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I joined in 2011 so I could read the LP forum. I had general 'labour good, tony blair good' political opininons back then but reading UKMT turned me into a gay communist. Will miss this place if it goes, I always preferred the forum format. I think I joined the discord the last time we thought the site was going down forever.
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Tarnop posted:Several years ago one of my friends said "as soon as I get paid for something I immediately resent it and lose interest" Seems like something that nobody who's ever actually been poor would say but okay. I'm saying providing people outside the UKMT a potential method to access the legit good content would be cool and if it brings in a few quid too that's no sin.
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Jun 25, 2020 00:54
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Don’t monetise anything unless it’s absolutely necessary IMO, and even then it’s usually a bad idea
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Jun 25, 2020 00:57
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TACD posted:Don’t monetise anything unless it’s absolutely necessary IMO, and even then it’s usually a bad idea Ehhh I think the $10 is what keeps the dipshits you see in 99% of the posts on 100% of the other forums out.
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Jun 25, 2020 00:59
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I came here either from the kingdom of loathing forums or a Warhammer fantasy orcs forum and I genuinely can't remember which don't judge me I was like 14
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Jun 25, 2020 01:01
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Yvonmukluk posted:If this the end of SA, I just want to say it's been an honour and a privilege, goons.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:03
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Vitamin P posted:Seems like something that nobody who's ever actually been poor would say but okay. Pretty sure that resenting and having no interest in a thing you get paid for is a thing everybody who has been poor can identify with
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Jun 25, 2020 01:07
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Jun 25, 2020 01:08
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penus de milo posted:Pretty sure that resenting and having no interest in a thing you get paid for is a thing everybody who has been poor can identify with Thank you for saving me the effort of wording this succinctly
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Jun 25, 2020 01:09
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My twitter is https://mobile.twitter.com/InsomniaForever I don't tweet much but I've slowly been following more and more cool people. If my alternative is discord I'll probably switch to that if everything goes to hell here.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:10
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When I was about eight, someone told me what communism was, that it was based on the idea that everyone should have the same things and everybody should share everything equally. So I said to my mum "I think I'm a communist". As I grew up, I grew wiser, left those old beliefs behind. First I became a libertarian, then I mellowed out to your average leftish liberal. Things needed to get better, but like, not in a socialist way, none of that works in practice. No, the right way to do things is small changes, and representational government. And sure Labour had policies I generally agreed with, but they were stuck in the past, and they had the taint of Iraq still on them. My first ever general election, I put an x in the box for the Nick Clegg's Lib Dems. Two weeks later, and gradually I was coming to terms with the fact that eight year old me was apparently a lot loving smarter than I was. That was the catalyst that pierced my bubble of smug self-assuredness, and got me to read The Shock Doctrine, which my mum had been pestering me to read for months. After that, I knew I needed to learn more, so I came to the UKMT for the first time, and all of y'all gladly provided me with the means to brainwash myself. I'm very grateful for that because otherwise I might have slipped back into that wishy washy liberalism over time. That said, if this is the end, I'm going to take this opportunity to finally say something I've dared not say ever since those early days: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was boring as poo poo. There, I said it.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:12
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Reveilled posted:The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was boring as poo poo. There, I said it. now I'm glad the forums are dead
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Jun 25, 2020 01:16
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Reveilled posted:That said, if this is the end, I'm going to take this opportunity to finally say something I've dared not say ever since those early days: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was boring as poo poo. There, I said it. One million years gulag
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Reveilled posted:That said, if this is the end, I'm going to take this opportunity to finally say something I've dared not say ever since those early days: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was boring as poo poo. There, I said it.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:16
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Haven't really been on here or in the discord since the election went tits up but in case this is THE END I thought I'd pop by and reiterate that this thread has been great over the years and so are all the posters in it. Thank you for steering me away from galaxy brained "oh that James O'Brien guy talks a lot of sense" takes and over to the "capitalism must be urgently dismantled" school of correct thought. Edit: lmao as if my account is now old enough to buy a pint, guess it's had a good innings
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Jun 25, 2020 01:17
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penus de milo posted:Pretty sure that resenting and having no interest in a thing you get paid for is a thing everybody who has been poor can identify with Resenting the situation or being bored by the work broadly isn't the same as resenting and losing interest in the particular specific thing that is giving you the money you need to not die. If doing a late shift at the soul-destroying call centre is the difference between making rent in two days or not no-one is resenting that extra shift and they don't find the concept of that extra shift boring either it's acutely interesting because it's their human needs being met or not. The experience of living on low-paid work is boring and breeds resentment but the actual material act is something you set an alarm to show up to do and every day you prioritise doing it over every other element of your life. The 'once I get paid I've been sullied by the dollar and my interest fllits elsewhere' idea is scummy as gently caress congrats on being rich enough that you can divide your labour not by survival but by whim.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:21
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Gaemblor posted:Edit: lmao as if my account is now old enough to buy a pint, guess it's had a good innings As if you are old enough to buy a pint honestly Hello to a guy in the referrals section of my profile! Edit: Vitamin P posted:The 'once I get paid I've been sullied by the dollar and my interest fllits elsewhere' idea is scummy as gently caress congrats on being rich enough that you can divide your labour not by survival but by whim. I think you've misunderstood. The point isn't that you get paid for something and it makes you feel icky so you don't ever accept money for it again, the point is that you continue to do it but it no longer holds joy for you. penus de milo fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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Jun 25, 2020 01:22
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Reveilled posted:That said, if this is the end, I'm going to take this opportunity to finally say something I've dared not say ever since those early days: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was boring as poo poo. There, I said it. loving hell... Mods!?
