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That's coming awfully close to an unironic dulce et decorum est pro patria mori tbh e: 1976 was when Jumbo Tsuruta challenged Terry Funk for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEXneiWdDSE Venomous fucked around with this message at 00:32 on May 15, 2020 |
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Venomous posted:That's coming awfully close to an unironic dulce et decorum est pro patria mori tbh Funny how they always miss the "The old Lie" at the start of that. quote:Dulce et Decorum Est
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Well, this is poo poo. Apologies, this is yet again about London. The Tube is already so expensive. And suspending Freedom Passes during busy times temporarily. Fares to be hiked after TfL secures £1.6bn emergency bailout with Government to keep services running: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/tfl-secures-bailout-keep-services-running-coronavirus-a4441091.html
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Wooow what the gently caress (I know I know it's the mail).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Funny how they always miss the "The old Lie" at the start of that. Almost like the Tories want to stir up British nationalist sentiments to the point where they want to pretend WWI never happened 🤔 Nah, I'm sure it's just a coincidence e: I've said it before, but nationalism is loving poison, and the concept of dying for a nation is especially toxic
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bornbytheriver posted:Well, this is poo poo. Apologies, this is yet again about London. The Tube is already so expensive. And suspending Freedom Passes during busy times temporarily. One of my friends is a keyworker and uses her over 60 pass to get to work (commuting during peaks) but she doesn't work 5 days a week so a season ticket wouldn't be value for money. Needless to say she is also down the bottom of the wage heap and this works out at approx £7.80 per day transport (zone4 - zone1).
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stev posted:It's weird seeing Charlie Brooker happy and spending time with his family. It’ll always make me laugh that their romcomesque meet-cute was him asking her to narrate the act of taking a piss.
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“Let our X be heroes” is the most terrifying euphemism I’ve ever heard.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:One of my friends is a keyworker and uses her over 60 pass to get to work (commuting during peaks) but she doesn't work 5 days a week so a season ticket wouldn't be value for money. Needless to say she is also down the bottom of the wage heap and this works out at approx £7.80 per day transport (zone4 - zone1). Sorry to hear about your friend, Jaeluni. Some people over 60 have no choice but work, it's only a small minority of them travelling around London for leisure on their Freedom Passes. The cost of commute in London is extortionate. Before the lock-down our management would not allow us to work from home, you had to submit a request days ahead to the manager who conveniently lives three Tube stops away from office. One of my colleagues, early 40's with two little kids and a part time working wife, was so stressed out by them forcing us to come to work 5 days/week, he had to tell our line manager at a staff meeting that could not afford coming to work. There was an awkward pause, red faces, and then the manager said, fine, please submit a special request to work from home. I was embarrassed for her. Transport in London appears to be a class issue.
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There's a knock at the door. It's a friendly man from the council, with good news! You've been selected to be a hero!
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Angepain posted:There's a knock at the door. It's a friendly man from the council, with good news! You've been selected to be a hero! Which lucky hero will be
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bornbytheriver posted:Sorry to hear about your friend, Jaeluni. Some people over 60 have no choice but work, it's only a small minority of them travelling around London for leisure on their Freedom Passes. Many over 60s have to work unless they were in an organisation with a good pension scheme. State retirement age for my friend is 66 and who is employing people over 50 these days once you've been laid off?
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Comrade Fakename posted:“Let our X be heroes” is the most terrifying euphemism I’ve ever heard. Also a weird echo of the channer "an hero" thing
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stev posted:Which lucky hero will be Warhammer 40k used the idea of sacrificing 1000 innocent people a day to preserve the life support what's clearly the corpse of their former emperor as a grand horror. Turns out reality was even shitter.
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sebzilla posted:It's an impressively poo poo take. How can anyone be so stupid and still draw breath without a reminder card taped in front of their eyes? If landlords go bankrupt the houses won't disappear in a puff of smoke. The banks will own them. And the banks will take over the rental agreement, because they're not going to pass up free money.
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If you start pointing out that landlords are not the ontological anchor for housing stock then people might start asking what they're for and we can't have that.Gyro Zeppeli posted:Warhammer 40k used the idea of sacrificing 1000 innocent people a day to preserve the life support what's clearly the corpse of their former emperor as a grand horror. Hey murdering 1000 psykers gets you a lighthouse that's visible across the entire galaxy. In reality you get sarah ditum's house tidied up. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:36 on May 15, 2020 |
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incredibly funny to me still that turbo terf columnist sarah ditum and her husband, formerly of yogscast now the least funny member of an occasionally entertaining playstation-based youtube channel, have caused a twitter class war because owen jones said they should probs clean their own house during a global pandemic it's very 2020 e: i'm weirdly intrigued how such a disparate couple met and ended up marrying tbh lol ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 02:26 on May 15, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Funny how they always miss the "The old Lie" at the start of that. It's a fantastic poem, I watched this the other day weirdly enough (poem read by actor) https://youtu.be/qB4cdRgIcB8
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CGI Stardust posted:https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1261021531313975297 cant really justify voting for labour as long as this lot are in control of the party. and since they are nailed on to lose the next election, i never have to vote for labour again. which gives me an odd sense of relief.
