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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I wish I were brave. Granted I basically don't have friends and never have so I may not be the best person to advise, but I would say that part of the reason I'm like that is because if I had to hide things I thought were very important in order to get along with people, they aren't really worth making the effort for. Either they actually like me, in my entirety, or there was never really a connection there. You can only lose them once, but you can lose a bit of yourself every time you compromise.
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Flayer posted:The BBC website just loves to splash the front page with big pics of Liz Truss, it has been really egregious over the last couple of weeks. Not even a perfunctory attempt to hide the bias. Lol the Truss lot have been moaning the BBC have been pro Rishi this entire thing. Honestly it's already decided , Truss is miles ahead. Pork markets is our next Pam.
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Comrade Fakename posted:My (hnnnnnnngggghhhhh) 40th birthday is coming up and god knows I don’t want to spend it in this country. I’ve been thinking about destinations, and I was considering Cuba. Has anyone been? Any recommendations of places to go from a socialist perspective? Have you considered Disney World? You could have a birthday breakfast with Mickey Mouse
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OwlFancier posted:Granted I basically don't have friends and never have so I may not be the best person to advise, but I would say that part of the reason I'm like that is because if I had to hide things I thought were very important in order to get along with people, they aren't really worth making the effort for. Either they actually like me, in my entirety, or there was never really a connection there. We're your friends..l
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OwlFancier is a good lad who makes posts in the W&R Soviet Republic thread which shows he has impeccable taste in games.
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Guavanaut posted:I don't think he even has to do the oddity of accepting a crown office, if he's just going to no longer sit as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and instead wants to run for the seat of MP for Mid Bedfordshire then he can just do it. Yes. An MP only has to take the Hundreds if they want to stop being an MP immediately (and don't want to be imprisoned for a year and a day). However, I'm not sure of the protocol regarding a sitting MP trying to change constituency between General Elections. I do know that an MSP can stand for Westminster without standing down, but that's movement between two different parliaments.
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AI is good now https://twitter.com/chai_ste/status/1556020342891724801?t=MbS8HbqCUlaiS43lNz0ksQ&s=19
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UKMT: neo-liberal state-run nonce government
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“I watched a football match and it made me lust for lefty flag shagging” https://www.theguardian.com/comment...re_iOSApp_Other
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Couldn't remember who sonia sodha was so I clicked the name and went "oh yeah one of them lol" Also yeah drat the left hates a sense of collective belonging, definitely none of that in the left, they all hate me for some reason.
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Supporting a football team, definitely something inseparable from a sense of national pride. Can you imagine supporting a non-national football team? Ridiculous. Plenty of absolute shite in there, this section is very funny: quote:Many on the left look down their noses at patriotism, which is seen variously as a bombastic retelling of flawed history, a euphemism for ethno-nationalism and a way to cast out outsiders. But a collective sense of national pride doesn’t have to be any of those things. Indeed, the racial and class diversity of the England men’s team shows it’s perfectly possible to have a patriotism that doesn’t exclude people because of their skin colour or where they grew up. and this is just lying: quote:And left-populist framings – “the many v the few” – struggle for traction because qualitative research suggests that many people see wealth as aspirational, society as a meritocracy and rich people who’ve earned their wealth – as opposed to inheriting it – as deserving.
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How can you say england is racist when we have a black footballer??? How can you say police are racist when they have a black policeman? How can you say the government is racist when we have black MPs? How can you say anything is racist if it is capable of tolerating any identity as long as the identity is subordinate to the overall aims of the institution?????? checkmate leftoids.
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Guavanaut posted:Back in the 18th century the Whig and Tory members for places where 90% of the people couldn't even vote would sometimes debate me bro in the market square, because that shows that we're a democracy where ideas are aired in public. I don’t discount this so much actually; it’s a kind of democracy in the same way that China has a kind of democracy by virtue of multiple levels of party organisations that allow the public opinion to filter up. Out here, between 1980ish and about five years ago, that public opinion was important and shaped official policy.
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forkboy84 posted:So I see Momentum founder Jon Lansman has sadly suffered a serious brain injury that has apparently caused him to forget the entirety of the past 7 loving years. Or indeed the actual 1930s. Liberals working with socialists is um not what actually happened.
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What about it is innaccurate? It looks to me like a restatement of the obvious point that we have a Tory government because middle.class people mostly vote Tory. Those who have both money and jobs like the money more than they like their jobs. So they mostly tend to vote in favour of their money; in other words how rich people vote. The many versus the few doesn’t work as a slogan when the many end up as a smaller group, amongst actual voters, than the few To change that, maybe you get more non-middle class people to vote, as tried by Corbyn. Maybe you come up with a narrative that actually does persuade more middle class people to vote based on their salary or vocation, not their money . Or maybe you give up and follow Keith’s approach, which appears to be functionally equivalent to hoping to win the Tory leadership ballot as a write-in option.
