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Not So Fast posted:He's at worst what Bannon calls himself, a cultural nationalist, someone who wraps himself in the flag and thumps his chest. But his policies are more focused on being anti-immigrant than they are racist. 
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Not So Fast posted:This is not entirely new for Greenwald and he's said similar stuff when on Tucker Carlson's show. He's a libertarian at heart, and they always hate the Democrats over the Republicans. Right, his totally not-racist anti-immigration policies. Strong disagreement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
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Nov 12, 2020 09:06
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Feels like we don't need to spend pages proving that Trump is, in fact, a racist.
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Nov 12, 2020 09:08
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Not So Fast posted:He's mostly right in that Trump is not a white supremacist and anyone pretending he is, is being hysterical. Not so fast...
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Nov 12, 2020 09:24
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He just happens to have actual minions like the proud boys and uh... the DOJ.
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Nov 12, 2020 09:31
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The KKK backs him because he’s totally not a racist.
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Nov 12, 2020 09:32
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Greenwald seems pathologically contrarian against the mainstream media narrative on everything and sometimes that leads to incredibly good reporting and him being a lone voice of sanity, and other times it’s really dumb. I’m not sure he needs to be cast as indelibly Good or Bad. He’s a useful person to listen to sometimes.
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Nov 12, 2020 09:42
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Donald Trump is clearly and inarguably a racist, who panders to other racists and white supremacists. But I genuinely don't think the man himself is a "philosophical" or political white supremacist, if only because he doesn't care about anybody but himself. He probably couldn't articulate anything approaching a fascist theory of race, and is too stupid to be personally the architect of a racist ethnostate. But on some level he understands that the racists who support him want him to victimise people who aren't white, and so you get these half-baked (but nonetheless horrendous and dehumanising) policies like the Muslim travel ban and the border cages. Lots of people have said it before, but thank god Trump is actually an idiot. A competent fascist could have done far more damage to human rights in the last four years.
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Not So Fast posted:This is not entirely new for Greenwald and he's said similar stuff when on Tucker Carlson's show. He's a libertarian at heart, and they always hate the Democrats over the Republicans. If he supports raising taxes on the wealthy and massive state infrastructure spending projects he's not a very good libertarian.
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imo an ideological white supremacist & somebody who supports white supremacy for personal gain are indistinguishable in effect. Also lol@ whoever thought taxing people who WFH more is a good idea. My partner & I used to get by fine with a small desk in the guest room, we've now had to move to a house with 2 separate designated office rooms (as well as a guest room, which we still need for family reasons). Not gonna claim "poor us" here because it was actually an option for us, but maybe it isn't entirely fair to say that people who literally have to pay for their own office space should pay more because we no longer have to walk to work or make sandwiches in advance? Lots of people out there are gonna be stuck with the tiny desk in guest room/laptop on the coffee table+back pain, it is not fun & imo they should all get gigantic tax rebates so they can afford to not have to do that. (we don't have to pay for our office space, work would actually rather we both went in, we have decided that we would prefer not to risk killing our loved ones is all)
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Thread from the guy who wrote the Blackadder theme (and probably some other things too) about the impact of a no deal / barely deal Brexit on touring entertainment. It's not good. https://twitter.com/howard_goodall/status/1326554078256656389?s=21
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Friend of mine works at a council whose in-office IT equipment is all desktop Chrome boxes. After 8 months of full time wfh the council has not managed to get a single one of these boxes out of the office and into peoples homes, so literally the entire council has been dependent on using their personal IT equipment for work the entire time. That’s particularly good in houses where a couple both work for the council, and previously they just had one laptop or even tablet in the house. Not sure they’d feel they are being incredibly privileged and enriched by the wfh experience.
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WAR! Never been so much fun WAR! Never been so much fun WAR! Never been so much fun WAR! Never been so much fun Go to your brother Kill him with your gun Leave him lying in his uniform Dying in the sun
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Not even solidarity for a mate will get rid of Cummings https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1326687333308096512?s=19.
