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namesake posted:Never trust a Morris. Morrissey, Van Morrison, Morris Minor, all terrible.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 21:30 |
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Venomous posted:at what point was hardcore Thatcherism inevitable? When Thatcher became Tory leader in 1975, or what? A cynic would point at what happened to other countries who refused to drink the Chicago Kool-Aid and wonder if we (literally) dodged a bullet.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 21:47 |
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namesake posted:Never trust a Morris. Morrissey, Van Morrison, Morris Minor, all terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1aaXjymblk&t=84s
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 21:49 |
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Noxville posted:Prepare to be utterly shocked by this confession She wax dog whistling about Mumsnet like a year ago so I'm not terribly surprised.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 21:50 |
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Venomous posted:at what point was hardcore Thatcherism inevitable? When Thatcher became Tory leader in 1975, or what? The hope for tripartite ordoliberalism in the UK died before Keynesianism itself did, I would say - the old system's method of managing inflation rested on viewing it in terms of the wage-price spiral instead of interest rates. The third leg of the tripartite system died first, with the inability of the government - Callaghan - to enforce his inflation targets on the other two legs: on labour engaging in highest-in-Western-Europe levels of industrial action, and conversely business willingness to pay wages above the inflation target in order to resolve it The period of extreme UK labour militancy outlasted it - there was never going to be a pleasant resolution; under Callaghan the dynamic shifted to a labour militancy that was capable of holding the country hostage and fully conscious of this strategy of doing so, via the UK's critical dependence on coal to survive each winter - and yet not capable of actually commanding electoral support outside of holding that threat over the country. The mistake is thinking that a majority antipathy to union militancy was something created by Thatcherism rather than preceding it by nearly a decade, with voters only rather grudgingly giving up on hope for Labour to successfully tame the beast There is probably an alternate universe where Tony Crosland erases Clause IV thirty years ahead of time, In Place of Strife triumphs, and the UK Labour party reorients around ordoliberalism before the oil crisis, stagflation, and deindustrialization - the same pressures that every Western country would face - really put social democracy to the test. This is one of those flaws of FPTP - a more proportional system would have pushed the left of the party to continually and gradually rationalise compromises, as e.g. the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) of den Uyl did over time, despite moving from a position far more left-wing than the its UK counterpart and successfully managing to expel its moderates to other parties in the 1960s. By the 1990s the PvdA is no less neoliberal than other social democratic parties around the world, but organised labour did not have to brutally burn half its bridges for the transition to be accepted with grace ronya fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Sep 19, 2020 |
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/fbunational/status/1306984128479465473?s=21 UKMT Autumn 2020 - Our Private Thinking Space
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 22:51 |
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There's going to be a lot more testing capacity soon https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1307424336593203202
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 22:53 |
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private thinking space
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 22:59 |
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Lungboy posted:There's going to be a lot more testing capacity soon https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1307424336593203202 don’t they have to pass a law for this to mean anything
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:01 |
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bump_fn posted:don’t they have to pass a law for this to mean anything Alright pal sounds like you're off up to your parents place in Durham?
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:07 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Alright pal sounds like you're off up to your parents place in Durham? i know this is a joke but how loving dare you insinuate i would willingly go to durham
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:08 |
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...did they not already?
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:08 |
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bump_fn posted:don’t they have to pass a law for this to mean anything Even if it were true who is going to contest it?
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:09 |
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Lungboy posted:There's going to be a lot more testing capacity soon https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1307424336593203202
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:09 |
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bump_fn posted:don’t they have to pass a law for this to mean anything Well the UK Government has already said that they are willing to break International Law. The next step is obviously to break National Law.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:10 |
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TACD posted:Is this a real law or just another one of those political constructs? It's real in that the cops will hit you with things until you believe it's real. Possibly political hammers, for to do the political construction with.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:11 |
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Noxville posted:Prepare to be utterly shocked by this confession Wait what was she radicalised to? This is such a wanky article she meanders about hating I, Daniel Blake (shocker) and Zoom calls but never actually makes the radical statement. She explicitly admits sex and gender are different but then constantly implies she doesn't actually believe that, and makes a vague rebuttal to the fake argument that "these mental lefties are saying sex doesn't even exist!" which am I blind? 1. I'm online and discourse-poisoned as gently caress and just genuinely don't see people making that argument and 2. 'well the people that say X also say Y, so even if I believe X I must unfortunately reject it' is the most transparently dishonest incoherent bullshit, just admit you don't think self-determined gender identity is valid you cowardly gently caress. Identikit Guardian staff writer 365 posted:then why does changing gender now mean a person has actually changed sex, and that trans women athletes should compete against female ones? Nope, this isn't an argument anymore, the great trans takeover of sports has been worried over for half a decade now but visibly isn't happening, and in the usually direct-contact sports where it has specifically emerged it's actively being addressed by using biological categorisations that aren't locked to a gender binary. Not saying sports orgs have figured it all out yet but this idea that 'hurf sports are letting trans women batter females' is so loving dishonest and insulting, it's peak no-nothing lib poo poo.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:11 |
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The Question IRL posted:Well the UK Government has already said that they are willing to break International Law. The next step is obviously to break National Law. breaking national law is easy but charging and convicting people of breaking laws that don’t exist is next level genius
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:12 |
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The idea that people are saying sex isn't real is something that exists entirely because terfs believe it exists.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:14 |
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OwlFancier posted:The idea that people are saying sex isn't real is something that exists entirely because terfs believe it exists. There was quite a significant period of my life where I doubted the existence of sex.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:21 |
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OwlFancier posted:It's real in that the cops will hit you with things until you believe it's real.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:25 |
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I think Hadley Freeman blocked me on Twitter because I asked her if she was so against trans people and wanted so much justice for cisgender women why did not rename herself Hadley Freewoman.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:26 |
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OwlFancier posted:The idea that people are saying sex isn't real is something that exists entirely because terfs believe it exists. Vitamin P posted:Not saying sports orgs have figured it all out yet but this idea that 'hurf sports are letting trans women batter females' is so loving dishonest and insulting, it's peak no-nothing lib poo poo. They won't read it, because they want the debate to be 'trans people, do they exist or are they just men cosplaying' rather than anything approaching observable reality.
