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smellmycheese posted:Such a cool country. Love it "And it's one of them saying it too"... Small comfort in that express readers have never felt guilty about anything, so this is unlikely to be changing their deeply held racist views.
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smellmycheese posted:Such a cool country. Love it Historically this has not been a big problem for white people
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From reading replies, seems this isn't the first time they have done this https://twitter.com/MHM_Info/status/1658122428315320321?s=20
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# ? May 16, 2023 09:38 |
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1658337454867337216?t=UheBJx3nFABUqYVwIUZ3QA&s=19 It's a great time to be alive. loving onions going up 94% but because big TVs aren't we don't have out of control inflation Enjoy that Samsung for dinner
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:From reading replies, seems this isn't the first time they have done this Looks like someone put the secret HR orders in the public HR orders again.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:From reading replies, seems this isn't the first time they have done this Looks like someone's mixed up 'interviewer notes' and 'job posting' fields again.... Separate rant: The other week I moved a bunch of brewing equipment from a festival back to my brewery using Addison Lee. Checked my card statements yesterday and saw that in addition to the £31 cost, there was another £21 'Addison Lee Extra' charge on the card. Phoned them up to be told that as I had exceeded the 5 minute unloading time, this was an additional charge. This didn't feel right to me because the unloading felt pretty quick, did a check and emailed AL back to ask if they would like a copy of my CCTV which shows the unloading took 7 minutes, and the driver then got into his van and waited for another 10 before leaving. Cheeky bastards have refunded as a 'goodwill gesture' and 'educated customer about waiting times' in the credit note.
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# ? May 16, 2023 10:18 |
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Red Oktober posted:Looks like someone's mixed up 'interviewer notes' and 'job posting' fields again.... 7 is more than 5 though
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smellmycheese posted:Such a cool country. Love it
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sebzilla posted:7 is more than 5 though The implication is that the Addison Lee guy slacked off so that the unload would take longer than five minutes, then hung around for another ten to make absolutely sure that it had.
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sebzilla posted:7 is more than 5 though Addison Lee are utter bastards from everything I've read so this is believable
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Jedit posted:The implication is that the Addison Lee guy slacked off so that the unload would take longer than five minutes, then hung around for another ten to make absolutely sure that it had. The guy didn't even unload anything, I did it all. And here's the receipt: quote:TRANSACTION DATE & TIME
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# ? May 16, 2023 10:36 |
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I used to have to get taxis around on the company dime with paper tickets to sign, and the drivers would without fail add 15 minutes wait time to every one. I signed them ofc because not my money
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# ? May 16, 2023 10:49 |
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Something we seem dangerously ill-equipped to deal with is the fact that British fascism was never going to rely on epic, future-looking rhetoric that rejects rationalism and modernity in favour of a heroic national destiny, because British nationalism leans heavily on 1) the idea that earthy rationalism and pragmatism are a proud part of the national character and 2) a rejection of silly self-seriousness, which is seen as un-British (except when it comes to the Royals). In other words, I imagine we can expect a great deal more of this line of "of course we're not fascists, the fascists were silly foreign fellows mucking things up for everyone else; what motivates us is honest talk, Good British Common Sense and grown-up sensible thinking" and I don't really believe anyone in the public sphere has the nous to properly challenge that.
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grobbo posted:In other words, I imagine we can expect a great deal more of this line of "of course we're not fascists, the fascists were silly foreign fellows mucking things up for everyone else; what motivates us is honest talk, Good British Common Sense and grown-up sensible thinking" and I don't really believe anyone in the public sphere has the nous to properly challenge that. Funny you should say that, https://twitter.com/NatConTalk/status/1658222444602179586
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Well of course all the other nationalisms failed, they were foreigners.
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The Soviets and PRC failed because they were Slavs and Sino respectively. To the palace, comrades!
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# ? May 16, 2023 12:16 |
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quote:Here was a country that had everything, absolutely everything. And now, 20 years later, is what? The world's biggest leper colony. Why? Godlessness. Let me say that again... Godlessness. It wasn't the war they started. It wasn't the plague they created. It was Judgement. No one escapes their past. No one escapes Judgement. You think he's not up there? You think he's not watching over this country? How else can you explain it? He tested us, but we came through. We did what we had to do. Islington. Enfield. I was there, I saw it all. Immigrants, Muslims, homosexuals, terrorists. Disease-ridden degenerates. They had to go. Strength through unity. Unity through faith. I'm a God-fearing Englishman and I'm goddamn proud of it!
