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thespaceinvader posted:if you had that much money why not just give people the houses? Be a parasite on landlordism by using the parasitic properties of landlordism against itself. 64 is probably the number of London houses I could buy with 10% of JKR's wealth. Mario Kart 64 was good.
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If I had 10% of JK's wealth I'd do coke
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Guavanaut posted:Keep it running at a slight loss and I could get far more houses into the hands of people who could afford a mortgage but can't save up for a deposit because they're paying rent. Or for that matter just give people the deposits? Setting up a deposit fund would be a useful rebellion against capitalism actually. I'm looking at something which basically has a contract saying that it's only paid back once the mortgage has been paid off, or something, but I'm betting that's probably some flavour of illegal. If I had JKR's money I would probably use it to set up art studios and workshops and pay artists to make good art.
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Sep 13, 2020 19:50
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I think I'd probably just give it out to people.
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Incidentally, I assume we do all understand why the EU is trying to be so decorous and courteous in the Brexit negotiations, and why it's trying to give the UK every possible concession and every possible out, yes? It's reputation-laundering for what comes next. The iron laws of international commerce require large economies to retain and secure their power by grinding smaller, weaker economies into submission, and they want to minimise the number of important people who object when they begin showing Britain - or possibly just England - its new place. Capitalism is the organisation of society by competition for power, and we're picking a fight with our most powerful neighbour. They need to make us look like the bad guys so that as much as possible of the rest of the world will look the other way while they stomp us into the ground.
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thespaceinvader posted:Or for that matter just give people the deposits? Like maybe another way would be using the money to establish a renters' co-op of say 100 houses where everyone has a vote on who runs it to set rent rates for the maintenance fund and to acquire more houses to get more people into the co-op.
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bustin keaton posted:If I had 10% of JK's wealth I'd do coke I mean is it really a hedonistic orgy without coke?
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bustin keaton posted:If I had 10% of JK's wealth I'd do coke I'd buy some joose because who knows what wacky poo poo you'd wake up to buying and actually have bought
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A Lib Dem Prospective Mayoral Candidate Was Filmed Urging Voters Not To Vote For A Jewish Candidate During A Failed Election Bidquote:The Lib Dems have shortlisted a candidate who was seen launching an antisemitic campaign against her election rival during an unsuccessful effort to become an MP. Unbelievable that Jeremy Corbyn would travel back in time an infect an otherwise reasonable person standing for non-racist parties with antisemitism.
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Sep 13, 2020 20:11
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Noxville posted:A Lib Dem Prospective Mayoral Candidate Was Filmed Urging Voters Not To Vote For A Jewish Candidate During A Failed Election Bid
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Sep 13, 2020 20:15
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I enjoy the view that religion is like pokemon types or something (i have never played pokemon)
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Sep 13, 2020 20:18
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Guavanaut posted:What kind of brain worms do you need where the reason to not vote for racist poor-hater Jack Straw is his 1/8 Jewish lineage? She was running as a Tory. She wanted to attack him, not compliment him.
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Sep 13, 2020 20:18
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Noxville posted:A Lib Dem Prospective Mayoral Candidate Was Filmed Urging Voters Not To Vote For A Jewish Candidate During A Failed Election Bid Two things. Here is a video of said events https://twitter.com/GnasherJew/status/1305161012547444736 and this was in the replies https://twitter.com/local_queerenby/status/1305219702600462338
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Sep 13, 2020 20:19
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I always wondered what kind of person finds How I Met Your Mother funny and now I know
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https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1305047757695184896?s=19 The naked corruption of it all
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Darth Walrus posted:Incidentally, I assume we do all understand why the EU is trying to be so decorous and courteous in the Brexit negotiations, and why it's trying to give the UK every possible concession and every possible out, yes? It's reputation-laundering for what comes next. The iron laws of international commerce require large economies to retain and secure their power by grinding smaller, weaker economies into submission, and they want to minimise the number of important people who object when they begin showing Britain - or possibly just England - its new place.
