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Strom Cuzewon posted:Has anyone in Labour even expressed disapproval of Rowling? It's such a complete non-story even if it happened, and I don't think it did. They're talking about members
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May 15, 2021 09:47
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Munin posted:In Tony Blair news: https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1393256544251244544
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May 15, 2021 09:54
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Would Tony Blair be the Prime Minister who briefly appears in the books or was that before?
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Camrath posted:Ah, but there’ll be more new hotness then! I’m building up stock levels atm hence the frequency of releases. Have you ever done a maple syrup flavour? I used to buy tablet from a guy who sold in our office canteen, and that was far and away my favourite.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Has anyone in Labour even expressed disapproval of Rowling? It's such a complete non-story even if it happened, and I don't think it did. He means the center/left as a collective has to embrace transphobia to stand a chance. gently caress off Tone. Ghost Leviathan posted:Would Tony Blair be the Prime Minister who briefly appears in the books or was that before? The PM appears at the start of the 6th book, so the Summer of '96. Major knew about wizards and terfs. stev fucked around with this message at 10:32 on May 15, 2021 |
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May 15, 2021 10:29
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stev posted:He means the center/left as a collective has to embrace transphobia to stand a chance. gently caress off Tone. How do they get down these rabbit holes? And as I said before, are there any other conspiracy nutters we have to lend approval to for the sake of respectability?
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Guavanaut posted:Not just embrace transphobia but also reject the current medical and biological understanding of sex and gender altogether in favour of conspiracy theories. Yes - the Washington consensus and the Chicago school of economics. That's what New Labour thinks we all need.
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May 15, 2021 11:14
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I've been seeing a take recently that New Labour were always racist and authoritarian, and it's simply not true! New Labour encouraged immigration and multiculturalism...until it started biting them on the rear end in the media at which point they wholeheartedly embraced racist narratives and policy. (They were always always authoritarian shitheads to young people as part of their appeal to "Mondeo man" and "Worcester woman")
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May 15, 2021 11:15
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I simply can nutt imagine that tonty blair would ever disregard the scientific consensus in his policymaking.
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May 15, 2021 11:17
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Camrath posted:Ah, but there’ll be more new hotness then! I’m building up stock levels atm hence the frequency of releases. I guess that's reasonable. I suppose it's my own fault for doubling up on flavours. Carry on, Fudgemaster General.
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May 15, 2021 11:18
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Yeah New Labour really combined the worst aspects of bourgeois attitudes in that respect - they really did want to encourage immigration into the UK to drive down wages and then blamed the people who had listened to them and moved here for causing the low wages.
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May 15, 2021 11:18
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I recall his opinions on the innate savagery of 'black culture' while being engaged in a war of aggression.
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May 15, 2021 11:19
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while not as vile as the rehabilitation of gwb seeing them try to bring tony back is pretty disgusting
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May 15, 2021 11:25
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I think it's just as much Tone trying to bring himself back. He keeps piping up every single time there is some sort of crisis or controversy, gets a few headlines, then essentially gets ignored.
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bump_fn posted:while not as vile as the rehabilitation of gwb seeing them try to bring tony back is pretty disgusting He never went away politically, just publicly as he spent his time supporting dictators. Corbyn drew him back into the public sphere as Corbyn was right on how bad Blair and Blairism is.
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May 15, 2021 11:30
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I would inagine that Blair and Rowling move in the same social circles and he's at the very least acquainted with her. They certainly share similar levels of detachment from how normal people live.
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May 15, 2021 11:32
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I think looking back it's evident that Blair lives in a world of conspiracy theory as much as any of the internet lizardmen or MAGAs, whether it's Iraq having WMDs or neoliberal economics working or the link between skin melanin and the knife crime gene, he believes them not out of evidence, but because it's convenient to him to believe them, and chooses to promote them the same way that one might pass on a story about spiders in airport bathrooms. A hundred years back he'd be going on about "hey have you read this book about the Elders of Zion?" That's not especially interesting, it just means he's a bad person. What is interesting is which conspiracies are tolerated in 'respectable' society (i.e. the society of Lord Adonis and the Guardian) and which ones aren't.
