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Communist Thoughts posted:The tories killed 200,000 people in order to wreck the economy for no reason. Nobody is gonna care if a disease killed them under their watch. A lot of the dead are from age groups that overwhelmingly vote tory though
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh come on. That is not a normal word to know. Sorry to have to reveal my Harry Potter knowledge (I was young!) but the viral post lied to you. The mistake turned her into a cat person, so Hermoine was freaking out about spending the rest of her life as a furry.
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Ednamamame posted:Sorry to have to reveal my Harry Potter knowledge (I was young!) but the viral post lied to you. The mistake turned her into a cat person, so Hermoine was freaking out about spending the rest of her life as a furry. To be fair I think it's conflating two different examples - in Chamber of Secrets she's upset about being stuck in a cat body, and in Deathly Hallows they get her pronouns correct when she's biologically male after becoming Harry.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 13:08 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:And it's like... She loving had it. Right there, she understood and conceptualised the basic problem. She has the capacity to see this from a trans person's perspective. She just doesn't want to, and all the terf poo poo is an active attempt to pull her mind away from the perspective of the trans person in case she suddenly realises she is wrong. There's so much of the series that appealed to queer folks, but sadly that all seems like projection on their part because despite the appeal of a story involving somebody locked in a closet before finding out their real identity after a life-changing revelation, Rowling's writing is too literal and her attempts at allegory are awful. Anyway. Did I miss the discourse in here about Bell vs. Tavistock? I saw a tweet earlier this week saying just how little the story is making waves outside of trans circles and yesterday had that confirmed when I found out one of my Guardian-reading friends didn't realise the Guardian is TERF loving central for the UK.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 13:20 |
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tasting notes: definitely rich and plummy, but quite weak after the initial first impression. a confusing mess of flavours with no cohesive theme. also a faint tinge of wet egg
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Well apologies anyway. The conflation between the two scenes is probably why my brain found it familiar. Anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/dec/06/we-wont-be-cash-cows-uk-students-plan-the-largest-rent-strike-in-40-years ‘We won’t be cash cows’: UK students plan the largest rent strike in 40 years Fed up with paying for halls they cannot use, residents demand universities take action quote:Student activists are preparing for the biggest wave of university rent strikes in four decades amid growing frustration at heavy-handed hall lockdowns, the prospect of paying for empty rooms and little face-to-face teaching when they eventually return in the new year.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 13:26 |
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It's funny how some things just stick. The first thing that comes to mind when I see or hear Keir is wet eggs. In fact it is the only thing that comes to mind
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 13:41 |
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https://twitter.com/Rachel_Ish_/status/1335522053479403523?s=19 gently caress this country gently caress this country
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 13:55 |
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Maugham wrote a piece some time back on the wider implications for the Bell case on the ability for kids to consent to things like birth control and abortion: https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1335113639171420162 In short, the Bell decision is loving terrible, for trans kids, pregnant kids and all sorts of other kids too.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 14:24 |
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https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1335290858128588800?s=20
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 14:28 |
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https://twitter.com/Rachel_Ish_/status/1335568953989603328?s=19 Puberty blockers: Simultaneously ineffective, and dangerous enough that under 16s can't consent to their use. gently caress's sake. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Dec 6, 2020 |
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Lungboy posted:Maugham wrote a piece some time back on the wider implications for the Bell case on the ability for kids to consent to things like birth control and abortion: https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1335113639171420162 The GCs formed this alliance to tackle blockers (and it's now shifted to "don't even think about gender affirmation" in the space of a few days), but to the lawyer/Heritage Foundation that was never the goal. They already hate everybody that's not cishet, but if they can use trans issues as a wedge to overturn birth control/abortion/body autonomy/gay rights... well, they've already started their campaign in Ireland. Also I hate how this whole thing is making me respect Jolyon.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 14:43 |
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Not the Corbyn we need, but the fox murderer we deserve.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/Rachel_Ish_/status/1335568953989603328?s=19 thus, by a continual
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 15:00 |
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Jedit posted:No, they said the exact opposite - we could have freely extended the transition period until as late as the end of 2022 if required, and could have done so as late as July. That we didn't do this in the middle of the worst global health crisis in a century is entirely on the head of Boris Johnson. Isn't it politically advantageous for the tories to be able to muddle consequences of brexit with consequences of the pandemic?
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 15:26 |
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Vitamin P posted:Isn't it politically advantageous for the tories to be able to muddle consequences of brexit with consequences of the pandemic? For whoever takes over from Johnson in March/April, sure
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Gort posted:A lot of the dead are from age groups that overwhelmingly vote tory though the tories may well get voted out, but they're not gonna suffer any consequences for the deaths and like the austerity deaths we won't draw any conclusions about the british state and bringing it up, even under a keith government, will be portrayed as hysterical
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 15:35 |
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To reaffirm what's been said, Brexit has de jure happened already, the EU now has 27 members and is proceeding on that basis. It will de facto happen in 26 days, after Johnson rejected the no-brainer extension. Because rules are made up by humans, it is just barely conceivable that during the transition period, an extremely pro-EU UK gov with a large majority and a clear backing from the people could have persuaded the EU to pretend that this year never happened, and slide us back in with some legal sleight of hand. But given the actual government we have, they want this over asap. Previously I've talked about the two options that are left being no deal, and a very thin deal that keeps the planes flying and the medicines flowing and not much else. I'm not totally clear how the latter will work, considering the old deadline for a deal was mid-October (?) to give the members time to ratify it. I imagine that will necessarily make it even thinner. Interesting idea that they could just throw in the towel and go "fine, EEA-like" - obviously that goes against the entire point of Brexit for many, but it would be too late to do anything about it. But while the concept of EEA-like is ready made, I'm not sure there's time to turn it around in practice. So my prediction is still no deal, or a thin deal that gets trumpeted by the press as "See? It's all fine, project fear", but leaning more towards no deal because the remaining sticking points (esp level playing field) are still ones that Johnson and co claim to be dealbreakers. Bobstar fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Dec 6, 2020 |
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How would 'no deal' be trumpeted by the press as 'fine'? It's going to be chaos.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:02 |
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By writing 1500 word fanfics about how much worse it would be if Corbyn was PM.
