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Capitalism is about making sure that poverty and unhappiness spread as far as possible into society so you can feel better about your own position. It's a pervasive disease of the brain where ensuring that there are plentiful losers is far more important than there being any winners at all. Edit: The third reich was defeated in its 13th year. Unfortunately capitalism persists.
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I'd happily leave my cushy bullshit office job to go work in a coffee shop. Just not comfortable with the pay, conditions, and overall precariousness
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Jun 4, 2021 13:18
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OwlFancier posted:Is he actually on track to win? I thought he was a pretty long shot. For what it's worth, the last poll i saw had him waaaaaay out in front.
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Jun 4, 2021 13:33
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought it was supposed to be labour 20pts ahead of tories (under any other leader but Big J) not tories 20 points ahead of Labour under the establishment dream leader?  (The joke is on all of us who dreamed that better things were possible  )
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Jun 4, 2021 13:36
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought it was supposed to be labour 20pts ahead of tories (under any other leader but Big J) not tories 20 points ahead of Labour under the establishment dream leader? They said "any other leader would be 20 points ahead". I don't recall them specifying which party that leader would lead.
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Jun 4, 2021 13:42
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Jedit posted:They said "any other leader would be 20 points ahead". I don't recall them specifying which party that leader would lead. Finally, Willie Rennie's time to shine!
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Jun 4, 2021 13:56
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Lungboy posted:For what it's worth, the last poll i saw had him waaaaaay out in front. I hope he wins, he seems like mccluskey but spicier.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:09
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Wille zum Rennie, a blind incessant impulse without knowledge that drives the instinct to, uh, whatever this is
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Jun 4, 2021 14:09
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Z the IVth posted:Owl's got a high pain tolerance and you don't sadly. I have a specific pain tolerance, in that I am fine with things I know for a fact aren't actually dangerous. Anything I can't see or I don't know where the pain is coming from freaks me the absolute gently caress out. So, surface level damage to skin: fine. Cystoscopy for urethral scarring: absolutely haram worst thing I have ever had happen to me in hospital and top five for worst things to happen to me full stop. Feels like someone turning your dick into shishkebab very slowly. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Jun 4, 2021 14:12
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Guavanaut posted:Wille zum Rennie, a blind incessant impulse without knowledge that drives the instinct to, uh, whatever this is Look at that majestic fluffy boy.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:19
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Sheep's deece too.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:22
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OwlFancier posted:I hope he wins, he seems like mccluskey but spicier. Yeah, from the Labour shitheads that are attacking him, I'd say he's an excellent choice of union leader.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:26
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Guavanaut posted:Wille zum Rennie, a blind incessant impulse without knowledge that drives the instinct to, uh, whatever this is Frightened young lambs left in Sunderland gardens
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Jun 4, 2021 14:30
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TACD posted:That’s the joke I know I was being 'ironic' OwlFancier posted:I have a specific pain tolerance, in that I am fine with things I know for a fact aren't actually dangerous. Anything I can't see or I don't know where the pain is coming from freaks me the absolute gently caress out. That reminds me, Isaac Newton apparently used to shove a glass rod up there to stop his precious bodily fluids from being wasted.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:31
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Beckett is the one who wants to start a TV channel instead of using that money to donate to the Labour Party. Can someone post where polling on the leadership election is? I'm interested to see what they standings are.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:33
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Willie Rennie should lead the UK lib dems, far superior to whatever anonymous melt they currently have. At least there would be more photoshoots of him doing weird poo poo.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:34
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quote:Wales moves to alert level 1 source: email from Business Wales.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:35
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https://twitter.com/julesmattsson/status/1400783323610365954?s=21
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Jun 4, 2021 14:37
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Tesseraction posted:Beckett is the one who wants to start a TV channel instead of using that money to donate to the Labour Party. This is the one i saw, although it's only a small sample group. https://twitter.com/NAJ562/status/1398967788941742085
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Jun 4, 2021 14:52
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I know I was being 'ironic'
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Jun 4, 2021 14:55
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Why are so many famous smart people also sex weirds? Because it doesn't work the other way around I know that for sure.
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Jun 4, 2021 14:58
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OwlFancier posted:Why are so many famous smart people also sex weirds? Because it doesn't work the other way around I know that for sure Check out James Joyce lol
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Jun 4, 2021 15:00
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Literally the only thing I know james joyce for is his ode to his wife's farts.
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Jun 4, 2021 15:01
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Lungboy posted:This is the one i saw, although it's only a small sample group. https://twitter.com/NAJ562/status/1398967788941742085 
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Jun 4, 2021 15:03
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OwlFancier posted:Literally the only thing I know james joyce for is his ode to his wife's farts.
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Jun 4, 2021 15:17
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Don't ever look at Finnegan's Wake then. Reader: "wtf, this is just nonsense gibberish." Joyce: "Is it, though..?" 
