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thespaceinvader posted:I wonder if that council is a conservative one? It sounds like exactly the kind of thing a canny publicist would do to fan the flames of the debate and energise their base - make a veiled threat about someone much more widely known and much more widely regarded as part of a good movement than a slaver who was honestly barely known outside of Bristol, and Rhodes. Yes tory council (Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole). Police have denied suggesting they remove it.
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justcola posted:I've been having a whale of a time in the last week or so as turns out that most of the people I know are either scumbags or cowards, but rather than the whole discussing issues and trying to find common ground I've just been telling people to get to gently caress, we should be tearing down Churchill's statue and WW2 wasn't that good actually. I like it when they accuse me of being a guardian reader or voting for Keir Starmer as those things are probably closer to their political outlooks than mine. "You're one of those left-liberals!" - well, which is it, you have to choose After a short 4.5 year hiatus, we are back in "your beloved Labour" being the nonsense cry in response to any criticism of the status quo
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bessantj posted:BLM march in Newport is going well. For some reason a biker group had decided to defend the cenotaph despite the march going nowhere near it. haven't they got jobs to go to? disgraceful that the state will fund their lifestyle of hanging around town centres looking for trouble.
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I have a sneaking suspicion my business school is going to be renamed. https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/news-an...the-slave-trade Pleased to see that they were already looking into his links with the slave trade in February at least.
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Jun 11, 2020 14:25
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kingturnip posted:A) utterly unrelated to their day-to-day lives; and lots of foreign policy doesn't really impact your day to day life but idk how you can consider yourself on the left and not be informed about it
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LBC have apparently terminated Farage with immediate effect. Ed: found a tweet that isn't a tweet of a tweet of a tweet https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1271070525994008578?s=20
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Rustybear posted:haven't they got jobs to go to? disgraceful that the state will fund their lifestyle of hanging around town centres looking for trouble. They're there to spread the rona by the look of their maskless/kissing distance faces.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:LBC have apparently terminated Farage with immediate effect. I hope they mean literally.
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gh0stpinballa posted:lots of foreign policy doesn't really impact your day to day life but idk how you can consider yourself on the left and not be informed about it I think the difference is that these people's goals basically just involve doing harm and taking rights away from people who just want to get on with their lives.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:LBC have apparently terminated Farage with immediate effect. Sounds more like they cut his pay and he decided to leave than they didn't want to renew his contract, from the tone of that tweet.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:LBC have apparently terminated Farage with immediate effect. bit of a weird decision if they're also simultaneously going to keep nick ferrari. good riddance and that anyway
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stev posted:Yeah that sounds incredibly amicable. Shame. Not sure about that. I quit a job once in an acrimonious fashion and that is very similar to the reference I got! "She left of her own accord and we wish her all the best in the future". Obviously done with gritted teeth. I forgot to add the 'we thank her for all her hard work' that they also put.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not sure about that. I quit a job once in an acrimonious fashion and that is very similar to the reference I got! It's the "we thank him for his enormous contribution" bit that grates.
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In the manner of someone congratulating a child who is pointing to their potty.
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Regarde Aduck posted:To be the tiniest bit fair to someone that doesn't deserve fairness: The google/apple apps used elsewhere in the world are apparently not fit for purpose and almost useless. Now that doesn't mean our bodgejob that seems like its mainly for scraping personal data is going to be any better of course. no idea about the apps, but I think Boris' claim was specifically about the phone and notepad contact tracers employed by serco also more fash poo poo https://twitter.com/JEGullis/status/1271064840300265472?s=20 as they were so keen to point out vandalism is already criminal damage, and pissing on them is indecency or whatever (some guy in Sheffield famously got done for it a few years ago) also assuming they try and introduce something like this bill it's very openly worded https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmbills/060/10060.i-i.html quote:1 the definition of war memorial would cover anything commemorating any being for any reason, because who isn't affected by conflict or war and it doesn't specify that the commemoration must be explicitly wrt involvement in the war/conflict an "act of disrespect" could mean anything. turning your back on it, not taking your hat off, making fun of a particularly dopy looking engraving, failing to bow at a sufficient angle, wearing something that's not a donkey jacket but the media said it was etc flicking the Vs at a bust of Thatcher could get you 10 years inside
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:LBC have apparently terminated Farage with immediate effect. As gets brought up a lot with that person in the Rowling saga, not renewing someone's contract is not the same thing as firing them.
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XMNN posted:no idea about the apps, but I think Boris' claim was specifically about the phone and notepad contact tracers employed by serco I am really regretting clicking through on those comments. Just a boiling cesspit of hate.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I just checked out Reddit's r/Ukpolitics sub and it's fragile white male central lol. Today they are extremely exercised about the wanton erasure of English history (statues) and beloved tv shows being cruelly removed from the listings (Little Britain). ukpolitics sub is quite rightwing at the best of times, and most of the mods are at the very least conservative, if not in the Farage camp.
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XMNN posted:more fash poo poo "what if... we made this crime a crime" Looking forward to doing time in 2021 for not wearing a poppy on the correct lapel
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my lib colleague has bought white fragility and asked me if i read it and what i thought. i didn't have the heart to tell her all that kind of poo poo is embarrassing garbage and totally useless. i think that's why this kind of weirdo cultist stuff spreads, because its difficult to be mean to your lib friend when they mean well.
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gh0stpinballa posted:my lib colleague has bought white fragility and asked me if i read it and what i thought. i didn't have the heart to tell her all that kind of poo poo is embarrassing garbage and totally useless. i think that's why this kind of weirdo cultist stuff spreads, because its difficult to be mean to your lib friend when they mean well. I'm not too sure how I feel about self-help books on how to not be a racist rocketing to the top of the Amazon charts like a best-of album of a musician who's just killed themself
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Akala's Natives are both up there, and neither of those are self help for white guilt type books, so maybe it's not all bad.
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Wachter posted:I'm not too sure how I feel about self-help books on how to not be a racist rocketing to the top of the Amazon charts like a best-of album of a musician who's just killed themself At least the people buying them don't want to be racists, or want someone else to not be racist.
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quote:Harry Enfield says blacking up as Mandela was 'so wrong it was right' https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jun/11/harry-enfield-defends-use-of-blackface-today-programme-nick-robinson
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That was a bad joke phrased poorly; I'm referring to the vampiric phenomenon of Bezos profiting from tragic death
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Funny how no-one in the media ever asks these fash cunts about all the homeless veterans their policies have left on the streets
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XMNN posted:
They've just set this law up to protect that Churchill statue ey? I hope nothing happens to it before the 23rd of June
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justcola posted:They've just set this law up to protect that Churchill statue ey? I hope nothing happens to it before the 23rd of June I couldn't find the text of the actual bill they're introducing (although I didn't look very hard), that one was from 10 years ago and presumably never became law but I can't imagine they'll put much thought into whatever they poo poo out this time also it looks like trying to get a law to prevent desecration of war memorials is a perennial tory pastime because there were stories from a bunch of different years about it. It's a shame they weren't successful in passing these extremely necessary protections because now there are none left to protect 
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I always thought the Harry Potter SPEW was a pisstake of the ineffectual Socialist Party England and Wales
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The entire statue discussion is useful to both sides. Reactionaries can get their blood pumping fantasizing about fending off antifa degenerates from Churchill and milquetoast liberals can latch on to something that doesn't, in practical terms, matter.
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An affirmative statement ofGuavanaut posted:"minorities can be racist too."
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 a heartwarming story of a community coming together to defend are national history and culture by protecting a statue that was put up twelve years ago. the Stanley statue in Denbigh is less than 10 years old as well, what the hell 
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