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Guavanaut posted:They'll have to out-crank Rosie Duffield first. It's still really plain and common stuff like facebook poisoning combined with 'I know the industry and IT IS full of flaws and people half assing things!!!1' which, y'know, every industry is full of. e: On this day in 1988 Chile votes in a referendum 56-44 against extending Augusto Pinochet's regime by 8 years thus ending the dictator's 16½ years in power. One of the few examples of a vote actually signifcantly changing anything.
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Guavanaut posted:They'll have to out-crank Rosie Duffield first. In her case I think it was traumatic childloss  . Don't really understand how one leads to the other but eh, it's a reason not an excuse
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Red Oktober posted:And the XR stuff that’s going on at the minute will make it even easier to pass public opinion, in a way that other types of protest wouldn’t provide such handy cover for. I wasn't sure about the "XR is an op" thing but this Insulate Britain lot behave like protestors out of a Richard Littlejohn book.
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Red Oktober posted:And the XR stuff that’s going on at the minute will make it even easier to pass public opinion, in a way that other types of protest wouldn’t provide such handy cover for. To be fair the M25 stuff is Insulate Britain, not XR.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wasn't sure about the "XR is an op" thing but this Insulate Britain lot behave like protestors out of a Richard Littlejohn book.
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Crossposting because lmao.
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OwlFancier posted:Crossposting because lmao. In Derry? Sweet zombie loving Jesus! 
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LazyDivey posted:I say bring back yahoo chat rooms some of us are still on IRC  come chat with friends on IRC! (link in op)
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Comrade Fakename posted:To be fair the M25 stuff is Insulate Britain, not XR. Ah, my bad. Aren’t they an offshoot anyway?
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VulpesInculta posted:I'm a trans woman with size 10 feet, I saw earlier you were offering these to any takers here. If it's not too late, could I have them? PMd you.
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Does posting a Twitter link on YT get you blocked or something? Tried 4 times to link that Frost meeting but nothing works, posting on an unrelated YT channel works fine... blocked on that channel maybe? Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Oct 5, 2021 |
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Just Another Lurker posted:Does posting a Twitter link on YT get you blocked or something? I don't know whether a channel can block, but you could put the name of the video or the code number maybe instead of a link?
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OwlFancier posted:Crossposting because lmao. Wow. When I saw the name, I assumed the business was a Resident Evil reference. The owner probably should have gone with that for a logo, only with ice creams instead of bombs. https://www.teepublic.com/fr/autocollant/5159532-made-in-heaven-resident-evil-2-pin-up-redraw
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the sex ghost posted:Come out you ice cream vans lmao
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OwlFancier posted:Crossposting because lmao. Sundae Bloody Sundae
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:hows the control They keep turning it to "more racism" but they're not really looking at the crowd for approval any more
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Beefeater1980 posted:It’s not like it’s news that we’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia. It’s been that way for a decade and a half already. Private corporate armies when? Good news! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)
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therattle posted:Sundae Bloody Sundae
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That's just a standard mercenary company, older than written history. They have influence with ruling powers but mercenaries always did. The Cyberpunk dystopia version is more about corporations with private armies essentially replacing the state, I'd say that's more analagous to Banana Republics, The United Fruit Company etc. but you could also say a country like modern Australia is a coal mining company with an army and a media/propaganda wing.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:That's just a standard mercenary company, older than written history. They have influence with ruling powers but mercenaries always did. The closest analogy are historical trade companies like the East India trade company that really ran its own army. India wouldn't have become a British dominion if they hadn't started the entry. Nothing quite like that exists today, unless you count drug cartels as corporations. I'm sure the megabillionaires are working on it, though!
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Sometimes this thread is miserable as gently caress and sometimes it’s a gold mine of amazing puns.