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# ? May 16, 2023 12:32 |
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Some ideas for the other speakers:
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# ? May 16, 2023 12:41 |
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Peach tree dish and gazpacho police being within like a month of each other were peak comedy hours.
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Please do not post unedited transcript of Rees-Moggs speeches without proper attribution, tia
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Tesseraction posted:Funny you should say that, https://twitter.com/NatConTalk/status/1658222444602179586 Yeah - and as with Braverman's argument, there's this absolutely pettiness to this rhetoric, this obsession with the protection of comfort and the avoidance of shame. It's not heroic nationalism. There's not really a collective call-to-arms beyond "the voices of dissent need to be made to shut up and go away, by any means necessary". It's not seriously arguing that Britain has some great future destiny ahead of it, that every citizen is a crusader and champion with a part to play in the coming conflict, or that King Arthur is due to rise again any day now. The message (and with so many current conservative narratives, such as weirdos ranting about the Dambusters' dog, or the "lock up all the anti-monarchists" talking heads) is consistently that reassurance of "you shouldn't have to feel bad about any of it, past or present. We must ruthlessly and permanently stamp out any attempt to make us feel bad about it". I know that's not a massively interesting or insightful point. I just think it's both horrifying and intensely British to see how far we're apparently willing to go in the name of this ideology of avoidance.
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# ? May 16, 2023 13:44 |
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Was it someone in this thread saying that the key feature of contemporary UK politics is that change can only be for the worse; far better to keep everything the way it is now and angrily resent anyone who tries to wobble the boat. That's what this feels like: going to any lengths to prevent financially secure older homeowners from having to feel even mildly uncomfortable about anything.
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# ? May 16, 2023 13:52 |
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smellmycheese posted:Such a cool country. Love it Lol this poo poo. I don't feel guilty. When I agree that a statue of some slave trader should be torn down it isn't because of white guilt it's because that person sold human beings to other human beings and that makes him a loving oval office.
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Plant based meet.
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Good name for a vegan networking event.
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bessantj posted:Lol this poo poo. I don't feel guilty. When I agree that a statue of some slave trader should be torn down it isn't because of white guilt it's because that person sold human beings to other human beings and that makes him a loving oval office. Yeah, you don't have to feel guilty about things that happened in the past, but that shouldn't prevent you from wanting to improve things in the present.
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OwlFancier posted:The issue with that is that if you had guaranteed care when you were old that's removing an incentive to have children. There's something to be said about someone with familial bonds providing much better care than someone's who's just paid to do so.
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah, you don't have to feel guilty about things that happened in the past, but that shouldn't prevent you from wanting to improve things in the present. Also history allows us to spot obvious doghorns. https://twitter.com/HCChristopher/status/1658465701005344768
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that all looks cribbed from an NRA rally or something
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Z the IVth posted:There's something to be said about someone with familial bonds providing much better care than someone's who's just paid to do so. Perhaps, but I feel that that says more about society and also presumes quite a lot of favourable outcomes. I have a friend I help out occasionally and I would say I do more for her than two of her three kids do, so I don't think it's a guarantee that having kids means they'll give a poo poo about you. Plus I don't think it should ultimately boil down to people being personally inclined to care for you, there should be structures that make it easier for people to be looked after as they age. Like, good care homes that you don't have to pay through the nose for and still afford their residents as much independence as they can.
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Tesseraction posted:Funny you should say that, https://twitter.com/NatConTalk/status/1658222444602179586 Pretty shocking to see the Natural History Museum taking Nazi money
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kecske posted:that all looks cribbed from an NRA rally or something Its run by these people. https://burke.foundation/
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# ? May 16, 2023 16:39 |
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They always want people to love the country but they never seem interested in making the country more lovable.
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They always want strong families, but they want to do that by banning divorce rather than by teaching kids how to have respectful and fulfilling relationships. And 'faith' but by forcing it into daily life without any of the good works bits.
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big scary monsters posted:They always want people to love the country but they never seem interested in making the country more lovable.
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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1658499823056703488
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cat botherer posted:They are trying to make it more lovable. It's just that there is a group of people in our midst that hate Britain and everything it stands for. Yeah but the government already said Scotland can't have another referendum so that's really on them too.
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domhal posted:Its run by these people. revenge of the whigs
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