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https://www.redpepper.org.uk/how-corbyn-unmasked-comedy/ This is a great read looking at how comedy was subsumed into the establishment, and how the existence ofJontry Crobynin revealed this through our endless succession of panel show's complete inability to offer any actual funny jokes. winegums fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You know when you have a theory, and then you rein it in because that's insane and paranoid that anyone would be that evil? Nah we're at the point where the rich and powerful are so cartoonishly evil that you can't even be mad at anything specific because it's like choosing one drop of water to cry foul at during a tsunami.
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Was comedy ever anti establishment? I don't ever recall seeing anything I would consider actually transgressive.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You know when you have a theory, and then you rein it in because that's insane and paranoid that anyone would be that evil? There's an occasional meme on the Alt history forums of having Karl Rove be someone who advocates in this manner, like in that old one about hell invading Earth he suggests not bothering to respond to the ongoing attack on uhhh Chicago? Detroit? Because it's a blue city so wiping it out will benefit the Republicans. Bush et al are horrified by this suggestion but these days I'm thinking that's the least believable part of the whole thing.
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I get that some people don't like seeing a page of tweets ITT but twitter is just where things happen now. Government policy gets tweeted out, journos have a direct line to people through it for things which might not otherwise get a whole story of their own, politicians etc. can speak to people when again they would otherwise have to rely on the press, the POTUS has a stream-of-consciousness feed on there... Also just the fact that quite often right now there's a misleading news story or outright propaganda and somebody with the inside track will tell us what it really means or what's really going on, via twitter. Also... like what do you want? Would you prefer links to news sites? They're all propaganda fronts at this point. Twitter also auto-embeds so you don't have to go off the forums typically to read what's being talked about.
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Yeah we probably don't need constant posting of ThomasPaine's girlfriend but the fact of the matter is a lot of the time we either share a tweet or we would just copy a tweet without linking it. Plus there are a lot of idiots on there and it's funny and good for morale to laugh at them
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WhatEvil posted:I get that some people don't like seeing a page of tweets ITT but twitter is just where things happen now. Government policy gets tweeted out, journos have a direct line to people through it for things which might not otherwise get a whole story of their own, politicians etc. can speak to people when again they would otherwise have to rely on the press, the POTUS has a stream-of-consciousness feed on there... On the last point you’re positioning that it’s a good thing that typically posters here only read the tweeted headline or single screenshotted sentence out of an article, rather than clicking through to read the whole thing. I’m going to disagree and today that’s terrible for the forums’ discourse and leads to a lot of nonsense being posted.
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Total Meatlove posted:Do you want to hear a really funny fact about him? Sure, go on. I would like to hear it.
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Ash Crimson posted:whats the likelihood of lockdown happening again? Likelihood of a national lockdown is I think close to 0. I just don’t think there is the political will. The government seems more willing to do localised lockdowns though - although how they’re going to work as the furlough scheme is reduced/removed is unclear.
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We've already seen how they're going to work; it's happening right now in Yorkshire and Manchester. Going to work: no problem Socialising: illegal
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Tarnop posted:We've already seen how they're going to work; it's happening right now in Yorkshire and Manchester. That’s the rules sure - but let’s see how they’re actually going to work.
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Trying to think about what would have happened if Corbyn had been forced to resign after 2017 and Labour, under the control of a right-wing figurehead like, say, Chuka Umunna, had successfully pushed for that second referendum. Now, obviously, it would have essentially been a carbon copy of the first one, but what would have happened after that? Would Labour have automatically become anti-EU and voted through May's attempts at deals? Would we still be living through the May premiership today? Idk, counterfactuals can be a bit silly.
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Am interesting "what if"... Labour would have probably done worse in the 2017 elections, so possibly May would have stayed on, we'd have been in a slightly better position on Brexit (still terrible), Boris and Don Cummies wouldn't be running the show, less of a majority... but I think functionally things wouldn't be much different. I don't think May would have infected herself with covid either! So basically JC's worst act as LOTO was doing too well in 2017.
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Venomous posted:Trying to think about what would have happened if Corbyn had been forced to resign after 2017 and Labour, under the control of a right-wing figurehead like, say, Chuka Umunna, had successfully pushed for that second referendum. Now, obviously, it would have essentially been a carbon copy of the first one, but what would have happened after that? Would Labour have automatically become anti-EU and voted through May's attempts at deals? Would we still be living through the May premiership today? May only resigned because there was nothing further she could do about Brexit so yes she'd still be in charge, probably still allied with the DUP and under attack from the press for whatever soft Brexit she had been forced into to keep the DUP onboard. This would be sustainable because Melt Labour would also be supporting the Brexit deal and so the xenophobes would be marshalled behind a Brexit Party again but without being given the same clear support they had before from the media as elections wouldn't be looming and there wasn't the hated left in power in Labour to contrast and attack. Coronavirus response might actually be worse though because austerity in name and deed would still be on the cards so I wouldn't have expected such high furlough support or grants for businesses going out. I think in your situation we'd actually be much closer to the USA situation than now. Tarnop posted:We've already seen how they're going to work; it's happening right now in Yorkshire and Manchester. It's an inherent drive of capitalism to limit the working classes existence to moments in time where you are either having your labour value extracted from you or are realising the capitalists profits so the 'you can only socialise with friends if there's a card machine in the same room' joke is not far off.
