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Bobby Deluxe posted:The funniest one I was reading about last night was a bunch of people criticising the new superman being too woke, and how issue 6 (post bisexual coming out) wasn't on any of the top 50 lists in December, proving fans hated it. Anyway yeah no surprise at all that the outrage details were all made up before it even got printed. e: United Nations Security Council Resolution 125 allowed Malaysian entry to the UN and to have its own Batman if it so wishes. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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This is the baying MP from Stoke. The twitter account is a parody, but the livestream video is the actual MP. https://twitter.com/JEGullisnotMP/status/1486625730737971200 I've seen other video rants of his, and he uses the word 'woke' a lot, and not in a good way. e: oh yeah, this one stands out: someone complained about him walking his dogs off the lead. https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1486327383913345025 https://twitter.com/AndyJowett3/status/1486369052155170822 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Weaponising the power of the employer over the employee for culture war bullshit might be satisfying but it's extremely counterproductive in the long run for anyone who believes in socialist politics. There are plenty of ways of punishing someone effectively without telling on them to their boss hoping to get them sacked. It's liberal nonsense that empowers capital, undermines class solidarity, and directly feeds far-right radicalisation. And there you stand, on Softchuff Island, as loving idiots like him get everything that's coming to them through thieir own actions, wondering 'why weren't we more kind to these people who would spread disease?' Get a loving grip.
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Something tells me we've got a hell of a weekend of politics shithousery ahead. Forde is (apparently) leaking, Gray is being published, there's "big news" about lockdown parties still to come... Absolute glutton for this poo poo, me.
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Jan 28, 2022 05:31
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Surely the corranation chicken soap guy is just an aim up not down thing? There's using a position of privalidge to spout bollocks, and losing A bit of that privalidge because of it (but he hasn't, he's still getting a reply in the media). Or spouting bollocks because you are at the bottom rung of an unfair society, with an absolute inequality in opportunity to improve your life, and you are hitting out wildly because gently caress it. One requires solidarity (even if they're maybe a bit misguided or fashy), the other doesnt.
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https://twitter.com/lizziedearden/status/1486710800442032128 loving hate this country
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My sister was beaten to a pulp on numerous occasions by a man who everyone who met him thought he was 'charming, a lovely man'. Late, but Jesus loving Christ, glad you dobbed the bastard in.
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Mebh posted:loving hilarious watching Labour slowly drift into a shitpile in the polls again.
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Jan 28, 2022 09:23
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The Met have told Sue Gray that her report shouldn't reference anything they're investigating. So the whole "Gray's report will exonerate Boris of any wrongdoing, only for the Met to quietly confirm wrongdoing years later" thing will absolutely be true.
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https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1486978978145579008 This seems more likely, the MET sit on it for a year then drop it due to [insert excuse].
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Looking forward to Johnson channeling Trump and repeating the mantra "Total exoneration" regardless of what the thing says.
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Payndz posted:"We don't want to change the system, we just want a turn in charge of it." That's a real truth for sure. Until the system changes the UK will continue to de-evolve.
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fuctifino posted:Apparently the problem with this government are the amount of woke neo-socialists inside No.10. lol is that Lord Frost? Why does the opinion of Hannibal Lector dressed as Evil Santa need a headline?
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Gonzo McFee posted:lol is that Lord Frost? Why does the opinion of Hannibal Lector dressed as Evil Santa need a headline? He's the man not behind wheel. Hint: wears a tie.That other one looks like one of his night walkers.
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keep punching joe posted:Looking forward to Johnson channeling Trump and repeating the mantra "Total exoneration" regardless of what the thing says. very powerful mayor quimby & chief wiggum vibes
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Work from home tax loophole to be closed after it cost Treasury £500 million No surprise there, but if you wanted to angry up the blood on a cold Friday morning then this should do it: quote:The Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake, a member of the Commons Treasury Committee, said: “It is often in people’s financial interests and personal interests to work from home, so it doesn’t seem appropriate that there should be tax relief for those who choose to work from home rather than being forced to do so. This country is a disease, and not just because of the literal disease stalking every corner of it.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Work from home tax loophole to be closed after it cost Treasury £500 million They hate work from home so much. A lot of businesses have probably saved a lot of money with their employees paying rent, internet and electricity costs for their workspaces. This is not very good, businesses should be paying those costs. Nonetheless, WFH is that rare thing that has in some environments benefited both employers and employees. But it's bad for the most important segment of society, landlords, so it must go.
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Prole posted:Something tells me we've got a hell of a weekend of politics shithousery ahead. Forde is (apparently) leaking, Gray is being published, there's "big news" about lockdown parties still to come... Absolute glutton for this poo poo, me. What are you basing this on?
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The person quoted in that work from home thing is Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, so basically she wants everyone buying a costa coffee on their way to work and a pret a manger sandwich at lunchtime funnily on their website: 
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What a take.... https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1486996187425255424 Those poor unsullied and innocent police people, tarnished by that evil man. Their good name is destroyed.... 
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Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Alexander de Pfeffel stepped into the Johnson Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the worse. His only guide on this journey is Dom, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a blog that only he can be bothered to read.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Work from home tax loophole to be closed after it cost Treasury £500 million Their reasoning is absolute garbage, as usual. BUT The WFH tax relief primarily benefits middle class office workers (like me, I've been happily claiming that money) and not the poors who still have to go out to pull pints and wait tables etc. So I'm not exactly going to cry about it. And even taking their garbage reasoning into account, who the hell is going to go into the office now that the tax relief is gone? I sure as gently caress won't - I already save hundreds on commuting costs. Maybe if the tories want people back into the office they could do something about commuting costs (they won't (they don't want to (they have mates with shares in the train companies)))
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Is Britain's contemporary press an outlier or have we always had a journo class that does no real journalism but just repeats whatever their (usually govt) sources say verbatim with no critical analysis before clocking off at midday and going down the pub? Is this normal in the rest of the world? Do people in say France laugh at us or is this just standard practice in most countries?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Their reasoning is absolute garbage, as usual. How do I claim this? I had no idea about it!
