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domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
It's not blurred out, that's his actual address.

Edit: I'm not doing it.

domhal fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Mar 4, 2021

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
The cul-de-sac out of space.

Convex
Aug 19, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

Will there be no end to sectarian violence against fish people?

Hmm, been playing The Sinking City this week and this sounds familiar

Gavrilo Princip
Feb 4, 2007

Lol

https://twitter.com/wizardcubes/status/1367560639254847493

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

frenzik

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

it's a much more favorable article than jorp deserves, fortunately he's no better at reading comprehension when the article is about him

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Lol, Troubles 2.0 is ramping up then. Thanks pricks, I can't wait to get my second vaccine and immediately get blown up on my first trip to the Arndale.

Get them to mix a little bit of semtex in with the virus then you'll be immune to bombs too.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
The ol' spicy kieth change.

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
Weird to think that less than a year ago, I was in the Labour party and basically well-disposed towards Starmer, prepared to wait and see how he wanted to move the party forward.

Now I've left and am actively hoping that he eats poo poo and trashes his career. I made a post soon after he became leader where I talked about how I'd attended his 1st Zoom meeting and how he seemed a sensible chap etc. I'll have to see if I can dig it out for the schaudenfreude (on me).

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Is this the Dido Harding £bns thing?

Yep. World-beating. Worth every penny.

Pistol_Pete posted:

Weird to think that less than a year ago, I was in the Labour party and basically well-disposed towards Starmer, prepared to wait and see how he wanted to move the party forward.

Now I've left and am actively hoping that he eats poo poo and trashes his career. I made a post soon after he became leader where I talked about how I'd attended his 1st Zoom meeting and how he seemed a sensible chap etc. I'll have to see if I can dig it out for the schaudenfreude (on me).

Yep. I thought I’d cancel my membership but I might stick around to vote fir a replacement. He’s been worse than useless. I wasn’t a great Corbyn fan but I’d vastly prefer him.

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


ngl it took me a fair while to work out what sorcery you'd invoked here

Sad Panda
Sep 22, 2004

I'm a Sad Panda.
Got a box of self test kits as a teacher as we get to do these twice a week. In ridiculous, but obviously unsurprising, news I there's no way of reporting the result with the test and trace app. Cos why would it have that feature? Instead have to go to https://www.gov.uk/report-covid19-result and fill in a form.

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
Well, I found this quote of mine from mid-April 2020:

Pistol_Pete posted:

My 2 cents on Starmer: I don't believe that he's some lurking right-winger, poised to purge the party and set it up as the Conservatives Mk2. His record shows him as a centre-left technocrat and I expect him to broadly continue along those lines. What does worry me is that I think he's over-cautious and unimaginative - we have an unprecedented opportunity right now to fundamentally change the ways things work in this country and my feeling is that Starmer will resoundingly fail to grasp it. I've got the dispiriting feeling that we're going to see Labour repeatedly outflanked on the left by the Tories, while Starmer prevaricates and hedges for fear of upsetting some focus-grouped demographic or other


... I was partly right, I guess. :suicide:

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Borrovan posted:

ngl it took me a fair while to work out what sorcery you'd invoked here

You made me experiment.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960766&userid=0&perpage=30&pagenumber=24

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
https://twitter.com/TweetForTheMany/status/1367578596538253314?s=20


Pistol_Pete posted:

Well, I found this quote of mine from mid-April 2020:



... I was partly right, I guess. :suicide:

Not as bad as you thought (I mean your post) - except for the first 2 sentences!

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Mar 4, 2021

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
.nm I think it was a fake.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Mar 4, 2021

Reveilled
Apr 19, 2007

Take up your rifles
edit: nm, suspicion it was fake confirmed

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

Pistol_Pete posted:

Weird to think that less than a year ago, I was in the Labour party and basically well-disposed towards Starmer, prepared to wait and see how he wanted to move the party forward.

therattle posted:

Yep. I thought I’d cancel my membership but I might stick around to vote fir a replacement. He’s been worse than useless. I wasn’t a great Corbyn fan but I’d vastly prefer him.

I picked up that Starmer was a piece of poo poo early from his brexit positioning but also fell for him in that I assumed establishment support and electoral competence, but my confident assumption that he'd win the next election is now looking naive/wrong as gently caress.

From a lefty Lab perspective I'm obviously glad the british populace are rejecting him so hard but am still a little surprised by it.

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

Vitamin P posted:

I picked up that Starmer was a piece of poo poo early from his brexit positioning but also fell for him in that I assumed establishment support and electoral competence, but my confident assumption that he'd win the next election is now looking naive/wrong as gently caress.

From a lefty Lab perspective I'm obviously glad the british populace are rejecting him so hard but am still a little surprised by it.

He has no charisma, sincerity or competence. And it’s become very apparent.

