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London young labour definitely had their weetabix this morning: https://twitter.com/LDNYoungLabour/status/1253052854681710598
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Something about that Peston tweet has really, really hosed me off. Usually I manage just to cover myself in wry apathy at how stitched up society is, but the sheer loving gall of it... it's just bullying. Smug, self-congratulatory, bullying. You won. You got your way. Why do you need to keep rubbing the salt in? It's not as if it's a slow news month. Utter, utter, oval office. Sorry, had to get it off my chest.
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Apr 23, 2020 09:15
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That's the sort of person who gets ahead in society, because we live in a society based on victimization and exploitation and the people at the top exist in spheres composed entirely of other people who do the same thing, which further reinforces and normalizes that behaviour. And as with many abusive people they're quite capable of masking it with performative declarations of their own goodness and co-opting of the language of actually good people, but to them it's only ever a vehicle to further self glorification and power, which is why they'll drop it the minute it's inconvenient for them. See: response to joe biden being a sex pest from people who went ballistic over trump doing it.
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Apr 23, 2020 09:19
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StarkingBarfish posted:London young labour definitely had their weetabix this morning: Gone already. I saw one last night they did about Simon Danczuk, was this it?
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Apr 23, 2020 09:28
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It was telling people to block danczuk on twitter if you're underage cos he's a creep, aye.
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Apr 23, 2020 09:28
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The Perfect Element posted:Something about that Peston tweet has really, really hosed me off. Usually I manage just to cover myself in wry apathy at how stitched up society is, but the sheer loving gall of it... it's just bullying. Smug, self-congratulatory, bullying. When covid fully kicked off here the thing I noticed about Peston was how useless he was. He did nothing but repeat what he was told. Isn't he supposed to be an investigative journalist? He tried less than Kuenssberg.
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Apr 23, 2020 09:35
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Andrew Adonis's twitter feed just gets funnier and funnier, ngl https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1253243649523167232
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Apr 23, 2020 09:55
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This was the now deleted London young labour tweet: 
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Apr 23, 2020 09:57
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Regarde Aduck posted:When covid fully kicked off here the thing I noticed about Peston was how useless he was. He did nothing but repeat what he was told. Isn't he supposed to be an investigative journalist? He tried less than Kuenssberg. Yeah, in general he seems thoroughly out of his depth - repeating things that are demonstrably false, stammering and stuttering and in general being quite incoherent. I know, to an extent, a certain awkwardness is kind of his 'thing', but he at least seemed vaguely intelligent before. It was amusing when the govt started allowing follow-up questions during the briefing... because for a few days, until they had time to prepare them, it turned out that our nation's leading journalists were completely unable to come up with anything on the cuff, or properly challenge obfuscations and lies.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:03
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Regarde Aduck posted:When covid fully kicked off here the thing I noticed about Peston was how useless he was. He did nothing but repeat what he was told. Isn't he supposed to be an investigative journalist? He tried less than Kuenssberg. I only really became aware of him last election, but seeing him on the recent coronavirus briefings he has that mix of being utterly clueless yet absolutely confident. The one strange trick to get ahead in life the middle class don't want you to know about.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:07
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Shocking how just last year, we could freely hold a parade about being english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87feW1-a7N8 But if you tried that these days you'd be arrested and thrown in jail.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:12
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You could not make it up Stu He's racist against the English, that's the worst kind of racist.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:20
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English is a religion not a race so actually it's just anglophobia.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:27
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Guavanaut posted:You could not make it up Stu Is this real or parody? Is that question dumb? I really can't tell anymore. Being perceived to be racist against the English, or rather not racist enough for them, was a big factor in what happened to Corbyn imo.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:29
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Frankly I'm tired of this forced diversity being stuffed down everyone's throats, these politically correct identity politics weirdos would try to tell me that I have to be friends with the earl of bumfuck on avon just because we're both "english" even though he grew up in a weird culture where they do sex crimes all the time. And they don't even try to integrate, they all go to secret parties with other aristos in weird houses out in the country with funny shaped towers all over them, what are they hiding eh? That's what I want to know.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:31
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big scary monsters posted:English is a religion not a race so actually it's just anglophobia.  Zalakwe posted:Is this real or parody? Is that question dumb? I really can't tell anymore. It's also real that Boris Johnson did Chinese New Year stuff instead of attending critical pandemic meetings. He also did engagement stuff and writing his book in the country stuff, not because he is anti-English, but because he is a lazy fucker and just wanted a nice easy life as PM. But no, the meme is a dumb joke because the consent that Boris bad is not something that would take hold in the right wing until it's useful to do so.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:36
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Zalakwe posted:Is this real or parody? Is that question dumb? I really can't tell anymore. There were a few articles mentioning that he attended a Chinese new year event instead of going to an emergency meeting about the epidemic. It was presumably not the only thing unrelated to the epidemic he did at the time, but this is what they chose to mention.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:37
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It's also true that we might have been able to have some small St. George's Day festivities if Whitehall had locked down right away and done aggressive testing and contact tracing. I don't particularly care about that either way, but it's telling that the party of the common Englishman cared more about posh people hors dance going ahead than Palestinian dragon man day (or a few thousand deaths).
