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Even embracing megadeath, at some point the government is going to realise that the only way to drag the country out of this mess is public spending at unprecedented levels. Or more austerity they might just try that while the public blames the lefties because the papers told them to, yeah, probably that.
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Austerity under current conditions will actually cause societal collapse so I'm fine with getting another opportunity to redefine everything after Corbynism failed.
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weren't the trains already sneakily nationalised? most of us are also basically getting a living wage from the government which should really just be a thing anyway.
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May 9, 2020 15:33
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Yeah all the franchises got real hosed up but I think they mostly just got bailouts rather than nationalised. London's buses are currently free and council operated though which is good, despite the appalling casualties of their staff.
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May 9, 2020 15:42
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namesake posted:Yeah all the franchises got real hosed up but I think they mostly just got bailouts rather than nationalised. My friend's dad recently died and he was a London bus driver...I haven't asked him what he died of though
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hemale in pain posted:It's insane. It would take less than a minute of critical thinking to realize that pretending the roni isn't real and trying to open the country up is actually bad for the economy. Do they think normal people are going to go shopping when the death toll is over 100,000 thousand and we all witnessed relatives dying?
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comedyblissoption posted:the plutocrats ruling society are really, really loving dumb and there's evidence that some of them dont understand the germ theory of disease Inbreeding is a horrible thing.
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like nevermind indirect or circumstantial evidence suggesting this. there's those accounts where boris johnson believes sickness is a moral or personal failing lmao
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comedyblissoption posted:like nevermind indirect or circumstantial evidence suggesting this. there's those accounts where boris johnson believes sickness is a moral or personal failing lmao i wonder if he's changed his mind about that now probably not
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Dravs posted:Even embracing megadeath, at some point the government is going to realise that the only way to drag the country out of this mess is public spending at unprecedented levels. it depends what they want, if what they want is to create a more unequal state with no protections for capital to rampage around then they dont actually need a functioning society, just muscle to protect themselves and a LOT of tories think of this as the most moral way to run a country too
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hemale in pain posted:i wonder if he's changed his mind about that now probably not Funnily enough, it does actually look like he and Cummings actually learned something from catching a life-threatening illness, which is why the right-wing media are presently briefing against the government.
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May 9, 2020 19:57
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How could they possibly have known that a deadly virus was unpleasant, all they had to go on was the testimonies of qualified medical professionals and the members of the public who had contracted it. None of those people took ppe at oxford so how could they be trusted to know anything
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namesake posted:Yeah all the franchises got real hosed up but I think they mostly just got bailouts rather than nationalised. I think it was Great Western that was temporarily nationalised whilst they sought a new parasite to run it
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Darth Walrus posted:https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/boris-johnson-sided-doves-over-hawks-lockdown Buzzfeed posted:Hancock has been on the receiving end of multiple negative briefings from government figures, including a Sunday Times story calling him “Matt Handjob” Sorry what, did The Sunday Times actually print "Matt Handjob".
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Rustybear posted:Sorry what, did The Sunday Times actually print "Matt Handjob". https://twitter.com/roddy_campbell/status/1246762357130395648?s=21 It's true. All of it, it's all true.
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1quote:People from Asian and black groups are at markedly increased risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19, and contrary to some prior speculation this is only partially attributable to pre-existing clinical risk factors or deprivation; further research into the drivers of this association is therefore urgently required. Deprivation is also a major risk factor with, again, little of the excess risk explained by co-morbidity or other risk factors. No wonder Boris still walks.
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SelenicMartian posted:https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1 It's literally more deadly than having had cancer or having HIV, in covid-19 terms. Especially looking forrign, being poor is a bad preexisting condition but not that fatal.
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Darth Walrus posted:Funnily enough, it does actually look like he and Cummings actually learned something from catching a life-threatening illness, which is why the right-wing media are presently briefing against the government. • Senior ministers have expressed fury at what one described as “weeks of insane briefing” to the media, accusing government hawks of trying to force Johnson into relaxing more measures, and claiming some newspapers were pursuing an anti-lockdown agenda because of fears about sales.
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the power that newspapers have in britain is hilarious
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Squizzle posted:the power that newspapers have in britain is hilarious It owns that we're ruled by the whims of buggy whip manufacturers
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Squizzle posted:the power that newspapers have in britain is hilarious People from other countries are amazed when they find out a major part of TV news is telling everyone what the papers say every day
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Squizzle posted:the power that newspapers have in britain is hilarious There's a reason why a rule by media can also be called a mediocracy.
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https://twitter.com/hsjeditor/status/1260469435183357954?s=21 what (and I mean this in the nicest and most respectful way) the gently caress is going on in the U.K.
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Can't wait until the secure and private NHS location tracking app proves, less than secure or private. It's honestly inevitable.
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Bust Rodd posted:https://twitter.com/hsjeditor/status/1260469435183357954?s=21 
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Can you imagine what life would currently be like had we already left the EU and we weren't still on friendly terms until the end of the year?
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The EU has poo poo the bed so badly with their response that they've turned loving Varoufakis into a Brexiteer lol
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I have a quick question on imperial nostalgia. I’m an outsider, but it looks like some UK institutions are consciously harkening back to imperial glory. I’m wondering if that’s the right impression and how widespread it is? If you look at Royal Marines commercials, they seem to be recruiting ads for colonial policing, and it comes off as really strange. The message is more or less what you’d expect to see in the 1880’s: “Join for danger and adventure, bringing law and order to far-flung lands!”. That seems like a really strange pitch in 2020 if it’s for public consumption, and as government policy, the Royal Navy and Marines as viable tools for expeditionary warfare and gunboat diplomacy is insane. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h5yQWK8h42U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuk5bWa-C8w https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8mG4KvqMw
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Bryter posted:The EU has poo poo the bed so badly with their response that they've turned loving Varoufakis into a Brexiteer lol But, uhh, he's always been a Brexiteer, more or less. Euroxiteer at least.
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Frosted Flake posted:I have a quick question on imperial nostalgia. I’m an outsider, but it looks like some UK institutions are consciously ... insane.
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Frosted Flake posted:I have a quick question on imperial nostalgia. I’m an outsider, but it looks like some UK institutions are consciously harkening back to imperial glory. I’m wondering if that’s the right impression and how widespread it is? i dunno if you saw the recent VE day stuff but british culture is essentially Hey, Remember When We Were In A Big Fight? distilled down and injected into a ham sandwich
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Private Speech posted:But, uhh, he's always been a Brexiteer, more or less. He's always been "remain and reform", despite his criticisms. That's the whole point of Diem25.
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Frosted Flake posted:I have a quick question on imperial nostalgia. I’m an outsider, but it looks like some UK institutions are consciously harkening back to imperial glory. I’m wondering if that’s the right impression and how widespread it is? Oh, I take it you didn't hear about plans for the scramble for Africa 2.0?
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Bust Rodd posted:what (and I mean this in the nicest and most respectful way) the gently caress is going on in the U.K. considering the shameful history of this country, you absolutely do not have to be respectful. Our press on the other hand are probably spinning this into something positive or somehow the fault of the EU/immigrants/Labour depending on the outlet
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:considering the shameful history of this country, you absolutely do not have to be respectful. Our press on the other hand are probably spinning this into something positive or somehow the fault of the EU/immigrants/Labour depending on the outlet Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak
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