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Sep 13, 2020 20:37
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the Lib Dems welcoming in with open arms a former Tory with incredibly regressive views you say? who could have foreseen this
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1305047757695184896?s=19 From their wiki page: quote:In February 2017, two Randox employees were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice amid allegations of data tampering within Randox Testing Services, used by many Police Forces in England and Wales for forensic toxicology. Randox acquired this laboratory in Manchester from Trimega laboratories which went into administration in 2014.[18] As of November 2017, around 50 criminal prosecutions for driving offences had been dropped in what BBC home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw, described as "the biggest forensic science scandal in the UK for decades".[19] Police forces have begun reviewing over 10,000 criminal cases that may be affected by the alleged data manipulation, including sexual and violent crimes.[20]
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Noxville posted:A Lib Dem Prospective Mayoral Candidate Was Filmed Urging Voters Not To Vote For A Jewish Candidate During A Failed Election Bid Lol leave it to the loving yellow tories to gently caress up opposing Jack straw.
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Darth Walrus posted:Incidentally, I assume we do all understand why the EU is trying to be so decorous and courteous in the Brexit negotiations, and why it's trying to give the UK every possible concession and every possible out, yes? It's reputation-laundering for what comes next. The iron laws of international commerce require large economies to retain and secure their power by grinding smaller, weaker economies into submission, and they want to minimise the number of important people who object when they begin showing Britain - or possibly just England - its new place. Partly that but I think also, at least partly, because it would ultimately be better for everyone if the UK remained inside the tent pissing out on all the developing countries and so on. There might be some profit to be made divvying up whatever the Tories can sell, but it's still going to be a fractious and unpredictable project, and it'd be much easier for everyone involved if the UK would have done a less insane Brexit where we stayed broadly aligned with EU regulations, bodies, etc. and were able to bring our still-considerable weight to bear in A) Holding our own against other major economic powers (i.e. the US and China) and B) maintaining the exploitation of the less powerful in a steady manner. (I also suspect there's still some entrenched disbelief that the UK, who was long regarded in EU matters as somewhat standoffish but ultimately sensible and tractible by most of our peers*, is acting in such an obviously self-destructive manner with such intense zeal. Rightly or wrongly we had managed to convince a lot of other people that the British political and monied elite might be arseholes, but we were predictable arseholes who acted with circumspection and had little desire to rock any boats, let alone capsize our own.) * I just realized I described the UK as tsundere
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UwUnited Kingdom.
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JK Rowling: drat, writing all this transphobia is getting a bit stale. What can I do to spice it up? Ah, maybe a bit of casual Islamaphobia. https://twitter.com/ClientJournoExp/status/1305175397848559621
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She thinks that trans rights are about forcibly regendering gay cis kids to be straight trans kids (with the implication that bi kids don't exist), as they do in Iran, and that a big part of that is homophobic Muslim parents aggressively pushing the trans agenda. This is not one of my parody or hyperbolic posts. This is what J.K. Rowling actually believes, so I'm not at all surprised about the other Muslim stuff.
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I remember that one article from the US a year or two ago about the "Butch genocide" which was exactly the same idea, that people who were 'really' butch lesbians were being misled instead to think they were trans men. I wish us trans had 1/100th of the power they credit us with because the amount of good we could do would be immense.
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I think you have to believe in both the high power of homophobic religious groups (while still affiliating with hardline Christian Conservatives like terves do), and also believe at least low key in the literally (again not exaggerating) Nazi conspiracy theory that a trans woman is the Pokemon style final evolution of a gay man and vice versa for lesbians for terf logic to make sense. Like I've known some incredibly femme gay men but they aren't trans because that's not how gender identity works. You also have to be incredibly scientifically incurious, like when I heard that a large number of assigned female at birth people on the autism spectrum were trans men, my first thought was "oh, that's super interesting if true, I wonder if there's a link between autism and the in utero differentiation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, which we think may have something to do with gender identity maybe" and not "evil trans are preying on autistic girls!!" Which is why they believe that "biology is simple" (loving tell a biologist or biochemist that) and deny any development in sexual health since 1967. In conclusion terves a land of
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Not so much contrasts as direct, obvious contradictions that they just memory hole and don't think about.