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Regarde Aduck posted:How would 'no deal' be trumpeted by the press as 'fine'? Tories control the press... Or rather, the Tories have enough friends in high places in enough of the press to make it seem like it's good for them.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:04 |
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I love that the government are running TV ads compelling businesses to prepare for the transition at the end of the month, but with no deal signed we have no idea what we’re transitioning into, and it’s impossible to prepare.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:04 |
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I mean they've already said however many dead we've had and all the job losses are either fine or the fault of the woke warrior "don't want people to get sick and die" brigade.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:05 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:How would 'no deal' be trumpeted by the press as 'fine'? Added comma for clarity. The "wafer thin deal" would be trumpeted as fine, because it is a deal, therefore anyone who warned about no deal was a scaremongering remoaner. This, even though the thin deal would be the same as no deal for many sectors.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:06 |
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Bobstar posted:To reaffirm what's been said, Brexit has de jure happened already, the EU now has 27 members and is proceeding on that basis. It will de facto happen in 26 days, after Johnson rejected the no-brainer extension. A full English breakfast might give you some indigestion later on, but that is the price you have to pay. Same with a full English brexit.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:09 |
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the uk is only going to get trade deals with countries who have similar flag patterns Vitamin P posted:They really do don't they? let's not forget that the lady ghost is a complete perv and consistently and inappropriately spies on people in the bath or using the bathroom to get her rocks off
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mediaphage posted:
You're a ghost stuck as a horny teenager for eternity - seems pretty plausible to me.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:17 |
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Perv ghost and the action constantly taking place in the bogs are both good + hilarious aspects of Harry Potter, sorry. JK Rowling can still get in the bin, as per.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:19 |
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Vigil for Virgil posted:Tories control the press... though i think now they've got a business-friendly government bagholder as leader of the opposition the press might be more willing to drop the tories slightly the issue i guess is that they don't trust the labour membership who are woke lefty luvvies, which is why kier is prosecuting the war against the membership that started under corbyn as a guerilla campaign and is now being run from the leadership itself if he can successfully kill the labour membership and make enough backroom deals with rich pedophiles then the media and big money will feel more comfortable trying to push labour into power
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:23 |
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It still tracks because there is now and forever a permenant bathroom inspector in the womens bog.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:24 |
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to be clear i chuckled at some of it, too. i just think it's worth pointing out in discussion of her overall politics ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Ms Adequate posted:It is an interesting constitutional question about what happens if a part of an existing country wants to join the US and how that would work. I uh, I don't think Scotland would be super eager for that path though. yes. the constitution forbids making anywhere a state that doesn't vote for it first. so scotland would have to vote to become a state and make the application to congress. then congress would vote and if it passed by a two-thirds majority, they'd be a state of the union and assigned two senators and ~ 8 representatives. i mean this would never happen of course but i do like the idea of scottish legislators joining congress and just putting up with absolutely no poo poo
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:24 |
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mediaphage posted:let's not forget that the lady ghost is a complete perv and consistently and inappropriately spies on people in the bath or using the bathroom to get her rocks off Let's also not forget that in the movie the actress who played her spying on Harry in the bath was 35 years old at the time.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:26 |
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An argument: https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1333374935528583175
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:39 |
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That old Jermany Crobins man grows anti-semitic vegetables in his allotment, i heard
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:44 |
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Depends how 'turning on brexit' it defined. I don't think people are going to be happy with how Brexit turns out. But I have no idea if anyone even remotely to blame is going to take the brunt of the ire. Brexit the idea isn't the same thing as Brexit, the thing that's about to happen.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 16:54 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Depends how 'turning on brexit' it defined. I don't think people are going to be happy with how Brexit turns out. But I have no idea if anyone even remotely to blame is going to take the brunt of the ire. Brexit the idea isn't the same thing as Brexit, the thing that's about to happen. When you think about it like this, the folly becomes apparent of spending three years insisting that every other possible route to take (that wasn't a second referendum) belonged to the Brexiteers and the Brexiteers alone.
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 17:01 |
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outside of some obvious spectacles like the port queues brexit is just gonna be a continuation of us circling the drain
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 17:11 |
crispix posted:That old Jermany Crobins man grows anti-semitic vegetables in his allotment, i heard Totalitarian vegetables? How much did it cost Neil?
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# ? Dec 6, 2020 17:12 |
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Comrade Fakename posted:I love that the government are running TV ads compelling businesses to prepare for the transition at the end of the month, but with no deal signed we have no idea what we’re transitioning into, and it’s impossible to prepare. It's basically getting told that the local gangster is looking for you and is really angry about something. You don't exactly know what's happened but you're going to get some sort of a battering before all is said and done. Leavers keep not changing their mind because everything that has happened has happened on tv. The various international connections that impact their lives will only become apparent once severed, even if it's lovely bourgie concerns like they can't get European labour for cheap any more.
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I am a little skeptical - the usual suspects in the press have been angling for "blame Europe for the deal" for a while now but I don't know that this will actually stick
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