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Tarnop posted:Oh yeah, my "low effort poo poo" comment was 100% directed at our recently banned bants lover. I'm only quoting you because its the latest reference, but Cyril isn't really a bants lad, dunno what he was going for there really. He's a nice lad with poor mental health and substance abuse issues who only got perma'd for his own good really out of lack of other options. If you read this cyril, don't worry too much about it all. lmao I dunno
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Miftan posted:Yeah I don't mind a few pages of dunking on really bad opinions because this thread has A LOT of lurkers, and a bunch of regulars who said this thread helped drive them left. You're not trying to convince the troll, you're preaching to any sympathetic people in the audience. Probably helps that as a kid hippies and love n peace were the thing. one of my earliest memories about 6 years old was of following two 'big girls' home from church and they had a radio on playing a song about California and I was wondering what a California was. Wilson and Heath were the first 2 PMs I remember, Vietnam war was ongoing and every night the news would report on what 'parallels' had been taken (I had no idea what that meant at the time - lines of latitude). Cold war was at its height, we were shown those films about what to do in a nuclear attack at school and dad was in the local civil defence. ww2 ended less than 20 years earlier and rationing less than 15 years earlier so these were still quite fresh in peoples' minds. Certainly for my parents who has been kids in ww2 and had lived through the bombardments of Coventry and Birmingham. Even now (for my dad til he died) they would cringe if they hear/heard an airraid siren on TV. I guess politics was much more in your face back then. Maybe it's coming back to that point now with crises akin to the 70s kicking off.
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Tesseraction posted:*walking into the thread in my nightgown* wow what happened here I forget which arc of the saga it was, maybe the one with a weird screed fantasising about killing his brother (in-law) or something? no_one / cyril is a long time goon with every psychological problem on the bingo card, a history of domestic issues, and some bigtime chemical dependencies. they get perma'd whenever they pop up because of the nature of their posts and because this forum for all its benefits does not have the tools to help in the way that they need. no_one through the haze you sometimes seem like an ok dude but you need to get some real help, I hope you can find a way out.
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kecske posted:I forget which arc of the saga it was, maybe the one with a weird screed fantasising about killing his brother (in-law) or something? yeah woof, Mr Sneer I hope you find comfort and peace, and a banging track to listen to as you relax yourself to sleep every night
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Tarnop posted:I know this thread is easy to troll but this is some low effort poo poo People always say this, but it seems like that just means people sincerely explaining or arguing against a political idea or sincerely telling a dickhead to gently caress off, neither of which seem like bad things
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More proof - not that it was needed - that intelligence isn't hereditary. Niric posted:People always say this, but it seems like that just means people sincerely explaining or arguing against a political idea or sincerely telling a dickhead to gently caress off, neither of which seem like bad things Speaking of sincerity; Niric you make good and eloquent posts, keep it up!
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It always makes me wonder because there absolutely are people who think it's "just bantz" but like, what the gently caress kind of life do you live? Granted I don't have any male friends IRL and never have but I cannot imagine the kind of relationship I would need to have where I would just talk like that with them about poo poo jesus christ.
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Also since it was mentioned before a lot of people lurk this thread but don't post and I want to make it explicit that all of you are valid and should feel free to post in here, even if you just white noise post for a bit. This is a cool space for people to post both good posts and like absolute nuclear turds. It's fine. We're British, that's the national range.
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Miftan posted:I think most of us started off as some variety of liberal at some point (except jealuni, apparently), and it's a good thing for lurkers to hear the reasons as to why specifically bad stuff is bad from a leftist perspective. I've been a socialist since I was 14. 1991 was a bit of a poo poo time to realise that 
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On the Energy Bill rebate. I'll be in the fortunate position of this making my energy bill effectively free for 6 months. Anyone here have any good ideas of how I can help those in need over the winter? Saw this, but don't know much about them: https://www.fuelbankfoundation.org/ Such a god awful policy to help everyone (regardless of income), when there are genuinely people who will have to choose between energy and food for God knows how long.