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forkboy84 posted:So I see Momentum founder Jon Lansman has sadly suffered a serious brain injury that has apparently caused him to forget the entirety of the past 7 loving years. how would working with liberals work like they'll not only adopt but amplify the right's policies like clegg with tuition fees but with the left it'd be like "we hear your call for these policies to ensure all have security of housing, food and basic utilities, but here is our alternative proposal of means tested vouchers to purchase wonky veg from certain supermarkets, a two pound reduction in the licence fee for those who watch the queen's speech on christmas day (in its entirety and without at any point falling asleep) and a waiver for the carrier bag tax where people can prove they have travelled on foot and live more than two miles from the shop"
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and also harry potters dumblebum pufflehuffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehehehehehehheheheheheh  #FBPE
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OwlFancier posted:Couldn't remember who sonia sodha was so I clicked the name and went "oh yeah one of them lol"
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hehe nah she has it sellotaped to the telephone
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Comrade Fakename posted:My (hnnnnnnngggghhhhh) 40th birthday is coming up and god knows I don’t want to spend it in this country. I’ve been thinking about destinations, and I was considering Cuba. Has anyone been? Any recommendations of places to go from a socialist perspective? I spent about a month in Cuba a few years ago. It’s a staggeringly beautiful country and you’ll go nowhere else like it, but it’ll be highly dependent on how sociable you are and who you’re going with if you’re going to do anything other than standard beach holiday. The food, outside of ‘private’ (expensive, basically only in Havana in my experience) restaurants and peoples homes (here where the socialising with locals comes in) is really not great and very samey. If you’ve got PMs drop me a message and I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. Its definitely not ‘easy mode travelling’ but if you don’t mind that it is super interesting. If socialisms what you want I’d also recommend Chiapas, Mexico where you can either go visit the Zapatistas to look at graffiti, or actually spend time with them on a language trip. Chiapas generally is great.
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Portugal is nice. Good food. Very pretty, nice temperature. Not eye wateringly expensive.
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Croatia is nice and cheap and you get a good mix of Mediterranean and Eastern European food and culture.
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Mebh posted:Portugal is nice. Good food. Very pretty, nice temperature. Not eye wateringly expensive. Reported for vilifying Britain
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Microplastics posted:Reported for vilifying Britain I mean, I say the same about Sheffield to be fair.
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Romania is nice too. Don’t linger in Bucharest, it’s a pretty crap city by European standards, but everywhere else is great. Brasov and Cluj-Napoca are particularly nice. Vama Veche is a little hippy beach place if that’s what ya fancy.
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Mebh posted:Portugal is nice. Good food. Very pretty, nice temperature. Not eye wateringly expensive. I really enjoyed Portugal. People there are also very chill and friendly for the most part, probably one of the most laidback places I've been
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Extremely normal suggestion but France outside Paris isn't bad if you can speak a bit of French. If not it's a bit of a mixed bag. Argentina and Chile are pretty nice places to visit too. Canada maybe but I wouldn't go there as the one big trip I do for my 40th birthday. Several places in South/SEA/East Asia used to be good but it went to poo poo as a tourist destination since Covid. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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Big second to Romania. If you want somewhere exotic enough to feel like a real adventure but also super cheap to get to and safe/stable: Montenegro If you want to go actually exotic and can spring for the distance: Ecuador or Oman
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Bulgaria is also a great shout if you just want some sun on a really low budget. The people are lovely too.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Bulgaria is also a great shout if you just want some sun on a really low budget. The people are lovely too. I think the general agreement is to avoid Sunny Beach, though, unless you're really thirsty to spend time with other British people on holiday.
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kingturnip posted:I think the general agreement is to avoid Sunny Beach, though, unless you're really thirsty to spend time with other British people on holiday. On the positive side you can flip off Russia! You could do that from Romania too though. Both Romania and Croatia are interesting places by Eastern European standards, comparatively. Most other countries in the region are intensely boring (Balkans notwithstanding). e: Croatia is very touristy too though. As in, almost as much as Greece and Spain. May be related to half the country being one giant beach with the occasional castle or roman ruin. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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I had a nice week in Ohrid (N. Macedonia) pre pandemic. Took a day trip to Tirana while we were there for an extra adventure. Lake Bled in Slovenia is also very nice.
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https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1556289850411720705vital services for our citizens are suffering, and the cause is that few staff are physically at the office. to alleviate this i am going to - force all staff to be physically present at their offices, in order to improve efficiency - close many physical offices and slash headcount, in order to improve efficiency also, did you know that flexitime and work-from-home are part of the WOKE AGENDA that seeks to destroy this great nation?
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