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Poor Charlie Gard, died with a muddy face 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela is arrested on charges of inciting workers' strikes and leaving the country without permission, ultimately being sentenced to 5 years. Less than a year latter an ANC/SACP safehouse is raided, leading to the notorious Rivonia Trial that saw him & his comrades sentenced to life imprisonment by the Apartheid regime for effectively high treason. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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Endjinneer posted:It does seem like the family have been interdicted in their natural course of grief and mourning by a crusading bunch of christian lawyers. Assuming the parents are the patsies in the situation, what's the grift though? What agenda does it further for the christian legal centre? Their website says a load of pablum about supporting christians who take a stand, but what do they really gain if they are successful in forcing the state to keep the corpse of a child mechanically sustained indefinitely? The law firm use this poo poo to raise money. There are plenty of people who'll buy into a narrative of 'communist NHS doctors and nurses laughing as they murder a healthy child'; if not en masse in the UK, then in the USA. The more they can drag it out, the longer they have to raise money. And it actually works to their benefit if they end up roping in the UN or another multinational - the kind of people they target for fundraising think that the UN is run by the worst people imaginable, so if even they are willing to consider the case, just imagine how bad the NHS must be to want this child dead. Of course, the money they raise doesn't go towards supporting children/young people. It goes towards lobbying 'christian' shitlords like Nadine Dorries to make it easier to harrass women going to abortion clinics, or for sponsored pieces in broadsheets to ask questions about why young women who use can access contraceptives have more sex than young women who don't respond to surveys about their sex life
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The Question IRL posted:One thing grief will do is you will latch onto a crazy narrative (even one that is wrong) that "makes sense" over a truth that boils down to "bad things sometimes happens. No moral." fluppet posted:But if he was having a strangle wank doesn't that mean he's straight off to hell? I think these two things might be related. Should have just worshipped another magic sky god that doesn't have such regressive beliefs about suicide, accidental or otherwise.
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Just Another Lurker posted:I've watched people die in front of me so i'm not trolling in case anyone thinks my reply is too cold. Hand hovers over "I would like to know more"
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Tarnop posted:Hand hovers over "I would like to know more" No you wouldn't, just in the wrong place at the wrong time on a few occasions. 
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62430395quote:What a recession could do is tackle the main driver of rising house prices which is lack of supply. Yayyyyy quote:But getting to the point where there are plenty of home available to buy at lower prices might not be pleasant. ...Oh...? quote:"Repossessions may increase as people struggle to pay for the increased cost of living and mortgage payments and therefore more stock may find its way onto the market," said Karen Noye, mortgage expert at Quilter. Well that is loving grim isn't it
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Aug 6, 2022 08:18
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"if we throw people out of their houses there will be more supply. No, we shouldn't worry about the 1-to-1 increase in demand as well" -someone with a big brain who gets paid to understand housing
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fluppet posted:But if he was having a strangle wank doesn't that mean he's straight off to hell? For gently caress's sake, he was twelve.
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Aug 6, 2022 08:30
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Exactly, he was definitely strangle wanking
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Aug 6, 2022 08:56
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I didn't discover the joy of strangle wanking until i was about 18 Probably for the best.
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Jedit posted:For gently caress's sake, he was twelve. When I was 12 I knew enough about the human body not to cut off the oxygen supply to my brain. Maybe I was just a smart kid
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Aug 6, 2022 09:02
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You're supposed to strangle the dick. Put that dick on a ventilator
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Aug 6, 2022 09:05
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I cannot wait to experience the steaming river of boiled piss that arises from this: https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1555592335634964480?t=lOVulMAmqF-lcKl4j_p1UA&s=19
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Coordinated action baybeee
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I cannot wait to experience the steaming river of boiled piss that arises from this: I remember this happening in the 80s a few times. Trying to get to work from Epsom or Finchley to central London at the time depending where I was living. Every bus stop rammed with hundreds of people trying to get on the very few buses that were running. We would personfully spend 4 hours getting to work, 2 hours standing around chatting to anyone else who made it in about our valiant journeys - complete waste of time bothering to go in but if you didn't go in, you didn't get paid - then leave early because it would be another 4 hours or more to get home again. Lots and lots of walking! Didn't help that I had an A-Z that predated a lot of the major construction work in central London (the whole area around Liverpool St for example was completely different to what it is now - it was slummy and sleazy.) so got lost a few times! This was way before people had internet or home computers etc. so WFH not possible. If you WFH during a strike are you strike breaking?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:
Yea but it's weird because you can't login to shout scab at them over Teams without scabbing yourself
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If Pret workers go on strike, are you a scab if you make yourself a poo poo sandwich at home?