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Jedit posted:How can anyone be so stupid and still draw breath without a reminder card taped in front of their eyes? If landlords go bankrupt the houses won't disappear in a puff of smoke. The banks will own them. And the banks will take over the rental agreement, because they're not going to pass up free money. She's not stupid: it's entirely wilful blindness. Like I was saying about the soft left generally, these are the words and attitude of someone whose take on politics is essentially managerial: they don't think that substantially changing the system is either possible or desirable, they just think that they'd do a better job of running the exisiting system than the current officeholders. If you have that stance, then acknowledging that things could be different, even in theory is a big no-no: the absolute bedrock of your belief has to be that the current system is the only possible one and it can be tweaked but never significantly altered.
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https://twitter.com/evolvepolitics/status/1261170934406418433 hahaha
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gh0stpinballa posted:cant really justify voting for labour as long as this lot are in control of the party. and since they are nailed on to lose the next election, i never have to vote for labour again. which gives me an odd sense of relief. If this was all secret then yeah there’s a problem, but if we all publicly humiliate them whenever they step out of line and bring them the heel then that’s a good thing
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Jel Shaker posted:If this was all secret then yeah there’s a problem, but if we all publicly humiliate them whenever they step out of line and bring them the heel then that’s a good thing That would be nice but roasting them on Twitter is meaningless (if cathartic). The general public get their opinions from the papers, and those that aren't Tory promoters (or setting Tory policy for them) looove forensic Starmer and his band of merry means-testers. Labour are still gonna get ridden roughshod in the next election but there's no way they're getting dragged back leftwards before then.
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 Umberto Eco posted:11. In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as "Long Live Death!"). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.
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For the landlords, not the many.
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This thought did cross my mind when I read it. What a shitehawk.
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OwlFancier posted:Who's her husband? He's something of a latter day philosopher. 
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The readers will know, and care that the teachers union is made up of teachers won't they? Ha ha, just kidding.
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Guavanaut posted:Nathan. 
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I earnestly hope that everyone involved in writing and printing this gets corona and has to lie alone on a hospital bed slowly drowning in the remains of their own lungs. I'm honestly so disgusted. The government is cracking on with this knowing that is going to definitely kill teachers, will probably kill a lot of the kids' families, and will also kill at least a few kids.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I earnestly hope that everyone involved in writing and printing this gets corona and has to lie alone on a hospital bed slowly drowning in the remains of their own lungs. And it's not just the teachers, their families, the kids, and their families, either. it's putting more people into contact with each other during a pandemic of a disease that has a two loving week asymptomatic transmission period. Those teachers and their families still have to buy food and supplies. They still have to take the bus. They still have to be in a building which needs cleaning and maintenance. Those children still have to be fed, which food needs buying, cooking, and serving, etc etc etc. And of course, the fash rag is making them hErOeS, and will no doubt be clapping for them next week. Then excoriating the week after for not being heroic enough when they start loving dying of plague.
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Pistol_Pete posted:She's not stupid: it's entirely wilful blindness. Like I was saying about the soft left generally, these are the words and attitude of someone whose take on politics is essentially managerial: they don't think that substantially changing the system is either possible or desirable, they just think that they'd do a better job of running the exisiting system than the current officeholders. If you have that stance, then acknowledging that things could be different, even in theory is a big no-no: the absolute bedrock of your belief has to be that the current system is the only possible one and it can be tweaked but never significantly altered. Oh ye gods! My country's ruined! But what if... I were to take the existing system and disguise it as my own? Oh ho ho, delightfully devilish, Star-mour.
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bessantj posted:The readers will know, and care that the teachers union is made up of teachers won't they? Unions, both completely defanged so there's no point joining, and yet powerful enough to prevent an entire profession from returning to work against their wishes. By a continuing shifting of the rhetorical focus... Lots of my colleagues who scabbed during our last strike are now joining, which is nice to see, but I wish we didn't have to have a global pandemic before people saw the value in unions. I know lots of people are joining for protection rather than a desire for or belief in collective action but the initial buy-in has happened so that's good. I would also hope that enough people know a teacher to know that header is bullshit and "magnificent" teachers don't want to go back til it's safe and don't want to be dead heroes.
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The basis of class organization is material need, not ideology. Ideology is something that happens en-masse because it speaks to people's material needs. It's a hone to put an edge on what could otherwise be directionless need.
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thespaceinvader posted:And of course, the fash rag is making them hErOeS, and will no doubt be clapping for them next week. Then excoriating the week after for not being heroic enough when they start loving dying of plague.
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thespaceinvader posted:And of course, the fash rag is making them hErOeS, and will no doubt be clapping for them next week. Then excoriating the week after for not being heroic enough when they start loving dying of plague. No  Not  Like  That! 
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