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Communist Thoughts posted:Brits care a lot more about animals than people so the alpaca is gonna bring down kier or Boris finally jo’s time to shine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilson A little light reading for you all of that special kind of idiot this country turns out from time to time. Bloke copes with the ennui of the interwar years by trying to climb Everest. Most of his preparation consisted of prayer and fasting and a bit of walking around Snowdonia, then he bought a plane with the intention of landing it somewhere on Everest and walking the rest of the way. I won't spoil the ending (other than to note he set off 20 years before Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay and there's no bits of the mountain named after him), just drink the whole thing in.
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Second sentence in the article is absolutely british_psychology.txt. Also probably proto boomers_on_facebook.txt.
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Very genuine question--what is going on at the Guardian? https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1435436397343789058 https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1435363852703748099
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Scratch a liberal, if I had to guess. They've been poo poo for a long time.
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The "circumstances following publication" are that the guardian and british press in general is terf city and their readership knows what they want to hear. As others have noted, the guardian genuinely is the reason I think liberal is a slur and would take offence at being called it. I can think of no better example of why I find them detestable really, all the willingness to do harm of the swivel eyed right wing fundamentalists but forever couched in a cringing, simpering veneer of "reasonableness" OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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Jakabite posted:Labour Against the Witchhunt are afaik legitimately anti Semitic and poo poo tho tbf, and p much always have been. Sharing platforms the Holocaust deniers is not comradely or leftist behaviour. (Not saying your friends were in them JA, just saying that there is a decent reason to be going after some people, despite the whole thing being enormously overblown). Will try go into more detail on that tomorrow if anyone wants. Yeah I'd be interested. Being genuinely honest the naked cynicism with which AS allegations were weaponised against the left of the party has made me instinctively roll my eyes whenever I hear them against anyone in labour now, which is obviously not a good thing if people are saying genuinely racist stuff.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Very genuine question--what is going on at the Guardian? It's British liberal press, of course it's overflowing with TERF apologia. The only mystery is how this article got past the editors originally
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OwlFancier posted:The "circumstances following publication" are that the guardian and british press in general is terf city and their readership knows what they want to hear. It goes all the way back to Burke at least, really - the monarchy is bad but any attempts at getting rid of it are even worse and against the natural order of things and all that. It's always been the paradox of liberalism. e: On a semi-related note it's hilarious how people get all pearl clutchy about Thomas Paine being persecuted for his views in France, all the while forgetting that their beloved liberal Britain sentenced him to death by hanging for writing the "rights of man" and never rescinded it. The French never even executed him despite him being actively involved in politics there; and, even if they did, we shouldn't forget the horrid guillotine was actually the humane alternative to hanging and other executions, such as he was sentenced to in Britain for writing a popular book. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/GabbyBellot/status/1435385097163784193?t=GaxTfNvNsm4tDb_MdS_GDg&s=19 This has the feel of a junior or online editor almost managing to organise something before the terfs noticed, but once they did they threatened to throw their toys out the pram if the seniors don't kill it.
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I’ve been sitting in A&E since 1930 last night to get antibiotics for a bite on my arm that’s starting to trace up my arm. All the nurses agree it needs antibiotics but I have to see a doctor to prescribe them. And I’ve been next in line to see one since 0030. Our health system isn’t broken at all.
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  In case you don't get it, that's Emma Raducanu, who moved to the UK aged 2 with her parents, who the Express are (rightly) featuring on the front page, alongside the usual anti-immigration bullshit Also, how does one 'steer' a boat that's being piloted by someone else, other than ramming it and hoping it changes direction?
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The Guardian hosed it up with this because their adjustment just brought MASSIVE attention to the whole deal and their apparent cancellation of a whole series on gender stuff. If they had cut the big pro-trans part out before they published nobody would have known, and if Butler said anything it would have become just another thing trans people bring up to get ignored by terves. As it is they seem to have Streisanded themselves pretty effectively, even if the end result is likely going to be the same.Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/GabbyBellot/status/1435385097163784193?t=GaxTfNvNsm4tDb_MdS_GDg&s=19 That's probably my best guess as well, someone managed to get it through but once it was spotted howls of rage reached the upper echelons, who stepped in. Alternatively someone who doesn't really have a dog in the fight let it through because, well, if you do a big interview you should probably not cut big chunks out without a good reason, and they are now surprised to have caught holy hell because they didn't even realize the terves would care much.
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That's some quality shade: https://twitter.com/RuairiWood/status/1435559036171194369
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Tbf gender nowadays really is a blank page
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Failed Imagineer posted:Tbf gender nowadays really is a blank page It all goes back to Thatcher and section 28. Now you got the dreadful tory oldcunts who “don’t talk about these things” which gives them the excuse to go on hating everything “abnormal” in their heads, and every generation that followed them just not even remotely educated on gender issues who have been trained from childhood to pretend that anything to do with the LGBT+ community does not exist. And these terf fuckers have the balls to screech about being censored?
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It's interesting because I had noticed a definite shift in the Guardian's coverage to being more sympathetic towards trans issues recently - seemed like they were finally realising they were on the wrong side of this. Maybe that was the US office pushing this and then this Judith Butler interview was just Too Much for the freaks in the UK office.