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ThomasPaine posted:Is Britain's contemporary press an outlier or have we always had a journo class that does no real journalism but just repeats whatever their (usually govt) sources say verbatim with no critical analysis before clocking off at midday and going down the pub? Is this normal in the rest of the world? Do people in say France laugh at us or is this just standard practice in most countries? If your question is "does the british press have a reputation as being the worst in the entire world by a significant margin", then uh... yes
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Lord of the Llamas posted:How do I claim this? I had no idea about it! well you don't any more
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Like honestly it approaches Pravda levels sometimes, maybe even more insidious because Pravda never pretended to not be the mouthpiece of the party.
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fuctifino posted:What a take.... Someone who isn't blocked by that cretin yet insult him for me please.
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pravda at least had the self-respect to just not publish at all on the occasions when the party line changed dramatically the Mail moved from 'Bungler Boris in "new low" Disgrace - He Must Go!' to "Back Brexit Boris Against the Red Menace' within 24hrs
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Lord of the Llamas posted:How do I claim this? I had no idea about it!
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TACD posted:Pretty sure you can still make a claim, I think it’s this page: https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home You can and it's super easy because they don't ask for receipts. And you can claim the whole amount for the whole year even if your employer only requested you WFH for a single day. And I think you can claim for the previous tax year too. Not certain about that though.
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ThomasPaine posted:Is Britain's contemporary press an outlier or have we always had a journo class that does no real journalism but just repeats whatever their (usually govt) sources say verbatim with no critical analysis before clocking off at midday and going down the pub? Is this normal in the rest of the world? Do people in say France laugh at us or is this just standard practice in most countries? You just need to look at their parents, relatives and close friends to understand why they are so servile, it's failsons of minor nobles and chums of politicians all the way down.
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I finally cancelled my direct debit to Labour. Doesn't feel particularly great, like I'm giving up, but I can't in good faith continue to fund the party with the current leadership.  Thinking of joining Unite as a community member so I keep the leadership voting rights. I guess maybe I'll consider rejoining in the future depending on how things go, but at the moment... eh.^^ Yeah, but pretty much every country has its elite class over-represented in the profession so I'm interested in why the UK seems so particularly bad for it
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ThomasPaine posted:I finally cancelled my direct debit to Labour. Doesn't feel particularly great, like I'm giving up, but I can't in good faith continue to fund the party with the current leadership.
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ThomasPaine posted:Sure, there were (are?) a few unrepentant Nazis, but they're a tiny minority There were masses of unrepentent Nazis after WW2 - not a small minority at all, they just kept quiet about it in public. Pop into the Ask/Tell Milhist thread and ask there about how well denazification went in both postwar Germanies (spoilers, anyone who wasn't a bigwig and also not in a very important position like Chief Justice or something got to keep on doing exactly what they had been doing before). It's not til the 60s and 70s when their kids are all like 'daddy what did you do in the war' did the soulsearching you're talking about start to happen and it wasn't the alte kampfers doing it.
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The establishment can get away with all of this poo poo because a significant percentage of the population has absolutely no idea how our political system and country works. To many, it's like supporting a football team or favourite contestant in Big Brother. I remember chatting with an old neighbour who, in his 50's, didn't understand the difference between local council and Westminster. "Councillors, MPs, Lords, it's all the same thing innit"... I was in secondary school from 83-88, and I remember having the sanitised history of our monarchy drummed into my head during history lessons, but there was nothing to explain how our political system worked. There was no explanation of the differences between left or right, local or national, or how our laws are made, but I was sure to know the dates of some famous battles from the War of the Roses. They made it difficult to choose politics as a GCSE/A level subject, so only about 5 people in my year took it. So it's much easier to lie and deceive people if they have no loving idea what's going on.
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TACD posted:“Giving up” has been hyped up into some huge personal failing — it isn’t always a sign of weakness or lack of resolve. Another phrase is “knowing when to quit”; sometimes there’s nothing more to be done and resources are better spent elsewhere. This. Not knowing when to quit, sticking things out, when they simply were not worth the investment of time, energy, emotion, and would ultimately be of no benefit to me (or anyone else except a boss) was my undoing in earlier times. "Duty" (to employers, customers, 'those who may come after me"), "responsibility", "ought", "should" and making myself very ill in the process. There is not one single day that I have regretted quitting the labour party back in early 2020. A leftist will never be allowed to succeed again, the complete and utter hypocrisy of labour rightwingers bleating on about how you have to support Starmer to stand a chance of getting a labour government when they thoroughly and blatantly went out of their way to stuff all possibility of labour winning 2017 and even worse 2019, and so on. I'm a bit annoyed with a friend who has been expelled from the labour party for no good reason who is attacking Laura Pidcock for stepping down from the NEC and accusing her of letting people down, 'if you can't stick it don't stand' and so on. (Luckily he is being pounced on by a lot of his other friends who disagree with him.) I can't work out if Starmer is just a highly malleable sap to the far right of the party or has a mind of his own. I'm a Unite community member so I think I still get a vote in a leadership.
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