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feedmegin posted:I've been a socialist since I was 14. 1991 was a bit of a poo poo time to realise that whereas I was a liberal until my 20s; I was fine with New Labour and thought the Liberal Democrats were bringing a fresh breath of social progress to the national conversation in 2010 I wasn't concerned with warnings from goons like Fluo (  mate) that the Lib Dems were orange book neoliberals, because I was fine with neoliberalism.Then I saw what it actually meant. I spent a lot of 2010-2015 undergoing political schizophrenia as I realised liberalism was a golden calf, also that God isn't real. I had a rough few years in terms of fighting cognitive dissonance
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Tesseraction posted:Also since it was mentioned before a lot of people lurk this thread but don't post and I want to make it explicit that all of you are valid and should feel free to post in here, even if you just white noise post for a bit. This is a cool space for people to post both good posts and like absolute nuclear turds. It's fine. We're British, that's the national range.  I post like once a year cause I never feel like I've got anything to contribute, but appreciate the sentiment and love these threads. That's my white noise post for the next few months
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Crawshayi posted:On the Energy Bill rebate. I'll be in the fortunate position of this making my energy bill effectively free for 6 months. Anyone here have any good ideas of how I can help those in need over the winter? Maybe contribute to the ukmt fund? Maybe someone can give a link as I'm on phone.
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fuctifino posted:Oh wow. I genuinely wasn't expecting a result like this I really do hope they get round to the part where the David Cameron fetish with cutting red tape, as enforced by Eric Pickles, suppressed changes to the building regs. Ironically he is now the government's special envoy for post-Holocaust issues. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/07/eric-pickles-asks-grenfell-inquiry-not-to-waste-his-time-but-gets-death-toll-wrong quote:In a table, “Part B (Fire safety)” was listed as an “overall regulation out”, with estimated savings of £25.4m per year. Cutting red tape is one of those perennial nasty ideas in British politics. The ones that wouldn't withstand 3 seconds of thoughtful consideration, but are emotive enough to capture the imagination of the whole population and propel it into doing something really stupid.
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Glad t'have you for the ride!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Maybe contribute to the ukmt fund? Maybe someone can give a link as I'm on phone. Here u go Maugrim posted:
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Guavanaut posted:He's going to do the whiteface act from that episode of Goodness Gracious Me but straight, then the Express will call it the real racism. making me think of the MooD podcast episode with Nish Kumar where Edwards jokes about Kumar going on stage in whiteface with blackface on top
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HopperUK posted:Lol what a time to start realising I'm non-binary There's no better time than as soon as you can. Good on you and welcome to our ill-defined club
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Tesseraction posted:There's no better time than as soon as you can. Good on you and welcome to our ill-defined club Thanks chum!
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fuctifino posted:Oh wow. I genuinely wasn't expecting a result like this  Tesseraction posted:this cyril sneeeer guy is a rereg of a guy who was permabanned for something so bad the post was deleted and all posts quoting it were modited... anyone who saw the original post can you give a hint as to what they said that was that awful
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^^^  HopperUK posted:Lol what a time to start realising I'm non-binary The worst thing is that they have their little issue, and they think once it's achieved everything will go back to normal and the movement will just disband. When you try to warn them they're building an engine of queerphobia the likes of which god themself has never seen, and it's not going away once the pricks stoking it have gotten what they need from it, they scoff and accuse you of calling them fascist and block you. It's far easier for them to accept that other people are malicious than it is to accept that they might be getting tricked into supporting something very, very bad. The most heartbreaking thing is the lesbian & gay people getting conned into supporting it (they've already very much pivoted to biphobia), because they are absolutely next on the chopping block once they're done with the T, the Q and the IA, and they refuse to listen. Those who do not listen in history get domed in detention or something, idk i wasn't paying attention. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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Sunak and Truss are trying to win votes from the type of people who actually pay money to be members of the Tory party. From that perspective it's a remarkably restrained speech. If Sunak were to win, unlikely as that is, this repugnant diatribe will quickly be memory holed.
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Tesseraction posted:whereas I was a liberal until my 20s; I was fine with New Labour and thought the Liberal Democrats were bringing a fresh breath of social progress to the national conversation I kind of feel like I've been broadly left-wing forever. I had discontent with everything and generally stayed disengaged with party politics because it all seemed so poo poo and hopeless. If anything I'd have said I'd supported the Lib Dems above anybody else until 2010 when it became immediately apparent that they were Piss Tories. Again this was through disengagement and ignorance rather than really loving liberalism or Nick Clegg. I don't think I ever actually voted for them though through combination of living in the speaker's seat and realising that FPTP was hosed and they had no chance of winning or making any difference to anything. I only truly became aware of socialist ideas after meeting my wife who encouraged me to learn more about politics (though not specifically socialism - I think I've helped her onboard that train, possibly more than the other way around), then Corbyn showed up, and I discovered this thread which helped me complete my journey.
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