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Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

https://twitter.com/LamentablyAwake/status/1573993578703069184?t=NUMXkisQGlUc3squz6z1-g&s=19

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domhal
Dec 30, 2008


0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
Yeah, but I bet it looked silly when they sang the anthem in 1997 as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/25/labour-conference-delegates-sing-national-anthem-for-first-time-keir-starmer

quote:

Keir Starmer has led Labour members in tributes to the Queen and a rendition of the national anthem – the first time the anthem has been sung at the party’s conference.

Despite warnings that the singing would be likely to attract protests and heckles, the speech and anthem passed without any protests from party members, a moment that one Labour source said was a great signifier of “how the party has changed”.

Oh.

thrashingteeth
Dec 22, 2019

depressive hedonia
always tired
taco tuesday
I wonder if they sang the anthem before or after the Red Flag.

Either way it's a farce, Labour is deceased. The sooner unions move away from it the better.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

thrashingteeth posted:

I wonder if they sang the anthem before or after the Red Flag.

probably instead of

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

thrashingteeth posted:

I wonder if they sang the anthem before or after the Red Flag.

Either way it's a farce, Labour is deceased. The sooner unions move away from it the better.
nonsense, all those remaining leftist members are going to change it from within any day now, you’ll see

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


thrashingteeth posted:

I wonder if they sang the anthem before or after the Red Flag.

Either way it's a farce, Labour is deceased. The sooner unions move away from it the better.

Red Flag is at the end of conference traditionally

Scientastic
Mar 1, 2010

TRULY scientastic.
🔬🍒


radmonger posted:

A Lib Dem voter is, more or less by definition, someone who won’t vote for Starmer’s Labour. And this does seem to be usually because they consider it too ‘left wing’.

I’m not sure I agree with this, I think there are large numbers of people who vote Lib Dem because it’s the only party that can beat the Tories in their constituency.

Labour are very unlikely to ever win where I live, so I am forced to hold my nose and vote Lib Dem despite swearing I never would, because anything else is a de facto vote for Tory guy, who is a complete and utter poo poo.

Bring in PR, and you have a huge number of essentially disenfranchised people who can suddenly vote for the party they really want.

CGI Stardust
Nov 7, 2010


Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back
what if the Red Flag were to be replaced with the Red, White, and Blue Flag? much to think about

Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

radmonger posted:


A Lib Dem voter is, more or less by definition, someone who won’t vote for Starmer’s Labour. And this does seem to be usually because they consider it too ‘left wing’.


I know someone who's an active and organising member of the lib dems and even their own data suggests this is wrong. It wasn't a problem under Corbyn but losing votes to Starmer is a real concern for them as so many of their core voters are quite happy to do strategic voting and many if Starmers policies are barely any different to theirs.

Chinese Gordon posted:


Of course he then decided that PR is completely off the table, despite it being the only way to keep the Tories out permanently. oval office.

A centrist labour is hugely strengthened by FPTP. They can target the middle and then (They think) also take the left vote because people will just vote against the Tories. It's the same reason Blair abandoned it despite it being a manifesto pledge.

Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Sep 25, 2022

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!

Mega Comrade posted:

I know someone who's an active and organising member of the lib dems

a what now

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



member is a somewhat old-fashioned slang term for penis

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
https://twitter.com/Effiedeans/status/1573631348190986241

20 meals at 184 cals per meal. And few vitamins and minerals.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Oh great people outside of Scotland have discovered the verbose evil of Effie Dean's ultra unionist blog posts. She's an awful person, liked, favourited, and retweeted by the worst Scottish Conservative MSPs.

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://twitter.com/Effiedeans/status/1573631348190986241

20 meals at 184 cals per meal. And few vitamins and minerals.
The linked article is even dumber than that.

quote:

If you believe in free markets, indeed if you believe in capitalism then it is really basic stuff that lowering taxes and shrinking the state will lead to growth. The problem is time.
Typical 'if you believe in the free market' poo poo that blames the absolute failure of friedman ideology on the conditions always being slightly wrong - the usual poo poo about how the free market cannot fail, it can only be failed.

It's entirely constructed from unchallenged statements the author assumes must be right.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Let them eat cake oatmeal

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
How is it that these free market geniuses completely fail to understand things like velocity of money or return on investment?

Even ignoring the malnutrition, could you imagine what an economy based on nothing but 70p oatmeal would look like?

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


OwlFancier posted:

From reading the Ireland thread the republic doesn't seem to be doing very well with their voting system, which I don't understand exactly how it works because I don't understand how any of the voting systems other than FPTP work, but they seem to be stuck with two flavours of tory and sinn fein. They have what seems like a proper socialist party which I think is a coalition of a bunch of left tendencies, but it doesn't win many votes.

It might be nice to have something to vote for but there are euro countries that use other voting systems and they don't seem to do very well out of them either.

Having 2 flavours of Tory plus Sinn Fein is better than the 3 Tory parties we have

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://twitter.com/Effiedeans/status/1573631348190986241

20 meals at 184 cals per meal. And few vitamins and minerals.
If you use the oats to attract a horse, you could easily get 100-150kg of prime chevaline. You have to watch out in Scotland though, as you get far less bang for your buck if you manage to attract a Scotsman instead.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

A Buttery Pastry posted:

If you use the oats to attract a horse, you could easily get 100-150kg of prime chevaline. You have to watch out in Scotland though, as you get far less bang for your buck if you manage to attract a Scotsman instead.

