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Private Speech posted:I have no idea what they're trying to do quote:Such encounters gave Comey – who was fired in May 2017 – cause to reflect on why so many collaborators, enablers and enforcers have bowed to Trump’s will and embraced his alternative reality, defending the indefensible and proclaiming that two plus two equals five if the president has decreed it so. This statement is about Trump, but it is not unique to Trump, it's rich entitled babies everywhere. The tories are governing, and now trying to conduct international diplomacy like this. It's the same behaviour they are used to exhibiting in their own personal lives - just make declarative statements in complete contradiction to reality, and expect the world to conform to your expectations. This works in their personal lives because they're always dealing with menials and employees who bend over backwards to give them what they want. These people are so ignorant, blinkered stupid, and cretinous that they think this is how the entire world works. I have ample direct, personal experience of this sort of behaviour.
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Angepain posted:Now don't spread this around too much because it's kind of need-to-know at the moment, but my sister's boyfriend's brother works in the military and he tells me that the Red Watch is one of the main teams involved in the ongoing food distribution project maintaining the massive lasagne in Wembley Stadium. The Red Watch is there to ensure that the sauce is created correctly, transported efficiently and treated hygienically at all stages of the process. "gone SI" is very concerning in this context - it means that the main officer in charge of overseeing sauce production has Stolen Ingredients. Why would one of our brave boys stoop so low? Is there sabotage within the ranks of the lasagne project? Will this add further delays to an already way-overdue project? People are depending on this. Jesus gently caress I do not need to be mixed up in this. I’ve thrown my phone in the river just to be on the safe side.
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Gort posted:I see we're breaking records again with 1200 dead a day on average for the last seven days This time round it's in the middle of winter rather than coming into Spring, so it was always going to be harder work even without the new variant and Christmas. Of course if we had a Government with object permanence and an Opposition that actually, you know, opposed then things would have been rather different, but here we are.
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Gort posted:I see we're breaking records again with 1200 dead a day on average for the last seven days Imagine if we'd had a proper lockdown in sept/oct, how different it might have been. Like, you can see a tiny drop in the numbers then. God how has this been handled in literally the worst way possible whilst still appearing to actually make the attempt?
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Gort posted:I honestly didn't think we'd exceed the death rate of the initial outbreak in the second wave, but here we are
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communism bitch posted:This statement is about Trump, but it is not unique to Trump, it's rich entitled babies everywhere. The tories are governing, and now trying to conduct international diplomacy like this. It's the same behaviour they are used to exhibiting in their own personal lives - just make declarative statements in complete contradiction to reality, and expect the world to conform to your expectations. This works in their personal lives because they're always dealing with menials and employees who bend over backwards to give them what they want. These people are so ignorant, blinkered stupid, and cretinous that they think this is how the entire world works. I have ample direct, personal experience of this sort of behaviour. I see you've also met army officers.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:now you've got 25 year olds using words like "rumpus" because that's what they've been told to use. Rumpus pumpus, the vulgar Latin terminology for coitus.
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Gort posted:I see we're breaking records again with 1200 dead a day on average for the last seven days In the 1918-20 flu epidemic the great majority of the deaths came in the second wave.
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ThomasPaine posted:Right wing papers like the Sun seem to have a lexicon all of their own - 'bonking', 'boffins' etc - that despite the huge sales haven't really transferred to society at large for some reason. You could probably write a thesis on why that is and where they came from, someone probably has tbh  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DY0UACQ (bought ages ago for a quid but never read  )edit: also re: heat pumps, my house is double glazed, cavity insulated and loft-lined. I should really give the guy a callback, they've tried twice but lol at picking up an unknown number and also ugh and actually making a phone call.
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Guavanaut posted:Wave 3 for spring then? Ah, an optimist that believes we'll be out of the second wave by March.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ah, an optimist that believes we'll be out of the second wave by March. The new case counts have been dropping fairly steadily, so if (and that's a big if) the lockdown holds we ought to be able to.
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Private Speech posted:The new case counts have been dropping fairly steadily, so if (and that's a big if) the lockdown holds we ought to be able to. I suppose it depends what you're counting. Assuming we're at the peak of deaths right now (4 weeks since Christmas so not a bad assumption but by no means guaranteed) and the deaths fall off the same way they did in the first wave (not as safe an assumption because the lockdown isn't as strict and the weather is working against us not for us) then it'll be mid-Feb before we're consistently below 1,000 deaths a day and early April before it's below triple figures (just in time for Boris to SAVE EASTER and put us back to square one yet again).
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Private Speech posted:The new case counts have been dropping fairly steadily, so if (and that's a big if) the lockdown holds we ought to be able to. well rumours are that lockdown is going to last until easter
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ah, an optimist that believes we'll be out of the second wave by March. I thought we already established that March is the beginning of winter
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Dead Goon posted:No, Lisa, I do not wish to join the Labour Party. did a big lol at receiving an email about joe biden and kamala harris being hope conquering hate.
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ItohRespectArmy posted:did a big lol at receiving an email about joe biden and kamala harris being hope conquering hate. lol they're both awful yet somehow far better than starmer still
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Jose posted:lol they're both awful yet somehow far better than starmer still its very cool and it owns extremely hard.
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Jan 21, 2021 13:19
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Jose posted:lol they're both awful yet somehow far better than starmer still They're dramatically better than Starmer so far - moratorium on deportations, cancelled Keystone XL, paused student loans and set interest rates to 0% within the first day. Biden's far from going to be the guy to tackle the enormous and radical changes needed to avert total disaster, but he is a marked improvement on anyone who's come before him.
