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Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1580639051774054404

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Sounds like all her boohooing about being called a terf piece of poo poo is manufactured then.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

WhatEvil posted:

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1580966820739436548?s=20&t=4_BB6AOzZGsM001POwywnw

I think Ash is generally sound on stuff and I think she has a point about this.

Also, it may well be that these people have been spurred on by spycops but I think at a certain point these groups can get enough support to actually make an impact even if there are spycops trying to undermine them.

I mean that assumes that protesting is just like... guys on youtube who do lovely pranks for attention, like the attention for them, personally, is the whole point. And I am not sure how that translates to effective activism if the activism does not actually communicate their point very well?

Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

WhatEvil posted:

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1580966820739436548?s=20&t=4_BB6AOzZGsM001POwywnw

I think Ash is generally sound on stuff and I think she has a point about this.

Also, it may well be that these people have been spurred on by spycops but I think at a certain point these groups can get enough support to actually make an impact even if there are spycops trying to undermine them.


If you look at what JustStopOil has also done before, In April they blockaded a bunch of oil facilities which I'd assume took huge amounts of planning and co-ordination. Today they threw some soup at a painting. The latter was far easier, only took 2 of them and will get far more attention.

Which is more effective? I would have thought the former, but that I'd already forgotten it happened does give merit to it not being all that effective.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

WhatEvil posted:

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1580966820739436548?s=20&t=4_BB6AOzZGsM001POwywnw

I think Ash is generally sound on stuff and I think she has a point about this.

Also, it may well be that these people have been spurred on by spycops but I think at a certain point these groups can get enough support to actually make an impact even if there are spycops trying to undermine them.
Yeah, at its best it's spectacle that achieves the actual aim of the spectacular, getting everyone talking about it, and even at its worst it tends towards "well we can't negotiate with these ~extremists~, maybe there's some nice moderates that we can talk to" from people who would have never bothered finding any moderates of that position to talk to before.

Of course the moderates will then take all the credit for any progress, but anyone throwing poo poo at statues knows that's what moderates do anyway.

Mesopotamia
Apr 12, 2010

I mean you’re just teeing it up by trying that angle.

Honestly people need to stop replying to JK Rowling, she’s irrelevant and this TERF thing is the only way she gets attention. Barely remember hearing about her personally between the end of Harry Potter and…I dunno, 2017?

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

happyhippy posted:

Go on you fuckers, make Rees Mogg PM

I got a good laugh out of that. :tipshat:

UK is circling the drain.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Lmao. Snowden loves Jezza

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1580978832890245120

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1580978368190636033

:allears:

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
I'm here for Tory leadership as an albatross that keeps being dumped on those that don't want it until they can get rid of it.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I am at least feeling validated that the view I've had more or less since halfway through may's term is being validated, that the party is institutionally on a course for the center of the earth and all they're doing is changing who is sitting on the top deck making brum brum noises.

Shame about all the alternatives and the fact we have to live with it but at least I'm right and that's what matters.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

Mega Comrade posted:

If you look at what JustStopOil has also done before, In April they blockaded a bunch of oil facilities which I'd assume took huge amounts of planning and co-ordination. Today they threw some soup at a painting. The latter was far easier, only took 2 of them and will get far more attention.

Which is more effective? I would have thought the former, but that I'd already forgotten it happened does give merit to it not being all that effective.

now if they did both at the same time, that would be more effective i would say

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Tory party press office just published this

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

smellmycheese posted:

Tory party press office just published this



Thank you for coming this evening.
No one else did.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/peteratcmc/status/1580900946527195139

:toot:

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Just Stop Oil have been infiltrated by Channel 4 in an effort to promote their new Jimmy Carr/Hitler art show Jimmy Carr Destroys Art :colbert:

blunt fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Oct 14, 2022

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Lol at Dunt.

https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1580873733409243139

Halisnacks
Jul 18, 2009
If Truss were replaced, would that be the first time two PMs held office consecutively without a general election?

