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An arsehole linked me to George Gallaway talking about Russell Brand and doing the whole 'the establishment are out to silence him' thing. I won't link the video but its him going on about how he's shocked (sarcasm) that a man who admitted he was a sex addict is uncovered to be a sex addict. Bit of a difference between being promiscuous and raping someone though innit. It's bizarre the underlying admission that the allegations are probably true but also being weaponised unfairly by the elites- Whom amongst us has not committed historic sex crimes? First they came for the nonces etc. Also very weird the assumption that a YouTuber 15 years past his fame era was saying things that are so much of a threat that the powers that be were making GBS threads their pants.
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To be as fair to George Galloway as he deserves, the BBC are also going on about how some of his videos have over 9 million views and that's more than TV news and all that. Which is also a bollocks argument, because the Gay Frogs (Alex Jones REMIX) video has over 19 million views, so what? So they're both granting him some kind of undeserved significance, which throws fuel on the fire of how it was the elite powers trying to silence his True News. In reality, it's probably his lack of current significance that allowed this to come out and not have the victims intimidated by police as in the past, because they usually take much longer (if at all) to go after the Stanley Johnsons and Lord Janners of the world.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:00
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Ed Sheeran has something like 15 billion cumulative views on YouTube, making him the most notable and trustworthy news source to ever exist.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:13
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https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1703783632672903341 liz truss was on the verge of saving the economy from stagnation, but her brilliant ideas were thwarted by a sinister cabal of COMMUNISTS who HATE GROWTH, the cabal being specifically named as: - the OBR - economists, in general - the tabloid press - the conservative party
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Sep 18, 2023 16:20
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Guavanaut posted:Which is also a bollocks argument, because the Gay Frogs (Alex Jones REMIX) video has over 19 million views, so what? What a tragedy that this superior Alex Jones remix has only 700k views content warning Alex Jones shirtless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZE5peUfWQ
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Sep 18, 2023 16:23
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Life is like a SON OF A BITCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VxLzIPuSew
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Apraxin posted:liz truss was on the verge of saving the economy from stagnation, but her brilliant ideas were thwarted by a sinister cabal of COMMUNISTS who HATE GROWTH, the cabal being specifically named as:  Because it turns out that what the market actually wants (besides privatizing profit and socializing risk, which they shouldn't get) is infrastructure that works and investment in things with a positive fiscal multiplier.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:31
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NotJustANumber99 posted:how come it isnt the good stuff? TACD posted:Oh, this sucks It's worth asking about, afaik basically they don't have the new ones yet, and they have loads of old bivalent booster stock because nobody took them up on it in the spring. I don't know enough about it to say whether it's best to wait - the XBB booster in studies provides much better protection against the variants currently circulating, but the original one still helps a little. Personally, if I wasn't going to be in any high-risk situations and it wasn't a long wait before I could get a new one, I probably would hold out. But I can't get one at all, even if I was willing to pay for it! pantsfree fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Is it worth asking about this when going to the appointment? Or is it perversely better to wait to get a booster until later in the year?
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I think that while Brand is a hideous sexmonster who deserves what's coming to him, the 'he's being attacked on partisan terms' stuff brushes close to a certain kind of truth in that it is, in fact, possible for sexmonsters of similar or greater heinousness to get away with barely a peep from the media if they're in with the right people. Consider Dan Wootton, who got up to much the same stuff as Brand and used a series of false identities to run a blackmail business of unknown-but-significant scope, and who doesn't appear to have received any coverage of his crimes from Murdoch media because he's one of theirs. Also Nick Cohen, who admittedly seems to have engaged in less extreme criminality (as far as we know) but went completely without mention until the goddamned New York Times stuck its oar in, and is still the recipient of general institutional amnesia.
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Also Brand himself when he was in with the right people. That's why the Despatches was full of "oh we received dozens of complaints from women but none of them met the level of our safeguarding policy, which has since been updated."
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Sep 18, 2023 17:05
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christ, even by 'home secretary' standards she's so loving awful
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Sep 18, 2023 17:07
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Building trust with communities is playing politics. Wasting time and effort on feeling up Black lads instead of patrolling is just common sense.
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Sep 18, 2023 17:09
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Police shouldn't be involved with politics, no I still want them to protect the government and the marches that I like, and also gently caress up left wing organizations.
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pantsfree posted:It's worth asking about, afaik basically they don't have the new ones yet, and they have loads of old bivalent booster stock because nobody took them up on it in the spring. The older vaccines aren't as effective against the current strains but they do still provide a significant reduction in severe complications/hospitalisation which is my main concern (and is generally a good thing for impact on NHS etc). I'm getting mine on Wednesday, I'll report back which version of mind controlling 5G chip I get. I'm just happy to have wangled getting anything.
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Sep 18, 2023 17:14
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Russell Brand's tour has just been cancelled. Shame.
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smellmycheese posted:This woman went to the police about him in 2014 and ended up being attacked by the police and a judge for harassment quote:But police had told Brand and Khan that there was no case to answer, and said the investigation was closed.