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:29 |
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VideoGames posted:I think Hadley Freeman blocked me on Twitter because I asked her if she was so against trans people and wanted so much justice for cisgender women why did not rename herself Hadley Freewoman.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:There was quite a significant period of my life where I doubted the existence of sex. Genuinely go on, what was your thinking?
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:39 |
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VideoGames posted:I think Hadley Freeman blocked me on Twitter because I asked her if she was so against trans people and wanted so much justice for cisgender women why did not rename herself Hadley Freewoman.
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VideoGames posted:I think Hadley Freeman blocked me on Twitter because I asked her if she was so against trans people and wanted so much justice for cisgender women why did not rename herself Hadley Freewoman.
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Vitamin P posted:Genuinely go on, what was your thinking? It's a sex joke
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:51 |
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health and safety gone mad, stu, can't even make a joke about not loving
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# ? Sep 19, 2020 23:59 |
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bump_fn posted:don’t they have to pass a law for this to mean anything All of the other covid laws have been done as statutory instrument amendments to a public health act. The one the other day about the Rule of 6 was done at 11.30pm to begin at 12.01 so nobody could alter it. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Sep 20, 2020 |
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You know it might be a good idea if UK news media stopped loving asking random passersby how they feel about restrictions, and instead scold them why the gently caress are they strolling down the promenade of Blackpool licking an ice cream when you could be dead in 10 days due to it. "Ohhh I am so frustrated about having to stay inside if there is another lockdown, I don't know how I will cope." "Do something about it? But I stayed in for two weeks back in April. I deserve this pint beside these complete strangers." happyhippy fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Sep 20, 2020 |
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happyhippy posted:You know it might be a good idea if UK news media stopped loving asking random passersby how they feel about restrictions, and instead scold them why the gently caress are they strolling down the promenade of Blackpool licking an ice cream when you could be dead in 10 days due to it.
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 00:18 |
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TACD posted:I'm reminded of that radio call-in from early lockdown where a woman started off indignantly protesting she had a right to go out and live her life and got blindsided into agreeing that she'd lived long enough and would die for this cause. DIdn't she openly admit she was planning to visit a relative with some kind of chronic illness too?
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 01:17 |
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Vitamin P posted:Wait what was she radicalised to? The fact that someone was paid actual money for writing that piece is as damning an indictment of the UK press as you’re likely to find.
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Specifically the endingquote:Here’s a Jewish joke for you: a woman spends 20 years on a book about her Jewish relatives. At last, she finishes it. ‘God will bless me for being a good Jew,’ she thinks. Instead, God sends down a global plague. So rather than doing a victory lap around literary festivals, she must now spend her days talking to her laptop. How about that for some Old Testament punishment? Honestly, I’m starting to suspect it was me rather than the poor pangolin that caused Covid. Like the Nazis at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, I uncovered an ancient tale that should have stayed buried.
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 03:30 |
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VideoGames posted:I think Hadley Freeman blocked me on Twitter because I asked her if she was so against trans people and wanted so much justice for cisgender women why did not rename herself Hadley Freewoman. Hero tbh
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Vitamin P posted:This is such a wanky article I don't believe the Spectator publishes any other sort.
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# ? Sep 20, 2020 05:59 |
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Unkempt posted:UKMT Autumn 2020 - Our Private Thinking Space On this subject, there's an absolutely extraordinary story in the Sunday Times about how the housing market is now becoming gummed up because every single flat built since 1945 is made out of paper mache and petrol and banks are refusing to grant mortgages against them. The more they're inspected, the more awful stuff gets uncovered. I'm quoting the whole article, 'cos the whole thing's mental: The Sunday Times posted:The Grenfell fire is casting a pall over the whole property market. First the fallout hit 30,000 flats with the type of cladding that fuelled the inferno. Now it has exposed 186,000 private high-rise flats wrapped in other flammable materials.
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Christ. Super glad we didn't buy a flat a couple of years ago and kept looking until we could afford a tiny Victorian terrace instead.
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