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Jose posted:It's really cool how because we don't have nationalised energy the UK exports all its gas to Belgium this worked so well for kazakhstan
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Lmao https://twitter.com/JakeWSimons/status/1489226754245996546?t=uWSWkW-jC42FCNl7Cx-l0A&s=19
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energy financialisation has the power to completely gently caress people over and if there's going to be a serious fight against financialisation starting anywhere it's going to be with energy. lots of energy exporters with wild fluctuation in costs directly attributable to financialisation. an actual (though very outwardly moderate) communist party is pushing 10% in polls in norway for the first time since the war.
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Jose posted:Lmao What's a legal figure?
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Jose posted:It's really cool how because we don't have nationalised energy the UK exports all its gas to Belgium
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Tripartite government, it's back baby. Awooooo
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Jose posted:Lmao This has very quickly drat near surpassed Republicans in terms of doing crazy bullshit for Israel.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When my dad was a kid, if he or his brothers ever got any money gifts, my nan would tell him to put the money in the 'special grey savings box under the stairs' (ie the meter). i had never heard of this particular horror and my god i feel bad for everyone on your hell island
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CoolCab posted:only for poor people. it actually costs more too. have you all considered killing those responsible
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Relevant Tangent posted:i had never heard of this particular horror and my god i feel bad for everyone on your hell island It can be really bad now. Some people are not allowed 'post-pay' (ie pay a monthly / quarterly bill) and have to pre-pay which costs more and now is done with a 'smart key' that you have to get charged at a local store (assuming there's one near by) or online (cue gammon frothing because a poor person has a phone that does online stuff despite it being almost impossible to function without one these days). I've seen posts on local facebook groups from desperate people late at night or on longer public holidays who have run out of electricity and can't get their key recharged or get online to top up, some with small kids or carers of sick or much older relatives.
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Grape posted:This has very quickly drat near surpassed Republicans in terms of doing crazy bullshit for Israel. https://twitter.com/lobjob/status/1489303376428945411?t=_ILYJBjIVlORoic99fCN_A&s=19
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Grape posted:This has very quickly drat near surpassed Republicans in terms of doing crazy bullshit for Israel. Small but powerful right wing bloc that has minimal dissenting voices within its own community and has successfully weaponised the lefts anti-bigotry against itself We literally don't have the young progressive jewish population with which to defend against such a perfectly aimed weapon The only general defense would be to have a population with critical thinking skills and lmao no
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yeah the corbyn antisemitism stuff exposed a very deep flaw in much of the contemporary left's approach to anti-racism and epistemic issues etc. with which there hasn't been an explicit reckoning but which has seen something of a de-emphasis on subjective experience as inassailable. just a pity that it cost us the first genuine chance at a left-wing leader in Europe in decades.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When my dad was a kid, if he or his brothers ever got any money gifts, my nan would tell him to put the money in the 'special grey savings box under the stairs' (ie the meter). lmao We never had coin ones, was leccy cards
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V. Illych L. posted:yeah the corbyn antisemitism stuff exposed a very deep flaw in much of the contemporary left's approach to anti-racism and epistemic issues etc. with which there hasn't been an explicit reckoning but which has seen something of a de-emphasis on subjective experience as inassailable. just a pity that it cost us the first genuine chance at a left-wing leader in Europe in decades. the uk has made it very clear they're not in Europe
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V. Illych L. posted:yeah the corbyn antisemitism stuff exposed a very deep flaw in much of the contemporary left's approach to anti-racism and epistemic issues etc. with which there hasn't been an explicit reckoning but which has seen something of a de-emphasis on subjective experience as inassailable. just a pity that it cost us the first genuine chance at a left-wing leader in Europe in decades. I don't know where you get this stuff from. British labour are nominally left wing, and the things they get up to on plague island do not ring true for the rest of the world.