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP
But he's so god damned *forensic*.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Hopefully if and when it is time to replace him there is a better challenger, and not just the same poo poo in a different suit.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

All I remember commenting on at the time is that socialist discipline meant acknowledging that RLB wasn't what we wanted but you had to put her as your first choice to ensure the continuity of leftwing control of Labour and your politics were awful if you didn't understand the ramifications of doing otherwise so I'm happy with that.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/1365849535495471110?s=19

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
uuuuugh uuugh ugh i'b keeyuh stawbuh i agreh wuth thuh gubarmunt aaaraghhahgh wut uggs uuuughhhgugh :bahgawd:

lol that's my rory-bremner-esque impersonation-based political satire i hope yous enjoy it

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

personally I voted by slamming my face into the keyboard

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

namesake posted:

All I remember commenting on at the time is that socialist discipline meant acknowledging that RLB wasn't what we wanted but you had to put her as your first choice to ensure the continuity of leftwing control of Labour and your politics were awful if you didn't understand the ramifications of doing otherwise so I'm happy with that.

based

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Australian friend posted this. With a few changes of names and parts of the country, it could be here:

https://www.echo.net.au/2021/02/the-strategic-myth-of-the-job-snob/

quote:


The strategic myth of the job snob

Why do MPs keep telling the unemployed to move to the regions? Because they know they can’t.

Whenever a coalition government wants to avoid awkward questions about why so very, very, very many people are without work, or why they’re removing support for those at the bottom of society’s pile, you can bet that they’ll immediately deploy their classic comeback: it’s the unemployed’s fault for selfishly remaining unemployed.

FORMER EMPLOYMENT MINISTER MICHAELIA CASH INSISTED THAT THERE WERE JOBS ‘FOR THOSE WHO WANTED THEM’

Warren Entsch invented the term ‘job snobs’ back in the Abbott era, and it’s been the favourite go-to bad-faith lie of the federal government ever since. Former Employment Minister Michaelia Cash insisted that there were jobs ‘for those who wanted them’ back in 2019, even as unemployment soared and retail shed workers like sprinkles atop an unaffordable cake.

And in July last year, when much of the country was still in lockdown, ex-Liberal MP, Craig Laundy, did a lap of the Murdochracy to talk about how the real problem was employee laziness and not [checks notes] that incurable global pandemic which was really starting to hit its stride.

‘…AND YOU’RE OFFERING PROPER WAGES FOR THAT, RIGHT?’

The rhetoric has ramped up ever since, especially with the regular coverage of noble farmers loudly bemoaning today’s lazy jobless refusing to leave the city to pick fruit, and then going very very quiet when asked ‘…and you’re offering proper wages for that, right?’

In fact, any time some lefty socialist troublemaker, like the unions, the Bureau of Statistics (ABS), or someone with eyes and a window notices that the jobless are doing it tough, the Liberals immediately dispatch someone to prissily declare that the problem isn’t poor economic management or deliberately punitive government policy, but that the unemployed are all feckless and indolent sluggards who simply won’t give those bootstraps an adequate pulling.

TRADE MINISTER SIMON BIRMINGHAM WAS TROTTED OUT LAST WEEK TO RESPOND TO CRITICISMS ABOUT HIS GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO REMOVE JOBKEEPER AND SLASH JOBSEEKER NEXT MONTH

And thus, like clockwork, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham was trotted out last week to respond to criticisms about his government’s decision to remove JobKeeper and slash JobSeeker next month, at a time when there are 129,000 job vacancies to be shared, loaves and fishes-like, between 1.3 million unemployed people. And his contention? That ‘there’s plenty of jobs in the bush’.

Specifically, Birmingham gave a speech (conveniently dropped to the Australian Financial Review) in which he declared that people could just move to regional Australia where jobs are appearing like cane toads after a rain – in agriculture, but also ‘mining and drilling companies who can’t find workers for drill rigs, or parts of the construction industry… Vacancies also exist in those tourism regions that have seen a resurgence in domestic tourism. Cleaning companies have openings that may previously have been filled by international workers, while demand continues to grow in the crucial care sectors’.

(https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/plenty-of-work-in-the-bush-birmingham-tells-jobless-20210211-p571fx)

The thing is that even if that was not a remarkably optimistic overstatement of the case, there are plenty of reasons why the ‘just move to the bush’ argument is not a serious suggestion – starting with the fact that today’s unemployed are not in fact loveable cartoon hobos cheerfully riding the rails with a bindle over their shoulder and a pocket full of dreams.

IT’S NOT THAT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE FAMILY OBLIGATIONS, OR LOCAL SUPPORT NETWORKS UPON WHICH THEY RELY TO SURVIVE, OR HAVE MEDICAL CONDITIONS THAT REQUIRE SPECIALIST SERVICES HARD TO ACCESS OUTSIDE OF A METROPOLITAN CENTRE

And it’s not that people might have family obligations, or local support networks upon which they rely to survive, or have medical conditions that require specialist services hard to access outside of a metropolitan centre – although those are all great reasons which are incredibly common.

Neither is it the obvious, yet never-mentioned, fact that moving is incredibly expensive and would require finding new accomodation – and Anglicare’s 2020 Housing Affordability survey concluded that even with the increased pandemic rates, a single person on JobSeeker could afford a grand total of nine rentals in the entire country, so best of luck with finding cool new digs.

