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Noxville posted:Can’t believe there are still people coming in here saying how important it is to vote Labour to Get The Tories Out. Anyone who has paid any attention to politics for the last 5 years, the last 10 years, the last 20 years and can still say that is loving deluded. possibly the only thing stupider is voting for starmer thinking it will be counted as a vote for left wing politics it boggles the mind how people can be so bad at paying attention
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Jan 16, 2024 23:09
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Pistol_Pete posted:That gruesome bunch regularly appearing on TV to say how terribly, terribly sad it is that we have to do ever-more austerity, while their eyes shine with glee. They're too bloodless to even take sadistic pleasure in it imo.
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Jan 16, 2024 23:10
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Ms Adequate posted:They're too bloodless to even take sadistic pleasure in it imo. i dunno, wait until labour get to bomb someone velvety pleasure won't even begin to describe it
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Jan 16, 2024 23:11
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Communist Thoughts posted:possibly the only thing stupider is voting for starmer thinking it will be counted as a vote for left wing politics your viewpoint is the only one. Sorry no there are other views. But they are dumb
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Jan 16, 2024 23:12
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Communist Thoughts posted:possibly the only thing stupider is voting for starmer thinking it will be counted as a vote for left wing politics Yeah it's going to be taken as a rejection of "Corbynism" (aka bland succdem stuff that is in itself a massive compromise) and a vindication of "Starmerism" (essentially tory policies but...done more competently according to him, I'd rather have the incompetent ones). We live in clown world though. Over in America the whole "lesser of two evils" "harm reduction" "we will pressure him to the left after he is elected" stuff over Biden has turned into these idiot liberals defending genocide. Irredeemable. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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Jan 16, 2024 23:21
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Jan 16, 2024 23:47
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this my MP https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/...1326953728.html my plan is to vote for someone else
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Jan 16, 2024 23:47
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houthi mcboob says he
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Jan 16, 2024 23:48
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Great success, the US and UK managed to protect international shipping, oh wait:
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Jan 17, 2024 00:52
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Great success, the US and UK managed to protect international shipping, oh wait: And this is why the Houthi are doing what they are doing.
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Jan 17, 2024 00:56
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scottish criminal under no duress: fine i did it, i know i've got 12 outstanding i did them all. gently caress it. it's 3am who cares. i'll loving go home actually. oh christ. sorry. ugh. not again. no. NO FINE. one more round, whole loving zoo family trip NO ALL PICS PUBLIC BITC
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Jan 17, 2024 01:05
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scottish police: is that right aye *actually loving records it
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Jan 17, 2024 01:06
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forkboy84 posted:And this is why the Houthi are doing what they are doing. lol
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Jan 17, 2024 01:08
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I totally thought crispix's MP was a hot pirate. That'd be fun. This is my mp  I will also be voting for someone else.
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Jan 17, 2024 01:16
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my election strategy is moving to Holborn and St Pancras so I can personally vote for keir starmer. i will be part of his story. maybe one day walking the streets I will see him, in the distance. maybe our eyes will meet
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Jan 17, 2024 01:53
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Angepain posted:CEO of Hamas puts down the telephone, tells everyone he's very sorry but his ol buddy Zarah has asked him politely to stop doing terrorism. Hamas disbands immediately and the IDF never mistreat a single palestinian ever again implying that the IDF has ever mistreated a palestinian? sounds like antisemitism to me
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Jan 17, 2024 02:19
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Tesseraction posted:Well at least goons like WhatEvil can also try and dilute the bastard vote by voting for *checks list of parties* ah gently caress Yeah if I can get a ballot in time. Didn't arrive in time for the last election. Not that my vote in a general election has ever mattered or will ever matter.
