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Rustybear posted:never understood that meme The idea is that it gives a bit of an American Psycho vibe. Superficial material happiness expressed in such a weirdly overenthusiastic, cliche-ridden way that it makes you start wondering how many homeless people the speaker has garrotted.
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One of the winners in Boston is a party called blue revolution and their platform is wonderfully incoherent, they appear to be "anti woke", anti leninist, anti party Marxists. Amazing what happens when you only need 89 votes to win a seat
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May 5, 2023 11:41
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Rustybear posted:deano might be a cultural deadzone but he owns his house which is close to his workplace where his workday finishes at 4pm and pays him enough to afford discretionary spending alongside his mortgage payments and two cars for him and his wife what loves him enough to be making a home-cooked meal for his dinner before his mates who live close by come round for the evening I think that's mostly dependent on how you read it. Obviously everybody (you would hope) has a personality and things they genuinely enjoy, but it's written deliberately with the focus on the superficiality because I think a lot of people have a distinct worry that there are people wandering around out there who don't appear to have any deeper thoughts and come across as very mindless consumption driven. And I also think a lot of people worry about turning into that because that's what capitalist society would want you to be above all else. Does your brain just give out at some point and you turn into a cartoonishly two dimensional dad?
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May 5, 2023 11:42
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:It's a perfectly painted picture of a Lads Lads Lads guy It's just this, goons. That's all it is. Please, it is Friday. I beg of you.
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May 5, 2023 11:44
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May 5, 2023 11:46
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Decent result in my area - East Hertfordshire. Tories routed, losing 25 of 41 seats so far and control of the council. Big surge to Greens from 1 to 17 seats, who look biggest party now. Smaller gains for Lib Dems and Labour. With a few historical exceptions, Council has always been Tory controlled, and in the last few decades years its been like 95+% (100% in 2015), so respectable result imo.
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May 5, 2023 11:47
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I wish I was a lads lads lads guy instead of Sad sad sad. 
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Tigey posted:Decent result in my area - East Hertfordshire. Tories routed, losing 25 of 41 seats so far and control of the council. Big surge to Greens from 1 to 17 seats, who look biggest party now. Smaller gains for Lib Dems and Labour. I feel like Tory -> Green is a weirdly common switch Probably because local Greens are often even bigger NIMBYs than Tories I guess
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May 5, 2023 11:56
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I forgot the shits changed all mayor elections to lovely fptp in a desperate attempt to win more.
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May 5, 2023 11:58
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I never really thought the "Deano" memes were really that negative, more just popular because they effectively delineate a specific culture of people who exist. I read that copypasta and I thought "oh yeah, that's an accurate collection of observations about Guys Like That".
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May 5, 2023 11:59
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I always thought the joke of that meme is the guy has a pleasant, stable life and you're meant to read it and feel hollow inside that you don't have the same.
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May 5, 2023 12:02
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peanut- posted:I feel like Tory -> Green is a weirdly common switch Definitely the case round here: if there isn't a green candidate, then more likely to go tory (or I guess maybe LibDem) than labour. Eg my 'never labour' mum (who also gets quite angry if you diss the royals.) Which is why in the next GE I'm more likely to go Plaid than Green. (We don't have local elections in Wales today.)
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May 5, 2023 12:04
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https://twitter.com/LIndependents/status/1654440090960031746?t=61LRLmwDUROFbSmtO7XAhA&s=19 Gibbo vindicated, no word on Ricey and the others as yet
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Rustybear posted:deano might be a cultural deadzone but he owns his house which is close to his workplace where his workday finishes at 4pm and pays him enough to afford discretionary spending alongside his mortgage payments and two cars for him and his wife what loves him enough to be making a home-cooked meal for his dinner before his mates who live close by come round for the evening The snag is that deano's idyllic lifestyle is funded entirely by debt. If him or the missus loses their income, or he's caught sexting the side piece he's hosed. Deano will pick himself up though, he's a go-getter. At times I wish I had that shameless optimism, it seems blissful.
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May 5, 2023 12:05
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some horrors in the replies, though none as bad as the real thing https://twitter.com/EwaSR/status/1654416974112251906?s=20
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peanut- posted:I feel like Tory -> Green is a weirdly common switch greens have a significant 'ecofascist' contingent fascist is wildly overselling it because they’re not actually jackbooted fash in any sense but more a kind of pastoral idealist gentleman-farmer wannabe someone who cares desperately about the plight of bees but won't hesitate to enforce their rights as the landowner
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May 5, 2023 12:15
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peanut- posted:I feel like Tory -> Green is a weirdly common switch I think some of it is generational divides. It's like how you had life long labour people willing to vote UKIP but they "would never vote Tory!" A Tory skipping labour to vote green doesn't make much sense on paper, the current green manifesto is more left than labours. But people often don't vote logically or based on actual policy.
