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bedpan posted:from the outside looking in, and this is assuming Starmer is not literally a paid agent of the security services, is that Starmer thinks his job is to be the top manager of the labor party. Again, he thinks of his job as managing the labor party, not electoral success, reform, or even becoming PM. hmm. also he's a sweaty ham
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bedpan posted:from the outside looking in, and this is assuming Starmer is not literally a paid agent of the security services, is that Starmer thinks his job is to be the top manager of the labor party. Again, he thinks of his job as managing the labor party, not electoral success, reform, or even becoming PM. Yeah, in the d&d thread, we sometimes refer to him as the loyal Opposition for the same reasons: he's an Establishment figure who can't conceive of any other way of doing politics than accepting the current power balance and working within the existing system. Actually having the fierce ambition to replace the current government and do things differently is awfully disruptive and just not the thing to do, from his perspective.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/britons-in-france-could-lose-driving-licences-due-to-post-brexit-impassequote:Thousands of British citizens in France have been left without a valid driving licence, or face losing theirs within months, because of bureaucratic overload and the failure of the two countries’ governments to sign a post-Brexit reciprocal agreement. quote:Some British drivers are already running out of patience. Glen Rodger, a 57-year-old self-employed builder, moved to west-central France two years ago and applied to exchange his restricted three-year licence – he has diabetes – in November. Oh no, poor glen Can you imagine if glen had voted leave before moving to france? And posted online about how remainers were only worried about how brexit affected them and didn't care about anyone else? haha wouldn't that be funny
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 11:16 |
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He's right tbh, a vote for remain was a vote for the status quo which a lot of people weren't (and still aren't) happy with. It's why it took off as a protest vote. Of course this also required enough bullshit artists saying that it would be better but that's besides the point.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, in the d&d thread, we sometimes refer to him as the loyal Opposition for the same reasons: he's an Establishment figure who can't conceive of any other way of doing politics than accepting the current power balance and working within the existing system. Actually having the fierce ambition to replace the current government and do things differently is awfully disruptive and just not the thing to do, from his perspective. Part of the problem is that NewNewLabour can't articulate a vision of the future that isn't "basically the same as what we have now, but with us in charge" It's why they'll never go too hard at Tory corruption in a meaningful way because in reality they want to do all that poo poo themselves (and I suspect Keith has made some promises to rich people already in exchange for donations)
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 11:31 |
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Better Things Aren't Possible as a hill to die on is a hell of a thing.
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https://twitter.com/AddyAdelaine/status/1377123927034535951 tired: institutional racism wired: a wide range of complex social issues (centered on racial lines)
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it dont matter posted:“My wife has to drive, and she’s been ill. It feels like we’ve been sacrificed.” Sacrificed upon the altar of Brexit
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 11:46 |
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Lol can't be saying anything bad about capitalism https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1377166835477401600?s=19
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 11:47 |
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https://twitter.com/aarjanistan/status/1377214384339050506?s=20 https://twitter.com/MarshadeCordova/status/1377218433931169800?s=20 https://twitter.com/piss_wizard/status/1377163284902670337?s=20 Jose has issued a correction as of 12:28 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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look, the government put a team of their top racists on the job to determine if are britane is racist or not, so the results are obviously beyond reproach
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Cerebral Bore posted:look, the government put a team of their top racists on the job to determine if are britane is racist or not, so the results are obviously beyond reproach the person who made the report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sewell#Controversies meanwhile in kieth news. the apology was to kieth personally https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1376915517525655556?s=20
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 12:41 |
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Jose posted:
Saw this yesterday and did a huge lol. Please like us, business
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 12:54 |
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Report: we should focus more on the positive aspects of slavery, as well as on the reasons for failure embedded in the cultures of the minorities. Ergo, there is no institutional racism.