Nah 150kg sounds about right for the average Scotsman as well

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Nah 150kg sounds about right for the average Scotsman as well

He said "prime" not "rancid"

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.

Guavanaut posted:

How is it that these free market geniuses completely fail to understand things like velocity of money or return on investment?

Even ignoring the malnutrition, could you imagine what an economy based on nothing but 70p oatmeal would look like?

Oat car, oat house, oat boat :shrug:

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
POOR PEOPLE GETTING FREE STUFF?!?!?!!??!

LUCKY DUCKYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Guavanaut posted:

How is it that these free market geniuses completely fail to understand things like velocity of money or return on investment?

is "velocity of money" when you take the coins you have left and throw them at the rich until they give you food

Hungry
Jul 14, 2006

Guavanaut posted:

How is it that these free market geniuses completely fail to understand things like velocity of money or return on investment?

Even ignoring the malnutrition, could you imagine what an economy based on nothing but 70p oatmeal would look like?

They have been taught wrong, as a joke.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Comrade Fakename posted:

TWT has a Thatcher’s Techbase arcade machine:

https://imgur.com/a/ZM4iiD3

(Sorry no embed, Imgur is loving poo poo on mobile)

This is what we call an upgrade motherfuckers:

https://twitter.com/alexduin/status/1574080039100063744

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Angepain posted:

is "velocity of money" when you take the coins you have left and throw them at the rich until they give you food

actually it's when they heat them up and throw them at you

gonadic io posted:

quote:

The ceremony first began in the 13th Century when Honiton was given a royal charter to hold a weekly market in the town.

The annual tradition of throwing pennies dates back to when the local gentry enjoyed the view as the poor burnt themselves trying to pick up hot coins, according to the British Film Institute (BFI).

In more recent times, the pennies are simply made warm.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-57986811

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1574078413547118592

Endjinneer
Aug 17, 2005
Fallen Rib

Bobby Deluxe posted:

The linked article is even dumber than that.
Typical 'if you believe in the free market' poo poo that blames the absolute failure of friedman ideology on the conditions always being slightly wrong - the usual poo poo about how the free market cannot fail, it can only be failed.
It's entirely constructed from unchallenged statements the author assumes must be right.
When we removed all the barriers to the free market, we didn't anticipate that slavery, contract killings and fake penicillin would take off quite like they did. But at the end of the day, growth is growth.

Hungry
Jul 14, 2006

Bobby Deluxe posted:

The linked article is even dumber than that.

Typical 'if you believe in the free market' poo poo that blames the absolute failure of friedman ideology on the conditions always being slightly wrong - the usual poo poo about how the free market cannot fail, it can only be failed.

It's entirely constructed from unchallenged statements the author assumes must be right.

Whenever anybody like that uses those phrases - "the free market", "the economy", etc - they don't actually understand what those words mean, because those words are just a mask over Capital, the abstract entity, but the true free market believer cannot for even one moment allow themselves to consciously acknowledge what lies behind the mask.

They're morons who don't understand the system they worship.

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!
I've said this poo poo before but we're basically in cyberpunk dystopia already. Give me my fuckin brain implants and razor nails

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Bad news, the brain implants are by Elon Musk and they don't work, also they randomly activate your razor nails and stab you in the hand / leg / partner.

Hungry posted:

They're morons who don't understand the system they worship.
The best analogy I ever heard is that they're basically cats. Fiercely independent, yet entirely reliant on a system they don't have the cognitive capacity to fully concieve.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

loooooool jeezaloo :dogstare:

this is why the tories are doing whatever insane thing they like, there is literally no opposition, just a bunch of twats obsessed with looking like them

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

crispix posted:

loooooool jeezaloo :dogstare:

this is why the tories are doing whatever insane thing they like, there is literally no opposition, just a bunch of twats obsessed with looking like them

We already know our politicians here in N.I. are mostly useless, nice that they're finally noticing theirs in U.K. are the same. :downsbravo:

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/JasonReidUK/status/1573808075198402560

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Guavanaut posted:

I'd go back and teach the 2nd century Cornish how to make zinc.

The discovery of the battery would happen in the early middle ages, electronics would come along with the early modern revival in glassblowing, and we could have got all the AI art out of the way with sick memes about Pope Pius VI.

Maybe this would also have given us electric cars a lot earlier too and I wouldn't have to be a trail blazer. You would all have accepted them as being great by now.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Firm responsible for the Horizon fiasco where bad software led to sub postmasters being falsely accused of theft leading to jail and in at least one case suicide have given the contract to run PNC

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/firm-behind-post-office-scandal-28074668

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Firm responsible for the Horizon fiasco where bad software led to sub postmasters being falsely accused of theft leading to jail and in at least one case suicide have given the contract to run PNC

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/firm-behind-post-office-scandal-28074668

To be fair that's just Fujitsu, they do a lot of things and that software was written ~25 years ago. That is a lot of time in computer terms.

I wouldn't necessarily buy Japanese business software regardless given how cumbersome it has reputation for being, but I don't think the Horizon debacle has much bearing on any of it.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Once more purchasing the services of fujitsu shows that our government have truly lost grip on genjitsu.

I will not be elaborating further.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Asian markets have opened for the new week and £ has already lost another cent against the dollar. It’s gonna absolutely tank this week. Should be lolworthy

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

smellmycheese posted:

Asian markets have opened for the new week and £ has already lost another cent against the dollar. It’s gonna absolutely tank this week. Should be lolworthy

busted: tankies are supporters of Stalin sending in the tanks
new hotness: tankies run our government and by tankies I mean they're tanking the economy and forex

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