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forkboy84 posted:I'm not sure you can describe a member of a weird evangelical church with deeply reactionary theology that includes "the Pope is the antichrist, and I don't mean that metaphorically" as a centrist. Maybe in the 1700s And yet, tim farron.
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forkboy84 posted:I'm not sure you can describe a member of a weird evangelical church with deeply reactionary theology that includes "the Pope is the antichrist, and I don't mean that metaphorically" as a centrist. Maybe in the 1700s And yet an embarrassing number of self-described centrist columnists were hyping her.
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Feb 20, 2023 21:27
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Darth Walrus posted:And yet an embarrassing number of self-described centrist columnists were hyping her. Reactionary bigots in the UK press? Who could imagine such a thing?
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Darth Walrus posted:And yet an embarrassing number of self-described centrist columnists were hyping her. the centrist commentariat hates to do actual research so as long as you say publicly what they want to hear they'll completely ignore all your other positions (see Stewart, Rory)
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Feb 20, 2023 21:32
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Centrism is when you say the far right stuff but in a quavery voice and look sad about it.
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Feb 20, 2023 21:36
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Centrism is just an ever growing pile of turds.
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Rookoo posted:This just jogged my memory of an article we discovered in highschool to much amusement. it wasn't, and that poor lad's face says it all
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Darth Walrus posted:And yet an embarrassing number of self-described centrist columnists were hyping her. Even Ash Sarkar was. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 20, 2023 |
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Feb 20, 2023 21:43
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Rookoo posted:This just jogged my memory of an article we discovered in highschool to much amusement. Don’t make me post Rodney Bewes again
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What are your blokes thoughts on the growing backlash to so-called “15 minute cities”
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Wizard Master posted:What are your blokes thoughts on the growing backlash to so-called “15 minute cities” Get hosed wizard master 
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Begun the battle for eight peaks has
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Rookoo posted:This just jogged my memory of an article we discovered in highschool to much amusement.
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Skarsnik posted:Get hosed wizard master what a oval office
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Apparently Johnson has been in the Commons today saying we should support Ukraine returning to its 1991 borders. Doesn't sound at all dangerous, sabres actually make quite soothing rattles.
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sebzilla posted:Apparently Johnson has been in the Commons today saying we should support Ukraine returning to its 1991 borders. Support returning Ukraine to its 1989 borders, bring back the USSR
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Good catch here: https://twitter.com/adamramsay/status/1627805734808199168?s=46&t=2OD7Z-yJCG_Dbjfn_cnvXQ
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sebzilla posted:Apparently Johnson has been in the Commons today saying we should support Ukraine returning to its 1991 borders. it’s funny now all the belligerent stupid poo poo he used to get up to is now on the outside as a disgraced former PM, like an expelled pupil pressing his face up against the window glass trying to egg on his old ERG mates to cause a ruckus in class for old times sake
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Spoilered as references threats made to transwomen. Seems far right terror group NA (not written their name out in full deliberately) have made death threats to two transwomen in the public eye: India Willoughby & Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu. India Willoughby says her accountant brought the *hand-delivered* letter round to her and is alarmed for her safety. Not sure if Dr Shola's was hand-delivered but that could be inferred from the way she wrote 'it was through her front door'. Both have tweeted out. I decided not to share the tweets because it might be too upsetting. These two are both in the public eye. But maybe others are also getting these but without the platforms? Stay safe people. What a nasty, hate-filled little country
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Pistol_Pete posted:I want the Tories to lose, but also want Labour to eat poo poo, so not sure who to root for here. Ditto. Just been reading the absolute anti-left fuckery on twitter basically anyone who disapproves of Starmer but isn't a tory is an anti-semite. I know a lot of people who are not going to vote at all next time but that doesn't give Starmer the punch in the gob (metaphor, Hofficer, metaphor) he so richly deserves. I wish there was a consensus 3rd party. Greens seem most widespread and maybe I'll vote for them if it seems a lot of folk are going that way. Just tories & labour both need a kicking.
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It's a timing coincidence w.r.t. brexit, but of course it does serve as a useful distraction, like Richie wasting our time on Roald Dahl. The same-sex marriage dam keeping the evangelical crazies riled up was finally broken in 2015 in the USA, so T naturally replaced LG(b) as Public Enemy #1 and since our nutjobs are funded by their nutjobs, transphobia in the public eye via the media went to the moon. Brianna Ghey is a flashpoint cos it's the bit where it's all just a bit of fun, beating people up is fine, look we're just having a gender-critical debate here turns into oh poo poo people might start thinking terfs are bad if they end up getting young girls murdered. (c.f. Farridge getting a bit wild-eyed and hey-now-let's-talk-about-this panicky post-brexit vote.) But in reality it'll be a version of Sandy Hook. An appalling and completely avoidable tragedy, a national holding of breath in case something changes, and then relief when nothing has to change.
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It's just so loving bleak and joyless. Some people say they want to live in a way that would make them measurably happier (and in other cases not eventually kill themself), and apparently that drives other people to screeching insanity. Milo Edwards is right, the only consistent and prevailing political belief of the UK is "It's poo poo, it's supposed to be poo poo, and if you don't like it you can gently caress off."
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Feb 21, 2023 02:22
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There was an English man who found a magic lamp, he gave it a rub and out popped the Genie. "BEHOLD, I SHALL GRANT YOU ANY WISH YOU SO DESIRE, BUT BE AWARE, WHATEVER I GIVE TO YOU I WILL GIVE TO YOUR NEIGHBOURS AS WELL". The Englishman thought for a bit, and after a while he knew what he was going to wish for. "Give me chlamydia".
