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cenotaph posted:I remember the constant braying from Europeans about how racist America was online back in the early aughts and then they decided to start electing nazis again because a few brown people moved in and Britain blew up all their trade agreements because they can't handle their handymen being Polish. weird how all the talk about how lovely america is regarding immigration stopped as soon as the hungarians built a razor wire fence on their border and the italians started torpedoing refugee boats
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DACK FAYDEN posted:...did "fruit-juice drinker", like, have connotations of hippie back then? Cause it seems very out of place next to nudist and sex maniac, but I guess it makes sense if it's on par with "sandal-wearer" This is the full quote - he talks about Socialist groups in Britain being social clubs for idle weirdos and bored fad-followers, I'll leave up to your interpretation the extent to which this carries bigoted notions: The first thing that must strike any outside observer is that Socialism in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years' time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. This last type is surprisingly common in Socialist parties of every shade; it has perhaps been taken over en bloc from the old Liberal Party. In addition to this there is the horrible—the really disquieting—prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words "Socialism" and "Communism" draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, "Nature Cure" quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. One day this summer I was riding through Letchworth when the bus stopped and two dreadful-looking old men got on to it. They were both about sixty, both very short, pink, and chubby, and both hatless. One of them was obscenely bald, the other had long grey hair bobbed in the Lloyd George style. They were dressed in pistachio-coloured shirts and khaki shorts into which their huge bottoms were crammed so tightly that you could study every dimple. Their appearance created a mild stir of horror on top of the bus. The man next to me, a commercial traveller I should say, glanced at me, at them, and back again at me, and murmured "Socialists," as who should say, "Red Indians." He was probably right—the I.L.P. were holding their summer school at Letchworth. But the point is that to him, as an ordinary man, a crank meant a Socialist and a Socialist meant a crank.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 21:58 |
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now that im not distracted by the hot bodies of the gun girl and looming loomer, my eye is drawn to the disgusting freak in the orange pants behind them. i find him repulsive
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DACK FAYDEN posted:...did "fruit-juice drinker", like, have connotations of hippie back then? Cause it seems very out of place next to nudist and sex maniac, but I guess it makes sense if it's on par with "sandal-wearer" they were real pissy about brunches back then too
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steinrokkan posted:This is the full quote - he talks about Socialist groups in Britain being social clubs for idle weirdos and bored fad-followers, I'll leave up to your interpretation the extent to which this carries bigoted notions: Lol https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/1341757675009421314
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It's me: I'm the hatless socialist, bald unto obscenity, with my rear end crammed into khaki pants.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 22:33 |
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Lux Animus posted:It's me: I'm the hatless socialist, bald unto obscenity, with my rear end crammed into khaki pants.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 22:37 |
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quote:every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, "Nature Cure" quack, pacifist, and feminist didn't know Orwell modded cspam
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 22:37 |
civilization started falling apart the moment men started drinking fruit juice, i tell you whut.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 22:45 |
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Gripweed posted:I don't know how confident I would be in assuming that George Orwell was LGBT-positive Christopher Hitchens thought Orwell might have been gay, if I remember his book on Orwell correctly.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 22:51 |
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Figglemort posted:Christopher Hitchens thought Orwell might have been gay, if I remember his book on Orwell correctly. That's... very much so not the same thing, and LGBTQIA+ has more than G in it
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Figglemort posted:Christopher Hitchens thought Orwell might have been gay, if I remember his book on Orwell correctly. that doesnt mean orwell was lgbt positive, or even not homophobic. for example look at all the gays who hate mayor pete. internalized homophobia is a real phenomena
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THS posted:that doesnt mean orwell was lgbt positive, or even not homophobic. for example look at all the gays who hate mayor pete. internalized homophobia is a real phenomena
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Lux Animus posted:It's me: I'm the hatless socialist, bald unto obscenity, with my rear end crammed into khaki pants. none of these other people have hats either!
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Flavius Aetass posted:none of these other people have hats either! I've got to dig up my parent's collection of early 19th century british comics, they're all about social faux pas that don't make any goddamn sense at all, like wearing a bowler to a regency meeting or allowing yourself to be served before your former commanding officer when you meet for beef dinner.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 23:24 |
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Just wear a hat, drat it.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 23:31 |
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Hearing a European complain about how racist we subhuman Americans are, and then breathlessly switching to a call for the unironic genocide of all "Gypsy's" is a surreal experience.
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 00:00 |
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got some news from the mothership
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 00:03 |
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https://twitter.com/luxuryjeff/status/1341755518537371648
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 00:11 |
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So, holding the line while the city burns down to ashes behind you? What are they holding the line against? Firefighters?
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steinrokkan posted:This is the full quote - he talks about Socialist groups in Britain being social clubs for idle weirdos and bored fad-followers, I'll leave up to your interpretation the extent to which this carries bigoted notions: In the thirties the scariest thing a Brit could imagine was running into a slightly poorer Brit on public transportation
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Dreddout posted:In the thirties the scariest thing a Brit could imagine was running into a slightly poorer Brit on public transportation The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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steinrokkan posted:
the horror
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:21 |
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1341801500583088128
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:29 |
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maybe he should act like less of a dick dorkins if he doesn't want to be called that
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:32 |
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about as pathetic as you'd expect anyway, dummy thicc khaki socialism
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:33 |
gimme the GOD drat candy posted:maybe he should act like less of a dick dorkins if he doesn't want to be called that owned like two dogs performing 69
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:33 |
Atheists, come get your boy. He's posting cringe.
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:34 |
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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:36 |
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Thanks, Richard. Merry Christmas to you, too.
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GoutPatrol posted:
Crikey, they lettin the tunnel chavs on the ol' wobbly-bobbly now?
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:50 |
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https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1341553292174831616
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 01:50 |
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i went looking for the dick dorkins tweet and found this thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3689053&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Animal-Mother posted:i went looking for the dick dorkins tweet and found this thread: After the neophyte passes through the successively more expensive ‘Darwin Circle’ and then the ‘Evolution Circle’, he attains the innermost circle, where for $100,000 a year or more he gets to have a private breakfast or lunch with Richard Dawkins, and a reserved table at an invitation-only circle event with ‘Richard’ as well as ‘all the benefits listed above’, so he still gets a discount on his Richard Dawkins T-shirt saying ‘Religion — together we can find a cure.’ The website suggests that donations of up to $500,000 a year will be accepted for the privilege of eating with him once a year: at this level of contribution you become a member of something called ‘The Magic of Reality Circle’. loving lol
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https://twitter.com/THEKIDMERO/status/1076635456857694208?s=20
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 02:33 |
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gently caress you dorkins its called yule
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 02:34 |
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pentyne posted:So, holding the line while the city burns down to ashes behind you? What are they holding the line against? Firefighters? im pretty sure this would get you killed if you asked this relevant, salient question
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