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Forstater status: Still trying to post through it. At this point she's been nonstop posting about a fictional library alien's sex for four days now. https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1576522906284175360
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Oct 2, 2022 18:21
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“Everything I don’t like is oppression” is a take I’ve seen too often
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Oct 2, 2022 18:51
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GENDER IDEOLOGY I scream, clutching my nonexistent pearls
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Oct 2, 2022 19:54
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Perestroika posted:Forstater status: Still trying to post through it. At this point she's been nonstop posting about a fictional library alien's sex for four days now. i don't think anyone involved in creating the library alien thought about its genitals nearly as much as forstater has
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Oct 2, 2022 20:01
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Arivia posted:i don't think anyone involved in creating the library alien thought about its genitals nearly as much as forstater has Maybe they should have? alt text: Don't kinkshame.
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Oct 2, 2022 20:22
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sassassin posted:Maybe they should have? 
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Oct 2, 2022 20:28
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Kind of reminds me of that one episode of Lloyd in Space (a show I never watched but saw this episode mentioned a few times) with the non-binary alien who's species kind of choose a gender when it's time to hit puberty and start off agender before that time. The boys and girls in their friend groups get weird about it, and it resolves with them making their choice, but refusing to tell the other's what they did because it's none of their business.
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Oct 2, 2022 20:28
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weird thats the 2nd time in years I've been reminded of that cartoon and it was for that same exact thing.
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Oct 2, 2022 20:34
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Some more harmless stuff from my local FB group.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:55
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Oct 3, 2022 02:26
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Zelensky is Jewish, so it seems valid to ask about how he feels about the cross
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Oct 3, 2022 04:51
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Also the one person who's like "yeah but how serious are they about the religion versus just framing it as righteous" is a pretty good question. I remember the story about US religious nutjobs proselytizing to Ukrainian refugees and just getting the hairy eyeball back.
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Oct 3, 2022 05:10
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also the one person who's like "yeah but how serious are they about the religion versus just framing it as righteous" is a pretty good question. I remember the story about US religious nutjobs proselytizing to Ukrainian refugees and just getting the hairy eyeball back. Part of that is Ukrainians are mostly Eastern Orthodox and the people proselytizing were Protestant and Catholic.
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Oct 3, 2022 05:21
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Skwirl posted:Part of that is Ukrainians are mostly Eastern Orthodox and the people proselytizing were Protestant and Catholic. The sorts of Americans who flew to Ukraine to proselytize to war refugees were pretty much entirely the weirder types of Protestant.
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Oct 3, 2022 05:48
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This sectarian discussion distracts from the battle at hand. I want to thank all the brave soldiers fighting against totalitarianism and nazism in all their permutations.
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Oct 3, 2022 05:53
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2nd Amendment posted:I want to thank all the brave soldiers fighting against totalitarianism and nazism in all their permutations. Woah! That's one hell of a controversial stance to take!
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Oct 3, 2022 06:03
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The sorts of Americans who flew to Ukraine to proselytize to war refugees were pretty much entirely the weirder types of Protestant. American "Christianity" is itself a weird alien beast unique to America. In most places in the world, and to most Christian denominations, (I am using the word most here because I don't know all fundie denominations, nor have I travelled to all nations where Christians live), Harry Potter is fine and dandy and will be in the church library along with possibly an old D&D game. And a woman wearing trousers, having a job, and disagreeing with her husband on financial matters doesn't raise an eyebrow. And so on and so forth. I know that there are a whole bunch of Christians in America that also lead normal lives like this and go to their normal church to pray and congregate. But the loudest and most "American" of Americal Christians are the type to declare masks satanic, and people who vote a certain way agents of the devil etc. And it is these lunatics that are they type to proselytize and "lay hands" and stuff on refugees. Whilst the refugees themselves, even the hardcore Christian ones, are most likely normal people thinking "get the gently caress away from me weirdo"
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Oct 3, 2022 07:15
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also the one person who's like "yeah but how serious are they about the religion versus just framing it as righteous" is a pretty good question. I remember the story about US religious nutjobs proselytizing to Ukrainian refugees and just getting the hairy eyeball back. I don’t think it’s a good question at all. To what conclusion would an answer to that question lead you? Maybe I’m misunderstanding you and that question, but I don’t get what the point is of questioning the motives of these soldiers’ ritual as they go to fight and very possibly die in defense of their home. If ever there is a moment for righteousness and religion, now seems appropriate. And if it’s all insincere theatrics, does that really matter?
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Oct 3, 2022 08:12
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I've made a lot of jokes about how the UK exists to make the US less stupid, but seriously UK people can't be this loving stupid. https://twitter.com/ProfDaveAndress/status/1576832021200244737?s=20&t=7kW4_wYLUu-173maGS2fjQ NHS is one of the only things I envy the Brits for.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:03
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Skwirl posted:I've made a lot of jokes about how the UK exists to make the US less stupid, but seriously UK people can't be this loving stupid. Its stupidity amplified with unlimited amounts of malevolence and greed..
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Oct 3, 2022 11:17
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Skwirl posted:I've made a lot of jokes about how the UK exists to make the US less stupid, but seriously UK people can't be this loving stupid. Of course he's not stupid. He's knowingly evil.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:25
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Such Fun posted:I don’t think it’s a good question at all. To what conclusion would an answer to that question lead you? Only in the context of someone saying that they're Christian warriors or whatever that tweet thread was about, and "the left can't stand that they're not pink-haired gender neutral latte drinkers!!!!1!" I'm not actually bothered by the religious beliefs of any soldiers defending their home.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:26
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Skwirl posted:I've made a lot of jokes about how the UK exists to make the US less stupid, but seriously UK people can't be this loving stupid. david davis was the chief brexit negotiator for a while, if you would like context.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:29
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Dabir posted:Of course he's not stupid. He's knowingly evil. I know he's evil, I'm saying the general population of the UK can't be stupid enough to believe this poo poo.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:30
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Skwirl posted:I know he's evil, I'm saying the general population of the UK can't be stupid enough to believe this poo poo.
