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OwlFancier posted:
"Queen to be interred on golden throne, young offenders institutes to be renamed 'martyr academys', report to your nearest commissar for more information"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:"Queen to be interred on golden throne, young offenders institutes to be renamed 'martyr academys', report to your nearest commissar for more information" Marmite to be renamed Corpse-Starch.
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Aug 29, 2020 22:01
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Z the IVth posted:Marmite to be renamed Corpse-Starch. Glad the grim darkness of the far future has stronger food labelling standards.
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Aug 29, 2020 22:09
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https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1299806359106596867 I'm probably overthinking this, but I've had a thought niggling at me for a while that either the Republicans or the Tories will at some point attempt to not only flirt with QAnon but to actually try and harness them to a good old-fashioned moral panic. Trump and his lot seem most likely - I can totally see him just straight up accusing Biden of eating babies in the debates - but I always assume anything out of the Telegraph is a trial balloon being floated by Johnson, and I have to wonder if this is the next dead cat they're lining up.
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Aug 29, 2020 22:11
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One concrete example of the damage Qanon poo poo does is terminally cynical libs going "oh look people going on about the 'Hollywood pedophile conspiracy' again *eyeroll*" while ignoring the very real pedophile conspiracy that multiple people are currently in court over
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Aug 29, 2020 22:20
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If Johnson announced an investigation into pedophile child trafficking among the elite, even if it was a stupid fake Q one, the royals would pull the rug from under him so fast. Related, this came up in the crazy political forwards thread and it's good, if best understood through a Protestant/Evangelical lens, but that does explain pizzagaters/qanans.
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Aug 29, 2020 22:21
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It's not like you could tell it apart from the normal standard of british journalism.
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Aug 29, 2020 22:38
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Tabloid front page journalism is also a very good example of that "bearing false witness so that people can feel better with zero personal improvement" that it's probably the UK spiritual equivalent of Jack Chick evangelism. "At least I'm not a pedophile jihadist on benefits. In fact I'm very against those things."
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Aug 29, 2020 22:43
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OwlFancier posted:It's not like you could tell it apart from the normal standard of british journalism. what country does better journalism? do you think whatever it is you do is done here to a better or worse standard than elsewhere?
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Aug 29, 2020 22:50
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I have faith that through hard work and perseverence the UK can manage to be the worst at something that is inherently poo poo. As far as putting things on shelves go I suspect that most of the world is probably better at it from a maximum labour for minimum pay perspective.
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Aug 29, 2020 22:54
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the best surely?
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As per that twitter account twisto linked yesterday: https://twitter.com/BottomStuff/status/1099593030397513730
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I will say that when I put something on a shelf it usually stays there until it is intentionally removed. And very rarely does it spontaneously go on fire.
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Aug 29, 2020 22:57
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OwlFancier posted:
Is that because of this? https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1299781777163255814?s=19
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Aug 29, 2020 23:56
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It's because of a minecraft thing, apparently, just thought it was a funny thing to see trending.
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Aug 29, 2020 23:57
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lol as if anything we cared about would be about politics or something real
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NotJustANumber99 posted:what country does better journalism? North Korea
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MonkeyLibFront posted:You realise that a reply doesn't always mean I endorse the reasoning, gas turbine is cheaper in the long run than a nuclear reactor, that doesn't mean I agree with it. Yeah fair enough. It's just funny that the default way to measure everything is, apparently, the direct monetary cost. It's almost as if that doesn't always tell the whole story, and is noticeably imperfect as a measure of the actual, true cost of anything 
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Aug 30, 2020 10:06
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sebzilla posted:Is that because of this? 1922 committee expecting to have their ears bent next week apparently
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Aug 30, 2020 10:14
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You can taste the relief over at grauniad HQ that they can now run with articles claiming sir haircuts numbers are good with a straight face
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Aug 30, 2020 11:39
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StarkingBarfish posted:You can taste the relief over at grauniad HQ that they can now run with articles claiming sir haircuts numbers are good with a straight face Dan Hodges all ready bringing out the new line: https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1300010730327093249?s=19
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Aug 30, 2020 12:23
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Well done youre almost level with a government thats overseen an additional 50k deaths and millions extra unemployed.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Well done youre almost level with a government thats overseen an additional 50k deaths and millions extra unemployed. Being even in the polls give’s the government less leeway to kill as many extra people as they would like. Under a different opposition leader who was a clear 15 points behind, they would definitely thinking ‘can we squeeze in another 50,-000’?
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Aug 30, 2020 12:53
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eh its an achievement and obviously the press are happy cause its their achievement now they can have some leverage over the government without worrying that pulling the lever raises their taxes or reduces misery e: it musta been real frustrating if you were trying to play hardball with some tory MP at your fancy party because their ethnic cleansing program is a bit gauche and they go "well what are you gonna do? vote for corbyn?" drat they're right, i definitely can't do that e2 goddamn it, i can't help escape the feeling that Kier is narratively perfect as the next PM in britains downfall a total rejection of the democratisation of labour experiment and a literal knighted, bootlicking bagholder by profession anointed by the ChUK demographic a guy whose job was to ignore state racism fits the UK zeitgeist a lot more than an anti-racist activist did Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Aug 30, 2020 |
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We are a joke of a country https://twitter.com/ITVCentral/status/1300001040603975680?s=19
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Aug 30, 2020 13:27
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quote:Boris Johnson is facing a showdown with furious Conservative MPs over his government’s chaotic handling of Covid-19, as a new poll shows the Tories have surrendered a massive lead over Labour in just five months. Guardian running with Tories sharpening their knives already The S*n and Torygraph splashing 'Rishi hiking taxes, sad' quote:However, the Government insists it still meets its obligation to provide 0.7% of gross national income to international development. A fun and new thing of criticizing the government, gosh. The photo of Rishi biting his lip and looking nervous is getting a lot of mileage. etc.