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This paper is from 2009 and might go towards explaining anti-trans obsession with toilets: Link goes straight to a PDF "Harry Potter and the Terrors of the Toilet" [https://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/services/Download/vital:623/DS1 I've skimmed about half of it. This is the end of the paper: quote:For Harry, the abject manifests itself in horror and disgust, especially in I'm so glad my attempts to read Potter back in the 90s when every adult was secretly reading it in false covers failed because try as I might, and even trying to listen to Stephen Fry reading it, I just couldn't get past the first few pages.
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I don't think they are specifically toilet obsessed, just that they have a very limited repertoire of ways to make their concerns appear realistic so they keep using the same ones, also I think people obsessed with upholding conservative societal values just are not generally very imaginative. Really I think it is hating the idea that people need to validate themselves. People who transition or who are nonconforming in any number of ways, but especially in ways which deny them access to common forms of societal validation, necessarily have to learn how to validate themselves, often in direct opposition to prevailing social trends, and also usually have to put in work to build parallel structures of support. Conversely people who cling to old, rotting structures and who become increasingly hysterical as people divest from them because they suck and make a lot of people miserable, are generally very hostile to the idea of standing on their own, essentially. Of being adrift in a sea of subjective meaning and where the only firm ground is the one you cobble together out of your own thoughts and whatever friends you can find. It's a big thing with conservatives, they absolutely hate relativism, so squishy ideas like "gender is fuzzy, fluid, and performative" drive them absolutely batshit. Also "god doesn't actually exist and so proclaiming things to be wrong because god said so doesn't hold much weight and is actually just a reflection of your own thoughts" and "nations are complicated things and generally have done a lot more bad than good throughout history, and it isn't surprising that not everybody thinks they're something to be very proud of" Simple thoughts for simple minds only, unfortunately. They cannot deal with the fact that humans are capable of existing in a huge number of different ways and often happily, and they definitely cannot deal with the fact that a lot of the problems people face are directly caused by their trying to shove them into lovely old categories that don't work. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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More prosaically, if JowKowRow can convince you your life is bad because you're gonna be attacked by a man in a dress every time you nip to the loo, or the ebil tranzez are sucking away your femininity with their vampire-like fangs, you'll not be noticing that your life is actually bad because you haven't got a house and you cannot afford food or electricity. Problem: solved. Trebles and PPE contracts all round.
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more snippets from the book I'm reading (YES I'm still reading it, it's a big book ok) Elections are a farce:  Politicians are cunts:  Conservatives are thick:  
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Rowling has more money than God. If I was lucky enough to be in that position I'd be spending my time travelling the world, and sponsoring the local non-league football team, not wasting my life in 140 characters on the world's worst website.
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Gonzo McFee posted:There was an English man who found a magic lamp, he gave it a rub and out popped the Genie. "BEHOLD, I SHALL GRANT YOU ANY WISH YOU SO DESIRE, BUT BE AWARE, WHATEVER I GIVE TO YOU I WILL GIVE TO YOUR NEIGHBOURS AS WELL". Then there is the tale of Wee Jimmy. Homeless in the streets of Glasgow, one day Jimmy found a bottle of Buckfast. He opened it, and to his surprise a genie came out. "I AM THE GENIE OF THE BUCKFAST BOTTLE" it said, "AND I WILL GRANT ANY ONE WISH THAT YOU DESIRE!" Jimmy thought for a moment, then said, "Alright, I want tae get ma hole". "I'M SORRY, MASTER, I DON'T UNDERSTAND." "Ma hole, ye fucken eejit! I want tae get stuck intae a woman's oval office!" "AS YOU COMMAND, MASTER!" the genie cried, and with a clap of its hands turned Jimmy into a tampon. The moral: if an offer sounds too good to be true, there's going to be a string attached.
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Microplastics posted:more snippets from the book I'm reading (YES I'm still reading it, it's a big book ok)] what book are these from?
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Gambrinus posted:Rowling has more money than God. If I was lucky enough to be in that position I'd be spending my time travelling the world, and sponsoring the local non-league football team, not wasting my life in 140 characters on the world's worst website. Yeah, that's the funniest/ saddest thing about it all: she's one of the few people in the world who has the opportunity to live her life in literally any way she likes, and she chooses to spend it in sour-faced Twitter posting and hating on trans people. Like, she's curled up in a massive sofa in a massive sitting room in some big loving mansion, obsessively searching her own name on Twitter, as a butler brings her tea and the daily newspaper on a silver platter (I assume that all rich people have butlers, like Lara Croft).
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It's almost like money doesn't actually bring happiness, especially when you try to use it to paper over your inner demons. She's posting on twitter because I imagine if she went exploring the world she couldn't enjoy any of it because of her inability to not think about trans people.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, that's the funniest/ saddest thing about it all: she's one of the few people in the world who has the opportunity to live her life in literally any way she likes, and she chooses to spend it in sour-faced Twitter posting and hating on trans people. Like, she's curled up in a massive sofa in a massive sitting room in some big loving mansion, obsessively searching her own name on Twitter, as a butler brings her tea and the daily newspaper on a silver platter (I assume that all rich people have butlers, like Lara Croft). she's aiming at replacing churchill as the Greatest Englishman
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Mebh posted:It's almost like money doesn't actually bring happiness, especially when you try to use it to paper over your inner demons. It doesn't bring happiness but it does bring you the freedom to do the things that make you happy. And unfortunately I guess what makes Joanne happy is making the world worse for vulnerable minorities.
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History Comes Inside! posted:If I had gently caress you money I’d just go away forever My farfetched "if I won the lottery" fantasy amounts to "I'd buy a place to live so I don't have to rent" Ah 21st century Britain, where unreasonable fantasies amount to normal activity for my parents generation
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If I had Rowling money I'd build a dwarven fortress in the Highlands and spend my days smoking dank nugs and riding a bike around my vast network of tunnels.
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