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Skwirl posted:I know he's evil, I'm saying the general population of the UK can't be stupid enough to believe this poo poo. A lot of them won't, but that seldom matters politically.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:35
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Baron von Eevl posted:Only in the context of someone saying that they're Christian warriors or whatever that tweet thread was about, and "the left can't stand that they're not pink-haired gender neutral latte drinkers!!!!1!" Ah, like that. Yeah, I agree with you on that. That angle just completely went over my head. I am certainly an idiot on social media sometimes.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:47
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If the population were aware of what that meant then no they would be against it. But the press is almost entirely owned by the same right wing interests, so a big enough proportion of the public do what they are told enough to keep voting these people in. That said - what Truss is managing to do will affect a lot more people. So maybe the fact that the Tories don't give a poo poo about them will sink in for some of them. Maybe. At least until the next manufactured outrage about "labour will force your kids to change gender" or something.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:49
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Skwirl posted:I know he's evil, I'm saying the general population of the UK can't be stupid enough to believe this poo poo. You know how propaganda works, right? You know how some people in the US get trapped in a tiny media bubble that drives them mad? The UK's media landscape is basically, what if FOX was every channel and owned all the newspapers
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Oct 3, 2022 11:50
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Skwirl posted:I know he's evil, I'm saying the general population of the UK can't be stupid enough to believe this poo poo. It's the boiling of the frog. The Tories have been decreasing the funding of the NHS in real terms but in such a way that if you don't understand how inflation works you just see "new number is larger so funding has increased". And they aren't going after privatisation whole sale. It's a slow chipping away at small areas to begin with, started with cleaning, then starting going into areas such as specialised tests etc. Credit where credit is due, it's a very smart way of dismantling an institution that's incredibly popular and beloved.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:58
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Yeah, in case it's not clear, all of the tories' campaign messaging goes hard on how hard they're going to work to protect and fund the NHS (by cutting benefits or turfing out immigrants or whatever evil poo poo they're trying to justify). They rely on their voters not getting any better a look at what they're actually doing than the newspapers will allow, which mostly works out for them.
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Skwirl posted:I've made a lot of jokes about how the UK exists to make the US less stupid, but seriously UK people can't be this loving stupid. The NHS has repeatedly been defunded by the conservatives to the point where the common person may agree with you that it is no longer working as it should. Rather than properly funding it (why would I want to give more money to such a broken system?!) the answer must be to privatize it, in one form or another. Nevermind the huge kickbacks the politicians would be receiving from private insurance companies to make this happen. Having moved here from the US, the average person has no idea what a fuckshow private insurance can be. Mostly people here have it when they want to sidestep the NHS, but it's an "above and beyond" thing, not a "welp I guess I can't afford healthcare and will just die" thing. Pretty angry about the whole issue myself, to be honest; the NHS is fantastic even with how overwhelmed it is, compared to what I've had to endure while self employed and unable to afford insurance in the US.
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BrigadierSensible posted:American "Christianity" is itself a weird alien beast unique to America. Christianity in Africa gets way, way weirder than it does in America.
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Tenebrais posted:Yeah, in case it's not clear, all of the tories' campaign messaging goes hard on how hard they're going to work to protect and fund the NHS (by cutting benefits or turfing out immigrants or whatever evil poo poo they're trying to justify). They rely on their voters not getting any better a look at what they're actually doing than the newspapers will allow, which mostly works out for them. Yes this is it. The entire UK loves the NHS and wouldn't stand for someone honestly and blatantly saying 'we want to get rid of the NHS and adopt a US-style system'. But people don't even notice things like contracting out several services the NHS provides to private companies, as long as the service remains free at the point of use. This sets the stage for other privatization measures. Also, we already pay a small amount for prescriptions and some dental services, and have a smaller private healthcare sector and some health insurance companies. So it wouldn't be that big a leap to say 'OK, you now have to pay a small fee for this other thing', or 'this treatment is not provided on the NHS now so you'll have to go private if you want it.' Add in some people using evasive language and spin and they could end up pitching really radical changes as 'reform to the NHS'. We need strong voices in the media to make the public aware of what this ultimately would mean, but unfortunately we don't have many. You saw what happened with Brexit. A lot of people were confused, duped and had their prejudices exploited. Media literacy is poor among the middle aged and up.
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You also saw the kind of full court press monstering you get for daring to attempt to make things somewhat better in England.
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 Just casually using a local neighbourhood FB group to find a brothel, no drama P.S. his display pic shows him holding his two young children. Super classy.
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Roblo posted:That said - what Truss is managing to do will affect a lot more people. So maybe the fact that the Tories don't give a poo poo about them will sink in for some of them. Maybe. At least until the next manufactured outrage about "labour will force your kids to change gender" or something.
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Most of the costs from Brexit are long term, people can delude themselves that the problems dont exist or were due to something else. Them annoucing policies and immediately cratering the pound are pretty obvious. Someones mortgage doubling in price is pretty obvious. But, you're probably right.Unfortunately.
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https://twitter.com/MarinaHermannPA/status/1575203769859686415 Context: Florida just got hit by a huge-rear end hurricane that came ashore pretty much centered on Cape Coral. There's a very good chance this house is either in a million pieces or currently located several miles further west.
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