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Jun 25, 2020 01:24
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Reveilled posted:That said, if this is the end, I'm going to take this opportunity to finally say something I've dared not say ever since those early days: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was boring as poo poo. There, I said it. the first and last time i tried to read this book, i had just moved back home after university and massively depressed, and got the traditional Bad Idea that many people with depression get, which is: "well now I have all this free time, what with not being able to do anything productive due to my brain shutting down, I can read a bunch of large novels, this is definitely something that my brain is capable of and that will help me get through this" children, there are many good pieces of media to get your through hard times (i eventually settled on Terry Pratchett books and Jeff Smith's collected Bone) but a detailed account of the hardships of the working classes in the 1910s is not one I would recommend. might give it another shot one of these days
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Jun 25, 2020 01:28
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Hit us up on the discord and such things could happen! aw cheers. i just followed you (@toast fam) but im not on discord. you got a link i will set up an account.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:31
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I get all my dumb political opinions from this thread and it's great I can't stand Discord though so I guess this is it 
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Jun 25, 2020 01:36
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penus de milo posted:As if you are old enough to buy a pint honestly Hello! Thank u 4 buying my forums account after I sent you 6 quid in the post cos I didn't have a credit card at age 14.
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TACD posted:If we're talking about Other Forums, what happened to that music forum that had its own Bizarro UKMT? Nutapii posted:
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Gaemblor posted:Hello! Thank u 4 buying my forums account after I sent you 6 quid in the post cos I didn't have a credit card at age 14. I want this to be true, this is amazing.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:51
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I paypaled a friend on another forum the money for a gift cert because I had a solo debit card and the forums only took visa.
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Jun 25, 2020 02:00
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Vitamin P posted:Resenting the situation or being bored by the work broadly isn't the same as resenting and losing interest in the particular specific thing that is giving you the money you need to not die. If doing a late shift at the soul-destroying call centre is the difference between making rent in two days or not no-one is resenting that extra shift and they don't find the concept of that extra shift boring either it's acutely interesting because it's their human needs being met or not. I’ve very often been poor as gently caress and I resent anything I’m paid to do, even things I enjoy, because I am not paid fairly for them and the value of my labour is being stolen. gh0stpinballa posted:aw cheers. i just followed you (@toast fam) but im not on discord. you got a link i will set up an account. There’s a link to it in the OP, and then an auth process, might not happen immediately since it’s arsehole o’clock, but check back on it in the morning. Unkempt posted:I want this to be true, this is amazing. My wee granny bought me my account lmao
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Jun 25, 2020 02:01
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Sanitary Naptime posted:
I bought my own because I was thirty fuckin seven years old.
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Jun 25, 2020 02:14
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Well, crap. If this is the end of the forums, it's been a blast. I joined in 2007, and lurked in LF for a while, becoming radically left over time. I then shifted over to lurk in here, and it's been great. Wish I could rescind my $10 I gave to Lowtax for the platinum, but oh well.
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Jun 25, 2020 02:22
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Let me say, here at the end of all things, that it has been the highest honour shitposting with you all these years. And it ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an F.
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Jun 25, 2020 05:52
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One of my life goals is to have never used Discord. If this forum goes bye bye, then bye bye in advance to all of you.
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Jun 25, 2020 06:05
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I credit the UKMT for moving me from vaguely-left centrist to demsoc progressive, purely from seeing on a daily basis just how truly loving horrible the Tories, New Labour and libs in general are. (Discovering what the Orange Bookers really stood for was an eye-opener, after which my attitude became "gently caress the Lib Dems".) I've also turned full anti-imperialist from a position of not really thinking about it, so there's that too. Being an old fart, I don't really get what Discord is all about - it's basically just a fancy chatroom, right? I'll have to check out breadnroses, though. I prefer the static, easy-reading nature of forums over anything that pushes content at me. Hopefully Lowtax will decide to go rather than nuking the site from orbit.
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Clapham Omnibus posted:I hope this dead forum isn't dying for good but I just wanted to add I've lurked here since the LF days and want to credit LF and UKMT for kindling my class consciousness as an ignorant valleys boy. My man
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Tarnop posted:Who do I need to pester for invite code? In the game's chat thread here. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3925790&pagenumber=179#lastpost If you look in the last few pages they are quoting a post and putting their usernames. They are opening up registration for free and manually authing people. You might be able to just say "Registering as xxxx". Just follow the thread and see what they say This is the post to quote. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3925790&pagenumber=170&perpage=40#post505966061 Jippa fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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Jun 25, 2020 07:28
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Welp it's been a blast (lol not posted in here in years)
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Jun 25, 2020 07:33
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No joke I quit my job and became a teacher because of the UKMT.
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Jun 25, 2020 07:35
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There have been 9532 posts in that GBS since I last looked at it. Has anything happened overnight?
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Jun 25, 2020 07:42
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Jippa posted:There have been 9532 posts in that GBS since I last looked at it. Has anything happened overnight? Someone posted an animated goatse gif where Porky Pig pops out of the anus and says "That's all, folks!".
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Jun 25, 2020 07:44
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The victim posted a FB video saying please don't take Richs website away. Def not coerced
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Jun 25, 2020 07:46
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out of court settlement or something?
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I always aspired to shitpost more and lurk less and never actually did. Started reading this thread when I moved to the UK and it definitely shifted me from lib with left leanings to solid left, and taught me the difference too.
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