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WhatEvil posted:I get that some people don't like seeing a page of tweets ITT but twitter is just where things happen now. I come for the content aggregation by people who are far more tuned in than I'd ever be. I stay for the fudge. And marxism.
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oh come on now from The Times - Meet the chancellor: the real Rishi Sunak, by the people who know him best
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This is why you don't let people with no photography background use the vignette tool.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:the vignette tool
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OwlFancier posted:Was comedy ever anti establishment? I don't ever recall seeing anything I would consider actually transgressive.
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Noooo why is James Bond going to shoot that
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CGI Stardust posted:oh come on now Austerity kills a lot of people 
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Endjinneer posted:I don't mind it. I approve of the order used here, just saying. (New orders opening up on Monday btw! Watch this space!)
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How is it that this one ^ keeps evading my ad blocker 
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crispix was this you and where have you put them?
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Anyone who has read Pratchett knows exactly why cows go missing or maybe PETA have extensive underground networks and we won't know about it until they show up en masse with armoured cows hehe crispix fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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I imagine some of these ones have been given saddles and used to justify horse solaria expenses.
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crispix posted:How is it that this one ^ keeps evading my ad blocker If people do have a problem with my fudge-posting, please say and I’ll dial it back. The UKMT community has been super super loving kind to me and I have no desire to annoy anyone.
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Isn't this pretty transparently a bot of the "first name, bunch of numbers" vein? I bet if you reverse image searched that avatar you'd get a hit on a stock site Camrath posted:If people do have a problem with my fudge-posting, please say and I’ll dial it back. I don't mind it if only because I'm on a super restrictive diet trying to lose my lockdown weight so it's a matter of time till I succumb and buy a block of rum and raisin but in the mean time if everyone else in the ukmt buys loads I get lighter just on aggregate  But no, you don't overdo it and you post about other stuff so it's cool
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OwlFancier posted:Was comedy ever anti establishment? I don't ever recall seeing anything I would consider actually transgressive. if it was actually transgressive it wouldn’t be easily available to you
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Isomermaid posted:Isn't this pretty transparently a bot of the "first name, bunch of numbers" vein? I bet if you reverse image searched that avatar you'd get a hit on a stock site Can we put this in the OP or something? That format is the generic one that Twitter has imposed for at least 5 years now, and it's indicative of nothing more than a new user who's not particularly au fait with Twitter (or internet culture generally). Any self-respecting bot-farmer would be disgusted to find out people believe they'd use such an easily-rumbled format - if anything that format is *less* likely to be a bot for that exact reason.
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This remains accurate though: https://twitter.com/wuooods/status/1252051656344317953 goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/RosieDuffield1/status/1289498350857977858 It's worth knowing that even in a trans exclusive sense (which is wrong, but terves gonna terf) she's still very wrong and since modern medical imagining has come in we're discovering that things like persistent Müllerian duct syndrome are more common than once thought (it was only previously known through cases of severe cryptorchidism or during exploratory surgery or autopsy).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Can we put this in the OP or something? That format is the generic one that Twitter has imposed for at least 5 years now, and it's indicative of nothing more than a new user who's not particularly au fait with Twitter (or internet culture generally). Any self-respecting bot-farmer would be disgusted to find out people believe they'd use such an easily-rumbled format - if anything that format is *less* likely to be a bot for that exact reason. Oh is that right? Huh. Ok, TIL.
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OwlFancier posted:Was comedy ever anti establishment? I don't ever recall seeing anything I would consider actually transgressive. Some comedians are anti establishment but if they get on the telly they don't stay that way, and if they stay that way they don't get on the telly. Isomermaid posted:Isn't this pretty transparently a bot of the "first name, bunch of numbers" vein? I bet if you reverse image searched that avatar you'd get a hit on a stock site The 'first name bunch of numbers' thing also applies to olds who don't know how to choose a username. Could be a bot, could just be an old person being bad at internet. goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/RosieDuffield1/status/1289498350857977858 I have to hope that at least some of these are ignorance rather than malice, but that's not exactly a defence when it comes to... you know, MPs.
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