(https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/12/01/rent-affordability-australia)

No, the reason that MPs suggesting the jobless should go bush is deliberate victim-blaming horseshit is simple: a person on JobSeeker will be kicked off benefits if they up and move to the regions.

You can read all about it at Centrelink’s webpage: ‘Moving to an area of lower employment prospects’, where the very first sentence runs as follows: ‘If you move to an area with less jobs, a 26 week non-payment period may apply’.

(https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/topics/moving-area-lower-employment-prospects/35851)

There are exceptions, like if you have a job offer, or can prove to Centrelink’s satisfaction that there are better prospects where you’re moving – but the idea that an enthusiastic seeker of work could simply up stumps from a state capital and lob into Geraldton to see what’s shaking is a transparent and cynical lie.

And MPs know this, obviously. It isn’t a serious recommendation so much as the federal government dodging responsibility for its handling of the economy.

Creating full employment is hard, and building a robust social safety net is expensive. But blaming unemployed people for their own predicament? That’s always cheap and easy – and for this government, apparently, it’s fun too!

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Micheeaaeaeala Cash is Sir Billiam Cash's wife.

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

OwlFancier posted:

Hopefully if and when it is time to replace him there is a better challenger, and not just the same poo poo in a different suit.

And hopefully there are enough lefties able to vote too.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Eh, even if there are I'm not enormously confident that it would achieve much, it seems depressingly contingent on the melt brigade to fall in line.

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
There are ways to make them fall in line :commissar:

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

:eyepop:

I remember being terrified of the Jessflaps Menace, which shows just how effective propaganda can be. Fairly sure I just voted RLB with no second choice when it actually came to it.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I remember being terrified of the Jessflaps Menace, which shows just how effective propaganda can be. Fairly sure I just voted RLB with no second choice when it actually came to it.

Same actually, if RLB hadn’t won I didn’t really care because the others clearly wouldn’t be any good. With the deputy leader it was Butler -> Burgon -> Rayner and then didn’t bother with a preference for the other two.

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
I also rlb'ed with no secondary, at the time I didn't know much about kueef but knew enough just from looking at the trilateral commission poo poo and the getting someone six months in pokey for picking up a six-pack of water from the street that he was a bosses man and I quit when he got in

Then a few weeks later the leaked report and attempts at whitewashing it settled my opinions regarding the futility of remaining within a party that refuses to sanction literal saboteurs and traitors within its ranks

Everything since then has just cemented that. Not a week gone by that he hasn't hosed something up, gone silent on government crimes, or repeatedly punched left while crying bitterly for unity in the telegraph or the heil


He's gonna get pasted in may, and the only real question is how many coup attempts before the right install someone even more limp and useless than the current sack of wet poo poo- I still think there is room for a coup attempt or at least an obvious/open faction thereof forming before the elections if he keeps on at this rate in the polls

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
There's a pretty plausible theory that the right will try and install Jess Phillips again - the problem the right will have (and have had in the past) is that they're all such blatant careerists it's hard for them to work together

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
I can definitely see the possibility of Labour going soft-fash (well less soft-fash than they are at the moment) after the locals. They've already signalled a willingness to attack the Tories from the right on economic policy, I can easily see them doing the same thing on culture war issues to try and chase the Nick Ferrari vote. I don't worry too much about them getting into power on that platform (as should be blatantly obvious to anyone not huffing their own centrist farts, you can turn the racism dial as far as you like and the flag-shaggers *just won't believe you*), but I'm terrified of what sort of thing that'll let Priti Patel get up to.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
What the gently caress will they even be for if they're running to the right of the tories on economic and social and cultural issues?

It'd be like "what the gently caress are they even for now" turned up to 11 with JOBS JOBS JOBS flashing in the background.

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
Yeah Labour can run on a fash lite platform but thats a self correcting problem because it will just never work at the ballot box, though there is the risk of irreversibly loving up the Labour party as a whole.

I think that after May Labour might turn to be more economically radical, and I think that's something that would happen under Nandy more than the other candidates. I distinctly get the impression that Keith and his immediate posse are more right wing than the rest of the PLP; rumour is that Dodds wanted to be more left wing on the economy but Keith didn't, and now she will likely get the can for it because Keith is not about to admit his ideas are bad.

The one thing that will really lose Keith internal support is letting up the internal war on the left - whenever the right go mask off they admit their *entire* strategy is to purge Corbynism out of Labour, because that's the only thing standing between defeat and victory. Related note: the Labour right are loving idiots.

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP
The next leadership battle will be Phillips vs Reeves vs Nandy.

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Comrade Fakename posted:

The dislike of Harry is obviously due to racism in massive part, but don't forget that the press hate him because he dares mention how awful they are and a lot of people just follow along with that.

Also, there is a core of people who hate anyone who is seen to be damaging the monarchy in any way. A lot of people vocally hated Diana, though they suddenly went quiet in late summer of 1997 for some reason.
You could say hypocrisy is the favorite elite sport.

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