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Jan 17, 2024 02:19
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Communist Thoughts posted:possibly the only thing stupider is voting for starmer thinking it will be counted as a vote for left wing politics it will be counted as a vote for left wing politics by people who think left means left of the national front
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Jan 17, 2024 02:34
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What actually is the best case scenario for the GE? As far as I can tell the almost guaranteed outcome is Starmer winning by default, talking heads crowing about how this is bad for Jeremy Corbyn and represents a complete rejection of all but the weakest socdem centre-left stuff, then we're back in 1997 baby and nothing changes for at least another two decades or so. Inspiring stuff! Still, it'll be funny to watch the tories completely poo poo the bed and lose hundreds of seats I guess. I'd also laugh very hard if Corbyn manages to hold onto his seat as an independent. Even better if Abbott etc do too. If they do you'd think it would prompt some reflection. It won't, but it would be funny. I'm in an SNP ultra safe seat so I'm probably just going to throw a vote at the greens or maybe the TUSC or something even if it is just symbolic. Not bothering or spoiling the ballot seems wrong somehow, idk. I've been playing an FMV game called Not For Broadcast recently which I thoroughly recommend for politics flavoured stupidity. It's completely ridiculous and over the top but you get to be a propaganda guy for some momentum-like group as they form a government, which is a nice bit of fantasy indulgence. It really shouldn't work but while the theatre kid energy coming off the whole thing is insane the actors are genuinely extremely good for the most part and parts of it had me belly laughing to an extent I never expected, and they pepper in some actually quite touching + nuanced bits as well. 10/10.
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Jan 17, 2024 05:14
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ThomasPaine posted:What actually is the best case scenario for the GE? As far as I can tell the almost guaranteed outcome is Starmer winning by default, talking heads crowing about how this is bad for Jeremy Corbyn and represents a complete rejection of all but the weakest socdem centre-left stuff, then we're back in 1997 baby and nothing changes for at least another two decades or so. Inspiring stuff! I fuckin love Not For Broadcast. Jeremy Donaldson's stares of disgusted disbelief at the slide of his country into authoritarianism is deeply relatable. Also the party that takes control of the country at the start is a nasty, authoritarian notionally left-wing party which really confused some right-wingers who leapt into online discussions about the game to complain it was demonizing their politics. They saw oppressive, brutal behaviour and just assumed it was themselves.
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Jan 17, 2024 05:20
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HopperUK posted:Also the party that takes control of the country at the start is a nasty, authoritarian notionally left-wing party Nah they're cool  Well, for the first few episodes at least lol. I did like that you can get an ending that keeps the spirit of the party while dialling back on some of the more insane stuff
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Jan 17, 2024 05:30
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ThomasPaine posted:Nah they're cool Agree! And that you can save him, if you cut away in time
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Jan 17, 2024 05:32
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ThomasPaine posted:What actually is the best case scenario for the GE? As far as I can tell the almost guaranteed outcome is Starmer winning by default, talking heads crowing about how this is bad for Jeremy Corbyn and represents a complete rejection of all but the weakest socdem centre-left stuff, then we're back in 1997 baby and nothing changes for at least another two decades or so. Inspiring stuff! Labour wins the largest number of seats, but not a majority, meaning they try and fail to form a coalition and then gently caress around as a minority government for a few months before it collapses and another GE is held. Repeat until Pasokification.
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Jan 17, 2024 06:30
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The best outcome for this election will be a voter turnout so low that the entire nations future is decided by four blokes in a spoons in a former industrial town. Then, for the entirety of this term, we see nothing but campaigning and interviewing targeted at Mick, Garry, Dave and Steve. Once 'the four who vote' becomes a de facto feature of the UK constitution, the whole political machinery of the press and the parties can be funneled directly into them, as can the responsibility for the political outcome. Politics may not change for the better, especially as these four become elevated to godhood through bribery and sheer force of the media coverage, if they don't disappear into hiding from all the threats. If it does go to poo poo, at least we can say, "gently caress you four, and the people who influence you for a living," while not really having a solution to the problem.
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Jan 17, 2024 07:15
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I’m going to ignore the doom and gloom and spoiled ballot chat, and vote for whoever is most likely to get Paul Scully out of my constituency. Because he is a complete fucker and literally anyone, anyone, would be a better representative. The problem is knowing who to hold my nose and vote for, it’s pretty much a three way tie between the Tories, Lib Dems and Labour. I reckon ULEZ anger will drive people to vote Lib Dem over Labour, because a lot of people here are complete idiots about ULEZ.
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Jan 17, 2024 07:19
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ThomasPaine posted:What actually is the best case scenario for the GE? As far as I can tell the almost guaranteed outcome is Starmer winning by default, talking heads crowing about how this is bad for Jeremy Corbyn and represents a complete rejection of all but the weakest socdem centre-left stuff, then we're back in 1997 baby and nothing changes for at least another two decades or so. Inspiring stuff! Starmer's manifesto won't be nearly as left-wing as Blair's was in 1997. I agree that Labour have the election win basically sewn up, but their lead will be hit pretty hard by attrition, thanks to the far-right press going ham on everything Starmer's hosed up or lied about. Then it'll just be the slow, painful grind of austerity-but-we-won't-call-it-that. The only things I can see persuading Starmer and Reeves to spend any money on public services will be a postmaster-type national outcry over something avoidable. Then it's just a case of how badly they gently caress everything up over the next 5 years. I'm guessing "badly".