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also nobody outside of incredibly bitter left shitposters has learnt a single lesson from trying to ID-pol themselves out of the antisemitism accusations
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labour lost another by-election and its fun to read about why since its a combination fo the labour council being loving poo poo and ignoring residents to build expensive housing nobody wants with a whole bunch of racism included https://confidentials.com/manchester/liberal-democrats-take-ancoats-and-beswick-from-labour https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1489386766444507140?s=20&t=mSVt7g3MW9Bw-2bO7TYxsg
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V. Illych L. posted:yeah the corbyn antisemitism stuff exposed a very deep flaw in much of the contemporary left's approach to anti-racism and epistemic issues etc. with which there hasn't been an explicit reckoning but which has seen something of a de-emphasis on subjective experience as inassailable. just a pity that it cost us the first genuine chance at a left-wing leader in Europe in decades. I'm sure something else would've been done to assure that no socialist will be in charge of the UK.
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Jose posted:Lol The solution to this and everything else is going to be "have a big war"
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how? by firing all those admirals out of an antique catapult?
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Excited to see the British chapter of the Turtle Club is opening soon. Holy loving poo poo that's vile. And that's on Netflix???? Grape has issued a correction as of 16:19 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It can be really bad now. Some people are not allowed 'post-pay' (ie pay a monthly / quarterly bill) and have to pre-pay which costs more and now is done with a 'smart key' that you have to get charged at a local store (assuming there's one near by) or online (cue gammon frothing because a poor person has a phone that does online stuff despite it being almost impossible to function without one these days). Jesus Christ
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RandolphCarter posted:Jesus Christ  One of the first things that started jolting me out of my cosy middle class upbringing and realising that I had it loving easy was when I got a weekend job at the local Co-op and first encountered these PayPoint pre-paid 'sticks'. This would have been 2003, so before it could be done online. And then came the frazzled-looking people dumping small piles of loose change on the counter or rifling through coat pockets to try and make up the minimum payment, and getting the closing shift on Saturday evening guaranteed that at least one person would be frantically trying to top up their account before closing time...sometimes with bonus 'fun' of having to tell them that their card had been declined, the PayPoint network was down or something and watching them fight back the tears. I remember looking through the PayPoint instructions, noticing how expensive it was and then realising "huh, so the people who don't have enough credit to just set up an account with the provider have to pay significantly more for their electricity than the well-off...and this makes sense how?" BalloonFish has issued a correction as of 17:03 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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RandolphCarter posted:Jesus Christ and again their energy costs more. it's not just punitive in a bunch of obvious ways if you can pass a credit check and get a meter you pay less per watt too it's the craziest and evilest thing.
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Not a new invention either, we had one of them when I was a kid and the practice never got a look in throughout the whole New Labour era
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Jose posted:labour lost another by-election and its fun to read about why since its a combination fo the labour council being loving poo poo and ignoring residents to build expensive housing nobody wants with a whole bunch of racism included In some ways this is a shame, because the Local labour party in Ancoats (at the regularly attending members level) there were very radical, the momentum slate took over several components of the local party structure. But (as you might expect) many of the councillors and at the CLP leadership level did everything they could to thwart them at every step, and stamp down on any internal democracy, including some clp votes that were downright rigged. So after much effort no actual positive progress was made. No doubt this will be spun by the party as their own membership are the excuse for this failure, rather than any introspection about the party's own actions. But in truth it is far more influenced by the actual local issues above, and if anything the last few years have to have seen even the most passionate activists lose their will to campaign.
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BalloonFish posted:I remember looking through the PayPoint instructions, noticing how expensive it was and then realising "huh, so the people who don't have enough credit to just set up an account with the provider have to pay significantly more for their electricity than the well-off...and this makes sense how?"
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No Dignity posted:Not a new invention either, we had one of them when I was a kid and the practice never got a look in throughout the whole New Labour era It's vile.
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it would be nice if childrens book authors who's books i liked as kids weren't proving themselves to be such massive wankers now. philip pullman is really covering himself in glory at the minute
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Jose posted:it would be nice if childrens book authors who's books i liked as kids weren't proving themselves to be such massive wankers now. philip pullman is really covering himself in glory at the minute The solution is to have only really read authors who died before Twitter. Philip K Dick & Douglas Adams cannot besmirch my teenage memories
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