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Apr 23, 2020 10:43
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Starmer is poo poo https://twitter.com/LabourList/status/1252955842736869377?s=19
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Apr 23, 2020 10:51
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https://twitter.com/marcusjdl/status/1253238983955546119?s=21 Lmao
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Apr 23, 2020 10:56
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It's also true that if you so much as say you were english (which I am)... (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 23, 2020 10:57
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There's more people stuck in his house with him than came to his stag do (feel sorry for them). Of course he's taking fish tank cleaner.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:58
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Jose posted:Starmer is poo poo The article headline is a touch misleading as the article states more quote:Asked about the proposal following the Labour leader’s first PMQs this afternoon, a spokesperson said: “We agree that the Covid crisis has confirmed that the current social security system isn’t fit for purpose.” Bit of a laugh them saying that implementing UBI would be too complicated when even IDS said they could just flick some switch with Universal Credit and make it happen. Also the countries favourite period, World War 2, showed that you can make massive changes to pretty much any aspect of society. If you just believe in yourself.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:00
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his commitment to being the shittiest, stupidest person alive is almost endearing if he wasn't also the shittiest, stupidest person alive
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Apr 23, 2020 11:01
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fwiw, that's from a parody article if you ever need evidence that the "I'm such an awful, outrageous person, please very definitely forward my articles that enrage you so" shtick is intentional, here's the very definite effort to construct the persona: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/spectator-writers-in-lockdown-by-the-people-stuck-with-them ronya fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Apr 23, 2020 11:02
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As someone itt once said, being a oval office is performative. If he's spending that much time and effort constructing an identity as an utterly unlikable poo poo then that's what he is. Also he's in the Yiannopoulos 'ironic nonce' camp.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:08
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justcola posted:The article headline is a touch misleading as the article states more I imagine there must be others in the thread, but I am on JSA and have not had to attend my JobCentre+ to sign on for 6 weeks? 8 weeks? For ages. Still getting my money every fortnight. Perhaps there is just a DWP Monkey clicking a button every 2 weeks to ensure I get paid.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:13
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ronya posted:fwiw, that's from a parody article He has a memoir called "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People". It's a honed skill in which by turning the fact that people dislike you into something you actively chase, you can pass your own interpersonal failings off as successes. I suppose you can kid yourself that yes everyone hates you but only because you're trying to be hated? Which is entirely on brand for "I got here through my own hard work" boomer conservatism, it's worth periodically reminding people like him that in fact it was something he was born into.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:18
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Bah, don't give em air. You can read some bit of nonsense from Toby Young or Katie Hopkins or whoever, but it's just trolling for the kind of people who sign text messages. The stag party story is funny, as is Hopkins doing ketamine, but anything they're writing recently should go towards helping the toilet paper shortage. Is there any sort of timeline for what's happening with coronavirus in the United States? I've been a bit busy with stuff happening here, but from what I can piece together from here and there it seems the whole country is quite fragile. Dead Goon posted:I imagine there must be others in the thread, but I am on JSA and have not had to attend my JobCentre+ to sign on for 6 weeks? 8 weeks? Aye I got my payment through the other day  Cheers to all the organisations that didn't pay my invoices on time back in February. (I earned too much in one go, the famine or feast of self-employment) Fingers crossed for June. justcola fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Apr 23, 2020 11:18
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Guavanaut posted:As someone itt once said, being a oval office is performative. I doubt there's anything ironic about Milo the Pedofilo.
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justcola posted:Is there any sort of timeline for what's happening with coronavirus in the United States? https://twitter.com/Joe_Gerth/status/1223278777045856257 https://twitter.com/HoosierMamaTags/status/1253097713408847872 Similar protests in PA.  Also  https://twitter.com/KhakiJorts/status/1252750713169510400
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justcola posted:Bah, don't give em air. You can read some bit of nonsense from Toby Young or Katie Hopkins or whoever, but it's just trolling for the kind of people who sign text messages. The stag party story is funny, as is Hopkins doing ketamine, but anything they're writing recently should go towards helping the toilet paper shortage. America is going to poo poo, they have almost as many deaths per capita as us! More mask wearing tho
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Apr 23, 2020 11:31
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Joe biden is going to destroy you with his heart laser like a sex offending care bear.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:32
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justcola posted:
They're top of the list in terms of overall deaths, but their confirmed deaths as a % of population is about half ours. Their statistics are a mess however, as they have 50 different state administrations testing at different rates to different criteria. There's definitely some political fudging of figures going on, so there are probably some states that are mostly coronavirus-free but experiencing an uptick in completely unrelated pneumonia deaths. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ What happened to put Belgium at the top of the list? More accurate and honest reporting, or have they actually been hit the hardest? Soylent Yellow fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Apr 23, 2020 11:32
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Lol https://twitter.com/PhilosophyTube/status/1253269817731186689?s=19
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Apr 23, 2020 11:37
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justcola posted:The article headline is a touch misleading as the article states more the universal credit implementation does not work properly and cannot cope for the pre-crisis workload. this is well documented. I think "even IDS” is lying if he says it’d be as simple as flicking a switch to hugely expand it in scope. talking bullshit he knows he’ll never have to follow up on for his own aggrandisement not out of any genuine interest in welfare reform.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:38
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It might work a bit better if they stopped the means testing.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:39
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that’s the verdict not the sentence
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Apr 23, 2020 11:40
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Labour about to be extremely antisemitic again https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1253257498649395200?s=19
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Cerv posted:that’s the verdict not the sentence '25 to life' would have been a good response tho
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