of local community matters. We have a group that puts up for town council by-elections routinely on a 'no political parties at a local level' platform and they hold a good proportion of town council seats. Sadly, most of the rest are held by Independents who all seem to be tories. A for-instance: we had a town council by-election a couple of Christmases ago and the labour candidate was wondering whether she should put in her leaflet that she was assisting at a local Christmas Day free meal event being held by one of the local pubs. We decided not in the end because (a) it was never a labour party initiative to start with (b) people from right across the political spectrum were all helping out at that event, and it was felt that it would put people's backs up rather than aid our cause.
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Necrothatcher posted:Turns out Boris is far more popular as an insensate block of flesh kept alive by machines than he ever was as a walking talking person. Something for his spin doctors to consider if he survives this. 
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