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Aug 30, 2020 13:34
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Oh no! Not the poor south of England and London!!!!! They've suffered so much!!!!!!!!! No offense to all posters living there but the rest of us would be immediately better off if London just hosed off into another dimension. Just a great big smooth crater that we can put a sign up saying 'never again'.
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Regarde Aduck posted:Oh no! Not the poor south of England and London!!!!! They've suffered so much!!!!!!!!! Yeah, ditch the most left-wing region of the country, good plan.
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Aug 30, 2020 13:47
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I want a breakfast and some tea now And also to invade Jerusalem, weird
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Aug 30, 2020 13:49
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That's an incredibly beige cup of tea.
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Aug 30, 2020 13:49
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The whole 'Labour have suddenly caught up in the polls! Tories panicking!' thing is meaningless, because A: it's only one poll, and B: there's still another four years before the next election. If anything comes of this, it'll be the Tories sticking their knives into Johnson's back and choosing someone even worse from the ultra-Brexit wingnut fringe as leader. Starmer has had absolutely no influence on any of it - it's all self-inflicted on the Tories' part through their sheer callous incompetence. The LOTO might as well have been a wet bag of flour for all the difference it would have made. (And probably preferable to having a member of the loving Trilateral Commission as leader of a supposedly left-wing, pro-worker party.)
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Jose posted:We are a joke of a country Removing Land of Hope and Glory: meaningless symbolism that the PM says we shouldnt bother with Thank you planes: Totally cool and normal, not at all a distraction from real issues
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Comrade Fakename posted:Yeah, ditch the most left-wing region of the country, good plan. If it meant the rest of England could receive a more equal portion of funding, job opportunities and investment that would be good probably. For example, London receives £509m in funding from the Arts Council, whilst the North East receives £56m. 1 organisation in London, the Royal Opera House, received more funding (£74m) than entire regions of the UK. London has 73 MPs so it also seems a bit useless pouring all the hopes and dreams of a country into a city that has just over 10% of the MPs. But sure, why won't London save us 
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Communist Thoughts posted:e2 goddamn it, i can't help escape the feeling that Kier is narratively perfect as the next PM in britains downfall also gently caress the NHS Spitfire. you like the NHS and patriotism, so here's World War 2 (which we won, by the way) and the NHS! we are babies, we have pooped ourselves, everything is symbols and culture war. what a joke of a country this has been a grumpy post. here is a weasel, so far not killed by Ed Davey 
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London would probably be better if it existed as it's own separate city-state like Monaco
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Just wait until London starts siphoning off the rest of the UK's medicine and food to maintain the illusion that everything is going swell post brexit.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1299806359106596867 Qanon holds a special place in my heart because it's a conspiracy about how all the rich and powerful people are paedophiles and then that turned out to be true but because it wasn't done through their silly "Ah they're hiding kids in the bottom of Pizza Hut" way where secretly not dead Kennedy's are working with Trump to kill Jennifer Anniston and clone her they just kind of didn't know what to do with it.
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CGI Stardust posted:Keir is heading straight for a role as Blair Mk. II (Then As Farce ed.), coming in on the back of a hollowed-out and unpopular Conservative government, delivering mostly "market reforms" and at best some surface-level improvements with no staying power (because the media won't allow anything more), enervating the left voter base, and leaving the country completely unprepared for adapting to the future. Although that does depend on the Tories not having any ideas left, and the Dark Enlightenment has loooooots of ideas just waiting for a chance to shine. blair as farce is a great way of describing it. i was thinking he's some kind of bizzare blair redux but in a lot of ways he's very different and considerably more depressing. blair had ideas at least and was a crazy catholic astrologist or whatever. i'm still unsure whether kier is stupid, a sap or cynical. e: Qanon has essentially been absorbed by the british right and encouraged by the british press but in the form of "politicians helping grooming gangs of muslims raping white kids" e2: lmao remember the child abuse inquiry(s)? Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Aug 30, 2020 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:i'm still unsure whether kier is stupid, a sap or cynical. Honestly, it's probably just a bit more of the 'stupid' side, because the thing is, politicians are. I went to uni with people who went into politics and they were just all.... fine? Mediocre, often good with people, but nothing special in the brains department. The smart people were going into banking (there was money in it then), law, business - but not politics. I'm also convinced this is where the expenses scandal etc comes from - people who take the view of "well I would be making loadsa dosh if I had gone into business/banking/law like my mates at uni, but I chose to *swoon* serve the public, saint that I am. So I should just take a bit extra to make up the difference." you couldn't have done those things, you weren't bright enough
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