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May 15, 2021 11:49
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Reveilled posted:Have you ever done a maple syrup flavour? I used to buy tablet from a guy who sold in our office canteen, and that was far and away my favourite. I made Bacon and Maple Syrup back during my ‘experimenting with recipes’ phase- tasted great but sadly the texture was repulsive! I’ll definitely try a straight maple syrup variety one of these days though  Yvonmukluk posted:I guess that's reasonable. I suppose it's my own fault for doubling up on flavours. Wow, you cannot possibly have known this, but I used to be known in another context as ‘the*-master general’, and this gave me a massive grin. I’m going to be face to face trading at the upcoming LARPCon Kit-fair in early June (assuming it goes ahead), so expect a lot of releases in the next few weeks
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May 15, 2021 11:54
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harry potter and the war crimes of basrah
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What's also interesting is that you can take different people trading in different versions of essentially the same conspiracy theory, and get wildly different reactions from 'respectable' society. Alex Jones, Tim Farron, and J.K. Rowling all played with the wider theory that there is some kind of conspiracy to erase or eradicate or interfere with biological sex using chemical means for nefarious ends. Jones was never welcome in polite society anyway but maintains his own separate alternative core who lapped it up, Farron was laughed into resignation and called a milk pervert, and Rowling was treated as brave and courageous and offered some made up essay of the year award.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Has anyone in Labour even expressed disapproval of Rowling? It's such a complete non-story even if it happened, and I don't think it did. I have.
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May 15, 2021 12:17
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Munin posted:I think it's just as much Tone trying to bring himself back. Reel Politik had the right take on it, where they pointed out that Keith has less direct political experience than Wes Streeting, and is just clearly out of his depth. He also doesn't have a natural power base within the party so has surrounded himself with loyal but also inexperienced advisers. Hence why when it looks like poo poo is going south Mandelson and co are managing to worm their way into his ear because Keith is flailing and has nowhere else to turn. It's really and indictment on the left that we couldn't convince soft left voters that Keith had very little experience and would not be able to deliver on his promise of competency, though equally those same soft leftists are being very stubborn that they were extremely naive and got absolutely hoodwinked in the leadership election.
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Guavanaut posted:Rowling was treated as brave and courageous and offered some made up essay of the year award. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_DF2-H_T0
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May 15, 2021 12:28
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Tony Blair warns Labour will never win power if it keeps turning the fish gay with tesla scalar energy.
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MikeCrotch posted:Reel Politik had the right take on it, where they pointed out that Keith has less direct political experience than Wes Streeting, and is just clearly out of his depth. He also doesn't have a natural power base within the party so has surrounded himself with loyal but also inexperienced advisers. Hence why when it looks like poo poo is going south Mandelson and co are managing to worm their way into his ear because Keith is flailing and has nowhere else to turn. I know a couple of starmer voters that I still talk to regularily (mostly extended fam) and they hate him with a passion that impresses me.
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Spangly A posted:I know a couple of starmer voters that I still talk to regularily (mostly extended fam) and they hate him with a passion that impresses me. Peak centrism is making everyone hate you and then expecting them to vote for you because it's obvious you're the sensible grown up.
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https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/1393486136115408896 Living an agrarian lifestyle has mutated the british psyche to the point anyone who moves location is the devil.
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It's time we stopped pandering to columnists. Indulging those who claim to be journalists by giving them designated websites and delusions of relevance has gone too far.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Peak centrism is making everyone hate you and then expecting them to vote for you because it's obvious you're the sensible grown up. If you're pissing everybody off, it means you're doing something right  Stormgale posted:https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/1393486136115408896 Anna Soubry quote-tweeted that, saying it was "spot on", and is now replying to everyone who points out how racist it is by saying they didn't read the article. And ignoring everyone posting screenshots of the worst bits. Oh, and boo-hooing about "debate" and "poisonous politics" because people are being mean to her.
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The world we could have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JITpUxtji4s
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I can't find the hole the mice are getting into my attic and I had to sleep downstairs last night because they were apparently playing with the blocks of poison I put up there, causing an even worse racket than usual. Tell me how I stop pandering to these Mice.
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bump_fn posted:it’s pretty wild as an american seeing just how racist uk and europe is to travellers/roma/(i don’t know what the correct term is but i know you’re not supposed to say g-word) But yes, Europe is very racist against all of those groups and frequently does roll them all into one. 
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May 15, 2021 13:29
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