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School Nickname posted:The snag is that deano's idyllic lifestyle is funded entirely by debt. imagine having debt hugo, what a pleb
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May 5, 2023 12:20
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People almost never vote based on manifestos, just on branding, and they generally have an enemy they want to vote against (socialism, wokeness, whatever). So it doesn't matter to Tory voters that the Greens have left policies - they might even like a lot of them - it just matters that they're not currently associated with the enemy. Media attention could change that, but so far the media prefers to ignore Greens, so they're a possible protest vote for nearly everyone (except Spiked/RCP nutters).
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Mega Comrade posted:I think some of it is generational divides. It's like how you had life long labour people willing to vote UKIP but they "would never vote Tory!" Yea it's nothing about local greens being secret ecofascists, it's about it being a "acceptable" non Labour vote. Caring for the environment isn't a bad thing to many Tories, especially the older ones who like the image of idyllic countryside farms and green fields instead of building. Whether the local Greens are on board with that matters less than what voters think they will do. Kier Starmer giving them no reason to vote labour doesn't help either.
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Also remember the not insignificant number of people who voted Leave but didn't actually want Leave  Our politics is broken.
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May 5, 2023 12:42
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massive spider posted:As pointed out in the comments, Nottingham to London return ticket = £255 pounds Belfast to Dublin is about the same distance . A family return ticket is £50. If you book 72 hours in advance online you can an adult you can get an adult single each way for £12 each.
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May 5, 2023 12:42
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Local greens also can't do the big structural changes that the country needs but boomers don't want, so it's safe to vote for them.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:Belfast to Dublin is about the same distance . A family return ticket is £50. If you book 72 hours in advance online you can an adult you can get an adult single each way for £12 each. But NI/RoI railways are publicly owned. Germany, France, Netherland railways own a poo poo load of UK railways. And are fleecing the gently caress out of them.
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Deano is just a basic bro you're meant to feel superior to for not being so painfully mainstream. And while he may have nice things like his own house he got it by taking on tons of debt 'cos that's just what you do and also it looks like this:
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:Belfast to Dublin is about the same distance . A family return ticket is £50. If you book 72 hours in advance online you can an adult you can get an adult single each way for £12 each. Going down to Peterbrough later this month, a return from near Manchester was around £50-60. If I added to the next stop 15 minutes along, where I actually want to go, and and which is at most a £10 ticket, it bumped it up to £110, and that was on Trainline which is supposed to account for that poo poo.
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happyhippy posted:But NI/RoI railways are publicly owned. Yeah, I posted to show how much GB is getting fleeced even by another part of the country that avoided privitisation.
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escapegoat posted:Deano is just a basic bro you're meant to feel superior to for not being so painfully mainstream. And while he may have nice things like his own house he got it by taking on tons of debt 'cos that's just what you do and also it looks like this: I'm always weirded out seeing fenced in properties.
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Repeater have just published a book that might as well be about the Deano meme (in fact I think it might actually talk about it at points). Not read it yet but I’ve seen some good reviews: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/a-nation-of-shopkeepers/
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May 5, 2023 13:23
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'm always weird 
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'm always weirded out seeing fenced in properties. That's just the back gardens tbf
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escapegoat posted:Deano is just a basic bro you're meant to feel superior to for not being so painfully mainstream. And while he may have nice things like his own house he got it by taking on tons of debt 'cos that's just what you do and also it looks like this: Looks like my and my neighbours back gardens except in better condition. Works fine for me
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Guavanaut posted:It's amazing how they clearly copied an abstracted racism culture war issue from the US without considering that the material conditions behind it are not the same here. Though still making very sure that e.g. pensioners' bus passes count as ID while youth travel cards do not. Tbh I'm not sure the ID thing is even the big factor here. It's just that Tory voters can't be hosed to vote for these arseholes. Nobody else is particularly motivated to vote but the Tories are even less motivated.
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May 5, 2023 13:32
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https://twitter.com/libdems/status/1654430163860430850?s=46 When has wheeling out an oversized prop ever worked out for a politician without making them look like a complete buffoon
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May 5, 2023 13:36
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Unkempt posted:Why is it F11 o'clock? Alt + F4 rishi.
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I started to post some Deano memes, then thought better of it. Instead, I'll moan about how long it takes to count a few votes: nearly 2pm and only a third of results announced? Still, looks like Labour have done OK but not brilliant, going by the numbers so far.
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Answers Me posted:https://twitter.com/libdems/status/1654430163860430850?s=46 WE. DEMAND. LUNCH MONEY.
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