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Also, good news! https://twitter.com/meadwaj/status/1435873152589041669
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Unless that eion has the inside scoop the series being cancelled may be speculation, mind you that other writer having her piece put in hold seems to suggest it's true But I wouldn't be surprised if the graun just slinks out with the rest of the stuff to pretend this didn't happen That's what I'd do if I wasn't an insane terf paper so... Oh
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Sep 9, 2021 11:25
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Apparently there was a letter writing campaign that managed to misgender both the interviewer and Prof. Butler and somehow claim that Butler is 'anti-woman' and 'anti-gay' which is up there with "known antisemite Norman Finkelstein". https://twitter.com/tristangrayedi/status/1435360121236901888   I paean free enterprise and low taxes.
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Lmao https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1435902586142474243?s=21
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quote:The NHS will have become the state, and the state will have become the NHS: Clement Attlee’s socialist government couldn’t have imagined just how powerful its Left-wing choice of a health funding and delivery mechanism would turn out to be at destroying conservatism and capitalism. [...]In time, Labour will promise to lower the £86,000 cap; eventually, it will be zero, and all care homes will be nationalised. *in 2041, jeremy corbyn points at the nursing home he's being wheeled into* Nationalised
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Step 1. Smash the Left Step 2. Wait 12 years Step 3. Tonty Blair It's foolproof!
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Communist Thoughts posted:Brits care a lot more about animals than people so the alpaca is gonna bring down kier or Boris Has Corbyn made his feelings on Geronimo known yet?
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 I always enjoy the way the Telegraph's paywall puts a font fade and ellipsis at the end of the teaser, because it's always at about the point my attention drifts away and it emphasises how it's just another unhinged reactionary rant like the ones from your uncle who spends too much time on Facebook that you try and tune out at family gatherings.
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It's amazing that a man can have a cult of no personality.
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BalloonFish posted:
I assume if you're in the market for that sort of thing, the effect is more like a picture of a big buff dude with his pants half down.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:*in 2041, jeremy corbyn points at the nursing home he's being wheeled into* Nationalised I bet he is still going at that point. I'd love to see a before/after physiological stress comparison between Corbyn and Stamper for their respective periods as leader.
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Also, I know it's the modern Torygraph and all, but the mood whiplash is incredible. 18 months ago the GE result meant that the stalwart yeomen of Britain had decisively, overwhelmingly, finally rejected all forms of left-wing politics and thought forever and we were going to be a sceptred isle of free enterprise, property rights and common sense for ever more. Now there's been a 1.25% tax rise and suddenly we've become a Soviet republic and the NHS is destroying capitalism...[I can barely type that with a straight face, although it's yet another entry in the "right-wingers making reality sound much more awesome than it actually is" list]
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BalloonFish posted:Also, I know it's the modern Torygraph and all, but the mood whiplash is incredible. 18 months ago the GE result meant that the stalwart yeomen of Britain had decisively, overwhelmingly, finally rejected all forms of left-wing politics and thought forever and we were going to be a sceptred isle of free enterprise, property rights and common sense for ever more. I mean it's a 10% tax rise on National Insurance. All so that private companies can get more money from the NHS. Still, gotta keep up kayfabe.
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BalloonFish posted:
Here's the full text, if you're interested. It's pretty bonkers - he mainly appears to be extremely upset that the government isn't doing the common-sense reforms of turning the NHS into a US-style insurance system, like that would just be a no-brainer. quote:Shame on Boris Johnson, and shame on the Conservative Party. They have disgraced themselves, lied to their voters, repudiated their principles and treated millions of their supporters with utter contempt. And for what?
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I think I am getting radiation poisoning from the intensity of the piss-fission, pission, that is happening in that author's bladder.
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As long as I live I will never be able to empathise with the position of people who were fine with Boris cheating on a wife with cancer, the ppe corruption, (allegedly) cheating on his pregnant partner, the incompetence, the needless covid deaths and the utter destruction of any scrap of trust Britain had on the international stage; but he talks about raising taxes by 1.25 percentage points and that is the thing that gets them howling for blood. E: Oh my god, 'I am a committed left-winger' I am so loving sick of these cunts just throwing around terms they don't remotely understand. loving google "left wing vs right wing," google even puts up a little boxout summarising it for what's left of their lead poisoned brains:  You cannot look at that, see equality, rights and progress on the left, see duty tradition and reaction on the right, and still call yourself left wing while denying trans rights. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Sep 9, 2021 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:As long as I live I will never be able to empathise with the position of people who were fine with Boris cheating on a wife with cancer, the ppe corruption, (allegedly) cheating on his pregnant partner, the incompetence, the needless covid deaths and the utter destruction of any scrap of trust Britain had on the international stage; but he talks about raising taxes by 1.25 percentage points and that is the thing that gets them howling for blood. Because none of the other stuff affects them (at least, not directly)
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luv racism, ate taxes, simple as
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It effects THEM Gotta remember that the new torygraph readership are Tommy Robinson’s lot and that’s a demographic filled with people in the building trade already pissed off that cash in hand got too hard and that they have to pay NI at all.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh my god, 'I am a committed left-winger' I am so loving sick of these cunts just throwing around terms they don't remotely understand. luv making words mean whatever I want them to, ate postmodernism, simple as
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