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Jun 4, 2021 15:23
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https://twitter.com/beckettunite/status/1400779085270470657?s=21 Beckett's banter game is extremely powerful.
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Jun 4, 2021 15:41
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Ulysses is really loving good
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Jun 4, 2021 15:44
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Who is beckett and why should we care? E. Fb good speech lol
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Jun 4, 2021 15:50
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Josef bugman posted:I mean most of them refuse to accept basic reality. You copuld stab them in the chest saying that the reason you are doing so is because of them not being pure and Aryan enough and most would go "I bet this is because of foreigners" And the people that insist that they were 100% informed and knew exactly what they were voting for and this is all fine actually. Like, no, you didn't, none of us did. And that's fine, why are you so keen to insist you did rather than admit otherwise?
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Jun 4, 2021 15:55
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TACD posted:The typography on this is intensely triggering. Star Trek font (for some reason) on "I'm Backing" and then some bastardised half-cocked version of that font for "Beckett" Will nobody rid me of this turbulent union representative? - The Lamentable Tragedie of Sir Keir Starmer, Act IV Scene II
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Jun 4, 2021 15:55
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:source: email from Business Wales. no one has been following these weird rules i mean people have been following their own rules based on their own perceptions of risk but no one has been avoiding groups of 30 because its illegal
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Jun 4, 2021 16:02
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Borrovan posted:Maybe if they put some of the hundreds of thousands of pounds they're losing into extra wages for pickers, more people would be willing to do it. Only a matter of time before they bring back workhouses for the sanctioned then hire them out to Wetherspoons etc.
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Jun 4, 2021 16:12
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Pistol_Pete posted:Don't ever look at Finnegan's Wake then. “No you may not shake the hand that wrote Ulysses; you don’t know where it’s been.”
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Jun 4, 2021 16:35
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I'm about 2/3 of the way through Ulysses and some chapters are genuinely cool, especially once you get into a rhythm with the stream of consciousness style. Others bits (particularly the Stephen Dedalus POV sections, and yes yes I know that's the point and he's making fun of himself) are quite clearly just Joyce showing off though, because every single bloody line is some cryptic reference to a classical author or philosophical concept or some other niche topic, and you really need to kind of understand each bit to make the rest make sense. Unless you're some absurd polymath you're going to be looking up references every few lines, and that's even before you get to the fact large parts of it require you to have a working knowledge of latin and greek and half a dozen other languages and most of the chapters are extremely long. It's 100% worth reading but I would definitely recommend doing it alongside a companion book that summarises and explains each passage for you to avoid a heap of pain. I guess some people probably enjoy the challenge, but ugh I have other things I could be doing. I think the people who say Joyce just was just an arrogant self-declared big-brain rear end in a top hat who did a deliberately obtuse fart on a page and called it literature are being kinda uncharitable, but I sympathise with the frustration.
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm about 2/3 of the way through Ulysses and some chapters are genuinely cool, especially once you get into a rhythm with the stream of consciousness style. Others bits (particularly the Stephen Dedalus POV sections, and yes yes I know that's the point and he's making fun of himself) are quite clearly just Joyce showing off though, because every single bloody line is some cryptic reference to a classical author or philosophical concept or some other niche topic, and you really need to kind of understand each bit to make the rest make sense. Unless you're some absurd polymath you're going to be looking up references every few lines, and that's even before you get to the fact large parts of it require you to have a working knowledge of latin and greek and half a dozen other languages and most of the chapters are extremely long. It's 100% worth reading but I would definitely recommend doing it alongside a companion book that summarises and explains each passage for you to avoid a heap of pain. I guess some people probably enjoy the challenge, but ugh I have other things I could be doing. I think the people who say Joyce just was just an arrogant self-declared big-brain rear end in a top hat who did a deliberately obtuse fart on a page and called it literature are being kinda uncharitable, but I sympathise with the frustration. It’s impossible to take Joyce seriously once you’ve read his pervy sex letters about sniffing Nora Barnacle’s farts
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Jun 4, 2021 16:44
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smellmycheese posted:It’s impossible to take Joyce seriously once you’ve read his pervy sex letters about sniffing Nora Barnacle’s farts 10/10 username/post combo
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Jun 4, 2021 16:47
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ThomasPaine posted:10/10 username/post combo For those that haven’t. Enjoy… https://allthatsinteresting.com/james-joyce-love-letters-nora-barnacle
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Jun 4, 2021 16:48
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Gats Akimbo posted:Only a matter of time before they bring back workhouses for the sanctioned then hire them out to Wetherspoons etc. They will never bring back workhouses. That would involve the state housing people. Paupers can be housed at state expense via housing benefit if they give the money to private landlords. Otherwise they can be allowed to become homeless, unless they misbehave enough to go to prison where they may be forced to labour. Workhouses are redundant.
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