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Jose posted:the person who made the report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sewell#Controversies "Sewell's parents arrived in London in the 1950s from Jamaica"
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 12:59 |
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this racism report is loving psycho poo poo im 7 pages in and man... the UK is so much more disgusting than the US to me in the way we operate, check this out. the intro talks about people they interviewed, from the sounds of it everyone said poo poo was awful but they just say they are wrong. quote:The word mistrust was repeated often as some witnesses from the police service, mental health, this is something like 3 pages in and they already can't help but talk about white people and how they're important too quote:Another revelation from our dive into the data was just how stuck some groups from the White --IDEOLOGY ALERT!-- then we start to get the real ideology: society doesnt exist quote:As our investigations and this ... quote:Poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson describes the early mass Black presence in the UK as fwiw this is childish nonsense historically but its ominous ideologically the young generation of black carribeans are rebels who break down community relations and have a negative legacy they are pitted against the police and its by their own choice as inherently destructive vandals those last quotes i think are the crux of the report so far, its a denial that systemic racism can exist because its just individuals making decisions. and simultaneously a cassus belli for more police power and persecution of young black people. -- whats interesting is that singling out of the carribeans continues, in an amazing bit of britishness, singling out carribeans v africans is used as evidence against racism quote:We have found that and their solution for police outreach is literally loving stop and search! again using this report to justify more police powers against black communities, total loving british psycho hour quote:The police need to demonstrate that they are truly a more welcoming organisation and Black and they keep adding more stuff about whitey quote:We have spoken in aaaaand loving statues quote:Neither the banning of White authors or token expressions of its worth remembering that the metropolitan police have been repeatedly found to be institutionally racist, they get around that by redefining institutional racism until it can no longer exist outside nazi germany and apartheid quote:However, we have argued for the use of the term ‘institutional racism’ to they also specifically want to de-decolonise the history curriculum quote:There is a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to its basically a total rejection of BLM and those communities in order to propagandise about the new order: pro-statue police state
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 12:59 |
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"im not racist! im not racist!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a gammon.
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 13:10 |
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MikeCrotch posted:Also, was listening to Trashfuture last night and they were talking about the Democrats can be embarrassing but they don't *despise* their own voters like the Labour right do Ah, a simple mistake - they skimmed a history of Napoleon and concluded that 18 Brummies are the key to seizing power.
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the 2012 olympics have completely melted the brains of most of this poo poo country https://twitter.com/Nadine_Writes/status/1377231110791385094?s=20
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 13:33 |
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My 'I'm not racist' report has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my report.
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 14:13 |
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the report could have been the usual whitewash (lol) that these things are but they decided to go out of their way to make it even worse with "slavery may have killed a lot of people, but it also means we're multicultural now, so, it;s impossible to say if it was bad or not"
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 14:42 |
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https://twitter.com/peachlux_/status/1377228231330430978?s=20 https://twitter.com/thirdmanuk/status/1377229568403238918?s=20
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 14:55 |
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this is who the labour right think needs to be more high profile https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1377209293909417987?s=20
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Communist Thoughts posted:fwiw this is childish nonsense historically but its ominous ideologically suddenly I understand why I felt bad vibes from that one Specials song from a couple of years ago about how young Black Caribbean folks in Britain are actually bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JZYgW0Hgc4 it's a pity, because they had a really good song about BLM on that same album too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgu_mexOpww
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:05 |
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The BBC article on the report is pretty funny. BBC: Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities' I especially like this portion in the introduction: BBC posted:The UK "no longer" has a system rigged against people from ethnic minorities, a review set up by No 10 says. It's no longer the case that a rich black person will be treated worse than the poorest white person, hence racism solved. Then again it's coming from No 10 so really what else could anyone possibly expect as a conclusion.
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:40 |
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'deliberately' seems to be doing a bit of work in that sentence
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:42 |
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Yes it's only racism if you're shouting slurs while you deny mortgage, job, and school applications disproportionately for black people.
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:50 |
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Now that the Tories have stated that is class which is the problem I'm sure they'll go right ahead on fixing that
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V. Illych L. posted:'deliberately' seems to be doing a bit of work in that sentence it does but it's only in the headline anyway from the bits quoted earlier this in particular stood out to me: the report posted:We have found that a literal 'one of the good ones' reasoning in government investigation into structural racism, that's pretty impressive
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How it's going, part 234098 in a continuing series And https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-...-at-manchester/
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:56 |
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lmao keir stammer stammering a both sides take on the report. "well, they acknowledged that racism is a word, which is good, but then they said it isnt real, which is slightly disappointing" im "disappointed" when my chips are soggy. its not exactly the word id use for the contender for most racist empire in history releasing its official findings that the almost-humans just need to bootstrap harder or whatever the gently caress
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:57 |
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Jose posted:Now that the Tories have stated that is class which is the problem I'm sure they'll go right ahead on fixing that
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 17:02 |
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i had no idea Nick Clegg works for Facebook now lol
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huh weird
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 22:45 |
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nick clegg is probably one of the best encapsulations of a political era that i know regan maybe too, but pudding brain doesn’t really translate as much
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 23:14 |
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Honestly, the UK coming out with a report that “racism doesn’t exist” is an fairly equal mix of insane and humorous. It is like watching someone saying glass is nutritious and then start chomping down on a champagne flute. They Tories are going to around until 2028 at minimum aren’t they?
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 23:23 |
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Ardennes posted:Honestly, the UK coming out with a report that “racism doesn’t exist” is an fairly equal mix of insane and humorous. Without the appearance of serious violence or secession yes.
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namesake posted:Without the appearance of serious violence or secession yes. Oh no
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