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Jakabite posted:They're dramatically better than Starmer so far - moratorium on deportations, cancelled Keystone XL, paused student loans and set interest rates to 0% within the first day. Biden's far from going to be the guy to tackle the enormous and radical changes needed to avert total disaster, but he is a marked improvement on anyone who's come before him. like to be fair to him starmer isn't in power and the president has way more power than a prime minister but i mean on basic stuff like trans rights and general human rights. Starmer has completely given up any attempt to try and make human rights important because he's chasing a racist vote that hate him regardless. its really bleak
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Starmers tenure as a human rights lawyer is the shortest and most insignificant part of his CV, but is trotted out all the time.
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Jose posted:like to be fair to him starmer isn't in power and the president has way more power than a prime minister but i mean on basic stuff like trans rights and general human rights. Starmer has completely given up any attempt to try and make human rights important because he's chasing a racist vote that hate him regardless. its really bleak I'd say it's tougher to hold good opinions while in power, since people expect you to act on them. Starmer could be all, "Human rights should be respected and more should be done to save people from dying of COVID" and not have to actually do anything about those issues, but he won't even make the empty statements because he's terrified of Rupert Murdoch.
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Angepain posted:Now don't spread this around too much because it's kind of need-to-know at the moment, but my sister's boyfriend's brother works in the military and he tells me that the Red Watch is one of the main teams involved in the ongoing food distribution project maintaining the massive lasagne in Wembley Stadium. The Red Watch is there to ensure that the sauce is created correctly, transported efficiently and treated hygienically at all stages of the process. "gone SI" is very concerning in this context - it means that the main officer in charge of overseeing sauce production has Stolen Ingredients. Why would one of our brave boys stoop so low? Is there sabotage within the ranks of the lasagne project? Will this add further delays to an already way-overdue project? People are depending on this. Gibbo? Is that you? I heard that Cheeks and Burnsy have done a runner with the passata.
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Angepain posted:Why would one of our brave boys stoop so low? If you need to ask, you haven't spent enough time around squaddies
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Can't believe Gibbo drove a tanker trailer full of tomato paste into a Nando's for bants, legend.
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Junior G-man posted:Latest podshow is out for your audio pleasure. The pod is amazing, I'm a few eps behind but keep up the good work!
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knox_harrington posted:It produces steady warmth rather than UK systems which are more "OK warm NOW please". If I was getting one for a home in the UK I would also try and make sure it was as well insulated and draught sealed as possible. Just don't do a US circa 1970s now and seal up your houses too tight and give no thought to adequate ventilation.
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josh04 posted:Loving the incredible new tactical ploy this morning by the Foreign Secretary, we're going to force the individual EU nations to negotiate with us by pretending the EU doesn't really exist. The EU, since the moment of Brexit, has screamed, shouted, whispered, written, and written with drones in the sky "you don't negotiate individually with us, you negotiate with the bloc through the Commission". Now that the hardest part is over (i.e. keeping all the cats in line during the negotiations), why on earth do these people think that now it's time to divide and conquer?
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Lord of the Llamas posted:The more I hear about Biden banging on about bipartisanship the more I'm convinced he has dementia because surely someone who was VP during Obama's two terms can remember exactly how bipartisan the Republican Party is. Why are centrists so loving horny for compromise? I appreciate this is dangerously close to saying liberals are competent, but Biden won a close election, he has a razor thin margin in the Senate (which can be broken by one or two Democrats who are effectively Republicans), and just saw off an insurrection which has largely demonised the far right of the Republican party (at least in terms of the liberal media etc.). Biden is not in any way left wing, but it seems like he wants to do some good stuff, and immediately putting his middle finger up to the Republicans both in Congress and in the general public would arguably put him right where Obama was at the start of his term - facing off against a hostile opposition that will do everything in it's power to delay and distract from his policies. We of course don't know how this will play out. There is a 50/50 chance that Biden gets everything he wants done, or it gets watered down by pandering to the right. What Biden has going for him that Obama didn't was a friendly face (to the Republicans) - he's known most of the big players for years - so it seems like he's trying to exploit that.
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Junior G-man posted:The EU, since the moment of Brexit, has screamed, shouted, whispered, written, and written with drones in the sky "you don't negotiate individually with us, you negotiate with the bloc through the Commission". Bobstar posted:17th time's a charm!
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Lord of the Llamas posted:The more I hear about Biden banging on about bipartisanship the more I'm convinced he has dementia because surely someone who was VP during Obama's two terms can remember exactly how bipartisan the Republican Party is. Why are centrists so loving horny for compromise? Because they see the current balance of power held by the state and the capitalists as the ultimate good and their highest political priority is to preserve that. They might get angry at corrupt political dealings but would never get rid of the corrupt party as a whole because then something unknown would replace it and that threat is more serious to their world view than letting corruption continue. Hence horseshoe theory etc - it's not the qualities offered by the two radical wings which matter, it's that they're demanding change and so are the same threat. Biden's overall objective is to keep the US government as the primary power in the USA and the world and that means making sure everyone with power gets a seat at the table rather than think a new system is required more than achieving any of the democrats supposed aims.
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The subsequent waves will naturally be larger than the first if things aren't shut down properly. Unless you get all of it you start the process again but with a much a wider dispersal of infections across the country and more footholds the virus is starting from.
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