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Nenonen posted:The closest analogy are historical trade companies like the East India trade company that really ran its own army. India wouldn't have become a British dominion if they hadn't started the entry. Nothing quite like that exists today, unless you count drug cartels as corporations. I'm sure the megabillionaires are working on it, though! Yeah that’s what I’m thinking of, there is no real EIC equivalent today. Shadowrun of course has the drug cartels as the foundation of Aztechnology, which is an amazing name for a megacorp.
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There's no modern EIC (which actually had the largest army *and* navy in the world, albeit at different times) because there doesn't need to be, what with nations more than willing to cover the externalities of imperialism for the private companies.
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There is a fantastic book about the east India company and how called The Anarchy, by William Dalrymple, which is mostly Indian history/politics but with some British stuff thrown in when needed.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wasn't sure about the "XR is an op" thing but this Insulate Britain lot behave like protestors out of a Richard Littlejohn book. IB and XR are so ops. Like i'm 99% sure which means nothing but you know. The only thing i'm not sure about is whether the people involved are in on it or if they're being manipulated, like all the stochastic terrorists that the FBI created so it could then arrest them. Beefeater1980 posted:Sometimes this thread is miserable as gently caress and sometimes it’s a gold mine of amazing puns. It depends who's posting. If it's ex-pats with good careers then there tends to be puns. If it's working class idiots who's lives are smoking wrecks and are going down with HMS BRITANE, well we tend to be a bit miserable. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Oct 5, 2021 |
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Insulate Britain is Roger Hallam's new outfit - he's the founder of XR who was really into the idea that if 3.5% of the population are imprisoned you win. Funnily enough it turns out this Doesn't Work. It's not a surprise that once XR managed to wrest control from him* they've gotten a lot more hostile to the police and more into useful direct actions, like blockading private airports. *In the first few years there were lots of complaints that despite all the talk of horizontal organisation and deliberative assemblies, XR was incredibly top down and it was essentially just Hallam & his pals telling everyone what to do. Eventually people got sick of his poo poo and he we as ousted, he went on to form some other org that threw pink paint on Greenpeace offices, then Insulate Britain.
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Regarde Aduck posted:IB and XR are so ops. Like i'm 99% sure which means nothing but you know. The only thing i'm not sure about is whether the people involved are in on it or if they're being manipulated, like all the stochastic terrorists that the FBI created so it could then arrest them. If they are ops, I know a couple of Yummy Mummys round here who are into XR and for sure if they are tools, they are unwitting tools of ops.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If they are ops, I know a couple of Yummy Mummys round here who are into XR and for sure if they are tools, they are unwitting tools of ops. I don't buy into the idea that XR is totally an op, though they are definitely infested with cops at this point. I would not be surprised if IB was the brainchild of state assets since blocking roads seems very dumb and is in fact a tactic XR moved away from due to it being not very effective. I think some people on the left get mad at XR in part because they've managed to radicalise to some degree a bunch of people who the left have failed to win over
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My wife was quite involved in XR until she realised the hidden power hierarchies per the above. She knows a lot of the senior people. I don’t think they are knowing stooges. If they’re being manipulated it’s unwittingly. ^^^what they said
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Mostly it's just annoying that all they achieved was pulling stunts and getting their own protesters arrested. It seems less like a political organization and more like a viral marketing agency that uses human lives as fuel.
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Insulate Britain is definitely an op. The fact that the group is getting so much media coverage speaks volumes. Only groups where the government have a vested interest ever get media coverage like this, and they are normally controlled opposition groups from the offset. That, and the fact that they are pissing off so many people and giving Patel the excuse to implement more draconian laws.... yup.... The idiots doing the actual protesting are probably just gullible idiots, but the people organising them aren't.
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Does 'Insulate Britain' involve putting a massive cavity wall round the whole country, because I can see why the government would like that.
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Regarde Aduck posted:IB and XR are so ops. Like i'm 99% sure which means nothing but you know. The only thing i'm not sure about is whether the people involved are in on it or if they're being manipulated, like all the stochastic terrorists that the FBI created so it could then arrest them. It’s the same posters though, so unless there’s soul transference at work there’s something more to it.
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