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Bobstar posted:Thread from the guy who wrote the Blackadder theme (and probably some other things too) about the impact of a no deal / barely deal Brexit on touring entertainment. It's not good. TBH some of that is a bit inaccurate, in the sense that while yes, member states do control their own tax and immigration policies, they are still fairly heavily constrained in how they do so, with schengen visas in particular. There's a legitimate argument (if one hates migrants that is) that Britain will have a lot more control over migration than it does within the EU, and I'm not talking about inter-EU migration here. One example that comes to mind is when the Dutch were fined several hundred million euros about 2 decades ago for having too strict marriage visa rules. e: As far as tax and spending goes this is potentially a negative from a leftwing perspective, but the EU has never limited countries from accepting migrants in good faith, whether it is (charitably) due to it's supranational nature or because neoliberalistic globalisation exploiting poorer countries is up to debate. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Nov 12, 2020 |
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Nov 12, 2020 10:24
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Glenn has done more to fight fascism than anyone on the forums or in the media so lol at calling him a fash apologist
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endlessmonotony posted:WAR! Never been so much fun Great game (Cannon Fodder), makes it's point in a way some autors of the video game development space can only wish they could.
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Jose posted:Glenn has done more to fight fascism than anyone on the forums or in the media so lol at calling him a fash apologist Is he the guy that went on chapo and lives in brazil or am I getting him mixed up?
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Wow, trying to login to HMRC website is a Kafka-esque nightmare. You need your Government Gateway ID, and a password. I have my Government Gateway ID, but no password. In order to reset your password, you need to provide your email address, and they will send you a code. I have provided my email address, and they have sent me a code. However, when I enter the code, the website tells me that there is no Government Gateway ID associated with my email address. Not to worry - there is a link to click for when you do not have an email address associated with your account. You are then prompted to provide your name, NI number and date of birth. Once you have filled out these details, you are taken back to the original screen, requiring your Government Gateway ID-associated email address. I have provided my email address, and they have sent me a code. However, when I enter the code, the website tells me that there is no Government Gateway ID associated with my email address. Not to worry - there is a link to click for when you do not have an email address associated with your account. You are then prompted to provide your name, NI number and date of birth. Once you have filled out these details, you are taken back to the original screen, requiring your Government Gateway ID-associated email address. There is a form you can fill out if you need help with the website. You fill it out and click 'send'. You get a 400 Bad Request. welp, thanks for reading.
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He lives in Brazil idk about chapo but probably because the man goes where he can get an audience https://twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/1326823333900541952?s=19
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Private Speech posted:TBH some of that is a bit inaccurate, in the sense that while yes, member states do control their own tax and immigration policies, they are still fairly heavily constrained in how they do so, with schengen visas in particular. True, he is using his thread as half factual prediction of what will happen in January, and half anti-Brexit polemic, but I think these are two different things. Yes, Schengen countries have to let each others' tourists in, but each country can still demand its own visas from touring artists (who are working), or deny them altogether because they're from foreign parts and will probably abscond in our rainy island.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/nov/11/uk-news-channels-should-not-have-to-be-impartialquote:British television news channels should no longer be required to meet strict impartiality standards, according to one of the government’s own broadcasting advisers.  Can't wait for the UK to get even more dumb once Farage and Nick Ferrari start the dumbest news opinion channel ever
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The Perfect Element posted:Wow, trying to login to HMRC website is a Kafka-esque nightmare. I feel your pain. I did my self-assessment form back in the summer and had a similar nightmare. In fact every time I try to do HMRC stuff online it's the same. I have more Government Gateway IDs than I know what to do with. I use the Post Office 'verify' way in now, it seems much more reliable.
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Government gateway is dreadful especially if you have multiple IDs. It’s about the only thing I break my security protocol for and have everything written down.