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https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1555594742334881792?t=w3MF4Bvyk4V9ai2o63RpRg&s=19 Any other leader wouldn't be -20 points ahead
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1555594742334881792?t=w3MF4Bvyk4V9ai2o63RpRg&s=19 Groundhog day for what passes as the Labour Big Brains. "The numbers aren't great, we need to go further to the right".
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bicycle posted:Yea but it's weird because you can't login to shout scab at them over Teams without scabbing yourself The trick is to set your email out of office message to say nothing but "hey scab" the day before
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Aug 6, 2022 10:15
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hey broseph watch me do this sick ollie *kicks skateboard and murders millions*
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SWP are trots IIRC so I wonder what their answer will be. Honestly I genuinely find it difficult to tell trots and tankies apart even if theoretically they should be diametrically opposed because they are all extremely crackers and I can't tell what brand of crazy is endemic to which.
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Aug 6, 2022 10:40
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https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1555821162722197505?s=21&t=-62DWxetttZBEbCkGCGiVw Just completely high on their own supply.
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Aug 6, 2022 10:46
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No way that isn't a direct emination from the var of piss himself.
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josh04 posted:var ofPiss ftfy
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Aug 6, 2022 10:52
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I'd want to remain anonymous if I was a defiant Starmer ally too.Z the IVth posted:Should have just worshipped another magic sky god that doesn't have such regressive beliefs about suicide, accidental or otherwise. The problem here isn't even so much the directly religious aspect. If their kid died and they'd spent £50 grand renovating the local church to get him a front row seat you wouldn't hear about it outside the village magazine, if they'd blown their money on psychic mediums or joined a spiritualist sect you might hear about it one of those "pervert ghost nonced my dog" magazines. They could have remortgaged their house to construct a device to tear the veil and maybe got on a podcast. Instead they got suckered in by a bunch of hyper-partisan lawyers who troll around looking for dead kid cases in order to build stories for their backers of health insurance companies and sex offenders to sell to suggestible grandmas and white nationalists. Speaking of podcasts, Behind the Bastards had a good one on how the SBC (one among many) ended up like that: https://twitter.com/coolzonemedia/status/1541823364590759936 OwlFancier posted:SWP are trots IIRC so I wonder what their answer will be.
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I've yet to see a Labour official ever clarify why rich people would donate to Labour rather than the Tories. Presumably, the explanation would be "...something something social conscience" which would be pretty funny on its own.
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The blair excuse was "we will do everything the tories do and the tories are a spent force for the moment, so you'd best get in our ears before your other rich mates do"
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kingturnip posted:I've yet to see a Labour official ever clarify why rich people would donate to Labour rather than the Tories. It's just "dress for the job you want" politics, there's no plan to get the other guy out of the way first.
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lol... Dan Wootton has apparently gone undercover https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1555630929300824066
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biglads posted:Groundhog day for what passes as the Labour Big Brains.
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I’ve met some GNDRising people and safe to say Dan Wooton would stick out by a loving mile.
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Jeherrin posted:ftfy Definitely a var, not const or val or anything like that
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Jedit posted:For gently caress's sake, he was twelve. I'm not sure it was this exactly but something about the way the details of the accident were left vague in every news report never sat right with me. and every news article just repeated the same line. He put a ligature over his head because of a tik tok challenge? What tik tok challenge? what's the context? And the push to keep him on life support despite all the medical advice to the contrary. I'm not saying every parent wouldn't push back in the same circumstances but to go on this big media tour with it seems a bit much. Something's being covered up somewhere.
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Butternubs posted:
As I said. quote:One thing grief will do is you will latch onto a crazy narrative (even one that is wrong) that "makes sense" over a truth that boils down to "bad things sometimes happens. No moral."
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That's Archie Battersbee dead now, life support turned off.
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There's no mystery to it, his mother has mentioned that he was trying to do the blackout challenge on tiktok which is where you starve yourself of oxygen until you pass out. It's been a thing since 2008 but resurged on tiktok around the time of his incident. Kid just tried to do a stupid tiktok challenge and was the unfortunate one.
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Yeah an hour ago or so. Also, thanks Google 
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