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Jan 17, 2024 07:40
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ThomasPaine posted:What actually is the best case scenario for the GE? As far as I can tell the almost guaranteed outcome is Starmer winning by default, talking heads crowing about how this is bad for Jeremy Corbyn and represents a complete rejection of all but the weakest socdem centre-left stuff, then we're back in 1997 baby and nothing changes for at least another two decades or so. Inspiring stuff! Then the long-overdue fire burns down parliament and every journo in the country gets to sagely comment on this metaphor for how badly politics in this country needs to be rebuilt from the ground up for the modern age.
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Jan 17, 2024 08:21
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Scientastic posted:The problem is knowing who to hold my nose and vote for, it’s pretty much a three way tie between the Tories, Lib Dems and Labour. I reckon ULEZ anger will drive people to vote Lib Dem over Labour, because a lot of people here are complete idiots about ULEZ. Not even decided if/how I'm going to vote but trolling tories with tales of Social Reformer Boris Johnson is probably the best thing I can get out of this election.
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Jan 17, 2024 08:23
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Diane Abbott is my MP so expect I’ll be voting for her if she runs, as an independent I assume?
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Jan 17, 2024 08:47
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Please vote in Sinn Fein, the plucky underdogs.
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Jan 17, 2024 08:54
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TACD posted:Some combination of hung parliament and an unprecedentedly massive surge for third parties that makes it clear how completely disenchanted everyone is with the mainstream parties. Ummm... Hung parliament followed by a huge fire certainly sounds like the start of something.
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Jan 17, 2024 09:05
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Flux Wildly posted:Diane Abbott is my MP so expect I’ll be voting for her if she runs, as an independent I assume? As if they're aiming for the coveted "BNP, but without the renationalization policies" spot.
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Jan 17, 2024 09:08
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah I think Diane Abbott getting suspended for her letter, whereas Rosie Duffield did not for going on GBNews to do Holocaust revisionism, was what finally shredded any desire to vote for them. Missed that about Duffield but depressingly on-brand. Be interesting to see who they parachute into Hackney
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Jan 17, 2024 09:43
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Azza Bamboo posted:The best outcome for this election will be a voter turnout so low that the entire nations future is decided by four blokes in a spoons in a former industrial town. Then, for the entirety of this term, we see nothing but campaigning and interviewing targeted at Mick, Garry, Dave and Steve. Once 'the four who vote' becomes a de facto feature of the UK constitution, the whole political machinery of the press and the parties can be funneled directly into them, as can the responsibility for the political outcome. Politics may not change for the better, especially as these four become elevated to godhood through bribery and sheer force of the media coverage, if they don't disappear into hiding from all the threats. If it does go to poo poo, at least we can say, "gently caress you four, and the people who influence you for a living," while not really having a solution to the problem. Ha ha. This brings back memories of Brexit. Every news programme every day - “we wanted to see what the nation thinks about this latest twist in the Brexit debacle so we sent our reporter to voxpop red faced sun reading market stall holders in a small provincial shithole”
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Jan 17, 2024 09:45
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suck my woke dick posted:it will be counted as a vote for left wing politics by people who think left means left of the national front Starmer isn't to the left of the National Front. He's the kind of person who would be looking for ways to get the "socialist" out of National Socialist.
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Jan 17, 2024 09:57
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So if overseas citizens can vote now, what constituency does their vote count for? Last known address?
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Jan 17, 2024 10:04
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LOL. Still won’t happen 
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Jan 17, 2024 10:05
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DreddyMatt posted:Ummm... Remember lads, It's Pillage, then Burn. I'm going to vote for the not-Tory who looks like they could win. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67361138 By this, that will be Lib Dems. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67993311 There is also the New Labour play book!
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Jan 17, 2024 10:09
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Gender criticals: Our side has facts and science and logic. Also gender criticals: Orange isn't real. 
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Jan 17, 2024 10:31
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Not sure what the implications of being colourblind are because I have no loving idea what I'm looking at.
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