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Sep 18, 2023 17:27
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"Police need to focus on cutting crime and restoring confidence." Okay cool, do less of this poo poo that doesn't work and never has  and more reaching out to communities that may view police with suspicion for current or historical reasons. "No actually we're going to do the opposite of that." I suppose it makes sense when you add the secret words "Police need to focus on cutting crime and restoring confidence among reactionary Home Counties retirees."
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lol that the copaganda of them marching at pride is cancelled by this brain-worm piece of poo poo.
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I find it endlessly funny that one of the answers to the (usually bad faith outrage) "How did London get a higher murder rate than New York City?" question (other than that was for a period of about 5 minutes) is "Because New York scrapped stop and search, and then their murder rate fell immediately." There's a certain type who really don't like that answer.
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Guavanaut posted:I find it endlessly funny that one of the answers to the (usually bad faith outrage) "How did London get a higher murder rate than New York City?" question (other than that was for a period of about 5 minutes) is "Because New York scrapped stop and search, and then their murder rate fell immediately." Yeah, because they can only get hard from watching black people being oppressed, abused or murdered
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What’s the link that causes less stop and search to directly lead to less murders? Obviously the graph is the graph but why is the graph
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s the link that causes less stop and search to directly lead to less murders? Speaking completely out of my rear end, but I assume that when cops stop doing dumb bullshit that doesn't help, it frees up some of their time to do a small amount of things that actually might help, sometimes.
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s the link that causes less stop and search to directly lead to less murders?  Neither of those can be influenced by police molesting teenagers on the street, it just wastes a whole lot of police time and effort. Scrapping it freed up resources for dealing with those through violence reduction units and better domestic response, is one view. Of course the press and reactionaries have terminal hollywood brain and think most murders are done my masked killers leaping out of bushes and street gangs high on drill raps.
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s the link that causes less stop and search to directly lead to less murders? I don't think there is a causal link, it's just that violent crime in general has gone down a lot since the late 20th century across the anglosphere, despite the best efforts of the cops.
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Sep 18, 2023 18:03
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thinking of Lyn off Alan Partridge who bought a coat advertised under the words "STRONG COAT FOR SALE"
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A lot of cop activity is basically really lovely performance art while historical trends happen around them, then them claiming "we helped"
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s the link that causes less stop and search to directly lead to less murders? Does the graph imply any sort of link? It looked to me like the murder rate was already going down and it just continued as it was, more or less.
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Oh wow... I wasn't expecting this: https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1703740926886129689
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OwlFancier posted:A lot of cop activity is basically really lovely performance art while historical trends happen around them, then them claiming "we helped" There's some evidence that patrols of public places might help. Largely useless on an individual level, but on a stochastic level just wandering around with a flashlight is a better deterrent than "this area monitored by a potato that someone may or may not be watching." Stop and search is definitely lovely performance art to put certain groups in their place.
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Guavanaut posted:"this area monitored by a potato that someone may or may not be watching." Marge Simpson: "I just think they're NEETs"
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I was thinking - that new anthology of poetry edited by Corbyn and McCluskey has a contribution from R brand wonder if they're busy recalling it!
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Bobstar posted:Marge Simpson: "I just think they're NEETs"
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I find it difficult to believe russel brand could contribute poetry worth reading let alone the other issue.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I was thinking - that new anthology of poetry edited by Corbyn and McCluskey has a contribution from R brand wonder if they're busy recalling it! lmao jesus why? Jeremy Corbyn for the love of all that's holy please do the most basic of background checks on the people you platform. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Miftan posted:Speaking completely out of my rear end, but I assume that when cops stop doing dumb bullshit that doesn't help, it frees up some of their time to do a small amount of things that actually might help, sometimes. Repeat that enough times and it'll statistically end in more murders. I think the fall there is too quick for it to be that one, so it's more likely to be some combination of wider social factors and that the same people who wanted to end stop and search also wanted novel public health solutions to violence, so when they got enough sway to end the stops they got other things done too, like the credible messenger program that also started at the same time.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I was thinking - that new anthology of poetry edited by Corbyn and McCluskey has a contribution from R brand wonder if they're busy recalling it! A couple of weeks ago they announced unspecific delays, so could be! I got a free electronic copy of Alex Nunns' "The Candidate" to make up for it which was quite a good read, other than making me pissed off all over again about what we could have won.
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1703783632672903341 Tories have the world’s shortest memories I swear to god we know what happens if we try Truss’s plan because we already tried it and everything went to poo poo, but now a year later they’re all queueing up to call for tax cuts and less regulation
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Julio Cruz posted:Tories have the world’s shortest memories I swear to god Yeah, but Labour probably won't cut taxes if they win the next election, so the window in which to make the rich happy is getting smaller and smaller. It's not about fixing the country (well, Truss probably thinks it is because she's remarkably stupid), it's about setting up a free-for-all looting spree that no-one will go to prison for.
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she actually used a pig analogy to explain herself :/ a graphic, horrific pig slaughtering analogy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66836347
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