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Hell, the autism and trans men thing, if true, should be super interesting to the Toby Young "brave British white boys falling behind in school" crew if they actually cared and weren't disingenuous little shits, because that's a line of study that, if pursued with the right ethical mindset, could potentially tell you a lot about the best pedagogical methods for both boys and people on the spectrum. But they're not demanding any big research into that, because they're disingenuous little shits.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Like surely they'll just accept that they'll have to wait for 6 months to a year to get possession, during which they'll still be being paid rent anyway. In other thoughts, my parents just pointed out that they didn't go for a pub lunch this weekend because the pubs are 'probably going to be heaving with people having a meetup before the 6 people rule comes in.' One of their friends isn't doing the weekly video call because his family is having a get together before the new rule bans that sort of thing. This in the middle of a rise in cases. Boomers. Not even once.
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Sep 13, 2020 22:57
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State aid is definitely worth breaking international law and risking the GFA over. I mean, it's not like the Japan deal has stricter rules on state aid than the WA or anything.
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Tarnop posted:
My sister has to keep the tap in the basin in the upstairs bathroom* dripping slightly because her kitty (who looks like your kitty) will only drink water from that tap and jumps in the basin to do so. (Of course, when sister &co are away kitty will drink from an official water bowl.) * she has a downstairs 'cloakroom' hence my reference to 'upstairs'. Else  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Sep 13, 2020 |
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crispix posted:I think it actually was "hypocrite". Geniunely appreciated. Pesky Splinter posted:JK Rowling: drat, writing all this transphobia is getting a bit stale. What can I do to spice it up? Ah, maybe a bit of casual Islamaphobia. "a plastic bag from a halal takeaway" is such wierd loving prose it's a sentence where dogwhistling has taken precedence over sounding like a human
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Vitamin P posted:Geniunely appreciated. Abso-loving-lutely. Halal isn’t a type of food for fucks sake. You go to an Indian takeaway (that is halal) or a Lebanese takeaway (that is halal). It’s not a food.
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Strange isn't it how billionaires tend to struggle to stay grounded in reality.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My sister has to keep the tap in the basin in the upstairs bathroom dripping slightly because her kitty (who looks like your kitty) will only drink water from that tap and jumps in the basin to do so. (Of course, when sister &co are away kitty will drink from an official water bowl.) You can buy cat fountains for >£10 that do the same without having to leave a tap on. https://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/...htlight-3-litre Pets at home linked but there are copycats on Amazon dependent on your love of Bezos etc. Vitamin P posted:"a plastic bag from a halal takeaway" is such wierd loving prose it's a sentence where dogwhistling has taken precedence over sounding like a human Even in its world building and scene setting she couldn’t be arsed, just copy and pasted the Britain First post and let the editor rename things.
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Red Oktober posted:Abso-loving-lutely. Halal isn’t a type of food for fucks sake. You go to an Indian takeaway (that is halal) or a Lebanese takeaway (that is halal). It’s not a food. I was confused when I first went to live in Cairo why none of the eating places had Halal (حلال) on them (unlike every other place in Walthamstow). Then it dawned on me... duh ... every place was automatically halal. (Except the specialist pig butcher catering to the Copts and ex-pats.)
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Total Meatlove posted:You can buy cat fountains for >£10 that do the same without having to leave a tap on. I'll tell her. Thanks.
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Red Oktober posted:Abso-loving-lutely. Halal isn’t a type of food for fucks sake. You go to an Indian takeaway (that is halal) or a Lebanese takeaway (that is halal). It’s not a food. There are a bunch of chicken places in boro that specifically advertise themselves as halal takeaways so maybe that's the intent. But still lol at the idea of *gasp* a halal takeaway, and a burqa. That's how you catch the forrin. And now I want fried chicken for breakfast.
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