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Borrovan posted:Also lol@ whoever thought taxing people who WFH more is a good idea. My partner & I used to get by fine with a small desk in the guest room, we've now had to move to a house with 2 separate designated office rooms (as well as a guest room, which we still need for family reasons). Not gonna claim "poor us" here because it was actually an option for us, but maybe it isn't entirely fair to say that people who literally have to pay for their own office space should pay more because we no longer have to walk to work or make sandwiches in advance? Lots of people out there are gonna be stuck with the tiny desk in guest room/laptop on the coffee table+back pain, it is not fun & imo they should all get gigantic tax rebates so they can afford to not have to do that. Deutsche Bank is heavily, heavily invested in Metropolitan office real estate across the world and any sustained shift to homeworking is going to utterly destroy them so this latest wet fart is just their latest attempt to swing the conversation to home work = bad. [e] DB are also one of the mostly grossly evil companies in existense outside of like Oil, Arms and Tobacco. Saros fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Nov 12, 2020 |
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Jose posted:Glenn has done more to fight fascism than anyone on the forums or in the media so lol at calling him a fash apologist He might not be fash but he's got a brain problem and keeps dancing for them.
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Jose posted:Glenn has done more to fight fascism than anyone on the forums or in the media so lol at calling him a fash apologist He's literally defended fascists so uh.... Yikes Ash Crimson fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Nov 12, 2020 |
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Nov 12, 2020 11:40
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The real fascists are the friends he made along the way
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I just discovered the UKIP candidate for London mayor is called Peter Gammons. How has that been allowed.
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peanut- posted:I just discovered the UKIP candidate for London mayor is called Peter Gammons. He changed his name, like that guy in the states who wanted to be called Hitler. Just like, really.
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Jedit posted:He changed his name, like that guy in the states who wanted to be called Hitler. Just like, really. He has a website: https://www.pgmi.org/. He's a televangelist, and has a form to leave him everything in a will. In Brexit news, we're so very hosed: https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status/1326670976692744192
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the fudge has arrived, and i have eaten some. it's good
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loving Croydon Council have loving hosed it lads. Can we make it that if you want to be considered for elected office on a labour list you have to do a 6 months on how to do governance. Ffs.
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notaspy posted:loving Croydon Council have loving hosed it lads. I'm confused as to how they managed to get over a billion pounds into debt. None of the articles about this go into any detail, they just mention a £50m hotel failure and the council having the terrible idea to build affordable houses
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Jose posted:Glenn has done more to fight fascism than anyone on the forums or in the media so lol at calling him a fash apologist Jesus, what does Glenn have to do for you to stop defending him? He just left the Intercept in a hissy fit because they wouldn’t uncritically publish Republican propaganda. And now he’s saying Trump’s not really a racist and basically saying he agrees with Steve Bannon.
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Bad council chat: Nowhere near as bad at this point as Croydon but: https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/18830191.coronavirus-hits-monmouthshire-council-investment-newport-leisure-park/ quote:A NEWPORT leisure park bought by Monmouthshire County Council for £21 million is expected to generate around just one third of the income originally expected this year. (Monmouthshire council is tory-led).
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Continuity RCP posted:I'm confused as to how they managed to get over a billion pounds into debt. None of the articles about this go into any detail, they just mention a £50m hotel failure and the council having the terrible idea to build affordable houses My (very Tory) council is heavily in debt as well, it's kind of what happens when your housing and development policy is to give plenty of 'loans' to 'developers'
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Comrade Fakename posted:Jesus, what does Glenn have to do for you to stop defending him? He just left the Intercept in a hissy fit because they wouldn’t uncritically publish Republican propaganda. And now he’s saying Trump’s not really a racist and basically saying he agrees with Steve Bannon. Didn't know you were so pro bolsonaro
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Convex posted:https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/nov/11/uk-news-channels-should-not-have-to-be-impartial New Goon project, UKMT 24 Hour Rolling News channel
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Jose posted:Didn't know you were so pro bolsonaro Glenn would be too if he didn’t live there.
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