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003


if they did it with a campbells soup it would itself be art

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Dunt's cover image is a worse insult to art than that stunt.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Those protestors should be ashamed of themselves. That's a waste of perfectly good soup

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

smellmycheese posted:

Tory party press office just published this



what are the little grooved things on the table for?

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001



He's so out of his depth. He has no Treasury experience whatsoever, and it shows in his body language.

I guess there were quite a few refusals for the job before Liz got to oval office's phone number?

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

fuctifino posted:



He's so out of his depth. He has no Treasury experience whatsoever, and it shows in his body language.

I guess there were quite a few refusals for the job before Liz got to oval office's phone number?

He’s literally going to last a week. She’s going to be knifed in the next few days. Who would take that gig?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Pictured: an android attempting to display positive human emotion

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

OwlFancier posted:

what are the little grooved things on the table for?

you cant expect the cabinet to rack up lines with a mirror and a credit card like plebs

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

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

Hello, dear
my god hugh abbott

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
I was sat opposite my fash dad in a pub when he discovered that Kwartang had been sacked.

He gave a sad little "oh no" while looking at his phone "you ok dad?" "they gave in to the woke :( :( :("


It was high art.

Soylent Yellow
Nov 5, 2010

yospos

smellmycheese posted:

He’s literally going to last a week. She’s going to be knifed in the next few days. Who would take that gig?

Some of the theorising I've been seeing this afternoon is that they've convinced him it's a stepping-stone to number 10, and that he'll be annointed caretaker PM monday afternoon after the markets crater.

learnincurve posted:

I was sat opposite my fash dad in a pub when he discovered that Kwartang had been sacked.

He gave a sad little "oh no" while looking at his phone "you ok dad?" "they gave in to the woke :( :( :("


It was high art.

Also been in the pub with my dad this evening. Lots of talk about how they screwed up and let the socialisms in.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
for the rest of my life I will be wondering how he has manage to brain worms himself into thinking that "the bank of england has been taken over by the woke"

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

smellmycheese posted:

He’s literally going to last a week.

As long as that? I'm predicting Truss is going to go over the weekend, and whoever becomes PM will want someone like Zahawi or Stride to be chancellor.

e: just saw the post about it being a potential stepping stone to caretaker PM, in which case... loving hell, lol

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

OwlFancier posted:

what are the little grooved things on the table for?

Their Scrabble letters

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

OwlFancier posted:

what are the little grooved things on the table for?

cocaine

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Woke is literally just everything I don't like. If they aren't stanning my faves they are woke.

Halisnacks
Jul 18, 2009
What does “caretaker” PM actually imply? Is it just -

1) not selected by members
2) not intending to run as leader in next GE

- but otherwise PM as usual?

Lamont
Mar 31, 2007
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

Now let's see Paul Allen's colombian marching powder

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh

OwlFancier posted:

what are the little grooved things on the table for?

They are for a pen because whoever looks after the antiques traditionally does not trust MPs not to splatter ink all over the expensive table.

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004



I will never stop being amazed about how Rowling and the rest of the GC crew are so quick and happy to jump into bed with organisations that would like to take away the rights of not just trans people but gay people and women as well. As long as it hurts trans people.

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

Barry Foster posted:

God's hosed off from heaven. All is insane in the UK

lmao

This UK remake of Neon Genesis Evangellion is off to a strange start.


The second most recent thing I remember Snowden doing was tweeting back in February how the West was spreading panic by claiming Russia was about to invade Ukraine. Then after the war started he basically tweeted "Whoops, guess I was wrong about that. I had best take a 72 hour break from Twitter."

The most recent thing was he got awarded Russian Citizenship, but done in such a way that he would not be eligible for Mobilisation. Funny how that worked.

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TACD
Oct 27, 2000

https://twitter.com/pipmadeley/status/1580952656558051329

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